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{{Squishy Wizard}}s enjoy {{Spam Attack}}s too. For many spellcasters, their version is likely to be manifested in a Magic Missile Storm. This sends a swarm of magical projectiles that lock onto their opponent, likely but not always in the form of glowing energy orbs or pointed arrow-like shapes. They may spread out and weave and turn through the air before converging, and are likely to leave colored trails in the air as they move.

--> -- [[http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Magic_Missile_Stormer_%283.5e_Optimized_Character_Build%29 "Magic Missile Stormer (3.5e Optimized Character Build)"]], [[TheWikiRule D&D Wiki]]

** The Peacock attack, where a large and small orb of blue light accelerate forwards from Freesia, a distance, then home in on enemies, turning around, if necessary.

{{Squishy Wizard}}s enjoy {{Spam Attack}}s too. For many spellcasters, their version is likely to be manifested in a Magic Missile Storm. This sends a swarm of magical projectiles firing at the opponent, likely but not always in the form of glowing energy orbs or pointed arrow-like shapes. They may spread out and weave and turn through the air before converging, and are likely to leave colored trails in the air as they move.

* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo III}}'': The Wizard's Arcane Torrent skill fires small pinkish/purple filaments at a targeted location, bombarding any enemies in the vicinity.

* Several spells in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha''. These types of shooting spells are some of the easiest and fastest to cast for a mage, and could be used as suppression fire as well as direct attacks. These spells often come with alternate versions that changes the amount of energy bullets and/or the way they are fired at the enemy. In particular, if the name of the spell is followed by something like Phalanx Shift or Genocide Shift, you should be ready to block or dodge like hell as you will be faced with a veritable wall of energy projectiles. Examples of these include Nanoha's Divine/Axel Shooter (homing energy spheres whose every movement Nanoha could control), Fate's Photon/Plasma Lancer (arrow-shaped bolts of energy with limited homing capabilities. Comes in several variations and could be combined into an energy lance), Teana's Cross Fire Shoot (controllable energy spheres like Nanoha's, but could alternatively be fired as a BeamSpam instead), and Vivio's Sonic Shooter (Controllable energy orbs like her Nanoha-mama.)

* Page image provided by ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Lesser_Missile_Storm Isaac's lesser missile storm]]'' in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2''. The spell and its higher-level form ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Greater_Missile_Storm Isaac's greater missile storm]]'' were developed by Creator/BioWare for the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' series (Which named the Trope). Not so hot against hordes, but if there's more missiles than targets, they'll converge, so used against solo bosses, it's seriously deadly. For a not quite so literally "magic missile" version there is also ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Flame_Arrow Flame Arrow]]''...which may confuse some players because [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/flameArrow.htm the online standard reference document]] has the pen-and-paper version as purely an enchantment to be applied to projectiles. (The NWN "one fiery arrow per four caster levels" version is in fact described as an alternate casting mode of this exact spell in the 3.0 Edition of Dungeons & Dragons.)

*** Xemnas shoots his [[LaserBlade Etheral Blades]] as projectiles, sometimes from his hand and sometimes creating a line of them in the air that fire at once. In his final attack, he shoots literally ''thousands'' of these projectiles at the protagonists, who have to spend a solid 30 seconds doing nothing but blocking incoming blasts from all directions in order to survive.

* ''VideoGame/CrescentPaleMist'': Yunou's Rowanveld PM is essentially a variation of this. When Pale Mist are around her, pressing Special (or Down, Down+Special) will unleash [[StormOfBlades a storm of magical swords]] against her foes.

* In Undertale this is the most common way that bosses try to kill you. Special mentions go to Flowey, who [[Main/UpToEleven in his very first appearance,]] fires an [[Main/UnblockableAttack inescapable ring of bullets]] at you, and [[Main/WakeUpCallBoss Undyne the Undying,]] who can have 40+ magic spears on screen at the same time.

* While the Fireball spell in the ''[[TalesSeries Tales]]'' games normally fires three projectiles, [[VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia Rita Mordio]] can fire as many as ten [[EvolvingAttack if she uses it often enough]].

