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What I meant is, Monarch does her damage gradually and she has excellent heal. But imo she cannot push very strongly, so you are more dependent on your team. She is a strong contributor, but will not easily carry her flank independently. So, if your team has not had their brains eaten away by glue, she can do very well. If they are licking da windows, she can put on a strong defence, but will not, in my experience, carry the game.

I have a job and family and am F2P. I reset 1 line when I get double points for it. So I have some 50K RP now. I will get the Ohio and then prob get the LM for Yammy.

I like her too, but she does not carry battles ....

I see Garrus beat me to the forum. This is duplicate, can be locked.

So, ranked season 2 has been announced. At first sight it seems an improvement on the test season: more time, better rewards. What do you think?

I second this request. It would be really helpful if someone explained in lay terms what this means in practice

Reset the line and find out

I have gone for Kuznetzov. Will get my Petro this week, put Kuz on him and use him for the RU balanz cruisers. Yeah, I will need to train him up, but if I understand correctly, Kuz is one of the better special captains.

It is not clear from the devblog. There are 2 options: either there will be twice as many sprints in a season, or the duration of each sprint is doubled. I really hope it will be the second option

Are you referring to ships going dark outside the visibility range?

Hmm, the blog is not clear on this. We get double the time, which may also mean that we have 2 weeks per sprint. Let's see what the official announcement will say.

How many games played to rank out? I needed about 30-35 to get the gold, that's quite enough in one week for me.

One of the nice things of the new ranked system is that you don't need to rank out to get all of the rewards. You just need to win 18 times. Ranking out in gold in just a week would be a nasty grind.

1 important difference imo is that in ranked most people actually try to win. In random I often despair because boats are just floating around doing peew peew.

I see great possibilities with Ocean

Your, or WGs, assumption would be right if the player experience and appreciation on this forum are quite different from those of the larger player population. I think that may be the case to some extent, but my guess would be we are more the canary in the coalmine. WG ignores all the consistent feedback to their peril.

I don't use it for BBs for the reasons you describe, and also not on DDs. I consider it for cruisers if I have spare points. What do you think about cruisers?

Incompetence

I think many old hands here have the same experience: it is pretty useless to provide feedback to WG, because they are either incapable of processing it in a sensible way or they simply don't care. Thus the only options available to us is put up, adapt, or move on. Oh, and repeat the same complaints a gazillion times on this forum

You assume intelligence and competence at WG. My experience is that if something rationally inexplicable happens, don't rule out sheer stupidity and incompetence.

It takes more than 12 BBs with Deadeye to change anything

The stupid thing is, I think the game could make WG more money if they would try to make it fun to play

I agree with your mourning, OP. All I can say is adapt or move on. And I have found one can adapt to the new meta. I am a DD main but am grinding some cruiser lines. I don't agree you can't play cruisers any more. The game has become worse, but it is imo still playable. But it does sadden me.

In comparison with all the other flaws of the game this is not xtra catastrophic. Biggest flaw imo is the mixing of absolute incompetents with good players. It leads to shitty and frustrating gameplay. Next biggest flaw is WG greed and disregard of decent gameplay experience. Third biggest flaw is rediculous overmatch mechanics where ships have random ahistorical plating thicknesses which can or cannot be penetrated according to silly rules.

My suggestion would be to lower excessively high citadels on some cruisers. For example in Neptune the entire high belt is treated as citadel. It would be better to treat the upper part protecting the uptakes as not part of the citadel.