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Luscius Uta
#1 - 2014-06-12 11:51:35 UTC
I have created a new Amarr char during the Humble Bundle sale with the purpose of joining Faction Warfare, and, since I was never involved in FW, I have a few questions:


  • What social skills should I train for before I minimize my Charisma? Will Negotiation and Security Connections give me better rewards for killing players of the opposing faction and for capturing/defending plexes, like it is the case with "normal" missions?

  • Should I join Amarr or Caldari militia? I know that lasers aren't very effective against Minmatar NPCs (even though I plan to shoot opposing faction players more often than NPCs), and I don't plan to crosstrain. It's gonna be lasers, drones and armour tanking, along with a bit of neuts and TDs.

  • Should I stick with an NPC corp until I receive attention from one of the bigger FW corps, or is being in a scrubby FW corp still superior to being in an NPC FW corp?

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Yang Aurilen
State War Academy
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-06-12 13:32:47 UTC
Luscius Uta wrote:
I have created a new Amarr char during the Humble Bundle sale with the purpose of joining Faction Warfare, and, since I was never involved in FW, I have a few questions:


  • What social skills should I train for before I minimize my Charisma? Will Negotiation and Security Connections give me better rewards for killing players of the opposing faction and for capturing/defending plexes, like it is the case with "normal" missions?

  • Should I join Amarr or Caldari militia? I know that lasers aren't very effective against Minmatar NPCs (even though I plan to shoot opposing faction players more often than NPCs), and I don't plan to crosstrain. It's gonna be lasers, drones and armour tanking, along with a bit of neuts and TDs.

  • Should I stick with an NPC corp until I receive attention from one of the bigger FW corps, or is being in a scrubby FW corp still superior to being in an NPC FW corp?

1. Not sure but I'm sure LP rewards for killing is proportional to the cost of the ship destroyed.
2. Both militias are at the different side of the WZ. While I can't speak personally for the min/amarr WZ all I can say is it is not as active as cal/gal WZ in terms of PVP. You'll see FW systems in Black Rise and Essence on the top amount of kills in Dotlan and the ingame map almost everyday. Lasers are good I guess don't have much experience with their t2 versions but the slicer is a monster.
3. Up to you. Personally I'd join a newbie friendly FW corp BASED in lowsec so you can have vets to teach you the ropes to PVP. Don't take the road I took and dove into FW as a true newbie and died alot for it. It's even immortalized in the killboards so I can take a look at my fail. For a reference this is what you might look like if you stay in the NPC corp: https://zkillboard.com/character/93621847/year/2013/month/8/

Post with your NPC alt main and not your main main alt!