Skill Discussions

Hallo,
I came back to EVE a few days ago and thanks to many helpful Forum Warriors I am back in the Lvl4 game. But, I have reached another roadblock and I can't seem to work my head around it due to all the myriad changes that EVE has gone through in the last year:

Battlecruisers and Destroyers got their skills separated Empire-wise, thankfully I managed to max both to V earlier so now I have can fly all the BC's. Therein lies my problem, I can fly all the BC's so I don't know which Medium Weapon system to train for. Before it used to be a no-brainer - train up the medium weapons system for the Large Weapon system you want. Now with the turret changes, we can train whatever system we want whenever we want.

Also, add in the fact, that Strategic cruisers use the same Medium weapon skills - I want to be sure before I spend time training up. Can you, the Forum Warriors, suggest which BC, Strategic Cruiser and Weapons systems go hand in hand for PvE?
I intend to collect all the information and make a forum post for other returnee's. Thank you in advance for all you help!

For you reference, my Skills are : http://eveboard.com/pilot/Aya_Silverye

It looks like you have good laser skills, so I would go with lasers. The Legion is decent for PVE. The Paladin is excellent.

The Legion's resist profile lends it to tanking Angles and Rouge Drones and to a lesser extent Guristas. Its HAM subsystem lets it deal explosive or kinetic damage but the HAM subsystem isn't nearly as good as the missile sub on the Tengu. Mostly due to its lack of a range bonus.

The Tengu has great range with HAMs but it has an EM hole and it's kinetic bonus is useless against Sansha. Tengu pilots are actually slightly better off loading EM ammo against them.

The Loki has the perfect resist profile for Sansha but ACs have projection issues on it and drink ammo while the DPS of arties is rather lackluster.

The Proteus doesn't have the proper resists or damage type but a blaster/mwd fit is fun to fly and can do enough sheer DPS to be workable. I even knew a guy who ratted Sansha in a rail Proteus.

You can rat Sansha fine in either a laser or HAM legion. I have done it myself.

The answer is that all T3s are workable Sansha ratters but none of them will do as well as properly fit and flown T1 BS. However the Tengu is amazing for Guristas and Serpentis and pretty good for Angles. The Proteus is also very good for Guristas and Serpentis but not quite as good for Angles.

At the medium size I would say rails are probably the better PvE choice due to their better range. A blaster boat will spend more time getting into range than actually firing.

Both the Paladin and the Nightmare are great for ratting Sansha although bastion mode is a serious liability in null and the price of both hulls tends to attract unwanted attention.

I'd say, "all of them". It is large weapons that really take a lot of training time.

if you're looking at getting into the nightmare/Paladin then lasers are the way you want to go, Mega Pulses are my personal favourite as they hit out relatively far for a short ranged weapon (Approx 60-70km with Scorch) and the DPS you get close up is respectable.

With the above in mind I'd say that your best option is the legion as you get the laser skills you'll need for your future ships, and the armor skills trained up for the paladin, You'd then be left to train the Large weapons up and shield if you choose to go Nightmare.

Yes but I didn't want to be a jack of all trades so only I started this thread. I wanted to train one weapon system up and play with it while training the next weapon system. I intend to train all weapon systems.

What you say is right. I have already trained most medium weapon systems to 3. So I will try using them and take it from there.

120 mil+ and I still can't fly a single BS ;).

Proteus looks awesome....