Support skills

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Support Skills are those skills which affect how well you can fit/use/fly ships and modules, without being skills directly required to use the modules or enter the ships. Common examples are capacitor-related skills such as Energy Systems Management, and fitting skills such as Advanced Weapons Upgrades.

Since 'good support skills' is a cliché in the Uni and EvE generally, this page attempts to define the skill set and suggest what levels qualify as good in what circumstances. Wish us luck.

Expectations in Various Ship Classes

The heart of the brawl is that a skilled character can double the damage and defense of an unskilled one flying exactly the same ship. And, of course, you can put more and better stuff on the ship besides.

Battleships

T2 guns on battleships can be great, but the training time for t2 turrets is on the order of 70 days, from basic T1 large gun skills. They're currently considered vital only for Amarr battleships, and that's on economic grounds. (Meta-4 large lasers ran about 22M isk each, last time I checked.)

T2 Frigates

Support skills depend on the particular frigate, of course. An extreme example: you can fly a covops ship without putting a covops cloak on it, but you'll be missing the point completely.

T2 Cruisers

In general, at this level you should be able to fully T2 fit your ship. In practice, you'll need Weapons Upgrades 5 and a couple levels of AWU, or you'll be very frustrated.

Overheating

In a sense, the ultimate support skill -- you can use a module beyond its design specs, though eventually burning it out.