Destructive Wrath

Destructive Wrath is a passive feature/reaction available to Tempest Domain clerics. This ability allows these clerics to maximise Thunder and Lightning damage rolls by expending a  Channel Divinity Charge.

Description

When you roll ⁠Thunder or ⁠Lightning damage, you can use your Channel Divinity to deal maximum damage instead.

Details

UID

DestructiveWrath

Reaction: Destructive Wrath

 Destructive Wrath ()

When you roll Thunder or Lightning damage, you can use your  Channel Divinity Charge to deal maximum damage instead.

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How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 2: Tempest Domain

Notes

• The reaction prompt will be shown before the attack roll of a triggering action is made. This means it may be wasted on an attack which ends up missing.
• Not every spell or action that deals lightning or thunder damage can trigger this reaction. Below is a list of player-accessible actions that work with Destructive Wrath. These are actions with the DamageType field set to Lightning or Thunder. This field is not consistently set for all actions which actually deal these damage types and is set for some actions that deal no damage at all:
  •  Arrow of Lightning
  •  Call Lightning /  Activate Call Lightning
  •  Chain Lightning
  •  Chromatic Orb /  Sphere of Elemental Balance (Thunder or lightning variants only)
  •  Divine Strike: Thunder (Ranged) but not  Divine Strike: Thunder (Melee)
  •  Heart of the Storm
  •  Lightning Arrow
  •  Lightning Bolt
  •  Lightning Breath
  •  Shatter /  Gong of the Summit
  •  Shocking Grasp /  Touch of the Storm
  •  Thunderous Smite
  •  Thunderwave /  Fist of Four Thunders
  •  Witch Bolt /  Activate Witch Bolt
  •  Wrath of the Storm
  •  Zephyr Flash but not  Zephyr Break
• Other actions, even if they deal lightning or thunder damage, cannot trigger Destructive Wrath. Notable examples include:
  •  Destructive Wave
  •  Booming Blade
  • Making a normal weapon attack with lightning or thunder damage riders

Bugs

• Destructive Wrath will trigger when casting the lightning or thunder variants of  Glyph of Warding, but the damage of the ward explosion is unaffected.
• The reaction will also trigger when casting some spells which deal no damage. Destructive Wrath will be wasted if used on these spells:
  •  Bolts of Doom
  •  Bone-shaking Thunder
  •  Conjure Elemental: Air Elemental
  •  Conjure Elemental: Air Myrmidon
  •  Conjure Elemental: Earth Elemental
  •  Conjure Elemental: Earth Myrmidon
  •  Conjure Minor Elemental: Mud Mephits
  •  Planar Ally: Djinni

External links

•  Destructive wrath on the Forgotten Realms Wiki