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Well HMS Newcastle is a good candidate. With HE she wouldn't need smoke and heal. With just AP she would need some balance with consumable so that she won't end as straight better ships than Leander. 7sec reload is too much, even Belfast at T7 has 7.5sec. 7.5sec, same as Fiji and Belfast would be fine.

Well yes and no. While RN did have a lot of cruisers there isn't lot of different classes. Lot of those cruisers were very similar like Town Class and Crown Colony Class. Minotaur Class is very similar to Ceylon subclass of Crown Colony Class. And there is a lack of candidates for high tiers. So while there is a lot of candidates for premium ship there isn't lot of classes to fill that much lines. Arethusa Class is T5 max. There is no way that it could be put on T6. HH is already buffed by fantasy rebuild armament and even after that WG needed to slap as much gimmick as they could to make it fit at T6. Penelope had same guns as Leander or Perth just 25% less of them. She is T5 candidate, anything above that would require too much gimmicks. There is no way to put Crown Colony Class cruiser in its original design at T6. It is already very strong at T7, putting it at T6 is ridicules. Even without smoke and heal it would still be too strong. Ceylon subclass, with 3x3 6inch guns could maybe work as 'regular' T6 premium, without things like smoke or heal but with HE. She could get DAA instead of Smoke/Heal and Hydro on separate slot and be a strong T6 premium.

You are not the only one. RN really need a premium cruiser as currently there is not a single available in the shop and Dido class would fit at T6 quite nicely.

I must say that I agree with request to change a name of the ship to Maryland. Even tho I don't think that with current state of Colorado would be OK to put West Virginia as T7 premium, loosing a ship that was considerably different than her sister in her later years because WG wanted to use her, more of less, original form, when there are other options, would be a shame. If WG first buff Colorado that could open the door to get WV as good T7 premium which is not straight better version of her silver sister. And I agree that both Tennessee and California would be a good candidate for T7 premium US BB.

WV is too slow for T8. Imagine her against T10 ships, with speed of 21kn she would be an easy prey for any ship. She has two less turrets than Mass and that would also mean lower sigma than Colorado so very RNG dependent. I don't see how WG could make her properly balanced compared to Colorado. Colorado is already not the most competitive BB at T7, if you try to balance WV to her she would end as mediocre premium (lot of uproar) but if you try to make VW good premium comparable to Nelson or Sharny you get a straight better ship than Colorado (much less uproar but still not the best way). I personally don't like either option. No doubt WV would be a nice T7 premium only problem is her balance compared with current Colorado.

Is there some US Navy BB that didn't caused an uproar from NA community? Late war West Virginia would be straight better ship than Colorado and in the end to balance her WG would probably lower sigma and nobody would be happy about that. IMO, late war West Virginia should be a regular T7 BB instead of Colorado which would leave current Colorado configuration for premium T7 with better, more accurate, guns but worse AA and open the way to add either late war Tennessee or California as another T7 premium BB with similar AA as West Virginia but with 4x3 14inch guns. I think that that would be way better solution than either giving WV as T6 premium or modernised WV as T7 premium.

I missed that. She couldn't use SHS AP in real life, seems like WG don't care.

Yea I hate this too. On the other hand Wichita don't have SH AP as Baltimore, slower reload then Baltimore and less health then Baltimore. I don't know, I kind of hope than WG will find some other way to balance her, maybe Heal like Boise or something, now she just look like another typical US cruiser but this time, very stealthy. Also while I think that that adding Dreadnought and Vanguard are good think I would like some RN cruiser first. These will be 5th and 6th premium RN BBs while the only premium cruiser is no longer on sale.

Premium RN battleships Dreadnought and Vanguard are announced on the World of Warships Birthday Stream.

There is only one St. Louis cruiser in the game, Saint Louis is a different name. For example T7 US CL Helena is St. Louis class but because there is already a cruiser with that name WG had used Helena instead. So forget about another Prinz Eugen. There is enough original Netherlands DDs to use as premium beside Hr. Ms. Tjerk Hiddes. N class is basically same as J class and as soon Jervis will be in the game and the fact that the Royal Australian Navy had five N class DDs I think it would be proper to leave another N class regular or premium for Commonwealth tree.

