True Strike

Cantrip Divination spell available to Bards, Sorcerers, Warlocks, and Wizards. It grants Advantage on your next Attack Roll against a target. It looks useful and is, in practice, a trap.

Spell description: Divine a character’s defences to give you Advantage on your next Attack Roll against it.

Spell properties

• Range: 18m (60ft)
• Duration: 2 turns
• Concentration spell
• Cost: Action
• Recharge: Per action

Spell upcasting

This cantrip does not scale.

How to obtain True Strike

• Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard at Class level 1
• Arcane Archer (Fighter), Arcane Trickster (Rogue), and Eldritch Knight (Fighter) at Class level 3
• High Elf and High Half-Elf at Character level 1
• Granted by features: Magic Initiate: Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard

True Strike

Divination Cantrip

Divine a creature’s defences to give you Advantage on your next Attack Roll against it.

Range: 18m (60ft) Duration: 2 turns

Action

When to cast True Strike

The maths does not work. You spend a whole Action to get Advantage on one later attack, which means two turns to make one good hit instead of just attacking twice. You are almost always better off casting a real damage cantrip now.

It is also Concentration, so it competes with anything worth holding. There are edge cases, setting up a guaranteed critical with a big smite, but for most builds this is a cantrip to leave unprepared.