Mazchna

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Mazchna
Release date	26 January 2005 (Update)
Race	Demon
Members	Yes
Quest NPC	No
Location(s)	Canifis
Sells items	Slayer Equipment
Gender	Male
Examine	He looks dangerous!
Advanced data
NPC ID	8274, 8307, 8308, 8309, 8464, 15935
Object ID	none
Links	MRND8274 MRND8307 MRND8308 MRND8309 MRND8464 MRND15935
Infobox (multi) • Talk page

Mazchna
Release date	26 November 2008 (Update)
Combat level	150
Race	Demon
Members	Yes
Quest NPC	While Guthix Sleeps
Location(s)	Chaos Temple (hut)
Sells items	No
Gender	Male
Examine	He looks dangerous!
Advanced data
NPC ID	8274, 8307, 8308, 8309, 8464, 15935
Object ID	none
Links	MRND8274 MRND8307 MRND8308 MRND8309 MRND8464 MRND15935
Infobox (multi) • Talk page

Mazchna (pronounced Mash-ner) is a low-level Slayer master located in north-eastern Canifis, very near the Canifis lodestone. He will give slayer assignments to any player with a combat level of 20 or above. Mazchna is noted for usually giving assignments close to his area.

History

Early life

Mazchna is a demon by race; he is the only known demon Slayer master, apart from Achtryn, his temporary replacement during the quest While Guthix Sleeps. Mazchna became very skilled in combat and eventually became a Slayer master. Mazchna chased away all the other demons in Morytania to gain his Slayer master monopoly in Canifis. Unlike most demons who generally cause havoc, Mazchna strives to be good.

Fighting Lucien's undead army

Mazchna fought in the Skirmish at the Chaos Temple; he is one of a band of eight heroes who attempts to save the player from Lucien after the player's identity is compromised. It is seen during the battle that Mazchna has a combat level of 197. He and Harrallak Menarous are the only survivors of the strike team, as they were fighting Lucien's undead reinforcements. After Lucien leaves, Mazchna is seriously injured, but he is still able to fight and demands they chase the Mahjarrat to get revenge for Turael and Duradel's deaths. Harrallak refuses, as it would be a complete slaughter. Mazchna realizes he is right as the Slayer cause has suffered enough today with the loss of two masters, and reports the battle to Idria before returning to his post.

Slayer points

Players can receive Slayer points for completing Slayer tasks, based on how many tasks players have accomplished in a row. Completion of a task assigned by Mazchna will grant you:

• 2 Slayer points per normal task
• 5 for every 10th
• 15 for every 50th

This means that if using Mazchna over the long term, an average of 2.5 points will be granted per task.

However, he is not recommended to use for every 10th and 50th task. Using Kuradal, Duradel or even Sumona for these tasks gives a greatly increased amount of points. For example, Duradel gives 75 points for completing a 10th task and 225 points for a 50th task. Kuradal gives even more points: 90 for every 10th task, and 270 points for every 50th task.

After the release of Smoking Kills, Mazchna became one of the most popular slayer masters, even among higher-level players in pursuit of Slayer points. Because Mazchna's tasks are easy to complete by high-level players, a player can accomplish the first 9 tasks with ease and then use a higher level master like Kuradal or Duradel for tasks which are a multiple of ten, thereby gaining easy Slayer points.

Assignments

Monster	Amount	Combat level	Slayer experience	Slayer level	Weakness	Weighting
Banshee	40-70	37, 91	58.5, 85	15/35	Arrows	20
Bat	40-70	14, 16, 23 ,44, 43	8, 8, ?, 32, 18	1	Bolts	10
Bear	40-70	11, 29, 23, 32, 35 (Angry bear), 40	20, 12, 10.2, 13.4, 14.4, 27	1	Air spells, Water spells, Fire spells	10
Catablepon	40-70	53, 54	25-26, 27	1	Bolts	10
Cave crawler	40-70	53, 74, 78	25.8, 49.8, 57.6	10	Slash	20
Cave slime	40-70	26, 44	11.4, 91	17	Slash	10
Cockatrice	40-70	44	23.5	25	Crush	20
Crawling hand	40-70	11, 18, 70, 75	8, 90.4, 63.5, 77	5/31	Fire spells	20
Cyclops	30-60	57, 63, 68, 91	59.4, 71.8, 86.6, 281.8	1	Earth spells	10
Desert lizards	40-70	35, 49, 63	14, 22, 36	22	Water spells	10
Dogs	40-70	33, 35, 49, 67	13.4, 14, 45, 41.4	1	Water spells	10
Flesh crawlers	40-70	39, 40	17.5, 17.5	1	Stab	10
Frogs	40-70	36, 44, 21, 77	14,19,19,55	1	Slash	10
Ghouls	40-70	64	36	1	Stab	10
Ghosts	40-70	14, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 28, 37, 40, 42, 42, 44, 46, 47, 47, 48, 53, 53, 60, 61, 70, 84, 98, 112, 119, 126	10, ?, ?, ?, 10, 11, ?, 40, 48, 34, 150, 72, 72, ?, ?, 60, 20, 40.4, 65, 110, 44, 80, 80, 105, 256, 552.8, 155	1	Thrown	10
Grotworms	20-40	28, 63, 98	11.4, 102.8, 343..5	1	Bolts	10
Hill Giants	40-70	44	39	1	Air spells	10
Hobgoblin	40-70	28, 32, 35, 91	4, ?, ?, 268.5	1	Air spells	10
Ice Warrior	40-70	54	27	1	Fire spells	10
Kalphites	40-70	58, 65, 72, 75, 84, 84, 98, 98, 107, 333, 356, 2500	59.3, 78.8, 95, 109.8, 140, 147, 229, 240.4, 229, 1309.4, 2055, 3963	1	Varies	10
Mogres	40-70	54	27	32	Air spells	10
Pyrefiends	40-70	61, 63, 67, 92	34.2, 34.2, 41.4, 42	30	Bolts	20
Rock slugs	40-70	42, 49	20, 22	20	Water spells	15
Skeletons	40-70	Varies	Varies	1	Earth spells	10
Vampyres	40-70	61, 89	33, ?	1	Fire spells	10
Wall beasts	10-20	47	27	35	Water spells	15
Wolves	40-70	5, 8, 15, 16, 23, 23, 30, 42, 43, 46, 49 (Fenris Wolf)), 71, 88, 95,	6.8, 6, 34, 34, 10, 15, 50, 69, 74, 34, 69, 70, 81, 70	1	Water spells	10
Zombies	40-70	11, 12, 14, 22, 29, 72, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 82, 84, 85	8, 8, 9, 10, 13, 50, 52, ?, ?, 70, 74, 77, ?, ?	1	Earth spells	10
Total weight						340

