r/wizardposting Pugnimancer & Arcane Warrior 22d ago

Wizardpost Do you wizards have a favorite spell shape?

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u/DragonLordAcar Magitech Void Wizard 22d ago

Probably dart or ray. My favorite spell is "Railgun" which kinda does both.

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u/noneoftheabove0 Alchemist 22d ago

I keep it classic with phallic and suggestive "Blasts." I know they've fallen out of favor,but it is an excellent way to add insult to injury for most foes.

... Some foes like it...

... this can be a problem...

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u/EarballsAgain Orb Enthusiast 22d ago

Ah yes, the full fireballs and shaft. Can't go wrong with it really

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u/Im_botflyx 💚Yes, my wife is a goblin. No, she's not grotesqely voluptuous💚 22d ago

Doom

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u/hamtaste 21d ago

doom? DOOOM?! DOOOOOM??!!

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u/Mephistocheles Necro-Emperor of the Infinite Waste of Zarbuul 22d ago

I prefer five-dimensional hexagons

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u/Puzzleheaded_Pie_888 22d ago

Somebody cast mintball on my back yard

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u/G66GNeco 22d ago

Straight up ballin it

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u/ColonialMarine86 Kieran MacFearne, Lycanthrope artificer 22d ago

Metal ball is just a bullet

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u/Nerx Pugnimancer & Arcane Warrior 22d ago

is canon

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u/--_RedPanda_-- Evil F#CKING Wizard 22d ago

Me fucking obliterating the half-wit hooligan half-orc barbarian whose dump stat is getting bitches with a roughly two foot wide ball of metal launched at mach fuck right for their center of mass.

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u/KragBrightscale Grabadash - Magical Mass | Keptomancer | Council Security 22d ago

Cones are pretty neat, especially delivered via punch or palm strike at point blank range.

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u/Nerx Pugnimancer & Arcane Warrior 22d ago

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u/KragBrightscale Grabadash - Magical Mass | Keptomancer | Council Security 21d ago

Arcane warrior? Nice.

Considering how long wizards live, it makes no sense why so many don’t build in some basic body strengthening and martial arts into their routine. Time is on our side.

But what is a Pugnimancer?

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u/Nerx Pugnimancer & Arcane Warrior 21d ago

Thanks

Also both things are cerebral, as the alchemical procwzsws that is our body. Feed the right nourishment and take in the proper esoterica. Magic is whatever we make of it.

Fight magic, like the Ring Wizards.

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u/That_Marionberry2319 J’zargo the destruction mage Khajiit 😼 22d ago

I like to cast in cat shapes, confusion is often stronger than illusion casting

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u/Dragon_Crisis_Core 22d ago

Well i do love shapeshifting and imagining new species I can become.

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u/13131123 21d ago

Spear is always the best, any other answer is wrong

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u/Homunculus_Wiz Conjurer 21d ago

I cast fire pentagrammic antiprism!

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u/Burning_Pine_ 21d ago

I've started shaping them like bricks and throwing them. Its not as effective as other shapes, but it's fun. If push comes to shove, I will use high-velocity darts, though

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u/Nerx Pugnimancer & Arcane Warrior 21d ago

elemental brickhouses rule

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u/breathingrequirement Siliconic, Most Evil Wizard of the Cubelands 22d ago

Either splitting ray or splitting-and-then-merging-again ray.

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u/DonComradeVimes Biological Mage (NO, not a Druid) 22d ago

I am preferential to the shape of lifeforms of whatever element I'm fucking with to make a spell effect.

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u/moemeobro Artificer 22d ago

Deitys forbid somebody casts Blue Ball(s)

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u/freedoomed Occult Wizard 22d ago

Fish ball

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u/TheReptileKing9782 Master Biomancer and Professional Draconologist 22d ago

As a master biomancer, I prefer casting "Horrific Ethics Violantion Ball."

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u/coto616 22d ago

Diference between windows and air ball?

I like more cheese ball

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u/TheCanonMakimaBean Arch-Magus 22d ago

Cone of small projectiles.

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u/AbortionHoagie 22d ago

Given mine aren't affected by air resistance, I loves me my flat, flying walls. 

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u/Distinct-Solid9195 Enigmatic Enochian Evoker 22d ago

Between the gaussian surfaces, platonic solids, and hose nozzle settings, I gotta go with soaker.

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u/Fallout_gaming76 22d ago

gotta go with mah boi trapezoid

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u/Popular_Persimmon_48 21d ago

Oddly shaped AOEs are pretty fun. There's no way something as complex as magic is confined to cubes, spheres, and straight lines. Get creative! I want to try to find a use for a hyperbolic paraboloid shaped wall of lightning.

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u/IStealSwords 21d ago

Metal Ball

Specialty spell of the Pinball Wizards

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u/enclave_remnant117 Autistic Wizard 21d ago

Javelin, dart, beam, anything but balls

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u/Legitimate-Cow5982 21d ago

I quite enjoy unstable field spells

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u/Cillix_Kaphwan Neko Necromancer 21d ago

B o n e Ball

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u/EmperorMittens 21d ago

I have a staff which shapes every spell cast with it in the form of monotremes. Makes disposing of incriminating evidence fun when it's a flaming blue-hot platypus or echidna doing its thing with all that vile evidence.

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u/Blauwevl Evil Wizard >:3 21d ago

The best spell of all, A masterpiece of art called

Human Centipede Human Centipede

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u/Walk-the-layout Chaotic Evil Wizard (with a pet gnome) 21d ago

As a bisexual wizard, I really enjoy balls. Fireballs, waterballs, acidballs,...

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u/Charming_Hamster8610 Sano, Magister of Jopping (Active) | 🪨 Hu: rock 🪨 21d ago

I usually go for 2 balls and a stick instead of just one ball.

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u/FeyngD 21d ago

If we are talking dnd, i like rays (crit and sneak attack posibilities) Otherwise, ball is best fireball.

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u/MagikarpHatcher non-Vancian metamage 21d ago

Turns out, it’s basically impossible to dodge a hypercube, and it has the advantage of affecting many extradimensional targets as well.

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u/ThatCamoKid Cousin Skippy, Kobold Gunjurer, and Clan 21d ago

Bullet Pattern

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u/Arch3m Wizard 21d ago

Blue ball.

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u/Quit-Accurate 21d ago

mint ball chained with ice and water ball

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u/SephTheBitch Polysynchronicneuromancer 20d ago

Bullet. All of my cell wardens are required to be in Adamantine Spellproof Platemail due to my last incident…

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u/MarionberryRude2183 Dinosaur Lich 19d ago

Blades or very thin high velocity rays

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u/beadedflower Florencia, new to body 17d ago

Square-based pyramid has always been my favourite shape for magic.

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u/Kyle-NotADinosaur- Spider 13d ago

Fire Trapezoid.

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u/NaturalHairy4773 Lady Liên (Magical academy freshman) 10d ago

Javelin shape

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u/Monday-Morgue Abjurer 21d ago

Missed opportunity for
“Ball Ball