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Janix Shikari
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2012-03-17 01:30:45 UTC
I just logged in after being away for over a year. After looking over my skills, items, and ships I have no clue what I was working on when I last played.

Based on my current skills, what would you guys suggest I skill up next? I am looking to run some missions for a bit to get some isk since I am broke, but after that I would like to jump into pvp and be as effective as possible. I don't really mind being a frigate pilot for a bit, but would really like to get to battlecruiser status asap. Then some time down the road, fly some battleships. I plan on sticking with EVE for a long time to come this time around, so waiting for the skills to fly those more expensive ships isn't a problem.

So, what do you guys suggest for someone in my position?

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Mashie Saldana
V0LTA
WE FORM V0LTA
#2 - 2012-03-17 10:31:16 UTC
With Minmatar cruiser 5 I would say a nice longterm goal would be the Vagabond which is great fun for PvP, however before then I would say join RvB and get good at flying a Rifter. Your support skills will need a lot of work before you even consider moving up to bigger ships. Look up the various certificates in EVEMon for a good hint of what skills you have missed to inject and train.

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Gorenaire
Theosophical Society
#3 - 2012-03-18 16:46:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Gorenaire
whatever you do, be it pve or pvp, you need good support skills, bring em to 4 first then the main ones to 5

suport skills give you more powergrid, more cpu, more shield, more armor, more cap, better speed, better agility, lower warpin time, etc etc.

when you re done , train weapon support skills to 4

that should take you at least 2 months, when you re done, go for tech 2 missiles or guns and train for tech2 frig /cruiser

another note, stop training BC5 before you re done with support skills, its more important to get support skills to 4/5 than BC 5 with bad support skills
Janix Shikari
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2012-03-18 17:19:54 UTC
Thanks for the tips guys. I will keep working on support skills, as suggested. Any more opinions on making isk while those train?
Gorenaire
Theosophical Society
#5 - 2012-03-18 18:53:13 UTC
you could do missions, while its not exciting after a while, at least you will get some isk while running lvl 3 and some faction with one of the empire race.

To run lvl 4 decently , I would advise you to run then in a BS, but then again you will need decent support skills to pilot and fit a BS correctly. Depending on teh faction you want to run mission for, some racial BS are better than others, in doubt, you can always use a raven, not very original but it get the job done.

there might be some other options. but mission is the first that comes to my mind with your skills atm.

PS : You can also join a null or low sec "relatively new player friendly" corp and particiapate in pvp ops and do pve while not in ops. But then again, i would advise you to get those supportt skills to 4 at least in your interest. that would be much easier for you to find a corp if they see you can be usefull to them in some way.

good luck !
Janix Shikari
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2012-03-18 20:00:52 UTC
Sounds good. Thanks again.
Janix Shikari
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2012-03-25 15:39:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Janix Shikari
So I have been training up support skills for the past week. I am still working on it, but I was just wondering if you guys can take a look and see if there is anything I have missed completely. My goal is to get into a Drake and do level 3s then 4s once I am able to skill and isk-wise.

Any further direction in what to train in what order would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Gorenaire
Theosophical Society
#8 - 2012-03-29 09:15:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Gorenaire
in missiles, you need the following skills

Guided missiles precision
Missiles projection
rapid launch
warhead upgrades

train those to 4

in drones

finish training for T2 drones ( scout drones op ) et get drones support skill to3 ( combat drones ops, drones interfacing , durability, sharpshooting ) and train Gallente drones spec to 2/3 , that will unlock Hobgoblin 2

With these drones skils, you will take care of frigs in any mission pretty fast and be able to focus on cruiser/BC npc with missiles

[b]in gunnery[/b

You will want to have Advanced Weapon upgrade to 3 at least, 4 would be better but to unlock AWU, you need to have Weapon upgrade to 5

Its very worth the 8/9 days invested in the long run because it reduces the powergrid and CPU needed to fit ANY guns or missiles so if i was you i would bite the bullet and ttrain AWU to 4


Otherwise you re pretty good to go, once you re done with these, I would suggest to train

Electronics to 5
Engineering to 5
Shield Operation to 5
Spaceship Command to 5
Energy system operation to 5

They re all rank 1 skills and should take around 3/4 days each depending on your attribute

When you're done, you can either choose to run lvl4 in BS or T3 cruiser

for BS, i would suggest the Raven, train Caldari BS to 4 and Cruise missiles to 4

The good thing is that you will have already decent support skills, whcih is very important for BS

If you choose the T3 cruiser way after a while when you have enough money running lvl 4 with the Raven

Heavy Missiles to 5 and heavy missiles spec to
Shield Management to 5
Energy Management to 5
Caldari cruiser to 5

you will need all the cladari subsystem to 4 with offensive and defensive to 5
To get the most of a T3, you will need good support skills and missiles skills, ideally, you will want missiles bombardment rapid fire , and target nav prediction to 5

If later on, you choose to join a pvp corp, you will have very decent skills to be usefull to them, be it in a caldri HAC, recon or logistics.
Janix Shikari
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-04-02 02:24:05 UTC
Thank you Gorenaire. This helps a lot.
Versuvus
Darke Crystal Mining
#10 - 2012-04-02 05:36:23 UTC
Gorenaire wrote:


another note, stop training BC5 before you re done with support skills, its more important to get support skills to 4/5 than BC 5 with bad support skills



Ordinarily yes, but with the likely upcoming introduction of racial BC and Destroyers skills I'd get these up to 5 asap


Implants bro - get some, even +3's will shave days/weeks off a long term skill plan