What to add to Eldritch Blast damage?

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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Do you add modifier to Eldritch blast damage?

You can manually add the modifier to the eldritch blast cantrip. In the spell's control dialog (click the gear icon under the spell description) check the box next to "ADD ABILITY MOD DAMAGE OR HEALING".
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Do you add anything 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. If the spell requires a save then D&D Beyond would hard code you save DC in that column (i.e. Wisdom 14) .
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What affects Eldritch blast damage?

Eldritch Blast damage scales with a percentage of Spell Power. Eldritch Blast criticals are based on magical stats: Critical Spell Chance and Critical Spell Damage. No save. Epic feats Epic Eldritch Blast (max +7d8) and Epic Pact Dice (max +6d6) increase your damage.
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What does Eldritch Blast scale with?

In the current rules eldritch blast scales only with level, so you could have levels of champion fighter and Eldritch blast would still become more powerful.
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How do you maximize Eldritch blast?

There are several invocations that can be selected to add a variety of riders and effects to your Eldritch Blast, dramatically increasing its power and utility. 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.
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What is the hidden advantage of Eldritch blast?

Both beams with advantage

The duration of Eldritch Blast is “Instantaneous” meaning all beams attack at the same time. At that time the warlock is hidden so the attacks are made with advantage.
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What modifier is used for Eldritch blast?

The simplest of the Eldritch Blast modifications, Agonizing Blast, uses the warlock's charisma modifier to deal bonus damage with each blast, whereas Lance of Lethargy makes Eldritch Blast reduce an enemy's movement speed by feet, keeping them from approaching for a counterattack.
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How does Eldritch blast damage work?

On a hit, the target takes 1d10 force damage. The spell creates more than one beam when you reach higher levels: two beams at 5th level, three beams at 11th level, and four beams at 17th level. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones.
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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 inaccurate?

Two problems unfortunately. First is that Eldritch Blast can't target objects, second is that it does force damage and is described as a beam rather than a blade, dart, disc or spike. So, even if it could be used to hit a rope and it did hit, it'd like trying to cut the rope with a hammer.
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Can you cast 2 Eldritch blast twice?

Since the casting time of Eldritch Blast is one action, and a character only has one action, then baseline is that a Warlock can only cast it once per turn.
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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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Do you add spellcasting modifier to Eldritch blast?

For most warlocks, Eldritch Blast is a cantrip associated with their Pact Magic feature. The Spellcasting Ability Modifier for Eldritch Blast is usually the warlock's Charisma modifier. Warlocks rely on their force of personality, represented by their Charisma, to fuel their spellcasting abilities.
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Is Eldritch blast necrotic damage?

Necrotic damage from each beam. Scorching Ray (as of 4.1.1.3669438). The incantation for Eldritch Blast is Dolor, Latin for "pain/anguish".
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Is Eldritch Blast lightning damage?

The damage type of your Eldritch Blast becomes lightning. Additionally, whenever you hit the same target with three or more beams in a single turn, the target must make a Dexterity saving throw versus your spell save DC. On a failure, lightning leaps from you to the target, linking you until the end of your turn.
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Does Eldritch Blast have disadvantage in melee?

You can't use Eldritch Blast as a melee attack, no (for example, some features specifically trigger off of melee or ranged attacks; just because you're casting "at melee range" doesn't mean it isn't still a ranged attack), but you don't suffer disadvantage for casting it within 5 feet of an enemy.
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Does Eldritch blast scale with level or Warlock level?

Eldritch Blast scales with Character level. Which makes it astoundingly powerful in a multi-class build. For instance: the SorLockFtr build. 2 levels of Fighter, 2 levels of Warlock, 8 levels of Sorcerer.
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What is the Warlock modifier?

Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your warlock spells, so you use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a warlock spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.
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Can you make Eldritch blast a bonus action?

Its good to have, not really mandatory you can already cast Eldritch Blast as a bonus action for 5 rounds and that's without converting any spell slots. Cast hex or use your hexblade's curse, either works both have benefits. Cast whichever you didn't use the previous round between hex or hexblade's curse.
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Do you add proficiency to damage 5e?

While the bonus can be added to attacks, saves, and ability checks, it cannot be added to damage or healing throws.
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Is Eldritch Blast or Fire Bolt better?

Eldritch Blast is a spell that on its own is little better than the wizard cantrip Fire Bolt. However a warlock and pretty much only a warlock can stack buffs on it (mostly through Eldritch Invocations but also through the Hex spell and subclass features) until it turns into a monster.
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Can Eldritch blast push huge creatures?

You can easily get multiple attacks with Eldritch Blast, pushing a creature of any size 10 ft per hit.
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Does Eldritch Blast do fire damage?

While Mustang does use actual fire here, you could just 'flavor' the look of your eldritch blast to be a fire-looking effect - but that it does just deal force damage.
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