Combat Pilot

Well the basics for a good combat pilot will not change regardless of which race you choose as you can fly any ship from any race if you have trained the skill.

Firstly though, you’ll need high perception, intelligence and willpower attributes and you will need the following skills at level 5 to be considered competent regardless of what you are flying.

• Engineering
• Mechanics
• Electronics
• Gunnery
• Missle Launchers
• Spaceship Command
• Drones

In addition to those I would recommend that you train up to at least level 4 the following skills.

• Energy Emission Systems
• Hull Upgrades
• Repair Systems
• Tactical Shield Manipulation
• Science
• Navigation
• Afterburner
• Evasive Maneuvering

With these additional skills you will be able to handle both shield and armour tanking styled ships with the added bonus of having the ability to utilise extremely useful bits of combat kit. (Hey look I never said being a combat pilot was cheap…)

Finally when you have found your chosen style of play you will wish to specialise. I would reccommend that you train all the skills relevant to your style to a minimum of three. So if you are a Caldari missle boat pilot then you will want all of your missle skills and all of your shield skills to be at least level 3. Or if you are an Amaarran laser toting zealot, you will want gunnery and armour skills. Generally speaking it is always wise to have gunnery skills to at least 3 but it is not always required. To use the tech 2 versions of your basic weapons it will usually need to be level 5.

Finally it should be noted that it is far easier to do damage with missles and drones than it is with guns at low level, the trade off hwoever is that at high level and with some skill the guns will out distance, out damage and will have a higher rate of fire than missles, and drones get swatted really quickly.

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