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Is the 10+ point max worth it vs getting a more useful ability?

It's not worth it. It's hard enough to hit maxes on a regular build. Try to just get the important skills at a max you'd like, then use traits to reduce the cost of expensive skills.

The only answers to this are "sometimes" and "it depends."

Edit - I guess you could also say, "if you don't know that you need Slow Built on a specific player, don't use it."

well whats the chances of actually reaching my potential of 99 in man awr and man tech for my CB. thats what i meant

Very high.

Originally posted by HWhitney19
well whats the chances of actually reaching my potential of 99 in man awr and man tech for my CB. thats what i meant

Unrelated, but think it should be stated...it isn't "man technique", it is "coverage technique".

Man Awareness is a fairly cheap skill, coverage tech is a medium cost skill...can pretty easily hard cap them both.

Originally posted by Badhands
The only answers to this are "sometimes" and "it depends."

Edit - I guess you could also say, "if you don't know that you need Slow Built on a specific player, don't use it."

Best advice for sure. Slow built looks great as an original screen cap but your skills are deadly expensive. The opposite attribute is even worse in that it makes you almost useless beyond a certain point despite having a good run early on.

Originally posted by Corndog
Unrelated, but think it should be stated...it isn't "man technique", it is "coverage technique".

Man Awareness is a fairly cheap skill, coverage tech is a medium cost skill...can pretty easily hard cap them both.

Both seem like really nice skills and nice to hit really high but if they are huge in the overall scheme it doesn't shine as much as some of the other skills. I feel like skills such as footwork and balance should have been cheaper skills while cover tech and awareness skills should have been higher. I understand that for some positions they are kinda meaningful but fuck....the sad fact of overspending on balance just to stand up after a pass (ESPECIALLY A SCREEN) or overspend on footwork just to turn quick enough to cover a guy running a straight line....Just seems rather annoying when those skills are rather expensive in the grand scheme. Again I understand the reasons when looking at some other positions but man it just kinda pisses a guy off when it comes to the simple parts of playing the game sometimes.

Basically the biggest parts of covering sometimes are the stupid skills that cost a ridiculous amount.

Same with balance. Costs a stupid amount for the silly ability to just stand after the pass.

Originally posted by bhall43
Basically the biggest parts of covering sometimes are the stupid skills that cost a ridiculous amount.

Same with balance. Costs a stupid amount for the silly ability to just stand after the pass.

And if it was the other way around, every single player would have maxed physical abilities like GLB.

Originally posted by bhall43
Both seem like really nice skills and nice to hit really high but if they are huge in the overall scheme it doesn't shine as much as some of the other skills. I feel like skills such as footwork and balance should have been cheaper skills while cover tech and awareness skills should have been higher. I understand that for some positions they are kinda meaningful but fuck....the sad fact of overspending on balance just to stand up after a pass (ESPECIALLY A SCREEN) or overspend on footwork just to turn quick enough to cover a guy running a straight line....Just seems rather annoying when those skills are rather expensive in the grand scheme. Again I understand the reasons when looking at some other positions but man it just kinda pisses a guy off when it comes to the simple parts of playing the game sometimes.

bhall, I challenge you to show me a inspec ele screenshot of a slowbuilt build for any position where it's worth it.

You are forgetting you are losing up a trait spot. So not only are you tacking on 5% more cost, you are losing the ability to reduce good skill costs by 5-10%. So effectively you are missing out on 15% gross cost swings. Even simple positions like kicker where you can pump maxes to be at 85-90+ I've found early bloomer surprisingly to be better in the long run with use of the 3 cap boosts in seasons 4, 5 and 6.

Slow build is the only way to get close to / hard capping some of the more annoying skills in the game that don't get very many + to the max other than highly expensive traits (power running I think is the #1 offender here)

If you are a specialty build only pumping 4 or 5 major stats, slow built is not the worst option in the world

keep in mind, the +10 to conditioning and +10 to heart as well, which lets you skim a bit on both confidence and stamina in your attribute allocation

its not so black and white

Originally posted by Laggo
Slow build is the only way to get close to / hard capping some of the more annoying skills in the game that don't get very many + to the max other than highly expensive traits (power running I think is the #1 offender here)



http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/player/63091

Maybe not a great build, but hits 100 without slowbuilt. Move some things around and you can have a good player, probably, and still have power running maxable with cap boosters.

First try on that build, by the way.

So it's stamina, I was trying to figure out what the third attribute was - I guess that makes sense (I think I thought it was agility)

But yeah, power running sucks to max because Confidence and Stamina are such questionable attributes to pump to that level, especially with workhorse around.

There is probably a better example somewhere than power running - but the point is that slow built isn't super terrible if your building around a minimal amount of attributes anyway. It does let you skimp on attributes in other areas and often times you end up negating that 5% sp penalty on the stats you planned to cap anyway with your other two traits.

Originally posted by Laggo
So it's stamina, I was trying to figure out what the third attribute was - I guess that makes sense (I think I thought it was agility)


See spreadsheet for figuring out what you need - http://glb2.warriorgeneral.com/game/forum/thread/5143965

Why have I never seen this?