EVE New Citizens Q&A

i went amarr initially and never regretted it, currently crosstraining gallente and loving that also.

if you have t2 light and medium drones then its safe to stop training those and move onto other things.
i also hate droneboats but the skills are soo damn usefull.

in your shoes i would look at amarr, with the caveat that you have good strong capacitor skills.

amarr ammo = cap.

well skilld amarr battleships can easily have 12-1500 ehp with 1000+ dps and the option to project out to 60-80 km and looking fabulous while doing it.

they do get a little nervous around anything bosused for neuts though

hyperion is a great ship, very solid for missioning but of course it's limited to it's hybrid damage type. If you've got solid gunnery skills you could just get a few battleships and use the one that's suited for the mission.

I very much agree with this. Prioritize generic gunnery skills over specific. Try out different weapons and when you find what you like specialize. I'll comment on the generic skills below:

Controlled Bursts- very important for lasers not so much for hybrids useless for projectiles. If you are using lazors probably want to get it to 4 early but most likely the last support gunnery skill that should go to 5 with the single exception of AWU.

Gunnery- That 2% damage for level 5 is not a big deal but you need it to unlock a lot of guns so train as needed to unlock.

Motion prediction- For me this is the most important gunnery skill it helps you apply damage and in my opinion the first that you should get to level 5 barring anything you need to unlock other stuff it works equally well for all turrets.

Rapid Firing- essentially just a damage increase also increases cap use for turrets that use cap as it is an RoF increase simple math will allow you to compare it to the other damage increasing skills both specific and generic for best to train first.

Sharpshooter- Increase optimal range and in effect tracking since you can be further out thus reducing radial velocity of the target. Works for all turrets but more important for lazors and hybrid than projectiles.

Surgical strike- strait out damage increase for all turrets simple math again will allow you to prioritize this skill effectively

Trajectory Analysis- increases falloff in effect increases tracking like sharpshooter but as you can guess more important for projectiles than hybrids or lazors but benefits them all.

Weapons upgrades and advanced weapons upgrades- can be found in the engineering section work for both turrets and launcher help with fitting you need WU 5 to train AWU you will know when you need these and how much EFT can help work out the specifics.

The thing to keep in mind is that with guns you can completely miss the target and can also get wrecking shots which are increased damage for that reason tracking, optimal and falloff skills are very very important as they help you do damage in a way that is not as easily quantifiable as the theoretical dps number that you can get from the fitting screen or EFT. I strongly recomend you focus there first.

Early in my eve career I focused on damage more and trained motion prediction a little late. I watched as I went from not being able to hit anything to destroying NPC so fast that I could not believe it. It is honestly that important.

I guess everyone has their own experience but that has not been mine. If you are trying to fit the largest long range turret for your ship I know that can be the case but for PvE, which I think I've read in other threads than this one the OP was mostly concerned with for now, those are usually not the best choice.

I'll use projectiles for an example since I know them best of the 3 types. So the 1400's can be hard to fit but the 1400's have half the clip size of the 1200's and with a 10 second reload time can be a big deal. The 1400's also have very ****** tracking that can barely hit the broad side of a barn. The 1400's also have a very high volley damage and very low RoF which is also very crappy for PvE.

So years ago I always went with the 1400's thinking bigger was better but I had a lot of problems with a lot of low dps hits and more misses than I was happy with as well as insane overkill issues and having to watch almost dead NPC nearly fully repair before I could reload and start shooting again. In short I hated projectiles and thought that they sucked. So then I came to these forums and found out about the 1200's being better so I tried them and never went back. The 1200s are indeed superior to the 1400's in almost every way for PvE.

I recently fit a hurricane to run level 3's and came across similar problems and wound up switching from the 720s to the 650s and was much happier with their performance.

I've not used beam lazors in a while but I seem to recall similar problems like fitting issues and extreme amount of cap drain not in line with the slight DPS increase and ****** tracking to the point of getting low quality hits. Correct me if I'm wrong here since I have not used beams in a few years.

I'm sure if I went up against Ralph in PvP that he would win so if that is your interest listen to him but for me in PvE I've not had much use for AWU 5.

All good stuff so far just a quick correction and some thoughts.

The Rattlesnake is Gurista Pirate faction ship not purely Caldari and it requires both Caldari and Gallente BS skills.

All of the sjhips mentioned here would be excellent for missions and I like Hasikan Miallok thought of looking a the Marauder you may want some day and train the BS that starts you up that path.

Turret based weapons of all types are nice and they work great and if you like them then use them so please do not take this next part the wrong way.
As a general rule missile boats are the best ships you can fly for missions because you can tailor your damage output to exactly what you need with drones ships like the Rattlesnake and Domi close on their heels.
For most of the missions my 925dps cruise missile fit Golem can get through a mission faster than my friends 1500dps pali because he looses so much of his damage to their resists. But when the resists are right his is unreal to watch.

Marauders although expensive can be used in PvP as well as bastion module makes them immune to e-war making them mini-dreadnoughts.
However most people also know this and thus it requires an effort to find idiots willing to engage a sieged marauder without superior firepower and support.

so true.
But then there are very few ships that do like neuts except those who using them on others.

So I just finish telling Ralph that as a hard core BS PvEer I've found AWU 5 to be of little use and then I try some of those burner missions and 2 days later realize it's a good thing that I had AWU 5. I stick by what I said previously about AWU 5 for BSs but if you are just talking about level 4's in general it will come in handy for burners. However from what I'm seeing you need to be close to all level 5 for all four races frigate skills and all the support skills in general to be able to solo burner missions. Fortunately this is eve so there is no need to solo anything.

Does burner missions randomly show up from l4 mission agents? Not that I am planning to do them, I just don't accidentally want to take one and lose faction standings because I fail them.