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I am slow building this TE with my goal for him to be a physical speciment, IE ridiculous strength, agility and speed that are roughly on a 1:1:1 ratio.

This is my first slow build so any advice is welcome:
My plan is to get all of the major att's soft capped first, then going for the minor abilities after that. If I do this, I can take max advantage of natrual level up bonuses right?

Once I have Stregth, visions, blocking, speed and agility soft capped, I am going to go heavy on only Speed, agility and strength.

Fuck catching, I will get my catching up to 40 or so and leave it there forever. Catching is for squares.

I will try and keep this thread as up to date as possible with his progress in hopes that this can be educational and maybe help someone out as so many threads like this have done for me.

Queef Gentry
Ht/Wt: 6'1", 243lbs

Attributes
Physical Attributes
Strength: 49
Speed: 14.68
Agility: 16.68
Jumping: 9
Stamina: 10.68
Vision: 18
Confidence: 10.68

Football Skills
Blocking: 16
Catching: 15
Tackling: 10.68
Throwing: 8
Carrying: 10.68
Kicking: 9
Punting: 9

Softcapped strength today.

After that will be blocking or Vision. Right now I am daily training Speed and Agility to a 1:1 ratio.



Major: Strength (Soft Capped), Blocking, Catching, Vision (Next to Soft Cap)
Minor: Agility & Speed (Training Daily), Confidence, Carrying, Stamina, Tackling

hmm, I think you'd be better off trading vision for catching. you just don't it all that high, especially if you are going for a lots of physical attributes. even if you don't want to add anything to catching, I wouldn't invest to heavily in vision - whats your rationale here? Otherwise seems like a good idea

remember that catching not only reduces drops, but also lets you catch off target passes and increases the chance the QB will throw the ball your way. soft-capped catching earlier in a TE career means hes never got to touch it again, imo

Thanks for the input.

I've just never been a big fan of catching. As long as it is a reasonable amount, I would say around 40-48 vs. 60+, I can't tell the difference...at least with WR's anyway. Vision however, I have always felt was underated. It helps in blocking, route running, and running after the catch.

Like I said though, this is my first TE, so some of you TE Vets probably know much more than me.

I'm not the biggest fan of catching either, I think soft capped is really all you need - TE get .5 to catching at level up though so it makes it a decent choice to soft cap early. I'm also not the biggest fan of vision, you need some for sure but with mine at 40 I don;t see myself having raise it except through training.

Obviously you are concentrating on a lot of skills, but I'm not sure by focusing on all those you will actually accomplish your goal of ridiculously high physical attributes. I think you be better off placing less of an emphasis on vision as well as catching.

Personally, I think i would keep blocking lower too- maybe to soft cap if you really want it that far. I think you'll be just fine blocking with very high STR, AGL, and blocking around 40. Its pretty easy to get there quickly even with minimal SP investment. Again, that's just me, but since your going to focus on your speed, strength, and agility your probably better off leaning receiving.

the only reason to up catching is if your having a lot of drops against evenly matched teams.

otherwise, yeah.. 30-40 is fine , but otherwise nothing wrong with 1'st capping it . I havent had a drop on mine since I capped it.

Originally posted by gtthom86
I'm not the biggest fan of catching either, I think soft capped is really all you need - TE get .5 to catching at level up though so it makes it a decent choice to soft cap early. I'm also not the biggest fan of vision, you need some for sure but with mine at 40 I don;t see myself having raise it except through training.

Obviously you are concentrating on a lot of skills, but I'm not sure by focusing on all those you will actually accomplish your goal of ridiculously high physical attributes. I think you be better off placing less of an emphasis on vision as well as catching.

Personally, I think i would keep blocking lower too- maybe to soft cap if you really want it that far. I think you'll be just fine blocking with very high STR, AGL, and blocking around 40. Its pretty easy to get there quickly even with minimal SP investment. Again, that's just me, but since your going to focus on your speed, strength, and agility your probably better off leaning receiving.

I like this idea.If anything had to suffer, I'd probably go with those.

