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Harekaze looks interesting just because gun options. But now that they basically made new Kagero model for Harekaze I would like to know if they are planing to change that ugly model for Kagero that is currently in the game.

Mutsuki (stock tools): from 30 to 25.7 seconds. I think that they overbuff Mutsuki. Now it would be almost invincible at close range.

So the Duca should have the longest range torps till T9 if I'm not wrong. I really wonder how did they get from 4.5km to 12km range torps. I really don't understand the logic behind such a drastic change. I mean 4.5km is a short range and probably should be buffed but to 12km. How? Why? And they want to buff IJN dds turret rotation. Well that would be nice but that won't change much if anything. When will they accept that torps are they primary weapon. Not that guns are useless, on the contrary, I'm trying to use them as much as I can but torps are the primary source of they damage output. I personally would rather have torps that deals lesser damage but have lower detection range and are more reliable than the ones that are currently in the game. But sadly at this stage I'm ready to gladly accept any buff to the line no mater how small it is.

Well not exactly. Fubuki and Hatsuharu have different performing guns. Hatsuharu has both better turret rotation and faster reload. Not much but still different. So they can give Akatsuki and Shiratsuyu some difference in gun performance, except gun range, if they want to do that. Akatsuki and Shiratsuyu used somewhat different gun mounts so they performances could be balanced around them. Japanese used four types of 127mm destroyer mounts. Type A - Fubuki Type B - Akatsuki, Hatsuharu Type C - Shiratsuyu, Kagero, Asashio Type D - Yugumo & Shimakaze WG could choose to balance guns by those mounts. Instead they choose to balance guns by tier. I'm don't understand why Yugumo and Shima has different reload time. Even more stranger is that Shimakaze has slower rof than Yugumo. Why Hatsuharu guns rotate faster than Akatsuki's ones when they use same mount type? They were more consistent with US, Soviet and German lines in that matter than Japanese. Or they can choose to give them different torpedoes, either by range, speed or damage. Without TRB Shiratsuyu would be mediocre dd, not much better than old Hatsuharu which was, at the time, already a worst performing T7 dd. But some changes could be make, like they can increase reload time from 5s to 20-30s.

It looks strong but Japanese gunboat, mighty Minekaze will eat it for breakfast. Not to mention Mutsuki

Not surprised to see that. Ognevoy with just 4 guns and 6 torp tubes seemed kinda weak for T8. But I really can't understand why they didn't put Ognevoy on T7, with better torps and Skoryi/Smelyi class at T8. Skoryi/Smelyi was very similar to Ognevoy but it already have two quintuple torp launchers. Anyway I quite like Ognevoy so I'm interested would it be as good at T8.

Last year after they added Flint they introduce first version of British cruisers which where basically a full line of Flint-like cruisers. Yes they changed them later and we got the version with squishy hulls and only AP. I guess that Black is, except a prize ship, a test for future lines. If they decide that DDs with radar are viable option I hope that they will better be balanced than this one.

Yes, there probably won't be many of them, yet. But after every ranked season their number will increase by few. And why the prize has to be a ship that is better and/or (borderline) OP compared with all regular dds at that tier. I don't understand why they didn't put radar and smoke on the same slot just like they did on several other ships. Yugumo has to sacrifice it smoke to use TRB, British cruiser can choose between smoke and radar and seems that re-balanced Soviet dds should have choice between smoke and heal. So why Black can have same option, why smoke and radar have to be on separate slots? Maybe with a Black they want to test this configuration for a future lines. We are on the way to get new soviet DD sub-branch and there would be at least one more with Skoryi and Kotlin class destroyers. We are still waiting for British, French and Italian DDs, some of them probably with sub-branches, not to mention some from lesser navies like Dutch, Spanish, Sweden and others. I think it's real to expect that at least one of them to use radar and with Black they are trying to find a new combination of consumables. Yes WG said that they don't want DDs with radar but just couple of days later they added Black, a DD with F****** RADAR. I'm for new ideas but this one looks broken to me. I hope they will change it before final release but honestly I'm not to optimistic about that.

So this season is dominated among other ships with one that was a PRIZE SHIP in previous ranked season. So why not ADD ANOTHER OP SHIP that is also totally BROKEN and which could dominate any competitive game that include T9.

Yes it looks promising. I know that some people will say that it's Flamu and every ship in his hand will be strong but this ship will only be in hands of those who are competent enough to reach rank 1 five times. Somehow I doubt that Black will be only DD in the game ever with a radar. Sooner or latter somebody in WG office will probably came with idea of the whole line of radar DDs and maybe with additional hydro on top just because of ... reasons.

