FormerlyHemlock
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That niche is really small. Like, incredibly small. And several posters, including myself, have detailed times when True Strike is fine. It's still terrible, of course, because both spells are terrible. But it's not cool to claim nobody has put forth a valid use for True Strike, and then present incredibly niche scenarios for Find Traps.
I must have missed those. The only one I remember is lowkey's anecdote about the guy who casts True Strike as a character shtick before combat starts, and I think someone else also mentioned one-use magic items and expensive spells (Contagion, Plane Shift). Are there other uses I'm overlooking?
If two things both have small niches, but one of those things costs you permanent resources (cantrip slot) to have available just on the off chance that that niche is ever encountered, and the other one can simply be safely ignored until that niche is on the horizon... the one that costs you permanent resources looks worse to me.