Skill Discussions

Are Amarr ships any good at all?

sorry im new to the game

Well....

If you train for Amarr ships, you're training is focused on three big things: The type of tank you'll need (armor, in the case of Amarr), Gunnery skills (for your lasers), and Capacitor skills (again, for your lasers).

So you've just knocked out everything you need for Gallente ships, including Drones if you took it to Cruisers. All you'd need is your racial weapon skill for Hybrids.

Oh hey, you've knocked out your skills for Minmatar, too, save for shield tanking and projectile-specific skills.

You can't go wrong training Amarr, and you have two other options available to you if you choose to switch that won't totally wreck your world like going Caldari would.

EDIT: And that's why the Caldari are the bastard spawns of Satan.

Minmatar are the current FOTM, train their ships.

Don't be sorry. One year from now, if you look at your SP (skill points), you'll still feel new to the game. The same 3 years from now.

As for Amarr ships being good, yes. Same goes for Gallente, Caldari or FOTM... I mean Minmatar. It all comes down to what you want to do in EVE and how is your play style.

The most important thing is to have fun in this game since SP, skill and knowledge will come to you in time. This is now a game where you get you goal now or in the near future. This is a game of patience where you always aim towards a specific thing while still keeping a broader picture in mind.

As for a new player, Amarr ships are decent. It all comes down to how the different ships work and what kind of skills they require in terms of both fitting ease and user friendliness.

I, personally, love Amarr. I fly Amarr and have done so since I managed to get some knowledge of the game. Plus... it's frigging lasers in a SciFi-ish game in space. It definitely fits.

EVE is all about the right tool (read as ship) for the right task. Yes, min-maxers will/might disagree, but in the bigger picture, it simply about the right ship at the right place and precisely at the right moment. Thus, over time, you may even cross-train to fly other races' ship simply because they are the right tools for you at that moment.

I don't think there is a bad race. I trained them all.

Amarr are the kings of armor, which means the bigger the ship the more likely the Amarr ships are at the top of the heap. However, heavily armored ships tend not to be ideal for small or fast combat.

About the only Amarr hulls that aren't stellar are their frigates, but one can still have a lot of fun in an autoCannon and energy neutralizer fitted Punisher.

Amarr are fine for new players, good, solid turrets in terms of optimal/tracking falloff that basically work under most conditions without obsessing about stats, simple, heavy tanks and an easy crosstrain into Gallente (or Minmatar) later if you decide you're bored.

Of course Amarrian ships are the best - they're the only ships truly capable of smiting heathens with holy purifying lasers.

Just make sure you train up your capacitor skills.

It's about to get even better.

I'm fine with the "winmatar" sentiment, but it's important to point out that this fact only applies for good to really good players who know what they are doing. It also must be underlined that this is for PvP mainly.

For new pilots, there are so many other factors that are more crucial to focus on than a slight imbalance in the "endgame" between the different factions' ships.

This game is fairly balanced as it is now, and for all newbies and semi-newbies, the winmatar-factor is not an issue. Not at all.

I'm pretty new myself, and I went for Amarr. You get to fire lazer beams and smite the heathens of the galaxy for the one true Empress. What more could you want?

I'll just echo what several other people have said and when you're new like us it largely depends on your taste of play style and what you think you look good flying in.