Level
4th
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
Self
(15 ft. )
Components
V, S
Duration
Concentration
10 Minutes
School
Conjuration
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Acid (...)
You conjure spirits from the Elemental Planes that flit around you in a 15-foot Emanation for the duration. Until the spell ends, any attack you make deals an extra 2d8 damage when you hit a creature in the Emanation. This damage is Acid, Cold, Fire, or Lightning (your choice when you make the attack).
In addition, the ground in the Emanation is Difficult Terrain for your enemies.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 4.
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Posted Jul 11, 2026Just to remind everyone you would need 7 levels in wizard or druid to get this spell or 10 bard. You would also need scorching ray or eldritch blast for a straight caster. Going warlock would limit your up casting.
For melee multiclassing it's a nice damage rider, but you are going to be limiting your hits to 3 max with a half caster and 4 max with a fighter. Again you are limiting your up casting
So you are rewarding a mono class build with high end damage with up casting. Wizards are squishy so works for glass cannon, duids are limited to 2 hits with dual weilding or one sub class for scorching ray. Bards melee, or picking up scorching ray.
Spirit shroud would be comparable, but it has other effects besides damage, so the up casting is different.
From a dm perspective npcs increase armor class(shield spell) or use counter spell or silence. Also it's concentration so npcs with magic missle.
And remember if the player can do it, your bbe and henchmen can too