Hi all,
Powercreep of older ships (for example German BB "Scharnhorst") and possible ways to remedy it...
First of all I must say that I really love my "Scharnhorst" - I haven't played her that much in "Random" but I did play her elsewhere whenever applicable. It was always very nice and fun ship!
Unfortunately, with many other ships around, I didn't play her for long time (possibly from "Snowflakes" event).
So... with new Ranked "Sprint" #5 I played her again in earnest and I got to Rank #1 rather quickly:
but it was not "easy ride"...
With all those "Sinop" RU BBs "infecting" the Ranked I really really felt totally out of place... the one and only thing that "saves" the "Scharnorst" was the reload time...
Here are current "Random" battled stats for Tier VII BBs:
https://wows-numbers.com/ship/3763287856,Scharnhorst/
Have you got similar experience?
What do you think could be done to remedy this powercreep?
Leo "Apollo11"
P.S.
Over weekend I accidentally press "Random" instead of Ranked" with my "Scharnhorst" and, of course, ended up as the sole Tier VII in Tier IX match...
Oh boy... it was so hard... I did manage to stay alive till the end and my team won but I struggled to do damage and barely won one-on-one fight against RU CA "Dmitri Donskoi"...
So tried her again today in three games at row. Look at those screens. They are good ? Nope. Most damage is done by going into yolo. This ship is a shadow of former glory, when games with much more then 100k was not so hard to get.
And what is missing here, so I am not happy at all ?
And forth one vs mainly VIII/IX tier- last one today, so nobody coud tell, I am just another .hit knowing player
20 hits on broadside Buffallo whith large citadel on range from 14 to 12 km. This is becouse short fuse arming time of Sharrn of 10ms or what ? Mayby nowadays is much harder to get one, becouse something generally was changed in meantime ? But those are cruisers, not BB The same scenario was when fought stationary broadside Ibuki in another game on 12 km, and salvo after salvo - just null. One cit hit finally (hurray) was scored on Myoko at 4 km ... Just Wow. Even 203 mm are more effective then those "mighty" plastic ones.
edit. Watched every shot in those 4 replays. That awful dispertion ...