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That's why it got her reload buffed from 3 minutes to 2 minutes and a half, got her torpedoes' stealth buffed, got captain skills buffs, and even now, they didn't say they will nerf it, just change it to be more aggressive.

If Shimakaze was OP then why she wasn't from the start? in CBT, IJN DDs were some of the worst ships at high tiers. Shimakaze was average at best. Also, One Shimakaze can't torps spam. 15 torps every 3 minutes is not spam. The problem is when there are 4-6 DDs at a time and half of them are Shimakazes. Why there's a Shima spam? well the meta changed to favor her, just like how the meta didn't favor DDs at high tier during CBT. That's why they are not nerfing Shimakaze or IJN DDs, they are changing them to suit the current meta. Torping should become more dangerous and skill requiring, but it also should absolutely destroy you if done right. So even after the change, a well played Shimakaze or any IJN DDs should deal massive damage to you because that's what torp DDs are for, same as in low tiers. They are just raising the skill floor, that's all. Or at least, that's what I think they should do. They can always do what the whiners want and completely nerf the ship to the ground.

So they are saying that IJN DDs will get torps that decrease in damage the further they travel, interesting but doesn't make any sense for how a torp works. Also, that guy that says that the only OP ship is Shimakaze..

Well, patches that usually most people like are the "quality of life" patches: Bug fixes, UI changes, slight improvement to ships (Ishizuchi obviously). I bet we will see the new post battle result screen and maybe even the armor viewer if we are lucky. As for balance, then I'm thinking: adjusting individual ships' AA after the last patch, and getting rid of the torpedo soup. The latter you know will please most players.

"will please everyone" how will you please the guy that thinks Tirpitz/AP/whatever was secretly nerfed?

So, what time frame do you suggest then? it can't be the all-time which you got the 49% from because the ships have changed since then. If sample size is the problem then take 2 week stats every 2 weeks and for all 4 servers and you'll still find Atago and MK at the top. As for Chapayev, the ship just got introduced last patch. We don't know if WG will keep the ship as it is or nerf it. Atago has been like that ever since it got the heal. For a ship that any newcomer to the game can buy and should bring her stats down, she's down surprisingly fine @mtm78 1-3% wirate + higher damage + higher average kill + extremely high plane kill for its tier for MK + the fact these are premium and make a lot of money = complete package.

What's with this 49% winrate I'm hearing? All time stats doesn't reflect anything because they include Atago's pre-buff stats. Atago is clearly OP.

The last Q&A which ended around summer last year had the questions answered every 2-3 months. The thing that bugs me is that they said they were working on bringing it back, but we haven't heard anything ever since, not even "sorry the Q&A is not coming anytime soon." You could still check the thread, it still exists. http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/1434-your-questions-to-developers/

It can't be because the buff they talked about shouldn't be implemented yet. They said it like a few days ago.

There's a big big chance you won't like Mutsuki then if that's how you feel about Minekaze.

Nah, I'm pretty sure it will be extra work for them. Their hands are pretty full trying to read and send all our stellar feedback and answer all our questions in our Q&A thread.

I think there's a post limit for the RU forum to be able to post in the Q&A.

If you mean the devs at Lesta, then they obviously can't. There's a language barrier. A couple who speaks English like ArdReiss sometimes you see posting on the NA forum. If you mean the devs at WGEU, then yes.. They say they send feedback but there's nothing to show they even read it. Unless the feedback is about Dasha captain or a Jingles captain or "why the English captain has no mustache" kind f thing.

That's because our feedback is a "grain of salt."

Granted I haven't played the ship, but why get close to Hermelin's range (7.8 km for God's sake) when you have 16km range? no cruiser in your tier range and only very few ships can reach you. Ok, I understand that sometimes you have to push.. but 7.8 km range?

It's in the client so there can be an Iona captain for the missions. From what I understand, they can't make a captain without a ship.

I was expecting a Royal Navy joke. This one doesn't work because content guys are different from MM guys.

To add to what I've said earlier: this is the difference between Takao and Atago http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/64601-whats-the-difference-takao-class WG wanted Kitakami to be the premium first. Probably the devs where required by WG to have 2 premiums ready. However, Kitakami wasn't a good premium so they had to think fast and Takao was already in the game, even a tech tree ship in alpha, so they used the model and called her Atago.

Is that why Atago is actually a Takao.. huh lazy WG?

Yeah I recently learned that too, and by recently I mean after the captain skill funding... ouch, my Fuso captain!

Considering that CVs have limited ammunition, unlike the rest, I'd say it's a fair trade.

The sad thing is.. all cruisers above tier 8 (and DDs, BBs and even CVs at a certain degree) need modules and captain skills to be competitive. Imagine Ibuki without the range module, or a DD without the concealment module. Target acquisition is pretty important for BBs and CVs have many plane survivability and fighter DPS modules to use too.

But Tirpitz got like tons of AA DPS for losing that 0.5 KM. If WG want to be fair, then they should nerf the DPS back to what it was. Since that will never happen, then I see no reason to buff the AA range especially since he himself said that Tirpitz is shooting down more planes.

I did but I wasn't home and I totally forgot about it later. It didn't have any comics this week but that ultimate ship pic is cool.