QB Abilities & Passing Type Combos

I want to see if anybody here is knowledgeable about this as I have done some testing on QB abilities. I am not included classic in these notes, only Placement, P&A (Placement and Accuracy), and Revamped.

• DOT - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Step Up - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Magician - Lights up on all throwing types.
• Off Platform - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Resistance - Does not light up at all, so likely working passively in the background. Can't measure when it kicks in though.

Basically, if you use P&A or Revamped like most, having Step Up or Dot does absolutely nothing. Everybody should use Magician. And you can use Resistance but you'll never know if its working. However, if you use Placement, you can get access to all of these abilities. 

If you are an EA Employee lurking around - this would be a great time to speak up as it seems too bad to be true that Revamped passing kills the best QB abilities.

Has anybody seen evidence of the contrary? Anybody have clips of Dot/Step Up activating on Revamped or P&A? Does anybody have further explanation on how these work and when?

Resistance is the college version of Maddens fearless and gutsy scrambler. I would use it regardless if it by some glitch isnt activating properly. I've been rocking the free Coke zero Cam Ward with bronze mobile deadeye his release is so good I can't find a way to bench him.

Hhtmarks said:

Resistance is the college version of Maddens fearless and gutsy scrambler. I would use it regardless if it by some glitch isnt activating properly. I've been rocking the free Coke zero Cam Ward with bronze mobile deadeye his release is so good I can't find a way to bench him.

Same with me.  Mobile dead eye & magician.  I just can't quit him.  The only weaknesses are the 80 TGH and he tends to fumble if you get caught in the middle of a slide animation.  If I can't get down quick enough, I've found it's actually better to let him take the hit and try to break the first tackle.  If he gets too beat up, I sub in Milroe as my Plan B.

jabgawd said:

I want to see if anybody here is knowledgeable about this as I have done some testing on QB abilities. I am not included classic in these notes, only Placement, P&A (Placement and Accuracy), and Revamped.

• DOT - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Step Up - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Magician - Lights up on all throwing types.
• Off Platform - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Resistance - Does not light up at all, so likely working passively in the background. Can't measure when it kicks in though.

Basically, if you use P&A or Revamped like most, having Step Up or Dot does absolutely nothing. Everybody should use Magician. And you can use Resistance but you'll never know if its working. However, if you use Placement, you can get access to all of these abilities. 

If you are an EA Employee lurking around - this would be a great time to speak up as it seems too bad to be true that Revamped passing kills the best QB abilities.

Has anybody seen evidence of the contrary? Anybody have clips of Dot/Step Up activating on Revamped or P&A? Does anybody have further explanation on how these work and when?

Great info, I haven't seen anyone do something like this test on here. I use P&A now but I'm a pocket passer and use Dot & Step up so I think I'll try to switch over to Placement only. Any tips for using that setting rather than P&A? Any suggested settings, speed, do I use L2 or the stick to pass lead still? I've never used it before so I'm not sure. Thanks!

CogZoom said:

Same with me.  Mobile dead eye & magician.  I just can't quit him.  The only weaknesses are the 80 TGH and he tends to fumble if you get caught in the middle of a slide animation.  If I can't get down quick enough, I've found it's actually better to let him take the hit and try to break the first tackle.  If he gets too beat up, I sub in Milroe as my Plan B.

Serious question, but why the Coke Zero Cam Ward and not the Heisman Hopeful version? Stat wise he hits 90 on a bunch more stats and I would assume he has the same release right?

Only using Workhorse and Magician on my QB. Anything else is a waste.

blakedeboer3 said:

Serious question, but why the Coke Zero Cam Ward and not the Heisman Hopeful version? Stat wise he hits 90 on a bunch more stats and I would assume he has the same release right?

I have the Heisman Hopeful version.

Yeah Exceptionally Asstastic employee here, you are absolutely correct.

fr Placement is the way of the samurai now, they massacred p&a

jabgawd said:

I want to see if anybody here is knowledgeable about this as I have done some testing on QB abilities. I am not included classic in these notes, only Placement, P&A (Placement and Accuracy), and Revamped.

