DFens_666

Ive never used MM monitor, so i dont know either. But the EXP, which WG is tracking themselves, is base XP + Premium account if active. That makes looking at EXP really flawed, as it can be base XP, Base XP with 50% standard premium or even base XP + 65% WoWs premium. No other XP modifiers are in there tho.

Had a Langley yesterday in T7MM because they faildivisioned. He was able to drop my Lyon

Looks like IFHE will only be give 25% more pen, BUT it might be, that they are reworking the plating of all ships aswell. The new CLs are supporting this: 13mm bow, but 30/50mm upper belt on Smolensk and the french one (forgot his name) I can make a rough list, but i dunno about RU BBs/all Premiums: T6: UK/US BBs everywhere. The others not as much, might be some places which can be penned (mostly Bow/Aft). T7: UK BBs (not sure about Hood armor tho), Colorado, IJN BBs, all others the Bow/Aft section. T8: All Cruisers except Atago/Takao deck which is 42mm T9: All Cruisers except Alaska Deck and i believe Ibuki has 30mm somewhere? General rule is: Midtier BBs have 25mm armor, some have 30mm Deck (Lyon) and germans have 50mm anyway. Cruisers have 25-27 at T8+, only T10 has 30mm deck/plating.

I disagree here, i think its viable. T5-7 DDs do profit from IFHE, because it enables them to penetrate BB plating (comparable to Harugumo). T7 is quite often toptier, as we all know. So you face targets all the time, which you can pen with IFHE. Even if you are lowtier, it enables you to penetrate all cruisers (Alaska deck is the sole exception afaik), but BBs are still immune to your HE, while you have less fire chance against them. Is it worth it? Personaly, i think so. I remember back when i played Farragut, i went for IFHE first, but many people said, its not worth it. Now tho, i think its worth it. Look at T6-7 BB armor, most of them are lightly armored and you can pen them everywhere all of a sudden. Dealing 2-3k damage every few seconds is worth it imo. And they can only heal 50% of it, compared to 100% of repairable fire damage. On the other hand, i wasnt a fan of the midtier russian DDs. Maybe it would have worked better with IFHE for me. I played them in OPs for the grind And you have to remember, that there are rumors around that they are reworking IFHE, so maybe soon its not useful anymore...

Not sure why you think, that a good player/division would have fun, being matched with 40% players ALL DAY LONG! You know what happens, if you help a bad player in a situation where he would have died? He will blindly stumble into the next retard situation, and then he will die If you flip a coin, will it land heads or tails alternately? Nope, streaks do happen. Average players will just go with the flow, because they wont influence the game as much (for good or bad). Good players will win more often, but even they can get a losing streak. A Super Unicum division will be running on lengthy winning streaks, and losing streaks are pretty much never happening, but occasionally they will still lose ofc. Btw, what is starting EXP? You mean, the average EXP of the players? Doesnt say anything, players that run premium account all the time can have more EXP than people who dont run it. Doesnt mean, that they are better players. And weekened teams arent necessarily evenly distributed withing one weekend. This weekend, you had bad lucky, maybe next weekend you have better luck, or it might be average with wins and losses. But in the end, you will get a fair share of everything, and the result is your own skill influencing the outcome of the game.

Can be down to bad luck? A small number of games can always be unlucky. At some point, you will get more lucky and win more again Also, weekend teams are just that

Feelings? Its pretty much consistent with your overall WR. Also, i dont think your performance within those games warrant a much higher WG

Still OP

Anchor divisioning gone wrong However you can guess which ship still survived till the end And was able to strike me, even tho im 3 tiers higher And it sank a Bayern

Maybe you can give us the replay so we can see for ourselves. Just saying something will most likely not help, except, BB dispersion can derp at almost any range^^

Might aswell say, everyone gets reported for anything. I think the class i report the most are BBabies sitting in the back...

Personaly i would welcome a change of more alpha damage (and less dots imo) while less strikes being made. It would certainly solve some issues: - Being basicly permaspotted - Being perma resetted while trying to cap. If there is a delay between strikes, DDs atleast potentially could get the cap in between. Also it would give DDs more time to relocate in between, if CVs have a window of 1 minute or more till they are back at the same location. Then we already have to consider, that CVs can strike any target at will, and imo that would lead to the question: Should CVs have equal damage than BBs, or in some cases even best average damage on their tier? Ofc this starts to include personal opinions, and we all know where this ends, so lets not go any furter with this I just think its questionable to compare alpha strike damage between classes as an arguement for or against anything. Especially if one of them is applying that damage from within 2km always, while the other basicly at >12km most of the time. With more RNG.

