Originally posted by jdbolick
Originally posted by jdbolick
Basic build plan for any .5 ALG dot
If going strength first then pick one pound below the maximum. If picking speed first then pick one pound above the minimum. Enhance the first attribute to 10%, train intense three times, enhance to 20%, then train intense until you have a nearly full bar at 32.9x without equipment on Day 48. Convert 15 bonus tokens to a skill point and cap to 48.9x. Then boost. Next season you'll enhance to 30% and normal train, then second cap, then continue normal training, then third cap. At that point you'll unlock and enhance your attributes for multi-training. Unlock the first, second, and third attributes you plan to cap and enhance all to 30% when possible. Use the free first slot to rotate any other attributes you plan to cap eventually, enhancing each to 10%. Continue multi-training until the first attribute reaches anywhere between 90 and 100 depending upon your build plan. Skill points should be spent in the first attribute until it reaches between 73 and 85 depending upon your build plan and how many attributes you eventually need to increase.
That's designed to get the first attribute up as quickly as possible to accumulate ALGs. You do the weight trick so that you're just under the .97 decimal for the third cap at level 7, otherwise you end up wasting two ALGs and there was no point in racing up that fast anyway. For 0.4 ALG dots I haven't figured out anything quite so simple, but in general you should probably pick max or min weight and then go to multi-training right after the second cap. 0.67 ALG dots don't need to worry about weight either and shouldn't unlock the first attribute but should push it really hard in the beginning.
I start with this for a foundation then go forth as follows;
#1, WHAT you are building the dot for takes priority. For your basic archetype, I follow JD to the letter... but for special builds, I deviate. Example; Building a BLOCKING WR that can still contribute in the passing game. I would start with the tallest setting and the heaviest setting instead of JD's setup. I want the height for the lack of jumping I know shall occur during the build and the weight for helping him with his blocking.
#2, I first apply BT's to primary skill training enhancement... then I light train one time... apply more BT's to training enhancement... now intense train being sure to get my primary to 3rd star training enhancement when it becomes available.
#3, on last day of season, do my boosts one at a time instead of all 3 at once. If done right, you should be able to hit 1st cap on primary at this time. IMPORTANT! ONLY spend SP's on primary skill at the start of the build. NEVER on other skills or on SA's.
#4, continue on Intense training of primary, capping whenever it becomes possible to do so. Save BT's for opening up training slots for multi-training.
#5, once you can open up 3 slots to multi-train (4 total counting the open/free slot) you now have a choice to make and this entirely depends on your build plan. Either purchase your primary as one of the 'fixed' slots or DON'T purchase your primary as a fixed slot, instead using the 'open/free' slot for training your primary. My basic thought on this is that; If your dot relies heavily on one particular skill (Say Speed for a returner or Strength for an O-lineman), then I would purchase the primary and train it for the entirety of the dot's life. If I plan on stopping training on the primary skill somewhere in the dot's life, then I do NOT purchase the primary as a fixed slot.
#6, and the most important of all, HAVE A PLAN and STICK TO THE PLAN COMPLETELY. So many builds get f'd up because you try to sneak in a few SP's to stamina or some such things that were NOT in your plan. My worst dots were dots where I 'ad-libbed' along the way. My best dots have always been ones where I stuck to the plan from the very start until the very end.
Originally posted by LeeRJet
is it best to enhance your training att to 3 stars before opening up a new multi-training spot?
I would say the advantage of being able to get the gains from using multi-training is worth going ahead and getting the multi-training going first, then adding the stars asap afterwards. I generally don't have that issue much though. Once I'm ready to switch from intense to multi-training I usually have enough BT's to enhance everything. However, if I do NOT, I make sure the stars are applied in the order of most important skill to least important.
