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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9446885" data-attributes="member: 7030563">No cantrips state explicitly that the cantrip deals the damage.&nbsp; Eldritch Blast doesn't, Chill Touch doesn't.&nbsp; They just say the target &quot;takes damage&quot;.This is agonizing blast:Choose one of your known Warlock cantrips that deals damage. You can add your spellcasting ability modifier to that spell's damage rolls. Whenever you gain a Warlock level, you can change which of your damaging Warlock cantrips benefits from this invocation. Repeatable. You can gain this invocation more than once. Each time you do so, choose a different eligible cantrip.The term &quot;deal damage&quot; is even in the description of True Strike three times!The &quot;one attack with a weapon&quot; is what the cantrip does, no different than &quot;hurl a crackling beam of energy&quot; on EB.&nbsp; To accept this interpretation we have to accept that Eldritch Blast does not do damage as a Cantrip, but rather the attack with a crackling beam of energy does the damage.&nbsp; Further the extra damage at the end is explicitly from the Cantrip as the weapon by itself would not do this.I think Truestrike is the main driver for changing the invocation as it was talked about extensively during the playtest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9446885, member: 7030563"] No cantrips state explicitly that the cantrip deals the damage. Eldritch Blast doesn't, Chill Touch doesn't. They just say the target "takes damage". This is agonizing blast: [I]Choose one of your known Warlock cantrips [B][U]that deals damage.[/U][/B] You can add your spellcasting ability modifier to that spell's damage rolls. Whenever you gain a Warlock level, you can change which of your damaging Warlock cantrips benefits from this invocation. Repeatable. You can gain this invocation more than once. Each time you do so, choose a different eligible cantrip.[/I] The term "deal damage" is even in the description of True Strike three times! The "one attack with a weapon" is what the cantrip does, no different than "hurl a crackling beam of energy" on EB. To accept this interpretation we have to accept that Eldritch Blast does not do damage as a Cantrip, but rather the attack with a crackling beam of energy does the damage. Further the extra damage at the end is explicitly from the Cantrip as the weapon by itself would not do this. I think Truestrike is the main driver for changing the invocation as it was talked about extensively during the playtest. [/QUOTE]

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