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you forgot: waaaaaahhhh, BB inaccurate - buff sigma waaaaaahhhh, CV bullies us - buff AA waaaaaahhhh, DD bullies us - BB get hydro waaaaaahhhh, people hit our citadel too easy - lower citadel for ships that can get citadeled waaaaaahhhh, CV can still do damage to us when we are solo - introduce def AA waaaaaahhhh, we cant see DD - introduce RPF waaaaaahhhh, fire still too strong - 2 fires count as 1 captain perk

cause all changes are balanced on competitive...

fcourse it dominates discussion. last 20 updates have been about BB buff. and that is why we have such BB overpopulation. cause every f*cking update there is nerf to CV/CA/DD or buff to BB. i seriously dont remember one update where BB were nerfed (well there is that yamato nerf where it got regular heal iirc).

well most affected will be RN CL since they mostly rely on smoke to do damage to ships. second will be US dd cause they mostly engage from 5-10km to do dmg. playing them like russian dd isnt very viable for them.

i was just thinking about this... seriously they really did almost every item on this check list. i wouldnt be surprised if they "fixed" overpens and limit torpedoes in next few patches... i seriously dont remember any patch that nerfed BB. every patch was either nerf to CV/CA/DD (thus indirect buff to BB), or straight up buff to BB.

WG employee #1: "we are releasing RN BB line. what are you suggesting to reduce BB overpopulation?" WG employee #2: "well BB-s like to hide in smoke. lets nerf all the smoke" WG employee #1: "great idea!"

yeah gnevny has 6.1km concealment.. i was also surprised.. talk about russians having worst concealment... @OP fubuki is okish ship cause of the 10km torps. you can spam torps much more effectively in some areas. its primary role is scout and area of denial ship. if you want to hit torps with her, you will need more experience as torp boat dd. so positioning, predicting enemy movement, reading the flow of battle etc. damage is not what dd are all about.

kite with what guns? you can only reliably hit with 1 turret if kiting, and if you try to bring both turrets you need to show broadside. she is missing turrets and hp to do well against other dd in straight up gunfight. also while it has 10km torps it is missing one more torp tube. yes it has 300m better concealment than other dd, but it is easily countered if you know where it is.

maybe try better ships than hatsu and graf spee. farragut , budyonny, nm and bayern are all much better choices. it would help if you had shinonome or fubuki if you want to play ijn dd instead of hatsu. hatsu is shitty ship, even more so in ranked. you dont have enough torps and enough guns to fight vs other dd.

considering ranked, they put 35k base xp requirement??? ffs why WG... even 15k base xp would be too much

you obviously didnt read skybucks suggestions...

so you had RNG on your side for 40 games and now you complain when RNG is on other side? you know that all those wins you got was cause those teammates were mostly on other side? some people had 10-20 losing streaks cause of idiots in teams. check forum and you will see 10-20 whine threads about ranked...

i had a BB yesterday that thought DD-s whole existence in that match was to smoke him and only him... farragut smokes 3 ships and doesnt have smoke left, i am 10km away from him and he complains why we dont smoke him...

how to get to rank 1: 1. wait for higher ranks to get worse players. (there should be a lot of bad players on higher ranks now, maybe even in premier league). had one season where premier league was full of unicum players. it was more or less 50% WR then (think this was before top xp player not losing star) until some players got to rank 1. it was very frustrating grind. next season i needed only 115 battles to rank 1 cause i waited for worse players to populate premier rank and better ones to get rank 1 (could have done it under 100 if not for bad luck ). 2. choose one ship you are best at. if you are good with CV they have largest impact in carrying the game. otherwise dd have largest impact on win if you know how to play them. rumors are that BB can easily farm top xp in losing team (but that obviously depends on player) 3. i took shinonome (with farragut in reserve if i need it) and play games without CV (if i see 2 cv in queue i abort if i can). 4. playing shinonome as scout/torp boat and smoking rarely (cause i am usually way up front of my team). sometimes i forget i am torp boat and play it as gunboat vs other dd.

well that is cause you heal when you are beached.. didnt you know that?

well i love idiots in ranked.. it is much easier to progress through ranked that way. if they are in enemy team, easy win. if they are in your team, at least they are not contesting for top star :) with more idiots it gets much easier to carry as one player. just dont want players suiciding at start of the game. if they dont do that i can carry most of the games to win. btw ranked on 11-15 are terrible atm. i expected to get to rank 10 with sub 50% WR cause of all idiots yoloing into the enemy...

only good thing OP mentioned is limited MM for CV cause you either get too strong AA for CV, or you get too weak AA for CV with +/-2MM. and then balance all planes HP and AA around that.

well you have to have alt in enemy team to know where they are going how do you expect to cheat otherwise?

1. dont have shira, now will probably never even grind that line. akizuki was fun before stealth nerf, shira was fun with its torp spam. now you have 2 ships that were great and will be shitty after all nerfs. 2. yes we need more soviet power... cause you cant have enough OP soviet ships 3. idk why they dont just put citadel on khaba and make it full fledged cl. 4. think that SC contents are determined when you receive them. if you watched some of the christmas containers openings videos, you would see that you could only get ships you didnt own, but in same batch you could get multiples of same ship. 5. too bad i sold most of my shitty upgrades. now they even have some use when they dont replace useful modds.

still waiting for higher ranks to populate before i start playing ranked seriously... i dont want to get to rank 5 too early just to play with unicums and carry game only once in a while..

this topic was hijacked by TTT and SCRUBS... idk where was i in last few days to miss out on this topic :P

well with few seasons on rank 1 i must say i only noticed playing for the star on ranks 11-15 and later in season on ranks 6-10 (maybe few of those went into rank 2-5 if it was late enough in season). problem with lower ranks is that lot of people yolo suicide, you lose 2-3 teammates in first 2-4 minutes without doing any damage to enemy, and by that time it is almost impossible to win and only reasonable play is to play for the star. as you get higher up in ranks you will get better and better players that dont suicide as often and players can actually play for win and not just top xp.

i usually look at WR when i see that people are telling obvious untrue "facts". while you will once in a while get BB you described with top xp in your team, most top xp earners in ranked are either dd or active high dmg BB (usually with high caliber achievement).

whenever i see untrue statement in forum i check OP stats... must say i expected much worse... why is OP post untrue? cause if you wait till your team is losing/is dead till you start doing damage, usually you wont earn much xp till you end up dead. if you do damage while your team is alive you will have more people tanking damage while you do damage. when everyone is dead, it is only mater of minutes till you end up dead and thus you wont be able to much damage and earn xp. while some bb that is doing that strat in ranked can get a lot of kills by finishing off low hp enemy ships, he will not earn a lot of xp. kills<>xp. top xp in losing team is something that good players appreciate when they are in team full of morons.

oh ranked started... will need to play them soon...