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| {{Spell
| | #REDIRECT [[Deflect Missiles]] |
| |name=Deflect Missiles
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| |level=6
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| |school1={{Charms}}
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| |school2={{Air Magic}}
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| |school3=
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| |sources=<div>
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| * [[Book of Enchantments]]
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| * [[Book of the Sky]]
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| * [[Rod of Warding]]
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| </div>
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| |castingnoise=3
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| |spellnoise=0
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| {{Flavour|This spell protects the caster from any kind of projectile attack, although particularly powerful attacks (lightning bolts, etc.) are deflected to a lesser extent than lighter missiles.}}
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| [[Deflect Missiles]] is a level 6 [[Charms]]/[[Air Magic]] spell which strongly protects the caster from ranged attacks. It reduces the [[to-hit]] of a ranged attack against the caster to a random value between 0 and two-thirds of its normal value, if it is a bolt, or to a random value between 0 and a half, if it is a single-target beam. This spell helps you to evade/dodge missiles, not to block them. | |
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| ==Strategy==
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| This spell gives a very good amount of protection, but there are still a few ranged attacks than can ignore it, among them such nasty things as [[Hellfire]], [[Torment]], and [[Fireball]], as well as all enchantments.
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| It can be very useful in places like the last level of [[Shoals]] ([[merfolk javelineer]]s), the last level of the [[Elven Halls]] ([[deep elf master archer]]s), or Zot:5 ([[electric golem]]s, [[ancient lich]]es).
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| Despite its power, this spell's usefulness is very character-dependent. In general, it doesn't do much that [[Repel Missiles]] and a good EV ''or'' AC won't do. Usually, the characters who will find this the most useful are the purest of casters: it is possible for a DEFE to conquer [[Zot]] with 8 AC and 16 EV if they make very judicious use of this and other utility spells. Characters that are somewhat more hybridized are often better served saving that 6 MP for another conjuration, or a spell like [[Haste]].
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