Stormhawk_V

I don't actually value DE or IFHE on most DD. Almost all my 10 pointers had PT/LS/SE/CE. If you try to recreate the build with the new system you lose PT but gain PM which to me is worse. It's why I wrote about making LS a single point skill here in this thread. Right now I'd only use IFHE on dedicated captains for midtier gunboats like Farragut or Hill. After the rework the skill will be cheaper so I might use it on the IJN gunboats again. On everything else IFHE is pretty much dead for me. With the plating changes there are just not enough thresholds to justify 3 or even 4 points.

WG knows and simultaneously doesn't care or at least not enough to change something about it.

After spending more time with possible combinations of commander skills for my DDs I'm pretty disappointed that it's impossible to recreate the majority of useful builds even though we get two more skillpoints. Would it kill you to make Last Stand a one point skill? Let's face it, every DD in the game wants it. With the new system cruisers can have Last Stand for a single point and many of them wouldn't even consider using it. This way we could choose three skills from the third row alongside Concealment Expert and Radio Location and get similar buffs as before. Also, no one is going to spend three points for a 5% increase in reload speed. If you want to nerf BFT make it cheaper like you did with Demolition Expert. The increase in AA is unnoticeable in most DDs anyway. In the past the skill was almost never picked because of its AA buff and this isn't going to change after the update.

Man muss schon ziemlich naiv sein, um auch nur anzunehmen, dass es andere Gründe geben könnte.

Und das ist inwiefern relevant? WG will, dass mehr Leute CV spielen, weswegen die Spielmodi so angelegt werden, dass CVs teilnehmen können, wofür gerade Tiers benötigt werden, weil nur noch dort CVs zu finden sind.

Nein, hätte man nicht, denn so wäre ein praktisch CV freier Spielmodus entstanden. Genau das will WG aber nicht.

Ich würde vielleicht nicht häufig sagen, aber ja, das System ist viel zu eindimensional, um es für sowas heranzuziehen. Es ist ja mit ein Grund, warum save-a-star so gut funktioniert bzw. überhaupt erst ein Ding ist.

Nachdem ich jetzt die ganzen Kommentare hier gelesen habe, muss ich sagen, dass ich so richtig motiviert bin, das neue Ranked selbst auszuprobieren...

Es ist wirklich traurig, aber ich kann an all dem nichts Positives entdecken. Die Kapitäne bekommen mehr Punkte, sind in den meisten Fällen aber ingesamt schwächer. Viele alte Skills wurden generft, die Neuen sind häufig schlecht, bestenfalls stark situationsabhängig und selbst dann noch überteuert. Die Gewinner sind CVs und Spieler, die mit ihren BBs gerne hinten sitzen. Der Rest verliert und dann sind da noch die stark steigenden Kosten für absolut jede Aktion mit Elite EP, sowie die damit einhergehende Entwertung dieser Ressource. Gleichzeitig muss man viel mehr Arbeit investieren, um sie überhaupt erst effektiv farmen zu können. Dem Spiel helfen diese Änderungen kein bisschen.

WG's wallet asked for it.

I really like how the 15% torpedo belt reduction for CVs even works on ships that have no torpedo belt like DDs. Nice joke, gave me a good laugh. Could you please fix it now? Thank you!

For the same reason they keep sitting at max range taking potshots at enemy BBs from the border behind their spawn after speccing those secondaries.

Yes, because this is actually how you want to use secondaries. WG is really good at selling questionable features as powerful buffs.

I would like to join the lottery.

Why would WG not test these changes extensively before asking us to try them? That's like expecting them to drop a faulty update that would... I don't know... break clan brawls on the EU server for an entire weekend. They would obviously never do such a thing.

Repair the installation with the Gamecenter. That should fix it.

Of course it is. Do you actually question the wisdom of the spreadsheet? German BBs have been overperforming for years. This is also the reason why the adjustments hit them much harder than Massa, Georgia and Ohio. Their higher base accuracy on the secondaries never made up for German Kruppstahl. Pushing in with a Bismarck or FDG was almost always a guaranteed victory. Players who deny this only want to keep their OP toys.

No, version number differences are in a fine state.

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I think that's part of their 'changes for the sake of changes' approach. I bet there will be a lot of players who think these are actually new skills.

I once met an Asashio player who kept torping a smoked up RN CL. I told him that his torps can't hit this ship and his response was just: 'Why is that?'

Fen Yang: 'Look, I got defensive AA!' Me: 'What did it cost?' Fen Yang: 'Everything.'

Yes.

Well, I guess you can look at your ships in port for a bit? That seems to work fine for me.

I'm afraid we have to wait until they fix it. There's unfortunately nothing we can do.