Jvd2000

Luckily you can convert old “ to be retired” captain xp to reusable captain free xp....for a price... But even if ( I do) have quite a number of useless 10 skill captains for conversion and enough silver to do the cheap conversion... The 19th skill point is like 300k captain xp? And the 18th was around 200 ish.. So we will be looking at 360 and 440 captain xp minimum for the 20 and 21 skill point..My current free captain skill point reserve is only 1/3 of this...And even if I convert my unused captains I might get close to retain maybe one maxed out 21 point captain...

I like the fact that you can use each captain with 4 specs. I have some premiums that due to their difference require a total different captain skill setup then their regular silver line siblings. I mean ship like Belfast ( not much IFHE ships in the U.K. navy that have a light cruiser skill setup) or even Atlanta/ Flint setup. Instead of a dedicated captain for the Belfast I can pick any ordinary captain ( for example my Monarch BB skilled captain) and make his unused cruiser skill set made for Belfast specifically. This will free up some captain points that I might recuperate a bit by using the ability to regain some captain xp..( not the doubloon version WG, your not getting into my wallet that easy) But for example Gunther Lutjens.. Do I make use of that 2nd skill setup or do I use the proc that goes when i have enough hits with my main guns? Aka cruiser ( Hindenburg/ Mainz) build or German 2nd build? Now it will be both! Ok I do have to choose of fitting him on either Bismarck or Hindenburg but I will still use his special dedicated cruiser or BB skill on both Mainz or any German premium BB with 2nd gun potential.

Well you can argue that’s it not a nerf for US battleships since they do not rely that much on accuracy from the captain skill due to their good inbuilt accuracy. And you gain the benefit that “ the other side secondaries” keep firing on other targets , though without that 30% buff. That with the promised “ soon” increase of 2 nd range on many more BB’s will see an increase of 2 nd specced BB’s. Especially since the captain perks promoting 2nd tactics gotten cheaper in points..I think we will see 1/2 specced BB’s from more nations blazing fireworks more often.

hope it will also benefit from the base increase of 2nd range that was promised for battleships Well I do have a lot of unused 6 to 10 skill captains that I got from my last Xmas lootbox wailing event ( premium ships won from lootbox come with 10 skill captain) so with enough silver in the bank I can convert useless captains and unused silver into something usefull. Most worrisome is that while I now with 5 maxed out 19 point captains I have a steady income of free captain xp, I am bound to lose that until I have a new 21 pointer...with the scaling price of needed xp to get that former last 19th skill I dread to think about the required captain xp to get that 20th and 21th point.

Well you can be as negative as you want but I have, since the first snowflake event made steps to keep old ships ( and buying back previous sold ships T8 and higher) while continuing to progress into T 10 for cruiser and BB line. So I went from 300m dead silver In the bank towards currently only 45m and a lot more ships in port without premium required. Yes I bought back ships to be played for snowflake events only. And will buy 2 extra silver and 1 coal/ steel T10 now for 3 extra sc largely for that purpose. Those ships are there, even 100 detonation flags will only require 7 mins coop. I might have prefered the first snowflake event due to the massive coal and slightly less massive steel (due to at that time lesser numbers of T9’s and higher ships) . But currently still looking at 100 crates of 5 special flags each and 15 sc minimum for this event. Will miss out 2 sc due to regrinding lines.. SC before gave me Atlanta and Exeter, 3 times 1500 steel, months of premium time, some doubloons And FXP and coal. And lesser flags and camo’s which were largely sold for credits. So getting this full port only required me to play the game. The flags will help me with gathering relevant currency ( FXP, xp, silver) faster so next Xmas I will have 2 /3 more T10’s. With just 15 sc T10 I might be small fry compared to those who have 40+ eligible T10’s to farm SC but I continue to increased my port by just playing the game in a dedicated way.. People can decide not to or depending on only few hours invested and have only limited ships...that’s fine too..but then don’t feel entitled to receive many gifts...

Well below T5 you have 2 strong “ no ty reasons” . Both are WG made. First Is CV meta, second all the rewards WG gives us are mostly T5 upwards. Playing T4 and lower gives you no benefit for getting missions done, the xp farm rate is also lower and, unless you are a good cv yourself, the fun you have can be extremely limited.. So only people that you meet below T5 are the poor souls that are new to the game ( and that lost their protection of preferred matchmaking) and the occasional clubber. I think that most of the RB regrinders FXP the early tiers.

Sigh. . Phoenix..tier IV US cruiser.. that guards the enemy cv that you have to kill for a star..you know the enemy bot....that thus killed 3 teammates in the tier 7 operation...

