GulvkluderGuld

Played regularly since open beta. Been on break from WoWs (intended to quit) since October due to growing grind requirements since spring. Actually returned when i saw Flamuus video on the dockyard which looked really cool, and were looking to sink a doubloon boost or two into the PC to watch the process. (was still following events to see how WG will f*uck up the introduction of submarines for those wondering) Now I just want to thank WG for making the decision to uninstall again an easy one (after playing some Ranked games). PEGI7 game running a full scumbag psychological scam after claiming it is "entirely possible" to earn that PC for free (so basically WG caught lying too). Goodbye. I look forward to the submarine dumpster Fires in 2020.

Here is what WG got out of it. From Coop blowing snowflakes today.

Thanks WG for handing out free stuff, epececially to tier IX and below. Tier X lootcrates are a huge disappointment. 4 camos or 75 steel people? They dont even have an option to drop steel and coal is < 10% (20 crates and so far no coal). When you have all tier X ships except coals/steel ones and FXP can only be used for the research grind bureau.

Saving this for continous update of ~34 santas gift crates from tier X ships. No. of Santa's gifts: 34/34 Server and IGN: EU 6x 300 doubloons: 6x 10,000 Free XP: 8x 4x camouflages 14x 50 signals No premium time. No SCs. Not even any coal at all. F*ck me. I had expected loot equal to at least 75 steel per tier X ship. This is trash apart from some 1800 doubs I will probably never use.

Does someone have a link the thread for calculation the dropchance of santa containers (posted here a few days ago, similar to the anniversary container thread)

Completely agree with the sentiment. If the issue is preventing many players from obtaining PC, wargaming could simply put it in the shop and reduce the grind to something reasonable. Nothing forces them to hand out big rewards. However Goritza can be obtained for around 300 games (180k baseXP and 12M credits) . Grindy as hell, but not unobtainable (but way more than the PEF event).

Exactly! Although taking a dump all over everyone in 0.8.0 with REEwork CVs was kinda entertaining too

First off, very nice work compiling the excel table and the comments. The missions arn't completely mutually exclusive and not ALL missions must be done, WG is right about that, and also the numbers in the table includes an excessive amount of missions. However, that doesn't make Goritza easier to obtain than PEF as WG claims - but it is probably "only" ~300% - 400% harder Directive 1: (probably ~64 games) - earn 16M credits split in 4M for each class while getting 100 fires (CA/BB) and/or 165k fire damage (DD/CV) is fairly manageable Directive 2 (probably ~ 100 games) - 2 missions: playing as CV and doing 150 fires/torp hits, 300 plane kills, - 3 more: then killing total of 90 ships and 5,6M damage by adding some bowtanking 36M potential in kremlin. 6th: 85k bXP --->should get that while doing the rest Directive 3 (insanity! ~100-150 games) - 4500 secondary hits (georgia or fast french BBs) - 130 torp hits in CV (4-6 hits/drop with USN CV) - meanwhile "just" get 72 kills, 105k bXP and 320k commander XP Total is "only" 190k bXP and 320k commander XP and 16M credits that can be gained while simultanously grinding out the combat related parameters. (i aint crazy enough to burn that much time on WoWs during holidays though)

Another port queen. Dont care. If i get it randomly by playing Ranked Sprint, then yes. This one is actually possible to obtain, although 320k commander xp + one of the 48k base XP missions on directive set 3 will be needed along with causing some 5,6M damage in directive 2. Doesn't look much worse than PEF if you pick missions carefully. Sure as hell not grinding directives in WoWs after WG went full r*tard beginning with the Kutznetsov patch in may.

Was looking to spend 6k doubloons for the PR before the numbers were published - or at least grind Goriza as the "moderate option" Now it's a very very easy /ignore for both. Thanks WG, wiill spend christmas in peace with family.

Expecting WG to repeat the same line about free ship over and over again like a magic charm while stream goes up in flames. Only when their facebook and webpage has burned to the ground sometime in the lave evening will we see reactions.

Goriza is already 700% more grindy than last years PEF grind (see Mr Fingers post.). If PR didn't exist, there would still be a firestorm about Goriza, but then, PR exists.

It's not overreacting. If the directive figures I've seen qouted on reddit are accurate 350k fxp 35k base xp etc And doing that not once, but 7 times (each stage similar missions). This is in fact, way worse than grinding a Legendary Module (at least that only has 5 phases, and 3 of them are fairly easy too!). Sure you can do it in a month in coop if you dont have a life or a job.... or value your sanity. The point is this grind is ludicrious regardless of the reward. If the reward requires such a grind, WG would have been better off giving away a lesser reward and toning down the grind.

TOOOOOOOORPIZ return!

Goodbye age of botting Welcome age of AFK sec spec GKs of opposite teams parked in the middle of the map, not firing primaries.

There's almost more grind in that set of directives than it took to hit lvl 60 in vanilla World of warcraft

Is that a joke?

You're not the only frustrated one The last couple seasons I Ranked out in 100-150 games, but hate this season with a passion already. Got to R5 in 80 matches, eventually using Hakuruy when it got rough. Now still sitting at R5 after 140-150 matches, having made R4 at least 5 times and lost it again. It is almost impossible to save a star with CV and DDs (my usual classes). CV used to be the safe bet, but the team line-ups are very anti-Hakuruy with smolensks, minos and worchesters domination the picture, so carrying is super-duper hard even in Hakuruy. As to star saving - it is almost impossible in CVs after WG nerfed their XP gain. Also most matches has at least 1-3 hurricane players on each team, so competition is hard in the star saving business. All 2-4 smolensks can't be at the top you know....

On PTS the 3 doubloon boost cost the same (1k each, total 3k) and give progressively higher boosts. If the prices remain equal on live, 24k divided by 3 is 8k doubloons per booster. If PTS numbers for progress etc remains the same and i input them correctly in excel, you should be able to get PC by A.grinding out the first 3 silver boosters (Directives available 12th, 17th and 21st) and activating immediately plus burning 8k doubloons immediately on 16th (ends with ~35 mio contruction points, assuming total of 28 days worth of ticks) B. grinding out the first 5 silver boosters (including directives activating 25th and 29th) and activating immediately, using NO gold (ends with ~36 mio. contruction points, same assumtions). The above calculation is based on the directives be completed inside 2 days of becoming available, but excluding all later silver boosters. I looked at option A since i got some 8k doubloons from the WoWs anniversary and wanted to see if it was possible to to grind out PC before christmas. Even if you spend 6 days on each set of directives instead of 2, option A will still barely reach ~32,5 mio points. All of this based on the numbers for PTS holding up, and I'm starting to worry they might not....or those directives might be even more grindy than usual

Missing option to stop the stupid token grindfests and also stop the sell your grandmother to gulag for 100 lootboxes schemes As i want all other options too, I went with delete the game from existence.

That sounds..dangerous....DM with range mod and LM?

Maybe will give it a try. Tried Stalingrad and that thing is just clumsy and spotted from the moon. A part of me really wish they'd remove DM and other island farm ships right along with smoke HE CLs (smolensk, flint, Belfast, Kutuzov). Much more mobile gameplay results when Haku shits all over those farmers

There's plenty of CVs, but getting on top is almost impossible thanks to xp nerfs. DDs really really need an XP boost. Still havnt foundt anything that farms better than smolensk.

And remove CVs Plus phone rang so i forgot to put this in

Balance out smolensks Balance out radars Balance out mini-cruiser DDs And remove CVs