Jvd2000

No not yet. Have some final T9 and T10 to buy ( 4 T10 unlocked but silver shortage), 4T8 ( 5 with Cherbourg) and 2 T9 in progress, and 4 T9 unlocked but again silver shortage. So not the luxury to play with superships. And with alternative JPN cruiser line and UK BC the grind treadmill will continue.

With toxic ships like cv’s and subs a few more Musashi is irrelevant. And with the new superships Musashi herself is not in such a great position herself.

Having more money gives privileges. Either business class airtickets, nicer house, fancy holidays, big car, better acces to healthcare and also a Musashi… whether you agree or not, it’s a fact. But that’s money on a level way different then 100/200/500€ for some gaming. But It’s more about controlling your self. Say it goes for 25k doubloons, that’s 80€. Some extra premium costs in regard to normal T9’s prizelevel. Maybe another 5k extra to be sure..that 100€. Think that 80% of wows population can cough up that money if needed but are restricted / smart enough not to. Because 100€ is a full A game with some extra dlc.. instead of just one extra ship. Might prefer to take my odds at Santa crates if I already have a reasonable stacked port full of premiums… The risk with the new setup/ rule is that crazy players just throw in a massive amount of money because they want to win and expect that the actual prize is way lower due to the prize is going to be capped at the lowest winning bid. So they get their Doubloons back ( which they still had to buy so WG wins out even then). But what if the winning pool is full of overbidding players banking on a return… Smart setup of WG. Think they know their playerbase better then we would like to admit.

The moment you unlock RB you get a onetime free 10k RB points. In one year you can get 14k RB doing dailies. So that not 6 years but 3,5 year max. And that also does not require you to play all days. You need 75 dailies a month to get the final 400 RB. So either 13 days all 6 phases or 25 days doing only the easiest 3. That’s like 5/ 7 coop games in easy mode. If you reset 2 lines ( preferably the Haregumo line twice with double points) you have enough points to buy the most expensive RB ship. I spam my Weimar + Scharnhorst/ Abruzzi one time a day in Narai for a week and I earn half the FXP required to reset that dd line. Instead of resetting each 3 months, you take it slow and only reset once half year. Might even time it with anniversary and Xmas snowflakes for that extra T10 in your port. But keep in mind that RB is a potential FXP ( and silver) sink and should only be done the moment you have a large portion of the silver lines researched ( better use the FXP to unlock painful modules) and getting all the 1MFXP ships in port. ( Hayate is a bit more expensive though) Don’t bother too early with RB. Think about that 1200 RB points a month as savings for the moment you are setled to step into the RB trap to burn your credits/ FXP. Basically the effort required to get a RB ship uses resources that can be more efficiently used to level regular ships and gaining premium FXP ships.

Rather not have another 7th mission to go through before receiving the final daily mission rewards. Happy to keep it at 6 dailies to enable that 40 steel rather easy. And like other said the daily rewards are in such numbers ( 40 steel, 400 coal) that solely relying on this income to buy premium ships is a very long journey. With coal it’s easier since with the missions you also unlock 2/3 daily crates which can give you more coal. And there are low tiercoal ships that you can earn in less then a month. With steel and RB not that much. Currently you can earn 1200 RB and around the same amount steel ( although steel does require even more daily commitment). Looking at the prizes of steel and RB ships you can argue that RB gives 50% lower reward ( steel bb is 31k, RB BB is 60+) but then RB can be much easier farmed. Only thing WG could do is to throw in RB as a reward in DY events like the 1000/2000 steel rewards that are ( locked behind doubloon ) final building phase. But only as added since I rather have steel then RB.

I have my fair share of free AL captains. Azuma can be unlocked by completing the collection. Hood, Nelson, Hipper and Aurora were made available for free during previous events. And now you can pick Prinz Eugen ( the other option Hood was made available earlier). Also have Shokaku as a lucky drop from a Twitch reward container. So all free and no duplicates. Will not gamble 2,5 K D a piece for another captain with increasing duplicate risks.

First: always use your coupon. Even if you want to preserve coal, just buy a relevant cheap ship just to prevent losing the coupon unused and a easy to get coal ship dropping from a crate. There are some real mediocre T5 ships for coal available. Buying some in advance for coal atleast improves the odds of getting a “ better” free ship from a SC or CT container. Looking at the number of games you should aim for some lower tier ships first. DoY And Lazo are good ships fe the Narai scenario. If combined with your idea to purchase Kutnetzov there are some free coal ships that go nicely with him. Giving him multiple ships to work on and earn xp. F.e Buy T7 Lazo for coal and coupon now and the Kutnetzov as soon as possible. You can then farm Narai with both to get Kutnetzov some nice captain xp while also playing your Riga. Other Soviet options are coal T10 Moskwa, Khabarovsk, and T5 Kirov and October Rev. You can get him a reasonable set of premium ships to get the most out of a legendary captain. If you can make this ships work..

