Spellbook of magic missile
| spellbook of + magic missile 
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| Appearance | random |
| Base price | 200 zm |
| Weight | 50 |
| Turns to read | 2 |
| Ink to write | 10–19 |
| Spell type | [[attack spells|attack]] |
| Level | 2 |
| Power cost | 10 Pw |
Allows you to learn the magic missile spell.
The magic missile ray does (xplev/2+1)d6 damage, so higher-level spellcasters can deal significant damage with this spell. A level 30 character deals 16d6 damage with magic missile to a maximum of 96 damage. The damage can be doubled by using walls to reflect the ray again to the target, hitting it twice. This spell's damage is doubled by a Knight carrying the Magic Mirror of Merlin.
Note that this is different from the wand of magic missile, whose damage is a fixed 2d6.
Strategy
For low-level Wizards, the starting force bolt spell is usually a better attacking method than magic missile, as force bolt costs 5 Pw and does 2d12 damage. Magic missile does slightly more damage at experience level 6, but costs 10 Pw points. Advanced Wizards armed with the Eye of the Aethiopica can rely on magic missile as their primary attack.
