Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Patch 8 - Yet another Booming Blade post

Hi, first post on the forum and it only took for a patch of my favourite game to be in a stress test for me to do it. I'm sure the issue has been rasied, but I'd like to suggest Booming Boming blade to be usable ONCE PER ACTION. It is the same as once per turn unless you are hasted, proc a Bloodlust elixir, or quicken it by using 3 sorcery points. It would be in line as the rest of the cantrips so seems like a nice middle of the road solution. Once per attack is completely overpowered, but once per turn is nerfing how cantrips usualy behave. Again, sorry if this was already suggested (multiple times). Thanks!

Agreed with everything you just said.

I think the problem for the dev team might be that the cantrip makes you make a melee weapon attack as part of the cantrip, and it's tricky programming something like that into the game given how attacks, actions, and cantrips work in the game already?

As of the last update (Update 3) for the Stress Test this has been changed!

Thank you very much for the update! We really appreciate the information.

Two questions if I may,

1: Will the cantrip be compatible with all types of Extra attacks moving forward, or is there any chance it will be further updated to the player having to choose between the Cantrip Action or the Attck Action (making it so none of the Extra attacks can use Booming Blade), like it works in 5e? (Personally I like the change that allows Booming Blade to be used once with any of the Extra Attacks, but I also understand trying to stay as close to 5e as possible. I'm personally good with either option.)

2: Will the 5 foot range be kept from 5e, thus making the cantrip not compatible with anything that grants Reach, or will Booming Blade be compatible with Reach weapons? (Again, am good with any of the options. )

As always thank you for the hard work and for taking the time to keep the community updated.

1: There are currently no plans to change this.

2: Booming Blade should be compatible with reach weapons!

Thank you again for the update!