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<blockquote data-quote="DND_Reborn" data-source="post: 8032645" data-attributes="member: 6987520">The other issue with Booming Blade over Green-Flame Blade (for me) is too many things are resistance to fire IME, but very few are resistant to thunder damage. Also, unless there is another target within range, the rider for GFB isn't as attractive to me as the rider for BB.&nbsp; BB does offer (in theory at least) more damage to the primary target since the rider affects the same target as the attack, instead of second target. My preference has always been to beat down foes one-at-a-time rather than softening up the next.And like [USER=7017304]@jmartkdr2[/USER] says, combined with War Caster (which my PC has), using it for OAs is ridiculous since it also allows my full sneak attack on their turn. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Since you can SA or smite with BB as well as GFB, a lot of the preference becomes situational IMO. Personally, if I have the room, I have taken both to optimize the damage output dependent on the situation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DND_Reborn, post: 8032645, member: 6987520"] The other issue with Booming Blade over Green-Flame Blade (for me) is too many things are resistance to fire IME, but very few are resistant to thunder damage. Also, unless there is another target within range, the rider for GFB isn't as attractive to me as the rider for BB. BB does offer (in theory at least) more damage to the primary target since the rider affects the same target as the attack, instead of second target. My preference has always been to beat down foes one-at-a-time rather than softening up the next. And like [USER=7017304]@jmartkdr2[/USER] says, combined with War Caster (which my PC has), using it for OAs is ridiculous since it also allows my full sneak attack on their turn. :D Since you can SA or smite with BB as well as GFB, a lot of the preference becomes situational IMO. Personally, if I have the room, I have taken both to optimize the damage output dependent on the situation. [/QUOTE]

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