Skill Discussions

I will be away from the game for four months, and was looking to get some suggestions from the experts here about long, boring, but useful trains to put in my queue. On int/mem atm; ecveboard of the same name.
Ty in advance

Electronics:
EWAR -> IV (for EWAR Drones).

Engineering:
Advanced Weapons Upgrades -> V
Capacitor Management -> V
Electronics Upgrades -> V
Nanite Interfacing/Operations -> IV

Navigation:
Acceleration Control -> V
Afterburner -> V
Fuel Conservation -> V
High Speed Maneuvering -> V
Warp Drive Operation -> V

That oughta take a few months.

Well, if the siege triage modules are anything to judge by, the only new capital modules that will have new skills to train are the weapons. So that's what? 8 rank 10 skills, just about an year to train or so.

All the support skills for stuff you plan to use.

I'm not responsible for you not looking if I've missed any.

707 Days with no training implants and with an optimised neural remap; get to it!

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Armor

Mechanics III
Armor Layering V
Hull Upgrades IV
Armor Resistance Phasing V
EM Armor Compensation V
Kinetic Armor Compensation V
Mechanics V
Repair Systems V
Thermal Armor Compensation V

Drones

Drones V
Electronic Warfare IV
Advanced Drone Avionics V
Drone Avionics V
Drone Durability V
Drone Interfacing V
Drone Navigation V

Engineering

Capacitor Management V
Capacitor Systems Operation V
CPU Management V
Electronics Upgrades V
Power Grid Management V
Thermodynamics IV

Gunnery

Weapon Upgrades V
Controlled Bursts V
Gunnery V
Motion Prediction V
Rapid Firing V
Sharpshooter V
Surgical Strike V
Trajectory Analysis V

Missiles

Missile Launcher Operation V
Guided Missile Precision V
Missile Bombardment V
Missile Projection V
Rapid Launch V
Target Navigation Prediction V
Warhead Upgrades V

Navigation

Acceleration Control IV
Afterburner IV
Evasive Maneuvering V
High Speed Maneuvering IV
Navigation V

Rigging

Jury Rigging IV
Armor Rigging IV
Astronautics Rigging IV
Drones Rigging IV
Electronic Superiority Rigging IV
Energy Weapon Rigging IV
Hybrid Weapon Rigging IV
Launcher Rigging IV
Projectile Weapon Rigging IV
Shield Rigging IV

Shields

Shield Operation IV
EM Shield Compensation V
Explosive Shield Compensation V
Kinetic Shield Compensation V
Shield Compensation V
Shield Management V
Shield Operation V
Shield Upgrades V
Tactical Shield Manipulation V
Thermal Shield Compensation V

Targetting

Target Management V
Advanced Target Management III
Gravimetric Sensor Compensation V
Ladar Sensor Compensation V
Long Range Targeting V
Magnetometric Sensor Compensation V
Radar Sensor Compensation V
Signature Analysis V

This is my favorite thread on the topic. Definitely maybe bad under certain circumstances but not others maybe.

For the record, mine is at 5.

Because the damage that bleeds through will slowly kill you.

Just pick a high end ship class and work toward that. Blops with JDC V plus T2 weapons/drones plus repper skills is a good long train.
That way you can get at least one racial BS to V, Blops itself to IV or V, have JDC V (which is handy when you move into capitals later), and JFC IV or V. (I'd also throw in Cyno V so you can light covert cynos when other people are flying the Blops, just to round out my cloaky warfare skill set)

If you don't want to risk a billion isk Blops in combat, operating it as a logi boat is common. Rep modules and repair drones.
If you feel like risking it in combat, T2 weapons or drones will be a must.


The other obvious answer is capital ships. They're about to see a reworking from CCP, so it's a good investment.


Another idea might be training up several T3 cruisers. Enough time to train racial cruisers to V, those T3 skills to V, and all subsystems to V (those are only 1x anyway). With implants, probably have plenty of time left over to train a medium sized weapon to V and it's specializations to IV. If you chose medium hybrids- you could use them on both a Tengu and Proteus.

I'm currently training Advanced Spaceship Command V...14 days to go. Is it me or does this skill seem unnecessary?

If you think you will be wanting to hop in caps or even freighters 4 months is a good chunk of time to get in all your prereq's and core skills for them. Make sure its something you are absolutely interested in cause training proper capitol skills takes many many months and sometimes years.

One more day and I begin training Advanced Weapons Upgrades V. The joy.