El2aZeR
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You cannot dodge a perfectly set up cross drop. If you're out without support nearby and a CV wants you dead, speed boost is not going to help you in any way. Besides, DFAA can be used to save allies as well. Totally forgot about USN smoke btw, although WG has nerfed that hard with the smoke firing changes. Imo it's enough that YY torps can't hit DDs to compensate. It makes you a much, much worse cap contester and DD hunter. In fact you can easily become hunted yourself as other DDs can rush you without fear and while you may win a potential 1vs1, I'd hope that people are smart enough to not rush a YY without support unless they're sure they can win the ensuing knife fight.
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Yueyang sits lower in the water and is slightly shorter, thus offers a smaller target profile. She also gets deep water torps which are practically impossible to dodge if you don't do so preemptively or using consumables. On the flipside DFAA will save your aft in a Gearing (and potentially those of your allies as well) if a CV does happen to be in the match. And unlike with the YY her torps can be used to flush DDs out of smokes or present a viable threat against any DD rushing your own. Personally I don't believe many appreciate what the Gearing has to offer over the YY. CVs are rare in high tiers, true, but CVs are also by design your worst nightmare. Next to that the biggest threat to you are enemy DDs. Gearing is capable of dealing with every threat to some degree, YY is much more specialized in that regard. In the current BB heavy + no CV meta I can see why many prefer the YY over the Gearing. However even if that warrants a buff to the Gearing (which is debatable), it should be a minor one. Personally I'd just lower the Gearing deeper into the water to give her the same draft as the YY and that's it.
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Oh boy, and to think I believed grinding through pre-buff Colo twice was bad. Honestly I'm thinking about buying her back just to see how she performs, but I wouldn't want to spend the free captain exp just to train a new skipper for her. Yamato is a great BB. Just utterly boring to play. Remember back when Montana players complained about Yamato being able to overmatch everything, Yamato players told them to just kill everything except the Yamato? So now when Yamato players like to complain that Monty is capable of killing everything else better than the Yamato, I'd tell them that being able to overmatch BB bows is still such a great advantage that every other weak point of the Yamato is more than justified.
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Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)
El2aZeR replied to Kancolle_Kongou's topic in Off-Topic
There are very few girls I actually dislike when it comes to appearance and my gripes are normally about the quality of the art. Even that is addressed when they hit their Kai/K2 (Oboro and Akebono come to mind). Other than that, used to dislike Musashi, but now that she's actually wearing something decent I got nothing to complain about anymore. Can only hope Iowa will go the same way though I've gotten used to her outfit and her New Year's CG more than made up for that. As far as VA goes, as I usually have KC muted in the background I must to my shame admit that I don't even know how many girls sound like ingame. On the other hand from what I've experienced so far only Iowa's VA is straight up terrible. I was a bit disappointed that Jervis is literally Kongo but it works well enough to portray her character imo. I like art about girls enjoying the bond of siblinghood, though. It just warms my heart as it's extremely relatable for me. :) Really, I pity all only children. Siblinghood is the greatest thing you never asked for. (If you get along that is.) -
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Back on topic, I just stopped playing the Izumo after three games. Felt physically painful playing that ship knowing what the other T9 BBs can do.
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Literally the only way you can spend just a little more than 2 paltry minutes in a game as a cruiser (without getting teamkilled) is if you have no concealment and are far too aggressive at the beginning. Cardinal sins in cruiser play.
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It would make sense to release the rework and RN CVs at the same time as they should provide an incentive to play reworked CVs.
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Remember when we were told that WG is working on comprehensive tutorials over a year ago? Wonder what happened about that. Seriously, we should make "WG has truly tried everything to make the RTS scheme work" a meme. To those that don't remember: Source: https://forum.worldofwarships.asia/topic/24531-asia-qa-round-1-answers/?tab=comments#comment-309470 In many other multiplayer games, even team based ones, a single player is capable of winning the match alone against entire teams if he vastly outclasses them in skill. And for some reason these are among the most critically acclaimed. So not only are you demonstrating your ignorance in CV play, your entire premise is stupid beyond belief.
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Cruisers get deleted by battleships too easily
El2aZeR replied to FearsomeFlotsam's topic in General Discussion
Oh, look, just 5 cruisers trying to kill me. I had the time of my life. -
Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)
El2aZeR replied to Kancolle_Kongou's topic in Off-Topic
Excuse me while I go die of diabetes. -
Tbh I found Hipper to be a pretty good ship even before the buff. If I had the cash to spare (or the willingness to throw money at WG) I'd definitely think about buying a Pringles now.
