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Ravenwood
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For strength-based Gs and Cs, it's pretty straight-forward - concentrate all equipment points into Strength.

But what should you do for a pass-blocking OT who is working on attributes in the following order - Agility-Blocking-Vision-Strength ?

Do you still concentrate the points in Strength, or do you split them up? Or do you concentrate them in some other attribute?
 
Forbin
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Back when I used to know how to build O-line, many seasons ago, it was useful to throw a few EQ points into agility to get it up there. Probably still the case, considering Technique Man could come into play even at RT.
 
tvhs96
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I'm curious about this as well.
 
Homage
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depends on the position... LT or RT.

LT probably wants 110+ agility and the rest in strength.
 
AngryDragon
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I have a bunch of young pass blocking OTs.

Her is my simple plan for better or worse.

I took agility to 74 with 99% training first. This should end the build with 90 agility at level 72. I then took blocking to 74 with 99% training. This should land me at around 85ish by level 72. I am now working to take strength to 77 with 99% training and will put all EQ into strength.

My team only passes every game all game long. So far so good.
Edited by AngryDragon on Apr 26, 2011 23:46:07
 
RisingChaos
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Might as well push AGI / BLK to 77 instead, unless you're planning on multi-capping all minors or investing in too many of the OL's laughable set of SAs.

At any rate, even a Pass Block archetype should invest most of their gear in STR. At best you'll want enough AGI to shut down an Agility DE's Technique Man, which you should be able to do with 1-2 pieces of gear depending how high you cap your own Agility. The rest needs to go into STR so you don't get rolled too badly by a Strength DE and get some push in the running game.

I think. I mean, who ever really knows with GLB?
 
Ravenwood
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What I was thinking was to get their Agility to the 6th cap (81) natural, by L18. Via training, it should be possible to get a pass-blocking OT's Agility to 90 natural by L33, which means he'll finish his career at 100 natural Agility. If so, I'm thinking it would be worthwhile keeping all the equipment points in Strength.

I've noticed that OTs don't need nearly as much Strength as Gs and Cs do, in order to get tons of pancakes. Probably has to do with all the Agility-based DEs out there.
 
Homage
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Originally posted by Ravenwood
What I was thinking was to get their Agility to the 6th cap (81) natural, by L18. Via training, it should be possible to get a pass-blocking OT's Agility to 90 natural by L33, which means he'll finish his career at 100 natural Agility. If so, I'm thinking it would be worthwhile keeping all the equipment points in Strength.

I've noticed that OTs don't need nearly as much Strength as Gs and Cs do, in order to get tons of pancakes. Probably has to do with all the Agility-based DEs out there.


you can get there sooner than lvl 18. And all of my O-linemen will end up with 98 natural agility end game.
 
RisingChaos
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Sounds about right to me, I just boosted my new OT to Lv15 for the offseason and 5th-capped his AGI (with 10 SP left over). You can't convert all your BT to SP, gotta get your enhanced training for BLK and work on opening attributes for multi-training.
 


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