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Ok, hardly world shattering, but some references exist to 2nd level magic missile wands. The given recommendation is generally to generally treat it as a 1st level one, but what if we could easily make it matter, but keeping it within reason.
My suggestion, What if you added the following to the end of the description for the Force Barrage spell.
Heightened (+1; once) You fire one additional shard irrespective of the number of action taken. (this heightening can only occur once, and uses up a rank of heightening not available to the other heightening option, which can also be used for other rank advancements)
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Net effect:
every even rank advancement you get one additional missile per action, leaving the only benefit of going to an even rank, you get one extra missile total, than the prior rank.
rank 1: 1a = 1; 2a = 2; 3a = 3
rank 2: 1a = 2; 2a = 3; 3a = 4
rank 3: 1a = 2; 2a = 4; 3a = 6
rank 4: 1a = 3; 2a = 5; 3a = 7
rank 5: 1a = 3; 2a = 6; 3a = 9
rank 6: 1a = 4; 2a = 7; 3a = 10
rank 7: 1a = 4; 2a = 8; 3a = 12
rank 8: 1a = 5; 2a = 9; 3a = 13
rank 9: 1a = 5; 2a = 10; 3a = 15
Had the random thought, and thought I'd share to see if others felt it was worthwhile or problematic.