Queef is suiting up for his first game as a starter in 30 minutes. Soft capped strength and then catching. Should be interesting to see how he fairs as he's been a pancake machine against weak linebackers so far. I am going to defy all logic and cap agility next and then speed. After strength speed and agility are all capped, I will start going 1:1:1 in them with each level.

I expect Queef to be mainly a blocker early in the season getting a few catches and breaking a few tackles for some decent YAC if he can outrun anyone. He should mature into a decent receiving option by seasons end and be a stud midway through next season.



Attributes
Physical Attributes
Strength: 54
Speed: 22.02
Agility: 22.02
Jumping: 9
Stamina: 21.02
Vision: 22
Confidence: 12.02

Football Skills
Blocking: 20
Catching: 50
Tackling: 12.02
Throwing: 8
Carrying: 12.02
Kicking: 9
Punting: 9

Special Abilities
Blocking Abilities
Run Block: 0
Pass Block: 0
Hands: 0
Get Low: 0
Pancake: 0

Receiving Abilities
Route Running: 0
Sticky Hands: 0
Quick Cut: 0
Cover Up: 0
Lower the Shoulder: 0

Queef is starting to come full circle. Unless the sim gets screwy in coming seasons, he's about right where I want him to be. This is where he'll be starting at this season. I'll be capping speed at next level up and then training intensely on jumping/agility. Next level ups will go towards getting speed at 1:1 with strength and then working on catching agility up while also getting jumping up there. I think I might even go so far as to run agility, speed, strength, jumping at 1:1:1:.075(jumping)

As some of you may have noticed, I pretty significantly changes plans and went high on catching via equipment after first capping it. This is only temporary and i will be working on another set of equipment as well in hopes of having situational equipment though I know the jury is still out on that.

Queeff's goal for this season: 40 pancakes, 50 receptions, 600 yards


Attributes
Physical Attributes
Strength: 57
Speed: 46.37
Agility: 31.37
Jumping: 11
Stamina: 22.37
Vision: 50
Confidence: 13.37

Football Skills
Blocking: 24
Catching: 70
Tackling: 13.37
Throwing: 8
Carrying: 13.37
Kicking: 9
Punting: 9

Special Abilities
Blocking Abilities
Run Block: 0
Pass Block: 0
Hands: 0
Get Low: 0
Pancake: 0

Receiving Abilities
Route Running: 1
Sticky Hands: 3
Quick Cut: 1
Cover Up: 1
Lower the Shoulder: 1

this has inspired me to make a str based TE. if I can get lucky around lvl 30 and find a piece of AEQ with power thru SA and put a lot of points into that and lower shoulder he might be an interesting build for a team with that in mind.
I plan on capping str first, then speed, the 2'nd capping strength and then agility while training vision/catching/carrying. then second cap spd, then 3'rd cap str.

Originally posted by ericb45696
this has inspired me to make a str based TE. if I can get lucky around lvl 30 and find a piece of AEQ with power thru SA and put a lot of points into that and lower shoulder he might be an interesting build for a team with that in mind.
I plan on capping str first, then speed, the 2'nd capping strength and then agility while training vision/catching/carrying. then second cap spd, then 3'rd cap str.



This is where I am heading as well. My TE is level 4. Softcapped catching, training agility and vision. Vision to the first cap, double cap agility training some speed, then finally strength with some blocking.

I know it's going to be tough but I want the same AEs. How about a dive for yards AE?

I am pretty sold on capping catching and strength first for TE's. You end up getting several more points due to automatic level increases. Sure they won't do much for you without the speed/agility at first, but once you get speed/agility up there too, you just got several free points.


It is a bitch to find any decent AE. I want some agility or strength equipment with SA's for Queef and have had zero luck at finding any while wasting upwards of 25 shopping tokens. I finally just settled on the catching one because it's been one of the only TE related pieces with a SA perk.

Originally posted by barbelith

This is where I am heading as well. My TE is level 4.


I don't see that you have a LVL 4 TE? :shrug:

Originally posted by bgdave
I am pretty sold on capping catching and strength first for TE's. You end up getting several more points due to automatic level increases. Sure they won't do much for you without the speed/agility at first, but once you get speed/agility up there too, you just got several free points.



...think I'm going opposite with the majors and do vision and catching...then fold back the other way.