An Invisible wall of force springs into existence at a point you choose within range. The wall appears in any orientation you choose, as a horizontal or vertical barrier or at an angle. It can be free floating or resting on a solid surface. You can form it into a hemispherical dome or a globe with a radius of up to 10 feet, or you can shape a flat surface made up of ten 10-foot-by-10-foot panels. Each panel must be contiguous with another panel. In any form, the wall is 1/4 inch thick and lasts for the duration. If the wall cuts through a creature’s space when it appears, the creature is pushed to one side of the wall (you choose which side).
Nothing can physically pass through the wall. It is immune to all damage and can’t be dispelled by Dispel Magic. A Disintegrate spell destroys the wall instantly, however. The wall also extends into the Ethereal Plane and blocks ethereal travel through the wall.
* - (a shard of glass)
spell says it's available for wizards twice. also the access to Artillerist and Armorer is missing
There is a lot of debate on the Internet as to whether some effects can pass through the wall as they are judged non-physical or debate as to whether creatures on the other side are considered as having full cover though the barrier is invisible (I know, weird debate, but many argue it procures full cover and therefore blocks all spells except an AOE placed on the other side), so I am quite disappointed that the new description does not say a word about this. It is left to the DM's call.
I would judge it does not hamper line-of-sight, so many spells and non-physical effects could pass through (Misty Step, fear effects, etc. but not Fireball which is considered as traveling from the caster...).
It's available to Wizard twice because Wizard 2014 and Wizard 2024 show up differently.
I came looking for discussion for clarification too.
Re: misty step, i shouldn't work b/c this
> The wall also extends into the Ethereal Plane and blocks ethereal travel through the wall.
If you consider, in your game world, that Misty Step traverses or moves through the Ethereal... that is a fine ruling at first glance.
It is not a rule, as Misty Step does not have a canonical concept of using the ethereal nor of moving as such. The most common rulings (see Internet) says Misty Step works, but Crawford insisted nothing can pass through it, whether corporeal or not, but then says Misty Step teleportation does not have a concept of traveling or passing... (you just need to see the spot).
Another argument is that the Wall of Force is not a dome nor perfect sphere/bubble : it is, at best, a hemispherical dome (half sphere). Even traveling through the ethereal, you could enter from below, etc.
I feel it is silly that a rather common level 2 spell can easily bypass a level 5 Wall of force, but it seems this spell was not designed to be a perfect blocker, and rather more as a limited combat crowd-control.
Nvm, I'm blind. This slaps
read the line that says something about ethereal
There's a twitter thread from a while back in which Jeremy Crawford says that you can misty step through wall of force.
It says immune to all damage so even stuff that passes through doesn't hurt it inside they were very direct with it this time.
There is nothing in misty step which says that you go into the ethereal plane. It is a teleport flat out.
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