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I wonder if they expand upon "story" and "event" events. Like -siren invasion fleet drives humanity off the seas -with captured siren tech KANSEN/shipgrills are created -siren threat is contained (but certainly not eliminated) -faction animosities arise, which leads to replay of ww2 events (main story) -Siren deal with Sakura unvelied, leading to rebellion (VDiR, ISSS) -Ironblood and siren deal is unveiled, Hood sinking (Scherzo) -whole "Awakening Protocol", maybe some exposition from Siren side (with sudden AL fleet bargin in and Akashi finding data about Awakening, how to use on shipgrills) -appearance of Amber and Ash (Alterprise and Dark Takao) as cliffhanger for 2nd season? Well, for CV if you want to crank up damage, then Catapults, preferably two of golden variety. For BB/BC, items with +hit, also one ship in fleet should have SG radar to reduce ambush rate a bit. For survivability, Fire Ex is typical item, as when backline is under fire, its usually HE shells with disturbing fire damage. You can stack Repair Kits for +hp and hp regen, which restores not that small amount of hp per tick on BBs. That or shiny new armor plating, VC and VH. Torpedo bulge can be of value on 9+ maps as amount of fishes only increase. Reload equipment from what I've read had significant nerf, to the point stacking two autoloaders give at best 0.5s? Its all matter of striking balance between offense and defense. Defense isn't an issue until map 10+ unless your backline is like ridiculously underage For frontline survivability I don't think anything can beat Repair kit+Camouflage (extra hp and evasion), or double Repair Kit on DDs, as these usually have high enough evasion. Oxygen torps are I think only frontline damage oriented item and it applies to ships with torps. if anything, you're free to experiment on your own, but upgrade items up to +6, as purple plates aren't that common to find and you need A LOT of them, unless you have "endgame" gear already, like purple Repair Kit, purple Tbtsk C/36 CL gun, gold twin 127mm, purple 406mm MK6, purple SB2C, gold Barracuda and such

With that logic Cossack and Le Trollible also are p2w.

Which happens to be maid with torpedo belt worthy of an armored carrier

And significant part of "ship OPness" is guy behind the wheel

Sirius still higher level than my mob

Valid alternative for MK6 is gold twin 381 to maximize her barrage. For secondaries, I've found triple 152 (Cleve) works mostly better than triple 155 (Mogami), unless you have two yoloboats coming in quick succession. But then, AP secondary could work as well For aux, I happen to run gold SG and purple Fire Control, mostly because I can't be arsed to put anything else ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ maybe Fire Ex if its late map with lots of BB/BC firing at backline.

just slap her with existing +10 MK6

Because there is barely any AA at lowtiers with handful few ships being even able to spawn flak bursts, so you can straight waltz in. On higher tiers, you need to start evading flak, which is rhythm game in essence.

Cheaper are daily containers with signal flags Completing Campaigns also net meaty amount of signals and consumables, you can also participate on PTS for rewards, with tier 6 premium ship being last reward for "PTS Season"

To elaborate: Missouri indeed have THE best credit earning coefficients, the very reason she was pulled from the... well, not store as she was first "Freemium" ship, obtainable by currency you can obtain for free, Free Exp in her case. Next in line are other tier 9 premium (as most of them can be bought directly from the store) ships, having about 20% more credit potential than tier 8 ships but less than Missouri. Not mentioning they can't be +2 uptiered as there are no tier 11... yet. Next in terms of credit gains would be tier 10 Freemiums for coal and steel currencies - they do NOT have increased credit gains, but they have halved maintenance costs AND they come with tier 10 premium paint, which further halves maintenance and gives 20% extra credits. If you can live with making 45k credits less, then premium paint for regular tier 10 is valid pick. From economy (and gameplay impact) standpoint, damage numbers are next to irrelevant. What matters is %hp damage done. So 4k damage to destroyer is going to net you much more than 4k damage to battleships. Or other example - spanking two DDs and touching up cruiser for total of 50k damage during 3min brawl on cap will give you more exp and credits than spending entire game farming single isolated BB for 120k damage and still failing to kill it, while probably also losing game in the process.

Given how rubbish SC rewards are... I can't imagine anyone being salty about newcomer getting SC from tier 10 unless you win once in lifetime lottery and get tier 9 premium or otherwise "removed because overpowered" ship. And "suffering" from not having tier 10... Well, you can expect notorious uptiering when playing anything less than tier 10, though number of tier 9 ships are more than fine in T10 matches. And then there is borderline sealclubbing of tier 10s in your tier 8, but that requires you knowing what you're doing. And idiot in T10, but there is no shortage of those

Wargaming also wants you to rush the game and to capitalize on you buying premium ships and account Whole issue with Bismack (and entire German BB line) is "short range brawlers with inaccurate guns" don't really work with current long range standoff meta. Further compounded by recent ship additions like Smolensk, making sure everyone with ideas of "taking initiative" are very crispy and very salty, farmed by someone they can't touch directly. Also if you think Hoshos with their torpedo bombers aren't fun, you've yet to see Shokaku or Hakuryu removing 3rd of your german BB with every AP bombing run

Battleships with tiers up get more consistent in terms of accuracy, which can send you back to port even faster, when facing competent BB player with bit of RNGesus blessing. Difference is, you play the game for fun, while you (usually) work for money. And you "getting better" at the game won't make lowtiers more fun with current state of broken carriers there. And if anything balance rollercoaster whole CV REEEwork has shown, players aren't interested in playing carriers unless they are straight up broken in CV favor. And WG won't admit REEEwork is failure, especially when accountant team was very happy from extra money coming from sales of previously frozen assets

Best coin maker? Premium account. Perma camos are relevant economy wise only on tier 10, below that they are just vanity items. I'll be blunt: if WG doesn't want you to have fun as newcomer, why playing the game

Shinonome can be only obtained from Campaign, you can't whale your way through that. Best when you play for the objective, not so much if you play for angry torpedobeat noises

She's collab boat. Speaking of one, AL Yukikaze fits the "premium torpedobote" bill, having F3 torps at tier 8 but again, 404 not found

Unavailable for a long time and she's not coming back

Le Trollible have arguably the most potent torps of all premium DDs except Asashio, she can be also hilarious to play with her speed and gunpower. Concealment 404 not found tho and Year of the Carrier can prove to be major pain in the arse. Or just doubloon pack, so she can spend it her way, even if it means painting all the ships with permacamos. Or buy discounted ship from Armory *taps head*

For premium DDs, Cossack or Le Trollible might serve better. Or Leningrad. Or Sims even. No luck if you're in search for "torpedo oriented" DD though

And yet, perceived and statistical accuracy of mine is indeed high. Amusingly enough, next ship in terms of%hit rate is Bismarck of all things Because there are none, JB have 4s faster reload (and access to reload upgrade), 0.1 better sigma and MBRB at cost of 2kts top speed. At least she wasn't brutalized on altar for gimmick gods like other sister ships *cough* SoDak *cough*

Breaking news, JB and Retardieu are sister ships And I don't know where "bad dispersion" comes from, mine seems to have decent accuracy by BB standards

This intrigued me. And indeed, Smol in recent stats have "merely" more than double players and almost triple battles played than next T10 most popular cruiser I could mind. So, Smol removed when? I hope not before coupon renews in December

Well, it took about as much time for WoT team to introduce *something* resembling tutorial

inb4 "reload all booster" consumable