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Returning to Eve from 2007: Skill advice?
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Gavin Zertos
Perkone
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-05-10 20:11:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Gavin Zertos
Hey All,

I'm returning to Eve from about 2007. I've got two accounts active but I'm thinking about dropping one. I'm not really sure how skills are ranking as of now but I'd appreciate if you guys could take a look and give me any advice.

I'd like training advice if possible or if either character has way more value then the other. I'm into PVP and like 0.0 ratting/mining or in general ISK making. I was in a 0.0 corp before I left. (Our alliance disbanded and we all went separate ways.)

I also have about 1mill to spend from the learning skill refund.

EDIT:

Here are my eveboard links.

http://eveboard.com/pilot/Haldrik_Aerith

http://eveboard.com/pilot/Gavin_Zertos
Gavin Zertos
Perkone
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-05-10 20:12:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Gavin Zertos
Removed: Added link to first post.
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#3 - 2012-05-10 20:28:25 UTC
Your tanking skills on both characters seem to be [very] lacking. Choose one style and focus on it until you are "decent."

Also... http://eveboard.com/

How did you Veterans start?
Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
#4 - 2012-05-10 20:35:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Lost Greybeard
They both seem fine. I'd say your options were:

1- Keep the first character. He's more combat-oriented, and it's easier to take a combat character and add on trading, etc than the other way around in my experience.

2- Transfer one character to the other account and then ditch the now-empty account. That way you have a hauler/trading-ish alt that's not bad even though you can only train one character at a time. You can also use a same-account alt for things like scanning and so on.

Getting back into 0.0 has more to do with your out-of-game social skills than your in-game skills, either 20M+ character should be fine for the vast majority of 0.0 Corps/alliances in the pure numbers sense.

I'd also advise getting an account with something that allows you to just post a link to your character skillsets in a more readable format, that's a lot of wall of text there. (EDIT: For instance, I totally missed that neither character has a full tank specced. You should work on that.)
Gavin Zertos
Perkone
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-05-11 00:56:56 UTC
ShahFluffers wrote:
Your tanking skills on both characters seem to be [very] lacking. Choose one style and focus on it until you are "decent."

Also... http://eveboard.com/


Hmm yea that makes sense I suppose. I did a lot of armor tanking then swapped over for shield tanking for the maelstrom.

What skills am I lacking? Also I'll check out eveboard.com. I definitely need a better way to show my characters! It took me hours to parse the skills down to fit 6000 characters.
Gavin Zertos
Perkone
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-05-11 00:59:38 UTC
Lost Greybeard wrote:
They both seem fine. I'd say your options were:

1- Keep the first character. He's more combat-oriented, and it's easier to take a combat character and add on trading, etc than the other way around in my experience.

2- Transfer one character to the other account and then ditch the now-empty account. That way you have a hauler/trading-ish alt that's not bad even though you can only train one character at a time. You can also use a same-account alt for things like scanning and so on.

Getting back into 0.0 has more to do with your out-of-game social skills than your in-game skills, either 20M+ character should be fine for the vast majority of 0.0 Corps/alliances in the pure numbers sense.

I'd also advise getting an account with something that allows you to just post a link to your character skillsets in a more readable format, that's a lot of wall of text there. (EDIT: For instance, I totally missed that neither character has a full tank specced. You should work on that.)



Great thank you. I never thought about using the same account for tasks like that. It would be unfortunate to lose training skills on both though...
Gavin Zertos
Perkone
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-05-11 01:18:07 UTC
Updated my main post with eveboard links.
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#8 - 2012-05-11 01:41:08 UTC
Gavin Zertos wrote:
What skills am I lacking? Also I'll check out eveboard.com.


With armor; you are missing out on the "compensation" skills (ex. EM Armor Compensation, Explosive Armor Compensation, etc). You want to get those to level 4 so you can make the most out of mods like the Adaptive Nano Membrane and its energized variants.

With Shield tanking; you want to get Shield Management (+5% shield capacity), Operation (-5% shield recharge time), Upgrades (-5% powergrid needs for shield mods), and Compensation (-2% capacitor for shield boosters) to 5. The Comp skills you can generally ignore unless you are looking at a specific fit involving shield resistance amplifiers.

How did you Veterans start?
Gavin Zertos
Perkone
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-05-11 06:05:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Gavin Zertos
ShahFluffers wrote:
Gavin Zertos wrote:
What skills am I lacking? Also I'll check out eveboard.com.


With armor; you are missing out on the "compensation" skills (ex. EM Armor Compensation, Explosive Armor Compensation, etc). You want to get those to level 4 so you can make the most out of mods like the Adaptive Nano Membrane and its energized variants.

With Shield tanking; you want to get Shield Management (+5% shield capacity), Operation (-5% shield recharge time), Upgrades (-5% powergrid needs for shield mods), and Compensation (-2% capacitor for shield boosters) to 5. The Comp skills you can generally ignore unless you are looking at a specific fit involving shield resistance amplifiers.


Great, thanks. I'll put that 1mill SP to good use :)
Lyric Lahnder
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#10 - 2012-05-11 15:00:44 UTC
When you apply to null sec corps make sure they know you can fly interdictors and your not afraid to fly and loose them either.

Noir. and Noir Academy are recruiting apply at www.noirmercs.com I Noir Academy: 60 days old must be able to fly at least one tech II frigate. I Noir. Recruits: 4:1 k/d ratio and can fly tech II cruisers.