Strat Help: Want to change my single ToE Mage (in General)

I have had a SMTOE with fireball and protection. I have tried a few different things but I want some advice now that im sort of stuck. Maybe i should try a wall infront of my mage? or maybe an enchanter wearing a ToA tatoo? Not sure... Please any advice is welcome! Thanks.

um help? any info on a wall or tank before a ToE would be useful

Do ToE Fb Mage with AMF.. don't bother training protection higher than base.

AMF is better than dispel?

Hi Tim, my main is set up as Wall/Mage at the moment and seems to be doing ok.

With the removal of CBFs FB has become viable again. Personally, I think DM complements FB too well not to use together. I would stick with AMF if you plan on using CoC/MM though.

With no AMF I suffer from facing DD spells. Even with a ToE (My ToE would need to be a lot larger to face up against most DD). That is why I left a Wall in front of my Mage. I stuck a Mage Shield on him as a psuedo AMF and the recent change has actually made this work! For only my wall minion, the Shield gives him an automatic 39% AMF versus every DD space (bar decay). The wall then gets the benefit of heavy armour and a reduced endurance from the Mages ToE.

While my Mage doesn't benefit from any AMF, as long as my wall lives my Mage has a 50% reduction from FB/CoC before his ToE kicks in, and MM/Decay will hit the wall first anyway.

With FB, my aim is to end fights as quickly as possible. Preferably in Ranged.

When I hit melee, if my wall is still alive he takes damage from my own FB, but his MgS/Armour/Enduarnce reduces that as well.

The inclusion of the Vorpal Blade makes my Wall a little more vulnerable, but if he makes it to melee, he done his job anyway.

I also have the option (but it's not something I'm planning of doing) of training a little str/dex on the wall and making him a weak tank. Might as well have somewhere to use the free weapon NW space! :P

Seekers will be my weak spot. If a large archer can kill my mage in ranged (before my FB+DM can kill them of course!) I'll be left with only my Wall doing passive GA damage to kill. Not too good if the archer is also using a VB. But I don't really want to give people ideas on how to beat me! :P

I hope this all helps, but feel free to drop me a cM if you want to talk some things through.

I'm doing similar stuff to GL - I just added a second minion in front of my ToE FB mage (I prefer AMF instead of DM). My second is primarily to fire a round or two of the exbow and knock off the strength of the top tank - I was weak against tanks. My ToE (55k) and AMF protect against most big mages, and now the wall knocks tanks down a bit. I'm building dex on the wall to take on ToA tanks over time.

Check out my character, Krang, for my thoughts on changing an SMTOE to a two minion character. It has worked real well for me.

Noo!!!!!! Don't change perfection, Stay with me my brothers! SMTOE's Shall Previal!!!