Has Oathbreaker Paladin's Aura of Hate been patched yet?

[Pneumokokki]

Hey guys, do you know if aura of hate has been patched or not? I've read that it used to be that the aura didn't affect your party's undead at all, as it boosts the undead's melee WEAPON damage, and all your the zombies just hit enemies with their hands.

If this is still the case, I'll multiclass into sorcerer at level 7. Playing on Honor mode and I'm not sure if I can respec my Oathbreaker to be Oathbreaker or would respecing make him into a normal paladin again, so I want to be sure before I get there.

[Xan]

It's not a bug, that's how Aura of Hate works in 5e too. There are undead which use weapons: Ranged skeletons, controlled skeletons with Control Undead, etc. There aren't many, granted. Should work with summoned Cambions as well.

I doubt it'll ever be changed considering, so you may as well make the change you were intending.

[Pneumokokki]

Well, that's pretty much useless then, since it mostly only affects enemies. You get a damage boost yourself, yes, but as you are unable to summon undead with melee weapons, I really don't see the point.

[Expired Uncle D]

Originally posted by Xan:

It's not a bug, that's how Aura of Hate works in 5e too. There are undead which use weapons: Ranged skeletons, controlled skeletons with Control Undead, etc. There aren't many, granted. Should work with summoned Cambions as well.

I doubt it'll ever be changed considering, so you may as well make the change you were intending.

Except that's NOT how it works in 5e. The wording is the same, but in 5e, unarmed attacks are still considered "weapon attacks" for anything that would interact with those. This means that in 5e, your weaponless zombies still get the Aura of Hate buff.

The fact that it doesn't work that way in BG3 is purely an oversight from looking at 5e's wording without adapting it to Larian's internal systems.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Expired Uncle D:

Originally posted by Xan:

It's not a bug, that's how Aura of Hate works in 5e too. There are undead which use weapons: Ranged skeletons, controlled skeletons with Control Undead, etc. There aren't many, granted. Should work with summoned Cambions as well.

I doubt it'll ever be changed considering, so you may as well make the change you were intending.

Except that's NOT how it works in 5e. The wording is the same, but in 5e, unarmed attacks are still considered "weapon attacks" for anything that would interact with those. This means that in 5e, your weaponless zombies still get the Aura of Hate buff.

The fact that it doesn't work that way in BG3 is purely an oversight from looking at 5e's wording without adapting it to Larian's internal systems.

That would be amusing news
Normally it is the other way around.