Yeah, it’s not a spell I’ve found a decent use case for and find it a struggle to justify even as a pick for RP reasons. The fact that it can be used to keep doing damage without use of spell slots (if concentration can be maintained) might be occasionally useful for classes with a limited number of spell slots, such as a melee warlock, arcane trickster, eldritch knight or some form of multiclass. Though as Ignatius says, it’s going to be tricky to justify against an extra attack for a level 5 fighter of any sort. If sneak attack damage is implemented for the off hand in full release, might it be useful for a dual wielding multiclass rogue/spell caster or arcane trickster (though I think they would need to be level 13 to get the spell)? I’m really reaching here.


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