Advanced skills advice

I have recently started aquiring advanced skills and I was wondering if there are any which should be avoided or are a 'must have'.

I was thinking about structure mastery followed by sheild powering to begin with, cheap and looks useful, any suggestions?

dont waste ASPs for shield fortifying... use ATPs for this...

use ASPs for Agility boosts

well, once again it depends greatly on what you would like to do with your career. if you want to be a fighter, then CM1, Boosts1, CE4, AB4, OC3, DC3, then max wep spec. that should be a nice setup, timebomb seems like a very useful asset as well, shield powering looks like it would be a very nice skill as a union member. the ambush endurance and ambush fallback are great for wars as well, and almost are a must for effective stacking as almost all high level fighters have these skills and the RP is almost to far away for regular retreat constraints.

Thanks for the advice, don't worry Jesper I'm only getting ATPs at the moment so I don't have any to waste. I may just store up my ATPs untill some point in the future when I go skilling. This will also give me time to think about it before any hasty decisions are made.

I also think Bogram is correct in pointing out that most other players will have picked their skills for PvP combat so picking similar ones gives a even playing field.

To me the shield charging (double recharge) looks great with the Union shields. But it is quite expensive (30 ATP).
For example a Q-Large shield has a recharge of 70 points per 6 minutes. With the skill this would increase to 140 points per six minutes.

Seems great if you like slow battles in which you let the NPC attack you, such that the shield can recharge during the fight. Seems a good addition if camping is a possibility.

Reinforced hull, shields.. bombs all that are all great skills, but are the second line of skills because their benefits are lower and costs are higher.

The reinforced hull by the way is an awesome rankers skill... Carry 90t of explosives that blow up in a WH and you survive it.... nothing tops that feeling