Tank can keep your ship alive in EVE. You can shield tank or armor tank. Which one is better for you depends on your character's skills. The two categories you're going to want to look at are Engineering and Mechanics. If you have more skill points in Engineering, shield tanking is probably best for you. If you have more skill points in Mechanics, go with armor tanking.

When dealing with shield tanking, there are some skills to pay attention to. Every ship has resistances to the four damage types dealt in the Eve Isk universe. There's EM, Kinetic, Explosive, and Thermal. So, the four most important skills to have for shield tanking are: EM Shield Compensation, Kinetic Shield Compensation, Explosive Shield Compensation, and Thermic Shield Compensation. These skills boost your resistances to each type of damage. Some other important skills to have are: Shield Compensation, Shield Management, Shield Operation, Shield Upgrades, and Tactical Shield Manipulation.

Shield Compensation reduces the capacitor need for shield boosters, which is important because shield boosters take up a lot of capacitor power. Shield Management gives a bonus to your shield capacity, meaning more shield strength. Shield Operation is a crucial skill to have because it allows you to use shield boosters and other basic shield modules. It also gives you a bonus to shield recharge rate. Shield Upgrades allow you to use modules like shield extenders and rechargers.

Tactical Shield Manipulation is another very important skill to have because it allows you to use shield hardeners and it reduces the chance of damage penetrating the shield when it falls below 25%. Some other skills that will help you are: Energy Management and Energy Systems Operation.

Energy Management regulates your ship's overall capacity and gives a bonus to the capacitor's capacity. Energy Systems Operation allows you to operate your ship's capacitor, including the use of capacitor boosters. This skill also reduces your capacitor's recharge time.

Another important aspect of shield tanking is what modules you use. Each ship has a certain number of high power, medium power, and low power slots. When it comes to shield tanking, concentrate on the medium power slots. Modules such as shield hardeners, extenders, shield booster, boost amplifiers, and resist amplifiers are all modules that will be fitted on a medium power slot. Which ones you use are the key. You have to find a balance between how much your resistances are and how fast your shield recharges. Here is a list of all shield modules that will be useful to you: