New Devblog, nerfs to popular ships, buffs to PA DDs and...

[Jethro_Grey]

DM radar nerfed (40-35secs), same for Buffalo and Baltimore.

 

Petropavlosk deck and casemate armor nerfed to 40mm (from 50).

 

Chkalov nerfes include fire chance nerf, torp and skip bomb damage nerfs (10-15%).

 

Hipper and Tallin reload buffs (0.5secs).

 

Ragnar reload nerf by 0.2 secs.

 

Pan Asian DDs from TVIII to TX get torpedo reload booster as a separate consumeable(!).

 

Grozo torp range buffed to 12Km.

 

USS Sus and Eagle receive minimal nerfs to attack squads.

 

 

https://blog.worldofwarships.com/blog/321

 

 

[ThePurpleSmurf]

1 minute ago, Jethro_Grey said:

Pan Asian DDs from TVIII to TX get torpedo reload booster as a separate consumeable(!).

This could be interesting. Yueyang is my old main vessel, as you can see at the emblem below my avatar. It replaced Gearing as my main until it got nerfed to sheeet and since then collecting dust and rust in port. It still could need some gun reload buff.

[Bainsmit_steel]

DM nerf is "outstanding" like cruisers does not have enough problems and hard time...relay...

 

Petro it is time to kill that abomination

 

Hiper,Ragnar,Talin who cares

 

Chakalov not relay matters although damage reduction is not small on paper

 

Pan Asian dds interesting it can be buff

Grozo buff

 

T 11 CVs lols what an nerf

 

 

 

 

[RuruushuVuiBuritania]

3 minutes ago, ThePurpleSmurf said:

This could be interesting. Yueyang is my old main vessel, as you can see at the emblem below my avatar. It replaced Gearing as my main until it got nerfed to sheeet and since then collecting dust and rust in port. It still could need some gun reload buff.

I've always found the Yue Yang to be an excellent DD. Bringing it down to 3,5 or 3 seconds would be very nice after they restored the torpedo reload time.

One of the very few devblogs where I can't really dispute any of the changes, even those to American radar.

[The_Angry_Admiral]

So if Des Moines is getting it's radar nerfed remind me again why bother when you can just use the Annapolis if you aren't worried about the creds?

[Bainsmit_steel]

1 minute ago, The_Angry_Admiral said:

So if Des Moines is getting it's radar nerfed remind me again why bother when you can just use the Annapolis if you aren't worried about the creds?

Maybe that is the point....

[Seraphice]

1 minute ago, The_Angry_Admiral said:

So if Des Moines is getting it's radar nerfed remind me again why bother when you can just use the Annapolis if you aren't worried about the creds?

Des Moines legendary module still makes her extremely unique, and in that way also powerful.

[Bainsmit_steel]

And what legendary module has to do with radar...also does all have legendary module?

[Vasya_Nyasha]

11 minutes ago, The_Angry_Admiral said:

So if Des Moines is getting it's radar nerfed remind me again why bother when you can just use the Annapolis if you aren't worried about the creds?

Thats may be the reason. The gap between Annapolis and DM was not that big compared to other supers.

This balance changes kinda hurts me as both Chkalov and DM main.

And yet another buff to Grozovoi... Seems like its time to get him

[ThePurpleSmurf]

19 minutes ago, RuruushuVuiBuritania said:

I've always found the Yue Yang to be an excellent DD.

It was an amazing DD and was everything what the Gearing should have been. Gearing, to this day, still has the wrong hull. It is supposed to have the exactly same hull as the Yueyang has.

[RuruushuVuiBuritania]

1 minute ago, ThePurpleSmurf said:

It was an amazing DD and was everything what the Gearing should have been. Gearing, to this day, still has the wrong hull. It is supposed to have the exactly same hull as the Yueyang has.

Is it? I always thought they were different classes? Yue Yang is an Allen M. Sumner and Gearing is, well, a Gearing. Yue Yang is noticeably shorter.

Unless you mean that Yue Yang simply got a resized Gearing model that was more accurate than Gearing's model. And WG did say US DD remodel is coming this year.

[ThePurpleSmurf]

5 minutes ago, RuruushuVuiBuritania said:

Is it? I always thought they were different classes? Yue Yang is an Allen M. Sumner and Gearing is, well, a Gearing. Yue Yang is noticeably shorter.

Unless you mean that Yue Yang simply got a resized Gearing model that was more accurate than Gearing's model. And WG did say US DD remodel is coming this year.

