Skill Discussions

Hello, I am mostly new. I have pretty much just been training everything needed to be a good logistics capable player. The reason I started playing this game is because I was told it was more difficult. However, in all games I play I am a healer/support role user. So I naturally thought that logistics would fit me best. I love supporting my team and being a team player. I love any kind of healing and support roles in all forms of games that have them.


As I near completion of all the skills I needed I was told something that terrified me. I was told that I would either have to learn to play alternative damage dealing roles or I will not be able to play at a high level. This is greatly disturbing to me as I abhor damage dealing roles. I find them terribly boring and not fun to play. My questions are: Will I be able to stick to the support role and have fun in eve? Will I inevitably be forced into damage dealing ships and roles? Will I be considered foolish or a bad player for wanting to stick to my beloved role? Is this game for me?


Thank you, respectfully for all your answers and your time.

you will have fun to do the logi stuff (i know some people that always do the logi on every fleet), but sometime you may want to solo pvp or solo pve. the drones are the best for that (can do pvp, pve, and fit in logi), you can train drone boat too for extra damage (incase you feel not flying logi for some roam).

you won't be forced into damage dealing ship, "everyone loves logi"

no one will told you fool or bad for logi, and join player corp already if you have the logi skill complete they would love to have more logi player in their corp.

well logi have some bad things too, you need to have friend to be usefull can't really solo on them (that's why i mention about player corp)

I wouldn't let other advice from an unverified source disway you from mastering a technique others have never tried. Im still fairly new yet I can already see the many different ways to potential support any situation combat or not. Besides. That almost sounds like tactical mis-information given to you in order to keep a secret a secret. Then again im still new here.

It was from the help channel. Two people said almost the same thing so it disturbed me. However I have regained my confidence . I was quite afraid that I would be shoehorned into a role I hate. As for what I do after I train logistics. I will most likely start mastering the other support roles in the game. As you can tell I am a very dedicated to the support role. It's just who I am. The guy behind the scenes making sure things work.

AFAIK you cannot rep yourself with drones as they are remote reppers in this case too.....

^ this. Drones need to be pointed at a target, and you cannot target yourself... so, no self repping.

ah i see, new info for me cause i never used the drone and planning to use one

I dunno, I have seen plenty of free logistics ship replacement programs even in the poorer alliances just because they want to encourage people to fly logistics so badly. And while ratting is the best way to make ISK in null mining isn't that terrible if you are getting your PvP ships for super cheap and PI is always an option for supplemental income.

Any decent corp will have a logi replacement program, probably with corp logi's handed out to people who can fly but don't have. In that respect you don't have to worry about ship replacement that much if that is all you will be flying. There is a very nice path now from the very start for people wanting to focus on logistics, you can go from the logi frigate, to the t1 logi cruiser, and then train for the T2 logi's.

For most situations being able to fly a Guardian and a Scimitar will get you into almost any fleet. Bassi's are hardly ever used in pvp, and the oneiros is used for solo logistics, or in a few select fleet doctrines.

From T2 logi you can go on to carrier eventually, the most preferred carrier for pvp is the amarr one in general as for capitals armor tanking is almost exclusively used, and it has the best bonusses for the logistics role in that. This skill path will keep you busy for at least a year or 2.

If you take carrier as another step froum your logi you should be fine because triage carrier is like 10 logies packed in one and when you get bored by only healing you can use its drone damage to make some isk by grinding npcs.