For those that play ultimate team - How do you get to the point where you can do the 86+ rated squad builders? Do you basically have to buy coins?
I have been playing consistently since the start and get decent rewards from rivals and the other mode every week, but you need about 100k coins just to do a SBC of that level.
Never buy coins, not worth it, pack weight is awful and you'll be giving EA more than they deserve. You can get a decent team through rewards and objectives. Plus a lot of the gold players are a lot cheaper than previous years, something is weird about the FUT market this year.
The game is basically an investment game. I've just finished Salah POTM without spending any coins, just through using my 'investments'. Playing from release I don't tend to buy players off the market for my team, just use the best untradeable players I have and I spent all my coins on players for investment. Sounds really sad I know! But I bought lots of modric, kroos, benzema, verratti etc - high rated players which were very cheap. Modric was bought for 7.5k... He's now selling for 21k... so you can see the profit. I used all mine doing the Salah sbc, but a lot of people would just sell and buy players they want. I don't have a clue what to do now, but I know from previous fifas that picking up an 88 rated Kroos for about 9k was ridiculous value so I just spent all my coins on that, especially when I seen Salah was due a POTM.
Aside from investing, by far the best rewards come from Weekend league, which i appreciate from other forums, not everyone can get through the playoffs to try. Once you
do get through the playoffs, the actual WL is a lot easier than last year, and if you play Sunday night you will get 3+ games gifted to you. I was 8/2 in the weekend league and jumped on yesterday to give away remaining games, and the first two people gave me wins, so I was on 10 and just played to 12 wins. I don't touch squad battles, play rivals coop with my mate to get 7 wins, only really play WL which is handy as the rewards for this mode dwarf the others. Rank 2 WL gives ridiculous packs and 60k, 3 red player picks. But even 8 wins in this mode which most will achieve give really good rewards..
I am really enjoying the game this year mind but know each fifa is like marmite for some people. I much prefer this years to the last few that I have tried, but whether that is due to mainly playing it coop with my mate or due to the gameplay I'm not sure. Still early in the cycle though and I've not noticed any glitches going against me or anything.