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True Strike gives you (the caster) an advantage on an attack roll against a melee weapon target.
In what cases does a bard, sorcerer, and warlock want to use True Strike and why?

Honestly, it’s a pretty worthless cantrip to cast. I used it once on table top in all my years of playing for a very specific set piece encounter and it wasn’t even to hit an enemy. It gives you advantage on to hit rolls, but your know what else let’s you roll two attack dice? Attacking in your turn then the next. This is only useful if for some reason you have nothing better to cast or do, but that almost never happens.

Personaly i lean towards not so popular opinion, that True Strike is trap for beginners.
So ... in my book, they dont, ever.

First of all, doesn't it give you Advantage on your next "attack roll" - as in, melee, ranged, or spell?

It's as Warlocke above says, with two possible use cases (that are made ~irrelevant in BG3):

1.) Casting a high-level spell that you don't want to waste. However, True Strike requires concentration, which you'll both likely be already using and which has a high likelihood of being lost due to BG3's prevalence of auto-damaging effects. Also, high level spell slots aren't as valuable in BG3 since there are no long rest restrictions.

2.) Using Quicken Spell. In 5e, it might be effective to cast True Strike and then Quicken your spell to cast it as a Bonus Action. However, in BG3 you can just cast the spell itself twice because Quicken doesn't restrict you to casting a cantrip with your main action.

True strike is bad.

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