ThePurpleSmurf

When 1900 base xp on a loss are not enough to carry.

Good you are already aware of this. I was just about to report this.

The buff some of the high tier cruisers need is armor. Some ships are ridiculous tanky while ships like DM are forced to hide all day long behind islands because as soon as you show yourself everything will overmatch your armor and citadel the crap out of you. You get punished for doing nothing wrong while big gun ships get free damage and kills they don't deserve because game mechanic decide to reward gun caliber over skill and proper aiming.

Early morning ranked. Sorry @xXx_Blogis_xXx

1 vs 5 Solo Warrior in a T10 match. This was not a run and hide SW, because i had to cap and get at least one kill to shift the points. Luckily a Hindenburg volunteered because he got greedy. After that i was spotted by an enemy DM and had to kill him too - lucky again that this guy never heard about DM AP and was the usual HE-only spammer. The last 30 seconds of the game was ring around the rosie with an Izumo in A cap on Loop to secure the win. Kinda low damage for 4 kills, but 2 of those kills were DDs, so not much damage to farm here. 2880 base xp.

I've been exposed, damn!

It's not a screenshot of a map, but it's somehow sad anyway. This guy really has only these ships plus the other T1 you get for free. Then you think 'wow crazy crap, this is dedication but sad though' and then you click the coop button and discover that this guy has played another 2600 Hermelin games in coop mode. That's about 6000 games in Hermelin. Just wow.

We do understand this. We know there are legal reasons behind this. What we do not understand is, why in first place are events/contests/whatever picked by WG that exclude a bunch of their playerbase? Why don't WG just make a event/contest/whatever where the winners get, let's say, 1 year premium and 5000 doubloons. Boom done! This is cheaper for WG, everyone can participate, nobody need to be pissed off because they were excluded. No matter how you look at it, WG does not learn and they seem to not think as well, when they make stuff like this. They have not the same issues when it comes to accepting the money from players, no matter in which country they live.

Well, it's annoying. It's a good feature on the forum portal, like the WG Staff Posts, Important Topics and so on, but once i click a forum/subforum, this sidebar has to hide. It takes up so much space for nothing and with info, that actually belong on the main portal in the right sidebar or calender and not necessarily in the forum in first place. So please WG web team, change the settings so the upcoming events are hidden while browsing the forums, just like it is with the other sections, like it is on all other WG regions forums. p.s.: yes i know, it is not gameplay related, but the forum actually has no proper subforum to deal with suggestions/complaints that are website/forum related.

It takes up about 1/4 of my viewport (visible area of the browser), which is a lot and i do not maximize my browser as other stuff is going on, on my screen as well. If people only check subforums and not the portal for news and the calender, which has a own permanent link, then this is their problem and not the problem of those who do check the important sources frequently to not miss anything. I also do not consider this upcoming event as that important, that it must permanently waste 25% of my viewport. Especially not if the events are posted in polish, turkish and other languages i do not speak. I also find it remarkable that 'Important Topics' and 'Staff Posts' (which usually provide important info/news) are considered less important, because these categories are hidden in subforums, yet the events stuff is visible. But whatever, you have your reasons why this sidebar is there all the time, though i would appreciate it to hide it in subforums or add an option to let the user decide wether or not he want to see this sidebar.

Well, we have to face it, they don't care and we are stuck with this ugly sidebar for the rest of our WoWs life.

It seems that the T7 is the only good PA DD, all other seem to be mediocre to bad compared to their counterparts at the same tier. Due to rl commitments i haven't much time for WoWs right now and haven't played any PA DDs yet, but watched some vids and streams and apart from the T7 they all looked meh.

Luckily not me

WG already answered this question. It's not as simple as changing 2 lines of code and it's done, but it's to rebalance the shell balistics, which is pretty much the core of the game and everything revolve around this. Tiny changes there can have a huge impact on the whole game and doing changes with a rush might result in a completely screwed up game.

All PA DDs are clones of already existing tech tree line DDs. Don't like DWT? Simply play the original from a different ship line and you are good to go. Other than that, learn to play, learn to ambush, learn to trick BBs to charge you in your smoke and torp them from there - same tactics other DDs with shorter range torpedoes do it since years with success.

I play as usual and do not jump on the new line hype train, that most people seem to enjoy. For the PA DD in particular, i was very interested in this line but the more i have seen them on streams, youtube and so on, the more i think that these DDs will most likely be played only by very few people, especially at high tier (8+). Their main weakness is the lack to torp enemy DDs and this cripple these DDs by a lot. It will be extremely hard to contest cap zones and hunt down enemy DDs, flushing them out of smokes with torps and so on. This will result in, most of the time, pityful rewards XP-wise (can't torp DDs = huge xp loss, can't contest caps = huge xp loss, and so on). I really expect to see very few of these ships at tier 8+ because people who try the line will realise how difficult they will be to be played and drop the line at tier 6, maybe 7, because the tier 7 seem to be the best DD in this line.

