Extra attack requires the Attack action. Cantrips use the Cast a Spell action. They don’t work together unless a gesture explicitly allows it, which none currently do. Unfortunately you cannot.
What Cantrips do the most damage?
Warlock. The big exception. They get to add their Charisma to each beam of Eldritch Blast, making it the most damaging cantrip in the game. It is only a bit behind a Fighter, gaining the same amount of attacks, but doing 1d10 + 5 per beam against 1d8 + 5 + 2 per strike.
Do Cantrips get damage modifiers?
Yes, Cantrips get a bonus to attack. Your attack bonus with a spell attack equals your spellcasting ability modifier + your proficiency bonus. And from page 201 in the PHB we can see that cantrips are considered spells: Every spell has a level from 0 to 9.
Can you use 2 cantrips with extra attack?
The New Bladesinger Classes extra attack feature allows you to cast a cantrip as one of your extra attacks, but you can’t use that to cast two cantrips.
Do you add your modifier to cantrips?
You will eventually start adding ability modifier to your cantrips through the 6th level draconic sorcerer ability, though this only occurs once while weapon attacks gain it multiple times.
How does the damage of a cantrip keep up?
Cantrips scale automatically with character level. Weapon attacks only scale with ability score and any extra attack features you might get. How could the damage of weapon attacks keep up? Weapon attacks alone are not competitive, a 14th level Wizard does more damage with a cantrip than with a dagger 1.
Which is better a cantrip or a weapon attack?
Weapon attacks only scale with ability score and any extra attack features you might get. How could the damage of weapon attacks keep up? Weapon attacks alone are not competitive, a 14th level Wizard does more damage with a cantrip than with a dagger 1. Class features like Fighting Style and Extra Attack make weapon attacks superior.
Do you use cantrips regardless of your class level?
Cantrips seem to be the only type of spell that cares only about your class level. However, in the multiclassing section they are not mentioned, does this mean that cantrips use your character level, instead of your class level? Does this mean a Warlock 2 / Fighter 15 can cast an Eldritch Blast with 4 beams just like a level 17 Warlock?
How does character level affect the damage of a cantrip?
A multiclass character uses character level to determine the damage of a cantrip. This was added to the Sage Advice Compendium (page 4) as of its initial release in 2015: If a character has levels in more than one class, do the character’s cantrips scale with character level or with the level in a spellcasting class?
