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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jared Vanotterdyk" data-source="post: 7454170" data-attributes="member: 6960091">Ok, so i have a question i have yet to find an answer to. for the warlocks pact of the chain descriptions, the description says you can forego one of your attacks to let your familiar attack. makes sense in most cases. but it gets a bit more interesting when you have the extra attack feature offered by some classes and invocations.I have found that most everyone agrees that any attack in the extra attack feature allows you to instead make an attack with your familiar, essentially letting you attack twice (or even four times if your a high level fighter) with your familiar. but there's one instance that I've yet to see asked or answered. and that's with eldritch blast. eldritch blast is this really unique cantrip that scales with the caster not by just increasing the damage, but by making the caster cast multiple blasts, each with their own attack roll and additive bonuses. which is the main reason everyone agrees its the strongest cantrip. but this mechanic also confuses me in regards with this pact of chain familiar feature.if you cast eldritch blast, can each attack roll made for the individual beams be counted as an individual attack for the sake of this feature, or do you need to use the whole spell to make one attack with the familiar.if the latter is true. then it would mean the pact of chain,familiar scales much better into the later game than if not, being able to cast eldritch blast and sacrifice some of your damage for poison potential is crazy cool. but again, it all depends on whether or not each beam is considered an attack that can be spent to use your familiars attack.so my question, is their a rule that determines this within the hand book? or would this be more of a DM ruling kind of thing?.</blockquote>

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