I don't know, I'm not a history guy. But Gearing is way too fat/wide and handles differently than YY and from what I've heard and read over the years it should have the same ingame hull as YY. WG promised a bazillion times to fix the hull in the past 5 years but never followed through. If they promised it again for this year I believe this just as much as the last 5 years and as much as Pu... said he does not intent to "visit" the Ukraine. After so many years of WoWs I'm at the point where I do not believe a single word of WG anymore, no matter what it is or who from WG said it.

[Yamashiro42]

Gearing class had longer hull than the Summer clas (which was basically Fletcher class with dual gun mounts). But the problem with Gearing model in the game is that it is not submerged enough so the main deck is too high above the water.

[Belustigungspanda]

OP forgot to mention that Harbin got her sigma reduced from 2.05 down to 2.00. Because clearly Harbin overperforms and dominates the meta.

*sigh*

[OldschoolGaming_YouTube]

33 minutes ago, The_Angry_Admiral said:

So if Des Moines is getting it's radar nerfed remind me again why bother when you can just use the Annapolis if you aren't worried about the creds?

I sold my DM and have Halsey on my Annapolis now which is the only US CA I play. Its just so much better then most of the cruisers in the game. With range mod you can start wrecking BBs before they leave their spawn pretty much.

[Hirohito]

I mean, as a DD player I dont mind radar nerfs, but the USN CAs are the last type of radar cruisers to need a nerf, which would be any type of soviet radar cruisers.

That they nerf the USN radar and leave the soviet ones is just disgusting.

[RuruushuVuiBuritania]

9 minutes ago, ThePurpleSmurf said:

I don't know, I'm not a history guy. But Gearing is way too fat/wide and handles differently than YY and from what I've heard and read over the years it should have the same ingame hull as YY. WG promised a bazillion times to fix the hull in the past 5 years but never followed through. If they promised it again for this year I believe this just as much as the last 5 years and as much as Pu... said he does not intent to "visit" the Ukraine. After so many years of WoWs I'm at the point where I do not believe a single word of WG anymore, no matter what it is or who from WG said it.

Honestly, I can't blame you. The road WG takes is the boulevard of broken promises.

[SolanumTuberosumRex]

37 minutes ago, Seraphice said:

Des Moines legendary module still makes her extremely unique, and in that way also powerful.

For the lucky players who got that mod when it was still realistically obtainable. 🙄

[Miragetank90]

51 minutes ago, RuruushuVuiBuritania said:

I've always found the Yue Yang to be an excellent DD. Bringing it down to 3,5 or 3 seconds would be very nice after they restored the torpedo reload time.

 

I think that would be too much on top of the nice buffs she's got recently, plus this. 

She is a stealthy torp focused DD with radar option and not amazing but decent guns. No need to make her eclipse Gearing by giving her the same reload, in my view.

[tadaMonika]

What exactly does the Petro "nerf" do? Is there any functional difference in game between 50mm and 40mm armor? Don't have the HE pen values in mind.

This seems like a placebo nerf to me. It will still bounce every AP shell and be immune against 90% of HE shells

[Captn_Crap]

15 minutes ago, tadaMonika said:

What exactly does the Petro "nerf" do? Is there any functional difference in game between 50mm and 40mm armor? Don't have the HE pen values in mind.

This seems like a placebo nerf to me. It will still bounce every AP shell and be immune against 90% of HE shells

HE shells of Gouden Leeuw, Johan de Witt, Henry, Conde and Napoli, aswell as 152mm SAP will be able to pen now. All heavy cruisers (and german 128mm and 150mm) with IFHE can now pen too.

 

Napoli benefits the most of this nerf.

[RuruushuVuiBuritania]

4 minutes ago, Miragetank90 said:

 

I think that would be too much on top of the nice buffs she's got recently, plus this. 

She is a stealthy torp focused DD with radar option and not amazing but decent guns. No need to make her eclipse Gearing by giving her the same reload, in my view.

Yeah, 4 seconds is more than enough without overshadowing poor old Gearing.

[Vasya_Nyasha]

1 minute ago, tadaMonika said:

What exactly does the Petro "nerf" do? Is there any functional difference in game between 50mm and 40mm armor? Don't have the HE pen values in mind.

This seems like a placebo nerf to me. It will still bounce every AP shell and be immune against 90% of HE shells

Gouden Leuuw, Henri 4, Conde from what i remember

[Aragathor]

1 minute ago, Captn_Crap said:

All heavy cruisers with IFHE can now pen too.

Imagine pulling a Notser and using IFHE on 203mm guns.

 

Or in the words of LWM:

 

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203mm - Where did I leave my chain-axe?

 

[Latouche_Treville]

 

12 minutes ago, PsychoClownfish said:

For the lucky players who got that mod when it was still realistically obtainable. 🙄

You can reset a line or two, and get enough research points to buy it in the armory :

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