You should try NA. Five DD per side is normal and if there are less than 4 DD per side people think the game is bugged. Their amount of CV games is maybe 20% of what we have on EU. That's good if you hate CV games, but it's bad in terms of spotting torpedoes from so many DDs. You see, it could be worse. Besides, the DD overpoluation is only temporary and happen only very few times a year while we have always, in every battle, at least 5 BBs per side and WG keeps on pumping out more BB premiums (for cash and Free XP) and BB ship lines.

Pff, you guys are low tier seal clubbers. Real men do it in tier 10 matches

Welcome and good luck

I expect that the Pan-Asian DDs (PA DDs) will change the gameplay to the worse, especially at high tiers and here are some of the reasons. Deep water torps will only work against BBs, CV, some Cruisers. Some say DDs and Cruisers are safe, yet the official announcement mention repeatedly non-light Cruisers will be targets as well. I expect, that a lot of PA DD captains will ignore objectives even more than before and only go after BBs, because these DDs lost a very important tool against other DDs when it comes to contesting cap points, their torps to flush out enemy DDs from smoke screens. PA DD captains will overestimate the radar on these ships and think they are the ultimate DD hunter. However, the radar range is kinda short and the duration not very long and you have to give up the smoke consumable to get the radar. What i expect to see a lot is, that PA DDs yolo into caps and the enemy DD will smoke up. The PA DD will pop radar and open fire. This will get the PA DD spotted from inside the smoke for longer due to the gun firing concealment debuff than the radar will spot the DD in the smoke. Once the radar runs out, the PA DD can not use smoke to conceal himself and he will die quickly. PA DD using radar instead of smoke will die much more often than other DDs. They will be bad cap contester and if they go after BBs only, because of deep water torps, they will get caught out a lot by enemy DDs or catapult fighters and they will have no chance to use a defensive smoke to escape this situation. PA DDs will get allies killed. I think that quite a few PA DD captains will develop the habbit to torp from second row through smoke screens in which allied DDs or light cruisers sit. This can probably cause a panic reaction by the captain that torps heading his way and he accelerate out of the smoke which will get him spotted and perhaps killed. Deep water torps will confuse the heck out of players. The average player will have a hard time to distinguish the torp types, despite the tiny torp indicator (triangle vs circle over the torp in the water) and dodge deep water torps as DD/CL when it was not needed, which maybe make them vulnerable to other attacks or they think torps are deep water and they do not dodge at all, but then it appears they just got sunk by normal torps. Deep water torps in the hands of experienced players will probably be too powerful against BBs, that's why game changing buffs/nerfs will follow up and this could harm other ships/lines. For example, deep water torps are very hard to detect, so maybe the torp acquisistion will be buffed for BBs, which could have a negative impact on the spotting range of normal torps and they'll suffer from the same problem that IJN DDs have, with torps that can be spotted from outer space. From what i've read are the deep water torps the hardest hitting torps with the highest flooding chance. Perhaps this leads to torp belt buffs on BBs or improved flood protection and the normal torps will suffer from this. This all is of course pure speculation, because i have never played a PA DD other than Lo Yang. I just saw some vids and streams with PA DDs, since the NDA was obviously lifted today, and this made me think about it a little bit. Maybe i'm wrong with my assumptions, but i really do believe that these DDs will have the potential to change the meta - unfortunately not to a better.

Go and yell this into the face of the WG guys who write the official announcements for the portal, because there, right there in the one and only official announcement, it is explicitly mentioned that 'some cruisers' are safe. A normal person with common sense and logical thinking would take the official announcement over radmon players 'but it was said...' information, especially if you know WG and howthey have -more than once- changed ships and whole lines 24h before release. All ST, CC and whatnot would have sworn that this would never happen, yet it did. And until the line is official released for everyone, people take the word from WG officials that they spread in their official announcements on the official portal. Want to stop people quoting this? Go and tell WG to post correct news and announcements. Simple as that.

The sad part is, every day is weekend in WoWs. Times are over that you only met incompetent players on weekends, nowadays they are everywhere, to any time, always and they come in packs. However, there is a noticable skill gap depending on day times. The worst gaming experience is between 4pm and 10pm, while the best gaming experience is between 10pm and 3am. The easiest time to carry games is between 9am and 12pm. The best time to chill is to simply play a different game or don't play at all.

In about 7 out of 10 games i have at least one, mostly two or three people spamming their 'hey blabla, wanna join a clan, lalala, send message'. What we gonna do about it? Report for misbehave in chat? In that case i'd like to have a lot more reports. Or is WG doing something about it? Yeah probably not, it's just wishful thinking and the spam continues.

Well, the gold spammers for sure also started at some point with just one message ;) The reason why i opened the thread is, that i had a game a few days ago where 3 guys posted their recruitment thingy at the game start, this is ok, but this scrolls the chat. The first guy obviously did not like that his advertisement was pushed up so he posted it again, then the second guy apparently thought if this guy does it, he can do it too. Then guy one and guy two repeated this 2 or 3 times until it triggered a F-key spam by other players because they were annoyed. While this was only a short event which did not really bother me, did it let me wonder if this could develop into a new trend, when more people do this in chat. This was the first and only time so far that i've seen this though.

inb4 NA get the usual -50% on 1 year premium time, while we can be happy to get -15% on 3 months which is not even worth bothering.