Level
Cantrip
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
120 ft
Components
V, S
Duration
Instantaneous
School
Evocation
Attack/Save
Ranged
Damage/Effect
Fire
You hurl a mote of fire at a creature or object within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 fire damage. A flammable object hit by this spell ignites if it isn't being worn or carried.
This spell's damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).
Yes, but not from full cover. Full cover makes it impossible to target the creature behind full cover using spells or attacks. However, if you can see the creature because you are blinded, your in an area heavily obscured, it the creature is invisible, or any other such circumstance, you can still target them.
It is very much a better cantrip. It can target multiple creatures, hits multiple times rather then increasing damage (usually not important but can cause incredible damage increases with a hex spell or something else that triggers upon damage, and it has a damage type that is never naturally resisted and only incredibly rarely immune.
Eldritch Blast is the Flavor Contemporary
How big is a mote? Like im imagining something similar to a baby fireball
I'd guess that a mote is like a pebble or sling bullet.
Not your fault the dm ruined it
Yes. A ranged spell attack is subject to cover like any ranged attack.
Unless you take the Spell Sniper feat, and then you can ignore half and three-quarters cover and hit anything you have line of sight to any part of.
Can someone explain why it only ignites things that aren't on their body? Is it for balancing purposes?
following for clarification also. does this mean the person burns, and their clothes are untouched??
Thematically, Warlocks draw their power from higher beings and not the weave, so they generally have less pure elemental manipulation and more raw energy/magic themed abilities. When warlocks do elemental damage its more themed as channeled through something else, like a rebuke or a sword rather than materialized into existence. Compare https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/class/warlock?filter-search=&filter-damage-type=51&filter-verbal=&filter-somatic=&filter-material=&filter-concentration=&filter-ritual=&filter-sub-class= with https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells/class/wizard?filter-search=&filter-damage-type=51&filter-verbal=&filter-somatic=&filter-material=&filter-concentration=&filter-ritual=&filter-sub-class=
Why don't Fiend Warlocks, forge clerics or Wildfire Druids get it? Is it because they already have better/similar cantrips? (Eldritch blast, Sacred Flame, Create Flame)
I Think warlocks should be given the option to not use their most well known cantrip, for those who want to roleplay being a fireslinger (and don't just want to say their eldritch blast is reddish orange)
(That said, you could make a Vuman or CL and take the Spell Sniper feat like l just did)
Most Subclasses do not add cantrips to the character’s spell list.
yes but it is just worse eldritch blast because a lot more things are immune to fire than force
This is the best damage cantrip in the game simply because it can destroy objects and cover. Fire isn't a great damage type, but this can destroy wizard spellbooks, archers bows, fighters great swords, and clerics holy symbols. No other spell in the game lets you interact with objects like this spell does, it is a powerful tool in the hands of a veteran DM that knows what they're doing.
Since this is a spell attack and not a save, any creature behind total cover would not be targetable based on the cover ruleset. (1/2 cover= +2AC or 3/4 cover = +5AC, total cover= no target.)
I imagine it's like a roman candle or a bottle rocket. It shoots a little ball that explodes on contact.
"Anyway, Firebolt!"
-Unknown creature
Warlock can actually get this spell if you choose the Pact of the Tome feature.
It's just kind of pointless because of eldritch blast
They are just not that different