Skills for flying a Skirmish Fleet Interceptor

Introduction

The article briefly goes through skills that will affect your abilitiy to fly a fleet interceptor and mention how it affects them. It is not intended to be a list of "You need all of those at 5 to fly", but serves as an overview. Obviously, most of those skills will be helpful for PVP in general.

Skills affecting capacitor life

• Energy Management - 4 recommended, 5 great

  will result in better cap life

• Energy Systems Operation - 4 recommended, 5 great

  will result in better cap life

• High Speed Maneuvering - 4 recommended, 5 great

  will result in better cap life. Strong impact

• Propulsion Jamming - 4 recommended, 5 great

  will result in better cap life. Minor impact

• Warp Drive Operation - 4 recommended, 5 great

  affects how much cap is used per AU warping. Minor impact

Skills affecting survivability

• Interceptors - 4 recommended, 5 great

  gives a nice bonus to point range and makes you harder to hit. Long train, but noticable

• Navigation - 5 recommended

  gives more speed

• Acceleration control - 4 recommended, 5 great

  gives more speed

• Spaceship Command - 4 recommended, 5 great

  adds another bit of agility, always handy

Skills making your job easier ("utility")

• Long Range Targeting - 4 recommended, 5 great

  you can never have enough/too much targeting range

• Signature Analysis - 4 recommended, 5 great

  inties already lock fast, but it never hurts to get another bit of bonus

• Racial Sensor Compensation - 3 recommended, 4-5 great

  every little bit helps against those pesky EC-300s - pick the skill for the inty you fly

• Thermodynamics - 3 recommended, 4-5 great

  heat is your friend - more range on points, more speed from the MWD - and now less damage from this skill

• Biology - 3 recommended

  extends the duration of useful drugs like Quafe Zero or X-Instinct

• Nanite Control/Neurotoxin Recovery - 3 recommended

  if you pop a X-Instinct, it helps a bit with the side effects