Gallente Basic Ship and Skill Overview: Difference between revisions

This guide aims to provide an overview of the different ships and their roles rather than specific fits. For these, take a look at the individual ship's page (eg [[Atron]]).

===Skills===

For general skills that benefit all pilots, see [[Basic_Skills|Basic Skills]] and [[Support_Skills|Support Skills]].

Every pilot should think about which skills they want to train in order to reach their goals. The following only touches on basic and essential skills and should only serve as a guideline.

One may also want to check out the certificates system within Eve. It serves as a handy reference for if you want to train for a specific task or role. Note that completing a certificate does not give any boosts or bonuses, they are (for now) merely suggestions. They may be accessed in-game on your character sheet, in the "Certificates" tab of the "Skills" section.

In order to fly a ship, pilots must train the appropriate skill for that ship. For Gallente these include:

*[[Skills:Spaceship_Command#Gallente_Frigate| Gallente Frigate]]

*[[Skills:Spaceship_Command#Gallente_Industrial| Gallente Industrial]]

====Fitting Skills====

In order to fit almost any ship effectively and efficiently, certain skills should be trained:

*[[Skills:Engineering#Power_Grid_Management| Power Grid Management]]

*[[Skills:Engineering#CPU_Management| CPU Management]]

*[[Skills:Engineering#Weapon_Upgrades| Weapons Upgrades]]

*[[Skills:Engineering#Advanced_Weapon_Upgrades| Advanced Weapon Upgrades]]

For Gallente ships capacitor is important for active armor tanking, propulsion modules, and hybrid weapons. Certain skills can be trained in order to achieve an optimal size, recharge rate and efficiency for a ships capacitor.

:''Main article: [[Support_Skills#Mobility|Mobility skills]]''

Mobility skills increase the agility and speed of a ship, which can be a lifesaver, even for the most cumbersome of ships.

====Armor Tanking Skills====

:''Main article: [[Basic_Skills#Armor_Tanking|Armor Tanking skills]]''

Gallente ships are generally designed to armor tank. This means that it is necessary to achieve a certain level of proficiency in armor support skills, including eventually being able to fit T2 armor tanking modules. To do this, following skills can be trained:

====Weapons Skills====

=====Hybrid Turrets=====

:''Main article: [[Basic_Skills#Drones|Drone skills]]''

Many Gallente ships can fit drones, some even specializing in them. Pilots planning to use drones, or fly a drone boat can train:

Additionally, depending on the type of drones planned for use, type specific drone skills are required:

==Rookie Ship==

The rookie ship is the first ship you start with. If you are Gallente, it will be a Velator. A new rookie ship is given whenever you dock at a station where you do not have any ships. Rookie ships are not particularly strong, although are useful for the initial tutorials and as a free shuttle.  

==[[Frigate|Frigates]]==

Frigates are small, fast ships, used often for PvE in level 1 missions. They are also used for tackling and electronic warfare roles in PvP.

The Atron is a great hull for new pilots interested in learning how to +1, The agile but fragile ship will assist new pilots in understanding some of the limitations of [Interceptor#Interceptors|Interceptors], It can serve as an amazing long-point tackle ship.

"Scram Chasing" might be difficult and lethal in the Atron and should be left for tankier hulls like the {{ship|Incursus}}.

The {{ship|Imicus}} is the Gallente Tech 1 exploration and scanning frigate. It is a good ship for rookies or veterans who are getting into probing and don't have the skills for the T2 version, the {{ship|Helios}}. Its bonus to virus strength allows it to complete Data and Relic sites faster and more reliably.  

===[[Incursus]]===

The {{ship|Incursus}} is the typical PvE and PvP frigate for Gallente players. It is faster and has a better scan resolution than the {{ship|Tristan}}, which makes it better for tackling in PvP. It is also the only Gallente frigate with 3 turret slots. The Incursus will likely deal more damage than a {{ship|Tristan}} for pilots without {{sk|Drones}} V.

