Yaarel
🇮🇱He-Mage
Maybe I am missing something, but isn't this cantrip useless?
Ok, strictly speaking, it isnt ‘useless’. But the Blade Ward cantrip is virtually useless.
Cantrips are a precious limited resource. According to the rules as written, a caster can only know a few of them. The caster chooses which cantrip to take, moreorless for life, for the remaining 20 levels. And the caster is unable to know any other cantrips beyond these ones chosen.
A player must choose cantrips wisely.
In the context of other cantrips that are more effective and more useful − Blade Ward is a foolish waste.