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and that is a bad thing....how exactly?

No it doesn't need it. Helena, Dallas and Omaha don't have heals and they are just fine in their tiers. I recently got Boise and it's just filthy how strong you are with a heal on T7. Cleveland with heal would be my ultimate wetdream since it would be almost impossible to die in when played right.

And you are able to judge the difference in impact on tiers you have zero experience in? Interesting.

@Aethervoxx again my question: why do keep playing a game that you feel is rigged against you by its creator? You probably aren't going to answer though. I am expecting to get just a cowardly emoticon from you. Bitter players like you always amuse me. There could be so much out there for you to enjoy but instead you keep sitting in you own little safe space spouting nonsense claims about how the game is cheated and rigged against you. Sad is the only word that comes to mind.

Hahaha honestly, if I could I would.

Holy **** @Baumgart

Overpriced depends on what you think its worth. Right now my steel is worthless since i am not interested in bourgogne, shiki, p[lymouth or FDR. I cannot imagine that it takes hours of effort to ctrlc/ctrlv some camos on other ships......

3v1 ranked brawl.

SBMM is excellent in games with huge playerbases like League of Legends, CoD, RB6 Siege, Battlefield etc. But not in a niche and F2P game like WoWs. You still think stomps happen because of uneven distribution of good players? No. Stomps happen due to snowball effects after bad players die early. Stomps happen because mister XxX_bismarcksniper_420 has only 200 random games to his name and sails straight into the cap in his survivability expert GK. Stomps happen when your only DD on a flank detonates and you have no way to spot and cap any more. Stomps happen when one side leaves the flank and lemmings to the other side. Stomps happen when your CV flies around the map to snipe the other CV when the enemy CV scouts your entire team and kills the DDs. The steady influx of clueless players over the years increases the amount of games where this happens but sadly that is inevitable in a f2p game. If you play a game where the better you play the harder it gets to win and thus farm credits and xp, would you try to improve? Religion? We were just coming up with arguments back and forth. Really weird to call someones opinion "religion" and just quit. But you do as you please. :)

I play because i like the game. I play because i like winning. I play because i enjoy being good at the game. And that is where you are simply wrong. This proposal of yours isnt me not wanting to part with my high winrate. Quite the contrary. The games I enjoy the most are the clanbattles against same skill player groups. Most of the time my winrate is around 50%, since opponents are of similar skill. The reason i am against your proposal is not because I am shortshighted. Its because it is only beneficial to the least skilled players in this game who are unwilling to improve. Those players are helped immensely by being put up with better players to try to..... "balance things out". As stated in my previous longer post: That will simply not work, since you can try to balance using any skill-metric but in the end it will still come down to whose potatoes die first. Team A: 5 average players and two potatoes. Team B: One very good player, two average players and 4 potatoes. Team A wins, as the very good player can carry his butt off but he cant compensate for the early loss of his potatoes. Now if this happens randomly this wouldnt be a problem. But once you know this is because of some mechanic that artificially creates this situation, why would you even bother? The worse you play the better your teammates become. When I started out this game is was average. Over the years I watched a lot of tutorials, played with better players than me, asked around on the forums how to A or B and I joined clans. All these things made me a better player. Now I enjoy the fruits of my "labor" (labor isnt the right word since i enjoyed putting time and effort into it). Should I be punished because some potatoes cant learn how to angle or use the right ammo even after tens of thousands of games? No matter how you twist and turn it: That is skill based matchmaking. You can paint a turd gold but it will still be a turd.

Yes. What is more harmful to a team's chances of winning: having one HE spamming rangemod kurfurst or three? For giggles, go to the wows numbers individual player leaderboard and sort by winrate. Then look for the "worst" winrate players. Quite amazing how low you can go actually. As if they're really trying to lose as hard as possible.

It is. Because it's random. That's why it's really predictable over thousands of matches. A superunicum will have 60%+ solo winrate and a utter potato will have 40% or less solo winrate. Divisions will simply amplify the effect. Hence top and bottom winrates achieved are in divisions. As a rule of thumb: 30% of your games you will lose whatever you do, 30% you will win whatever you do, 40% is up to individual player skill. Be afk every game and you will reach near 30%wr. Have a kraken each game and you will reach near 70% wr. Yes, there are a lot of one sided matches but most of the time the teams aren't even that mismatched in terms of skill. Most of the time it's simply whose potatoes die first. Because in warships, without a respawn mechanic and such a slow pace (compared to most games), its really difficult to make up for a ship loss. Not only do you lose points, you also lose an extra target for the enemies to shoot at, you lose the line of sight that friendly provided, you lose dmg output, you lose angles on enemies so they can perhaps better angle their armor against you, making your dmg output lower, etc. Etc. That is why DD potatoes who die very early on have such a great impact without them ever realizing it. They deny their team so much by dieing early. That isn't something mm can account for. And then I haven't even talked about RNG, detonations, radar distribution across both teams, ship distribution, CV impact, etc. Etc. There are thousand of variables besides player skill that decide a match outcome. You even have stomps at the highest competitive levels due to for example a DD eating a torp and dieing early game. Even though that match was "perfectly" balanced skill wise. Let's assume we would implement such a system where I would fill a "very good player" slot on each team I was on. That would mean that in order for the matches to be even there would have to be atleast a similar skilled player on the enemy team or a lesser skilled player on my team. How is that fair for me? I get shafted because I am above average. I for sure wouldn't want that even if it meant less stomps. Because in the end my skill would be meaningless since mm decides if I win or not.

Had a guy tonight who drove his cv straight into the enemy team from the getgo. Multiple people from my clan and other clans encountered him as well. You can report if it makes you feel better, but the best you can hope for is that the dude gets a temporary ban from the game. So you decide if it is worth your time. Otherwise just move on and forget about it.

@SpinWeb show us some replays so we can give useful and practical advice instead of generic answers. :)

Not a bad first game for ranked.

Alea iacta est. Some people saying Subs will "save" wows is like people claiming having a baby will "fix your relationship". Just no. Just.....no. Played several matches of T3 and 4. Didnt encounter any player i would classify as a sealclubber in my book (experienced + skilled). I did however find lots of low skilled players who played thousands of low tier games simply because they enjoy it. So i dont know why your experience differs so greatly from mine. Maybe they could implement low tier "ClanBrawl-esque" maps and create 3v3, 4v4 matches to decrease queue times at the non-peak hours.

Does it summarise what (almost) all high level players think? - Yes. Does it change anything? - No. ps. bruh

Yet "UnIcUmS aRe tOxIc".

Technically yes, but why would that friend do that? It ruins his game.

That means that I'm going to play a T7+8 div so my T8s will never meet T10. 150k average Cleveland here I come!!!!

I dare you to play a few divs with me on voice comms and i will show you that it isnt cheating. You're just uninformed.

Why did you play 10k games of a game you feel is riddled with cheaters? And why do you keep playing it?

@Aethervoxx what the hell is your problem?

*sigh* That is not what I am saying. But be honest: Can you improve your gameplay or not? Because based on your overall stats the winrate you currently have in ranked isnt above or below your expected winrate.... And first: Single games don't matter. My clanmate had a 250k + kraken loss in ranked. It happens. Second: Average damage and kills do not tell the whole story. If you seriously want to improve you need to give a few replays, so we can see if you can make better decisions during the game.