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Btw, to the guy posting the Kutuzov game... That was easy mode, not enough BBs in game. I have a real gem for you.

Don't be perfectly bow on, be slightly angled so his shell hits the side of your ship And then pray for dispersion not kicking in. And overmatch. And normalization. And god knows what xD

I'll just throw it here with a wild guess: CV games played: 0 Did I win something? Did I win something?

And why to take ALL ships into account when balancing t5 ship? T5 is balanced amongst t5, t10 is balanced amongst t10. Unless there is 100 ships at t5, you are doing it wrong. And in the end, why are they changing Minekaze? Because they are reworking IJN DD tech tree, and changing more or less every ship in the line, not only Minekaze.

Game changed a lot in past year, so you cannot take how ship performed 1 year ago into account when talking about balance.You can only talk about how ship is doing now, in this stage of the game, with all the things you have on your disposal at the given time. I've never heard about someone balancing the game in reflection to what happened 2 years ago, they are always balancing it to whats happening now.

Well, honestly, you can have fun in a rowboat comming into game and writing "row row row my boat" in a chat. (Actually, that would be pretty damn funny xD) But you wouldn't feel useful. And thats my biggest problem with Emerald. I just don't feel useful. Whatever I did, the overall feeling I have is "Meh". And honestly, Emerald is underperforming A LOT. Check anyones stats with it, then check rest of their cruiser stats, and you will see Emerald is not doing well. Yes, you can have 80% WR, but trust me, you didn't win those games, you just got carried. But once again, different people have different point of views, and I respect that. So, if someone wants to yell "Challenge accepted" and go into a battle with Emerald, then sure, have fun

High tiers are infested with DDs they said. Bring a radar they said.

Well, this is where we disagree. Scoring 2k damage on an DD isn't a serious hurt. Blowing him up with 2 salvos from any other HE cruiser is. 1-2k damage on cruisers isn't a serious hurt, and it doesn't add up quickly enough because you have 8 sec reload. Not 4 like DDs, 8 (ok, 7.5 but you will probably spend 0.5 sec to shoot). While everything shooting back at you will deal a lot more damage to you, set you on fire, break your engine, or straight up blow you out of the water with one salvo. You cannot choose your targets wisely because you have 12km range, and 12km is sweet spot for every t5 BB, and even for most cruisers. Combine that with her being T5 and almost always being lowest tier in game, you get more or less useless ship. Might sound harsh, but I can probably think of 10 other ships I would rather bring into the t5 game (if I want to win that game that is) then Emerald. For me, its simply the weakest t5 ship I've ever played, and even some t3-4 ships would have a bigger potential to impact the game then Emerald has. Once again, thats my opinion, maybe some people enjoy it, maybe some of them are wrecking everything around with it, but I highly doubt it.

But what are her strengths? Bugged smoke, low damage dealing guns with rainbow arcs and slow shell speed, inability to start fires and 6km "oh sh*t" torps that pretty much spells "I'm dead" if you are in range of using them... Yea, she can speed up quite fast. Aaand... Oh well, guess thats it. Even the rudder shift time / turning circle doesn't feel that fast, that you can use it like a big gunboat DD and weave your stern back and forward while kiting enemies / dodging shells left and right...

I am / was playing tons of ships, including 2 cruiser lines, RU and USN DDs, and yet I obviously have to "hone" my skills to make low tier RN cruisers useful in a match. Yes, you can deal some damage, but your contribution to the game is more or less ignorable in most situations. That said, I'd be more then happy for you and your Emerald to hunt me down while I'm in Blyska. I love free xp / creds. Oh, and this one is particulary fun Be an unpleasant target Weave, duck, turn. Stay at a distance. Never sail in straight lines. Never be the best possible target for the enemy. Try to make sure that you stay in a position where the enemy will prefer firing on someone else. "Stay at distance" Your distance is 12-13 km, and with your dumb AP coupled with rainbow arcs, you are dealing so much damage at your max range that you might consider throwing rocks at people.

WGs policy of not nerfing premiums.

THIS, THIS AND MILLION TIMES THIS! Kirov is a mofo BEAST, while Emerald can't even be called a beauty...

Getting 3 kills with 3 salvos. 1 full hp cruiser detonated, 1 low hp IDK what killed by litterary 2 shells and then another cruiser detonated from next salvo. (was playing cruiser myself). But was on receiving end more then once... Got detonated by secondaries. Got detonated in Kirov from full hp by Bogue that I was shooting at (easiest kill of your life you would think), from a single bomb. Got detonated in Benson knife fighting some DD, literary destroying him and his will to play the game, needed 1 salvo to finish him off, he manage to get 1 salvo on me (first salvo in whole game) and I got detonated, he lives... Oh, and I'm just comming from the game where 2 of our DDs got detonated in first few minutes. (literary just finished the game, and ofc, we lost)

Check few Flamus videos of playing new IJN DDs (don't have, and am too lazy to look around and find all comparisons for old and new ships). Some DDs are getting nerfs, but they are being pushed tier lower, so they aren't UP compared to their counterparts at that tier.And when checking stats, switch them to "last 2 weeks", and there you will see that topping the scores are Fujin / Kamikaze (Minekaze clones that are played by experienced players), Gremy that was and is OP forever followed soon after by a standard Minekaze. So, everyone that says that Minekaze isn't a strong ship is using her wrong...

Exactly, but its easier to jump into hate wagon without checking any facts, and just yelling "ZOMG WG NERFED THEM AGAIN!"

Russian ships don't use AP ammo, they use Stallinium shells.

Well, take off your tinfoil hat, and say hi to WGs damage calculations / penetrations / normalizations / overmatches / dispersion etc... Makes no sense, makes people frustrated, but hey, its WG, thats what they do

And the reasoning behind this statement is?

Last time I checked, CV had mirrored matchmaking. So if one team is pushing and capping, other is hiding / border hugging, I guess it has to be because of that nasty CV.

Oh come on, I'm all for CV balance and all of that, but do we really need 1 topic every second day?

"less then a km" is a lot in this game.There is a huge difference if you can drop your concealment to 9.5 or to 10.5 km, since 9.5 allows you to stealth torp, 10.5 doesn't. A lot of ships would kill for 500 m - 1km better concealment, allowing them to stealth torp, stealth fire, come into radar range as soon as they get detected etc

Actually, they were staying at spawn even if you came 500 meters away from them, but they would send all the planes into the middle until first ship is spotted, then send all strike on the first spotted ship.

You can expect: Imperator Nikolai I Imperator Nikolai II Imperator Nikolai III Imperator Nikolai IV Imperator Nikolai V Imperator Nikolai VI etc.

Bots are in this game for I dare to say over 6 months (probably longer, but they are confirmed for a long time). And WG is completely aware of them and "Working on it". Long story short: You can expect your topic will be closed, and WG will still be working on it.

You are forgetting few things. Atago has REALLY LOW concealment (9.5 km, or something like that, someone feel free to write correct number), so he can roam around undetected, AND he has 10km torps, so he can torp while being invisible. And nothing can get you out of position like a nice torp wall comming your way. And when you find that BB that you want to focus on, he is most of times angled, so best way to deal with him is HE spam with bunch of unrepairable fires / floodings. And thats where Kutuzovs / Chapayevs synergise very well with Atago and his IJN nuclear shells that will easily deal 5k damage with HE (even higher, but 5k is pretty normal) and huge % to start a fire (you can litterary hope for a fire every good salvo you shoot at enemy BB). Thats ofc just my view why is Atago so widely used, and as I said, game is changing, metas are changing, so we might see Edinburghs in competitive. Heck, we even saw 4 DD strat from Russians that worked very well.