Does Flame Blade count as a weapon attack?

The blade can be equipped in either the main hand or the off hand, and can be unequipped, but must stay on the spellcaster's person. The blade has no Weapon Actions tied to it other than basic attack.
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Is flame blade a weapon attack?

Flame Blade actually makes a melee spell attack and uses your spellcasting stat, not Dex. It's effectively the same as attacking someone with Shocking Grasp, except it's fire damage, uses Wisdom, and only lasts for ten turns. It's not actually a scimitar.
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Does green flame blade count as an attack?

And yes, the SA compendium is a source of official rulings. First, each of [booming blade and green-flame blade] involves a normal melee weapon attack, not a spell attack, so you use whatever ability modifier you normally use with the weapon.
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Does flame blade count as a monk weapon?

The Monk's Flameblade is one of the curved greatsword Weapons in Elden Ring, dropped by Fire Monks. Curved Greatswords are large but deceptively mobile weapons that allow for those who focus on Dexterity to also harness Strength attack with slower and stronger attacks at the cost of speed.
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Does Flame Blade benefit from extra attack?

No. The Extra Attack feature of the fighter class does not give you a second action with which to cast a spell, nor is it triggered when you use Green Flame Blade.
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CANTRIP #14: Green-Flame Blade (5E)

Can I attack with flame blade as a bonus action?

You evoke a fiery blade in your free hand. The blade is similar in size and shape to a scimitar, and it lasts for the duration. If you let go of the blade, it disappears, but you can evoke the blade again as a bonus action. You can use your action to make a melee spell attack with the fiery blade.
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Does flame blade add your modifier to damage?

If the spell states to make a “melee spell attack” like it does with Shocking Grasp, then you would use your casting attribute to make the spell attack roll. However, if it states to make a “melee attack” as it does with Booming Blade or Green-Flame Blade, you would use your strength or dexterity modifier instead.
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Can I use Smite and Green Flame blade?

The smite spells only require a bonus action (and the blades spells are cantrips), so there's no problem in casting both on the same turn.
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Is Flame blade a sorcerer spell?

So, with the class features UA, sorcerers get access to flame blade inherently, does this in any way make the spell better than it was? It was known for being a rather weak spell, but are there any sorcerer subclasses that can make use of it now, without having an even better option like fire bolt?
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What counts as a monk weapon?

At 1st level, your practice of martial arts gives you mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons, which are shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don't have the two-handed or heavy property.
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Does booming blade count as a weapon attack?

Both booming blade and green flame blade require you to make a melee attack with a weapon as part of the spell. Both Divine Smite and most Smite spells are applicable on a melee weapon attack.
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Can a rogue sneak attack with green flame blade?

To Enable Sneak Attacks as a Rogue

Rogues lacking Extra Attack face a quandary – their best feature, Sneak Attack, only works once per turn. Green flame blade neatly solves this by pairing Sneak Attack with bonus fire damage.
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Can you target yourself with green flame blade?

Choose yourself as the target of GFB's secondary damage and take 1d8+4 fire damage. Use your reaction to cast Absorb Elements at 3rd level and resist that damage (which your ice shield takes).
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Can you two weapons fight with flame blade?

The user can choose to summon a single scimitar or two for dual-wielding.
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What level spell is flame blade?

Flame Blade is a second level spell and accordingly takes a second level (or higher) spell slot to cast. Flame Blade has a casting time of a Bonus Action. So you cannot cast Shillelagh in the same turn because they both have a casting time of a Bonus Action.
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Is blasphemous blade a fire weapon?

The Blasphemous Blade's Default Weapon Skill is Taker's Flames: Raise the sacred sword aloft to set it ablaze with blasphemous flames, then bring it down to fire off a forward blast.
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Is Flame blade a weapon?

Flame Blade is a magical, conjured variant of the Scimitars family of weapons. It is a martial melee weapon wielded in one hand. It adds the user's spellcasting modifier to its attack roll; Wisdom if summoned as a Druid spell, and Charisma if summoned by a Mephistopheles Tiefling using their subrace trait.
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Is Flame blade a monk weapon?

In Elden Ring, there is only one Flame Monk who has a chance to drop the Monk's Flameblade. To get the Monk's Flameblade, players will have to head all the way to the Giant-Conquering Hero's Grave located in Mountaintops of the Giants.
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Does Flame blade have finesse?

However, having the hireling Danton cast the spell, immediately recalling his soul, and hiring him again will create a permanent Flame Blade that can be wielded by any other party member; this version of the blade performs up to (5d6 + Strength modifier) Fire damage and is the only scimitar without the finesse property ...
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Does shadow blade stack with green-flame blade?

Seeing as it IS still a spell, though (and not an actual item worth gp), you can't use it for the booming blade or green-flame blade spells in order to stack damage (as is common with bladesingers thanks to their extra attack buff in Tasha's).
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Does spell sniper work with green-flame blade?

But, this mechanic wasn't preserved with the spell errata. The new wording does not lean on the range of the spell, but explicitly states that the target must be within 5 feet. Green-Flame Blade no longer works with Spell Sniper. Booming Blade no longer works with Spell Sniper.
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Does green-flame blade do extra damage?

Each only starts dealing extra damage to the first target at 5th level. Green-flame blade and booming blade. The target suffers the normal effects of getting hit with whatever weapon you try to hit them with. Each only starts dealing extra damage to the first target at 5th level.
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Does flame grant me strength increase spell damage?

Elden Ring Flame, Grant Me Strength Guide

Stacks multiplicatively with Golden Vow. The physical damage increase also affects physical-related spells, such as the sorceries Rock Sling and Meteorite, as well as incantations, such as Beast Claw and Bestial Sling.
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Does blood flame blade deal fire damage?

As it is fire damage, it is buffed by the Fire Scorpion Charm and Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear and will set the Fingercreeper enemies on fire, rendering them incapacitated while dealing tons of damage to them.
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