Starting skills

This article describes mechanics which are still new at the time of writing and have not been extensively tested. Testing was done with the assumption that background details in character creation other than race do not affect starting skills.

As of the Vanguard patch, starting skill points have been raised from 55824 to around 400k. A wide variety of tech I fits are usable directly from character creation with this change and overheating is immediately possible.

Starting SP

Amarr	Caldari	Gallente	Minmatar
408995	399718	408995	406666

Common Skills

• Armor (See Tanking below.)
  • Hull Upgrades II
  • Mechanics II
  • Repair Systems I
• Drones
  • Drone Avionics I
  • Drones I
• Electronic Systems
  • Electronic Warfare I
  • Propulsion Jamming I
• Engineering
  • Capacitor Management III
  • Capacitor Systems Operation III
  • CPU Management IV
  • Electronics Upgrades III
  • Energy Grid Upgrades I
  • Power Grid Management IV
  • Thermodynamics I
  • Weapon Upgrades II
• Gunnery (See Ship and Gunnery Skills below.)
  • Controlled Bursts I
  • Gunnery IV
  • Motion Prediction II
  • Rapid Firing II
  • Sharpshooter II
  • Surgical Strike I
  • Trajectory Analysis I
• Missiles
  • Missile Launcher Operation I
• Navigation
  • Acceleration Control I
  • Afterburner III
  • Evasive Maneuvering I
  • High Speed Maneuvering I
  • Navigation III
  • Warp Drive Operation I
• Neural Enhancement
  • Cybernetics I
• Production
  • Industry I
• Resource Processing
  • Mining III
  • Salvaging III
• Scanning
  • Archaeology I
  • Astrometric Acquisition I
  • Astrometric Rangefinding I
  • Astrometrics III
  • Hacking I
  • Survey III
• Science
  • Science IV
• Shield (See Tanking below.)
  • Shield Management I
  • Shield Operation I
  • Shield Upgrades I
  • Tactical Shield Manipulation I
• Spaceship Command (See Ship and Gunnery Skills below.)
  • Mining Frigate I
  • Spaceship Command III
• Targeting
  • Long Range Targeting I
  • Signature Analysis I
  • Target Management I
• Trade
  • Trade II

Racial Differences

Ship and Gunnery Skills

Amarr	Caldari	Gallente	Minmatar
Amarr Frigate III	Caldari Frigate III	Gallente Frigate III	Minmatar Frigate III
[[Skills:Amarr Industrial I]]	[[Skills:Caldari Industrial I]]	[[Skills:Gallente Industrial I]]	[[Skills:Minmatar Industrial I]]
Small Energy Turret III	Small Hybrid Turret III	Small Hybrid Turret III	Small Projectile Turret III
Controlled Bursts II	Controlled Bursts II	Controlled Bursts II	Controlled Bursts I

Tanking

Amarr, Gallente and Minmatar:

• Hull Upgrades III
• Mechanics III
• Repair Systems III
• Shield Management I
• Shield Operation I
• Shield Upgrades I
• Tactical Shield Manipulation I

Caldari:

• Hull Upgrades II
• Mechanics II
• Repair Systems I
• Shield Management II
• Shield Operation II
• Shield Upgrades II
• Tactical Shield Manipulation II