List of bugged actions and reactions

This list aims to catalogue actiosn and reactions which do not function as would be expected based on their tooltips, or which have other problems - or missing information - in their description, function, or location. This list is unlikely to be comprehensive as it is likely there are many issues with actions and reactions of which we are unaware.

As this list deals with problems that have a high likelihood of being changed in patches and hotfixes, it is likely that entries will be incorrect following an update.

All entries are currently correct as of Hotfix 33.

Actions and reactions

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Name	Bugs
Accursed Spectre (reaction)	The description does not state it, but this cannot be used on undead. Creatures killed by  Cull the Weak will not trigger this reaction. The CharacterStats for this summoned creature does not correctly have the proper DifficultyStatuses set, and as a result the creature gains the difficulty modifier bonus as if it were a hostile NPC.
Acid Breath	The tool-tip incorrectly describes the area of effect as a cone, while it is instead a line.
Arcane Shot: Bursting Arrow	Unlike most other Arcane Shot options, this action consumes the  Arcane Arrow immediately rather than on hit. Instead, this resource cost is refunded on a miss which is almost equivalent behaviour. This results in some unusual behaviour with  Curving Shot. If Bursting Shot misses its initial target, the  Arcane Arrow cost is refunded and then the attack is redirected to a new target. If this target is hit, the Bursting Arrow will apply for effectively free. If the redirected hit also misses, it will refund yet another Arcane Arrow netting +1  Arcane Arrow in total.
Arcane Shot: Piercing Arrow	Since this attack does not involve an attack roll, it does not benefit from certain bonus damage sources which check the attack roll type despite listing the additional damage on the tooltip. These include:  Arcane Synergy Gloves of Archery  Hunter's Mark  Sharpshooter: All In Titanstring Bow
Arcane Shot: Seeking Arrow	Since this attack does not involve an attack roll, it does not benefit from certain bonus damage sources which check the attack roll type despite listing the additional damage on the tooltip. These include:  Arcane Synergy Gloves of Archery  Hunter's Mark  Sharpshooter: All In Titanstring Bow
Aspect of the Elk	The extra movement speed is applied when a character starts its turn in range of the effect or moves into its range. There is no limit on the number of times this can be applied on the same turn, and the extra movement speed is not removed upon leaving the effective range. A character moving very slightly into and out of range multiple times (consuming less than 1.5 m / 5 ft of movement each time) can gradually gain a theoretically unbounded amount of extra movement.
Awaken Crawling Claws	The in-game description says this action stuns enemies within 4 m / 13 ft, but the radius is significantly larger at 12 m / 40 ft.
Backbreaker	This attack may only target characters that are Large size or smaller, and is missing the related tooltip warning found on similar attacks, such as  Trip Attack (Melee).
Bardic Inspiration (class action)	When used to modify an attack roll with a +1d10 bonus, the Bardic Inspiration condition is not removed from the character. Bardic Inspiration may target a character who is already affected by the +1d10 version, wasting the effect as they do not stack.
Bolstering Magic: Level 1 Spell Slot	This ability cannot restore spell slots to a druid because that class is erroneously not given the technical passive UnlockedSpellSlotLevel1. The absence of this passive feature has no other impact on the druid's spellcasting ability, however. This only applies to first level slots so  Bolstering Magic: Level 2 Spell Slot and  Bolstering Magic: Level 3 Spell Slot should work properly.
Bolt of Celestial Light	This action does not use Superiority Dice at any time, contrary to the in-game tooltip stating "On Miss: Does not spend Superiority Dice."
Boon of the Unstoppable	The first attack dealt after Unstoppable is applied by this action after round 1 deals full damage instead of being reduced to 1.
