For a LB not putting any points into SAs, there are only about 6 places where you want to upgrade.
These six would be Strength Speed Agility Vision Confidence and Tackling
Also of lesser importance would be jumping and catching (these would take daily training every once in a while, but not regular training). They also get .25 points for each level you go up.
Stamina is pretty important, but I've found that the best way is to get Stamina up to the 25-30 range very early on, and then to just let the .33 at each level be your only points in it.
Given that you have 6 places where you want to improve, what's the best ratio of daily training to skill point upgrades for fulfilling these?
Obviously, the skills where you are higher (not counting an equipment boost to one category) are the ones you want to use for SPs, and the ones where you are lower are the ones you want to use for daily training.
The way you want to emphasize stats will affect how you split it up.
Option 1: If you focus on one category and do daily training for the other 5, you get that one category up near its soft cap probably by level 10 or 12.
Option 2: If you really want to focus on 2 categories, you'd choose 4 for daily training, and put SP upgrades into those two categories. The soft cap won't come into play until level 16 or 18 for the two you focus on.
Option 3: If you focus on 3 categories, you'd split it up half and half, and the SP upgrading 3 would grow faster than the 3 you have daily training on. They would not grow too much faster than the daily training, and you wouldn't become too unbalanced. This seems like probably the best option.
If you do daily training in just 2 categories, and SP upgrades split among 4 categories, which type of category will grow faster? They'd be so close, that it seems kind of a waste. This doesn't really seem like a viable option here. Am I right?
Until you near the soft cap, there's no reason to keep your categories that are using SP points anywhere near even with each other.
However, the way training works, makes it seem like you should keep the 3-5 that you do not use SP upgrades on at least fairly close to each other. That way the auto-assigned points for upgrading will equate to the most amount of training. If you let one category really lag, it'll still get points from the leveling up, points which cost the least amount of daily training to you. When you finally focus on it later, you'll have wasted a bit of training by letting it fall so far behind.
If you choose to focus on Special Abilities, then that merely makes it seven things to focus on, one of which can only be done through SP upgrades.
You can still do the same three options as above, but with a 2-5 3-4 or 4-3 split for SP focus versus daily training focus. I can't see putting all 5 Skill Points into Special Abilities being a long term strategy (short term it can be fine, but after a few times putting 5 SPs into Special Abilities, your other stats suffer too much).
So among the 3 options of having 5, 4, or 3 categories for daily training, and 1, 2, or 3 categories (plus SAs if you so desire) for SP upgrades, which one makes the most sense?
These six would be Strength Speed Agility Vision Confidence and Tackling
Also of lesser importance would be jumping and catching (these would take daily training every once in a while, but not regular training). They also get .25 points for each level you go up.
Stamina is pretty important, but I've found that the best way is to get Stamina up to the 25-30 range very early on, and then to just let the .33 at each level be your only points in it.
Given that you have 6 places where you want to improve, what's the best ratio of daily training to skill point upgrades for fulfilling these?
Obviously, the skills where you are higher (not counting an equipment boost to one category) are the ones you want to use for SPs, and the ones where you are lower are the ones you want to use for daily training.
The way you want to emphasize stats will affect how you split it up.
Option 1: If you focus on one category and do daily training for the other 5, you get that one category up near its soft cap probably by level 10 or 12.
Option 2: If you really want to focus on 2 categories, you'd choose 4 for daily training, and put SP upgrades into those two categories. The soft cap won't come into play until level 16 or 18 for the two you focus on.
Option 3: If you focus on 3 categories, you'd split it up half and half, and the SP upgrading 3 would grow faster than the 3 you have daily training on. They would not grow too much faster than the daily training, and you wouldn't become too unbalanced. This seems like probably the best option.
If you do daily training in just 2 categories, and SP upgrades split among 4 categories, which type of category will grow faster? They'd be so close, that it seems kind of a waste. This doesn't really seem like a viable option here. Am I right?
Until you near the soft cap, there's no reason to keep your categories that are using SP points anywhere near even with each other.
However, the way training works, makes it seem like you should keep the 3-5 that you do not use SP upgrades on at least fairly close to each other. That way the auto-assigned points for upgrading will equate to the most amount of training. If you let one category really lag, it'll still get points from the leveling up, points which cost the least amount of daily training to you. When you finally focus on it later, you'll have wasted a bit of training by letting it fall so far behind.
If you choose to focus on Special Abilities, then that merely makes it seven things to focus on, one of which can only be done through SP upgrades.
You can still do the same three options as above, but with a 2-5 3-4 or 4-3 split for SP focus versus daily training focus. I can't see putting all 5 Skill Points into Special Abilities being a long term strategy (short term it can be fine, but after a few times putting 5 SPs into Special Abilities, your other stats suffer too much).
So among the 3 options of having 5, 4, or 3 categories for daily training, and 1, 2, or 3 categories (plus SAs if you so desire) for SP upgrades, which one makes the most sense?
Last edited Jul 17, 2008 15:57:54
