I recently read up some more on spells, specifically one such as "Absorb Elements", thinking of ways to use its second half, notably "on your next mele attack add 1 extra d6 of damage".
I already looked around and found some who agree with me that this would include Shocking Grasp, as a "mele attack" can be determined as either a "mele spell attack" or "Mele weapon attack".
What struck me then was, that in the rules, a grapple, Is defined as "an attack". After all a fighter can replace any regular attack with a grapple.
So my hypothesis here is:
Someone could cast absorb elements in response to an attack, and then on their turn run up to Grapple someone, wherein that should trigger 1d6 of the respective damage.
Am i completely off the rails or is there some merit to this?
The wording of absorb elements is somewhat specific. It says "the first time you hit with a melee attack on your next turn." Whether or not grapples and shoves are actually melee attacks aside, they do not "hit" like attack rolls do, so they won't meet the requirements.
And yes melee spell attacks are melee attacks.
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I recently read up some more on spells, specifically one such as "Absorb Elements", thinking of ways to use its second half, notably "on your next mele attack add 1 extra d6 of damage".
I already looked around and found some who agree with me that this would include Shocking Grasp, as a "mele attack" can be determined as either a "mele spell attack" or "Mele weapon attack".
What struck me then was, that in the rules, a grapple, Is defined as "an attack". After all a fighter can replace any regular attack with a grapple.
So my hypothesis here is:
Someone could cast absorb elements in response to an attack, and then on their turn run up to Grapple someone, wherein that should trigger 1d6 of the respective damage.
Am i completely off the rails or is there some merit to this?
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The wording of absorb elements is somewhat specific. It says "the first time you hit with a melee attack on your next turn." Whether or not grapples and shoves are actually melee attacks aside, they do not "hit" like attack rolls do, so they won't meet the requirements.
And yes melee spell attacks are melee attacks.