Skill Discussions

Energy management, signature analysis, long range targeting are musts.

Evasive maneuvering and Energy grid upgrade 5 are nice to have.

I'd just bite the bullet and get them now. Evasive maneuvering could wait since navigation skills are perc secondary you wouldn't lose much time training it with a perc/will build.

Before going for carrier though I'd make sure that's what you really want.

Drone boats go something like this:


Vexor -> Myrm -> Dominix ...

Then you decide what you want to do here are the new options:


-> Navy Dominix

The way of the Perfectionist - optimize all of the Domi skills to get every sliver of performance out of it, including not only drone but also gunnery skills, tanking skills (armor AND shield) etc. If you want to push the envelope here you would add things like using the Domi in a fleet (spider tanking) and as a PVP boat.


-> Ishkur -> Ishtar

The Tech 2 way -> for high native resists, small ships which tank and spank well above their size, good option if you want to operate in low/null


-> Worm -> Gila -> Rattlesnake

The way of the Guristas - opens up the best subcapital passive tankers - useful for many things including lvl 5 missions


-> Arbitrator -> Pilgrim

The way of the Amarr - also the cloaky way. Best cov-ops drone platform. Simply excellent in lowsec, nice in null too.


-> Thanatos -> Nyx

Way of the Capital ships - The differences between these and subcap ships are significant, for one thing they are not so good used solo (some would say it's downright suicidal) for another they are as much logistics platforms as drone boats.


-> Sin

Black ops ... You will know when you are ready for the Sin. If you need to ask, you are not ready.

Well taking a look at the rattlesnake it would only take me around 5 days to be in one but am i right in assuming i would have to train missiles. Which doesnt seem that bad because railguns really do give me the *****. Looking at my current plan im spending the next 18 days getting drone interfacing to level 5 then Gallente battleship to level V another 20 something days.

Then i would be trainning my gunngery skills i dont even have gunnery 5 yet i have focused on drones using eft i will spend forever training rails to get a decent amount of dps out of it just doesnt seem worth it. Maybe cross training would be a better idea .

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For starters you need armor comp skills if you want to fly gallente well, also you need to get your remaining navigation skills to 4.

Since you already have sentry drone interfacing at 5, and are training drone interfacing to 5 you only need large hybrids to fly a good PVE domi, at which point looking to cross over into a rattlesnake would be a good goal since that would take you through all the shield and missile support skills before going for caldari battleship.

Atm i have nearly enough isk to buy the rattlesnake itself could grind missions for a couple of days and would have enough to buy it outright.

I have 13 days till drone interfacing 5 is completed and im throwing up if i should get battleship 5 of go straight to training missiles or get Caldari battleship to fly the rattlesnake.

Ive run eft on large rails for the dominix and i can train them up but all i will get is range and very little difference in dps. I would need to train surgical strike and rapid firing etc to see a bigger difference and its just not enough when i consider it would only be worth it if i was sticking to my Domi.

Battleship 5 is another tricky one its 28 days to get to 5 but would benefit both ships but i dare say 5 days to train Spaceship command skills to fly the Rattlenake and 23 days in missiles might give me a little more atm.Maybe a few more days to get Caldari spaceship command to 4.

Or with the upcoming railgun rebalance it might be worth training rails and maxing out my Domi.

OK runing into a mental block planning this out in evemon planning cruise missile operation to 5 plus all the skills i need to get me there . Cruise missile specialization to 4. Caldri battleship to 4 what shield skills should i be aiming for.

If you want to trim some time, most of the DPS off a rattlesnake comes from the drones, the missiles don't add too much. THe big allure of the Rattler is you can MASSIVLY passive tank it, we are talking baby carrier levels of tank. The massive passive tank makes it a superb AFK boat.

Missile boats in general are kinda meh for incursions. You want guns, top runners are in my oppinion, Nightmare, machariel and vindicator. The delay until missiles land is a killer and will waste dps.