What weapons does Weapon Finesse work with?

You are trained in using your agility in melee combat, as opposed to brute strength. Benefit: With a light weapon, elven curve blade, rapier, whip, or spiked chain made for a creature of your size category, you may use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier on attack rolls.
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Does Weapon Finesse work with dueling swords?

As long as you meet the pre-reqs for power attack you can use it with an aldori dueling sword. As long as you meet the pre-reqs for weapon finesse you can use it with an aldori dueling sword if you have exotic weapon proficiency with an Aldori dueling sword.
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Can you use Weapon Finesse with a shield?

Any one handed or versatile weapon works with a shield. You can use basic strength weapons, or choose to use a finesse weapon or ranged weapon to use your dexterity instead as your attack stat (throwing weapons use strength unless it's a finesse or ranged weapon).
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How do you use finesse weapons in 5e?

Finesse. When making an attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.
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Can you use finesse weapons with strength?

The Fifth Edition of Dungeons & Dragons has seven weapons with the finesse property. This means you can use your choice of strength or dexterity when making an attack.
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3.5 vs 5e: Weapon Finesse

What weapons require finesse?

Currently there are only 6 finesse weapons listed in the PHB: dagger, dart, shortsword, scimitar, rapier, and whip.
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Do finesse weapons use strength or dex?

Finesse. When making an attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.
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How do finesse weapons work?

Finesse. When making an attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.
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Does Weapon Finesse work with touch attacks?

Yes, Complete Arcane, page 73: Weapon Finesse: You can treat touch spells as light weapons and use your Dexterity modifier (instead of your Strength modifier) on your touch attack rolls with such spells.
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Does Weapon Finesse work with natural attacks?

weapon finesse applies to only one attack. natural attacks are not weapons.
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What is the most powerful finesse weapon?

Unfortunately, the highest damage-dealing finesse weapon, the rapier, isn't light and can only be dual-wielded by picking up the Dual Wielder feat.
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Does Weapon Finesse apply to damage?

Weapon Finesse lets you use your dex instead of str for attack rolls. That's just the chance to hit, you still get all your damage from str. Weapon Finesse mythic lets you use your dex instead of str for damage rolls as well.
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Do daggers have finesse?

For example, if you throw a handaxe, you use your Strength, but if you throw a dagger, you can use either your Strength or your Dexterity, since the dagger has the finesse property.
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Is a longsword a finesse weapon?

And considering they are a one handed sword that can use two hands, absolutely, they are a finesse weapon. You get a lot more control with two hands than you do with one.
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Does Weapon Finesse work with scimitar?

Weapon Finesse gives dex to melee attack rolls (rather than str) for all light weapons and a limited selection of other weapons (such as rapiers). Scimitars are not one of those limited weapons, but after taking slashing grace, you should get dex to attack and damage rolls. Scimitars are not Finness wielding weapons.
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Does Weapon Finesse add dex to damage?

Weapon Finesse only gives Dexterity to attack rolls. Fencing Grace gives Dexterity to damage rolls with light/one-handed piercing weapons (when you have nothing else in the other hand). Weapon Finesse (Mythic) does it for all finessable weapons.
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Can finesse weapons be two handed?

There is the double bladed scimitar which is a two handed finesse weapon, but requires a feat to use correctly. There is the double bladed scimitar which is a two handed finesse weapon, but requires a feat to use correctly.
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Are claw attacks finesse?

The feat weapon finesse applies to any weapon that specifies it can be used with weapon finesse. This includes all light weapons, rapiers, whips and spiked chain. Since both claws and unarmed strikes are considered light weapons, you can use your DEX bonus to hit with either of them.
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Does finesse melee weapons work with lightsabers?

Yep finesse melee weapons applies to both melee and lightsabers, but finesse lightsabers only applies to lightsabers.
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Is 2d6 better than 1d12?

With a d12 you have an equal chance of rolling 12 as you have on rolling 6 or 7. With 2d6 however you have 6 possible results that ends up as 7: So if you want the best possibility for rolling high or low you want a d12.
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Can you dual wield rapiers 5e?

Longswords and rapiers are the best Dual Wielder weapons.

Every weapon used when dual wielding has to be one-handed, and each weapon in D&D 5e is linked to a specific damage dice (which you roll to determine how much damage an attack deals).
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Is Light Hammer a finesse weapon?

Under 3.5 rules, you could use Finesse with any light weapon, like light maces and light hammers. The big difference with the sap was that it dealt nonlethal damage by default.
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Should Spears have finesse?

Now, not all spears should be finesse (a boar spear or lance is just too heavy and awkward to be an 'accurate' weapon), but short and regular spears (and maybe even longspears) definately should be finesse-able.
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Can a barbarian use a finesse weapon?

Sort of. Finesse weapons let you attack with Strength or Dexterity, so there's nothing stopping you from picking up a rapier or a dagger and using it with Strength.
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Is a katana finesse?

Katanas are a type of longsword so would be the same stats as one. Longsword should not be finesse - they're too big and heavy. Simply swinging a longsword with precision won't do much (finesse are about precision, not speed and why they do piercing not slashing *).
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