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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9380320" data-attributes="member: 18">I'm sorry, this is very simple.You can only Smite when you Hit.You want to Smite when you Crit.Therefore you have make your attacks with the Attack action BEFORE you use ANY BONUS ACTION AT ALL.Do you understand? This is completely different to other Bonus Action usage, which you can generally do in any order. You don't have to wait and decide, based on whether your attacks hit/crit how you're going to use the Bonus Action. If you can't see the difference, I honestly urge you to think about it a bit harder, because it's a very big difference.EDIT - It's particularly bad because you can GOTCHA! yourself and prevent yourself from Smiting, where almost all other Bonus Action abilities are going to be pretty conscious. There's a reason Bonus Actions are relatively rarely used for "faux-reaction" abilities (there are a couple - the Great Weapon attack is a "faux-reaction" BA I think - but it's very unlikely you'd GOTCHA! yourself out of that because it's likely it was your only regular BA ability if you had it).</blockquote>