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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 9420982" data-attributes="member: 27957">We're still early days, and the information is incompletely and slightly distorted. But I'm mocking out character ideas and trying to get a feel for what might be fun. Bladelock is feeling pretty restricted, between the invocation taxes and the difficulty taking the good martial feats. But OTOH, one of the change lists says that the Dual Wielder and Defensive Dualist feats are improved. So I'm exploring what a dual wielding and finesse Eldritch Knight would look like. And I may have found an interesting synergy, at least going by UA wording.Eldritch Knight's War Magic says &quot;When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of the attacks with a casting of one of your Wizard cantrips&quot;. Then the Light weapon property says, &quot;When you take the Attack action on your turn and attack with a Light weapon, you can make one extra attack as a Bonus Action later on the same turn.&quot; Definitely not compatible, the Bonus Action attack is not part of the Attack action. But the Nick weapon mastery says, &quot;When you make the extra attack of the Light property, you can make it as part of the Attack action, instead of as a Bonus Action.&quot;Does that mean a DW Eldritch Knight (with War Caster obviously) could substitute a cantrip for the weaker off-hand weapon attack? I believe it does, at least by my reading. Does anyone read it differently?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 9420982, member: 27957"] We're still early days, and the information is incompletely and slightly distorted. But I'm mocking out character ideas and trying to get a feel for what might be fun. Bladelock is feeling pretty restricted, between the invocation taxes and the difficulty taking the good martial feats. But OTOH, one of the change lists says that the Dual Wielder and Defensive Dualist feats are improved. So I'm exploring what a dual wielding and finesse Eldritch Knight would look like. And I may have found an interesting synergy, at least going by UA wording. Eldritch Knight's War Magic says "When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of the attacks with a casting of one of your Wizard cantrips". Then the Light weapon property says, "When you take the Attack action on your turn and attack with a Light weapon, you can make one extra attack as a Bonus Action later on the same turn." Definitely not compatible, the Bonus Action attack is not part of the Attack action. But the Nick weapon mastery says, "When you make the extra attack of the Light property, you can make it as part of the Attack action, instead of as a Bonus Action." Does that mean a DW Eldritch Knight (with War Caster obviously) could substitute a cantrip for the weaker off-hand weapon attack? I believe it does, at least by my reading. Does anyone read it differently? [/QUOTE]

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