Dancing Wand

Dancing Wand
Game	Trials of Mana
User	Angela - Archmage Class
Target	Single2D, Single or Multiple3D
Weapon	Staff

"I know what to do!"

—Angela taunts an enemy.

Dancing Rod (ダンシングロッド, Danshingu Roddo^?)
(ダンシングロッド Danshingu Roddo in the Super Famicom version)
(Dancing Rod in the Corlett translation)

Dancing Wand is a class strike used by Angela in Trials of Mana. She learns this tech only when she class changes into an Archmage. This tech allows her to enchant her staff to dance before her before stabbing selected targets relentlessly for heavy amounts of damage when her attack gauge meter turns red in color.

Description

Angela will start off by moonsaulting in a backward direction. When she lands, she will position her hands before her, as her staff is observed to be floating before her. She then proceeds to clap her hands, whereupon her staff will begin contracting and expanding, in line with the rhythm of her claps. A sound, which resembles that of a cockerel's mocking crow, can be heard to emanate from the staff as it literally 'dances' in the air before Angela. Angela will finish off the move with one final clap, sending her staff flying, head first, towards the target. The staff is then observed to jab the target swiftly and relentlessly, causing mini explosions to erupt all round said target, before sailing back into Angela's hands.

In the remake, Angela throws her staff at an enemy, in which the staff flies very fast, hitting the enemy repeatedly with each pass, then finally, the staff nosedives into the enemy with an explosion.

Dancing Wand in the 3D Version.

Dancing Wand in the 2D Version.