[1.2.314] Battlemage Job

I have a few questions.

1. What is the battle mage's melee damage based on? (not just the normal attack, but the "X" blow skills as well)
2. Do the Triple/Quad/Death/Finish blow moves work exactly like the "Swing" skills of an Aran?
3. How does Finish Attack work? Is it still not worth taking?
4. Does Staff Mastery affect the mastery of melee attacks and the magic attacks? Or one or the other?
5. Does Conversion just take your total health and double it (taking into +HP items and base health like HB), or does it just double your base HP and then the hp items apply?
6. How is the battle mage's melee and spell miss chance calculated?
7. How do the elemental staffs affect Battle Mage's? Do they affect them at all?
8. Are there any special "class items" that you get for making a resistance class? (for example the evan glasses and lilin ring)

Thanks