Warrior General Games

I'm just starting a guard, and was wondering when I should boost confidence. Everything I read says str then blocking then agility and speed. Wouldn't it be beneficial to pump confidence early to get the natural bonus?

If you eventually feel like confidence > 50 (or even >60) is a good idea, then do it after you have finished Str/Blk.

That's what I did

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I'll let it level up in the 2:1 range now up to 55 ish, and then take it to 61 after that with SP. Will probably reach around 64 eventually, which seems like a reasonable value to me.

Many people don't value confidence though so to them there is no point in getting it this high.

I would suggest after agility and vision, but that's just what I would do. I agree with mandyross that confidence is a lot more important than most people give it credit for, but I don't think it's worth capping 3rd after strength and blocking.

It's not that confidence is undervalued, it's that other attributes are valued higher. Would you rather have 73 agility, 60 confidence and 40 speed or have 73 agility, 60 speed and 40 confidence? Personally, I'd rather have the higher speed for any OL position besides maybe center (even then it'd be a tough call). Overall, I like to train confidence until I have my other attributes where I need them, then I'll put SP into it.

Between line general and motivational speaker, confidence can take a bit of a secondary importance role TBPH.

I went strength blocking agility then confidence. Then vision and finally speed. I think if I remember correct I actually went confidence around level 26ish. So I did not finish agility yet but had at least capped it once. I agree with capping confidence early because of the level gains. I would aim for level 22ish.

Currently I am training vision/confidence while they are both at the 1st cap. I am about to finish taking speed to 50. Then I will train speed and stamina while taking vision to 61. The funny thing is that due to training and level gains confidence should reach 60 when my vision is 61.

Thats my experience with confidence for a G. I like it because my level 39 LG blocks lots of level 50+ DTs. I feel it helps. I could be wrong.

Here's the thing about confidence and high gains for a G


- high gains doesn't mean you get good value by capping early and letting it ride to 60, unless you think getting that high is actually worth something

- high gains means you want to train as early as possible

- high gains can mean you never need to even spend SP if you only want mid 40s



Here is what I recommend:


RG and LG: train after str/blk, until conf is 34
RG: let it ride the rest of your career, consider capping in the level 38-46 range (5 SP needed maybe)
LG: cap immediately after conf hits 34