Some bugs were removed by WG but they did not remove random stupidity by teammates.. My wtf moment this week: I had a Phoenix killing 3 teammates going for an ( unsuccessful) cv kill...

Whether you are eying a coal or steel ship take into account if you have a coupon for 25% ready. The next one will be given to you on 20 December so it’s on you to plan ahead how to spend your coupon ( if you still have it) this period. I try to spend my coupon each half year so that I have the largest savings with steel> coal. On average you can buy 1 high tier ship each Coupon period with coal and have spare for a 2nd lower tier ship or a specific coal admiral. Without touching your steel savings ( if you exercise some patience). Since you are close to Stalingrad ( and thus Somers since that one is cheaper) you have to choose one of the 2 since you probably will not regain the steel that fast. Stalingrad might be the most OP and unique regarding playstyle although that playstyle is boring imo..a bit like those camping new BB with super accurate heavy hitting guns.. any good player knows what you can do with those guns but also that you can be neutralised when they angle. I am at the same choice...finally my first steel ships within my grasp but well aware that if I pick one that means foregoing the other( especially if WG withdraws a ship from shop) I am at the choice between Stalingrad and Bourgogne. In my opinion the OP steel ship vs the fun ship. The cruiser that hits like a BB vs the BB that moves like a cruiser..For me Bourgogne plays like a large cruiser that has to position itself to get access to broadside to use it smaller calibre and reloadmodule. So, even if you said Bourgogne does not attract you, I think you might reconsider that... So try some more games with Moskwa, see if you connect. Same for high tier US dd ( although Sommers is a bit different beast). For Bourgogne if you have JB..

Well your comparison with Alaska / Zao is not that fair. In a HE battle Zao wins easy. Also Zao AP is not bad and Zao wins in shell speed thus makes for easy targeting. Those arc shells off the Alaska have their bad sides. And Zao has torps which you seemed to forget. But on the other side, Alaska AP does brutalize cruisers that forget to angle perfectly against Alaska’s special angle shells. There is no “ I win” button on the Alaska... Radar has nothing special here..By the way your English light cruisers have radar from T8 too if you equip them.

Bit surprised to learn that WG will add another 200 research points to be earned from resetting a line and playing that T5 from patch 0.9.9 onwards.. Well 400 points is welcome ( only play research bureau for 2x points resets) I normally skip ( FXP) up towards the T6 that only start to give RB points.. A minor extra credit cost for buying a T5 to get that 200( 400 RP extra). Will make me delay my reset though, first after the snowflake event and now after patch 0.9.9.

Wonder what ship is actually the best to get hits ( ignoring actual dmg, just ribbon farming)? The French, German of the US 2nd specialized ships? Normaly I go out with my secondary specialized Bismarck, but the US ( Massa, Georgia, Ohio) have that build in better accuracy... Normaly I don’t go French since lack of pen and normal accuracy but maybe for just co op ribbon farming they do have a nice number of guns..

The reason I “like”my Neptune is the extra set of torps on both sides.. Sometimes 4 torps are not enough to save your *ss. If this ship is just a citadel magnet like the Neptune but with less torps and a worse reload just to receive the radar smoke combination ( where Neptune has to pick one) it looks quite meh...

Really free camo’s are not that limited but... they are given mostly during events and most of the time spending tokens on that events type of camo competes with other choices... and we simply love to gamble for that crate that “ might” contain that earlier access ship etc.. How many of us used the summer sale tokens on the camo? You can still earn al lot of one time use camo’s.. From last year Xmas whaling I got a hefty amount of Frosty camo’s and like. But I tend to use them also a lot more.. I used to play with permanent ( both from premiums and bought silver line) camo a lot but since the difference between especially just 50% xp on permanent camo up to tier 8 and the massive extra bonus on most single use camo’s is so large, I even started to use the better onetime -use camo’s too... earlier I found it a waste to do so if a ship had perm camo... Few years ago WG upgraded the low tier permanent camo’s from just 30% Xp to 50% Xp and a small discount on repair costs. Maybe an extra captain xp of + 50% is in order to make permanent camo’s more worthwhile.

Nothing spent, nothing gambled. The tokens were spent on tropical camo’s and one crate that gives 5 special flags ( got the 700%FXP ones)

I don’t know how fast you gain coal but IF WG decides to remove from shop a coal ship I think Thunderer is the first to join JB and Smolensk. If you prefer Marceau more then sure take the dd, but plan ahead and take into account that you might miss out on Thunderer. At the end of 2020 3 former steel ships will be added to the coal shop. WG might decide to clean up the availability of ships...

