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I made a QB and have never built one before. To me they seem completely different from any other position, so I really have nothing to go on.

What attributes should I work on first? And what's the skinny on QB advanced tactics?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Soft cap Throwing and Vision first
Soft cap Confidence (train it while doing the first two)
Soft cap Strength (not as important as ^^^)


No fav target/long passes unless there's a mismatch.

EDIT: And your QB is Balthier . . . guy's a F'in badass.

What about Scramble Frequency, Dump Pass, and Throwing Style?

Also, Balthier is awesome.

None of the rushing tree skills are all that good. The most important skills are Tight Spiral, Pump Fake, Field General, and Pocket Presence. Tight Spiral should always be the focus, but depending on the team around you the value of Pump Fake, Field General, and Pocket Presence will vary. Depends on how fast your WRs, how solid your O-line is, and how well your entire offense is put together.

Otherwise do what Amerifunk said. I'd put scramble frequency to almost never, and throwing style depends on your strength. Low strength favors Bullet passing, while high strength works better with Medium. Lofty just turns you into a pick machine from my experience.

According to Bort medium passing style should work for most QBs. He also says that he put the various options in mostly for short passes like those to HBs or TEs or WRs running really short routes. Longer passes will require loft anyway and so are affected less by your choice.

Originally QBs were set to all throw on flatter trajectories similar to bullet style. Bort found that if he increased the angle to something more like what is now medium style then the completion percentages on those shorter passes went up because the ball was in the air longer and it gave players with lower receiving abilities (like HBs and TEs) more time to get in place to make the catch. It stayed that way until he released the advanced tactic options that allow each player to choose his style but again he claims the numbers show medium is probably your best bet (or he wouldn't have made every QB use the medium setting until the tactics were updated when they had been throwing bullets).

I could think of exceptions to that rule if you had some really good receiving HBs and TEs that could catch bullet passes without many drops or bobbles then you could probably get more YAC by hitting them with bullets that give the defender less time to react and move into position to make a tackle after the catch. But for a new QB that probably won't be the case.

I tend to set all my QB advanced tactics to their default 'normal/medium' settings with the exception of play intensity which I set to Hard, blocking which I set to + run (how often does a QB pass block?), and scrambling which I set to almost never. I experimented with turning up dump-off passes once and the result was no catches by a HB and 1 catch by a FB so I wasn't too impressed as I normally complete at least 2 or 3 to backs when on medium. For the record that same game I threw 4 INTs (almost half of the 9 total I threw all season) so it isn't like my receivers down field were wide open or anything. It is probably just a fluke but I haven't ever gone back and tried it again. something about having the worst game of my career against a big time rival just turned me off to it.