Divine Smite

This article is about the action to perform a Divine Smite. For the reaction to apply a Divine Smite after making an attack, see Divine Smite (reaction). For general information about smites, see Smite.

Divine Smite is a spell-like ability that allows a Paladin to expend a spell slot to deal additional ⁠Radiant damage with a melee weapon attack.

Description

Your weapon deals an additional 2d8⁠⁠RadiantDRS damage, increased by 1d8⁠⁠Radiant damage when attacking Fiends or Undead.

Properties

Cost

 Action

Cost on hit

 Level 1 Spell Slot

Damage: 3~24

Normal weapon damage

+ 2d8⁠Radiant

+ 1d8⁠Radiant (If the target is undead or a fiend)

Details

 Melee Weapon Attack Roll

 Range: Normal weapon range

At higher levels

• When Divine Smite is cast at 2nd level or higher, damage increases by 1d8⁠⁠Radiant for each spell slot level above 1st. This damage is capped to 5d8, so using a spell slot above 4th spell level adds no further damage.

Technical details

UIDs

Target_Smite_Divine

Base spell

Target_Smite_Divine_2

Upcasted to level 2 dealing 3d8

Target_Smite_Divine_3

Upcasted to level 3 dealing 4d8

Target_Smite_Divine_4

Upcasted to level 4 dealing 5d8

Target_Smite_Divine_5

Upcasted to level 5 still dealing 5d8

Target_Smite_Divine_6

Upcasted to level 6 still dealing 5d8

Spell flags

IsHarmful, IsMelee

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 2: Paladin

Notes

• See Smite for additional details that apply to all variants of Smite.

Bugs

• The  Level 1 Spell Slot version of this action changes attack animations in Honour mode due to an override in the code.
• The  Level 4 Spell Slot,  Level 5 Spell Slot, and  Level 6 Spell Slot versions of this action do not lose DRS in Honour mode when used as an attack, while the equivalent reaction versions do.