Think I decided I'll skip Dessies V for the time being since I don't see myself flying interdictors all that often, if at all. I'll just suck up the training time if it comes to that point. And destroyers in general I don't fly often, so the extra level wouldn't be extraordinarily helpful. Would much rather spend the ~8 days it would to take to finish that putting time towards BCs V, which is a hull size I rather do like.
And there are going to be skill changes involving Battleships and moving up from them to capital ships. You need BS V now and will only need BS IV in the future, but there will be other skills introduced or required that will extend the training time. Will try and edit in a link later to where I read that if I can find it - on my phone now. Not something I would worry about at the moment however since that's further off.
In other news, today after the migration downtime, I'm going to try out a new ship build. My Tengu is still too valuable for me to risk losing in low sec or a wormhole right now, but I built a couple of Arbitrators (which, interestingly enough I can only fly due to me training all this stuff for tiericide) intended for doing exploration in low sec based off a fit I found on battleclinic. It's a good, cheap hull for the job, with the full fit (at least as well as I can fit it - my armor tanking skills are subpar) being less than 20-25mil. The great thing about it is the bonused drones being the main source of damage, so you have freed up high slots that can be used for a salvager, cloak, etc. The Vexor is equal or better, but I don't think my training for that completes until later today, but besides that, the Arbitrator has a missile hardpoint, and being Caldari with 2mil odd SP in missiles, it made more sense to do that than use a Vexor which has no place for missile launchers. My Gunnery skills are around 500k, with the vast majority of that being in Weapon Upgrades and Advanced Weapon Upgrades. The drone bandwidth on the Vexor is higher, but I don't think you can really even take advantage of it with just the cruiser-sized hull. Maybe in PvP situations where you might want to field heavy drones, but I shouldn't be facing anything that requires more than medium ones.
Will definitely report in to see how it pans out for me. The hull should at least pay for itself in roughly one radar site, so if I can do that much without getting blown up, it's a win in my book. I just hope I can scan down the stuff without being in a bonused scanning ship, but my scanning skills are good, and it's too much of a pain in the ass to be doing ship swapping, at least without access to the covert ops hulls.
