[RPG] How to you protect yourself from thethic magic missiles

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I am in a mythic game as a cleric. Our martial character is worried about mythic magic missile and at first I dismissed his concerns until I started examining it for myself.

As everyone can imagine, magic missile can get out of hand when its metamagic master, empowered, maximized, quickened, and heightened (before using the mythic versions of those same feats).

So lets just gloss over that and get directly to mythic magic missile (MMM). The augmented version basically removes any protection from MM that existed, and what it didnt the heightened spell still took care of. So that's shield, spell immunity, globe of invulnerability, ring of forcefangs, and so on.

So the only remaining methods that I can think of are

  • Concealment and either force the missiles to have a miss change or have nothing to target
  • forms of an antimagic field
  • Counter Spell/dispel magic

So what realistic choices do people have in countering this pretty powerful mythic spell?

Best Answer

Have enough hit points that a magic missile spell doesn't kill them? Which if you're up against someone who can "mythically quicken, empower, etc." a spell should always be the case.

I suspect many of these problems you're asking about are from just reading the rules and not from actually playing the game. In high level and mythic play, the single biggest factor is the action economy. Using an action on magic missile means you're not using that action (and spell slot) on something even worse, like every other non-first level spell. If I can do a super duper empowered mythic magic missile spell, or a, say, mythic persistent heightened flesh to stone, the latter is usually a better one-round killer.

I played in a Wrath of the Righteous mythic campaign and our caster had mythic magic missile - and used it when running low on other stuff, or when a little extra surefire damage would take out a wounded foe - in other words, whenever you'd use a normal magic missile in non-mythic mid-level play.

There's some mythic powers and stuff that can protect even against mythic spells - but that's not the real answer to this question. "Because there's something better to do with that action" is the real answer.

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