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I've been e-mailed a lot this season and I rarely get a chance to get back to anybody, so I just figured I'd post something up to help. I'm not the best at building a DE by any means, and I know that my stats come partially from playing gutted teams and not being on a USA pro team; however, I also know I don't have a BAD build by any means. I figured I'd share some of the things I've done in case anybody needs help.

Importance of Strength
This was my first DE build in GLB, and I guess I got lucky. I just did what made sense. You have to know your enemy with anything, and in this case a DE is going up against an OT. So...what makes an OT great? Strength and blocking. So knowing that off the bat, you need to get that strength up asap. Like, first thing you need to be doing is strength and stamina (for snaps). Two things I see a lot of people doing is wasting their SPs on Tackling and the skill tree. The skill tree isn't going to work if you don't have the skills to go behind it. You shouldn't even be worrying about your Tree until lvl 8 honeslty. So yeah, strength strength strength all day until the soft cap is over. By LVL 8 you need to buy some custom equipment and put either all 6 on strength or 3 strength/3 agility or 2/strength/2 agility/2 speed - NOTHING ELSE. This is where you can start feeding your tree. Get 1s all the way across except the Big Sack, that can come later. So you should be spending 4 points on your Pass Rusher Tree, then you should be using your custom equipment to boost your Containment (Run Stuffer) tree. I don't care if you're a pass rusher or not, the containment tree will help you immensely.
Goal by LVL20 - Strength in the 65-70 range; no more than 3's across Pass Rush Tree; 1's across Containment Abilities

Speed/Agility kills
Once you finish getting your strength up, you can tend to it still but start moving your SPs around a little more. This is where I started building my speed. Agility came last for me, but either is fine to start with. You need a good balance there. I don't want to encourage you to completely neglect Strength at this point because you have to figure that while your LVLing so is the rest of the league, including the OTs. With that being said, they are getting stronger and you're just getting faster. Find a balance there. Speed is so neglected, and that's why you see so many hurries and not enough sacks. It's frustrating, but if you add to speed you'll not only be able to execute but you'll find yourself racking up tackles and INTs (sometimes for scores) that you normally wouldn't have gotten. Agility is great, too, because it enables your DE to just break off of a block, get away from a lineman, and hit the edge with percision.
Goal by LVL20 - Speed AND Agility in the 45-50 range

What about tackling?
Your strength will help you tackle. You can train tackling, but I wouldn't recommend spending SPs on it. 25-30 is plenty for a DE. If you think you're going to get bowled over you can always change your advanced tactics to "wrap up" tackling, but a QB isn't going to shake you off when you go to bust him up.
Goal by LVL20 - Tackling in the 25-30 range

Vision
You've got to have good vision to know what the play is going to be. If it's a run play you want to be able to wrap the tackle up or go for the fumble. You've got to see that coming so it makes it easier for your LBs and safeties. Shutting plays down in the backfield is just as important to your team as bringing down the QB. Vision also seems to assist in finding holes and keeping with speedy, agile backs. You'll see a definite increase in productivity from your player with strong vision.
Goal by LVL20 - Vision in the 25-30 range

Blocking
I've never spent a single SP on blocking, but I do train on it frequently. I recommend doing it because it's an easy thing to bump on relaxed days. It apparently helps you shed blocks and you may even see a few snaps on the o-line. I've gotten a few pancakes this season, but as far as it making you a better pass rusher I'd believe it. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me, but do it anyway.
Goal by LVL20 - Blocking @ a "comfortable" 20

Always play on HARD, never use any of your equipment for anything other than Agility, Speed, or (most importantly) Strength, and forget about them stopping you. I hope this helps.

Deebo

What about stamina?

Also, I'm gonna have 30 points from boosting twice, should I put 10 on speed, 10 on agility, and 10 on strength, or should I just get one of them high, and move on to the next one.

start with strength then move on. Stamina kind of goes without saying, you know? You want to get into the 30s so you can stay the whole game.

I was thiking of getting stamina to about 20 after I train it to 15, and do the same with tackling and vision. Then when I boost this season and next season, put a lot in strength, then move on to agility, then speed.

I was thinking puttin 30 in strength or 15 in strength, 15 in agility, or 10 in speed, 10 in agility, 10 in strength.

I started with speed first and then I got strength and agility up. Now that you play against strong tackles that's not a very good idea. Also, I did that because I watched a lot of replays and I noticed that the low level tackles couldn't get out fast enough to guard my DE so I bumped the speed up to get around them fast. I'm not sure if it was because their agility was low or it was just flawed AI.

Just to add in, it's best to be RDE since you get more 1 on 1 match ups there. You probably won't need more than 50 speed but you could. 50 speed will get you sacks to be satisfied with.

If you want to be a good pass rusher and you are looking at which special abilities to go with. I have shed block and tunnel vision and it seems to be working out for me pretty well. I'm not suggesting that but you can experimenting with what you like. I know that what works for me will not work for all but this is at least some help. Hope I helped at least a little bit.

Ya it did thanks. I'm not gonna get speed up that high, however. Agility and strength are on the top of my to-do list. Speed will be raised 5 points every once in a while and I'll get it to 30 after I get strength and agility 50+.

I wanna get stamina to 20, tackling to 20, vision to 20, then pump up strength, agility, and speed. If I see I'm tiring out quickly or missing a lot of tackles (I will be on wrap up), then I'll add more points into there. For now, 20 is enough until I see I need more. I should have strength and agility up to 50+ around lvl 16 or 17. That's when I'll get speed up some more and work on stamina and tackling a little more then go back until I get strength and agility up to 60+ and add some SAs.

There you go, at least you are on the right road. 20 tackling should be enough, I forget what mine is at but it isn't over 30 and I miss barely any tackles.

Well if I get tackling, vision, and stamina to 20, that'll take 3 levels, so I'll be level 6.

Then I boost 3 times now, 3 times next season and put all 30 into strength making it 50+ and makes me level 12.

Then I'll boost up agility adn speed evenly, 5 to each one every level.

By level 20, I should have 50+ strength with 40+ agility and 30/40+ speed.

There you go, don't neglect special abilities though.

Thanks, it's very nice to hear from some productive DEs and have a little insight into what makes a good base for a DE. I recently boosted and used most of my SP on my special abilities, hopefully I can see some results and be able to say if it helped or not.

ive got +4 agil/+2 speed on 2 pieces of equipment, and my strength is only at 49 (at level 18). should i redo those 2 pieces into strength and put my custom equip (when i buy it) into strength?

should i put SP into strength after the soft 48 mark to try and get it to the 65+ range? or focus on speed the next 2 levels?(only at 35 atm)

Man I dunno if I should put all 30 into strength. If I do that, I'll be like level 11 or 12 with 55 strength, 20 tackling, 20 vision, 20 stamina, 19/20 speed, and 33 agility. Is that good for a level 11 or 12?

It really depends what route you are going to take. I took the speed route and jacked my speed up and then I tried to keep agility and strength about even. Now I'm trying to get strength up to support shed block even more.

Well If I have 30 points and my strength and agility is 30 and my speed is 18, I think it would better to put 10 in each and have 40 strength and agility and 28 speed at level 12. I think that's better than having 55 strength and 30 agility and 18 speed.