Ships in order?

[Alabamastilllives]

Just a quicky guys.

Do you have to complete the tech tree of ships in order or if you have built up enough can you skip them and buy what you want excluding premium ships ofcoarse

[lovelacebeer]

16 minutes ago, DAVID_HAYTER_1 said:

Just a quicky guys.

Do you have to complete the tech tree of ships in order or if you have built up enough can you skip them and buy what you want excluding premium ships ofcoarse

If you have enough free XP you could skip certain ships and just research them but not buy them so you progress further up the tech tree. 
 

However I would strongly recommend against doing this, it’s really worth progressing through experience so you know the characteristics of the line and develop your own knowledge of how best to play. 

[Varian_Dorn]

If you want to get to the "top" of the tech tree you have to research all vessels in the tree first. You can´t in any way "skip" a ship; you can shorten your journey with the use of free xp, but thats about it.

 

You don´t have to buy all ships if you have enough free xp to just research through them.

[Cyclops_]

Hi David, basically as said above but and it is a big but, you do not have any ships of a nation with more than 3 of the same silver tech tree line. With this in mind it would be a pointless exercise trying to free xp to a TX ship as stated by @lovelacebeer

You are in a Clan, yet have never played in a division with anyone from that Clan ??, I would respectfully suggest you either division up with present clan mates to learn how these ships work or change clans to do so. what ships do you prefer to play??, pick a type I.E. a BB or CA, pick a nation and progress through that line, if you don't like that class of ship change to another line or nation.

 

Good Luck.

[KillStealBoss]

Please don't skip too much though. 

[Alabamastilllives]

1 hour ago, Cyclops_ said:

Hi David, basically as said above but and it is a big but, you do not have any ships of a nation with more than 3 of the same silver tech tree line. With this in mind it would be a pointless exercise trying to free xp to a TX ship as stated by @lovelacebeer

You are in a Clan, yet have never played in a division with anyone from that Clan ??, I would respectfully suggest you either division up with present clan mates to learn how these ships work or change clans to do so. what ships do you prefer to play??, pick a type I.E. a BB or CA, pick a nation and progress through that line, if you don't like that class of ship change to another line or nation.

 

Good Luck.

Yes, just learning at present. I have bought the 'Hood' (great fire power but very suseptable to big hits) but there is some family history there so needed to get it and the Mainz with good repeated salvo's. I am concentrating on the British and german lines at present. Quite interestin is i am finding the british ships have great firepower but suseptable to weakish armour and a bit slow whereas the germans are faster not so much power but much better armour. I am contemplating another premium. My only grevience i have with the game is submarines, once they pick on you you dont have a chance in hell it kinda spoils the skill about the game a bit and also going dark it's just not realistic and kinda makes it a bit cranky

[triumphgt6]

2 hours ago, lovelacebeer said:

If you have enough free XP you could skip certain ships and just research them but not buy them so you progress further up the tech tree. 
 

However I would strongly recommend against doing this, it’s really worth progressing through experience so you know the characteristics of the line and develop your own knowledge of how best to play. 

Except Emerald (though I think it is better now!)

[lovelacebeer]

5 hours ago, DAVID_HAYTER_1 said:

Yes, just learning at present. I have bought the 'Hood' (great fire power but very suseptable to big hits) but there is some family history there so needed to get it and the Mainz with good repeated salvo's. I am concentrating on the British and german lines at present. Quite interestin is i am finding the british ships have great firepower but suseptable to weakish armour and a bit slow whereas the germans are faster not so much power but much better armour. I am contemplating another premium. My only grevience i have with the game is submarines, once they pick on you you dont have a chance in hell it kinda spoils the skill about the game a bit and also going dark it's just not realistic and kinda makes it a bit cranky

Im also a huge fan of the Hood but she’s pretty different to the standard tech tree British BBs, in that the tech tree British battleships have extremely effective High Explosive shells. Also they suddenly (finally) get some speed once you get the KGV. 
 

Due to the potential value in switching ammunition between AP and HE for the British battleships I still advise patience and progressing through the line the slow way. 
 

 

[Leo_Apollo11]

Hi all,

 

3 hours ago, DAVID_HAYTER_1 said:

Just a quicky guys.

Do you have to complete the tech tree of ships in order or if you have built up enough can you skip them and buy what you want excluding premium ships ofcoarse

 

I never ever skip the ship entirely... I play each and every one in CoOp, Operation, Ranked etc. (but NO Random) ... only when I am close to the end of grind I sometimes use the FreeXP (have around 5M right now) to quickly finish if there is some sort of need (i.e. 15K XP short of Tier X and there is Snowflaking event ongoing)...

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

[lafeel]

3 hours ago, KillStealBoss said:

Please don't skip too much though. 

