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Seems to be working now.

Glad it's not just me and that Wargaming are investigating. Hoping for compensation as amany of us are missing the opportunity to get free respecs, 10,000 doubloons should do it!

Sounds like a great weapon if enemy is blobbing up to share AA, 60 rockets can set them all on fire!

As I understand it DE should be added after IFHE. Therefore: 5% firechance + IFHE = 2.5% + DE = 4.5% DE will close to double the firechance of a Harugumo's 100mm guns.

I think it is a little misleading to say that as though it is effectively true due to fire resistance the buff exists as a 2% buff on top of the base firechance say 12% for light cruisers. This fire resistance is based on tier so it is a constant. In order for DE to be a 1% increase you would have to first half the base fire chance of the ship before adding this 1 %. This seems more complicated and has the potential for confusing people. Edit for Clarification: Assuming IFHE is not selected.

Thank you.

Even then you never know in today’s climate.

Just testing in Wowsft. It seems that demolition expert is added before the 50% IFHE fire chance reduction is applied. Was this expected?

Might have to do some training room tests if light cruiser vs battleship with and without IFHE. LWM clearly believes IFHE is necessary but I would expect that only with battleships with plenty of 32mm plate. No IFHE is certainly best against Soviet and German battleships as there is not a lot of 32mmplating to hit. French and British battleships would almost certainly be more vulnerable to IFHE than fire. The question then would be what is most effective against ships with a thicker deck like the Japanese and American battleships. I’m a little surprised she didn’t mention that the GK, with its 32mm pen, is now a secondary monster ....

IFHE penalty is now so big it has become a choice. Non-IFHE 150mm will still Pen the superstructure. As those with a Smolensk can attest, damage is still fairly reliable there even if it soon half damage due to saturation. This Change is very big for light cruisers. I agree with you that T7 cruisers are the big losers here. 380mm battleships are the next biggest losers but might benefit from reduced fire/ HE damage from light cruisers.

@Tanatoy Would it be wise, like with the CV rework to offer another respec in a months time?

So we should all go to the premium store and buy lots of economic flags?? Suddenly the 2million freeXP price for T10 makes sense.

Interesting as the Jap 100mm received a pen buff this was justified as they currently pen a similar amount of armour as 150s. They seem to have forgotten the German DDs. They could probably at this point make the 1/4 pen rule universal for all German ships.

I think you should look at fire chance for that. Japenese 100mm has only a 5% fire chance so with IFHE and DE you would have a 4.5% fire chance. currently with IFHE and DE you would have a 6% fire chance. I still have it equipped.

Kurfurst now pens 32 mm with all its secondaries. Viable secondary build? Probably not but should be fun. Kutuzov is a T8 light cruiser so should receive 1/5 pen and 27mm centre section.

I hope Impero is a test for a Roma change and that the smoke will come out of the beer can.

PSA: Seems to work already in 0.9.1.1. I’ve de specced IFHE in everything but my Harugumo and Kitakaze. Not much time to test this, I’ve been looking at how much 32mm plating I see on the German and Soviet ships I see everywhere and I thought I’d prefer 14% fire chance as opposed to 6% with 32mm pen.

Noticed have been rather obtuse today. Not usually towards me! If you get killed early why spend 15 mins berating your entire team?

Hmm.... not buying.

Thunderer is better than the Jean Bart but I highly recommend you buy theJean Bart before it goes.

It has Alaska dispersion. 6 406mm guns will be enough!

It is ugly!

He is a SOVIET CA Comrade...

Massa is better than Alsace, certainly tier for tier but possibly even without taking tiers into account. I don’t really get on with Alsace due to its accuracy and lack of armour. Massa has great secondaries if you spec into them but even if you do not they are useful. Coupled with a fast reload heal and excellent manoeuvrability this ship is very strong. I really enjoy the Vanguard it’s a manoeuvrable ship with accurate guns and great HE but it is more fragile. It’s a good ship but more of a challenge than the Massa. i would add the Lenin to your list if I were you. It’s well armoured with accurate guns and great turret traverse.

I’m still deciding whether to buy Cunningham or not. The talents don’t seem fantastic but I don’t want to look at him in the armoury for 175,000 coal knowing I could have bought him.