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Industry Skill Books

Is there a particular region where am I most likely to find the industry skill books?

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melissa blick [ Editor ]

I did a completely comprehensive uncomprehensive search myself while autopiloting 20 gates in gallente hisec. I was able to find NPC sell orders for every skill book I looked for (364 days). While the npc university corp (caille, in this case) had all the basic skills, all the advanced skills I looked for (titan, carrier, dread, hac, assault ship, exhumer, science skills, exhumer, logi, jf and others) were all available.

The t2 ship skills has npc orders at the center for advanced studies corp, and fed navy academy. Some, especially science skills also had sell orders are the research agent corp (roden).

While my search was not exhaustive, barring specific skills I missed, I'm pretty certain all skills are available on npc sell orders in hisec. You will have to go to the advanced studies/navy academy for the racial t2 ship/weapon books. Some skill books such as the advanced connections skills, drone spec are sold by the LP stores.

Specifically for industry skills, I was able to find everything. Shady skills like gas cloud harvesting and drug manufacturing are not sold by npc, and are obtained from npc pirate drops. You'll have to buy those from other players.

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aeniec

Any of the highsec regions should have them. Skillbooks are typically always sold by the "learning" corporations or schools / etc.

Head to any trade hub, look up the skillbook and search for the closest one that is 364 day sell orders. These are the NPC sellers and wont have a mark up.

The only exception I can think of is the books you buy with LP, in which case you have to either earn them yourself via missions or buying from another player. (could be wrong on this, i dont run missions :P)

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breal d'nie [ Editor ]

Further to Aeniec's answer it should also be noted though that some of the higher end books (ie: t2 items and ships, advanced skills, high rank skills) are sold in low sec. It may be worth it to purchase those at a bit of a mark-up if you don't do well with dying.

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ecaf ersa [ Editor ]

All factions have at least one corporation that will produce and sell all skillbooks.

Exactly which corporations I can't say off the top of my head but I think one of the Minmatar corps is Pator Tech.

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