Do cantrips level up with multiclassing?

Cantrips, like Proficiency Bonus, advance based on your character level. No matter how many classes you take, your damage-dealing cantrips will add more damage at character levels 5, 11, and 17.
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Do cantrips level up for the character or class?

If a cantrip of yours increases in power at higher levels, the increase is based on your character level, not your level in a particular class.
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Do cantrips scale in D&D 5e?

Though many damage-dealing cantrips in the Player's Handbook scale as a character reaches higher levels, the utility cantrips remain by and large ignored, never developing past their power at 1st level.
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Do cantrips scale with charisma?

Depends. For example casters usually have Scaling Cantrips at Levels 5 and 10. Some items can enhance cantrip effects. There is also equipment that augment your cantrips' damage, be it with your charisma (i.e. eldritch blast) or intelligence modifier (for wizards).
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How does leveling up work with Multiclassing?

When multiclassing, you are choosing to take beginning levels from another class instead of leveling up in your initial choice. If you're a level 5 Artificer, you might take 2 levels as a Wizard to expand your arcane knowledge. That would look like Artificer 5/Wizard 2 on your character sheet.
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Handbooker Helper: Multiclassing

Is there a downside to multiclassing?

Multiclassing can lead to a mismatch between your character's existing Ability Scores, and those are extremely important and needed for the new class.
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What is the most powerful D&D multiclass?

  1. 1 Hexblade Warlock 12, Conquest Paladin 8. ...
  2. 2 Echo Knight Fighter 3, Undead Warlock 2, Divine Soul Sorcerer 15. ...
  3. 3 Gloom Stalker Ranger 11, Assassin Rogue 7, Battle Master Fighter 3. ...
  4. 4 Vengeance Paladin 6, Assassin Rogue 4, Whispers Bard 4, Fighter 2, Hexblade Warlock 1, Any Sorcerer.
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How does Multiclassing affect cantrips?

No matter how many classes you take, your damage-dealing cantrips will add more damage at character levels 5, 11, and 17. If you multiclass late in your career, your damage is still based on your character level, so if you spend your 20th level to take one level of Wizard you're suddenly very good at cantrips.
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Which class has best cantrips?

The warlock-exclusive Eldritch Blast is one of the most powerful combat cantrips in D&D, but it works a little differently than the others. Rather than simply increasing in damage at later levels, Eldritch Blast adds more attacks, each of which has the potential to damage separately.
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Do cantrips count against spells known?

As for cantrips… they have nothing to do with spells known or prepared spells. A wizard's cantrips are no different than any other class's cantrips. They are not leveled spells, and do not consume spell slots.
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Do cantrips count as 1st level spells?

Spell Level

Every spell has a level from 0 to 9. A spell's level is a general indicator of how powerful it is, with the lowly (but still impressive) magic missile at 1st level and the earth--shaking wish at 9th. Cantrips—simple but powerful spells that characters can cast almost by rote—are level 0.
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What class knows the most cantrips?

The sorcerer starts with 4 cantrips - more than any other class.
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Do cantrips get proficiency?

Cantrips do not get proficiency and modifier bonusses on top of their damage though, unless you've got a power to enable that.
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Do cantrips get modifiers?

You can add your Charisma modifier to the damage roll of one cantrip you cast. You can only do so once per turn.
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Can I change cantrips on level up?

Current (Fifth Edition) Rules. Clerics, with the current 5th Edition ruleset, can't change their cantrips once they are selected, as they are not prepared spells. As per the Player's Handbook: “At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the cleric spell list.
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Can you cast a cantrip at a higher level?

Can a cantrip be cast using a higher level slot in D&D 5E? No.
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Do cantrips level up with player level or class level?

All cantrips list this levelling up in the bottom of the description of each cantrip spell. All cantrips scale with your overall Character Level (NOT class level), so Eldritch Blast is based on your current 9 levels.
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What is the best offensive cantrip in D&D?

Fire Bolt is one of the best Cantrips a spellcaster can get if they're in need of any offensive attacks. While Toll the Dead boasts more damage, Fire Bolt outclasses it through range. However, Fire Bolt loses its luster beyond 5th Level. A 14 Dexterity character with a Light Crossbow can do more damage than Fire Bolt.
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What levels do cantrips increase damage?

For most damaging cantrips in 5e you get 1dX of damage from 1st to 4th level, then 5-10th you get 2dX, 11-16th you get 3dX, and 17-20 you get 4dX.
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What are the disadvantages of multiclassing in D&D?

Multiclassing now has some serious drawbacks:
  • As the max level is 20, every level you take in a different class permanently locks you out of the highest level features of the other class. ...
  • You will not progress with your spell levels as a single class caster would. ...
  • You will miss out on ASI/Feats.
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Can you use two cantrips at once?

Yes. The rule for casting any spell with a bonus action says that the only other spells you may cast that turn are cantrips with an action.
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Are cantrips automatically heightened?

A cantrip is automatically heightened to half your level rounded up—this is usually equal to the highest level of bard spell slot you have. For example, as a 1st-level bard, your cantrips are 1st-level spells, and as a 5th-level bard, your cantrips are 3rd-level spells.
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What is the most broken multiclass 5e?

The warlock and sorcerer are one of D&D 5e's most infamous multiclass combos. A build combining the two is often dubbed the "coffeelock." This build takes advantage of the warlock's ability to regain spell slots on a short rest and the D&D 5e sorcerer's ability to convert spell slots into sorcery points.
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What is the most overpowered D&D class?

1) In terms of sheer power, the most overpowered class in D&D 5e is (and almost always has been, in all editions) the Wizard. The spells a Wizard can command can solve just about any problem, and beat any opponent.
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