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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 7968690" data-attributes="member: 6987520">Hmm... looking at something like a 2d10 cantrip (Fire Bolt or Eldritch Blast, etc.), casting twice in succession yields 14.30 damage over 2 rounds. Casting True Strike and allowing both auto-crit and advantage would be 18.48, which is a bump of 4.18 or a bit over 29%.But, tack on Elemental Affinity or Agonizing Blast (either likely),  and your normal damage over two rounds (assume +3 bonus) would be 17.90. Now, the True Strike of auto-crit/advantage is a 3.58 bump or 20%.Is a 20% bump in damage worth delaying half the damage (for the round no attack is made) and having to concentrate until the next round???Using Chromatic Orb at level 1:Cast two rounds in a row (oops, no more non-cantrips!) would deal (again 60% hit) 8.775 per round or 17.55 damage.Cast TS then CO RAW is 12.66 damage on round two. (that SUCKS, but you still have 1 1st-level slot...)If you extend it to 4 rounds (two CO's followed by two FB) is almost identical to TS-CO-TS-CO. The TS-CO combo only improves damage by 0.62 over FOUR rounds!Making TS into an auto-crit (but no advantage):Cast TS/ac then CO is 16.20 damage. Still less than the 17.55 of casting CO twice in a row, but you have your spell slot left.If you extend this to 4 rounds (TS/ac-CO-TS/ac-CO) you would get 35.10, 10.40 points over the 24.70 of a CO-CO-FB-FB sequence. Over 4 rounds that is a boost of 2.6 per round. Pretty significant bump but you have to worry about concentration so viable IMO.Making TS into an auto-crit with advantage:Cast TS/ac-ad then CO is 22.68 damage! Significantly more than using CO twice in a row.In four rounds you would have 45.36 damage, 20.66 over the 24.70 of the CO-CO-FB-FB. That is over a 83% bump in damage and way too much for "concentration and delaying damage."</blockquote>

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