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Originally Posted by Fog  I would start by training drone skills. That will help your Drake out a whole whole lot (as well as a future raven) and suddenly once you're done you will be ready to fly Gallente drone ships. Once you're flying those, you'll probably eventually want to try out rails and blasters on your Gallente ships, and then all of a sudden all you need to train is projectiles/energy turrets and you can fly Amarr or Minmatar if you want. |
I have to 2nd Fog's recommendation. Not too long ago (not even 2 weeks ago) I had been ignoring my Drone skills pretty heavily. I thought, meh, why bother with drone skills when 90% of my damage is coming from my 7 Heavy Missile Launcher IIs.
But after getting Drones 4-5, Drone Interfacing 1-3, and pumping my scout drone operation from 2 to 4, it's a night and day difference. Instead of being pretty much useless on level 4s, my 5 drones can now reach out to 65km (most battleships orbit 40-60km) and they now do a fairly significant portion of my overall dps. I went from not being able to break the tank of the 2.5 million battleships in DEDspace level 4s to doing them with ease. And the time for a kill on the normal 500k-1mil battleships that populate most level 4s really dropped dramatically.
I originally wanted to train and fly battlecruisers because my eventual plan was to get into a Command Ship. That has kind of lost it's appeal now.
Personally, I'd recommend you train up Battleships instead of Battlecruisers, BCs are great at level 3s, but people do Level 4s in a BS with significantly less skillpoints required. And Level 4s are just so much higher ISK/hour than Level 3s are, even at the slow pace of a battlecruiser.
And with the price of a Dominix these days, you can't go wrong cross training drone skills and armor tanking.
edit: To clarify, I fly a Drake, and while rigs make BCs capable of doing level 4s, rigs make Battleships capable of sleeping through level 4s while doing way more damage against the other battleships.