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@Reaper_JackGBR Excellent post, I agree with everything. I was doing some hard grinding recently (unlocked & bought yamato (somewhat late to the party) & grozovoi), because I essentially won 30 days premium on a stream and didn't want to waste it, and take some break because of a lot of BS in this game, see among others your list. Two days ago I won 30 days premium out of a SC. I was genuinely disappointed. This is smt that made me really angry as well. It was somewhat longer than a week, but your point stands.

People misunderstand the "rule" (did flamu popularize it?) "only dmgcon when double fire" and translate it to "always use dmgcon immediately when double fire." There's enough good reasons not to dmgcon 2 (or even more) fires, especially with carriers ingame, which means there is by definition not a safe location to retreat and/or get unspotted. In the end the game mechanics don't teach people this. I'd say around 60-75% of the players dmgcon their first fire, immediately. Rarely I see them getting seriously punished for it. Decent carrier players are an exception and will most likely always notice this & see free lunch. Must be fun to receive that kind of slack just for punishing bad play :)

That might not be the smartest idea, since it's possible wg will change them.

Except that it really isn't. As El2aZer has repeatedly stated himself, CVs can have extreme high influence (and hence WR) because 1. The vast majority of this playerbase is braindead 2. Most CV players are no exception to 1 People see carriers and still wonder off alone. That's not only the typical BB, but also very typical DDs. A lone DD versus a decent carrier is a dead DD. And we all know what decides games. I must agree to some point with you, that in the end it is infuriating. But your anger shouldn't be directed at that (in the end, still rare) good CV player, but at that beyond depressing state of gameplay we have for ages now, from which said CV can benefit. (And I also certainly understand the feeling of having that 30% midway on your team vs the enemy superunicum) It's the same for none-CV divisions. There's lots that probably have around 80% when going 3 man div, maybe even 2. That should tell you something, that just such a minor part of a team which is not oblivious, should have such a high impact. Once again, that impact has nothing to do with game or shipbalancing, but with idiots driving around everywhere, begging to be clubbed.

Good pick. Kept Kuma as well. Pro sealclubbing tip: the tenryu (t3 IJN cruiser) can get around 7 km concealment with CE, which is the same range as its torps. Kept most tier tens. I recently sold khaba cause I don't see the use of it and WG went too yueyang on her (even if I never had the chance to play her before the nerfbats). Probably YY will go as well. Midtiers: I rebought nurnberg a while ago, because that (not so) "special" German captain needed a ship, and I do like her. Rebought farragut last week as well, might do the same for mahan. In general I barely play midtiers anyway, what's the point getting annoyed by the inevitable dump the matchmaker is gonna put on you if you can just go tier ten & at least don't have that problem anymore. Which means especially all tier eights have been put in the dumpster, including ones I like a lot like chappy, hipper, bismarck, etc. (t8 has such lovely ships, I'd say most tier per tier, shame WG is unwilling to fix the mm)

They probably implemented a UI quality improvement patch.

You probably think I'm drunk/high/stupid? You'd be right. Except it isn't me who is saying it... 1. Are you insane WG? Is this from the guy who made the yueyang nerfs proposal? While I can understand buffing the New Yorck, cause you powercrept the hell out of the tier range it sees (did I already congratulate you on making Julio the posterchild of balans?), and maybe(!) some very minor tweaks on New Mex/Colorado, the other ships - i.e. Wyoming, NC, Iowa - are just fine. Why are you even considering this? Did you get too many mails of players that got citadelled while giving broadside and thought it to be unfair given it didn't happen to other, newer BBs? If anything, most BBs in this game, with very few exceptions, need a nerf. Be it concealment, agility, speed, AA, the impossibility to punish them heavily when giving broadside, or any combination thereoff. 2. Only BB that does require buff is Izumo, cause it it is still trash. Freddy doesn't. That ship is just a relict from an older age, and doesn't work really in the current meta. That meta I'd define as a combination of: extreme passivity, with max range (20-25km) sniping, immer present kiting, dpm race on dds and CLs. Fix other ships and hope to influence the meta, which is the biggest borefest ever atm, in stead of adjusting other ships to suit it. 3. Buff hinden eh?... Can I make a suggestion? What about giving it a second faster reload? You're welcome, just send me the doubloons. Can you maybe not nerf a ship, months before buffing other ships of that type and tier, next time? It might save you major regrets. Again, you're welcome. Since I've recently lost my first official warning on this forum, I'd be tempted to add some more lines, but I'll leave it at that.

I've been detonated quite a lot lately. I think 6 times in the last few weeks, but I might had it "coming", cause it didn't happen regularly for a while. Anyway, I was and always will be against the mechanic, for 2 reasons: - To get antidetonation flags, you first have to be detonated. Which is stupid beyond belief. (or buy them? is that possible?) - I was talking with @El2aZeR about this a few days ago. The thing is, the vast majority of detonations in this games is on DDs. The other thing is, people (and WG) defend it out of some semblance to "historicity". Well, we found that for the period the game takes place in, in reality about the same amount of BBs detonated as DDs. So, I vote for either they get removed, or WG gets real historical and spreads that detonation love equally. (which, in the end would be the same. See advanced Star Wars philosophy: a few weeks of BBs exploding, leads to BB fear. BB fear leads to the very dark place of BB anger. BB anger on forums and in WGs mailbox leads to potential financial suffering; and mechanic removed faster then lightspeed)

Concealment expert

I forgot to mention in the original post ffs. Yeah, my gut feeling is telling me they are going to get their citadels lowered.

