Skill Discussions

It's a hard question to answer, you could keep training int/mem skills for MANY months still. How many you should train depends on how much time you're willing to invest, and what you're planning to do

I could say
Remote Rep/Shield Xfer/Hull Rep V
Graviton Physics IV
Probing Skills IV
Rigging Skills IV
EW Skills IV
Propulsion Jamming V
Navigation Skills V
Thermodynamics V
T2 Scout/Heavy/Sentry Drones
Combat Drone Ops IV
Drone Interfacing V
EW Drones/Drone Sharpshooting/Durability/Naviation IV
Logi Drones V
Nanite Control/Neurotoxing Recovery IV

and I wouldn't be "wrong" but you probably wouldn't want to spend that much time training support skills before remapping.

I myself am on my verge to remapping perc/will, but I have a 45ish day plan left before I do so. What I did was add Core Competency Elite, figure out which ships/fits I'd like to learn to fly during the next year of perc/will and get every related skill int/mem to at least IV

It really depends on the rig in question. T2, say, trimarks are pretty horrible and rarely needed. But large T2 EDEs open up lots of possibilities for not too much money. If it were me, I'd take a long, hard look at individual rigging skills and almost certainly take a few up to 4.

Bah. Forum ate a longer post, but the bottom line takeaways of what I'm not going to re-write:

1) Weapon rigging skills can and should be considered fitting skills. Each level you train will open up new fitting options, and that's a good thing. If you're considering training AWU to 5, you should very well better have weapon rigging skills to 4.

3) T2 Burst Aerators and Collision Accelerators give more benefit than even faction damage mods. Consider using them.

2) It's your character; train him as you will. I'd personally take the rigging skills to 4 and consider 5 for the ones I use most often, but I apparently have a masochistic ability to stay on a remap far longer than most. Going on 2.5 years of per/will now....

Immediate thoughts :

1) You have no cyno skill at all (Cyno 5 for covert cynos);
2) You have no ability to use interdictors (Prop jamming 5, Graviton Physics 1 - or 4 for hictor);
3) Cloaking 5 is pretty important if you intend flying recons a lot, not so if you don't

Don't think of it like that though you are not taking it to IV or V for T2, You are taking it there for reduction in penalties.


Also depending on what your remapping even if your going amarr/minmatar (amarr use drones quite heavily) I suggest you give your drone skills a once over, T2 small and heavy are very easily achieveable and depending on your remap you may be shooting yourself in the foot if you don't get them out of the way with now.

Just shy of four years, it seems. 1.2 million SP and still going strong.

Anyhow, I give you the hellcat, the textbook use of EDE IIs:

[Abaddon, Abaddon: Hellcat Abbadon]
Damage Control II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Reactive Plating II

Quad LiF Fueled I Booster Rockets
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range
Tracking Computer II, Optimal Range
Heavy Capacitor Booster II, Cap Booster 800

Mega Pulse Laser II, Scorch L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Scorch L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Scorch L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Scorch L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Scorch L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Scorch L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Scorch L
Mega Pulse Laser II, Scorch L

Large Anti-Kinetic Pump I
Large Energy Discharge Elutriation II
Large Energy Discharge Elutriation II

The logic here is simple: you want to maximize the number of shots you get out of each booster instead of maximizing your cap regeneration/life/whatever. And this is the way to do it.

Went ahead and took the advice of training some rigging skills to 4. What I'm torn up about right now is whether I should lay the groundwork for eventually training (heavy) interdictors by going for prop jamming V and graviton physics IV. It seems that they are only useful if you are in nullsec corp, which I have no idea whether that will eventually happen. Even if I do join one, there are still plenty of other roles I'll be able to fill. OTOH, they might be the only T2 ships I would not be able to train.

As for the cyno comment, I could train a standard <900K cyno-alt on my second account if I ever joined a corp that requires them. Subsystems are an intentional omission as I have no intention of flying T3 cruisers at this time. And I see little value in Energy Emission V. IV is sufficient for all subcap energy transfer arrays, and the meta IV large neuts have the same stats as T2 at a lower market price and lower fitting requirements. I think I'll only be screwed by this decision if CCP lowers the drop rate of the meta IV's thereby increasing their price.

Therefore, if I decide not to train towards interdictors, I should be changing to a mem/per map very soon. Otherwise, it'll be over 2 weeks away.

And thanks for posting an EDE build.

Edit: The fact that I failed to put a space between Any and more has really been getting getting under my skin these past few weeks . . .
Edit2: And editing the subject line on this post successfully changed the title of this thread. Hurray!

Good hic pilots are gods. Dictors are called flying coffins for a reason.

Both are very amusing if you're prone to suicidal tendencies in fleet combat scenarios and you usually get a glamorous reimbursement package to go along with the job.