Electric Arc (Cantrip)

[DataLoreRPG]

This is a weird cantrip. It has the Attack trait but it does not involve an attack. The target(s) make a save instead.

Weird. Badly balanced too because no other Cantrip works this way. Even Acid Splash involves a sort of attack roll (even though it doesn't have the Attack trait, it involves an Attack and therefore invokes the multiattack penalty).

So, offensively, this seems like a great cantrip to do AFTER a weapon attack (but not before thanks to the Attack trait).

I dunno. Seems like this should be made an attack with a reflex on any secondary target, right? That would balance it better and make it not break the whole Multi-Attack penalty thing.

[Blave]

I'd just ignore the attack trait. It's most likely a typo.

This missing Attack trait on Acid Splash is most likely a typo, too.

[Almarane]

Since it deals damage, I think it should have the Attack trait.

And Acid Splash should have the "Attack" trait in my opinion.

[Draco18s]

Almarane wrote:

Since it deals damage, I think it should have the Attack trait.

That makes it subject to multiattack penalty. In what way does the spell suffer MAP?

Note also the following spells that lack the Attack trait:
- Magic Missile
- Fire Ball
- Polar Ray (and probably should have it)
- Burning Hands
- Flaming Sphere
- Cloud Kill

What do all of them have in common? Spells that don't involve an attack roll (except Polar Ray because it probably should have the Attack trait).