How does booming blade work? If I am to cast boomin blade do I not need one arcane focus in one hand and one free hand for casting it? How should I be able to attack with a weapon now? I'm lv2 warlock.
Since the only material component needed by the spell is your weapon, you don't need an arcane focus to cast it. In fact, since the spell doesn't have somatic components, you still have one spare hand to hold a shield while casting it!
To (hopefully) clarify the whole focus/free hand thing:
You can use a spellcasting focus to replace material components that don't have a GP value or get consumed.
You need a hand free to perform a somatic component.
You can perform somatic component with a hand that is holding a material component or focus, but only if that spell requires both a material and somatic component.
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How does booming blade work? If I am to cast boomin blade do I not need one arcane focus in one hand and one free hand for casting it? How should I be able to attack with a weapon now? I'm lv2 warlock.
Vad är väl en bal på slottet.
Since the only material component needed by the spell is your weapon, you don't need an arcane focus to cast it. In fact, since the spell doesn't have somatic components, you still have one spare hand to hold a shield while casting it!
What Nils said about Booming blade (and by extension green-flame blade) is correct.
To (hopefully) clarify the whole focus/free hand thing: