The_Chiv

God I feel so trolled. Come to this thread looking for another indictment of WG to satisfy my disdain at them, only to arrive at a post of someone who has difficulty distinguishing between a modder(some one who creates third party aps that modify your play experience) and a moderator(some one who keeps toxic kids in line). Worse it is a complaint about being chat banned. Hey genius! if you do not want to be chat banned, STOP CALLING PEOPLE NAMES AND BEING TOXIC. This is a teamplay game, however that does not give you the right to treat people like trash because they do not play the way you want them to. I know it is infuriating when people don't do what seems obvious to you, but that is no excuse for the type of behavior you have exhibited in the past when you were allowed to chat. edited for statshaming! Now everyone can improve and become better but as you have 7k more games then me I have to wonder if you are just repeating the same failed tactics and playstyles over an over again or just yoloing because you stopped even caring? If so why even bother trying to use chat for "TEAM PLAY" Seems a bit confusing. Like the more I look at this the more I see a pattern of over aggressive bonzai charges with little to no clear strategy other then push push push. I am not trying to shame you just trying to understand why you think you offer any significant contribution that should overlook your abusive use of chat. Also all the things you need to say can be facilitated by pings and the com menu which are not disabled when you are chat banned.

Puerto Rico Time 180hrs of game play(not even joking) Missions were punishing and just time grinds designed to force people to spend money. Rating of ship based on time investment and playability(1-10) 3 The ship is not bad and has the potential to alpha strike any cruiser to death in one salvo. Its ability to punish any bb as well is also very nice, however the time and cost to obtain instantly makes this ship a cautionary tale about how greedy WG truly is. Odin Time 30 hrs give or take Missions were much more friendly but WG put in a mandatory pay us to complete. Luckily I had left over coins from xmas event I never spent Rating of ship based on time investment and playability(1-10) 5 The mandatory pay to play for this ship was a bit annoying but the grind was far less punishing. This ship would be rated a bit higher in my opinion if not for the commander rework. if you missed getting this ship just get the Agir as it is very similar and has better accuracy. Anchorage Time 30hrs give or take Grind was simple enough but again WG forcing pay to play on community Rating of ship based on time investment and playability(1-10) 5 This ship was rated as a 7 but the rework kind of punished most cruisers and its t7 guns tend to be lacking when up tiered in a t10 match Hizen Time 38 hrs Wg pushed their pay to play for this ship to new levels. In previous incarnations the cost was generally around 3-4k this time it was 7.8k to aquire this. There was an option for a limited time to pay 5k but I was banking off loot crates to fund this got my last bit a little late. Luckily I was able to get a string of dubs from loot crates including the new lunar new years. THANKS WG :D Missions were surprisingly easy. Rating of ship based on time investment and playability(1-10) 4. If no commander rework 7 Sadly ships that are under 22km range in this meta tend to be at a huge disadvantage, lukily the angles on this boar allow for kiting. This ship has the same armor design as the Yamato, just with less armor. This means it has a giant weak spot in its front cheeks. Overall the Dockyard experience has been a wonky rollercoaster. With each iteration WG as asked for more and more money from the community, for ships that tend to be rather lack luster. They are not bad ships overall. In fact I would rate most of them as Average or slightly below tech tree equivalent ships. I enjoy all of them but if if these were offered for cash money I would never pay full value for them. Hell even 50% feels a bit too much. On the plus side I was able to get another ship I did not have because of the grind for the HIZEN

here is the thing before dockyard I was spending about 200 usd or more on wows a year. Afterwards 0. Not that I don't have the money, I do. Just it feels more forced on the community now.It wasn't just the cash grab from the dock yard or the loot crate scams that most of us have known about since 2018. There were many other factors that pushed me away from supporting this company fiscally. In short they stopped listening and got greedy AF. Complaining about it does little as stated before they do not listen. Best one can do in that is either walk away or stop supporting. I stopped supporting because I would still hope this game will get better despite the ineptitude of the development staff.

you have no idea. It was the most infuriating part of Alpha

"practice" and yeah.

After playing with and without Deadeye in several ships I have concluded a few things. very few bbs actually benefit from it(Yamato, Musashi, Vermont, Minnesota, Thunderer, Republique, Georgia, Slava) Not sure of OHIO as I do not have it but most likely yeah. Playing a cruiser in this meta is painful AF Everyone has gone Full HE happy.

Kitakami doesn't have bombs or rockets we are talking about torps. Kitakami in its original condition was a stand off platform meant to keep Cruisers and BBs from pushing in to support dds or hard push flanks. When 2 or more were on a team it was a nightmare. The only thing that helped punish this was cv spotting and the fact the fact its torp launchers were really easy to knock out with HE.

old kita trops hit for 20k each, could put out 40 of them and they went 20km. Would have to hit with most of its torps to even dream of hitting 20k and even then that is not an easy thing to do.

Neptune use to be the best aa cruiser in the game at one point. And DM Donsk is still a great ship. Now some people hated Buffalo, I actually like it.

Ah yes when I was testing out how effective the cv torp pen skill was. spoiler alert it is good every bb I hit got flooded. To bad a bottom of the score shimakaze kept crying in chat about no air support while he ran with full aa on constantly.

As a cruiser main I will admit playing in this rework is a struggle to say the least. I find that I am capping out just under 160k damage in most of my t10 cruisers. I can no longer support dds trying to push caps, I could never really melt most cv attacks, and since everyone is going deadeye with 457+ I am getting overmatched every time I use my guns. It is complete [edited]. Cruisers have lost so much DPM because of this rework. First from skills, and second from being auto nuked the moment they fire their guns. ^^^^^ can confirm factual

If you look at this game from a view point of combat tactics the whole fighting retreat that we are seeing now by most bbs and cruisers is because of three factors. Deadeye , 457mm+ shells, and dds unable to or unwilling to spot and engage other dds. Deadeye : BBS like being more accurate and range fire is a bit safer then pushing. Keeping the enemy at 18-24km and having them close on you while you move away actually benefits the retreating bb in terms of offense and defense. It also helps in keeping cruiser way far back cause it makes overmatch a bit more consistent. Combine this with the fact everyone is going full ham on HE these days means getting close as a bb is near suicide. 457mm+ :There are so many bbs right now who overmatch most bow armors that playing a cruiser these days is like trying to walk through a mine field while caring a beaker of nitroglycerin and having a panic attack. This doesnt even account for cruisers shooting. When a cruiser shoots now they can expect to have every bb in range to rain overmatching death on them or just over powered HE. This has forced most cruisers to play extremely cautious and not push up and or support dds. DDs : So cruisers can no longer support the dds without getting nuked so dds now have to be more anti dd in their game play, this is not something any of them really know how to do effectively and puts even more strain on an already burdened class. I considered brining up cv's but I hate beating dead horses and to be honest wg will never fix that issue.

This is actually not too surprising if you think about it. When you look at other competitive games normally the developer tries to run and or regulate the competition. In HS we were able to create our own system and did a damn fine job of it before the game was out of Beta. After a year however Blizzard decided to lay down the law and make their own and regulate the hell out of all other competitions. RIot, Valve, even epic have a controlling interest in their "professional" competitive scenes. While I agree given WOWS track record in terms of balance and development the idea of them running the competitive scene makes as much sense as letting Half blind alcoholic be your pilot on a air liner, it is a logical progression if WG intends to focus more on competition. Time and time again WG has made changes to this game to boost sales and punish skilled players. Now that they control the "Only" real competitive scene they will be able to dictate meta policy with greater ease. There is however a way to circumvent this however it would mean a team would be willing to not use CV's and or certain ships that are problematic to say the least. I wish I could say that our community even at the competitive level has some integrity, but at the end of the day you know one team will desire to win more then anything else and see this agreement as a means to get a head. I hope that someone will create a new league, as Kots was a great event that I enjoyed watching.