The coupon is going to be refreshed soon. Better make use of it on a suitable premium coal ship ( or a steel ship when possible). Captains are expensive and not that great if not usable on many premium ships. Best use of your precious coal is to buy on ( expensive) coal ship each half year ( you get two 25% discount coupons a year) A coupon not used is gone, when refreshed you will still have only one. With excess coal you can buy either cheaper coal ships or indeed coal captains ( I think some 35k coal captains are better then their 175k counterparts). Atleast try to buy one coal ship with the coupon. Even if it’s just a T6 or T7. Or a T5 BB. Maybe align the purchase: a legendary with a suitable premium lower tier coal ship.

It is a A Hull Soyuz ( HP wise) with US BB accuracy instead of SOV ( so better long range, worse short range accuracy). Slightly better maneuverability ( but still bad). So it’s not a pasta copy ( like Littoria that even has Roma underneath her camo) but a worse sidegrade.

In a positive view. I am able to enjoy “ free” weeb content, but won’t spend money it. Hate the rng to get a captain ( with a chance I get a duplicate) or a paste copy ship ( or even a downgrade like Sovetskaya Russia). But I happy take the option to add Prinz Eugen into my harem for free without rng. ( already have Hood)thanks to the mission. With 37 days and easy requirements suits me fine. Although I was hoping that a ship like Avrora good by acquired for free. But giving low tiers away by WG is a ship that already sailed..

Extremely unexpected... My second ever premium ship from a SC. First was an Atlanta, now the Fujin. A bit flabbergasted. First: Yea a premium, can it be, is that legal? wohoo! Second: And a rare one too! Third: With my last SC reported in this tread I made the remark that i was 3 SC closer to the guarenteed premium ship drop :) Fourth: one more Kamikaze to go :) .. edit: and as a bonus SC for my 3rd resource container upgrade :

But not premium so less farm. Yorck can be perfectly used in Narai for grinding the ship but when premiums are available they are economically superior.

Just finished my T7 ITA dd grind in Narai. And I think this ship ( and all dd ‘s)is far from ideal. But stil got 10k xp from my last game play. You need to know where to push and when to hide. Some players take long routes with slow ships. Then you can’t really complain if you end with low xp. That and players that are blind for the situation. Cruisers / BB staying behind the convoy. Not reinforcing weak flank or replacing a dead dd/ cruiser failing its mission to kill the cv ( after being useless the entire match) So I rather have a few skillful players taking a bit more out of the xp pie then losing out because of brainless “ ….” that cost me stars. By the way 900+-1100 BXP is still an ok result. 1200+ is something to aim for. 1600+ is good. 2200 is very good and requires you to massacre the bots. It also helps if one of your team mate dies at the beginning of one/ 2 are absolute potatoes.

Narai is perfect to grind FXP, captain XP and , even if nerfed, silver. I can put camo, dragon flags etc on my premium ship with decent certainty my teammates cannot ruin a good score. Yes, I prefer to use Weimar. I even use it as a dedicated Narai ship. But only once a day for that 50% bonus. I have my Luntjes specced with reload booster and no concealment for the extra dakka. Abruzzi and München work too but double torps is just golden. Scharnhorst works well. Actually I can make a good score in any ( fast) BB and cruiser. But whatever ship you have, check your teammates and act accordingly. If they are not that good act more conservative. If they rush, play more aggressive. edit: mostly it’s the driver of the ship. I see wannabe “Weimar superscore “ players fail just as much as players with “ not ideal ships” shine. Can’t blame good players playing their game. Nor will a Weimar make players instant good at Narai.

Coal ships are not replaced on a regular basis. Coal ships have been removed before. Mostly T10 and T9’s because too popular ( as being perceived OP). New coal ships are added a few ships a year. Believe the US T10 DD and Tulsa being the latest additions. Next to brand new, coal only new releases, we have seen older, less popular premium ships added to the coal line up. These are T3- T7 ships available for some time as regular doubloon ships and added to the coal line up. Not yet seen any of the older lower tiers removed. But quite a few T9 and T10. JB, Georgia, Thunderer, Smolensk. Which one is next to go? And when? Only WG knows. But they do give a 3 month or so heads-up. Which might or might not be enough time to acquire the needed coal.

For me this personally has no consequence. I have all ships. That WG killed the doubloon conversion I can understand. I now use my CT for events and to feed seasoned containers to my clanmates. But CT offers some new players an entry into premium ships. Even if you only gather CT by news events, Watching Twitch ( or having it run while you do more interesting things) can give you up to 750 CT a week plus more. But you have to use CT to buy extra tokens or containers if rng fails you —> CT points.. For more CT you have to do WG work as a underpayed tester or headhunter. Basicly 15k CT is way too much expensive considering a good chance you just end up with one of the many Omaha versions. Before spending my expensive CT I rather would clean up T2- T5 coal ships first. Maybe spend some very small coin to buy some low tiers that come very cheap due to “ offers”. And then take my chances with either the junior containers or go T5.

