Skill Discussions

Hello,
As the subject says, I am going to make an alt focused on PVP.
The idea is to train him in one shield and one armor tanking faction.
Since I already have a PVE pilot which can fly Gallente and Caldari (he will be used only for isk farm), I was thinking about having the PVP pilot able to fly gallente for armor (for drones doctrine) and minmatar for shield.

What do you think? I would appreciate to hear your point of view, but please, give some explanation.

Thank you for your help

every race has good pvp ships, just generally in different classes.

Gallente currently possess one of the best fleet cruisers in the game right now: ishtar.
Minmatar have a wide range of excellent ships, battleships leave a little room for desire though.

If you fly mostly cruiser and smaller, both these races have a wide variety of choice.

At one time, Minmatar was considered the "hardest" race to train for. That's because they have missile ships, gun ships, shield ships, and armor fits. Plus, all of their ships have drone bays, which requires some drone training to round out the hull. With solid skills they were also king of the hill in those days.

These days, the same could be said for almost all races tbh.

In your first post, you used the word "Focus".
I would recommend doing exactly that, but for one race only, at this time. My personal belief is that one good focused ship/pilot is better than two half assed ships.
It is your game though, so whatever is MOST FUN FOR YOU is all that matters.

Pick a race that you think is fun or has cool ships, and go for it.


Edit here:
I wouldn't advise Caldari at first for shield PvP. Heres why.

1. You already have a PvE pilot that flies Caldari. If you pick a different race, it will add to your over all EVE experience.
My long standing advise has always been "What you DON'T want, is two pliots that do the exact same thing"

2. Caldari have some good PvP platforms, and an experienced pilot can get the most out of those platforms, BUT,
I think there are better ships/races for PvP in almost every ship class.

3. Back to your word, "Focus". Gun races have months and months of gunnery skills to train. Those skills cross over within races where you can still fly shield fits and be effective in a shorter amount of time.

drake pvp is very outdated, doesn't happen much anymore.

It really just depends on what you want to go for. Every race has great ships that you can use for PvP.

When I started my PvP toon I went strait to training Minmatar because I wanted close combat and I wanted to try projectiles. But now she can also fly Caldari ships pretty well too, but I didn't start training Caldari skills until she was at least 6 months old because i wanted to focus on Minmatar first. Minmatar is pretty versatile as well for PvP (imo at least).

It's all about what you want to do. But I would focus on just one first and get the skills for that and then go from there.

Hope that helps though!

Focus on a ROLE, not a race. By knowing what role you want to play in a fleet, you have already defined many specific skills you will need. Often the choice of race follows since some ships in a class are decidedly better than others.

That said, right now the Gallente are the darlings of CCP. Between buffs to hybrids and the complete obsession with drones- Gallente are getting a lot of bang for the buck in training. Most larger ships use some drones, so you end up training them regardless- but at the moment drones are massively OP to the point of dominating PvE and PvP completely. Ishtars Online....nuff said.
Amarr have some good drone boats, which tend toward cap warfare, so you can fly those without worrying about T2 lasers.
Hybrids are good again, and cross-pollinate with Caldari without having to also train up a bunch of missile skills.
Sensor damping is a powerful EWAR type. So again, Gallente is a strong choice there.

When I first started playing Eve, the word was 'Winmatar', because of a balance issue favoring that race somewhat. Now I would say Gallente is the favored nation within CCP.

quoting the important bit.


solo or fleet/gang ??
if fleet/gang .. it's kind of pointless training shield tanking when all your buddies are out flying armour tanked ships