Can you use cantrips in combat?

In combat cantrips are best used strategically. Some combats are drawn out and can see casters burn through their resources very fast.
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Can a fighter use cantrips?

Spellcasting: You get access to a fantastic range of spells and Cantrips that will help you build your Fighter and bring a little edge to the battlefield.
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How many cantrips can you cast in combat?

Cantrips however, have no limit (So long as you have actions available to cast with). This technically means you can cast an infinite number of cantrips, assuming you have an infinite number of actions. Just for clarification, both RAW and RAI clearly allows for multiple leveled spells during one turn.
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When can cantrips be used?

Essentially, they're your always ready (unless specifically don't equip them for some ungodly reason) spells and a main part of your arsenal till you have enough spell slots to reliably use your bigger, high cost spells, or just don't feel like using them (eg: don't want to waste a spell slot zapping a lone, wounded ...
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Do cantrips use an action?

You must use a bonus action on your turn to cast the spell, provided that you haven't already taken a bonus action this turn. You can't cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action.
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Spells Spellslots And Cantrips Explained - Baldur's Gate 3 Guide

Can you use cantrips in battle?

In combat cantrips are best used strategically. Some combats are drawn out and can see casters burn through their resources very fast.
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Can cantrips be used infinitely?

Cantrips are spells that don't use slots and can be cast an infinite number of times without depleting resources.
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Can cantrips be used repeatedly?

You can cast a cantrip as many times as you like as long as you follow the once per round rule. So your Wizard can cast Fire Bolt until the cows come home.
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What is the point of cantrips?

A cantrip can effectively "thin" a deck, so more useful cards can be drawn faster, while at the same time not losing card advantage. It can also inexpensively increase the number of spells played in a turn, which is a key factor in some decks, most notably those using the Storm mechanic.
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Can you do 2 cantrips?

You can't cast two spells of 1st-level or higher in the same turn, but you can cast as many cantrips as you have actions for. If you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher - or a cantrip - as a bonus action, you can still cast a cantrip as your action.
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Can I cast a cantrip and a spell?

Só you can cast a bonus action spell (leveled or not) and then cast a cantrip with your action. But you cannot cast a bonus action spell and then use your action or reaction to cast a leveled spell (even if your bonus action spell was a cantrip).
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Is there a cantrip limit?

Cantrips can be cast at will. Both sorcerers and wizards can keep on recasting the cantrips in their head, as much as they want, all day long. The difference is that wizards can know a lot more total, but can only have a few in their head at a time.
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Can cantrips be cast at any time?

Being a cantrip means that they don't use up a spell slot to cast them, so they can indeed cast them as many times as they want, but are still restricted by all other rules of casting.
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Can you cast a cantrip in rage?

Short answer? No. Rage is pretty clear on this: “If you are able to cast spells, you can't cast them or concentrate on them while raging.” Longer answer - you can cast spells that don't require concentration and still use them before raging.
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Do cantrips count against spell slots?

No, if by “count” you mean “count against your # of prepared spells/spells known”. Spells granted from a background or racial feature are typically cantrips or spells you can cast a certain number of times per day. These are separate from any other source of spells you may gain.
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Who can use cantrips?

All spellcasters have access to cantrips. Spellcasting Ability: An attribute (Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma) that a spellcaster uses to cast their spells. It influences the power and effectiveness of the spells, including cantrips.
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Do cantrips get stronger?

All offensive cantrips increase in power along with the spellcaster's experience -- it always struck me as odd that non-damaging cantrips do not have the same benefit.
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Do cantrips go off total level?

Cantrips absolutely do scale every 5 levels. However, keep in mind, as you level you gain more, and stronger spell slots (other than warlocks, which are very limited in the number of spell slots they have, so they are more reliant on cantrips but in exchange get the best cantrip in the game).
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Why are cantrips called cantrips?

A cantrip is a magic spell of any kind, or one which reads the same forward and backward. It can also be a witch's trick, or a sham. The word "cantrip", of Scots origin, possibly comes from the Gaelic term canntaireachd, a piper's mnemonic chant.
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What are the rules for cantrips?

Cantrips. A cantrip is a spell that can be cast at will, without using a spell slot and without being prepared in advance. Repeated practice has fixed the spell in the caster's mind and infused the caster with the magic needed to produce the effect over and over. A cantrip's spell level is 0.
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How many times can you use a cantrip in battle?

If there are limits to its usage, the feature will tell you. Otherwise, the general rule is cantrips don't have a limited use and can be used at will. The way of shadow monk can use minor illusion an unlimited number of times per day without using ki.
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Are cantrips infinite?

You have an unlimited number of uses for most cantrips.
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Can you use cantrips outside of combat?

Some spells are tagged as Cantrips and can be cast anytime without a spell slot. Spells like Disguise Self with the Ritual tag do not cost a spell slot to cast. You may even have that spell as a character skill instead of a spell. But if you don't, you have to prepare the spell to cast it.
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Is there a limit on cantrips?

You can cast cantrips as often as you want, and their action cost is what they say in the spell description (action, bonus action, etc).
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What is the best offensive cantrip in D&D?

For a single answer, that's Eldritch Blast. The obvious use for a cantrip is as a workhorse damage-dealing option. In that, nothing competes with the boostable, nobody-resists-it, Swiss Army Knife of a blast cantrip that half of the Warlock class is built around. If you're playing a Warlock, that is.
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