So is Destructive Wrath bugged or is the description wrong?

[parent child bowl]

The description says that it triggers when you roll thunder or lightning damage, but it triggers even when your attack doesn't hit and you can't know that it doesn't hit when you get asked to activate it. It's really annoying.

[Menry]

Also does not work for me, the reaction triggers but lightning damage is still rolled normally instead of max damage.

[Menry]

Update:
1. Does not work for Glyph of Warding, other spells work.
2. When using Shocking Grasp with Destructive Wrath, suddenly the enemy can make a saving throw to only take half damage.

[Axis of Lint]

Originally posted by parent child bowl:

The description says that it triggers when you roll thunder or lightning damage, but it triggers even when your attack doesn't hit and you can't know that it doesn't hit when you get asked to activate it. It's really annoying.

I realise this is an old issue, but there's a mod that (hopefully) fixes the issue on the Nexus. The problem was that DW was triggering before the attack actually landed and should have been triggering when damage was calculated. It was causing issues for crits as well as it would max the base damage but not the extra crit die.

I've only just installed the mod, so haven't tested it thoroughly yet.

[BigJ]

New patch made it not work on Dragon's breath.

[Axis of Lint]

Originally posted by Hex : Furby Salad:

Originally posted by parent child bowl:

The description says that it triggers when you roll thunder or lightning damage, but it triggers even when your attack doesn't hit and you can't know that it doesn't hit when you get asked to activate it. It's really annoying.

I realise this is an old issue, but there's a mod that (hopefully) fixes the issue on the Nexus. The problem was that DW was triggering before the attack actually landed and should have been triggering when damage was calculated. It was causing issues for crits as well as it would max the base damage but not the extra crit die.

I've only just installed the mod, so haven't tested it thoroughly yet.

It appears I was incorrect. After some testing (witch bolt scrolls and as many other spells as I could find on my low level cleric), shocking grasp just seems to be bugged and rolls damage normally. Every other spell I could calculates max damage, whether after a save or not, but shocking grasps does not.