No, you cannot make an off-hand attack with Booming Blade. Two weapon fighting lets you make an attack with your bonus action when you take the Attack action. Booming Blade is a spell, which requires you to have taken the Cast a Spell action, not the Attack action.
Can I cast booming blade while dual wielding?
Therefore you can dual wield and still use Booming Blade for your Attack action without needing the War Caster feat. You can’t use it for your Bonus Action off hand attack even with War Caster. You use your action to cast a spell and part of casting booming blade is making a melee attack.
Does booming blade use up the weapon?
The only weapon used in the spell’s casting is the material component; no other weapons is required in order to cast the spell. If they wanted it to be any weapon, they would have worded the spell differently.
Does lightning lure trigger booming blade?
Point of order. There’s no such thing as “attack action using Booming Blade”. Booming Blade is the “Cast a spell” action. RAW a creature falls instantly, they wouldn’t be in range to be hit by Booming Blade after you lightning lured them.
Can you cast booming blade with a shield?
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!
Does booming blade use intelligence?
The wording of the spell turns this weapon into a spell component. Then says you “brandish the weapon used in the spells casting”, which can read that it is a spell attack. Moreover, in the previous edition, Booming Blade and Green Flame Blade explicitly use Intelligence to make the attack.
Is two weapon fighting a feat?
Thankfully in 5e you don’t NEED any feats to make two weapon fighting viable, they did provide a feat that helps those builds along though called “Dual Wielder”. It’s a solid feat, and you should consider taking it if you plan on doing primarily two weapon fighting.
What’s the difference between booming blade and two weapon fighting?
Two weapon fighting lets you make an attack with your bonus action when you take the Attack action. Booming Blade is a spell, which requires you to have taken the Cast a Spell action, not the Attack action.
Do you get extra attack damage with booming blade?
Depending on the weapon, it can be comparable to the first extra attack damage, though the bigger weapons will likely out perform it with the 3rd extra attack and the 2nd attack outpaces it without the movement damage.
Can you combine attacks with Green Flame Blade?
No, You cannot combine attacks with booming blade. Both Booming Blade and Green Flame Blade say the following: As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell’s range
How does rune knight fighter know Hex and booming blade?
This isn’t a big deal, except that it calls into question how this character knows hex and booming blade. Since they have to have Dual Wielder, they don’t have any other feat, and taking a feat is the easiest way for a Rune Knight fighter to learn hex and booming blade.
