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Leiliana Atruin
Sebiestor Tribe Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.01.10 15:42:30 -
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Just to give a bit of background I will mention that last year I played a few weeks and quit due to real life commitments. I am therefore not starting from scratch but I have changed my thinking a bit...
Obviously like most new players my goal is to get into the nice and big ships to blow other people up with. I like taking things a step at a time though so right now I am just training into some very basic mining skills (just enough to pilot a venture at an average level).
After that I want to start training my combat frigate skills, and to make things easier for me I decided to train level 3 mastery (I know its not perfect, but it seems to be a good guideline) for a ship, learn it and pilot it and then skill into the next upgraded ship. The goal is to specialize into frigates (before I move onto higher tiers of ships).
My thinking was to follow this progression:
1. Incursus (Who doesnt like a Jousting Rabbit???) 2. Tristan (One of the better looking ships to me) 3. Ares (The God of War) 4. Ishkur (Another Jousting Rabbit, but on steriods) 5. Nemesis (The Sneaky bat)
I hope that I will be a general specialist frigatier by then, and can then either focus on reaching level 5 mastery on the ships or move onto the next tier of ships (Cruisers etc.) Hopefully by that time I will also have a better idea on what I plan to do in the game.
is this a viable course of action? is going for ship mastery a good idea? |
Maynard Sokarad
Idun Investment Bank Outlanders United
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Posted - 2015.01.10 19:27:21 -
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Fellow beginner here, so you may want to take my advice with a grain of salt q:
As far as I can tell, and from what i have been told, mastery is a decent tool to chose skills. You cannot go really wrong and you will have the pleasure of figuring things out yourself.
You can also fit a ship, test it, and when you have something that works and that you like, train for the same fit with T2 modules. By the time you get there you should have a very good idea of what you want to do in the game.
I'm not experienced enough to comment on you ship plan. But I suspect at some point you will want to try Dessies, Cruisers and BCs. They will be usefull for the missions and plexes you will have trouble doing in anything smaller than the highest end frigates. |
Tsukino Stareine
Serene Vendetta Brawls Deep
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Posted - 2015.01.10 20:25:11 -
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mastery up to level 2 or 3 is a decent guide to what skills you need. After that they put some rather unimportant skills on the list (warp drive operation pops up a lot, you can get away with that at level 0 for most of your career, it's purely convenience). |
Charlie Jacobson
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Posted - 2015.01.11 10:48:36 -
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Tsukino Stareine wrote:mastery up to level 2 or 3 is a decent guide to what skills you need. After that they put some rather unimportant skills on the list (warp drive operation pops up a lot, you can get away with that at level 0 for most of your career, it's purely convenience).
Having warp drive operation of at least 3 is pretty important imo. Some of the larger systems in EVE will completely deplete your capacitor when you attempt to warp across them. Also, it's a cheap and fast skill to train, and will affect every ship you fly. |
Velarra
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Posted - 2015.01.13 16:24:11 -
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Charlie Jacobson wrote:Tsukino Stareine wrote:mastery up to level 2 or 3 is a decent guide to what skills you need. After that they put some rather unimportant skills on the list (warp drive operation pops up a lot, you can get away with that at level 0 for most of your career, it's purely convenience). Having warp drive operation of at least 3 is pretty important imo. Some of the larger systems in EVE will completely deplete your capacitor when you attempt to warp across them. Also, it's a cheap and fast skill to train, and will affect every ship you fly.
A character with Warp Drive Op 0, is great for making bookmarks. |
Charlie Jacobson
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Posted - 2015.01.13 16:58:10 -
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Velarra wrote: A character with Warp Drive Op 0, is great for making bookmarks.
That's one way to do it, I suppose. You can also make bookmarks while in warp, though. |
Lady Rift
What Shall We Call It
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Posted - 2015.01.13 17:28:34 -
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Velarra wrote:Charlie Jacobson wrote:Tsukino Stareine wrote:mastery up to level 2 or 3 is a decent guide to what skills you need. After that they put some rather unimportant skills on the list (warp drive operation pops up a lot, you can get away with that at level 0 for most of your career, it's purely convenience). Having warp drive operation of at least 3 is pretty important imo. Some of the larger systems in EVE will completely deplete your capacitor when you attempt to warp across them. Also, it's a cheap and fast skill to train, and will affect every ship you fly. A character with Warp Drive Op 0, is great for making bookmarks.
you could also start warp cancel and repeat till out of cap before you let yourself get to warp. That way you dont need an alt to do it. |
Trey Kutoi
Nyarlthotep Holdings Ltd.
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Posted - 2015.01.22 05:32:59 -
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Lady Rift wrote:
you could also start warp cancel and repeat till out of cap before you let yourself get to warp. That way you dont need an alt to do it.
ah, yes, cap dumping, the only reason why I haven't died in null... yet.... (whelp) |
Leutetant Ripley
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2015.01.23 06:23:47 -
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IMO first 2 skills you should learn to 5 is Power Grid and CPU Management. |
Dalloway Jones
Republic Military School Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2015.02.09 03:59:10 -
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Train your core skills up to 5 ASAP. Train Gallente frigate up to 5 and train hybrid weapons up to 5. It is smart of you to focus on frigates to start out with. Many players (myself included) try to rush straight to battleship and end up being able to pilot many ship classes poorly.