IJN & KM BBs were one of the last lines I hadn't completed yet. Finished GK a few weeks ago, still at Izumo, so I played both of them somewhat simultaneously. I went with the big calibre & full sec on Freddy. Sure the secondary spec, as you stated, is not that valuable, but I find the game has become somewhat stale with the uniform tank/stealth build, and it is somewhat fun when you can use it. With the big calibre. Sigh. I don't want to be that guy who has no valid arguments so has to go to his feels, but they did feel so much more reliable than the small calibre. The Izumo on the other hand, I just call it the troll-overpen-machine. Overpens all day long, on everything. Broadside cruiser at 11 km, here's four overpens. Only day before yesterday: full broadside mino at 8ish km, 1 cit (hurray) AND three overpens. The most reliable damage seems to be on BBs, and even then. tldr: Freddy can troll you with shells flying to five different continents, but when they hit, they do reliable damage. Even the trollishness in the dispersion was quite ok - while Izumo hits reliable, but does trollish damage. Though feel free to share your secrets with me :)

You mean, they sit bow in all game, giving up 1/3 of their guns, while enemy yamato's etc also sit bow in and overmatch them, while being spammed by HE? And then getting low on health, trying to get out and make the turn of death? Yea poor guys... Buff that ship now! I played that ship quite recently. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it.

I am genuinely curious about that as well tbh - I don't get the reference. There was a time when autism was (wrongly) pictured as either "rain man" or "idiot savant", but recently some other stereotype, I don't know which, must have taken hold.

Clever guy - doubloons have been powercrept - hard.

Well of course they are selling premium tier 9s now - they ruined tier 8 which is where their "normal" high tier premiums are, so better make offers that might look tempting still. And as WG lying straight in our faces... Yes, and snow is white and water is wet.

You know, I've seen enough of you b*ing against everyone all the time and it's getting annoying. Time to see if this block thingy works :)

kek You still pay real money for t10 food t8 premiums?

Most played nation Japan, most played type dd... Yea I have this feeling that guy/girl/x confirms a lot of my prejudices.

Yes. Just like too much BB drove a lot of cruisers to go DD, to counter the most popular class, so again cruisers should have been popular when DDs became so big in numbers. That didn't happen. What you didn't mention, is that BBs drove cruisers away, because BBs really do counter cruisers, hard. Any little fault, and boom. With 5 BBs, that's not funny in the long term. But with regular 5 DDs per game, you know, the so called class that counters BBs, BBs themselves should have gotten sick by being torped out of the water regularly. The didn't leave though. Which indicates imho a major fault in the balancing, and that is that BBs have no real hard counter (as in: radar cruiser vs DD, BB vs cruiser). As you said, they are too noob friendly. At the moment I doubt if BB numbers would go down even if every game had a tier ten carrier and five DDs for months in a row. They are too strong, too stealthy, too versatile, too agile, etc.

I think you don't understand it Given that theoretically T8 ships see the t6-10 spectrum I would barely label the term "random" on what matchmaking they actually see. There's nothing random about it. Depending on the moment of day (and even then...) you'll be uptiered 60-75% of the time. I never liked Kidd, but don't give up on Kutz. It could easily be a tier 9 ship, and she handles the matchmaking quite good cause range, smoke and decent armour (compared to chappy mainly). You earn more credits (and xp, right?) if uptiered. Although, since WG gave that mission 5 months ago "be the most useless DD ever and win free tickets to gulag museum", you might want to make sure you have someone divving up with you to be certain of spotting. If you have the missouri for printing credits, you could abandon her I guess.

wut? him capping in his CV was exactly what you were asking. He is in the end a very nice guy, but quite fed up with braindeads. I've seen him give very long and detailed answers, mainly regarding CVs, over and over again, often only to be ignored or "misunderstood". But you probably think anyone who disagrees with you, has narcissism. At least hereby you have the correct spelling for this new insult that has been popularized the last years without anyone understanding what it means. You said it bro. Thanks for contributing your own little fat pile...

I'm the yellow ognevoi on the screenshot - I play with El2a regularly. Trust me, him capping in his CV is very normal. Often he doesn't protect a teammate cause with him dying he has more time to cap :D

But if stomps are the "normal" expected outcomes, how have they become more and more frequent? (so frequent I'd have to dig real deep in my memory to find games that were very close till the end)

While your point might be somewhat valid for t9/10 carriers, it's not really relevant in this topic. It's an indy vs ryujo in tier 8, they are quite limited in possibilities, although ryujo if capable could go for lone DDs. His Indy certainly didn't go spot the Kagero, who was able to torp a whopping 3 teammates...

Nope. It's shima's. Always blame shima's - and most of the time you'll be right even ;)