The wording of this has me confused. You are level 11 Paladin(you have Improved Divine Smite) and you spend a level 1 spell slot to Smite. You are wielding a longsword. How much damage do you do?
A) 1d8 Slashing(Longsword) + 1d8 Radiant (automatic from Improved Divine Smite) + 2d8 Radiant (Divine Smite)
B) 1d8 Slashing(Longsword) + 1d8 Radiant (automatic from Improved Divine Smite) + 3d8 Radiant (Divine Smite, plus 1d8 from Improved Divine Smite)
Basically, does 1d8 get added to your damage twice if you have Improved Divine Smite? It looks like the text suggests that it does. Sorry if this has been asked before, but the search feature on these forums doesn't work and google didn't turn up anything from here on it.
Improved Divine Smite wrote:
don't know.
I'm think the intent is a flat +1d8. But that wording leaves something to be desired.
Improved Divine Smite adds a perminent 1d8 radiant damage to all melee weapon hits. So in your above scenario, option A is correct. If that same Paladin were to make a second attack and not use a spell for Divine Smite, the damage would be:
1d8 slashing(longsword) + 1d8 radiant(Improved Divine Smite)
didon002 wrote:
Pretty sure that the sentence means that if you use Divine Smite your damage is Weapon Damage + 1D8 + Divine Smite Damage, that it, the damage from Improved Divine Smite is in addition to the damage from Divine Smite, rather than overlapping with it.
My reasoning here is that the "this" in the final sentence seems to refer specifically to the 1D8 radiant damage you get *whenever* you make a weapon attack.
Agreed. I'm fairly certain that the 1D8 is s static bonus granted only once per hit, regardless of using Divine Smite or not.
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