New Soviet DDs added to test server. Note that only Okhotnik, Podvoisky, Minsk and Grozovoi are new ships, rest are placeholders for ships that will be move up/rebalanced

There are two obvious problems there: They are not Soviet Even worse, they are Japanese

Ship in that image is Kotlin class indeed. But also ship in the video is a Kildin class. They never specifically said that there will be only three destroyers. On the news page stays https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/common/2017-plan-spotlight/ So there could be a more destroyers in the alternate branch than just three shown there. And to me Smeliy is more T7 material than T8.

While this could be case with some dd equipped with SAM in the Kildin's case this is not a posibility. Kildin class was designed and build as a anti-ship missile platform, first of that kind in the world if I'm not wrong. Except its missiles it don't have much of other weapons, one quadruple torpedo launcher and 4 quadruple 57mm AA mountings, which in wows would be considered as a very weak dd. It never has any guns that could be use as a main armament. But you are right, this is just a speculation. But the fact is that 2017 plans video shows Kildin class destroyer. We will see what they intend to do with it.

Kildin class is a subclass of Kotlin class so they are very similar. But ship in the video is a Kildin class. You can notice there there isn't 130mm gun mounting in front but 2 quadruple 57mm mountings on the drawings beside model Also Kotlin class don't have that elevated platform for A position gun mount I guess the missiles won't use nuclear warheads but rather conventional ones.

In several screens you can see development of Kildin class destroyer which main armament was missile launcher. So my guess is that would be a new armament in the game.

Well, if I'm not wrong bots in CO already use something similar (if not the same) to KI. They are always able to follow movements of unspotted dd. I'm afraid that they will push with this skill no matter what.

Didn't Sub_Octavian mentioned on Reddit that "new" Keen Intuition could be countered? Seems that you can counter it only by playing CV or if you run behind some other player. So you will know that someone is using KI which will be really helpful if you are the last ships or at least alone on one part of the map. And you can't do anything about it. What a BS.

Shinonome and Fubuki have same detection range. Difference is that Shinonome already has camo which reduce its detection to 6.8. If you put camo on Fubuki you will have same detection range. With camo and CE you can drop Akatsuki detection range to 6.46. Still I think that 0.4 deference between Fubuki and Akatsuki is to much.

While they guns are almost the same, Shiratsuyu has two advantage over Akatsuki: her guns has better range she has better concealment That means Shiratsuyu has larger margin/buffer of whatever you call it for stealth firing. With ATF her gun range could be increased to 13.2km (3.8km buffer for stealth firing when using CE). Akatsuki both have more torps and faster reload. Even with TRB Shiratsuyu could send less torps during the game. Yes she can launch 16 torps in some 6s but she can do that only 3 to 4 times during game every 4 to 6 minutes. So she's kind of similar to Shimakaze, 3 to 4 times per game, but not exactly. Without TRB Shiratsuyu wouldn't be much better then current Hatsahuru. Maybe 10 to 20s reload time would be more realistic but there is a plenty time to nerf it later. And they will probably nerf it sometime. So enjoy as long as you can I was disappointed when saw Akatsuki detection range. I think that 7.4 is to much. It's is almost the same ship as Fubuki. 7.1 to 7.2 would be more realistic. Maybe not seem much but it would be give it better chance against other T7 which have similar detection range. Having said all this IMO Fubuki and Akatsuki should be in the same line with Akizuki. If they just drop Akatsuki detection range to 7.1, it's guns reload time to maybe 7s (slightly better than Shiratsuyu, same as new Kagero) and turret rotation to 25.7s or 7deg/sec (same as Hatsuharu) and without TRB it could be quite good gunboat.

Both (current) Isokaze and Minekaze have great torps but their gun component is garbage. Especially Minekaze's with that 7.6 km gun range. Only reason for nerf to Isokaze guns that I could think of is that Minekaze guns, with 10s reload time, looks better. IMO Isokaze torpedoes are to good for its tier. But Minekaze will feel loss of its much more because of MM. Nerfing torps without any compensation will just make them below average if not bad ships.

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You can find everything in patch notes http://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/updates/patch-notes-0515/#detailed%20ship%20replacement%20rules

Lets try like this - if you have in your port all IJN dds from T2 to T10 (all nine ships from Umikaze to Shimakaze) after split you will have all three ships before split (Umikaze, Wakatake and Isokaze), all six ships of torpedo line (Mutsuki, Fubuki, Akatsuki, Kagero, Yugumo and Shimekaze) and two ships in gun line (Minekaze and Hatsuharu). So in that case you will have 11 ships instead current 9 and two more ships to research. There is no chance that you'll get either Shiratsuyu or Akizuki for free. Depending of the ships you have in your port you'll possibly get some compensation like credits or port slot. If you have both Kagero at T9 and Fubuki at T8, after split, you should get Yugumo at T9, (new) Kagero at T8 and (new) Fubuki at T6. There is some rumors that you should also get a credit compensation for a price of old T8 Fubuki. But you'll have only one T8 destroyer, Kagero. You will not get Akizuki.