Recruitable Mage Rebalance - seeking comments

[Graeme Dice]

PvK said:
* Make life drain weapons cost at least 40 death gems or 80 blood slaves.

I'd just switch to skull standards at that point, because 12 armour negating, auto-hitting life drain damage is probably a better bet than whatever the weapon damage would be.

* Increase cost of Wrathful Skies.

Increasing the requirements so that they match the fire version would probably be a better solution.

* Increase cost of Bane Lords.

To what extent? They walk a very fine line between cost-effectiveness and being wiped out by two-handed weapons.

* Increase path requirements of all troop-massacreing spells so it requires a powerful mage thanks to being a pretender or empowerment and items,

National mages with path enhancers should be all that is required, as empowerment is far too expensive to be practical.