Can Eldritch Blast crit?

Yes, every portion of eldritch blast has its own chance to crit, subject to the critical chance for that damage type and critical multiplier improvements available with certain feats and inside the cores of the Tainted Scholar tree.
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Can a Firebolt crit?

When you get a critical hit with a spell attack, you roll all damage dice twice. So a critical hit with the cantrip Fire Bolt would deal 2d10 damage instead of 1d10. A critical hit with the 1st-level spell Chromatic Orb would do 6d8 damage instead of 3d8.
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Does agonizing blast double on a crit?

No. Criticals only double dice.
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What damage does Eldritch Blast do?

A beam of crackling energy streaks toward a creature within range. Make a ranged spell Attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 force damage.
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Can you curve An Eldritch Blast?

Eldritch Blast streaks to a creature within range (120 ft, no line aoe stated), has no requirement for "a creature you can see", and can therefore curve or turn to hit a target you are aware of within 120 ft.
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Critical Role Campaign 2 but it's just eldritch blast



How do you maximize Eldritch Blast?

You can, however, spend a round casting hex and eldritch blast, then in all following rounds that you don't need to curse a new target cast eldritch blast three times to maximize damage potential. Edit to add clarity: assuming use of both Action Surge and Quickened spell.
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Why do people like Eldritch Blast?

Eldritch blast will stay reliable for long times, at at higher levels you probaly won't encounter them at all. Why eldritch blast is so good: Invocations. Eldritch Blast is a Warlock only cantrip and the design was so Warlocks could invest this as to be a consistent blaster.
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Is Warlock just Eldritch Blast?

A warlock is a versatile class with a lot of options. They have a Patron, spells, melee, armor, and the ability to get minions. Just because Eldritch Blast makes them into a relatively easy to execute damage machine doesn't it's more effective than a Warlock that prefers a different style of play.
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Can you cast 2 cantrips?

You cannot cast two cantrips during one action. That's why many cantrips scale as you level. To further explain what you read, if you cast a spell as a bonus action, you can only use your action to cast a cantrip. For example, there's a monster next to you.
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Can Eldritch Blast be quickened?

For those looking to produce as many Eldritch Blast beams as possible within a single round, the Quickened Spell Metamagic option can be utilized to allow a spell with a casting time of one action to be instead cast as a bonus action.
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Can Eldritch Blast be twinned?

You can only twin Eldritch Blast between level 1 and 4. Once you hit level 5 it shoots 2 beams and can target more than 1 enemy making it an invalid option for Twinning.
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Does hex trigger twice with Eldritch Blast?

Was it intended for Eldritch Blast to be considered one attack with multiple attack rolls & thus to activate Hax only once? Hex triggers each time you hit the hexed target, so eldritch blast can trigger it on each hit.
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Do you add charisma to Eldritch Blast?

You missed the last bit of the description: "When you cast eldritch blast, add your Charisma modifier to the damage it deals on a hit." Since it can hit 4 times, the modifier can be added each time.
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Can you crit on Eldritch Blast 5e?

Yes, every portion of eldritch blast has its own chance to crit, subject to the critical chance for that damage type and critical multiplier improvements available with certain feats and inside the cores of the Tainted Scholar tree.
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Do crits auto hit 5e?

Critical hits only hit regardless of modifiers or the target's AC, but there are other things that can cause an attack to miss. For example, if the target is hiding and the character must guess their location, if they guess wrong then their attack will miss automatically even if they roll a nat 20.
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Can scorching ray crit?

It can't hit, so it can't crit.
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Can you quicken fireball?

You can't cast fireball and spiritual weapon. Unfortunately, the spellcasting rules for how many spells you can cast on a turn preclude you from doing this. If you are casting a levelled spell as a bonus action, you can only cast a cantrip with your action.
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Can you cast Firebolt twice?

Although you could use your Action Surge to cast Firebolt twice, you could only get one bonus action weapon attack total on your turn, since you only get one bonus action per turn (and only on your turn).
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Can you counterspell a counterspell?

No. You can't counter Counterspell on your own turn by using your Reaction to cast Counterspell. You CAN use your reaction to cast Counterspell, but you will lose the original spell you were casting and the result would be the same. The only difference being that you wasted 2 spell slots instead of one.
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Can a warlock cast fireball?

Fireball is only available to Pact of the Fiend Warlocks.
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Does crusher work with Eldritch Blast?

Some of them, yes. Crusher only works with attacks, so the spell has to attack. A scribes wizard with catapult in their spellbook can cast chromatic orb, converting it to bludgeoning, and apply the Crusher feat to it. Does the Magic Stone cantrip and the Eldritch Blast cantrip combo in this way also...
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Can Eldritch blast hit two targets?

Eldritch blast absolutely is multiple attacks. Every time you make an attack roll, that's an attack.
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Are Warlocks underpowered 5e?

Warlocks are relatively underpowered if your DM tends to have only a couple encounters per adventuring day, allowing long rest classes to use spells from their top 2-3 levels every turn.
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Does spell sniper work with Eldritch Blast?

Eldritch Blast (cantrip), Range: 120ft: One of the objectively best synergies with Spell Sniper. Great range, pairable with Eldritch Invocations, and the ability to ignore most forms of cover with your primary source of damage output is awesome.
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Can a wizard learn Eldritch Blast?

The only legal way for a Wizard to have Eldritch Blast is through Magic Initiate or Spell Sniper, which means he will be even weaker in his primary class, having spent his ASI on a feat.
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