Spell Sniper Vs War Caster

Most classes only have between 5 7 of these and there are none above level 2.

Spell sniper vs war caster. You have learned techniques to enhance your attacks with certain kinds of spells gaining the following benefits. However you can use war caster to cast booming blade as an oa. Spell sniper only works on spells with attack rolls.

The spell sniper feat was also an attractive gish option for a few reasons. Attack with a weapon listed under polearm master. If you have polearm master and the war caster feat when an oa is triggered you re given two options.

Using spell sniper to get booming blade or green flame blade seems like a gray area but there is an attack roll so you should be fine with all but the most nitpicky dms. Hide all top end 16. Green flame blade now works with war caster since you are no longer compelled to target a second creature.

I ve seen polearm master spell sniper war caster booming blade in action too and it s pretty awesome lol about eldritch blast it s very effective but also very boring after a while. It seems like war caster would improve the consistency of passing most concentration checks but that resilient con would improve the chances of passing when. Honestly i don t think spell sniper is needed unless you re just using it to gain booming blade.

You can t green flame blade with warcaster as gfb targets more than one creature but you could use booming blade with spell sniper. When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll the spell s range is doubled. 170 among other benefits grants advantage on constitution saving throws that you make to maintain your concentration on a spell when you take damage.

The war caster feat phb p. My logic is as follows. Pam aoo at 10 reach spell sniper get booming blade range is now 10 war caster spell can be used as aoo it all works together to be a hell of a lot of area control.