EVE New Citizens Q&A

/bittervet Everything to IV, most things to V

Engineering and Nav tree are essential. Everything you undock will rely on these skills.

These skills will directly affect your ability to have a decent fit for a PvP ship. Squeezing the most out of a hull usually means fittings are very tight. That 5% bonus to something that each level brings makes a V in these skills worth the training time.

More importantly, these skills make a given ship/fitting viable. For example, most PvP fits ignore cap stability in favor of high output, and poor cap skills here can make a ship viable for mere seconds before it runs dry. Consider the interceptor, a great fast little ship- but if you can't keep that MWD going, and hold a point, and possibly shoot some guns- without emptying your capacitor in 20 seconds, then you aren't really being effective.

Targeting is important to fully utilize weapons ranges and EWAR. Anything that improves the ability to get a lock and apply a point at range is pretty much core to most PvP.

Tanking skills. I would just train both shield and armor. It's a bunch of skills but tanking choice is pretty interchangeable when flying PvP. I'd rather be limited in the choices of T2 weapons than on type of tank I can field.

Thermodynamics because in PvP, we overheat a lot. If you're gonna die, might as well leave nothing but burnt out modules as loot.

After that, it depends on what role you are flying most. A weapon system (guns, missiles, drones, ewar) usually. Then rigging skills based on what you are using of your fits.

Note- most alliance level fleet doctrines are EFT'd using an 'all V' character. None really require all V's, but when someone is coming up with a fleet doctrine, skill shortcomings are not even factored in. If you want to fly it, you're expected to have the skills already.