The {{ship|Navitas}} is the Gallente logistics frigate and is designed for remote armor repair. It makes an ideal entry point for beginner Gallente capsuleers who want to train into the {{ship|Exequror}}, the Gallente Tier 1 logistics Cruiser, before eventually moving on to the Tier 2 {{ship|Oneiros}}.  

The {{ship|Tristan}} is an excellent frigate for PvP and PvE. It is a dedicated drone boat - the only T1 frigate that can operate 5 drones - and thus requires high drone skills to be flown effectively. It offers a bonus to both Hybrid Turret tracking speed and Drone hitpoints and tracking speed. However, it is slower and has less scan resolution than the {{ship|Incursus}}, making it slightly worse for a dedicated tackling role in fleets.

Destroyers are ships slightly larger than frigates. They use the same sized modules as frigates, and they have more high slots. They are often used in PvE for level 1 missions, and as salvaging ships for pilots that have not yet acquired a {{ship|Noctis}}.

===[[Catalyst]]===

The {{ship|Catalyst}} is a Gallente destroyer. Its bonuses favor blasters, though it can also be rail fit. It has 2 mids, allowing it to fit a tackle module, and 3 low slots for an armor tank. Unfortunately the Catalyst is still a destroyer, so it has a large signature for its tank, making it vulnerable to cruiser weapons, and it's slow speed and lack of mid slots means it will have difficulty dictating range against frigates, which is important for a blaster ship. A railgun fit Catalyst is a very fast L1 mission runner, but has trouble tanking level 2s. The catalyst's very high damage at short range makes it the ship of choice for high sec suicide ganks, as it is able to easily reach 900 Dps with T2 guns.

Cruisers are Eve's medium-sized ships, larger than [[Frigate|frigates]] and [[Destroyer|destroyers]] but still much smaller, faster and nimbler than [[Battlecruiser|battlecruisers]] and [[Battleship|battleships]]. Cruisers mount medium-sized weapons and modules. Tech 1 cruiser hulls cost a few million ISK and tend to be the first major financial step up from frigates for new pilots.

The {{ship|Exequror}} is the Gallente logistics cruiser. It's bonuses to remote armor repair range and power allow it to serve as a T1 armor logistic cruiser. It is an effective ship for new logistics pilots.

The {{ship|Vexor}}, like the {{ship|Myrmidon}} and {{ship|Dominix}}, is a drone boat. The Vexor is an excellent mission ship, and can also be a good PvP ship.  It has 75mb of drone bandwidth, allowing it to field a mixed flight of medium and heavy drones at a time, and has the drone bay to carry a few replacements or an additional flight of light drones. This gives the Vexor great flexibility for long roams, where it can carry a full flight of medium and light damage drones, as well as a flight of light repair or EWAR drones to deploy as the situation dictates. While the Vexor has a bonus to hybrid guns, this can be ignored if desired due to a large amount of the Vexor's DPS coming from drones anyway, and Vexors with autocannons, nosferatu and/or neutralisers are common. With 4 mids and 5 lows Vexors are most often armor tanked.

Among T1 cruisers the Vexor is a little more skill demanding than the {{ship|Thorax}}. In particular you should not get a Vexor unless you have at least {{sk|Drones}} 4 and should make getting {{sk|Drones}} 5 a high priority.

Battlecruisers are larger, slower and have more slots than [[Cruiser|cruisers]], but they're smaller than [[Battleship|battleships]] and fit the same medium-sized weapons that cruisers use. They occupy a position between cruisers and battleships analogous to [[Destroyer|destroyers]]' position between [[Frigate|frigates]] and [[Cruiser|cruisers]], although battlecruisers are much more versatile and widely-used than destroyers.

===[[Brutix]]===

The {{ship|Brutix}} is renowned for its high DPS potential in PvP. It is also a popular suicide gank ship.

===[[Myrmidon]]===

The {{ship|Myrmidon}} is the typical level 3 missioning ship. It can fit a passive shield tank like the {{ship|Drake}}, but most Gallente players will focus on armor tanking skills, and its armor repair bonus make it an excellent armor tanker.

