rank your tattoos! (in General)

which tattoo would you use? rank them from 1 to 9 (ROE not included) (9 is the one that you least want to use) :) all of them lol

Fire Familiar -----------------------7
Ice Familiar -----------------------6
Steel Familiar --------------------5
Halidon Familiar -----------------9
Jigorokano Familiar -------------4
Tattoo of Augmentation --------2
Tattoo of Endurance --------------1
Rune of Solitude -------------------8
Rune of Balrog Flame --------------3


My favourite tatt is the ToA, I've used it more than any of the others, but the ToE is so much more powerful than any of the others. The RBF is a great tattoo but like most of the others you need to set the strat up properly to get the best out of it. The ToE on the other hand is a one size fits all sort of tattoo; and the damage reduction is simply incredible. It is one of the few items in the game that I DO think is overpowered. That'll give you some idea of how powerful I think it is. (The other item I think is overpowered is the Morg...but that's a whole other story...)

I've never liked the RoS, it's never suited me. And the Hal...if I'm going to use an archery strat I'll get an ELB or a Mageseeker. Give that one some seeking ability of it's own!

Out of all the familiar tattoos I'll take the Jig out of nostalgia.

So, although my favourite is number 2, I can't deny ToE tops all others.

Tattoo of Endurance -------------1
Tattoo of Augmentation --------2
Rune of Balrog Flame -------------3
Steel Familiar ------------------------4
Rune of Solitude -------------------5
Fire Familiar --------------------------6
Ice Familiar ---------------------------7
Jigorokano Familiar -----------------9
Halidon Familiar ---------------------9 (both are worthless)

ToE = Best, the damage reduction are just awesome!
ToA = The extra HP DX and pth are huge!
RoBF = This tat is better then the ToA but it's so overpowered right now, and boring that I really don't like to use it.
SF = I like the idea of familiars but then "need" to be backed up by AS in orer to survive and then your team will be vournable to DM. And I like MM more then FB that's why the FF are here.
RoS = I like DEs but I don't like to be vournable to DM so this tat kinda solves the problem.
FF = Same thing as SF just that I don't like the spread damage of FB.
IF = The best of the worst tattoos imho.
Jig and Hal = Worthless tattoos, I would rather use a tank as I can boost the weapon as much as I want, or a UC minion to be able to dilute the XP as I want. And the same as thing about AS and DM goes for these tattoos.

Fire Familiar -----------------------3
Ice Familiar -----------------------4
Steel Familiar --------------------5
Halidon Familiar -----------------9
Jigorokano Familiar -------------8
Tattoo of Augmentation --------1
Tattoo of Endurance --------------2
Rune of Solitude -------------------7
Rune of Balrog Flame --------------6
Best of All RoE

Jigorokano Familiar 418
Steel Familiar 141
Fire Familiar 186
Tattoo of Endurance 249
Rune of Balrog Flame 196
Tattoo of Augmentation 296
Rune of Solitude 142
Halidon Familiar 76
Ice Familiar 96

Interestingly the above are the number in existence. Yeah, I know it doesn't really say how popular they are in actual use. But interesting all the same...

I'd say JKF numbers are really inflated due to people not selling (to store) supporter item.

And I haven't used enough tats to rank them, but from what I read off wiki:

ToE - 1
ToA - 2
RoBF/SF/FF - undecided 3-5
IF - 6
RoS/JKF/HF - the bottom

Fire Familiar -----------------------7
Ice Familiar -----------------------4
Steel Familiar --------------------5
Halidon Familiar -----------------3
Jigorokano Familiar -------------8
Tattoo of Augmentation --------6
Tattoo of Endurance --------------1
Rune of Solitude -----------------9
Rune of Balrog Flame --------------2

Ranger - why have the HF so high?

DD familiars are subject to AMF and since I do not use AS, really suck for me.

The ROS is pitiful.

So, almost by default, for Koy, A HF is the 3rd or 4th best tattoo.

I would agree, except the Halidon is so abysmal at offense that I would rather just have the meat... I'd put Jiggy above the Hal:

Fire Familiar -----------------------2
Ice Familiar -----------------------5
Steel Familiar --------------------1
Halidon Familiar -----------------6
Jigorokano Familiar -------------4
Tattoo of Augmentation --------7
Tattoo of Endurance --------------3
Rune of Solitude -----------------9
Rune of Balrog Flame --------------8

I am taking the "what would _I_ use" VERY literally. That's the only reason ToA and RoBF are so low. The other list would be which _seem_ the most powerful and which would you want to maybe build a new character around. If I were answering that, my list would look a lot like Ranger's, except with Hal and Jig swapped.