Brace (Melee)	When used with  Savage Attacker, it rolls each dice 3 times and uses the highest result. The tooltip shows 4 rolls but this appears to be a bug as of patch 6. When used with  Savage Attacker and  Great Weapon Fighting, Brace will do a first roll and reroll if it is a 1 or 2, and then roll 2 more times and use the highest result. When used in this way, the effects of Savage Attacker and Great Weapon Fighting still function together, but with diminishing returns (see tables below). The tooltip shows 4 to 6 rolls, but this appears to be a bug as of patch 6.
Break of Dawn	The tooltip incorrectly states "Targets still take half damage" when instead they are neither pushed back nor made prone.
Bull Rush	The in-game tooltip is not accurate. It is duplicated from the similar  Primal Stampede ability. In particular, the tooltip says Bull Rush does damage, knocks targets prone, and is only available while  Raging, none of which are true.
Bulwark Rebuke	The damage on a successful saving throw is incorrectly calculated as 1d4Force instead of 2d4/2Force.
Call for Help	Despite what is shown in the tooltip, this action does not grant  Action Surge.
Chalice Healing	When receiving this ability via Starry Form, this spell is not properly granted with Wisdom as its spellcasting modifier, and will instead use the spellcasting modifier of the most recently acquired spellcasting class.
Channel Divinity: Cloak of Shadows	Contrary to its description, it does not actually require the user to be obscured, and can be used in plain view of others, even in bright light.
Cinderous Swipe	The version of this ability granted in wild shape form deals only 1d6Fire extra damage, not 2d6Fire like the tooltip says.
Click Heels	The Disadvantage component of this effect actually applies to the reaction attacks performed by the caster, rather than reaction attacks targetting the caster.
Cloak of Shadows	Due to a poorly coded RemoveConditions field, Cloak of Shadows is lost when transitioning from a  Lightly Obscured area to a  Heavily Obscured area, and vice versa.
Concussive Burst	The in-game tooltip says this attack involves a Constitution saving throw, but it actually uses an attack roll.
Concussive Smash (Spiritual Weapon)	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.
Crushing Flight (Owlbear Wild Shape)	Rather than taking half damage on save (which would be (2d8 + bonus damage)/2Bludgeoning), targets instead take (1d8 + bonus damage)/2Bludgeoning which is closer to one quarter damage. This damage is always dealt as magical, regardless whether or not the attacker has  Primal Strike.
Cutting Words	Cutting Words may target friendly characters whose failed rolls prompted the effect, as opposed to the enemy character who rolled a save. Despite being flagged with HasVerbalComponent, Cutting Words may be used even while silenced. Cutting Words is missing the potency of the bardic dice in its description when displayed in the combat log.
Dawnburst Strike	The description in-game notes an incorrect DC 13  Constitution saving throw save. It requires a Weapon Action save with a +2 DC bonus. Despite the in-game description stating only enemies in the light must save against becoming blinded, the blindness affects all creatures in the area, even allies.
Dazzling Breath	When receiving this ability via Starry Form, this spell is not properly granted with Wisdom as its spellcasting modifier, and will instead use the spellcasting modifier of the most recently acquired spellcasting class.
Dazzling Ray	The saving throw to avoid being Burned is incorrectly attributed to the target of the attack, rather than the attacker, in the combat log.
Death Burst (Mud)	The tooltip states that this action deals 4d6Bludgeoning damage, but it actually deals 4d6Force.
Defensive Duellist	Unlike similar reactions (Shield Master: Block), the icon for Defensive Duellist in the reactions tab does not "gray out" when the reaction is unavailable due to an incompatible equipped weapon.
Deflect Missiles	Against ranged attacks that fire multiple projectiles, such as  Multiattack (Ranged) or dual wielded Hand Crossbows, only the last attack can be deflected to reduce its damage. None of the projectiles can be thrown back with  Deflect Missiles: Redirect.
Destructive Wrath	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.'"`UNIQ--ref-0000AB98-QINU`"' 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
Dirty Trick: Flick o' the Wrist	This action does not trigger on-hit weapon functors found on many weapons, such as Sussur Dagger.
