EVE General Discussion

There is of course a lot of skills that you really need on 5, but there also seems to be a lot that would be a waste to even get to 3, mostly due to a lot of factors like having Alts, or the ability to use a Jump Clone with a couple of Implants to take care of certain jobs.

I wanted some feedback on what people seems to think are "wasted" points on some things.

I'll give one example I've come across as being "Scrapmetal Processing" as it can be a "waste" in two ways.

* You can obtain 100% reprocess with two other skills on 5, and a 2% industrial implant.
* You can apparently get 100% even on 35% Stations without having this skill on 5 by having ore refine skills on 2

Also, even on the worse stations, is having all the Ore reprocessing skills higher then say 3 necessary? Is 4-5 a total waste of time for those? Any situations where that does not work?

thats mainly due to the bleed into armor, for shield tanking its good to be able to have some damage go through the shield and into armor its just that much less damage actually hitting your shield which effectively holds your tank up slightly longer

the only time ore processing skills are really required is mining crystals

Anchoring comes to mind, don't need it above 3 unless you like putting down stations/controlling guns

This have been fixs. Years ago.

Any mining profession. I made the mistake of training into a mack for some reason, and it hardly scales in the fun/isk/anything of any other activity.

I trained that up to 3 on my Crane alt because I thought the velocity bonus was tied to that skill.
Turns out it's tied to the industrial skill, so I stopped as there wasn't any point to more tank on a ship that really should never put itself in a situation where it needs to tank.
A really useful skill bonus would be something like 10% to ECM burst effectiveness and range per level, but I can see that becoming too powerful.


It used to be that the Afterburners skill increased module duration by 10%, so most people would only train it to IV as longer timers are detrimental to things like dual prop setups, but since it was changed in Retribution it became a great skill to train to V (which I did as soon as I learned about the change).

Afterburner 5.
Being Amarr I am stingy with Cap and even still, AB 4 is all I will ever have.

A lot of people do but you can't convince me Gun spec to 5 is an investment.

All the Ewar 3X like Weapons Disruption. They reduce cap use, you need them to 4 to Get the advanced skill but the 3X ones never need to be 5.

More skills in EVE don't need to be 5 than do.

Jury Rigging 5 is required to manufacture subsystems, and 4 gets you T2 electronics and energy grid rigs which may be useful in certain circumstances.

Useful for dual prop and breaking out of bubbles. Not that training situational in EVE is bad. Even if you never tend to be fitted for the situation.

So you're saying that shorter cycle times on afterburners is bad now, even though it comes with severely reduced cap use?