The {{ship|Talos}} is the Gallente Attack Battlecruiser. With a damage and a tracking bonus, it focuses on blasters, providing very high DPS, but limited range. In short, it has the DPS of a {{ship|Megathron}} and the tank of a {{ship|Thorax}}. However with the range of heavy blasters and the second highest speed of the Tier 3 battlecruisers a shield-tanking Talos can be an effective kiter. A very good write-up can be found [http://www.evealtruist.com/2012/01/know-your-enemy-tier-3-battlecruisers.html here].

The {{ship|Dominix}} (aka Domi) is the one of two T1 battleship drone carriers, with a bonus to drone damage and hit points. It has the 125mb bandwidth required to field a full flight of heavy or sentry drones (which is not unique among t1 battleships) and a 375m³ drone bay large enough to carry several flights of heavies, sentries, mediums and/or lights. The Dominix's ability to choose damage types by switching drones makes it an attractive level 4 mission runner. With its 5 mid slots and 7 low slots, the Dominix is normally armor tanked. Compared to the Amarrian {{ship|Armageddon}}, the Dominix has bonuses towards drone tracking and optimal - this helps a little with normal drones, but is most useful when using sentry drones.

The Dominix is sometimes humorously called the "Space Potato" because of its squat and round appearance.

===[[Hyperion]]===

For PvP fleets the {{ship|Hyperion}} doesn't get much love. In battleship fleets, remote repping is far superior, making the local rep bonus pointless. For Uni operations, it might act as a decent bait ship during lowsec patrols for pilots with too much ISK on their hands.

The Megathron is one of the best player vs. player ships available to the Gallente. With his high amount of high slots and low slots, it can fit a sporty tank while dealing out a relatively high amount of DPS. Common setups for the Megathron include "Blaster"-throns and "Sniper"-throns, the former being a close range blaster fitted ship while the latter being a railgun fitted long range ship.

T1 industrials are useful to transport large amounts of cargo, but they are vulnerable to suicide ganks in highsec, and piracy in lowsec. For war time hauling, a hauling alt is recommended. See the [[Creating an Alt Hauler]] article for more information.

The {{ship|Kryos}} was changed from Iteron Mark II with the deployment of the Odyssey 1.1 patch. It's cargo hold was reduced in size and a dedicated mineral bay was added.  

===[[Epithal]]===

The {{ship|Epithal}} was known as the Iteron Mark III prior to the deployment of Odyssey 1.1. Its cargohold was reduced in size and a bay was added for hauling planetary interaction (PI) materials or planetary commodities.  

The {{ship|Miasmos}} is designed to haul raw ore in large amounts.

==Ammunition, Range, and Kiting==

You should carry 3 types of ammo during missions, and switch when required. By default, close range (antimatter or plutonium) ammo should be used. If you are taking too much damage at close range, switch to medium range (lead or thorium) or long (iron or tungsten) range ammo and fire from further away. Guns can suffer from tracking issues, so it is recommend to use the 'keep at range' option instead of the 'orbit' option. With the amount of enemies in missions, orbiting is less likely to mitigate the total incoming damage from rats. Even close to optimal, when orbiting and using close range ammo, guns will often have difficulty tracking enemies. Enemies should be kept close to optimal with the 'keep at range' option, this should keep angular velocity low to avoid suffering from tracking issues, and as long as enemies are within optimal there will be no reduction in damage from range.

To find out your optimal with ammo, load ammo in your guns, then right click and show info. The optimal displayed in the attributes will be adjusted for ammo and skills. Or better yet, use EFT and import your character skills to see all of your ship's stats.

When using a battleship that requires cap boosters, it is recommended to keep a medium standard container in the cargo hold. This will provide extra space, which is handy for switching out ammo types and picking up loot after a fight. Always make sure you have the required space for one full load of ammo in the cargo hold, otherwise switching ammo will be difficult.