Divine Intervention: Opulent Revival	This does not restore any of the new class resources added in Patch 8.
Divine Strike: Cold (Melee)	This attack is not correctly marked with a Cold DamageType flag, which means it does not trigger certain effects which check for Cold damage.
Divine Strike: Cold (Ranged)	When wielding two Hand Crossbows and Dual Wielding toggle enabled, this attack will consume both an  Action and  Bonus Action, but the offhand attack will not be performed.
Divine Strike: Fire (Melee)	This attack is not correctly marked with a Fire DamageType flag, which means it does not trigger certain effects which check for Fire damage.
Divine Strike: Fire (Ranged)	When wielding two Hand Crossbows and Dual Wielding toggle enabled, this attack will consume both an  Action and  Bonus Action, but the offhand attack will not be performed.
Divine Strike: Lightning (Melee)	This attack is not correctly marked with a Lightning DamageType flag, which means it does not trigger certain effects which check for Lightning damage.
Divine Strike: Lightning (Ranged)	When wielding two Hand Crossbows and Dual Wielding toggle enabled, this attack will consume both an  Action and  Bonus Action, but the offhand attack will not be performed.
Divine Strike: Necrotic (Melee)	This attack is incorrectly marked with a Piercing DamageType flag, rather than Necrotic, which means it does not trigger certain effects which check for Necrotic damage such as Malefic Funghi.
Divine Strike: Necrotic (Ranged)	When wielding two Hand Crossbows and Dual Wielding toggle is enabled, this attack consumes both an  Action and  Bonus Action, but the offhand attack does not occur. This attack is incorrectly marked with a Piercing DamageType flag, rather than Necrotic, which means it does not trigger certain effects which check for Necrotic damage such as  Malefic Funghi.
Divine Strike: Poison (Melee)	This attack is not correctly marked with a Poison DamageType flag, which means it does not trigger certain effects which check for Poison damage.
Divine Strike: Radiant (Melee)	This attack is not correctly marked with a Radiant DamageType flag, which means it does not trigger certain effects which check for Radiant damage.
Divine Strike: Radiant (Ranged)	When wielding two Hand Crossbows and Dual Wielding toggle enabled, this attack will consume both an  Action and  Bonus Action, but the offhand attack will not be performed.
Divine Strike: Thunder (Melee)	This attack is not correctly marked with a Thunder DamageType flag, which means it does not trigger certain effects which check for Thunder damage such as  Destructive Wrath.
Divine Strike: Thunder (Ranged)	When wielding two Hand Crossbows and Dual Wielding toggle enabled, this attack will consume both an  Action and  Bonus Action, but the offhand attack will not be performed.
Divine Strike: Weapon (Melee)	This attack deals non-magical damage when used as an  Action, but deals magical damage when used as a post-strike  Reaction. Due to a coding mistake, when used as a post-strike reaction in Honour Mode this attack deals non-magical damage.
Divine Strike: Weapon (Ranged)	When wielding two Hand Crossbows and Dual Wielding toggle enabled, this attack consumes both an  Action and  Bonus Action, but the offhand attack is not performed. This attack deals non-magical damage when used as an action, but deals magical damage when used as a post-strike reaction.
Diving Strike	If this attack misses and  Reckless Attack is triggered in response, the attack roll will not actually get rerolled, so it will always still miss. However, if Reckless Attack is already active, the attack roll will be made with Advantage as expected.
Drunken Technique	This attack does not trigger Cloak of Cunning Brume despite granting the benefits of  Disengage.
Edge of Darkness	The ingame tooltip for this action is inaccurate and missing key information: The tooltip does not mention the fact that once you strike the main target, an additional attack is made against every creature within the 3 m / 10 ft radius around that target, including allies. These additional attacks also deal Weapon DamagePiercing damage, including all normal weapon damage bonuses, despite some inconsistencies in the combat log. On-hit reactions such as  Divine Smite can be applied to each creature hit by this action (at the cost of multiple spell slots, in the case of Divine Smite). The tooltip claims there is an associated Constitution saving throw, but this is not true.
