Note: If you're going Force Missile Mage/Incantatrix, then Empower is perfectly fine for Magic Missile. Especially if your dropping the usual stuff on it as well, so you're throwing around 500+ damage of auto-hitting shield-bypassing double-elemental magic missiles.<br/><br/>7d4+7 . . . Maximized to 35, Empowered to 52.5, changed to . . oh  . . Fire, Admixtured to 105, Twin'd to 210, Quickened one of all that for 420, etc etc etc, along with bonuses to beat SR, and a pitifully easy Shield-effect breaking ability. Sure, it's not as effective as other Incantatrix cheese, but one-shotting epic level things with Magic Missile is just FLASHY. Then again, I love Magic Missile more than should be allowed :)<br/><br/>Edit: Don't forget those metamagic rods to make things simpler and less of a headache. :x