The ships you listed aren't so much a progression. They each have different roles.
Decide if you want to focus on turret or drone ships. There is a path for both with Gallente. Ultimately you will want both but early on I think it can help to focus on one.
If you pick turrets you would want to progress from Incursus to Enyo.
If you pick drones you want to progress from Tristan to Ishkur.
Ares is an interceptor so I would probably hold off on that for now unless you are in a corp that wants new players to focus on tackling.
Nemesis is a stealth bomber which uses missiles so that will be a whole new skill set. May want to put that on hold or if that style of play appeals to you go all out and maybe cross train into Caldari or Minmatar ships that use missiles rather than turrets or drones.
Good luck! |
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Alaric Faelen
Sabotage Incorporated Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2015.02.21 05:03:16 -
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Like Dalloway Jones, the only concern I would mention is the addition of CovOps like bombers to your frigate plan. Bombers use the missile tree for torpedoes while the frigates you mention are turret based. If your primary focus is on gunnery, also training missile skills will slow down your progression early on. Of course, it opens up many more ships for use- but you must weigh that against being better at one thing than okay at two. This is more of a concern for early players than veterans who tend to have a wider array of skills. Do you want more gunnery skills at V, or both gunnery and missiles at IV, for the same amount of training time?
Core skills are the most important to get to V. These affect every ship you undock, and getting these to V is never a waste of time. A freighter pilot needs to be able to align and hit warp quickly just as much as the null sec guy dodging gate camps in a Ceptor, for example. Also, as ships get larger and more complex, fitting them properly becomes more difficult. So what may seem fine at III or IV now in core skills will become a liability as you progress up the ship lines. This is often played out by newish players flying large or expensive ship hulls, but fitted poorly with low meta modules that don't realize the potential of the ship itself.
Really, what you need to consider going forward is the ROLE you want to play, rather than specific ships. The role you play defines what ships you will want to train into. For newer players, this is often tackle- which dictates being able to warp disrupt (or scram) an enemy at distance, and maintain that distance during the fight so the enemy can't escape. Other roles are more specific to fleet action than solo game play. For example I invested heavily in EWAR as a new player, because it appealed to me- but I found it rarely was used in the PvE content I was focused on as a new player. Only once I got into fleet PvP action, and fleets large enough to warrant dedicated EWAR over just another DPS ship- did my investment in EWAR begin to pay off. As a newb, I probably should have put my training time elsewhere.
All that said....at the moment CCP is all about drones and hybrids. Drones were always something of a necessity as most ships over cruiser sized uses them anyway. Now that they are OP to such a degree that the current meme is 'Ishtars Online', I would recommend following drones as a primary weapon system. Hybrids cross with caldari, which also have good drone pirate ships. Drones mesh well with Amarr, and a focus on cap warfare instead of lasers saves training into lasers as well. So in summation, gallente is current FOTM the way 'Winmatar' used to be.
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Vartan Sarkisian
Mosquito Squadron Mordus Angels
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Posted - 2015.02.25 17:26:35 -
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also give priority to skills that increase powergrid and CPU or reduce the modules need for so much Powergrid and CPU, even if to level IV initially then do the main ones to Level V
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
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Kitty Bear
Disturbed Friends Of Diazepam Disturbed Acquaintance
1429
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Posted - 2015.02.25 19:38:15 -
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for damage application .. train the relevant gunnery support skills faster than you train your actual weapon skill. they are more important than being able to use T2 guns
better tracking means more hits ... etc |
kingtuttut Badasaz
Red Federation RvB - RED Federation
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Posted - 2015.03.06 03:25:40 -
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If your looking to get started in pvp early on I'd train missiles. For newbro's there a very solid weapon system in that all you do is press f1 and are alot easier to manage than turrets. With turrets there are alot of different things to manage such as tracking and transversal and the difference between your optimal and your fall-off. Training missiles early will also give you access to popular doctrine ships such as the talwar and caracal. However personally I prefer turret based ships but as a newbro I'd train missiles but that's just my opinion. |
Ria Nieyli
Nieyli Enterprises
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Posted - 2015.03.06 13:46:31 -
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kingtuttut Badasaz wrote:If your looking to get started in pvp early on I'd train missiles. For newbro's there a very solid weapon system in that all you do is press f1 and are alot easier to manage than turrets. With turrets there are alot of different things to manage such as tracking and transversal and the difference between your optimal and your fall-off. Training missiles early will also give you access to popular doctrine ships such as the talwar and caracal. However personally I prefer turret based ships but as a newbro I'd train missiles but that's just my opinion.
Coincidentally, training shield tanking skills to a very good level takes only about a month.
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