And if you really want to go into melee, it has some pretty powerful options. However, sorcerers have some interesting interactions with this spell. And a spell designed for melee isn’t normally their thing. Pair it with green flame blade or booming blade to add some fire or thunder damage to shadow blade’s psychic damage on top of your Sneak Attack. Shadow blade is simpler and doesn’t use your bonus action every turn. You have to cast it as an action, it’s a bonus action to move the hand, and it’s a separate bonus action to get advantage using it. Your Versatile Trickster feature does give you another way to get advantage with mage hand, but it’s trickier to set up. If you need advantage for Sneak Attack and are in dim light or darkness, shadow blade can help. Your damage output relies a lot more on your Sneak Attack. So it’s not as good as on an Eldritch Knight. It does some extra damage, but you don’t get many additional attacks. Shadow blade is fine on Arcane Tricksters. If your campaign doesn’t have many magic items, shadow blade can still be a useful alternative. That frees up your spell slots to cast haste for more attacks and another bonus to defense. If you can find a Flame Tongue or a different magic weapon with lots of damage dice, you may want to simply use that instead. It also competes with spells like haste and anything else you might want to concentrate on. That means you run the risk of losing it if you take too much damage.
Those extra damage dice can really add up as a fighter, especially when you use your Action Surge. Once you reach 13th level and get 3rd level spell slots, you can now make a shadow blade that deals 3d8 damage on a hit. Plus, you can pair it with a shield for extra AC. When you do get the spell, you can make a blade that does more damage than a greatsword.
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You also don’t need a high Intelligence modifier to use the spell, which is a big plus for you. You won’t get the spell until level 8-it’s an illusion spell, so you have to take it at a level when you can pick a spell from any school. The spell is quite nice for Eldritch Knights. However when you have access to eldritch blast, the Agonizing Blast invocation, and hex… you’ll usually have better damage-dealing options. Combining it with a cantrip like green flame blade makes it a bit more viable. It does make for a fun melee option for non-Pact of the Blade warlocks. Shadow blade could be used in your off-hand if you want to dual-wield, but none of your Blade Pact invocations work with it either. Plus shadow blade can’t really be used with either the Pact of the Blade or the Hexblade’s Hex Warrior feature. Darkness would give you advantage anyway, so that makes part of shadow blade somewhat pointless. If you’re lucky enough to have a Shadow Sorcerer in your party, they could cast the darkness spell for you. Shadow blade is a concentration spell, so it competes with hex or darkness if you have Devil’s Sight. Shadow blade is an… interesting spell when it comes to warlocks. But we can look into specific classes as well. It’s a useful spell, especially for anyone with darkvision. You make a sword that you can use for attacks. Shadow blade is relatively straightforward. Other classes could pick it up by multiclassing and putting at least 3 levels into Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard. Sorcerers, Warlocks, and Wizards get the spell as a part of their class spell lists.īards could pick it up as one of their Magical Secrets, and Arcane Trickster Rogues and Eldritch Knight Fighters get it from the Wizard spell list. When you attack something in dim light or darkness, you get advantage on the attack. One of its advantages is the benefit you get to making attacks in shadow. And you can call it back with a bonus action, so long as you’re still concentrating on the spell. If you drop it or throw it for an attack, it vanishes at the end of your turn. That damage increases when you cast it with a higher-level slot, up to 5d8 for a 7th level or higher spell slot. You can throw it like a handaxe if you’d like, and it does more damage than a greatsword on a hit (2d8 psychic plus your attack ability modifier). It has finesse, so you can attack with either Strength or Dexterity. It’s a simple melee weapon that anyone who casts the spell is proficient with. The spell lets you form a sword of shadow in your hand, which counts as a weapon you can use to make attacks. Let’s dive deeper into this and see how it can be used for fun, trouble, or anything inbetween. It’s a fun spell, especially for a couple of the spellcasting classes. Shadow Blade was one of the many spells added to 5th Edition in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything.
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