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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Berandor" data-source="post: 16432" data-attributes="member: 225">As chill touch and burning hands, too.And you have to make a touch attack; furthermore, the additional touches per level all take up actions in the subsequent rounds, so you can't cast another spell, ot touch anything, etc.It affects an area directly in front of you. Furthermore, it does energy damage - easily to have resistance against it, many monsters do have it.And it has a save.I agree that some parts of MM are not too powerful; only MM in its whole is too powerful.No savehits alwaysmedium rangesplittablemore max. damage than any other spell in one roundhits incorporeal/ethereal beingsno energy damage, but force effect1 action to castno material componentName one 2nd level spell that is better for attack purposes. Because that may be the only gripe in MM. It is a pure attack spell; no other uses.If I was a wizard 5th, and was fighting against an opponent with lightning resistance, I would choose 3d4+3 garanteed damage (~10 points of damage) to 5d6 points minus resistance, then perhaps halved by a save. The average damage with 5d6 is 17, so even a resistance of 5 would make MM almost equal, and then there's still the save.7th: 4d4+4 (~14) to 7d6 (~24) minus resistance plus save for half. Even then I can see using magic missile.Even when not fighting such a monster, I might go for MM. I can memorize more 1st level than 3rd level spells, and the garanteed damage could make me save the loghtning bolt for more decisive moments.One player in our group had a wizard who cast MM against major foes, instead of using his more powerful spells... and it wasn't much of a disadvantage.As I said, give me a second level spell that suprasses MM.Berandor</blockquote>

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