Eldritch Blast
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damage, and can be upgraded with Warlock abilities.
Description
Conjure a beam of crackling energy. Deals 1d10 damage to a target.Properties
- Cost
Action
- Damage: 1~10
- Details
Attack roll
Range: 18 m / 60 ft
Pushes: 4.5 m / 15 ft (with 
)
1d10
At higher levels
Unlike other cantrips whose damage increases at certain character levels, Eldritch Blast, instead, creates multiple beams at higher levels: 1d10 (1~10) per ray - 2 beams at character level 5
- 3 beams at character level 10
Attack roll and is affected by the selected Eldritch Invocations (see notes for further details).How to learn
Classes:
- Class level 1: Warlock
- Class level 6: College of Lore (via Magical Secrets)
- Class level 10: Bard (via Magical Secrets)
Other ways to learn:
Notes
- The benefits of
Potent Robe, as well as various effects like 
and Eldritch Invocations (such as 
or ), are applied to each beam.
- While applies to each beam, it can only knock back a creature once per cast.
- While
- A target afflicted by
takes additional 1d6
damage from each beam. - Can be subject to
. - When interacting with effects like
and dealing multiple beam attacks to the same creature, assuming the 1st attack is sufficient to 
the creature with Death Ward active, the 2nd attack appears to apply before Death Ward activates. This means that after 2 beam attacks the creature loses Death Ward but remains with 1HP:
- If the initial attack has 3 beams the creature is downed on the 2nd attack and again for an actual kill on the 3rd attack.
- In the case of party members with Death Ward applied, they would need to receive 6 (beam) attacks to actually die: 2 to break down the ward, 1 to get downed and 3 more to fail 3 Death Saving Throws. This effect appears to apply to all multi-application attacks such
and 
(as of 4.1.1.3669438).
- The incantation for Eldritch Blast is Dolor, Latin for "pain/anguish".