Salem often gets a bum rap as many see it as just another Des Moines with weaker radar, which is true. It also has slightly less aa and UK style heal. In theory this would make it a great ship, till you realize anything over 406mm overmatches most of the ship and that great healing means nothing when you are taking citadels. The yoshino on the other hand is actually a fun ship. To put it simply. It can play the long range HE support role rather nice and at those distances can easily mitigate most incoming return fire. Nothing says fun like 10k in HE damage and multiple fires. It is also a great punisher of other super cruisers thanks to this garbage rework and it can punish all bbs rather nicely when played correctly.

While I would love to say Scam here, sadly I can not. It is a simple confusion but there are difference between premium and free. Well two differences actually. Lower/ weighted drop rates and lower quantities. Wg is a business and that business is based on repeat customers. In their view of how to manage their business giving away too much free stuff means they will not bring in more money. This completely ignores the fact that at it height of popularity and fiscal earnings WG did not engage in any of the predatory tactics it does now. People wanted to support the game and developers because they felt they were part of something. Now most feel used and abused. So no this is not false advertisement, but yes WG is greed AF.

Do not need to see the math to know it is bad. Do not need to be a psychic to see you will fix this after the free resets are gone. So as per usual another WG cash grab scam.

That thing back in the day was aids. 2 of them on a team basicly flooded the hell out of all areas with walls of torps

I do my dailies collect my three crates of coal and go play Valhiem or some other games.

Well put. People use to say DDs had it hard. I miss those days.

Trust me when I say that system was TOXIC AF. So I grinded the PR. The whole time I was doing time spend to completion ratios to make sure I was grinding fast enough and efficient enough to get it f2p. I thought the concept was cool though, just maybe not on such an oppressive grind path. Seriously 500k fxp in 3 days FU WG. For Base xp co op is actually better if you have a high dps out putship. I was using the kleber(Pre Nerf) and the z52 just chaining them over and over rushing in killing dd with guns smashing a cruiser with torps and finishing a bb with another set of torps(most of the time) this was getting me about 500-700 bxp per co-op and co op was like 5-6 minutes each. That is 10-12 matches per hour or in practice this was getting me on average 6k bxp per hour. If I was to do it in random I could possibly get 9k or more but on average it would be 4.5k bxp per hour.For regular xp, commander, Fxp, I did random but had so many flags and camos stacked cause I knew it was coming I was able to burn through those pretty easy. At first. About half way through I ran out of the good signals and camos and had to make due. And this was during the longest portion of the grind. I wish I would have planned my camo and signal usagae better but what's done is done.

if you can aim

The Sap must flow

The Italian line is a bit rough before t7. After t7 it gets a bit more powerful. Also if your sap is not doing much to t5 bbs you are probably aiming poorly. Pretend it is HE and try to land it in the super structure. At t10 Italians can easily blap 15k on bbs or more. I suggest you learn more about positioning before calling foul about lack of impact.

Insane may not be apt. Predatory is more fitting. As for the rest. I could have skipped them all and gotten me A Tirpitz. Oh right commander rework. NM.

The thing though is before dockyard most of those ships were special event ships and were given away by completing task. I have a slew of them in on account. It wasn't until the cossack did wg start to monetize it. And that was 1 usd plus a grind. Then the prices slowly increased. The cost of a hizen if you did all the steps was 31.20 usd. And if you didnt want to do any of the task you could just buy the whole thing at a cost of 187.20usd. Now I want you to stop and consider this amount for a t9 ship. When WG already sells Premium FXP and special event ships like the lunar new years collection for 77usd. So you are paying 2.5x more for Hizen then you would a regular premium t9 ship. Seems a bit sus. WG. Now you don't have to get them and it is a choice. Which is why I save my doubloons so that choice is always based on my savings and WGs own mechanics.