After all ships earlier in a line do tend to teach you how to play the ships higher up in it.

[lovelacebeer]

1 hour ago, triumphgt6 said:

Except Emerald (though I think it is better now!)

She certainly was trial by fire but remember the original Izumo that was painful. 

[Karasu_Browarszky]

26 minutes ago, lafeel said:

After all ships earlier in a line do tend to teach you how to play the ships higher up in it.

 

They do?

 

If OP wants to get to experience the misery that is tier X faster, one legit way of doing that is skil researching the ship modules that do not lead to the next tier ship. Typically this would mean researching only the hull modules in most cases. Research only, do not buy, unless you really like the ship in which case you can return later to research the other modules as well.

[Varian_Dorn]

2 hours ago, DAVID_HAYTER_1 said:

Yes, just learning at present. I have bought the 'Hood' (great fire power but very suseptable to big hits) but there is some family history there so needed to get it and the Mainz with good repeated salvo's. I am concentrating on the British and german lines at present. Quite interestin is i am finding the british ships have great firepower but suseptable to weakish armour and a bit slow whereas the germans are faster not so much power but much better armour. I am contemplating another premium. My only grevience i have with the game is submarines, once they pick on you you dont have a chance in hell it kinda spoils the skill about the game a bit and also going dark it's just not realistic and kinda makes it a bit cranky

Welcome to World of Warships . I hope you overall like your time with this this game.

[Alabamastilllives]

It's good

 

[VedranSeaWolf359]

I am Person with disability so Grinding for me is slow process without brawls so I usually when come to Tier XI buy tier X with FXP.

Now I have dilemma buy two tier X ships and got Santa certificate or save it collect more FXP and buy Agir.

[22cm]

8 hours ago, DAVID_HAYTER_1 said:

 My only grevience i have with the game is submarines, once they pick on you you dont have a chance in hell it kinda spoils the skill about the game a bit and also going dark it's just not realistic and kinda makes it a bit cranky

Hoping that someone from WG can see what the new players are complaining about...

[Cyclops_]

20 hours ago, DAVID_HAYTER_1 said:

Yes, just learning at present. I have bought the 'Hood' (great fire power but very suseptable to big hits) but there is some family history there so needed to get it and the Mainz with good repeated salvo's. I am concentrating on the British and german lines at present. Quite interestin is i am finding the british ships have great firepower but suseptable to weakish armour and a bit slow whereas the germans are faster not so much power but much better armour. I am contemplating another premium. My only grevience i have with the game is submarines, once they pick on you you dont have a chance in hell it kinda spoils the skill about the game a bit and also going dark it's just not realistic and kinda makes it a bit cranky

Do you have discord coms on your Clan?? being able to speak to other clan mates and to learn from them is key in this game. 

[Miscommunication_dept]

Some lines have ships that are either worse than most of the line of just very different.

Izumo used to be a ship you would skip but it’s pretty good now.

Unless you have lots of freeXP, it’s not really recommended. It’s better used to get the modules straight away so you don’t have to play the A hull.

 

[arttuperkunas]

12 hours ago, 22cm said:

Hoping that someone from WG can see what the new players are complaining about...

BuT thE SIleNt MAjOriTy

[BrusilovX]

On 12/24/2022 at 11:43 AM, DAVID_HAYTER_1 said:

My only grevience i have with the game is submarines, once they pick on you you dont have a chance in hell it kinda spoils the skill about the game a bit and also going dark it's just not realistic and kinda makes it a bit cranky

While I don't think submarines should be in the game they are not as OP as you may think.  Most ships have some form of ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) ability - either depth charges or airplanes.  There are some ships that have neither - I believe if they can launch planes (so CVs, hybrid CVs and some Dutch ships) they get no ASW.  The airplanes can be quite powerful if the submarine is within range it's possible with practice to hit the submarine.  Depth charges need your ship to sail over them apart from a few Pan-Euro DDs (Smalland, Halland and Friesland) that dire depth charges forward. 

 

The other thing to keep in mind is that if the submarine is on the surface you can ram them!    In the first week that submarines were released in game most ships (CAs and BBs) had no ASW and the only thing to do was to ram the submarine.  In my Tirpitz I managed to do that twice in one battle.

 

Being targeted in battle by one or more submarines can be frustrating through being constantly pinged and targeted by their torps.  But it's possible to be targeted by multiple CVs in one battle which can be equally frustrating.   I think the main thing to do is to stick with some other ships so your firepower can be combined.

 

The other reason to not skip ships is that unless you have lots of elite captain skill point you will get to the higher tiers with low or mid tier captains.  A 21 point captain can be a big difference to a 10 point captain (at 10 points you have enough points to use the concealment skill).