* A group of twenty or so wizard policemen end up simultaneously blasting offensive spells at a single target in the climax. [[spoiler:The combined force of the spells is enough to obliterate a sentient storm of dark magic; however, trying the same thing on the magical terrorist Grindelwald fails because he's skilled enough to block each of their spells with individual Shield Charms]].

* Page image provided by ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Lesser_Missile_Storm Isaac's lesser missile storm]]'' in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2''. The spell and its higher-level form ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Greater_Missile_Storm Isaac's greater missile storm]]'' were developed by Creator/BioWare for the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' series (Which named the Trope). Not so hot against hordes, but if there's more targets than missiles, they'll converge, so used against solo bosses, it's seriously deadly. For a not quite so literally "magic missile" version there is also ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Flame_Arrow Flame Arrow]]''...which may confuse some players because [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/flameArrow.htm the online standard reference document]] has the pen-and-paper version as purely an enchantment to be applied to projectiles. (The NWN "one fiery arrow per four caster levels" version is in fact described as an alternate casting mode of this exact spell in the 3.0 Edition of Dungeons & Dragons.)

* While the Fireball spell in the ''[[TalesSeries Tales]]'' games normally fires three projectiles, [[TalesOfVesperia Rita Mordio]] can fire as many as ten [[EvolvingAttack if she uses it often enough]].

* Page image provided by ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Lesser_Missile_Storm Isaac's lesser missile storm]]'' in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2''. The spell and its higher-level form ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Greater_Missile_Storm Isaac's greater missile storm]]'' were developed by Creator/BioWare for the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' series (Which named the Trope). Not so hot against hordes, but if there's more targets than missiles, they'll converge, so used against solo bosses, it's seriously deadly. For a not quite so literally "magic missile" version there is also ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Flame_Arrow Flame Arrow]]''...which may confuse some players because [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/flameArrow.htm the online standard reference document]] has the pen-and-paper version as purely an enchantment to be applied to projectiles. (The NWN "one fiery arrow per four caster levels" version is in fact described as an alternate casting mode of this exact spell in at least some printings of the physical 3rd edition ''Player's Handbook''.)

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': Series-wide there's the Ragnarok attack, which fires a storm of energy beams that converge on enemies.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'': Sora's Wisdom Form shoots out flurries of homing magic shots from his Keyblade.
** Xemnas shoots his [[LaserBlade Etheral Blades]] as projectiles, sometimes from his hand and sometimes creating a line of them in the air that fire at once. In his final attack, he shoots literally ''thousands'' of these projectiles at the protagonists, who have to spend a solid 30 seconds doing nothing but blocking incoming blasts from all directions in order to survive.
** Xigbar can do this with his magic bullets.

** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'': Sora's Wisdom Form shoots out flurries of homing magic shots from his Keyblade. Xemnas shoots his [[LaserBlade Etheral Blades]] as projectiles, sometimes from his hand and sometimes creating a line of them in the air that fire at once.

* Page image provided by ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Lesser_Missile_Storm Isaac's lesser missile storm]]'' in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2''. The spell and its higher-level form ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Greater_Missile_Storm Isaac's greater missile storm]]'' were developed by Creator/BioWare for the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' series (Which named the Trope). Not so hot against hordes, but if there's more targets than missiles, they'll converge, so used against solo bosses, it's seriously deadly. The games also make the spell ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Flame_Arrow flame arrow]]'' into one of these, whereas [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/flameArrow.htm the pen-and-paper version]] is actually an enchantment to be applied to projectiles.

* ''WarcraftIII'' has the Goblin Tinker's Cluster Rockets, magical missiles that bombard an area and stun all units inside (and is often modified to make it a more literal magical barrage).

* Page image provided by ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Lesser_Missile_Storm Isaac's lesser missile storm]]'' in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2''. The spell and its higher-level form ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Isaac%27s_Greater_Missile_Storm Isaac's greater missile storm]]'' were developed by Creator/BioWare for the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' series. Not so hot against hordes, but if there's more targets than missiles, they'll converge, so used against solo bosses, it's seriously deadly. The games also make the spell ''[[http://nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/Flame_Arrow flame arrow]]'' into one of these, whereas [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/flameArrow.htm the pen-and-paper version]] is actually an enchantment to be applied to projectiles.

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':