Because he was bringing up points, which are completely pulled out of the behind. And as you know (i think) CVs have more average kills than BBs, so its not 100% repairable. They get the kills, unlike something like a Conqueror, which has more average damage but less kills. You cant look at one stat, compare that to other ships and say its fine (or not)

Yet, CV average damage is most of the time even above most if not all BBs tier for tier.

The problem is, CV can spot them while pushing tho. But it will be better with next patch when they introduce starting delay for planes. I think Cruisers can push to their usual locations again, without being spotted.

9 port slots? where did they come from? Do they still drop in any normal container? Havent gotten any in years...

Cruisers cant push, as they get devastated. Longrange AA is garbage, even for Cruisers. That would mean, DDs have to litereally hug their Cruisers in order to are safe from AA. And even a combo of Wooster/mino is not safe from a CV attack Had a midway, first drop our DD, then turn within my Wooster AA and drop Mino. Yes, he lost all his planes, but he got 2 strikes off, which is imo utterly retarded. He went straight above 2 (supposedly) strong AA ships, and just didnt give a [edited]about it. Counterplay against CVs? Doesnt exist... Killing the hull is basicly impossible against TX CVs, if CV knows what he is doing. CV Hull is retard proof against everything: Shatters HE shells, Shatters BB AP, literally 0 fire damage. Speccing into AA is mostly useless tho... Going for tankbuild can be very effective, depending on the ship in question.

Deserved because you made a fail division. That doesnt even happen often these days. 1~ year ago (or whenever they changed MM), this was basicly bound to happen, because MM would throw you under the bus regardless. Enemy team didnt have a T7 ship then. T8 ship can see T10 ships. If you take a T7 ship in a div with T8, you can see T10 ships, if the MM gets an equal division to balance it out. Ofc stats are open for discussion, but if someone has low stats overall, then its basicly him being a bad player, and as such, doesnt have the priviledge to whine about potato teams, because he is one himself. And occasionally you see people padding their stats with low-midtier ships, and when they play T10 they still suck. That still doesnt mean, they get only potato teams on T10, it means, that they most likely cant play T10 properly.

The problem is, many people that whine about potato teams, are part of the problem. They are simply not good enough themselves, to actually warrant whining about others. Especially when talking about TX, where many fail, because they cant produce the results necessary to win a game. Thats why i dont play solo anymore. Much better and less nerve wracking. Again, same problem as before: Put 3x 47% players in a division and they start to fail harder... The only way to stop having potato teams (which will make you lose) is stop being a potato yourself and play with equally skilled players.

If they angle, then Stalin can do nothing, as it lacks DPM. You can bounce its AP easily, and if you force him to use HE, pretty much every other Cruiser can beat it. I think closerange even a Wooster can citadel a Stalingrad Havent tried yet, but i citadelled a Moskva once like 7x in one salvo with my Wooster. Dont they have same Belt armor? - then it should be possible. With the slowreload, every other Cruiser can wiggle in and out and use all their turrets, thus having better DPM. Hindi and IFHE HIV have ofc the luxury of penetrating 50mm armor, so the others need to aim a bit better, or they need more fires to bring one down.

If WG would read this, it might make a difference to have a thread like this every hour

Enemy team had an equal division (Nagato + T8 ship) When MM gets 2 of those divisions, there is no limitation to not put them into T10 game. Before they changed MM, the game could throw you under the bus even if there was no other division to match your own, most of the time, faildivs actually were fails.

Imo that only works for ships within a certain class. You cant look at DDs and BBs, because that can be down to option 1. However, you can look at Midway and Hakuryu for an individual player. If the same player can achieve 65% WR in Midway, but only 55% in Haku, then it would indicate, that there is a problem with the balance. Ofc you have to look at solo players only. Your last attempt to make this about me:

Just look at the stats? We had an example right here, which fits the description MrConway gave as an arguement, what Skillgap is in their eyes. So if someone has 15% more WR in CVs compared to his average stats, than there is a skillgap. I said its stupid, because CVs are so fundamentally different to play (maybe a bit less after rework), that making a comparision like that doesnt make any sense whatsoever. Skillgap is the difference between all players, not what one player can individually do with a certain ship/class compared to his average stats. I cant compare playing a CV to playing a Cruiser, they are fundamentally different.