Had a good game in Ranked with YY today Then try the Ultimate Frontier but the best I could do was 3 Star Victory with Boise. I simply could not get a single good team

From all six of my T10 I got 2 x 50 Gamescom Camo 100 November Foxtrot Flags (now I have over 1000 of them ... Yaaaaaay) 50k FXP 15k Coal 50 Dragon 15k of Coal was enough to buy Salem and from that ship I got 100 Equal Speed Charlie London Nothing special

I agree with you but spending 4pts on IFHE and not be able to pen 25mm is a big thing. Sure all other DD can't pen 25mm without IFHE but with it they can. On the other hand they don't need IFHE to fight other destroyers or to deal damage to superstructure of other ships. That is why I don't like this requirement to get IFHE just to be able to effectively fight only class out of four. That is MY major issue with this 4.5inch guns and IFHE. Even on old Aki with IFHE you still have a lot of shatters on anything but superstructure.

Well 25mm is important threshold as lot of T8-T10 ships has armour of 25mm. But I guess improved AP pens will give you a choice to avoid usage of IFHE as now you have other way to deal damage to angled targets. I personally prefer this instead of 1/4 pen (which would pen 28mm of armour). If those improved angles doesn't work WG could always go with simple increase of pen. Also heal could potentially give choice to not choose SE and use those 3pts for something else. I mean these changes doesn't look bad a they, at least, give you option to experiment with other captain builds. Only question will Jutland and Daring now be to strong.

Well I guess that AP changes a due the fact that even with IFHE, 4.5inch guns HE can't pen 25mm or armour or maybe to give you a choice to not use IFHE at all. But not sure about heal. T9 and T10 now seems rather too strong.

Sure they could do that. But RN DDs 4.5inch guns currently have 1/6 pen and unless this is changed I could only assume that same will be applicable to all RN 4.5 inch guns.

4.5 inch guns are not good guns for cruiser as even with IFHE they won't be able to pen 25mm of armour. At T5 it could work but at T6 this will be a problem when faced with T8. And Didos used Mk I guns which had RoF of 12 RPM (reload 5sec). I would prefer some of 5x2 133mm Dido sisters as T6 premium and HMNZS Black Prince with 4x2 133mm but with different consumables and possibly toprs as T6 Commonwealth premium.

Base reload is to slow but then Gun Reload Consumable is to strong to compensate for this. Which just leave LT as really bad without consumable and really good with consumable. Why simply not lower base reload to at least same level as Aigle and then give consumable same bonus as cruiser with 50% increase of reload. She seems to much gimmicking and looks like 4 consumable DDs now are standard thing. Wonder how long till we get one with five.

Yes because all FXP ships so far are really bad. I mean neither Missouri or Musashi or Nelson or Krony are good ships, right? And of course every time when WG give ship that potentially is too strong/OP they nerf it just like they did with Belfast and T-61. Sorry but that is BS. JB so far only received slight re-balance with consumables cool-down times and even received a buff to secondaries and people, who never even played this ship, are complaining because it could still be nerfed as it is not released yet? WT .... If ship is over-performing it should be nerfed. In the end you still probably get a strong ship. Fact that so far not a single ship parameter except secondaries ranges, which in fact was buffed, are not changed just show that WG would like to try to balance JB just with slight adjustment to consumables instead of nerfing the ship itself. And there is no rule. GC was OP from the start and even after nerfs it is released as OP and still is OP. Abruzzi was bad from the start and after slightly buffs it is released as meh/decent ship, depending on opinion. Boise was never OP but released version is decent/good, definitely better than radar version. Released version of T-61 is the same as it was during testing. Mass was completely reworked from boring clone of Alabama to quite fun secondary oriented ship. Some premiums were better than other but generally there is no rule how some ships were balanced. We still get some good some bad and some OP here and there.

It is not. Only changes on JB are about increasing consumables cool-down and increasing secondaries range

Sorry, my mistake

Yes that is one weakness Flamu mentioned in his video. Bad backward turret angles and rudder shift (even tho many CC mentioned that rudder ship is good) and concealment are other issues. IMO she could do with some small improvements but generally she seems fine. How good/bad she will be in my hands is totally different thing.

Even on his stream, Flamu never called Alaska a bad ship, quite opposite, he thinks that she is a good ship but his opinion is that there were some issues with a ship which could be tweak. He is not the only one who thinks that ship could get some improvements but generally all those I watched thinks that ship is in rather good state and balanced. I think that you are wrong and neither Flamu or LWM or (from recently) iChase are trying to much to please WG with their reviews. If they don't like it they said that. Difference is that LWM usually give her reviews at the end of balance process. Sure there are some boundaries but they are not WG employers. But their experience with some ships could be quite different than yours. Will you except their opinion or not is totally up to you.

Well every CC that I'm watching consider Alaska a good ship, only difference is that some of them thinks that she require some little tweaks while other think that she is perfect in the current state. Hope that WG will release her soon for either FXP or Coal or both (as Musashi).

Where is Allen M Sumner class? Or Fletcher class? Or J class? No Atlanta either? Brooklyn class? Cleveland?