What does the master lvls on ship mean?

[GRM]

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[battlecattle]

Masteries are supposed to be a general guide to useful skills for the ship in question. Take them with a grain of salt, however, since many of the higher level masteries tend to include extraneous skills with marginal benefit.

[Uchawi]

Masteries are required to advance to the next ship class. You have to get each t1 ship to a mastery of 3 before going on.

[PyroPaul]

It means absolutely nothing.

The Mastery level is a dev imposed yard stick measurement that replaced the old Certification System. All it shows is how far you've trained in the skills which may or may not aid you in flying that ship... But roughly 60% of the skills required in the mastery levels are bloat and don't actually help you all that much in the end.

While it is good to use them as a base line to give you an idea of what abilities you should probably focus to get the most out of your ship, you should predominantly work on the skills which are required to unlock modules, weapons, and fittings first, as they will have a much larger impact on your ship.

[CrAzY ShOoter]

It's just a tip tool to plan skill ques in advance.

There are bunch of skills that you might never use or you might use it on different ship and so on, so you should pick up skills that you find useful.

https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/The_Magic_14 <----- that already gives you pretty much all the training recommended to be done before training for Battleships and start soloing lvl 4 missions

[MAXE]

the master level is a guideline of how well you master the ship type !

etc if a player is master lvl 1 and tryes to fight a master level 5, then the chance of lose that fight is 90% or 100% !

So its a guide line !

it could be cool to get speciel bonuses for getting higher master levels though ?

[fingom]

Masteries shows what skills are relevant to what ships. If you want to know more then use program Pyfa (Python Fitting Assistant) which will tell you in more details what skill afect what module. Pyfa will also tell you in what way certain skill afect ship/module.