WG has returned the premium T5 and T7 containers. And addded the T2/T4 version. Which is “nice “after they initially removed them because players who had all eligible ships were doubloon farming…The previous price for the T5 was 10k CT points. The prize for the T7 was 30k. In the past individual ships were also purchasable. Katori was 5K, and then we had the initial replacement. Ishizuchi, Exeter ( 15k) And Leningrad ( 20k). While the T7 stayed at the same prize ( 30k) and I can understand that Leningrad was somehow cheaper in CT as she is one of the cheaper T7 I do not understand the T5 pricing going from 10k to 15k for a random T5. Exeter was prized higher because being slightly a more expensive cruiser. But at T5 there are so many cheap ships that a prize increase towards 15k is not warranted. Completely not taking into account that the doubloon return value is replaced by a 6 million credit one… Same can be said for the T2-T4 container. Ishizuchi is the most valuable ship that can possibly drop from that container with again a lot of T2’s garbage. Katori, a T3 went for 5k CT. Again a very bad increase of CT required. So WG took the good deal away, killed the doubloon option and returned the containers for a severely worse deal considering the CT prizing inflation. Shame. @Seraphice is the current prizing for the returned CT premium containers as planned? Seems the deal got extremely worse. Can understand that wg closed the doubloon loophole but a 50% prize increase for a T5 looks a bit shitty. Why not allow players to fill up their harbor a bit easy. Not that T5 is that competitive… Are you that afraid that players fill out their T5’s so they get too many higher ships ( like T6 since there are many of them too) when they decide to buy Santa crates?.

My to do list: Pan Asia cruiser: T8 Harbin, fully researched but just 30K progress. ITA T7 DD.: Remaining 10K xp needed before unlocking T8. UK, SOV and JPN T8 CV: all modules unlocked but just 50-90k xp from the 355k xp needed to T10. Like the 2 other finished CV’s a huge future FXP sink T9 JPN destroyer Yugumo. 100/ 240k FXP progress Plus The 3 monthly RB reset ( FXP only) of the Haragume line. Then I have the following T9’ researched but not bought: IKEA dd, SOV Hybrid DD, Ger BC. Rest is in port except 6 researched T10 due to silver shortage. ( Ger CV, UK CA, ITA CA, RUS CA, FRA DD, PA DD) The T11 are financial out of reach and on lower priority. My FXP income is higher then the periodic RB reset so I often FXP ships that really bother me or atleast buy the T9 modules ( witch can go up to 100K for a T9 ship)

Sorry took too long to write. Checked before, was no topic at that time but yours came in between…

WG did it before with Agincourt. And with pre access of silver line ships. But unless you are impatient there are no reasons to take the rng route. Take a sneak peak at the content of the first rng container. If it’s the ship then you can buy, if not just wait 1 or 2 months..nothing unique to be missed.

Buying first then seeking confirmation about the ships you bought being good choices is a bit odd. But atleast you have bought some good ships: Atago ( my first premium) Mainz ( fine) Warspite ( fine plus low tier) Rest are ok’ish to meh/ extremely situational. And with such a broad number of different classes and nationalities it would have been better to get experience by playing through the different silver ones first. Fact is that after I bought the T8 Atago ( yep I made the mistake to buy a T8 while strugling at T3/T4 ) I found that I was not yet prepared to be usefull at that tier, my experience was lacking. You needed a 15/pnt captain at that time to have the very required concealment captain skill.. After that I just concentrated on lower tier premium ships to accompany my slow rise in the tiers. Thats why I picked the Warspite as a solid buy. And to save some money, pick the cheap low tier coal ships first. Like The DoY which isn’t that great for money but for free coal is good enough.

RNG smiled upon me. Did not need the last week ( with 3 crates) but did get 2 crates from twitch prime. Could have waited a week longer to get the missing elements and saved up duplicates for the 15k compensation. But I took the inpatient route. Atleast I got 5k doubloons back for this mediocre ship.

Receiving Leone was great! I already had her from a crate, so the 5K doubloons are very much appreciated! And without the need to buy extra worthless crates to finish the collection since RNG was nice to me this time.

This week 3 SC. Two from birthday, one from a resource container upgrade. 25 dragon flags, 14 days premium and 50 camo with 50% xp and 50% credits. But with a guaranteed premium after 160 ish SC I am just 3 sc closer to that threshold 😀

Never checked. My xp goes indeed to the tier 1. Since I never would waste doubloons to convert XP into FXP it’s not relevant. Only xp that’s relevant on the Tier 1 is that it pays to unlock the T2 ( less then 1000 xp ) when I reset the line with FXP again.