Lacerate (Spiritual Weapon)

This article is about the version of the attack used by Spiritual Weapons. For the normal weapon action, see Lacerate.

Lacerate is a weapon action available to halberds, greatswords, and greataxes summoned by  Spiritual Weapon.

Description

Slash at your target's vital points to make it  Bleed.

Undead and Constructs can't bleed.

Properties

Cost

 Bonus Action
Damage: 2~9 + modifiers

1d8 + 1 + Spellcasting modifierForce

Details

Melee spell attack roll

CON Save (Weapon action DC)

 Melee: 1.5 m / 5  ft

Recharge: Short rest

At higher levels

Upcast: The damage of this attack increases by 1d8Force damage for every 2 spell slot levels above 2 used to cast  Spiritual Weapon.

Technical details

UID

Target_Slash_SpiritualWeapon_Greataxe

Spell flags

IsDefaultWeaponAction, IsHarmful, IsMelee

Condition: Bleeding

 Bleeding

Duration: 2 turns

Weapon action DC  Constitution saving throw

• Creature takes 2Slashing damage at the start of each turn and has Disadvantage on Constitution Saving throws.
• Removed by healing.

How to learn

Used by creatures: Spiritual Weapon (halberd), Spiritual Weapon (greataxe), and Spiritual Weapon (greatsword)

Notes

• The attack roll and damage for this attack uses the summoner's spellcasting modifier, but the DC to inflict the condition is based on the summoned weapon's weapon action DC (with an inherent +2 bonus). Since the weapon has ability scores of 10, this results in a DC of just 12 (at proficiency bonus of 2) to 14 (at proficiency bonus of 4).
• The once per short rest cooldown of this attack is reset when resummoning a spiritual weapon, so it is effectively once per summon instead.

Bugs

• The in-game tooltip is incorrect - all the damage dealt is Force damage.
  • Contrary to other Spiritual Weapon attacks, the damage dealt is non-magical.