Iria Ahrens
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Posted - 2016.12.08 14:26:56 -
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Personally, I think telling any newbie with less than a week playtime to train any skill to V is bad advice. You're going to spend a few weeks just training relevant skills to 3, so you can open up more skills that you can train to 3.
It's easy for any vet to get fixated on "best" when what a newbie needs is, "passable." Especially since mission pve is as easy as it gets. They are designed to be beat in fail-fits, especially at the early levels.
Don't train Drones V right now, even if you know you want to specialize in drones. That's a 9-day train for an alpha! To spend week 2 twiddling your thumbs waiting for a skill to train is not fun.
General newbie advice for missions specialists seeking to rise to level 4s asap is this:
Fly frigate until all core and relevant ships skills are III. You'll mostly be funding learning skills with your wallet. Start training Cruiser weapons and ship skills. When Cruiser skills, are 3 then go ahead and move up.
Fly Cruiser and start working on tank and weapons to 4. I believe that t2 weapons and tank skills are now mostly 4 not 5. So this reduces the urgency for level 5 skills, since a 5 is no longer necessary for many t2 mods.
T2 is worth it, the level 5 can wait if you can fit the t2 mod.
By the time you fly BC in missions, you should have a few skills at 5. Mainly you will only want to train a 5 if it opens up a significant skill, which Drones V is one. Start training BS skills. BS skills, (large guns, ship skills) should be 4 before moving up. Tank should be t2 before moving up. Drones V should be trained before flying BS, and t2 light drones, in addition to whatever guns your intended BS will fly.
This is an "adequate" fit that maintains the feeling of progress by allowing you to move up sooner. Like most games, you "could" progress slower and be stronger relative to the content (by farming all content until the exp turns into a trickle and you have full sets of equipment) but most people would rather progress to the more challenging content without taking the time to be 100% prepared for it.
Flying level 2s in a Vexor with drones 3, for example, is doable but more challenging. You'll be warping out to save your ship more often. Fit for speed and range tank. You'll probably step up Drones IV pretty quickly because they are your primary weapon. This is a departure from the general advice above, but this is fine because the advice above is "general" advice. Ultimately, you are going to decide when you're core skills etc are high enough for you to wait for the long, for a newbie, Drones V train. Probably no sooner than week 3 though. There are a lot of core skills that are ultimately higher priority.
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Iria Ahrens
Space Perverts and Forum Pirates
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Posted - 2016.12.08 20:12:29 -
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True. And it's a good point that it is a bad idea to feel wed to a specific ship. Nothing wrong with using a different ship while waiting for primary skills to train. I was mainly making the point though, that even though Drones are a vexor's primary weapon, as far as level 2 missions go, 4 or even 3 with turret assist is adequate. Albiet, not desirable.
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