Ships & Modules

I'm going to be out of town for almost a month and figured it might be a good time to train a BS skill to lvl 5. I thought it might be a good idea to ask around for different opinions before I make my own decision. It generally takes less than a week to go from zero racial ship skills to BS 4, so given pretty solid core skills it seems like the only factors to take into consideration would be what kind of ships you want to fly and what your favorite gun (or missile) skills are.

So like the thread title says: if you could pick one BS skill to train to 5, which one would it be and why?

Again, just curious to hear some different opinions.

Thanks

Gallente is probably the wisest choice with Machariel and Vindicator both stemming from that. Personally, I'd take Amarr BS V though because like to train shiny things I'll never use.

Not really a good question because my reasons for BS V are probably completely different than yours. Not so long ago I trained gallente BS V to max out my sentry domi for null anoms. Right now I have no need for flying battleships so any race I would choose now would be totally because I need long term skill for being offline or I have nothing else to train for things I am flying or "just because".

Just train whichever you fly most or whichever will be most relevant to your activities after getting back.

I already have Amarr BS 5, so the next one I'd probably get is Gallente because of all the ships already mentioned here.

Not really into Caldari BS at all, don't use missiles and ECM is not really interesting for me. Minmatar comes close enough behind Gallente, but I'd rather have max drone/blaster ships before AC these days. I also got better drone skills so more natural with Gallente on top of Amarr.

I've actually been asking myself the same question as the OP recently, I have all the different large weapons to T2, as well as perfect gunnery and missiles but all my BS skills at IV. I finally decided to take Minmatar BS to V mainly because it has a nice versatile lineup, Tempest for armor BS with utility, Maelstrom for shield BS, Typhoon for massive dps missileboat (either shield or armor), Panther is 2nd best BLOPS, and Vargur is arguably one of the best Marauders. Gallente is actually very solid as well but I mainly chose Minmatar because the Sin and Kronos are a little lackluster compared to Minmatar options.

For this character, I'd say none. Cruiser-sized hulls are the max.

For my main, all of them (when I resub him). Just because.

If I had to do it all again, I'd stick to one race and max those ship types. So, Gallente.

I have them all trained to V, so that is my answer...

It really depends on what you want to do with the BS. Will it be a stepping stone to capitals? Marauders? Will you only ever use Tech 1 BS (at least for the foreseeable future?)
PvE?
PvP?
Low-sec?
High-sec?
Null?
WH?

We really need more info, but with a few generality I'll say:

For Tech 1 BS, I would say Minmatar. You get missiles, projectiles, armor, shield, drones. Phoon fleet Issue is the highest missile DPS ship in the game for PVE, and can fly a full flight of sentries to boot.
All 3 ships are good for PvP.

For Tech 2, Paladin is my favorite, Golem a close second. (never used Blops)

For capitals, with the new drone mods I would say Chimera for PvE, and even small gang PvP. Archon for huge armor fleets.
(I personally don't get what is with the stigma surrounding Carriers for PvE, they are cheaper to replace than Marauders or pirate BS and I've never heard of an alliance banning their PvE use....)

But really, we need more Info

EDIT: I forgot about capitals not requiring BS V anymore... so scratch that.

depends, now i go with the incursion view.

amarr bs 5 when u go the laser way and want to armor tank (Navy Apoc or Paladin).
caldari bs 5 when u go the laser way and want to shield tank (nightmare).
minmatar bs 5 when u go the blaster way or projectile way (vindicator web bonus, mach damage bonus)
gallente bs 5 for vindi and mach better damage application

Battleship skills? Caldari V or Amarr V.

Just because my personal favourites are Golem, Paladin, Widow and Redeemer.

But honestly, just train what you like, then if it gets changed by CCP into something you don't want to use, you at least can enjoy the ship spinning. Never train into something you can't stand the look of, would be my advice in a nutshell.

Ok, more info as requested:

Right now I have Amarr and Gallente BS trained to 4, but don't have t2 guns for anything. I have very high level drone skills and generally use an ishtar and/or dominix for pve (WH's usually these days). I'm interested in getting into incursions more than using a BS for pvp. I don't think you need BS trained to 5 to fly capital ships anymore, so that's not really a consideration.


I'm really open to different ideas though, which was kindof why I put this out there. Just to hear why people might have gone the direction they did or which way they would like to go.
Thoughts?