What Ranked League do you play this season?

[ThePurpleSmurf]

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[albin322]

gold always gold (why?) cause ranked is stupidly easy! (and better than random)

[Gwynbleidd11]

I only have one tier 8 ship, so just trying bronze and taking free steel and doublons. Won last 5 or 6 games without even trying much.

[ForlornSailor]

I still have not decided... thus hanging on R3 atm. Doing like 1 game a day and see where it gets me.

[ThePurpleSmurf]

1 minute ago, ForlornSailor said:

I still have not decided... thus hanging on R3 atm. Doing like 1 game a day and see where it gets me.

Same. I ranked out in Bronze and i'm not sure if i should go Silver. My main concern is that there aren't enough player in Silver for the rest of the season and then i'm forced to go to Gold, which is more time consuming. Next week there will be enough in Silver, because everyone who want to rank out has to go through Silver. But i wonder what happens the session after next week.

[Yedwy]

Silver

[Molly_Delaney]

Bronze, but I gave up on Sanity over 30 years ago.... It's so overrated

[COPlUM]

ill get to gold and play for 29 wins in gold to get all the stuff without actually trying to rank out because the league container does not look like something im willing to lose braincells over

[Bindolaf_Werebane]

I ranked and qualified, so silver for now. I will try for gold, but a. I don't care much and b. not sure I'm skilled for it.

 

However, at first glance I dislike season 2. The first season was snappy and fun. One week, have your fun and reset. This feels more like the ranked slog of old. I have quite a few tier 8s I am leveling, otherwise I might not have bothered. Might not bother next season.

[DFens_666]

Got my 12 wins this week in Bronze. Probably wont even get to R1, because why punish myself? Its just frustrating. If i see people will play properly and not AFK/suicide their way to rewards, i might play more.

But i decided i dont want to carry a**holes to a win, if they are only reward hoarding. They just spam games to get rewards or to R1 without even trying. Not gonna be a part of that!

[Bindolaf_Werebane]

3 minutes ago, DFens_666 said:

Got my 12 wins this week in Bronze. Probably wont even get to R1, because why punish myself? Its just frustrating. If i see people will play properly and not AFK/suicide their way to rewards, i might play more.

But i decided i dont want to carry a**holes to a win, if they are only reward hoarding. They just spam games to get rewards or to R1 without even trying. Not gonna be a part of that!

I still hope that will stop / get less in silver. Last season's silver games were a highlight. Most fun I'd had in a while in game.

[S_h_i_v_a]

Played only 3 this year, saltier than random. 

[Hugh_Ruka]

28 minutes ago, ForlornSailor said:

I still have not decided... thus hanging on R3 atm. Doing like 1 game a day and see where it gets me.

similar, rank 4 in Bronze and playing 2-3 games every 2 days or so ... if not for Ranked I'd not play at all after the commander rework ...

 

nice option to XP my T9 DDs ...

[DFens_666]

Just now, Bindolaf_Werebane said:

I still hope that will stop / get less in silver. Last season's silver games were a highlight. Most fun I'd had in a while in game.

 

Week 3+4 was nice in bronze aswell. I mean, players were clearly not the best, but atleast they tried and they would actually communicate. Week 1 was bad, week 2 was in between. Week 5 was bad again, i assume because of the patch (speshuul people getting reminded that wows exist by auto-update?), week 6 again a bit better.

I hope next sprint will be better in bronze aswell, when the suiciders made their way into silver

[ForlornSailor]

29 minutes ago, ThePurpleSmurf said:

Same. I ranked out in Bronze and i'm not sure if i should go Silver. My main concern is that there aren't enough player in Silver for the rest of the season and then i'm forced to go to Gold, which is more time consuming. Next week there will be enough in Silver, because everyone who want to rank out has to go through Silver. But i wonder what happens the session after next week.

 

Good point. Worst that could happen, is, that all the tryharding noobs, that dont actually make it to gold, stay in silver and overpopulate the games with their throwing & saltiness...

 

6 minutes ago, Hugh_Ruka said:

nice option to XP my T9 DDs ...

 

Im playing the ships with special commander to slowly make my way to 21 points. Asashio with Yamamoto or Benham with John Doe.

[thisismalacoda]

While I might be able to bruteforce my way into silver by spamming 800 or 900 games, I decided to keep company with the many delightfully hug-able video gamers populating bronze this time of the year.