{{see also|Techs, Tiers and Meta levels}}

These fittings were made mostly using Tech 1 Meta 0 modules for frigates and cruisers, and meta 4 and Tech 2 for larger ships. Higher Meta items up to meta 4 will often be easier to fit. Tech 2 is Meta 5, and usually harder to fit. Meta 3 and 4 are usually expensive, often more expensive than Tech 2. Meta 1 and 2 modules will often be less expensive than Meta 0, due to low demand and high supply on the market. Sometimes meta 4 is cheaper and better than Tech 2, like for ECCM modules. Some meta 4 modules are nearly always used instead of the T2 version, because the T2 having worse attributes and being harder to fit, like for armor plates.

In PvP, frigates and cruisers are often not worth fitting expensive modules on for low skill point or inexperienced pilots. Tech 1 Meta 0 modules are provided freely by the university. Once pilots have the skill points, a certain amount of combat experience, and enough ISK to replace bigger ships, they should consider moving to a battlecruiser with T2 fittings.  

Pilots without T2 guns fitting a BC for PvP should probably avoid the overpriced meta 3 and 4 guns. Some of the meta 3 and 4 medium waepons are reasonably priced, but many are not, and will only make your ship into a loot piñata for the enemy when it is destroyed, for very little increase in effective dps. It is recommended to get T2 guns before getting into BC, BS, or any T2 damage dealing ships for PvP.

Meta 4 guns are recommended on some of these PvE ships, as many gallente pilots in their early careers will focus sooner on T2 drones than T2 guns. Some Meta 4 guns are reasonably priced, others are hideously expensive. If you can't afford to lose expensive Meta 4 guns, downgrade them to meta 3 or 2 instead.

Meta level can be checked in the 'show info' window under the attributes tab. Items without a meta level displayed in the attributes tab are meta 0. Meta level can also be displayed in a ship or station hangar when the items are displayed in list mode. To add the Meta column, right-click the header and select 'show meta lvl'.

==Drones==

Small drones should be used against frigate sized enemies, medium drones should be used against cruiser sized enemies, and heavy drones should be used against battleship sized enemies. Sentries are mostly meant for battleship sized enemies, but if smaller enemies are far enough that tracking and signature radius isn't an issue, they can deal relatively well those.

Amarr drones are not recommended; due to their low damage multiplier, they are rarely useful. Even against rats who's lowest resistance is EM damage, they can be outperformed by Gallente drones. However, the Amarr curator sentry drones can be good to use against rats with a low EM resist (depending on range and tracking). Gallente drones have the highest damage multiplier, and thermal damage is the best or second best damage to deal against many rat types. It is strongly recommended to fit the best drone types to match rat weaknesses.

* Caldari scout drones: Guristas, Mordu's Legion, Mercenaries, Serpentis

Drone aggro should be watched. When arriving in a mission room, aggro should be acquired by approaching enemies and shooting them with guns. If a new wave of enemies arrives and the drones catch aggro, they should be recalled to the drone bay, and released only when the enemies have targeted your ship. Under normal circumstances, you should never lose drones when using proper aggro management with rats. Some missions have particular aggro rules that can lead to drones getting shot, check Eve Survival mission reports for details.

Keyboard shortcuts are recommended for drone management. Drones need to be initially launched manually from the drone window, but shortcuts can be set for attack and return to drone bay commands.

In PvP, Gallente and Minmatar scout drones are used almost exclusively. Gallente drones for their damage potential, Minmatar drones for their speed and explosive damage which armor tankers will not always patch. Explosive damage is also better than thermal against a wider range of T2 ships that have augmented resists. Amarr drones are sometimes used in PvP to gank mission runners and ratters that have a weak EM hole. For sentries, bouncers are popular for their damage type and range.

In general, it is better to keep drones in passive mode. In missions and wormholes, drones on active can trigger a new wave earlier than desired. In PvP, drones on active mode can lead to having an aggression timer when it is not wanted and being unable to dock or jump through a gate.

See [[Drones]] and [[Using Drones]] for more advice on drone selection and deployment.

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