sfbm/tat (in General)

With a single fireball mage which will help him out the most?
a RoS then have a base AS cause the RoS will help that out a lot to help give the mage more life.
a RoE which will help reduce dmg done to him which in return will also help him stay alive longer.
a FF which will help do dmg and also get attacked which will help deal out more dmg and also help me stay alive as it takes dmg to.
I have a RoS that is lvl 43,720 that is gonna go on my sfbm when i unretire him and i will either re ink this one or insta it up a little so i was wondering which of the 3 tats would be the best. My max tatto lvl on my sfbm is around 55-60k.

I wouldn't go with a FF, as it will start killing you *if* it makes it to melee. I used a large Tattoo of Endurance with my sfbm but then changed to a steel familiar, they both have advantages, but at the end of the day they offer similar benefits. the SF does allow me to take a lot less damage against other fireball characters.

RoS adds a % i believe, so having it and a base AS will do little or no good for you, so you can throw out that idea.

A RoS is wasted on a single minion. you could train AS and have the RoS boost it and protect it from DM, but you get around 43% HPs from it than you would trianing just HP alone.

The ToE will reduce the damage you take and reduce AMF backlash, so it's very good for mages.

A RoE will help you pump your MPR.

Any of the Familiar tattoos will be placed before your mage, soak up some damage, and in FF/SF case do some damage (an IF probably wouldn't last until melee...)

the RoS will give roughly 1/2 its lvl as a boost to an ED so a base AS will get a boost of 1/2 the RoS lvl and give 1/2 that for hp so you don't really get that much from it the ToE is the best IMO for a single mage. With the max tat lvl being lowered you can't get a high enough familiar but a ToE will still reduce damage you take from attacks and from AMF backlash

This has been hashed and rehashed numerous times.

Use a ROE to about 1/3 the top MPR as there are many useless/forgotten characters out there for you to get great rewards on.

Then switch to a FF or TOE as they are very close in their ability to let you fight up.

And forget about everyone telling you that with a FF you'll start killing yourself. With a FF you use DM as to avoid getting into melee rounds anyway.

If you use a TOE, IMO, AMF would be a better spell for you to use.

Out of the options you present both the ToE and the FF will help you fight higher than the others, presenting you with higher rewards.

The RoS strategy, whilst a bit more interesting, is really not worth it. No really. I'm experimenting with that at the moment and have done in the past. An extra 200k HP from AS from a RoS of about 600k in level was less effective than the same size ToE. A lot less effective. In fact the time I did a single mage with RoS and AS, and then inked the tattoo to a ToE my score jumped by 400k....

Dunno why I decided to do it again...........

I'll agree with Ranger about the RoE. There are some people using it at higher levels - Sutekh and Bast for two. But if you want to create a powerful single FB mage at higher levels then ToE or FF. No contest.