Editing Martyr Mage (section)

=== Weapons ===
There are 3 main choices of weapon for a life mage:
# Biting Strike (Quest weapon only) or Critical Strike (Tinkered only) [X-strike weapons]
# Crushing blow (Quest weapon only) or Crippling Blow (Tinkered only)  [X-blow weapons]
# Slayer weapons

==== X-strike ====
Biting strike (or better, a Critical strike weapon are the usual recommended mainstay for a Martyr mage. A tinkered Critical Strike Weapon can increase the critical hit rate for bolts, that is: Martyr's Hecatomb, and Raven's fury up to 50% depending on the wielders skill. 

The quest version of the same, Biting Strike has a fixed multiplier, which is not shown on the description. These multipliers vary by weapon. For example, the Branith's staff - while it is a War wand, can be wielded by the Martyr mage, and gives a critical chance multiplier of 33%. This can be tested against target drudges, over many casts - at least 50, better 100. The /log command is useful for collecting the spell output and subsequently counting it with some tools (a spreadsheet, or, if familiar grep + wc -l)

==== X-blow ====
# Crushing blow (Quest weapon only) or Crippling Blow (Tinkered only) 
These weapons do not change the critical hit rate, but instead change the critical hit amount. Both the x-strike, and x-blow weapons give the same damage over time.  Ordinarily it's recommended to use x-strike weapons, because:
# Failing to land with a x-strike weapon is "less" detrimental than failing with a x-blow that could have activated.
# The Damage over time is more consistent with x-strike weapons
There are three reasons to use X-blow weapons:
# So long as you can reliably hit the target, for targets that have rapid healing, an X-blow weapon can help overwhelm the healing effect of the target. This isn't particularly useful for targets with large health since the DOT is the same, and the benefit of X-blow would be small.
# To ensure a kill of lower health targets. Activation of  X-blow can mean that the target kill will be assigned to the caster, which may not be the case otherwise.
# In PK. X-blow weapons have obvious ramifications.

==== Slayer weapons ====
Slayer weapons are quest only weapons that have the slayer property. e.g. Singularity Scepter of Life Magic has the Virindi slayer property. These weapons all give a bonus multiplier to target creatures of the named family type. The [[Saulandoi]] for example, gives a 2 x bonus against Olthoi.  Family type means that Virindi slayers work on Ebon Rifts, for instance, since they are a type of Virindi. 

These slayer weapons are therefore quite important to the Martyr mage, since they may give an additional 50% damage output over a Crippling Blow tinkered weapon, given a suitable target. This is noticeable, for example, when attacking Olthoi hordes 

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