Alaska first. she is a bit more stable to play with more accurate and rewarding guns. Agir only has some yolo torps surprise benefit. That and since Alaska is the oldest ship for FXP it might get removed. But she also might not since earlier FXP ships ( Musashi, Kronhstad and Missouri) removed were T9 prized at 750 FXP and WG might wanted these cheaper ships out of the shop. And Nelson still exists at 375 k FXP. I have all T9 FXP ships. Collected them in time, never had to choose because when a new ship arrived I bought it. If I was a new player and had that 1 mil FXP ready and no ships in port I would pick them as this: 0. Nelson, great for 375k FXP 1: Alaska due to rewarding guns, support the team and armor 2. Agir, getting close when in late game and have fun 3. Friesland, helps greatly with missions in co op, in random you need the enemy to allow you to let you play her. 4. Azuma...I “ won” her from a xmas crate.. well it did save me 1 mil FXP as a collector but the T10 Yoshino is just a bit better( and that’s more then just the torps ) But Missouri, Musashi and even Krohnstad were all at a different level for only 75% of the FXP...

I don’t have Pommern yet, but will get it the moment I have coal enough AND nothing more worthwhile to buy..That said the current missing in port ships for coal ( Pommern, Marceau and Yoshino) are all not that inviting. So priority will be based on T10 yearly snowflake bonus so Pommern will be last.. Even future Flint has priority if it has a chance to drop in the promised KOTS free T7 container to make sure that that container will drop another ship. T8 &T9 are starting to become like T5 is for Russian Premiums..sometimes it can be too many..

Looking at the PR requirements, specially the final 2 stages, would still make me very unhappy... I mean some individual tasks were akin to grinding the xp of full multiple silver lines.. With additional requirements on having certain lines researched up to high tier in the first place...Basically changing impossible missions into a 6 month grindfest might change the do ability in a positive way but not the pain. Not that a T10 should be free, but even then I would pay some part to limit the grind. I liked the Odin event because the pacing was very friendly. You had 2 months and I finished the average stage in 2-3 days so getting up to stage 18 was easy if you had a bit of lines researched. Getting the Graf Spee ( although having been a free boat before) was a nice bonus. Most appreciated events for me are the low tier giveaways with very friendly grinds...loved the T6 random lootbox from some time ago. That easy to get Murmansk some time ago was great too. Maybe not the greatest ships but free and improving the chances to get a good boat next time... If WG was offering a random T5 for some medium work count me in... Prefered the old WG with small but easy gifts instead of these high tier reward circus. Emden, vampire, Dreadnought, Varyag, Graf Spee, the ARP ships during the first event.( Although WG made me bleed for Nachi...) I don’t want to be hyped up by an event every month. Odin was nice, this new Dockyard event is too soon.

I would prefer her in the Original Kijkduin version with 10 guns ( 3*2 + 2*2) as planned. That would be my true nr1. This as well..

One out of 5 is bad? Wish I had a guaranteed droprate of 1/5. Would not mind to receive even an occasional T5 or even a cv

There was a onetime achievement in co op during another event requiring you to have 4 kills... While killstealing is sometimes a thing in co-op (especialy during kill x-misions) i remember the salt and drama at that time... The get 600 xp might be a much better option!

well instead of getting a 3 point captain you will get a 10 point captain out of it...Not that it changes much of the arguement that this IS a bad event but if you already have some ships in port at a certain tier and the remaining ships are mostly of the nations that you could profit from receiving an aditional 10 pointer it might be an option...Especially when focussing on rather low tier ships... (which in token means that you get the 65 point T5 random box for around 10 euro, slightly cheaper then buying a T5 outright with a higher tier captain as a bonus)

Well only silver lining is that you get a 10 point captain ( random lootbox) instead of a 3 pointer ( directly bought ship). Not sure if you can put value on this but a directly bought captain costs 1500 doubloons or 35k coal ( ok some of these have additional bonuses). Got a friend that gambled on the T5 lootbox and ( with quite a lot of ships already in port) perceived to get either VU ( highest value but quite meh Austrian BB) or Sirocco ( bad ship but he really needs a 10 pointer French captain). Well he failed and forgot the existence of the Mikoyan..

Well managed to get 6 tokens and got 5 Ouberos flags from a crate and 1 tropical camo ( which looks nice, although stats are surpassed by many other free camo’s ). That’s the end of this event for me though.. Might / might not get the required 12 achievs but am not counting on it.