• DOT - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Step Up - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Magician - Lights up on all throwing types.
• Off Platform - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Resistance - Does not light up at all, so likely working passively in the background. Can't measure when it kicks in though.

Basically, if you use P&A or Revamped like most, having Step Up or Dot does absolutely nothing. Everybody should use Magician. And you can use Resistance but you'll never know if its working. However, if you use Placement, you can get access to all of these abilities. 

If you are an EA Employee lurking around - this would be a great time to speak up as it seems too bad to be true that Revamped passing kills the best QB abilities.

Has anybody seen evidence of the contrary? Anybody have clips of Dot/Step Up activating on Revamped or P&A? Does anybody have further explanation on how these work and when?

I watch a video a while back on this topic, believe his name is zan, but he pretty much states and shows exactly what you have. but only for dot and step up. I don't believe he touched on any other qb abilities in the video, but pretty much if you not using placement settings those abilities do absolutely nothing. good for you to test on your own though. I like many when I was still playing(quit cause of DDA interference) I used both dot/stepup combo and believed it was working and helping my passing like it should as it states just to find out from a random video it was just a placebo effect as there were many times I was in a clean pocket and all of a sudden my qb starts throwing guys wide with them wide open as well. an since it dont work you realize that you are literally wasting AP using them while you could have put them into other more worthwhile ones. either way hope yall are enjoying what you can from this game. it's unfortunate that this will become a madden clone with more teams and different abilities. I did truly enjoy it for a moment though just couldn't find a reason to keep going with all the problems have been popping up the further down the road we got.

kingsanti said:

I watch a video a while back on this topic, believe his name is zan, but he pretty much states and shows exactly what you have. but only for dot and step up. I don't believe he touched on any other qb abilities in the video, but pretty much if you not using placement settings those abilities do absolutely nothing. good for you to test on your own though. I like many when I was still playing(quit cause of DDA interference) I used both dot/stepup combo and believed it was working and helping my passing like it should as it states just to find out from a random video it was just a placebo effect as there were many times I was in a clean pocket and all of a sudden my qb starts throwing guys wide with them wide open as well. an since it dont work you realize that you are literally wasting AP using them while you could have put them into other more worthwhile ones. either way hope yall are enjoying what you can from this game. it's unfortunate that this will become a madden clone with more teams and different abilities. I did truly enjoy it for a moment though just couldn't find a reason to keep going with all the problems have been popping up the further down the road we got.

I did not know about the abilities not working but makes sense but as far as the DDA goes I completely agree with you and I've almost quit several times and still might and you're also correct on the further we go the more problems and the more it feels like Madden which makes me not wanna play so I feel your pain 💯 bro thank you for the info from you and the person who made this post it's much appreciated

jabgawd said:

I want to see if anybody here is knowledgeable about this as I have done some testing on QB abilities. I am not included classic in these notes, only Placement, P&A (Placement and Accuracy), and Revamped.

• DOT - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Step Up - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Magician - Lights up on all throwing types.
• Off Platform - Lights up on Placement ONLY. Not P&A or Revamped.
• Resistance - Does not light up at all, so likely working passively in the background. Can't measure when it kicks in though.

Basically, if you use P&A or Revamped like most, having Step Up or Dot does absolutely nothing. Everybody should use Magician. And you can use Resistance but you'll never know if its working. However, if you use Placement, you can get access to all of these abilities. 

If you are an EA Employee lurking around - this would be a great time to speak up as it seems too bad to be true that Revamped passing kills the best QB abilities.

Has anybody seen evidence of the contrary? Anybody have clips of Dot/Step Up activating on Revamped or P&A? Does anybody have further explanation on how these work and when?

Thank you very much for your dedication to doing this I appreciate the info as I did not know this

Great post, well appreciated.

now I am gonna switch to placement. Thx 4 the heads up

A little late on this but does the same go for classic?

Thanks for taking some time to put this together. Definitely going to be keeping tabs here to get some more insigh.