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Piercing Strike (Spiritual Weapon)
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This article is about the version of the action used by Spiritual Weapons. For the normal weapon action, see Piercing Strike.
Piercing Strike is a weapon action available to tridents and spears summoned by .
UIDs
Spell flags
Description
Deal regular damage and possibly inflict , which cause extra damage on attacks.Undead and Constructs can't receive Gaping Wounds.
Properties
- Cost
Bonus Action
- Damage: 2~9 + modifiers
- Details
Melee spell attack roll
CON Save (Weapon action DC)
Melee: 1.5 m / 5 ft
Recharge: Short rest

1d8 + 1 + Spellcasting modifier
At higher levels
Upcast: The damage of this attack increases by 1d8 damage for every 2 spell slot levels above 2 used to cast .Technical details

Target_PiercingThrust_SpiritualWeapon_Trident
Target_PiercingThrust_SpiritualWeapon_Spear

Condition: Gaping Wounds
Duration: 2 turns
How to learn
Used by creatures: Spiritual Weapon (spear), and Spiritual Weapon (trident)
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 damage.