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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geeknamese" data-source="post: 7394595" data-attributes="member: 6785999">I believe he meant it is not useful after level 3 because clerics get the level 2 spell Spiritual Weapon. If you cast Spiritual Weapon in battle, that eats up your bonus action attack with an attack that is in most cases stronger than the War Priest’s Blessing bonus action attack.I agree 100% with CapnZapp. The bonus action attack on Cleric spell casts is an elegant solution to this issue...and it is an issue. I’m not sure why there’s such an argument against this. With spells like Toll the Dead doing 2d12 at 5th level at range, no Cleric is going to wade into melee to possibly use a 3-5 time’s per day bonus action d8 Attack. But wading into melee is what a War Cleric should be doing. For all the other domains, the clerics subclass abilities and how they play out is evocative of what their gods represent. If I’m a cleric of Tempus, you bet my god is going to expect me to be in the heat of battle in the front lines, not in he back at the caster ranks with the wizard. The War clerics signature ability needs to incentivize this and the tweak CapnZapp is advocating really does a slick job of doing it.</blockquote>