 

Last game I met a slightly insecure but curious Asashio peeking (slowly - he was no hasty fool mind you) around a corner 2.7 km from my Akizuki. After losing half his ship, he withdrew - but surprised me by coming back 15 seconds later. Clearly a proponent of the 'repeat the same crap, expect different results' theorem. 

 

He was followed into the cap by a Hizen, first bumping into a small island right hand, then bumping into a big island left hand. Twice actually. Nasty, annoying, badly positioned islands in this game. He left the cap - head held high - leaving behind 40k health and the remains of his Asashio friend.

 

Inspired by the tactical wizardry on display, I adapted seamlessly, deepthroated a Yugumo torp and enjoyed the benefits of a maxxed out adrenaline rush 38HP Akizuki for the rest of the match. Bronze - clearly - feels like home. I'm just tempted to use a premium ship to better blend in with the remaining denizens.

[Dutchy_2019]

I will play Bronze, that is challenge enough for me, and making my own goals there:

 

• Try to actually play the game. 
• Learn from my mistakes.
• Try to contribute to the team - finish consistently in the top 3 of my team.
• Work on my DD and cruiser play.
• Train one or two captains up further.
• Get the rewards
• If I am getting frustrated, go play something other than ranked.
• Main effort on EU, and play some on NA, time permitting.

Probable ships of choice: Aegir, Prinz Eugen, Cossack, Friesland and Asashio, with Aegir being the early favourite. Maybe play Mainz on NA.

[159Hunter]

52 minutes ago, DFens_666 said:

Got my 12 wins this week in Bronze. Probably wont even get to R1, because why punish myself? Its just frustrating. If i see people will play properly and not AFK/suicide their way to rewards, i might play more.

But i decided i dont want to carry a**holes to a win, if they are only reward hoarding. They just spam games to get rewards or to R1 without even trying. Not gonna be a part of that!

It took me 17 games to get this goal.

Then I contemplated making a run for rank 1 (rewards). I quickly stopped that train of thought when I then saw multiple players with 100+ games also at rank 4. 

Nope, not worth my time. I got what I came for, next week: same thing, playing to get my steel and doubloons.

[surfer_gr]

gold ranks is fun :P  

[lameoll]

i reached rank 1 in bronze still need to do qualifiers was thinking of going to silver But is it really gonna be better tho ....

 

[Alexhideg94]

26 games in bronze and 5 out of 6 games needed to get the qualifications done! Will try to reach Gold League and will se what will happend there! Overall not pushing to get R1 in Gold! If im not too lazy and get the steel from Gold League will be happy with it!

[Hirohito]

Silver hands down for me. Been maintaining a steady 70% WR so I hardly have to put in any effort for decent rewards. Could try gold but the rewards dont seem to be worth it compared to how many games I'd have to put in.

[Jethro_Grey]

Reached silver on my main account (including quali), yet I can't play until the next sprint starts...eh.

 

Will try to go for gold there.

 

Reached rank 1 in bronze on my alt, but trying to qualify there is essentially doing the shuffle dance. Lots of effort,  yet no progression. 

 

Will probably stick to silver, as I doubt I'll get a TX before the season  ends.

[Fatal_Ramses]

I liked the bronze last season, pure VIII. Stayed there for the whole season.

Now I'm thinking of staying in Silver. 18 wins in silver gives more steel and doubloons than ranking 1 in bronze.

Qualifying for gold could be too much effort, qualifying for silver was just brain dead.

In 21 battles i got bronze rank 1. It took me 10 battles to qualify to silver. 5 defeats (managed to save star on everyone of them, 4 of them didn't matter cause I had 0 stars) and 5 wins.

[ThePurpleSmurf]

I'm honestly not eager to play Gold, because there is no real incentive after they removed the JR flag (the true reason why i ever ranked out in first place). The only reason why i might do it at some point is for the ranked token. I have 8 left from old ranked and i need 10 for a ranked special camo for either Black (150% bonus to XP, FXP and EXP is really nice) or Bourgogne which i maybe buy in future. But then again, if i rather buy a bunch of Made of Steel camos for multiple TX ships instead of the Baguette, then i also don't need the ranked token and have no reason to go Gold.

I can't help it, but since all signals and ranked camos were removed as rewards, there is no real reason to play ranked at all other than steel. The signals were nice to stock up for a couple of months random games. It was nice and fun to have this option, so naturally it got removed.