Enrage	Due to a coding error, Owlbear's Rage may not be removed from the Druid if Owlbear form is lost.
Evasive Footwork	The 1 turn duration of  Evasive Footwork is deceptively short. The duration ticks down at the end of the Battle Master's turn and thus ends immediately on the very same turn. Thus, aside from opportunity attacks or ripostes, Evasive Footwork will have ended before any enemies make their attacks.
Exposing Bite	This condition is removed after any attack roll against the affected creature within 3 m / 10 ft, but the critical hit only applies if it is made within 2 m / 7 ft. This means the effect is wasted when attacking an affected creature with an extra reach weapon from maximum range.
Fierce Perilous Stakes	This can be cast multiple times on the same target to apply multiple instances of  Fierce Perilous Stakes at once, and can even stack with  Perilous Stakes. The critical hit threshold reduction, bonus damage, and healing effect from each application all stack with each other. The damage vulnerability does not stack this way.
Firewine Explosion	On save, targets take (4d6)/2Fire damage instead of (2d6)/2Fire damage which is effectively full damage.
Fist of Four Thunders	This spell is missing the trigger for  Martial Arts: Bonus Unarmed Strike, and will not grant its effect.
Fly (Illithid Power)	While it is supposed to replace the Jump action's keybinding, this interaction is unreliable and seems to be bugged. It will often initially work, but then be reset to Jump when e.g. loading a saved game.
Frenzied Strike	This attack no longer applies Frenzied Strain once the Barbarian reaches level 9.
Frenzy	This version of Rage is usable when already affected by Rage once the Barbarian reaches level 9.
Gale (class action)	The tooltip incorrectly states this requires a Strength save. The correct Dexterity save is listed above.
Gargantuan Cleave	The tooltip shows this action applying full weapon damage when in fact it deals half the weapon damage.
Grand Slam	Since this attack does not involve an attack roll, it does not benefit from certain bonus damage sources which check the attack roll type despite listing the additional damage on the tooltip. These include:  Arcane Synergy  Great Weapon Master: All In  Hunter's Mark  Wrath Despite the tooltip warning, Large and bigger sized targets are pushed back.
Greataxe Slash	The in-game tooltip is incorrect - all the damage dealt is Force damage.
Greatsword Slash	The in-game tooltip is incorrect - all the damage dealt is Force damage.
Grounded Thunder Strike	The tooltip incorrectly shows the damage as 1d10 + Strength ModifierBludgeoning + 1d10Thunder damage.
Halberd Slash	The in-game tooltip is incorrect - all the damage dealt is Force damage.
Headbutt	The in-game tooltip incorrectly lists this as Piercing.
Heart of the Storm: Lightning	Despite its in-game tooltip stating otherwise, Heart of the Storm activates on cantrips.
Hellcrawler	While the action itself is not a spell, the explosion triggered after teleporting is classified as a level 1 Evocation spell. As a result, it interacts with spell-specific effects such as  Elemental Affinity: Damage,  Empowered Evocation, or  Fiery Return. Enemies who successfully roll a saving throw against this effect receive only 1d8Fire damage instead of 2d8/2Fire damage.
