Incursion fitting principles: Difference between revisions

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Incursion fleets rely on good resists and buffer supported by a logistics. There are simply too many enemies to be able to fit a strong enough local tank, not to mention that by sacrificing a small portion of your fleet to bring in logistics instead of more damage dealers, the rest of the damage dealers can fit more offensive modules and your fleet will perform better.

Once you have a good enough tank, the rest of your spare slots should be used to augment your damage potential. While there's such a thing as under-tanked, being over-tanked is not only wasteful in incursions but even dangerous if done at the cost of offense.

The Sansha incursion rats deal two types of damages, lasers (EM and thermal) and torpedoes (kinetic and explosive). As such, they hit across all four resist types and all incursion fits must reflect that. In general we use a rather erroneous term ''"70% resists across the board"'' when we tell people what their resists should be. It is important to know that there is more to it than that.

The reason we still use the erroneous ''"70% resists across the board"'' term is that if you have 70% resists in all categories, you're good and there's no risk of anyone getting it wrong thinking you can combine a low EM resist with a high explosive resist.

One of the most important aspects to realize is that whatever dps (damage per second) your favourite third party fitting tool tells you that you have, or whatever the fitting window ingame tells you, is worth nothing if you cannot apply that damage. Hence the term ''"applied dps"'' as opposed to ''"paper dps"'' which is basically just your potential damage.

Practically this means that utility modules often make or break fleets.

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First of all, when the term ''"utility slots"'' is used it means the slots you have left over once you've fitted your tank and your weapons. So if your ship has five midslots and four are needed for your tank, then the fifth slot is your one utility midslot. If you ship has eight highslots and seven turrets, you have one utility highslot.

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The following skills are recommended, if not downright required to fit the modules you have to in order to do incursions. For more information on what the different skills do, see the [[Support_Skills#Skills|Support Skills]] page.

That said, it's perfectly fine to top off your current skills to meet the minimum requirement to come try incursions, if you're not sure you'll like it. You don't have to commit before trying it out.

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Getting the recommended skills for a damage dealer requires 59 days at the most, if you train into a turret-based battlecruiser on a brand new character. In comparison training for missiles is longer, up to 66 days, but normally you would only take that route if you already have missile skills to begin with.

* Small <racial> Turret IV

* Medium <racial> Turret IV

* Rapid Firing IV

* Sharpshooter IV

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With the above mentioned skills, young unistas interested in doing incursions can fly one of the [[Minimum Incursion fits]], while they train for a more suitable ship. See [[#Moving into useful hulls|moving into useful hulls]] below for further training.

Training for logistics is considerably more time-consuming than that of a regular damage dealer. Please remember that when you think the above mentioned skills for a damage dealer is a long train.

It takes up to 80 days to get good enough skills to fly a [[Vanguard Incursion fits#Logistics|logistics starter fit]].

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While not critical, being able to overheat your modules for a short while is often more than enough to save your ship when things turn from bad to worse. As such, it's also recommended that people train the following skills:

* '''Engineering V''' ''(+4 days and 6 hours)''

* '''Science IV''' ''(+18 hours)''

* '''Thermodynamics III''' ''(+11,5 hours)''

Once you have the recommended skills, the step from a Battlecruiser up to a decent Battleship is surprisingly short and you should take this step as soon as possible to get into a decent ship. You might need to top off some of the support skills, pending on what ship you decide to move into, if you run into powergrid, CPU or cap issues.

Flying ships that cost over a billion in just the hull shouldn't be taken lightly however, but from an efficiency point of view there is no reason not to get one.

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See the '''recommended battleship fits''' for [[Vanguard_Incursion_fits#Battleships|vanguards]] and [[Assault_Incursion_fits#Battleships|assaults]].

Remember that these recommendations are just for the basic levels and there is much room for improvement. Increase these skills, train up for tech two weaponry and max out the gunnery and support skills, and your ship will be much more efficient. You'll also have many more options to improve your fit with better fitting and support skills, like upgrading a module, swap out an ancillary current rig for a damage rig, drop an excessive tank module for more utility modules and so forth.

What you're going to train next differs a little bit based on what ship and what weapons you're going to use. For some fitting skills will be prioritized due to the lack of CPU/powergrid of their hull, for others capacitor skills are more important while others can simply go straight for better ship skills and tech two weaponry.

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Once you've trained these skills, you can fly some of the more '''advanced fits''' for [[Vanguard Incursion fits#Advanced fits|vanguards]] or [[Assault Incursion fits#Advanced fits|assaults]].

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