Eldritch blast not working with charisma?

[Tuckii]

Hey, im using eldritch blast on warlock with the buff that gives you more damage when you have charisma. My questions is do you have to use somehow charisma for it somehow or is it casted automatically? Im currently at 19 charisma lvl4 and doing always between 4-8 damage sometimes it goes to 12-14-20 if crit

[xposethedarkside]

You shouldn't be able to roll a 4. With 19 charisma you have a +4 to agonizing blast. So the lowest you should be able to roll is a 5. The only way you might be able to see lower than 5 is if the enemy is resistant to force damage, which is extremely rare in 5e. Force damage is the least resistant damage type in the game.

[desrtfox071]

Mouse over the attack in your combat log. Report back here what it says. I'm getting my Charisma bonus last time I checked.

[Tuckii]

Originally posted by xposethedarkside:

You shouldn't be able to roll a 4. With 19 charisma you have a +4 to agonizing blast. So the lowest you should be able to roll is a 5. The only way you might be able to see lower than 5 is if the enemy is resistant to force damage, which is extremely rare in 5e. Force damage is the least resistant damage type in the game.

Yeah, charisma roll is 4 right. It feels underwhelming when im doing 5-10 damage and sometimes 14 max, anything i dont know?

[Tuckii]

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

Mouse over the attack in your combat log. Report back here what it says. I'm getting my Charisma bonus last time I checked.

yeah im getting charisma but it feels underwhelming

[corisai]

Originally posted by Tuckii:

Yeah, charisma roll is 4 right. It feels underwhelming when im doing 5-10 damage and sometimes 14 max, anything i dont know?

Average value of d10 roll is 5.5* so you should expect 9-10* damage.

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[Tuckii]

Originally posted by corisai:

Originally posted by Tuckii:

Yeah, charisma roll is 4 right. It feels underwhelming when im doing 5-10 damage and sometimes 14 max, anything i dont know?

Average value of d10 roll is 4.5 so you should expect 8-9 damage.

yeah, pretty bad when you can only cast it once per turn and then comes rogue or fighter and deals 12-14-16+ damage

[Chaosolous]

It's a cantrip, a level 0 spell.

It's supposed to be underwhelming, but usable.

[Tuckii]

with guidance it might be a bit better, idk i just play then and burrow myself in sorrow

[Blackfrost]

Originally posted by Tuckii:

Originally posted by corisai:

Average value of d10 roll is 4.5 so you should expect 8-9 damage.

yeah, pretty bad when you can only cast it once per turn and then comes rogue or fighter and deals 12-14-16+ damage

At those levels, with a Warlock, you should be doing Hex + Scorching Ray.
Eldritch Blast becomes better later on ( once you get 2-3 rays per attack ) with the Gloves that can make it cast as a Bonus Action + Haste + Robe that gives another +CHA to damage.

[Sentient_Toaster]

It's per blast. Number of blasts scales with character level, i.e. 2 blasts at level 5, 3 blasts at level 11 (and 4 at 17, if the game went that far).

Add Repelling Blast for shoving that works at a distance and has no skill check or saving throw to avoid. Very handy if there's a persisent AoE like spike growth or Evard's Black Tentacles behind the target, or a chasm of doom (the latter being less useful if you actually wanted to loot the corpse, of course).

If you have nothing better to concentrate on, Hex will give you extra necrotic damage per hit. But eventually Hex will be a pretty mediocre choice for your concentration slot.

[Hanariel]

Originally posted by Tuckii:

with guidance it might be a bit better

Guideance doesn`t do anything about damage.

[Blackfrost]

Originally posted by Hanariel:

Originally posted by Tuckii:

with guidance it might be a bit better

Guideance doesn`t do anything about damage.

Maybe he meant Bless for +to-hit?