Do you add damage bonus to cantrips?

Spell attacks get no damage bonus. They do the damage that they say they do. Cantrips get better as the caster increases in level, because the spells say so. Ray of frost, for example, increases its damage when the PC gets to 5th, 11th, and 17th levels.
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Do you add damage modifiers to cantrips?

Cantrips do not get proficiency and modifier bonusses on top of their damage though, unless you've got a power to enable that. F.e. potent spellcasting for clerics or the agonising blast for warlocks. Without that, they get more damage dice to roll on higher levels but no base damage increase based on their attributes.
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Do cantrips have attack bonus?

Yes, Cantrips get a bonus to attack.

Your attack bonus with a spell attack equals your spellcasting ability modifier + your proficiency bonus. And from page 201 in the PHB we can see that cantrips are considered spells: Every spell has a level from 0 to 9.
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Do cantrips increase in damage?

Cantrips do get more powerful as you level up, and will remain useful for the entire game, they just aren't as powerful as spells.
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Do I add my spell attack bonus to Eldritch blast?

Eldritch Blast requires a ranged spell attack against a target. The +6 is the your modifier to hit. So you roll an attack you add your modified (+6) and then determine if it hits the target's AC.
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Spells Spellslots And Cantrips Explained - Baldur's Gate 3 Guide

Do you add damage modifier to Eldritch blast?

Optimizing Your Eldritch Blast

One of the most essential invocations is Agonizing Blast, which adds your Charisma modifier as a bonus to the damage of each Eldritch Blast beam. This causes your Eldritch Blast's damage to scale phenomenally well, keeping pace with martial classes and their Extra Attack features.
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Does Eldritch Blast count as a cantrip?

Pretty much anything explicitly magical came in the form of a spell or item, or an item casting or emulating a spell. So eldritch blast, an innate magical ability of the warlock, became a spell, and a cantrip specifically so it wouldn't be limited use.
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Do you add anything to cantrips?

Starting at 1st level, the sheer strength of your magic is fueled by your innate power. 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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What cantrips do the most damage?

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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How many damage cantrips should I have?

1 combat cantrip can be enough, but it depends upon what cantrip it is and what type of wizard you are. You want to get a rarely-resisted damage type, so that rules out Fire bolt and poison spray two high damage cantrips. Ray of frost might work, but cold can be resisted.
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How do bonus cantrips work?

If a spellcaster uses their bonus action to cast anything, they can only cast cantrips with their action for the rest of that turn. If they have already used a leveled spell with their action, they can't use a bonus action spell. This applies even if the bonus action spell is a cantrip, such as Shillelagh.
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Can you cast 2 cantrips with extra attack?

Fighter's "Action Surge" allows you to gain a second action, which you could use to cast a cantrip/leveled spell (but that is two actions and two castings) The New Bladesinger Classes extra attack feature allows you to cast a cantrip as one of your extra attacks, but you can't use that to cast two cantrips.
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Is there a way to cast cantrips as bonus actions?

A cantrip is a spell that can be cast at will, without using a spell slot and without being prepared in advance. So the normal rule applies: if you cast any spell – cantrip or not – as a Bonus Action, you can cast another spell on the same turn only if it's a cantrip with a casting time of one Action.
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What levels do cantrips increase damage?

In DnD 5e progression, Cantrips become stronger on level 5, 11 and 17.
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Can you infinitely use cantrips?

You have an unlimited number of uses for most cantrips. There are some, however, that are limited to once per short rest, e.g. Mage Hand.
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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.
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What is the most powerful cantrip?

What are some good creative uses for the D&D 5E cantrip Minor Illusion? Minor Illusion is the most powerful cantrip in the game. Period.
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Can I spam cantrips?

Cantrips like Create Flame, Eldritch Blast, Ray of Frost and so on are there as a free damage option you can just spam every round if you want. Spells are more powerful, but they cost spell slots. So a damaging cantrip is there as an easy source of damage you can cast whenever you don't want to use a spell slot.
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Are cantrips worth it?

They make for reliable damage dealers or indispensable utility and don't cost any of your precious spell slots to cast. How many you get depends on your class, and some half-casters like Paladins don't get any at all. With this in mind, you'll want to build your D&D arsenal intelligently.
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What are the rules for cantrips?

Casting a Cantrip: Cantrips are cast like other spells, but they do not consume any spell slots. Therefore, you can cast them as often as you want. Cantrips and Attack Rolls: Some cantrips require an attack roll to hit a target, similar to a weapon attack.
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Can a non Warlock use Eldritch Blast?

Yes you do. That's what the feat is saying. The feat makes available to non-warlocks those invocations that have no prerequisites.
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Is Eldritch Blast the strongest cantrip?

The spell Eldritch Blast is the most powerful cantrip in the game. Yes Warlocks get the least spell slots, they get all those spell slots back after a short rest. Also Eldritch Invocations are what gives the warlock a swiss army knife of abilities.
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Why is Eldritch Blast so good?

Eldritch Invocations Make D&D's Eldritch Blast Even Better

To make matters better, multiple Invocations can be used at once, stacking multiple effects to make Eldritch Blast even stronger. This makes Eldritch Blast the perfect cantrip for creative DnD players, as it is arguably the most customizable spell in the game.
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Can Eldritch adept give agonizing blast?

Only prerequisite for agonizing blast is that the character has eldritch blast. If the invocation has a prerequisite of any kind, you can choose that invocation only if you're a warlock who meets the prerequisite. Establish boundaries. And if anyone crosses them, speak up.
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Do you roll damage for each Eldritch blast?

The example cited is for AoE spells and as stated would fall under the category of a General Rule (in my mind). Eldritch Blast states Attack and Damage are rolled for each beam.
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