Skill Discussions

Hey, this is my first post on the EVE forums and I was wondering what skills I should have to pvp in a Thorax.

I currently have:
Gunnery V
Controlled Bursts V
Drones IV
Scout Drone II (I don't really remember why I trained that, I think it was for Hobgoblins on my retriever)
Motion Prediction IV
Weapons Upgrades V
Medium Hybrid Turret III
Repair systems II (Plan on getting to IV or V since I'm building as an armor tank)

Thats all the skills I have that I think are relevant, besides anything I'll need for a warp disruptor of some sort.

Also I should add I'm a recently returning pilot and what little I knew I forgot, and have relearned a few things.

I think when I first played my corp leader had me train it for some odd reason. I can't remember why, lol.

You may or may not have these already, but they are all high priority and frankly mandatory for serious combat work. It's a lot of skills but many are relatively cheap rank 1 or 2 skills. This list may or may not keep you busy for the next couple months:

You need to be able to catch and stop your opponent

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

Propulsion Jamming IV

Thermodynamics III+ (very mandatory)


When you catch him, you'd like to be able to burn him down

Rapid Firing IV
Motion Prediction IV
Surgical Strike IV
Trajectory Analysis IV
Sharpshooting IV

You'd like to be able to fit your ship without gimping it

Engineering V
Electronics V
Mechanics V
Hull Upgrades V
Repair Systems IV+ (sort of optional, active rep thoraxes are not common)
Advanced Weapon Upgrades IV
All xxx Armor Compensations to III+
Energy Systems Operation IV+
Energy Management IV+
Shield Management IV
Magnetometric Sensor Compensation III (because why the hell not)

Astronautics Rigging III
Armor Rigging III
Hybrid Weapon Rigging III
Armor Honeycombing III

You really really want T2 drones, with support skills
Drones represent 1/3 or more of your DPS, and are the only DPS you can apply at range

Drones V
Scout Drone Operation V
Combat Drone Operation IV
Drone Interfacing IV
Drone Durability III+
Drone Navigation III+
Drone Sharpshooting III+
Electronic Warfare Drone Interfacing III+
Gallente Drone Specialization III
Minmatar Drone Specialization III

T2 blasters are exceptionally good because of Null ammo:

Gallente Cruiser IV
Medium Hybrid Turret V
Medium Blaster Specialization III+

Add to that fitting requirements for manly shield gank thorax:

Shield Upgrades IV
Tactical Shield Manipulation IV
Shield Rigging III

You might also want EWAR skills, if you want more options for that 4th midslot on the Thorax.

Turret Destabilization III+