DFens_666

Thats why i have 3xT8 permacamos flying around and no idea where to put them... ontop of that, most ships already have a permacamo, because T8 ships have gotten a lot over the years. Have 26 silver T8 ships in port, 14 of those already have permacamos (on NC i put one myself of those which we could place on our own).

So after only playing DDs and Cruisers today, i kinda started thinking about this. Just as a headsup, i dont play DDs very often, simply because i dont like them too much, i rather prefer Cruisers. Anyway, i played 2 games ranked with Pommern - didnt go as planned, because DD/Cruiser play was so abysmal. Then i thought what i could play instead, and gave Fletcher ago. Liked it a lot when i grinded it and havent played it in a while. Played 4 games with it. Then got asked for Division, and i played 3 games Cruisers (plymouth, Drake, Ibuki). After that, played 2 games with Smaland... which basicly ended in me stopping to play, because i was mentaly exhausted. The first game (was a loss because team camped hard in spawn), i try to get a win with everything i have, fighting other DDs nonstop while rangemod Cruisers and BBs fart at me from 20km. 2nd game same stuff, fighting DDs nonstop, one of them was a hurricane clan so had to be extra cautious. And i swapped to DDs because got sick and tired when a CV did nothing but attack me the entire game, even when he had a DD up his [edited]at 6km. He rather flew half the map to kill me Basicly point im trying to make is, can we ask Cruisers/DD players to actually play properly / for the win all the time? Need to concider, that not everyone is a good player in the first place. But more important, if you want to relax while playing, then doing that in a Cruiser/DD is almost impossible while keeping everything "under control" so to say. Which probably is also the reason, why we have - >100 BBs in hightier queue (couple of hours ago) - >150 BBs in ranked queue (even before rushhour). BBs is just sit back and shoot stuff, while you dont have to care about much if anything. You can still play the game without much thinking. Contrary to Cruisers/DDs, where best case, you sit at an island and press mouse button to shoot something while being safe. If you actually have to perform in those classes, it starts to get infinetely harder, while feedback for "performing" with BBs is, 100k damage farming HE from backline. I dont know how many BBs ive seen today who did nothing but spam HE... 7-8 maybe? Ofc none of those were RN BBs So should we be surprised, if half the Cruisers and DDs just die within 5 minutes? Probably not so much. And what do we do about that? Well good question... Since WG is just interested in making BB/CV play as casual as possible, they keep rising the bar for Cruisers and DDs, and by that, making the game worse ofc. Ontop of that, more and more people are being drawn to play BBs, which again, makes things worse. When does WG (need to) react? If BB numbers keep rising, will they care with games having more than 5 BBs or teams with less than 12 players to empty the queue? Is that maybe also the reason for ranked rework? Put some BBs in ranked all the time, because waiting time has no limit?

I think with Cruisers, the skill floor/ceiling is completely out of sync. For the average player, Cruisers are just absolute garbage. They probably will never make them work properly. Sure they can get a good game here and there, but thats about it. With BBs, they get much more consistent results, and can hardly die within 3-4 minutes (well, some BB players even manage to do that... ) On the other hand, good players can still make cruisers work, and they dont perform badly with them. So you make them stronger, they start to be OP for some players...

That someone else makes a better naval battle game? Problem with wows is, that we are simply not the target audience anymore (if we ever were). They want new fat cash cows, which can be milked fast and heavily. Game itself, balance, nothing is the priority. Most important is to get as much money as possible out of it. But for a serious answer regarding wows: - Better balancing in Clanbattles/Brawls. Ships might be balanced in 12vs12 but once you go to 7vs7 or even less, it starts to get so messy. I hope they learn something this CB season with banning/limited ships. - Better map balancing. Some more new maps would be nice aswell, but some of the older ones... on the other hand, every time they change existing maps, it gets worst. I hate Islands of Ice and Shards, both of them were way better before. - Nerf BBs... or somehow make them less appealing for the average player. This BB queue clogging is so annoying, everywhere you go there are dozens or hundreds BBs in queue

Albemarle was the first where id say, it kinda works. I hated the ones before them. I felt annoyed playing them in OPs, so i just freeXPed them. Surrey was hot garbage in Narai. Even grinded Albemarle in Clanbrawls and i was surprised how well that works. One time we played some other Unicum clan, and in discord others were joking "DFens is playing torpedo Albemarle", was hilarious (torped both BBs btw). Drake feels kinda decent actually, played a few randoms. Carry potential is what it is with non-radar Cruisers, but the HE is great and the heal is nice aswell.

