Ranked ships

[Wulf_Ace]

Ok I wont post how bad teams are in ranked, all reds and tomatos. But how you deal with teams like that? 

What ships you choose to play in ranked, OP ships (yeah PetroP i am looking at you) , favorite ships you like to play or some random ship in port.

 

I ve tried with my favorite ships to play, didnt get nowhere, started to play with petro and some other great ships that I dont like and results came over. This whole tier 10 ranked is bad, too many potatoes driving tier 10 ships with no will to do anything in game. Even when you tell them, hey go there beacouse of crossfire or something, nop they just rush straight and die.

 

What ships are ships that can carry a game full of tomatoes? Is that PetroP, Stalingrad.strong BB, good DD, CV maybe??

 

Also how much does a special commander helps in ranked, in %?

 

What are meta ships for this ranked season? Is Ragnar any good, havent seen them too much around?

 

 

[Leo_Apollo11]

Hi all,

 

6 minutes ago, Wulf_Ace said:

Ok I wont post how bad teams are in ranked, all reds and tomatos. But how you deal with teams like that? 

What ships you choose to play in ranked, OP ships (yeah PetroP i am looking at you) , favorite ships you like to play or some random ship in port.

 

I ve tried with my favorite ships to play, didnt get nowhere, started to play with petro and some other great ships that I dont like and results came over. This whole tier 10 ranked is bad, too many potatoes driving tier 10 ships with no will to do anything in game. Even when you tell them, hey go there beacouse of crossfire or something, nop they just rush straight and die.

 

What ships are ships that can carry a game full of tomatoes? Is that PetroP, Stalingrad.strong BB, good DD, CV maybe??

 

Also how much does a special commander helps in ranked, in %?

 

What are meta ships for this ranked season? Is Ragnar any good, havent seen them too much around?

 

 

 

I play my Yamato exclusively... works just fine... 

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

[Chaoskraehe]

I mostly play Nakimov in ranked. Because I'm not or almost not depended on non existed Team support. 

 

I would prefer playing surface ships but I had so many afk or braindead players (greetings to the Halland who always were behind all other ships and slung Torpedos into our own team...) that I stopped caring and just want the steel as fast as possible. 

[Bindolaf_Werebane]

I play Hakuryu.

[Verblonde]

28 minutes ago, Wulf_Ace said:

Is Ragnar any good, havent seen them too much around?

I haven't played much Ranked yet (I've mostly been snowflaking), but I wouldn't expect Ragnar to be optimal for the mode - although she's effective, she's perhaps less good as an 'army of one' due to the lack of torps?

 

I quite like Ragnar so far (admittedly, with very few battles played), but she's not ideal for dealing with fatties; she needs time to rack up the damage, and you often don't have the time (or support) in Ranked to do that. Mind you, in a heavy DD meta, that might matter less?

[tocqueville8]

22 minutes ago, Wulf_Ace said:

What ships are ships that can carry a game full of tomatoes? Is that PetroP, Stalingrad.strong BB, good DD, CV maybe??

 

I've done decently in the République, with a standard build (including Gun Feeder):

- great range, accuracy, reload and AP pen, to chunk people even at range

- 30 mm overmatch eats Des Moineses and Hindenburgs for breakfast

- good fire chance, to deal with angled BBs and Soviet CAs

- decent AA, decent torpedo bulge

- not a whole lot of people play "typical" CAs, like IJN or French, which melt her 32 mm plating: most go for a Soviet one for the radar, and they stick to AP

[Wulf_Ace]

3 minutes ago, tocqueville8 said:

 

I've done decently in the République, with a standard build (including Gun Feeder):

- great range, accuracy, reload and AP pen, to chunk people even at range

- 30 mm overmatch eats Des Moineses and Hindenburgs for breakfast

- good fire chance, to deal with angled BBs and Soviet CAs

- decent AA, decent torpedo bulge

- not a whole lot of people play "typical" CAs, like IJN or French, which melt her 32 mm plating: most go for a Soviet one for the radar, and they stick to AP

i like republique but he feels more like a support BB then a BB who can take damage and carry

[Gorthuba]

In general you want to play something with as much game influence as possible. Among the different classes the ones that generally have the most of this are CVs first and DDs second. Though you can exert a lot of influence on the game by playing other ships cleverly as well, such as holding key positions in radar cruisers where you can effectively deny enemy DDs game impact. Personally I play a lot of gunboat DDs and do well by hunting enemy DDs first, then capping second. But I also play a bit of cruisers and do well hunting DDs in those too. The common denominator here being that I try to deal with the ships that have the highest game influence on the enemy team. Safe to say, the Småland is superb for this and is my main go to ship.

[tocqueville8]

26 minutes ago, Wulf_Ace said:

i like republique but he feels more like a support BB then a BB who can take damage and carry

 

Imho the point isn't really to "take damage and carry": it's to be useful from as early as possible against as many targets as possible, so that things start going your team's way immediately, whatever scenario presents itself.

 

The Répu is very good at hitting citadels early on, she's the bane of cruisers and she's got the reload and turret traverse to snapshot DDs with some ease.

