Ships & Modules

It's important for noobs to understand that you're not shooting your DPS at a fixed, a static amount of hit points.

Almost anything you shoot at will regenerate hitpoints at some rate.

Imagine your ship does a native DPS of 100 hit points per second. If your target has 1000 HP, you kill it in 10 seconds.

Now you train the ship skill (e.g. Minmatar Frigate) to level 4, so you get a 4x5% bonus to DPS, now you do 120 DPS. So you kill it in slightly more than 8 seconds. 8.33 seconds to be exact. If you increase your Minmatar Frigate skill to 5, you'll do 125 DPS and so kill it in 8 seconds flat.

Except that' not how it works, most of the time.



That ship you're trying to gank has 400 HP, not 1000, but it regenerates 75 HP per second.

Thus without the skill bonus, your effective DPS is 100 - 75 = 25 DPS, and it'll take you 16 seconds to gank the ship.

Train skill to 4, so you do 120 DPS, and the "math" is 120 - 75 = 45 DPS, and now you gank him in 8.89 seconds. Almost twice as fast.

Train skill to 5, and you do 125 - 75 = 50 DPS, so you gank him in 8 seconds flat. That last level of skill, increasing your theoretical DPS by 5 percentage points, increases your actual gank speed against this particular target by 11%.

Now, imagine he had been tanking 82 DPS. Then your damage increase is even more worthwhile. If he tanks 119 DPS then you pretty much have to train the skill to 5, because at skill 4 (120 DPS) it'll take you 400 freakin' seconds to gank him.

Mind you, there are several ways to increase DPS, but the Frigate skill of your favourite race (mine is Caldari, thus Caldari Frigate) is always well worth training to 5. Among other reasons, beause Tech 1 (T1) frigates are so cheap, you can afford to take all sorts of risks in them.

I'd say the OP should train for destroyers.
They look pretty nice after the buff.