Thought about trying ranked, maybe get to R1 in the last days and checking how quality of the game is... So enemies get 3 BCs (2x Alaska and Azuma) we get 3 standard Cruiser (Seattle, St Louis and Ibuki) which is... yeah, not that fun basicly. So i knew, i have to get a good opening salvo on hopefully one of the Alaskas Worked. Alaska died, but that didnt stop my teammates from just being really stupid. Ibuki kept showing perma broadside and died. Bismarck started bowtanking and got farmed. Öland gets A cap, then gets rushed Tirpitz and dies. Still won Luckily the Kagero decided to yolo into me, so i managed to kill him before his torps reached me. But even then, with the last 3 enemies basicly being out of the game in the corner south of A, my team desperately wanted to die. The NC, who was sailing mindless around the entire game thought, its smart to go flat broadside to 2 BBs and got smacked for 40k at 985 points. Bismarck couldnt aim, thats why he actually survived. And just prior to that, our St Louis with like 85% HP left got chunked down to 1700 because stop shooting? Whaddaissadad??

AADUSNUFFIN-guy?

We probably get 2 farts commenting kots now and then we can hear them snore for the entire duration or something. Then after next kots, it gets removed because - noone wants to play anymore thanks to CVs - noone cared to watch the streamers because they will be boring, and playing kots with CVs will be even more boring Or maybe Kots becomes some clownfiesta where 45% clans can drool it out amongst themselves, so we get throw, counterthrow, countercounterthrow, countercounter.. you get the drift

Decided to play a ranked game today aswell... 3x BC vs 3x normal CA/CL... extremely unfair imo Ofc 2 of them without camo My entire flank basicly suicided. Our NC was playing cruisershipsimulator, pretty much never shooting anything. When he was between B/C, enemies were broadside in and behind A. What does he do? Just continue into enemy spawn. Then at 985 points, he goes flat broadside against Iowa and Bismack, and loses 40k instantly. Stlouis was at 1700 HP and refused to stop shooting aswell. Ibuki was totaly lost cause aswell, just went flat broadside and died to AP. Bismarck was bowtanking and refused to turn away, then just died. Öland (in A cap) got rushed by Tirpitz = dead. I just ran away to mapborder kiting the 3 enemies. Suddenly Kagero pops up after he capped our C cap by spotting himself at me, and i kill him before i die to his torps. Luckily, our B/C flank actually managed to kill 1 ship (Alaska in topright corner) and get the B cap, then get the C cap back. Only one with a brain was the Seattle.... And i was lucky that i had 4 guys running after me into the corner, well Azuma didnt, but he was also busy farming me.

Maybe the Musashi finaly managed a way out of their map into another one, and he suddenly appeared next to his Amagi

The secondaries are garbage, dont use them.

Special potatoes like to play Yamato because its Yamato. Naturally, they are the worst players this game has to offer A good yamato player in comparision (not my stats, but i know he is playing Yamato all the time so i just yoinked his stats - last 21 days btw) And when you check NA server, US ships are worst... then we know why it is the way it is

Let me just grind Musashi... oh wait. On the other hand, ofc Musashi is/was always hilariously OP, because its a T10 ship on T9.

And a CV loses all planes in 2 seconds?

There is no invisible AA. By that logic, every DD has invisbile AA with more range than its concealment, because every DD can disable its AA. F.e. US DDs have 5,8km AA range, so if i enable AA when CV spots me, thats also invisible AA?