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While true, expecting WG to make a decent tutorial is like expecting the moon to fall from the sky.
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Are some players using CV's to rig ranked?
El2aZeR replied to TheFierceRabbit's topic in General Discussion
You know what's funny? I played CV to rank 1 a single time before that was a thing and, lo and behold, everyone at least tried to pull their weight. They used chat or the minimap to communicate, they tried to play in a supportive way and in return you felt compelled to do the same. Because if the team loses, you lose. We were all sitting in the same boat. And while I breezed through earlier ranks in my CV, easily murdering 4-5 out of 7 players every match, towards the end CV play became more alike to competitive with spotting taking precedence rather than pure alpha strike as everyone was running at least a partial AA build + DFAA and supported each other. My impact on the match as a CV was thus much diminished, in many games I won I felt like I did barely anything at all. Letting the top earner keep a star was quite possibly the worst decision WG has ever made in regards to ranked. I knew immediately I wouldn't play ranked again when that came out. -
Are some players using CV's to rig ranked?
El2aZeR replied to TheFierceRabbit's topic in General Discussion
On the other hand ranked is supposed to be a competitive gamemode where you should coordinate with your teammates to win. If you get stomped by a lone CV you deserve to lose even more than in randoms. Then again knowing how ranked works nowadays I can see why that doesn't happen either. Which is really sad considering what ranked is supposed to represent. -
Interesting Graf Zeppelin thread at Reddit...
El2aZeR replied to Leo_Apollo11's topic in General Discussion
Nah, fighter power is underwhelming. I don't like CVs that go extreme routes, which is why I steered clear of Kaga as well. A waifu should have well balanced proportions and not just a huge.... Uhhh, I mean, a good CV should always have a well balanced loadout and not just ludicrous alpha strike at the cost of another aspect. -
Interesting Graf Zeppelin thread at Reddit...
El2aZeR replied to Leo_Apollo11's topic in General Discussion
I would just like to note that GZ AP bombs are tremendously more effective than USN AP bombs, with a far more sensitive fuse and more penetration power. There are few BBs and cruisers out there that don't eat citadels on a regular basis. That said, the reddit post addresses nothing that's particularly new. -
What's the use of the Target Acquisiton System Modification 1?
El2aZeR replied to Mydgard's topic in General Discussion
You don't want to know that. Down that path lies the madness that is WG's design and balancing department. Although it should be said that the upgrade in question has already received a buff, it used to be the bonus to acquisition range only. Still extremely useless though compared to concealment. It could be used on ships that have such bad concealment that it wouldn't really matter if you take the concealment upgrade I guess (like Fuso for example), but to my knowledge no such ship exists. -
Send the replay to support. Apparently they do actually deal with stuff like this.
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Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)
El2aZeR replied to Kancolle_Kongou's topic in Off-Topic
I love these guys. (Though according to to the description the AL soundtrack is apparently composed by ZUN, which I believe to be rather unlikely to say the least. It's probably just a copy & paste mistake.) -
You know what's perfect for dodging torps? A Touhou Eurobeat mix. A-ONE - Extend Ash ~ Hourai Victim / Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
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On lower tier USN DDs it's a pretty good skill to use since you're much more dependent on your guns. It's also a great skill to pick if you just have a point leftover.
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Why KC won't collab WoWs, and what to learn from it
El2aZeR replied to KarmaQU_EU's topic in General Discussion
Basic story behind it afaik is that AL became popular among WoWs Asia devs, so they contacted AL devs on whether they want to do a collab. And among AL devs WoWs is very popular, so they immediately agreed. It's a wonderful thing when two groups of weebs meet. :D -
Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)
El2aZeR replied to Kancolle_Kongou's topic in Off-Topic
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Obviously it caps out on mature women. Besides, their are other ways to display huge displacement. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Also AL Hosho is an outlier. Langley, Shoho and Hermes e.g. are quite a bit younger than their fleet carrier counterparts. They do actually look younger than some of the light cruisers. KC Hosho on the other hand is just older, shorter in stature and more petite. Still fits her displacement if you treat every class separately for age span. In both games it's more of an overarching artistic theme that has exceptions rather than a fixed rule. Meh, just going off of Wikipedia here (and the source given is apparently questionable, didn't check it beforehand). Had no idea what to call them myself. Nicely done, tho! Historical stuff such as this is one of the reasons I like this place so much. :D
