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I literally started facepalming right there Good DD players are basicly immune to Minos. Luckily, those players tend to be quite rare, and average DD player continues to show full broadside. Ofc they die very fast then. Wooster is much more capable at killing DDs because of the HE which you cant angle against. Well... US Cruisers also tend to have good AA, so naturally, there are a lot of them around these days, because they handle CVs better. All in all: The spotting delay helps DD players that play smart to begin with, i.e. they are already turned around and running away by the time they get radared. DDs who are steaming ahead while being radared will still get blasted, but thats clearly a l2p issue then.

If anything, CV players will be getting even better (those that are slow learners... not those who will never learn, they will continue to suck). There is nothing you can do more as a surface ship player than to skill for AA, use sectors and blob up. The one with the best effect - the last one - is already established since the first weeks of the rework. And i guess, there wont be much more players switching to AA builds. Either you did it right away (or were using it with RTS CVs already), or you dont care. And then there is still the question: How usefull is better AA? I see more use in taking FP/BoS for BBs than to try get a little bit better AA. Both those skills will help me not only vs CVs, but also vs HE spammers and DD torps. The CV will get drops through no matter what. Thats a really good point. The only ships i consider playing with CV in a division is Minotaur/Wooster. I wont play if someone wants to take T6/8 CVs. Ontop of that, im not playing much anyway

Because stealth is a big part in this game, and ships are balanced around this. DDs arent automatically the strongest ships, only because they have the best concealment. They do have (had? taken away by CVs probably) a high influence on the outcome of the match, which was balanced by having lowest average damage of all classes. Looking for opportunities to flank / break through the enemy lines is a skill you need to learn, and which is very strong if done correctly. CVs take away that skill simply because they will spot you and attack you. There is no flanking possible with CVs around. They force everyone to blob up, and shoot at each others bows - which is boring af. What have you been playing? Give me some of that game... its been horrible camping crap, and it gets only worse At this point, i feel weekend players are "better" (more fun) to play against, because they dont sit in their spawn and actually move somewhere. Playing during the week you can see all BBs sit at absolute maximum range, shooting anything which dares to move closer, because it gets inevitably spotted by a plane.

I had "use 6 consumables" while playing coop - thats harder than it sounds Cant use DCP/Heal from the start, and randomly using smoke while playing Mino seemed kinda suicidal aswell. So i only popped Hydro instantly, then started shooting so bots will shoot at me first. Barely made it work, since bots tend to die so fast

Shouldnt happen...? Ive had several occasions, where planes were clearly inside my AA range, but my AA wouldnt shoot because of an island in the way. AA works, if Planes <-> Ship have LoS to each other i think. When my AA wouldnt shoot, i was also not spotted. And cruisers sitting behind islands are easier targets than previously because of that reason. With RTS CVs, AA actually went through islands.

Blame the BBs for that - not the Cruisers. Sitting behind an island shouldnt be the most fun situation to play (atleast not for me)... but BBs kinda force you to, and CVs made it even worse by randomly spotting you.

Who would have thought, that in times of spotting masters (aka CVs) we still see demands to change/nerf radar As for a correct answer: Never, WG tried it and they didnt like it (thank [edited]for that). yeah right... rewards for what? getting spotting damage?

Unlucky, just got one a couple of days ago. For me, i most of the time get them in bulks (several within a week f.e.) and then i get long periods without...

Ive also felt, that playing T7/8/9 resulted more often in games with T8 ships, even T9 being toptier seemed to happen more often than usually. But playing T10 there were still a few T8s in there, so im not sure what to conclude. Just being lucky/Unlucky? Or MM changed somehow - hard to say at this point. However, quite a few people do still complain in the MM thread about bad MM on T8...

I always love those "Radar Mino is the easiest ship in the game" blablubb Got called out for "smoke camper" while playing radar mino myself. Since that obviously didnt make any sense after i told him that, he told me to "learn to play the game" Also i cant understand, why people cant push a couple of ships with superior force simply because they are radared/hydroed....

Mostly depends how many ill get in the end. If i get a lot, i might take Lazo, otherwise Permacamo(s) + something else.

Couple of days ago, when we were playing Mino/Wooster/Midway division, we had the enemy CV fly into both our AA at the start of the game and attacked our DD. He then even turned around, even more into our AA and dropped our Mino aswell Yes, he lost all his planes... but still?

Ah, yes i think it was 3x4... saw the popup in the right corner So if i get to stage 4 on 2nd difficulty level, ill get even more tomorrow? So why would i pick losing side at all

Yeah Honor is at 4,5 million to Glory 2 million points. EZ win But i still wonder what the winning bonus will be tomorrow. That will impact what team im gonna pick after this.

I just realized, you get 12 tokens extra for being in the winning team. Wonder if that will be every day? If i compared today, i get 40 tokens for 500 points on Team Honor, or 44 tokens for 500 points on Team Glory. However, if Team Honor wins again, ill get an additional 12 tokens (?), which makes it 52 vs 44 tokens for the same amount of work.

Shouldnt we get another respecc when CB season is over anyway? assuming, you played CBs ofc. Basicly you could even say, the respecc with 0.8.2 was more or less coming anyway, as CBs started at the same time...

Can happen. If this happens tho, its better to stop play all together, or maybe try some other tier (sometimes this helps aswell). However, if you get better, this is less likely to happen well... thats not how random works tho. All in all, you will get a certain amount of games you will or lose no matter how good or bad you are. Then you have a certain amount of games, where you can make a difference. But that doesnt mean, that out of 10 individual games, you will have some which you win/lose and can influence. You might be unlucky, and lose all, or be lucky and win all. However, if you look at thousands of games, you will get an equal amount of each. The more consistent you can perform, the more you will win overall.

I dont understand the question The page doesnt track people who log in, which would be misleading. I log in basicly every day, even if i dont play at all. It tracks games played with each ship. Since the rework, the numbers are mostly lower than before. CV player numbers are constantly rising, even more so that Premium CVs got released now. Which might lead to, other classes getting played less. We have had more forum threads complaining about 4 CV games aswell. That means, people are unhappy, and eventually they start to play less. The worst thing for me is, how the meta turned out to be, which is horribly unfun to me. CVs dont necessarily bother me, even if i see them literally every game (occasionally it still shows that the balance is still off imo). Doesnt change the fact, that its down to how teams play if its a fun game or not.

Shimakaze rushed down where the islands at A are. CV also went in there without backup. Shima torps CV -> CV kills Shima with last plane squad shortly after aswell Was quite the show actually. Sadly noone could shoot the CV i think. Shima just went full in and torped him point blank range.

http://maplesyrup.sweet.coocan.jp/wows/ranking/index.html I did the numbers last 2 months, 2 months before rework (which are a bit higher because holidays are in there i think) and last year 2months in april. Most players we had the months before the rework, but there were also more players last year around the same time. At the same time, CVs are being played more then previously... MUCH more id say.

If it wouldnt make any difference, then they might aswell put it into the game, as it would only make surface ship players more happy since they dont feel like they are getting screwed by broken AA ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

100% Agree. Its a joke that a ship can lose his entire AA when the CV can never run out of planes.

From flamus stream today, was so hilarious i made a screenshot I let you figure it out

Shchors died 1,5 mins into the game. Yorck died to Nicholas torps while not torping - or even SHOOTING FOR THAT MATTER - back at all... left me to kill that stupid nicholas while the CV+Phoenix were also next to me

Ive thought about this myself Can make 70-80 in coop on TX aswell, thats like 7-9 games pretty much, so 1~1,5h. Ill take it tho, dont feel like i HAVE to play too much and can be done faster.