The dnd5.5 version of True Strike is a spell lets you make a weapon attack (Magic Action, NOT Attack Action).
The spell reads in part: "you make one attack with the weapon used in the spell’s casting. The attack uses your spellcasting ability for the attack and damage rolls instead of using Strength or Dexterity"
Now this brings me to my question: Does this count as a spell attack? If so, a sorcerer could do this attack with advantage (with innate sorcery), and if they have a magic item that adds a bonus to spell attacks (such as Robe of the Archmagi), could add this to the attack roll.
But hold on; the spell says you are making an attack with the weapon. Does this count as a weapons attack? If so, a magic weapon (+1, +2, +3) could provide an additional to hit bonus.
This feels like double dipping, especially because then a staff of power would effectively have +4 to hit.
TLDR: Is True Strike a spell attack, weapons attack, or both?
Innate Sorcery doesn't actually use the phrase "spell attack"; it says "You have Advantage on the attack rolls of Sorcerer spells you cast." It would take some Olympic-level mental gymnastics to argue that that didn't apply to True Strike regardless of whether it's a weapon attack or a spell attack.
Similarly, if you look at the actual description of Weapon, +1, it doesn't use the phrase "weapon attack". It says "You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon." And the description of True Strike says "you make one attack with the weapon". Again, the language there is pretty clear.
The question of whether the attack from True Strike counts as a spell attack is a little more ambiguous. I don't think there's a clear answer to that in the official rules right now.
True Strike is an attack with a weapon, so I'd say that is a weapon attack but there is only a very few cases where that probably matters. One case would be a Wand of the War Mage; You don't get to double dip with a +2 Rapier and a +2 Wand of the War Mage in this scenario.
True strike does NOTsay to take a Magic Action to cast but does say ...used in the spell's casting...
It DOESsay you make one attack so there is not multi-Attacks
As far as I remember, no spell says it takes the Magic Action but rather the Magic Action is taken when casting a spell with a casting time of 1 action, using an action.
As such no spell with a casting time of 1 action necessarily requires the Magic Action, which is important when remembering Sorcerer's Quicken Spell Metamagic or Eldritch Knight's (Improved) War Magic as two examples of casting spells with a casting time of 1 action but do not actually take the Magic Action to cast them.
Other melee cantrips (chill touch,,thornwhip, shocking grasp) specifically call out "make a melee SPELL ATTACK" as part of the spells description. True strike contains no such language. It only allows you to swap modifiers.
The spell should have been written more ike shillelagh, but instead they made it a magic action casting combined with the attack action to double dip on action economy. It is confusing but its definately a weapon attack. Magical weapon bonuses to hit or damage apply but any additional spell attack modifiers to hit and damage do not.
I read True Strike to mean that you enchant your weapon with the spell, then make a weapon attack. The spell's target is self, so the spell itself does not have an attack roll - you just get the extra benefit of getting to make a weapon attack right afterwards.
Can you use True Strike with Extra Attack, Opportunity Attack, Sneak Attack, and other weapon attack options?
True Strike doesn’t work with Extra Attack or any other feature that requires the Attack action. Like other spells with a casting time of an action, casting True Strike requires you to take the Magic action, not the Attack action. Similarly, unless a special feature allows you to do so, you can’t cast True Strike when making an Opportunity Attack.
However, an attack made as part of True Strike works with Sneak Attack so long as it fills the normal requirements for that feature. For example, if you have the Sneak Attack feature and cast True Strike with a Finesse weapon, you can deal Sneak Attack damage to the target of the attack if you have Advantage on the attack roll and hit.
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The dnd5.5 version of True Strike is a spell lets you make a weapon attack (Magic Action, NOT Attack Action).
The spell reads in part: "you make one attack with the weapon used in the spell’s casting. The attack uses your spellcasting ability for the attack and damage rolls instead of using Strength or Dexterity"
Now this brings me to my question: Does this count as a spell attack? If so, a sorcerer could do this attack with advantage (with innate sorcery), and if they have a magic item that adds a bonus to spell attacks (such as Robe of the Archmagi), could add this to the attack roll.
But hold on; the spell says you are making an attack with the weapon. Does this count as a weapons attack? If so, a magic weapon (+1, +2, +3) could provide an additional to hit bonus.
This feels like double dipping, especially because then a staff of power would effectively have +4 to hit.
TLDR: Is True Strike a spell attack, weapons attack, or both?
Innate Sorcery doesn't actually use the phrase "spell attack"; it says "You have Advantage on the attack rolls of Sorcerer spells you cast." It would take some Olympic-level mental gymnastics to argue that that didn't apply to True Strike regardless of whether it's a weapon attack or a spell attack.
Similarly, if you look at the actual description of Weapon, +1, it doesn't use the phrase "weapon attack". It says "You have a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon." And the description of True Strike says "you make one attack with the weapon". Again, the language there is pretty clear.
The question of whether the attack from True Strike counts as a spell attack is a little more ambiguous. I don't think there's a clear answer to that in the official rules right now.
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True Strike is an attack with a weapon, so I'd say that is a weapon attack but there is only a very few cases where that probably matters. One case would be a Wand of the War Mage; You don't get to double dip with a +2 Rapier and a +2 Wand of the War Mage in this scenario.
True strike does NOT say to take a Magic Action to cast but does say ...used in the spell's casting...
It DOES say you make one attack so there is not multi-Attacks
Its listed casting time is 1 Action, which per the general rules on spellcasting means it’s the Magic action.
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As far as I remember, no spell says it takes the Magic Action but rather the Magic Action is taken when casting a spell with a casting time of 1 action, using an action.
As such no spell with a casting time of 1 action necessarily requires the Magic Action, which is important when remembering Sorcerer's Quicken Spell Metamagic or Eldritch Knight's (Improved) War Magic as two examples of casting spells with a casting time of 1 action but do not actually take the Magic Action to cast them.
Its a weapon attack.
Other melee cantrips (chill touch,,thornwhip, shocking grasp) specifically call out "make a melee SPELL ATTACK" as part of the spells description. True strike contains no such language. It only allows you to swap modifiers.
The spell should have been written more ike shillelagh, but instead they made it a magic action casting combined with the attack action to double dip on action economy. It is confusing but its definately a weapon attack. Magical weapon bonuses to hit or damage apply but any additional spell attack modifiers to hit and damage do not.
I read True Strike to mean that you enchant your weapon with the spell, then make a weapon attack. The spell's target is self, so the spell itself does not have an attack roll - you just get the extra benefit of getting to make a weapon attack right afterwards.
There's this Sage Advice Compendium question involving True Strike that may help;