 

From what I've seen so far, CVs are common, but so are AA ships (or what passes for them), plus people tend to stick together, so it's hard doing good damage in the opening, with a CV.

 

Radar cruisers are also common, so even good DDs (Smaland, etc.) have to bide their time. Most team go for the caps in a straightforward way, so there are fewer opportunities to ambush a lone DD than in Randoms.

 

I had good games in the Répu even when I wasn't trying very hard, while ships like Salem and Smaland, while powerful, leave little room for mistakes.

[Animalul2012]

Zorky.

[The_Angry_Admiral]

Seeing as the Immelmann is the only Tier X I own I play that.

[Hakssor]

Smaland is the best T10 for ranked if you have her. Personally I play Ohio, she's quite chill and consistent.

[Ocsimano18]

Smaland, Bourgogne, Satsuma.

[Wulf_Ace]

29 minutes ago, Ocsimano18 said:

Smaland, Bourgogne, Satsuma.

bourgogne not squishy?

[Ocsimano18]

6 minutes ago, Wulf_Ace said:

bourgogne not squishy?

Just dodge^TM. Seriously, she has the speed and agility to dodge a lot of shells. You don’t play her nose in, but rather like a German/French battle cruiser.

[Camperdown]

Vampire II. I don't have Smaland 

[DDG_121]

Wish I had Smaland. Still equipping my Daring after re-grind, then I'm all in.

 

"Most influencial" is the key here. DDs are maybe the most influencial, or a cleverly played CV (Spotting + harrassing enemy DDs while protecting your own etc)

 

BB's can be good too but if you lose DDs early on, it is really nothing but trying to save a star.

[Yedwy]

I play Petro/Gibraltar when I want a cruiser and Rep/Montana with LUs when I feel like BB, Somers in rare occasions when I get pis*ed enough to care for the result, but I am playing wery little in Ranked this season

[Camperdown]

5 minutes ago, Yedwy said:

I play Petro/Gibraltar when I want a cruiser and Rep/Montana with LUs when I feel like BB, Somers in rare occasions when I get pis*ed enough to care for the result, but I am playing wery little in Ranked this season

Unfortunately WGs policy of selling high tier access to inexperienced or bad players is gutting the game. So ranked is just another crap show, especially in bronze.

 

Edit: reply to wrong post, see below.

[Camperdown]

15 minutes ago, Zimbiye said:

 

 

15 minutes ago, Zimbiye said:

Wish I had Smaland. Still equipping my Daring after re-grind, then I'm all in.

 

"Most influencial" is the key here. DDs are maybe the most influencial, or a cleverly played CV (Spotting + harrassing enemy DDs while protecting your own etc)

 

BB's can be good too but if you lose DDs early on, it is really nothing but trying to save a star.

Unfortunately WGs policy of selling high tier access to inexperienced or bad players is gutting the game. So ranked is just another crap show, especially in bronze.

[Yedwy]

5 minutes ago, Camperdown said:

Unfortunately WGs policy of selling high tier access to inexperienced or bad players is gutting the game. So ranked is just another crap show, especially in bronze.

TBH for me its more of getting tired of constant grind, that kind of BS was the precise reason I basically stopped playing Diablo 3, there is only so many times one can endure farming a level/season over and over to get a 3% better legendary…

[Hirohito]

5 minutes ago, Camperdown said:

 

Unfortunately WGs policy of selling high tier access to inexperienced or bad players is gutting the game. So ranked is just another crap show, especially in bronze.

This is a very nice thing if you are a good player, because in a 7v7 format you can really influence things to secure a win.

I just took a long break from the game and am playing poorly atm, so my WR in bronze is "only" at around 60% atm.

But half a year ago, I was easily doing a consistent 75-80% WR in bronze, going down to around 66% in silver.

Bronze is the tier where you can really seal club atm.

 

[Camperdown]

4 minutes ago, Yedwy said:

TBH for me its more of getting tired of constant grind, that kind of BS was the precise reason I basically stopped playing Diablo 3, there is only so many times one can endure farming a level/season over and over to get a 3% better legendary…

Yeah, very recognisable. But you can actually do something about the grind, which is pacing yourself. After I burned out on WoWs a couple of years ago, I decided to do no more than 2 to 3 grinds at the same time. Also to play ships I like for at least 50% of the games. As most fun is to be had at mid tiers anyways, this is very doable. I can recommend it 

[Yedwy]

9 minutes ago, Camperdown said:

Yeah, very recognisable. But you can actually do something about the grind, which is pacing yourself. After I burned out on WoWs a couple of years ago, I decided to do no more than 2 to 3 grinds at the same time. Also to play ships I like for at least 50% of the games. As most fun is to be had at mid tiers anyways, this is very doable. I can recommend it 

True, I pace it out more and more but I also play other things more and more as well, dumping 50h of play every couple of weeks into farming a bit of steel is really getting old though…

[Cpt_ZombZan_GR]

Venezia,Marcaeu,Petro,Ohio