Gorthuba

You don't exactly need to play 50k matches to get good, but yeah, you need to put in a whole lot more game time than you currently are. Although it doesn't matter how many games you play or how many videos you watch if you don't learn from them and then apply that knowledge. I'd say that around 2k games is a reasonable point for most at which to start becoming decent if they're consciously trying. Towards that goal, what's far more important than learning the specific stats of every ship is to learn basic strategy and how things work in rough terms. As a side note, a pretty large number of youtubers give fairly poor advice about how to play the game despite their popularity.

I didn't buy it myself either, mostly because I couldn't be bothered to log into the game and I don't really need the coal. But if you have way more of a resource than you can ever hope to spend, changing that into a resource that you actually have a use for is quite sensible, despite the poor conversion rate. Letting a pile of something that's unusable rot away is more of a waste.

Those are pretty silly amounts, yes. Still, once you have everything that you can get or want from any of those resources they start stacking up pretty quickly. Personally I'm sat on 20m commander XP as I already have 2-3 21 pointers for every nation that I just rotate around. Those that play CBs every season tend to sit on 100k+ stacks of steel too, although I'd expect most of them like myself to already have the Somers. The auctions are as mentioned meant to drain these people's stockpiles, so it's mostly their playground.

It really does sound like you're playing it incorrectly and expecting it to function in ways that it doesn't. Stick to more simple, straight forward and well-rounded ships that you're capable of playing and having a good time in instead.

On the contrary, its guns are fantastic. However, you need to have good situational awareness and know how to position yourself properly in order to make proper use of them. The Druid is basically a pocket Minotaur and in the hands of a competent player it'll even beat other DDs like the Ragnar. However, it is a one trick pony and if you don't know how to properly utilize its strengths then it's likely not the ship for you. It doesn't play like any normal DD would and is probably outside the comfort zone of most players. A DD like the Daring is far more well rounded and good/decent at most things, making it comfortable to play in without having to worry too much about anything. If you're going to fight enemy DDs then you often want to utilize islands to surprise them and catch them at advantageous angles. You can also go bow in or angle without it being any detriment to your DPM. Additionally, you can shred a lot of cruisers if they show side and very effectively farm the upper belt etc. of many BBs. It's been a while since I last played it, but iirc. I ended up dropping concealment expert to just go all out on the guns instead, because it rarely made any difference. It isn't a Småland that's always going to be chasing DDs and brawling around caps. Focus on getting those good angles and read the map to predict how the enemies may position themselves.

We're having a good time this season with plenty of great matches and high morale. Now hurricane is secured before people take a well deserved christmas break to enjoy the holidays. We'll be back to push our second rating up too soon enough though.

Up it goes. We're still looking for a few competent players to fill out our main team so that we can play whole evenings.

The season is going decently thus far, with a high win rate and all. However, due to some of our new members going inactive we're looking for new recruits to reinforce our team, so that we can play more hours.

Because of the smoke that Italian cruisers get you can often push in and play fairly aggressively, then use the smoke to disengage safely as needed. So getting some decent use out of Top Grade Gunner shouldn't be any issue. Especially if you're running Heavy SAP, or if you're going to use the upcoming unique upgrade for Venezia.

This ship's only downside is that it doesn't have a heal or high HP. Aside from that it has around Haru HE DPM, pens 32mm with IFHE, way better than Haru AP DPM, 6km hydro, 5,8km detection, short burst smoke... Far beyond 'being convinced' about the ship, I'd say it's totally busted if it gets released in its current state. Like sure, you don't have much HP to brag about, but you have stealth hydro, stupidly good DPM and short burst smokes. It's a Haru that you don't need to watch out for anything except radars in.

Something tells me that you're not playing it correctly, looking at your numbers in the ship. Its damage output is stupidly good for a gunboat. Unless you're going full yolo in the thing you should at least maintain an average 2-3 times higher than what you currently have in the thing without even really trying. I'd recommend looking at some videos of other people playing it and learning from them.

In other words, "Oh no I'm trash at this game! There must be a way for me to blame this on someone else, there's no way I could be the reason. Thanks Obama WG!" Or maybe I should start spending money on the game and go from my usual 70-80% recent win rate to a full 100%