Magic Missile

Magic Missile is a level 1 evocation spell. This spell allows spellcasters to hit enemies with multiple projectiles that deal Force damage.

Description

Create three darts of magical force, each dealing 1d4 + 1Force damage to its target.

The darts always hit their target, and can each be targeted individually.

Properties

Damage

1d4 + 1 (2~5) Force per dart

Details

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

At higher levels

When the spell is cast at 2nd Level or higher, an additional dart is created for each Spell Slot Level above 1st.

How to learn

Classes:

• Class Level 1: Sorcerer, and Wizard

• Class Level 3: Arcane Trickster, and Eldritch Knight

• Class Level 6: [[ College of Lore via Magical Secrets)

• Class Level 10: [[ Bard via Magical Secrets)

Feats:

•  Magic Initiate: Wizard
•  Magic Initiate: Sorcerer

Granted by the following items:

• Psychic Spark
• Ne'er Misser

Notes

• The  Shield spell causes the caster to take no damage from Magic Missile.
• The level 10 wizard's Evocation School class feature Empowered Evocation will add the wizard's intelligence to each missile.
• When interacting with effects like  Death Ward and dealing multiple attacks to the same creature, assuming the 1st attack was sufficient to  down the target the 2nd attack appears to apply before the  Death Ward activates, which means that after 2 attacks the target would lose the  Death Ward but remain with 1HP. If the initial attack would have 3 applications then the target would be  downed on 1st attack and again on 3rd attack. In case of Avatars it means that, whilst having a  Death Ward applied, they would need to receive 6 attack applications to fully die: 2 to break down the ward, 1 to get downed and 3 more to fail 3 Death Saves. This effect seems to apply to all multi-application attacks, like  Scorching Ray and  Eldritch Blast (as of 4.1.1.3669438).

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External Links

• Magic missile on the Forgotten Realms Wiki