Ruin Explorer
Legend
2d8. Thus average 9. And it's post-hit, but takes a Bonus Action.How much does the new baseline 1st level Divine Smite deal?
Most combats in 5E last 3-4 rounds. Assuming you manage to pre-cast Divine Favor, made 1 attack/round, and hit with every attack, you'd thus do an average of 7.5 to 10 damage with Divine Favor. But that's unlikely to happen.
The only way Favor reliably comes out ahead is if you have 2 attacks per around or more at low levels AND are hitting more than 50% of the time (preferably a lot more) AND you pre-cast it. It's also a lot more likely to be wasted damage, because it's on every attack, whereas you'd only drop Smite if someone was still standing after the hit.
So Divine Favor is significantly improved, but it's still a pretty bad spell.
Please delete this, you're misleading people. They're asking about Divine Smite, not Divine Favor.+1d4 damage