![]() My only thought is that you could whip out a shadowblade, and be able to use it for your weapon and use your normal weapon for Booming/Green-Flame blade. So Reading though bladesinger, and bladesong and it seems like you can use two weapons while bladesong is active. So you can drop one of your weapons as a free action, reach up and grab the focus to cast your spell, then pick up the weapon (Use an Object action.) You can obviously skip grabbing the focus if the spell has no material component. It shouldn't need to be drawn (hopefully) in order to use it, you just need a hand free. Typically, my solution would be to wear a spell focus (crystal) around my neck, which can be dropped as a free action. You might have to get creative if your DM is particular strict with their rulings on drawing and storing items. On another note, it's worth mentioning that it can be tricky to cast spells while two-weapon fighting because both your hands are full. Your only other option is to ditch TWF in order to use a rapier, but that only increases your damage by +1 which isn't worth it if you're missing out on multiple attacks. But there's no real reason not to carry a shortsword in your other hand for when the opportunities arises. So how often you can actually do it is questionable. Bladesong, Shadowblade, and Spirit Shroud all take bonus actions to use, as well as many other spells. The only difficulty is that Bladesingers often spend their bonus actions doing something other than two-weapon fighting. ![]() In short, yes two-weapon fighting is good. This basically means that from now on you can always do TWF and have no excuse not to. The difference between both options here is pretty negligible, but Booming Blade has the potential to stop an enemy from moving.Īt level 5 Booming Blade and Green-Flame Blade do extra damage on hit, meaning you should always use them and ignore TWF entirely.Īt level 6 you get Extra Attack and can now substitute one of your attacks for a cantrip. If you choose to cast Booming Blade or Green-Flame Blade instead than you do 16.5 damage, assuming everything works in your favor and the spell effects go off. You can two-weapon fight with it and a shortsword for an average damage per round of 15.5 if all your attacks hit. Since a plain rapier swing is significantly less damage than two-weapon fighting with shortswords I would suggest using shortswords as your primary weapon in the early game.Īt level 3 you get access to Shadowblade, which according to Jeremy Crawford should work with Booming Blade and Green-Flame Blade without needing any workarounds. However, that's unlikely to always be true, so you're better off doing TWF when you know neither cantrips are going to be helpful. Is it a good idea? It depends.īefore level 5 using either Booming Blade or Green-Flame Blade with a rapier is marginally better than TWF using shortswords if you can get the spells' effects to activate. You can use two-weapon fighting while using Bladesong.
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