Hello everyone! I am a bit confused as to how nick works, especially with dual wielding and non-light weapons in the primary hand.
My idea is to create a barbarian that uses a longsword in the primary hand and a dagger in the off hand. Lets say I took dual wielder for level 4 feat, and have the extra attack on level 5.
Dual wielder requires that one of my attacks in my attack action has to be with a light weapon, if so, I can make an attack with my off hand as a bonus action.
Nick seems to allow me to make a free attack during my attack action with my off hand weapon.
Thus, could I do longsword (attack action), longsword (extra attack), dagger (nick, free), dagger (dual wield, bonus action) as my attack action because the dual wield triggers off of the nick attack? Or does the nick attack not trigger dual wield?
Thanks in advance!
EDITL
Sorry, I answered my own question: In order to use nick goes off of the light weapon attack ability, since the primary weapon has to be light and the off weapon also has to be light, I can not use a longsword in my primary hand.
Both light/nick and DW are triggered off attacking with a light weapon. They both require you to attack with a different weapon than the triggering one.
You could do this:
dagger (std), longsword (extra), longsword (bonus action, triggered by the dagger attack)
...but you can't make the nick attack because you only have the one light weapon.
However, if you can arrange to have two different light weapons, you can get the nick attack.
The simplest way, of course, is just to wield two light weapons and forget about the longsword.
Another way is to throw the first dagger.
throw dagger (std), longsword (extra) and draw another dagger (allowed by attack action), new dagger (nick), longsword (dw bonus action)
There are also some tricks you can do with the object interaction rules (you get one free per turn, and the attack action gives you an additional one per attack you make as part of it):
dagger 1 (std) and sheath it, longsword (extra) and draw dagger 2, dagger 2 (nick), longsword (dw bonus action)
Not everybody likes that you can do this, and it's pretty silly that you have to. Talk to your DM. They may be willing to just let you do two dagger attacks and two longsword without the swapping as long as you have the relevant masteries and feats.
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Hello everyone! I am a bit confused as to how nick works, especially with dual wielding and non-light weapons in the primary hand.
My idea is to create a barbarian that uses a longsword in the primary hand and a dagger in the off hand. Lets say I took dual wielder for level 4 feat, and have the extra attack on level 5.
Dual wielder requires that one of my attacks in my attack action has to be with a light weapon, if so, I can make an attack with my off hand as a bonus action.
Nick seems to allow me to make a free attack during my attack action with my off hand weapon.
Thus, could I do longsword (attack action), longsword (extra attack), dagger (nick, free), dagger (dual wield, bonus action) as my attack action because the dual wield triggers off of the nick attack? Or does the nick attack not trigger dual wield?
Thanks in advance!
EDITL
Sorry, I answered my own question: In order to use nick goes off of the light weapon attack ability, since the primary weapon has to be light and the off weapon also has to be light, I can not use a longsword in my primary hand.
I think this thread is related for your question: New Two-Weapon Fight Rules - Rules & Game Mechanics. Check it out if you want to read more opinions/options there.
There are other related threads. I'll leave them here in case you find them interesting:
Both light/nick and DW are triggered off attacking with a light weapon. They both require you to attack with a different weapon than the triggering one.
You could do this:
...but you can't make the nick attack because you only have the one light weapon.
However, if you can arrange to have two different light weapons, you can get the nick attack.
The simplest way, of course, is just to wield two light weapons and forget about the longsword.
Another way is to throw the first dagger.
There are also some tricks you can do with the object interaction rules (you get one free per turn, and the attack action gives you an additional one per attack you make as part of it):
Not everybody likes that you can do this, and it's pretty silly that you have to. Talk to your DM. They may be willing to just let you do two dagger attacks and two longsword without the swapping as long as you have the relevant masteries and feats.