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Skills you didn't realise you didn't have but that are extremely useful

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Victoria Sin
Doomheim
#1 - 2013-07-16 18:44:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Victoria Sin
So I'm flying around minding my own business, occasionally bursting my AB or MWD and thinking to myself, "sheesh, this ship is slow". Then just completely randomly I happen to see a skillbook called Acceleration Control. This is on a character from 2004!

Trained it up to level 4 pronto and now my toon is quite a bit quicker :).

Anyone else "forgot" about a skill?
Pavel Checkov
Council of Exiles
Brave Collective
#2 - 2013-07-16 20:12:07 UTC
Evasive Maneuvers got the best of me for a while before I realized there must have been SOME reason for me still having the slowest align times =[
Zhilia Mann
Tide Way Out Productions
#3 - 2013-07-16 20:25:17 UTC
I had 6mil in drones before I "discovered" Combat Drone Operation Oops
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#4 - 2013-07-16 22:29:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Tau Cabalander
I have two drone-boat alts.

They both are normally in identical PvE Rattlesnakes. I was rather surprised to discover one had slightly less EHP than the other. I thought they were identical. I realized it was a missing hardwiring, so I decide to upgrade all implants. Bought them all, and discovered one alt didn't have Cybernetics 5.

Recently put the alts in identical Dominix for PvP. I was rather surprised to discover same alt was significantly slower than the other. I thought they had identical skills. Turns out one alt didn't have Armor Honeycombing, nor Armor Rigging, nor any armor compensation skills trained for that matter. Oops.

Now if I could just think of something for the other alt to train.
Auduin Samson
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-07-17 05:14:29 UTC
Same as the OP. Got all the way into flying a Loki before realizing how pathetically slow my prop mods were.
RavenPaine
RaVeN Alliance
#6 - 2013-07-17 05:58:04 UTC
Same as Tau, I recently jump cloned and bought some +5's to speed along a skill I'm doing. Then realised I didn't have Cyber V.

My 'shortcut' ended up adding a day to the training Roll

This year I have misinterpreted several skill descriptions, or re-discovered what they do exactly. (Prop mod in fact)
Victoria Sin
Doomheim
#7 - 2013-07-17 08:59:47 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
Armor Honeycombing


????

OMG another one Cry
Mashie Saldana
V0LTA
OnlyFleets.
#8 - 2013-07-17 10:51:54 UTC
Victoria Sin wrote:
Tau Cabalander wrote:
Armor Honeycombing


????

OMG another one Cry

Well that one was recently added to the game though.

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CCP Falcon
#9 - 2013-07-17 11:36:07 UTC
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Boris The BulletDodger
Doomheim
#10 - 2013-07-17 13:42:10 UTC
People thinking the em/exp/kin/therm Shield Comp skills affect ACTIVE shield hardeners.
Vorll Minaaran
Centre Of Attention
#11 - 2013-07-17 13:49:44 UTC
Boris The BulletDodger wrote:
People thinking the em/exp/kin/therm Shield Comp skills affect ACTIVE shield hardeners.


You must be new here, earlier (Before Retribution 1.1) those skills granted small resist while the active shield hardener wasnt active.
Boris The BulletDodger
Doomheim
#12 - 2013-07-17 14:08:53 UTC
I know that buddy, I was around then. But I have had many discussions with people who still think this is true.
Vorll Minaaran
Centre Of Attention
#13 - 2013-07-17 14:57:14 UTC
Boris The BulletDodger wrote:
I know that buddy, I was around then. But I have had many discussions with people who still think this is true.


i think we're derailing this thread to "What ppl think useful skill, but is not..."
Lol
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#14 - 2013-07-17 15:20:29 UTC
Tau Cabalander wrote:
Armor Honeycombing

Which is only particularly useful if the combined mass of armor plates on the ship is a significant portion of the ship's fitted mass.

E.g. a Loki with two 1600mm T2 plates will benefit from this a lot more than a Megathron with the same.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Tsukino Stareine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#15 - 2013-07-17 16:20:53 UTC
yeah armour honeycombing doesnt actually do that much until you're adding at least 2 1600mm plates on your ship. Armour rigging in almost all cases will give you back more speed per level compared to honeycombing.

Also on topic: didnt know about security connections until I had like 280k LP with the corp I was doing mission for.

Art of Explosions
Arec Bardwin
#16 - 2013-07-17 21:20:35 UTC
Tactical Shield Manipulation 5 Roll
Tsukino Stareine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2013-07-18 03:55:09 UTC
Arec Bardwin wrote:
Tactical Shield Manipulation 5 Roll


you actually have that trained?

Art of Explosions
Cayrenne
State War Academy
Caldari State
#18 - 2013-07-18 09:08:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Cayrenne
Tsukino Stareine wrote:
Arec Bardwin wrote:
Tactical Shield Manipulation 5 Roll


you actually have that trained?


It used to be a prerequisite for Capital Shield Booster, until CCP changed it due to complaints of how terrible actually training it to V is.
Jasmine Assasin
The Holy Rollers
#19 - 2013-07-18 19:35:21 UTC
Had "every" missile skill, why my missile not go as far?

I had missile bombardment but forgot projection, whoops.

Missile slinging is much better now.
Ireland VonVicious
Vicious Trading Company
#20 - 2013-07-19 19:43:36 UTC
Threads like this remind me of why my training of every skill I can get my hands on to L2 is such a good idea. Blink
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