I liked the first format more tbh... not because its 1 or 2 weeks, but because WG made it so, that yolo suiciders get stuck mid-bronze and just keep ruining it for everyone

Id say, their utility is much bigger compared to other ships on the same tier Tone f.e. is a bit like a hybrid between Mogami 203 and Atago. 1 less turret, same reload as Mogami but better reload than Atago. Better concealment than both and has also a repair party like Atago. But ofc Tone has a plane, which brings utility. Either spotting (even if not for yourself) or you can use it when you dont have any enemies in range. Something, the others dont have. Does having 1 turret less offset this? Personaly i dont think so. Ise is a little bit different Has 2 guns less than Fuso with worse reload. And now comes the BUT, it has 2.0 Sigma. So basicly thats Izumo level dispersion. Or to compare to a T6 ship, Ise is more like Warspite or QE in terms of dispersion, probably better at longer ranges because of IJN dispersion. And while lacking overmatch, their penetration is superior to UK BBs. And then we are back to having a plane, which means you can easily spot a DD, or even attempt to strike a ship behind an island which you cant attack youself at the moment = more utility.

Positioning in randoms is inheritly different to coop, there is no answer to this. Bots just hit W and yolo into your. Most people dont. - You can expect DDs to go for the caps most of the time. Usually one team loses their DD right there, which makes it harder for that team, because they lack spotting - If you are alone somewhere, and there is a CV in the game, expect the CV to attack you. - if you are the closest spotted target to the enemies, expect to get shot at. - In randoms, people will crossfire your broadside if they see you, contrary to Bots in coop. They can totaly ignore you, because they are coded to shoot something else. Also, bots will always target the center of your ship, humans do not. Aiming it kinda depends, because 99% of the time Bots go full speed. Humans dont have to do that. They can move any other speed, slow down when you shoot, turn in or turn out aswell. Bots dont react on your shot that way. They can dodge at times, because their coding made them turn. Humans can also sit behind islands stationary, bots also dont do this (sometimes they can get stuck ofc). The higher you try to go into randoms, the worse your experience. Highertier ships are deadly, even at range. You make a mistake = expect to get punished for it. CVs can also be very horny for you, if they decide you are their prime target. Even tho, T3-5 is generally said to be horrible due to CVs, getting slaughtered by T8 and T10 CVs is still much worse. Yes, you cant do much on T4 because the AA is bad, but still many CV players cant attack properly, so you can attempt to actually dodge their strikes. You need to learn that tho. Noone can really tell you what to do, you just gotta experience it yourself. I just gave you a few pointers what most likely is gonna happen. If you play T3-5, games tend to be more chaotic aswell. Maps are smaller, ships have less range and there tend to be more islands.

*sad AA noises*

Back in my days, BBs didnt spam HE

Riga? Riga is not good. Also Kronshtadt got removed ages ago?

Your math is off and this would be extremely OP. 1) no standard BB can heal 30k with one repair party, only Conqueror gets 40k or something. All others have like 13-15k on TX. Montana has 18k IIRC. 2) that skill would just be better than the new emergency repair party skill, because you would heal HP all the time, and you would gain more than you get from one heal (assuming you would actually tank damage ofc) 3) Sitting in the back would still profit those people, as you tend to get more potential damage the further you are away. You close the distance, you receive more direct damage, more low-potential HE damage, no-potential fire damage and torps (which also have low potential damage) And it would be overall unfair to BBs, which already have more health and more armor in the first place. Ships with more HP, also tend to have more armor (russians/germans) while ships with low health also have bad armor (french f.e). Such a skill would actually make more sense for Cruisers, alltho i doubt it would be worth 4 points. Then again, there arent many skills worth to pick for Cruisers in the first place, so might make sense actually.

You mean a TX DD to play instead when you have Shima resetted? How about Gearing? If you fancy you can play Radar Mino, thats a fat DD

Half of the playerbase are BBabies?

rather blame them for stuff they actually do (or not do..)