#TRUE STRIKE 5E PC#

one turn) to cast True Strike to increase your chances at a spell or ability you don't really want to waste. Points 1 and 2 should be fairly obvious: you give up one action (i.e. I haven't seen or remember to have seen True Strike in play, so just based on gut feeling I always thought the cantrip is useful in these situations:ДЎ- for casting a spell, when you're low on spell slots of that levelДў- for using a special ability attack with few uses per dayДЈ- for any attack on the first round of combat when ambushing

I guess maybe if you're going up against someone with a very high AC with a ranged spell attack. Is there really no scenario in which True Strike doesn't suck? One of the players in my Dragonlords group was trying to tell me that it made sense to cast it before casting a slot-based spell, and I'm like 'But it doesn't.' - even the situation he was doing it in, if he'd used a cantrip the round before, on average he'd have done more damage. It's basically a draw, but you used more resources with True Strike because you paid to twin it. Even with non-twinned Fire Bolt vs twinned True Strike, you're barely getting ahead in this corner-case scenario. Which just makes the whole thing incredibly corner-case. Like, in this case he's being literal to the point of being dense, but for other stuff he often has a very non-literal interpretation.ДЄlso, RAW, I think the OP knows this, but you have to hit two different targets for this to even be of benefit, as True Strike only works on the first attack against a target. They're your opinion, which is not always well-considered, and is highly inconsistent when it comes to literal-ness. I get a little annoyed when he joking-not-joking accuses people of 'ignoring the rules' in ignoring his suggestions, because mate, those aren't the rules. I can't remember what it was but little eleven-year-old me was reading Dragon and basically got a '?!' above my head as I read Sage Advice and was like 'What the heck, this grown-up doesn't know the rules!'.Д¬rawford is easy the best, or to put it another way, 'least worst' Sage but ooof he sure does mess it up from time to time Also none of it is binding unless you're playing AL. That's Sage Advice though, getting the rules wrong and making bad suggestions the very first issue of Dragon I bought. Almost like a dark souls boss when you're underleveled. They might hit hard and has a chance to OHKO using melee but he has a pattern where he won't melee unless he true strikes and only if it's still applied next turn so characters can either weave out of range or try to 'interrupt' his attack. For true strike, it's a great 'Telegraphed' attack from a very strong opponent. You can glyph of warding a Witch Bolt in a 30 diameter pit and watch them struggle trying to leave. I actually think both Witch Bolt and True Strike are great DM spells. Like, the point is to look for uses as a thought experiment. If you had a 5th level chromatic orb spellscroll or a 1/dawn magic item, it would be useful maybe. Rogues can obviously use it for sneak attack but I wouldn't build for that. Paladin's smite is one but you can always choose to wait until after the attack connects. Surprisingly, there's very few things that a character can do that has a limited uses over an attack roll. I do generally believe both true strike and Witch Bolt shouldn't be equipped on an optimized build. This is more of a logic puzzle than an analysis of a spell.

#TRUE STRIKE 5E PC#

True Strike is still situational, but more useful for the Wizard PC that goes with spell attacks rather than saving throw spells. I did the same 'hour duration, keep in reserve by concentrating) application to Blade Ward, so the wizard could cast it out of combat, then choose the round when it combat to release the spell and get the resistance to BPS for the turn. and then when he casts an upscaled Chromatic Orb he applies True Strike to it and gets advantage on the roll.

So the wizard could throw several Firebolts with True Strike unused but in mind. and then when he gets into combat can decide to give advantage to himself when he casts a particular spell, rather than the next one. So the caster casts it out of combat, keeps it in mind over the next hour.

I amended the True Strike cantrip to run it as such: Casting time is still 1 action and has concentration, but it has a 1 hour duration and can 'go off' (IE give advantage) when the caster chooses to use it (not the first attack roll thrown).