You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. The bonus increases to +3 when you use the mace to attack a construct.
When you roll a 20 on an attack roll made with this weapon, the target takes an extra 7 bludgeoning damage, or 14 bludgeoning damage if it's a construct. If a construct has 25 hit points or fewer after taking this damage, it is destroyed.
Proficiency with a Mace allows you to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll for any attack you make with it.
This weapon has the following mastery property. To use this property, you must have a feature that lets you use it.
Sap. If you hit a creature with this weapon, that creature has Disadvantage on its next attack roll before the start of your next turn.
Notes: Bonus: Magic, Damage, Combat, Bane, Sap
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Posted Jan 26, 2019I'm pretty sure this Mace and Mace of Disruption have their names incorrectly swapped based on what they do.
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Posted Apr 23, 2019Agreed, I got really confused when I saw that a mace of smiting was especially effective against constructs. But it's the same in the book, so I don't know.
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Posted Mar 5, 2020In 2nd edition it was called rod of smiting and it was also for smiting constructs and outsiders. Also in 2nd edition the mace of disruption was meant to disrupt undead.
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Posted Mar 24, 2020Yeah, I found this comment explaining it on reddit:
As someone who began playing in 1978 when D&D came as a three book boxed set, I can tell you the major difference.
First the Rod of Smiting and the Mace of Disruption are from the early days of AD&D as you already noted, but they were much different then. The mace of disruption disrupts the negative energy that powers all undead. The Rod of Smiting was more about striking power and affected constructs as well as everything else. At the time constructs were notoriously difficult because of Magic Resistance rules back in the early ad&d days. Constructs could only be beaten by adamantine or lots and lots of physical damage. Smiting added that physical damage. It was holy damage then and the magic resistance did not stop holy damage. thus smiting became the weapon of choice for constructs. As the editions of d&d have advanced they have mutated slightly but maintained that disruption is the disruption of negative energy, which means it also affects extraplanar creatures like demons and devils, and Smiting is the holy side of increased physical damage, but it also works on evil creatures just fine.
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Posted May 3, 2020always felt that way too.
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Posted Oct 26, 2020No. It is not. In previous editions Disruption always were against undead. And Smiting against constructs.
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Posted Feb 21, 2021Does the auto destroy only occur if you critted the construct?
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Posted Mar 6, 2021Yes. Only if you roll a natural 20 on the attack
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Posted Jun 12, 2022Maybe, but the word Smite simply means to deliver a firm blow, if it was the Divine mace of smiting they 100%, but when you think about it the mace dose exactly what the name says if you roll well enough against a construct you hit it with a firm blow.