Horde Breaker (Melee)	Some abilities/gear expected to affect the original Horde Breaker target might instead trigger to a random creature in the Horde Breaker zone. As these abilities are triggered after the base attack, they are always applied to random enemies in the area if the targeted enemy is killed, which can be used to the player's advantage. This is known to happen with  Sneak Attack,  Ability Drain,  Divine Strike: Weapon, and  Luck of the Far Realms, but there are particular cases: Boots of Stormy Clamour and Staff of the Ram can trigger twice, usually one time at random and one time to the original target (if attacks hits) or at random (if attack misses). The Watcher's Guide can add  True Strike to a nearby enemy if the original target is hit. There are a few weapons capable of triggering their abilities to all targets (including other party members, but excluding the Horde Breaker character) in area when they receive Horde Breaker condition - likely a bug. Known weapons to interact with Horde Breaker are: Vision of the Absolute ( Blinded), Bow of the Banshee ( Frightened), Sussur Greatsword ( Silenced) and The Baneful ( Bane) are weapons which force all enemies in Horde Breaker area to roll a saving throw to avoid receiving a condition. Shortsword of First Blood ability Break the Unbroken activates dealing 1d8Piercing to targets which still have all their hit points. Rat Bat unnamed ability deals 1d6PiercingDRS at all targets.  Greataxes ability  Prepare deals [Strength modifier]PhysicalDRS damage to all targets.
Horde Breaker (Ranged)	Some abilities/gear expected to affect the original Horde Breaker target might instead trigger to a random enemy in the Horde Breaker zone. As these abilities are triggered after the base attack, they will always be applied to random enemies in the area if the targeted enemy is killed, which can be used on player's advantage. This is known to happen with  Sneak Attack,  Ability Drain and  Divine Strike: Weapon, but there are particular cases: Boots of Stormy Clamour and Staff of the Ram can trigger twice, usually one time at random and one time to the original target (if attacks hits) or at random (if attack misses). The Watcher's Guide can add  True Strike to a nearby enemy if the original target is hit. There are a few weapons capable to trigger their abilities to all targets (including teammates, but excluding the Horde Breaker character) in area when they receive Horde Breaker condition - likely a bug. Known weapons to interact with Horde Breaker are: Vision of the Absolute ( Blinded), Bow of the Banshee ( Frightened), Sussur Greatsword ( Silenced) and The Baneful ( Bane) are weapons forcing all enemies in Horde Breaker area to roll a saving throw to avoid receiving a condition. Shortsword of First Blood ability Break the Unbroken activates dealing 1d8Piercing to targets that still have all their hit points. Rat Bat unnamed ability deals 1d6PiercingDRS at all targets.  Greataxes ability  Prepare deals [Strength modifier]PhysicalDRS damage to all targets.
Hound of Ill Omen	The CharacterStats for this summoned creature do not have the proper DifficultyStatuses set. As a result, the creature gains the difficulty modifier bonus as if it were a hostile NPC.
Houndmaster's Mark	This action inherits the tooltip from  Hunter's Mark and some information shown is not true. In particular, it does not grant increased damage.
Immolating Gaze	The additional damage against  Burning creatures only applies on a successful saving throw in which case it deals (4d8)/2Fire damage. On a failed save, the damage is still 2d8Fire.
Improved Bardic Inspiration (class action)	Due to a coding error, a character receiving the ability to use this passive will instead receive the Bardic Inspiration charge and reactions of a d6 Bardic Inspiration. Additionally, while a reaction may expend this Bardic Inspiration charge, it will not remove the Improved Bardic Inspiration condition, leaving the character with an empty Bardic Inspiration charge slot which cannot be replenished. As such, the benefit of this passive is greatly diminished.
Infectious Bite (Wolf Companion)	The description states that Septic is applied for 3 turns; it is only applied for 2.
Invoke Duplicity	The illusion is destroyed when it is targeted by any effect, even if it is the target of a friendly  Mass Healing Word.
Kick Up Muck	The in-game tooltip suggests that Mud-Drenched condition is the same as  Slowed. However, a Mud-Drenched creature can spend both  Actions and  Bonus Actions.
Lacerate (Spiritual Weapon)	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.