Slayer Challenge

After a player has performed several Slayer tasks for Mazchna, he will occasionally offer a special task in place of a regular Slayer task. The player can decline to take the special task without penalty. If the player accepts the special task, completing the task:

• Earns 2,000 Slayer XP (no experience is earned during the task itself).
• Earns 3 Slayer points, if the player has completed the Smoking Kills quest, beyond the normal points received for a task from Mazchna.
• Counts as a task for the player's consecutive task count, which is used for Slayer points.

Mazchna's special task is for the player to slay all the creatures corrupting the Fairy rings in Morytania. The player must go to each of the three fairy rings in Morytania:

• CKS near Canifis (a safe area until Mazchna is contacted)
• ALQ in the Haunted Woods (vampyres and leeches are present).
• BKR in the Mort Myre Swamp (ghasts and the Mort Myre Swamp effect are present; a blessed silver sickle and druid pouches are recommended).

At each ring, the player must contact Mazchna using an enchanted gem. If the player does not have a gem in inventory when the task is assigned, Mazchna will give the player a gem for free (even if the player has an enchanted gem in the bank). However, Mazchna will not give the player a gem if the player's inventory is full (and still won't if the player later returns with an empty inventory slot and speaks to him about the task again).

The player does not have to use the fairy ring transport network; simply walking to the rings is sufficient. When near a ring, the player activates the enchanted gem to contact Mazchna. The player does not get the usual choices when the gem is activated (if the usual choices appear, then the player is not near enough to the ring).

The three monsters you have to fight are a ravenous snail (level 49) at ring BKR, a ravenous ghoul (level 70) at ring CKS, and a ravenous vampyre (level 91) at ring ALQ. The fairy rings can be done in any order.

The player does not have to finish the conversation with Mazchna after each kill, they can go to the next fairy ring immediately after killing one monster.

Task weighting

A dynamic calculator for task weight can be found here.

The percentage chance of getting assigned a given Slayer task can be calculated using the formula

${\frac {w}{S}}\times 100\%$

where $w$ is the task's weight and $S$ is the sum of all weights for the particular Slayer Master. Note that the weights of all blocked tasks, as well as tasks toggled off have to be subtracted from the sum $S$. For Mazchna, assuming all possible assignments are available, $S$ = 340.

Preferring a task makes it approximately twice as likely to be assigned, for the first assignment choice, but does not affect the weighting of the second assignment choice provided by a Slayer VIP ticket.

Dialogue

This article on an NPC has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations with this NPC.

Transcripts Mazchna speaks in:

• While Guthix Sleeps

Update history

The update history project is a work-in-progress – not all updates to this topic may be covered below. See here for how to help out!

• patch 9 September 2019 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue where Mazchna was assigning slayer tasks from Vannaka.

• patch 19 August 2019 (Update):
  • Mazchna will now suggest you obtain a task from Laniakea if your slayer and combat level is appropriate to do so.

• patch 12 June 2017 (Update):
  • A typo previously seen when talking to Mazchna via NPC Contact in the While Guthix Sleeps quest has been fixed.

• patch 31 August 2011 (Update):
  • He no longer tells players to train with Kuradal before they are able to.

• patch 5 July 2010 (Update):
  • Getting an assignment from Mazchna no longer results in the wrong chat if you decline.

Trivia

• At one point, an image in the Knowledge Base showed a character doing Desert Treasure while wielding a sword very similar to Mazchna's. The image has since been removed. With the release of Smoking Kills, the leaf bladed sword was released, which is similar to the one that Mazchna is wielding.
• It seems that Mazchna is wearing an adamant med helm along with an adamant platebody and adamant platelegs.
• For a time after a player completed While Guthix Sleeps, when Mazchna gave tips to the player, his name would appear as slayer_master_2_multi_wounded, whereas before it was just slayer_master_2_multi. This has since been fixed.
• With the release of the Festival for the Dead, Mazchna received a graphical update.