Is 'True Strike' even good?

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I usually take it but can't say I see a difference when its used

[War Maiden]

No, it is a waste.
You are better getting the Necro and Light Cantrips depending on your race.

If you're an Elf, get the fire spell. Works wonders in many situations as opposed to the light spell.

[Dr. Sinclair]

baseline as a cantrip? no. its terrible, arguably the worst cantrip in 5E

afaik theres a dagger that lets you use it as a bonus action and a spear that gives you true strike whenever you miss, and maybe something else im forgetting, but spending an ACTION on it is the worst thing you can do in 99.9% situations

[Orion Invictus]

No. It is objectively, mathematically worse than just attacking.

Think about it:

With advantage you roll twice, but only take one die. That doesn't mean one die was a miss, though. You could've hit with both, or missed with both, or hit with one and missed with the other. If you had just attacked twice, it'd have been the same exact thing, except you'd have tried to attack with both dice. So you could've ACTUALLY hit with both, or missed with both, or hit with one and missed with the other.

TL;DR: By using True Strike, you "waste" one turn to do the same thing you would've done in two turns anyway.

[Renlish]

.... I use it, it helps my buddies when I put it on them.

[Tom]

The idea of it is interesting, but fundamentally flawed. You're 'holding' your current action on this turn to make your attack on the next turn more accurate. Thing is you could just attack twice. Not only is your chance of hitting effectively the same, as its rolling two dice to hit either way. But if you just strike twice then you can do more damage.

It might have a very niche use in a scenario where you can only make a singular attempt at hitting a thing, but can take all the time you want building up to that? I can't think of what that scenario could be though.

Sucks 'cus it has such a cool name. Maybe if it was a bonus action? Or kept as full action but added a d4 force dmg on top of the normal attack? Or allowed you to ignore a targeted enemies resistances on your next attack? Or let it work like Hex so if the true strike kills then you can chain, with the downside being the effect ends when you fail to kill something. And if you want to get really wild maybe it builds a counter lowering the crit threshold with each chain. So many ways it could be buffed to be really interesting.

[id795078477]

True strike is worth it in a combination with Cantrip Master (available as a mod).

[Chroniver]

It's bad.

Only very situationally useful when you're completely unable to attack until your next turn.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by ♠Mac'd♠:

Is 'True Strike' even good?
I usually take it but can't say I see a difference when its used

No. If it was a bonus action cost it would be acceptable. As it is it is one of the worst cantrips you can take.

[Govi]

Originally posted by Renlish:

.... I use it, it helps my buddies when I put it on them.

A rouge with advantage does a sneak attack?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Renlish:

.... I use it, it helps my buddies when I put it on them.

I am rather irritated by what you actually mean by that.

[Draknalor]

Originally posted by ♠Mac'd♠:

I usually take it but can't say I see a difference when its used

You are wasting an action to apply this.. so no, don't do it

[Fluffykeith]

If it were a bonus action, it would be fine. As an action, it's worthless. It gimps your action economy to use it.

[Garviel Loken]

In normal D&D I homebrew it to be a bonus action. As is, it is useless.

[Izuzul]

Hard Pass

[Ironwu]

Don't take it if you have other options. If you have to take it, throw it off your bars so you won't even see it. If it has to be on a bar somewhere, put it on the Custom bar so you won't see it.

NEVER use it. Total waste of an Action. My guess is that it is a design mistake some developer made. Supposed to be a Bonus Action, but they made it an Action.