(my current setup)
Fire Familiar -----------------------4
Ice Familiar -----------------------1
Steel Familiar --------------------2
Halidon Familiar -----------------3
Jigorokano Familiar -------------5
Tattoo of Augmentation --------9
Tattoo of Endurance --------------8
Rune of Solitude -----------------7 (stalemates galore!)
Rune of Balrog Flame --------------6

(my preference over all chars I've had)
Fire Familiar -----------------------8
Ice Familiar -----------------------2
Steel Familiar --------------------6
Halidon Familiar -----------------9 (never used it really)
Jigorokano Familiar -------------5
Tattoo of Augmentation --------3
Tattoo of Endurance --------------1
Rune of Solitude -----------------4
Rune of Balrog Flame --------------7

(how I would rank them in terms of combined offensive and defensive power)
Fire Familiar -----------------------7
Ice Familiar -----------------------2
Steel Familiar --------------------5
Halidon Familiar -----------------6
Jigorokano Familiar -------------8
Tattoo of Augmentation --------3
Tattoo of Endurance --------------1
Rune of Solitude -----------------9
Rune of Balrog Flame --------------4

How much I like each tattoo (I would like the HF much more if Jon would fix its bug):

JFK: 1
SF: 2
IF: 3
HF: 4
FF: 5
ToA: 6
RoS: 7
RoBF: 8
ToE: 9


This is clearly by no means an indicator of how good they are. However, it is certainly my preference and my likelihood to use each....

Fire Familiar -----------------------3
Ice Familiar -----------------------7
Steel Familiar --------------------5
Halidon Familiar -----------------9
Jigorokano Familiar ----------------6
Tattoo of Augmentation --------4
Tattoo of Endurance --------------1
Rune of Solitude -----------------8
Rune of Balrog Flame --------------2

But thats just me :D

the results
Fire Familiar -----------------------44 - (5)
Ice Familiar ------------------------44 - (5)
Steel Familiar ----------------------36 - (3)
Halidon Familiar --------------------67 - (8)
Jigorokano Familiar -----------------54 - (6)
Tattoo of Augmentation --------------32 - (2)
Tattoo of Endurance -----------------20 - (1)
Rune of Solitude --------------------66 - (7)
Rune of Balrog Flame ----------------42 - (4)

Fire Familiar ----------------------- 6
Ice Familiar ------------------------ 1
Steel Familiar ---------------------- 5
Halidon Familiar -------------------- 9
Jigorokano Familiar ----------------- 8
Tattoo of Augmentation -------------- 3
Tattoo of Endurance ----------------- 2
Rune of Solitude -------------------- 7
Rune of Balrog Flame ---------------- 4

1. Tattoo of Endurance
2. Rune of Solitude
3. Steel Familiar
4. Fire Familiar
5. Rune of Balrog Flame
6. Ice Familiar
7. Jigorokano Familiar
8. Halidon Familiar
9. Tattoo of Augmentation

1. Solid defensive builds are fun, and they basically kill in Ranged now :). Very utilitarian tattoo.
2. I DON'T LIKE HOW THE ROS ISN'T USED MUCH :(. Besides, the ability to stick on DM and another EO onto your team is very useful. Of course, if you want to switch tattoos you're hooped.
3. Because familiars train such high DD, the SF is able to churn out large amounts of damage early on any team. Kill slot is a plus too.
4. I consider FB less useful than MM trained on a familiar; I'd rather train it on a minion because it totally sucks against multi-minion teams, thus reducing damage potential early on against a large number of characters.
5. Well, it's good for leveling tattoos..? Just don't like the highly abusive nature of it. But of course, I appreciate the tank-busting capabilities in this one :).
6. Gaaaah! I wish this was more viable :(. CoC is by far my favourite DD, but you need a heavily AS-centered build for it to work, and a lot of kill slots to prevent early death. Again, I'd rather train on a minion.
7. Right now, it's a novelty item. Awesome meat shield, though.
8. See 7.
9. Poor ToA, left for last? That's because I'm not going to be running a tank team for a very long time :).