Passive: regen tanking or just having a crapton of EHP, no cap use
Active: repair tanking, lots of cap use

EVEMon and EFT use is basically mandatory.

And EVE has a ton of theory even before the stage where you get obsessed with the game, evidence me actually knowing this stuff when I'm still looking for my hook.

Something happened to the prices over the summer...plus Dominion is supposed to do a lot of resource tweaking and T2-related stuff. Weird part, T3 cruisers are suddenly in the 100s of millions instead of > 1b ISK. If they were worthwhile I could see flying one...the skill loss on death (if it's still there) is still bloody put-offish though.