How does spiritual weapon work?

Spiritual Weapon: Overview Spiritual Weapon is a 2nd-level evocation spell that summons a spectral weapon at any point within 60 feet of the caster. You can immediately make a melee spell attack and repeat the attack on subsequent turns using a bonus action.
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Does spiritual weapon move with you?

That might be a valid DM call. Spiritual Weapon says: "... As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the weapon up to 20 feet and repeat the attack against a creature within 5 feet of it" so, RAW, spiritual weapon can only be used as a bonus action.
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Can I attack twice with spiritual weapon?

You can sustain the spell multiple times in the same round in order to have the Spiritual Weapon attack multiple times. Doing so does not extend the duration of the spell any more than sustaining it once does. Each time it is sustained it sets the expiration time of the spell to the end of the next round.
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What happens if you attack a spiritual weapon?

A spiritual weapon cannot be attacked or harmed by physical attacks, but dispel magic, disintegrate, a sphere of annihilation, or a rod of cancellation affects it. A spiritual weapon's AC against touch attacks is 12 (10 + size bonus for Tiny object).
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Does spiritual weapon stay up if you go down?

One major advantage is spiritual weapon stays active without any concentration, even if you are paralyzed, petrified, or unconscious. Your phantom crusader will keep attacking on your behalf.
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How many turns does spiritual weapon last?

Duration: 10 turns. Only one Spiritual Weapon may be summoned at any time.
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Can I hold my spiritual weapon?

The weapon isn't swinging itself around, the caster is swinging it with magic power. That's why it requires your bonus action. You just can't physically hold it.
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Is spiritual weapon any good?

For a 2nd level spell, Spiritual Weapon is powerful and well worth adding to your PC's list of known spells.
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How much damage does spiritual weapon do?

You create a floating, spectral weapon within range that lasts for the duration or until you cast this spell again. When you cast the spell, you can make a melee spell attack against a creature within 5 feet of the weapon. On a hit, the target takes force damage equal to 1d8 + your spellcasting ability modifier.
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Does attacking with spiritual weapon break sanctuary?

Spirit guardians might not break sanctuary, but spiritual weapon definitely would.
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Does spiritual weapon count as an enemy?

The Spiritual Weapon does not count in any way with regard to setting up the Flanking as it is not a creature nor ally. A creature involved in Flanking gains advantage on Melee Attacks, but SW is a Melee Spell Attack - so no luck. Crawford states that the caster of SW is the one doing the targeting.
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Can you attack with spiritual weapon when you cast it?

No, you cannot attack with Spiritual Weapon as an action, because it's a bonus action. It can't take up a standard action. On bonus actions, though, the caster can move the weapon as described in the spell text, and roll a melee spell attack for it to attack something in its melee range.
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Can spiritual weapons use divine strike?

No. Divine strike applies to weapon attacks. Spiritual weapon is a spell attack.
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Can spiritual weapon go through walls?

No. If the barrier completely conceals one creature from another, it provides total cover between those two creatures. Spells and attacks cannot be targeted through nor pass through total cover unless an explicit exception is made in the spell.
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Is spiritual weapon magic?

- it absolutely does. As you can see, it says 'You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. It is a spell and it uses spell attack modifier for each attack. The damage is force damage, which is almost always magic in nature.
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Can spiritual weapons float?

SPIRITUAL WEAPON: You create a floating, spectral weapon within range that lasts for the duration or until you cast this spell again.
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Does spiritual weapon use a spell slot?

later rounds the bonus action to move and/or attack with the summoned spiritual weapon does not use up a new spell slot and therefore they could cast a level 1 or higher spell as well. [...] you can't cast two level-1-or-higher spells in one round.
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Does spiritual weapon do magic damage?

Moreover the Spiritual weapon deals force damage plus the caster's relevant ability modifier, implying that its' potency is relevant to the caster's magical aptitude, not his Strength or Dexterity, just like a spell.
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Can spiritual weapon do non lethal damage?

Can a Spiritual Weapon Do Nonlethal Damage? Of course, it's listed as one of the spells above. The spell does melee damage with the summoned spiritual weapon.
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Can you use dispel magic on spiritual weapon?

A spiritual weapon cannot be attacked or harmed by physical attacks, but dispel magic, disintegrate, a sphere of annihilation, or a rod of cancellation affects it.
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Is using spiritual weapon a bonus action?

Spiritual Weapon grants you a special action you can take on your turn (using a Bonus Action). And, the example I provided was to Ready a use for later on your own turn.
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Does spiritual weapon float?

You create a floating, spectral weapon within range that lasts for the duration or until you cast this spell again.
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How long does the spiritual weapon last in D&D?

Every (N)PC has a turn within each round, and each round is 6 seconds. So the spell will last 10 rounds. If the teams dps is high and the fight won't be long, spiritual weapon may not be super useful as the group could defeat the enemies before value is recovered from the used spell slot.
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Can spiritual weapon move more than 60 feet away?

You create a floating, spectral weapon within range (60 feet.) ... When you cast the spell, you can make a melee spell attack against a creature within 5 feet of the weapon. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the weapon up to 20 feet and repeat the attack against a creature within 5 feet of it.
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Does mage armor drop when unconscious?

Does mage armor drop when the wizard goes unconscious or does it stay in play? Mage Armor has a Duration but is not Concentrate, so being unconscious doesn't effect it.
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