Nechrom

While buffing US DDs has little to do with the UP-ness of mid-high tier IJN DDs, it sure doesn't help when the average performance of other ships goes up. That is actually an indirect nerf to those who stay unchanged because you only have a limited pool of enemy HP and rewards available to you each battle. If then those unchanged ships were already hurting, well you get the idea. I'm going to keep limiting my playtime to just worthwhile missions more or less until the IJN DDs are fixed, because that's where I got the most fun back in closed beta. I know they could once put out the same hurtin' as other ship classes, WG has just chose that they shouldn't be able to do that anymore.

Of course it has to be all or nothing. You're not boycotting anything, you're just choosing not to purchase based on the price point. As you should be. Boycotting means that you take it further and stop supporting the company completely, not just by deciding not to purchase what you feel is not worth the price. That means you stop playing their games completely to make a point. Buy what you want if you think it's worth the price they're asking for it. Don't if you don't. If people keep buying the bundles then you are clearly wrong and this is a pricing model that works. On the other hand if they don't sell enough then there is no incentive for WG to continue with them.

Clustering.

I managed with the 7km torps, which I actually preferred, during the CBT. Way more effective since you want to be as close as possible to your detection range anyway before you launch and the 7km ones are also much faster.

Are we still talking about the guns? Because I'm pretty sure the Minekaze can't fire its guns undetected and hit.

Of course I'm only saying "try switching over" if you can do it. If it messes up your job or something then that clearly takes priority. I'm just speaking from my own experience of making the switch from inverted to non-inverted. I can still do inverted mouse and I even prefer it for flight controls.

Most of the DDs that can fire from beyond detection range have like 1-2 km wiggle room, and that is if there are no enemy DDs anywhere closer. A Gremy firing on a BB from stealth will have his work cut out for him. The HE shells do so little damage that it would take the better part of the entire battle to grind him down even with fires. A BB or CA isn't in any real danger when being fired upon by a DD unless they are also being targeted by other ships. With the current state of IJN DDs I find that "rush and one-shot" tactics actually work better than staying hidden and throwing the torpedo dice where 5 sides are empty and the 6th side has a 1. So I don't see how short torpedo range is that big of a deal as long as you can handle enemy DDs. Not saying that DDs are fine, because they aren't. What I'm saying is that the US and upcoming USSR DDs are in no worse of a position.

As you've probably guessed you'll need to create a new account to use those promo codes. I'd suggest making a new account and starting over since it doesn't seem like you've played that many battles or put any money into the game yet.

Many ratings on most ships were tweaked back in 5.0.0 without the actual stats changing. The calculations for the rating system changed in order to make room for a wider range of stats.

Neither of those are free-to-play.

Welcome to online free-to-play gaming. You must be new here.

If you do badly in high tiers and can't cover your repair and ammo cost, then yes. Taking a big warship out into battle, turns out, isn't free.

One thing to keep in mind for WoWS in contrast to WoT is that a new nation doesn't require an extensive set of crew faces, unique consumables, many different camouflage patters and full voice work (the last one I guess will change). So it's much more viable to have one-off or at least small ship tree nations, even ones with just a few premiums.

Are you counting ship repair and ammo resupply?

Göteborg and Visby for destroyers. Tre Kronor for cruiser. Sverige for coastal defense ship (tiny battleship/battlecruiser). Plenty of early tier destroyers and cruisers.

The closest I'll get to a Swedish ship. Bofors main guns on a Polish/British ship.

If you don't start evading before you spot the torpedoes yourself, then yes that is as it should be (but not how it is in many cases with for example 1.8-2 km detect range IJN torpedoes). But the stars really need to align for the Russian DDs to even be able to launch at you without being spotted. Most of them won't be able to without using solid cover.

The guns, even those on the tier X DD, are less powerful than the guns on the Omaha for example. They are almost literally the same as the Gremyashchy guns with just slightly better velocity and damage. And those can penetrate light cruisers like the Omaha, but have issues with belt armour upwards of 100mm like Myoko/New Orleans and higher.

Gotta love the placebo effect.

Seeing how few actually use UTC+0, especially during the summer, I think that would just inconvenience more people than it helps. If you can convert to your time from UTC+0, you can do the same for CET (UTC+1) and CEST (UTC+2).

Except the Pepsicola.

My 2 cents: After going through and checking the stats of the Russian DD line I'm pretty confident they will not initially be a balance problem. Thing is they have such high detection range that even the best of them will barely get their detection range below their torpedo range with skill and upgrade, and even then the only good thing about the torpedoes are their low detection range. As for being good gunboats, I have no doubt they will fill that niche well. They have closer to cruiser performance HE shells with good ballistics and for the most part fast traverse speed. They can chase down lone enemy DDs and keep more dangerous targets at range. Will definitely be interesting to try them out as they are pretty unique.

I paid 5 dollars back in the olden WoT days. I've definitely gotten value for my money.

No, the Warspite still has 72 sec traverse speed.

But comparing the Deutschland and the Admiral Hipper you can really tell. 26 vs 32 knots and the even the longest serving of the Deutschlands had abysmal AA by tier 9 standards.