GarrusBrutus

Unless you die early and don't get the use out of it you should always take prem consumables.

Hey MKG, sorry to hear that you dislike the ranked battles. Maybe these tips/tricks/whatever will help you have a better time next time you try them. Isnt this the same with random battles? I dont really feel it takes longer to scout the enemies in ranked. Some maps that are in rotation for ranked are even tier 5 and lower maps.... Jup. It seems, just like in the T10 ranked season, that bbs are the main ship of choice. With only NO and Atlanta at your disposal my only advice is to use islands to your advantage. Try to stay concealed as much as possible and if you do get spotted, try to figure out from where and who is able to shoot you. When you can manage this you can hit all those pesky BBs without taking to much damage yourself. Both ships have the floaty american HE shells that make island hugging an excellent tactic for both of these ships. Stay with your own dds and support them as much as possible while staying relatively safe. Dont go dd hunting alone because that is a game that only the dd will win. Try to communicate with your dd at the start of the match about your intentions. Nope, it can be a blessing tho. You will not get spotted by planes so if youre spotted you atleast know that a ship is close. The availability of division play makes this a unique form of ranked. If you have some friends who also play the game: Div up with them in ranked! It makes it way easier since you can use voice comms, but most of all it is simply more fun to play together with others. o7

No life you say? My most played ship is the khaba with 648 games. Now after multiple nerfs she is less versatile and i stopped playing her.

You could've went to the rest of your fleet for support instead of directly into the enemies... Oh I remember the good old cross spawns where teams would be spawned 50/50 across from each other into an X-form. That was horrible at times but fun as well.

Because a dd should open water Gunboat so the BB can blast his 4ss out of the WATER? Saying using game mechanics to your advantage isn't skill then I don't know what is.... SMH. God, bb mains are the biggest mimimi hypocrites.

Isn't sinking the enemy team considered pretty decent team play?

May the best carrier...i mean team... Win. This is obviously just another test before they will actually get implemented in clanwars. But Weegee can't accept the fact that competitive play will be broken by carriers. Shame.

The balance in this game is as fragile as a virgin in a prison shower, any messing about with it will completely destroy it. Imagine having played this game for the amount of time that I did and being at that point where you know most of the characteristics of each ship only to be surprised by a frikkin radar harugumo, or a worcester with lower concealment, or a Montana with hydro, etc. Etc. Sounds good, doesnt work. If you want to implement something like this it can only be cosmetic. People can pay as much as they want to decorate their ship without getting an unfair advantage.

No. Me grinding: and me not grinding:

From reddit: 75 tokens: Daily Hill Missions - play a battle in the Premium tier 5 DD Hill - 3 tokens per day for 25 days: you can earn Hill for free by completing the 4th directive, but as that directive doesn't go active for two and a half weeks you'll miss the majority of the tokens unless you buy Hill in the premium store right now. 250 tokens: Directives (50 + 50 +50 + 100 tokens for each of four directives). Each directive has enough missions to chose from that you can complete each of these in Savage, coop, or random battles, whatever suits you. 150 tokens: Daily missions: 2 missions per day, 3 parts per mission, one token per part, so that's 6 tokens per day for 25 days. These are your standard winning battles and earning base xp missions that we've had for months. Again, savage, coop, random, whatever. 100 tokens: for completing 48 daily combat missions. Yeah, 48 out of 50. You need to have time to do at least 6-8 battles per day for 24 out of the next 25 days, or kiss these tokens goodbye. 300 tokens: battle for Resources missions: 2 missions, 5 stages each, 25 tokens per stage, plus 25 for overall completion. These are the Savage battles only missions. No time gating or anything. 50 tokens: daily shipment. Stated by news post, awaiting in-game confirmation though. Not seeing it yet. Possibly starting July 1. Total obtainable tokens: 925 -50ish if you don't buy the Hill right now -112 or more if you can play heavily for only 23 or fewer of the next 25 days -300 if you don't want to grind Savage battles For me, due to holidays planned, that means i will probably obtain around 580ish tokens. So if i want the Benham I will have to buy the 90 euro package deal. Yeah, no thanks.

... Yes, but not for hundreds of games if you want to grind the benham.

Inb4 benham gets released later for cold hard cash.

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Good'ol shima. When played in such a position that the entire enemy fleet is pushing alongside you with nothing to spot you.... EZ GG Enemy Z took a torp at the start, if only he had a way to detect torpedoes....

I havent seen a single video of someone playing this ship that made me think 'Oh boy, that is a really fun and unique ship. GIB PLS.' Instead all i saw was memeworthy armour, longerange HE spamming that the Zao does way better, 20km torps that are of questionable usability due to friendlies being in the way most of the time.... So, no. Ill pass.

It's mathematically true: 1/7>1/12. Haha you probably lost because of those TTT noobs on your team. on a serious note: individual skill isn't the only thing that decides matches. Why? Have you played clan battles? You probably lost to some storm and gale teams while in typhoon. And you won from hurricane teams. Not because your players were individually of different skill then the opponents but because you played better as a group. Same goes for ranked. If your team played to not lose a star and the opponents played to win (coordinated and communicated) its EZ GG even if your team was full of hurricane players.

It has been somewhere on the Dev Blog in the past but it would be nice to get some more info on it.

Not a bad maiden voyage in my new toy, especially for a BB noob like myself. Decided to buy the Georgia after all since she did seem like a fun ship. Oh, the AP shells..... They hurt! And I specced her for maximum accuracy on the main guns: It didnt disappoint.

Spotter plane on us cruisers is useless due to the shell arcs. Fighter plane is not necessary and would relatively make all other cruisers weaker because us cruisers have a good AA system already.

Not sure what you are trying to say with your example since ranked and randoms are two completely different gamemodes. In ranked you can carry six potatoes against 7 potatoes by playing well. In randoms that's a lot harder. The smaller the number of players in a team the bigger the influence per player becomes.

Hey mate, That is true. It doesnt paint the whole picture and maybe what I said was a bit harsh but it isn't far from reality: if you reach rank 1 in over 500 battles it doesn't come down to bad luck/bad rng/shitty teammates. It'son you. Trying to blame other factors is just ignoring the reality of your own shortcomings. @Milan_G_ I've got a nice challenge for you. Try to find me a player with a solo tier 10 winrate of 60%+ who ranked out in more than 150 battles. And then tell me how winrate doesn't show a players skill...

567......................... Dear lord. Why do people feel this is an accomplishment? It's not an accomplishment at all. Sure you committed a lot of time and you showed endurance, but needing this many games to rank out simply means you're not very good at the game.

When MM gives you lemons,

How suprising. Another "BoW selfproclaimed-expert calling others flamers" shitshow. Move along people, nothing to see here.