Let the Slaughter Begin	The spell save DC of the Slayer's actions uses the spellcasting ability of the last class you took a first level in, but with the Slayer's ability scores. This results in a very low DC due to the Slayer's low mental ability scores. In particular, Fighters, Rogues, Wizards, Clerics, Druids, Monks, and Rangers have a +0 spellcasting modifier from Intelligence or Wisdom in Slayer form, while Barbarians, Bards, Paladins, Sorcerers, and Warlocks have a -1 spellcasting modifier from Charisma while in Slayer form. Stacks of  Bhaal's Boon granted by killing marked targets are lost in far more circumstances than they should be. This makes it essentially impossible to accumulate stacks of this condition as they are usually removed as soon as they are added. Whenever a condition of any type is removed from the Slayer, the number of stacks will decrement. Many features involve hidden technical conditions that are applied and removed frequently. In particular, every attack made with  Extra Attack involves applying and removing hidden technical conditions which track the extra attacks. As a result, simply attacking causes the stacks to decrement, often immediately after acquiring the first stack.
Lightning Breath	The in-game tooltip incorrectly describes the area of effect as a cone, while it is instead a line.
Magic Awareness	The in-game description is inaccurate. It says, "Anyone within range adds their proficiency bonus to saving throws against spells." In reality, the bonus is 1d4 and it applies to all saving throws, not just against spells.
Maul Blow	The in-game tooltip is incorrect - all the damage dealt is Force damage.
Muck to Metal	Despite what the in-game tooltip states,  Transmuted To Steel does not reduce movement speed. The action still costs the movement speed to activate, but on subsequent turns, the Earth Myrmidon will not suffer a movement speed penalty.
Multiattack (Slayer)	The description for this ability states it conditionally deals an additional 4d6Slashing damage, but no such effect exists.
Ochre Sputum (grease)	The in-game description mentions it creates an  Acid surface when instead it creates a  Grease surface. It also says it inflicts  Poisoned and involves a Constitution saving throw save, but this is not true either.
Ochre Sputum (acid)	The in-game tooltip indicates that this attack can inflict  Poisoned and involves a Constitution saving throw, but this is not true.
Ominous Bite	The method by which each omen condition is rolled for is bugged in comparison to Larian's intended method due to a miscoded khn function. See the  Hound's Omen page for additional information. After dealing the correct damage type to an enemy afflicted with an omen, the sorcerer receives a condition named "Hound's Omen: Sorcery Point" for one turn which lacks an icon.
Pact of the Blade: Flail	This summoned weapon includes a hidden boost which provides proficiency for its weapon type, redundant with the innate  Hexed Weapon it receives. Thus, when this weapon is equipped on a character that has  Dual Wielder, the character is able to wield another weapon of this type with full proficiency in both hands.
Panache	Enemies with the  War Caster or  Polearm Master feats still take Opportunity Attacks when otherwise affected by this feature.
Perilous Stakes	Perilous Stakes can be stacked multiple times upon the same character, providing multiple occurrences of healing without any additional negative effect.
Phalar Aluve: Shriek	Despite its description, Shriek affects all saving throws and attack rolls made by the affected target.
Phalar Aluve: Sing	The in-game tooltip specifies that the bonus to saving throws applies to Charisma, Wisdom, or Intelligence ones. This is not true. The bonus applies to all saving throws, including death saving throws.
Piercing Growl	The spell save DC of the Slayer's actions uses the spellcasting ability of the last class you took a first level in, but with the Slayer's ability scores. This results in a very low DC due to the Slayer's low mental ability scores. In particular, Fighters, Rogues, Wizards, Clerics, Druids, Monks, and Rangers have a +0 spellcasting modifier from Intelligence or Wisdom in Slayer form, while Barbarians, Bards, Paladins, Sorcerers, and Warlocks have a -1 spellcasting modifier from Charisma while in Slayer form.
Piercing Strike (Spiritual Weapon)	The in-game tooltip is incorrect - all the damage dealt is  Force damage.
Pounce	The in-game tooltip says the damage dealt is Piercing, but it actually is Bludgeoning.
Pounce (Dilophosaurus)	The in-game tooltip says the damage dealt is Piercing, but it actually is Bludgeoning.