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					Originally Posted by Zorfwaddle  As for the mage thing, I like to be able to bring down as much variety of artillery as possible, holy or otherwise.  If I get a chance, the prophet gets as many path enhancers or empowerment as possible. | 
	
 aka putting all your eggs in the same basket.
Not only will you suffer much more should your mage die (even in SP - like really bad luck with a ninja attack or coming across Bogus's gang), but you also prevent yourself from having one more smiter on the battlefield. Instead of having one smite-mage + 1 other-artillery, you get only a single mage that casts a single of these spells.