Diving Strike

Diving Strike is a Wildheart barbarian class action only available while using  Rage: Eagle Heart, allowing you to leap down on a target dealing damage and knocking them prone.

Description

Leap down unto a foe below you, dealing normal weapon damage and knocking them  Prone.

You do not take falling damage. You must be at least 1.5 m (5 ft) above your target.

Available only when  Raging.

Properties

Cost

 Action

Damage

Normal weapon damage

Details

 Melee Weapon Attack Roll

 Range:  Jump range

 Targets: A creature at least 1.5 m (5 ft) below

Technical details

UID

Projectile_DivingStrike

Spell flags

CombatLogSetSingleLineRoll, HasHighGroundRangeExtension, IsHarmful, IsJump

Condition: Prone

 Prone

Duration: 2 turns

• Can't move or take  Actions,  Bonus Actions, or  Reactions, and has  Disadvantage on Strength and Dexterity  Saving Throws.
• Attacks against a Prone creature have  Advantage if they're made within 3 m (10 ft) of the creature.
• A Prone creature must spend half its  Movement Speed to stand up.
• Falling Prone immediately ends Concentration.
• If a creatures falls Prone on its turn, the turn immediately ends.

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 3: Wildheart

Granted by spells:

•  Rage: Eagle Heart

Used by creatures: Shiv Dahlia

Notes

• Any effects that boost jump range like the Athlete feat or  Enhance Leap apply to Diving Strike as well. Refer to this table of jump distance modifiers for an exhaustive list of such effects.
• This attack benefits from high ground bonus to attack rolls. Note that this ability requires a 1.5 m (5 ft) elevation over the target, but the high ground bonus requires a slightly higher 2.5 m (8 ft) elevation.
• A stack of two crates is sufficient to get the required 1.5 m (5 ft) height advantage against a target on level ground. It is also sufficient to unlock the +2 high ground bonus to the attack roll.
• Diving strike counts as a jump for the purposes of features like  Shockwave.
• Diving strike is ideal for blunt weapons as the tenacity guaranteed damage will activate the prone effect. ^[verify]

Bugs

• If this attack misses and  Reckless Attack is triggered in response, the attack roll is not actually rerolled, so it will always still miss. However, if Reckless Attack is already active, the attack roll is made with  Advantage as expected.