Potential damage?

[LiveWire___]

So I'm grinding out the dockyard, and am at the end of Level 4. 

 

I'm struggling to fill the "receive potential damage" challenge atm. I've fought loads of brawls, coops, randoms and ranked matches.

 

I can't ever seen to rack up enough potential damage though. I'm obviously too good 

 

Anyhoo, does anyone have any pointers as to what game mode is best for pot dmg, as well as any techniques to rack it up?

 

Thanks! 

[Wulf_Ace]

20 minutes ago, LiveWire___ said:

So I'm grinding out the dockyard, and am at the end of Level 4. 

 

I'm struggling to fill the "receive potential damage" challenge atm. I've fought loads of brawls, coops, randoms and ranked matches.

 

I can't ever seen to rack up enough potential damage though. I'm obviously too good 

 

Anyhoo, does anyone have any pointers as to what game mode is best for pot dmg, as well as any techniques to rack it up?

 

Thanks! 

well, take tanky battleship. I like Kurfurst, which I ve done my record once with more then 4 million potential.

Go to Random battles and just play, stay alive as long as possible, dont do suicide runs.

In general I find german battleships the best for potential damage. 

[K82J]

5 minutes ago, Wulf_Ace said:

well, take tanky battleship. I like Kurfurst, which I ve done my record once with more then 4 million potential.

Go to Random battles and just play, stay alive as long as possible, dont do suicide runs.

In general I find german battleships the best for potential damage. 

 

That task is for cruisers. Need to earn 28 mill potential damage. I usually use the Napoli for that. Or the Emile Bertin. 41 knot with speed flag, you can outrun DD's and bots gonna shoot at you first with like 13km concealment. You can easily dodge bot shots with that speed too.

 

 

[Capt_kreminski]

Anything that gets into the heat of battle fast.

 

This was Cherbourg in co-op - 

 

 

[Northern_Nightowl]

For finishing the 28 million pot. damage mission, you have a decent choice between the current brawl (use Ägir, if available) and Coop. For the latter, any fast cruiser, preferentially with a heal or a tanky one (Napoli, Stalingrad), will do.

In Coop, try to entice the bots in shooting at you (shoot early, make yourself spotted), they will miss most of the time anyway. You should /could be done with 28 mio. in roundabout 35-40 Coop battles.

 

Regards, Nightowl

[lovelacebeer]

I’m currently doing the same mission and I decided to do it in randoms in the Stalingrad or the Hindenburg, both are pretty tanky for cruisers and certainly draw a lot of fire ( Hindy especially as you really get on peoples nerves spamming HE). 
 

Stalingrad I play pretty nose in defensive but hard not to over extend when deliberately drawing attention. 
 

Hindy spam HE and kite away randomly playing with the throttle, helps if you go for the enemy BBs. Just be warned (if it matters too you) that your karma will drop quickly doing this. 

[WildWind84]

6 hours ago, LiveWire___ said:

So I'm grinding out the dockyard, and am at the end of Level 4. 

 

I'm struggling to fill the "receive potential damage" challenge atm. I've fought loads of brawls, coops, randoms and ranked matches.

 

I can't ever seen to rack up enough potential damage though. I'm obviously too good 

 

Anyhoo, does anyone have any pointers as to what game mode is best for pot dmg, as well as any techniques to rack it up?

 

Thanks! 

Do you have Graf Spee? Try with that ship in random :)

[KillStealBoss]

Kremlin is the easiest BB to tank potential damage. Soon to be Ushakov. 

Cruisers i would say Moskva or Goliath. Though if you like speed then Henri or Conde are good too. 

DDs - Khaba, Delny or Zorkiy. 

[LiveWire___]

8 hours ago, WildWind84 said:

Do you have Graf Spee? Try with that ship in random :)

Yes, I do...

 

Worth trying I guess! 

[159Hunter]

14 hours ago, LiveWire___ said:

I can't ever seen to rack up enough potential damage though. I'm obviously too good  

Depends, some cruisers should be played from safe-ish positions (eg US CL) gathering hardly any potential.

Others require a more open playstyle (eg. French Cruiser lines) and will as such rack up a lot of potential dmg when played to their strengths.

 

So if you don't rack up tons of dmg in US CL, you're prolly doing it right. If you don't get potential in French cruisers you're doing it wrong.

[WildWind84]

24 minutes ago, LiveWire___ said:

Yes, I do...

 

Worth trying I guess! 

If you manage tank around 1m per battle, it could work and finish in 28 battles. Good luck :)

If that solution doesn't work, then possible De Grasse, Munchen, Mainz (random) or even maybe Konigsberg in ranked.

[WildWind84]

2 hours ago, KillStealBoss said:

Vonde

What is that? Never hear, read or saw in battle?

[black_falcon120]

The best way of farming this, is to be in German BB hanging at the back. The further away you are, the stronger your armor is. Also, you don't want to be torpedoed.

[Ronchabale]

15 hours ago, LiveWire___ said:

So I'm grinding out the dockyard, and am at the end of Level 4. 

 

I'm struggling to fill the "receive potential damage" challenge atm. I've fought loads of brawls, coops, randoms and ranked matches.

 

I can't ever seen to rack up enough potential damage though. I'm obviously too good 

 

Anyhoo, does anyone have any pointers as to what game mode is best for pot dmg, as well as any techniques to rack it up?

 

Thanks! 

Get rid of 5th slot concealment and get the consumable +10% enchancer

Get rid of even more concealment (preferably use BOS and FP instead of secondary upgrades)

 

Random...

Edge in until enough ships are firing at you and turn out slightly (just in case), preferably a position where you can shoot over the whole map

This works rather well on ships like Musashi, everyone is gonna be shooting at you

(you may well lose some karma coz team thinks your not doing anything but ur a man with a mission so  them)

[iFax]

15 hours ago, LiveWire___ said:

So I'm grinding out the dockyard, and am at the end of Level 4. 

 

I'm struggling to fill the "receive potential damage" challenge atm. I've fought loads of brawls, coops, randoms and ranked matches.

 

I can't ever seen to rack up enough potential damage though. I'm obviously too good 

 

Anyhoo, does anyone have any pointers as to what game mode is best for pot dmg, as well as any techniques to rack it up?

 

Thanks! 

High tier German BB with lighthouse build... Randoms or Co-op...

[DirtyHeddy]

Napoli also is a good choice.

I also did a lot of this task with Myoko and Mogami (agility)

[KillStealBoss]

4 hours ago, WildWind84 said:

What is that? Never hear, read or saw in battle?

Sorry I meant Conde. The V is near C, misclick. 

[OldschoolGaming_YouTube]

On 12/31/2022 at 8:46 PM, LiveWire___ said:

So I'm grinding out the dockyard, and am at the end of Level 4. 

 

I'm struggling to fill the "receive potential damage" challenge atm. I've fought loads of brawls, coops, randoms and ranked matches.

 

I can't ever seen to rack up enough potential damage though. I'm obviously too good 

 

Anyhoo, does anyone have any pointers as to what game mode is best for pot dmg, as well as any techniques to rack it up?

 

Thanks! 

Is it for any ship or only cruisers or only BBs?

I would take Conqueror for BBs and then just sit in kite away position half-close to battle and spam HE and just let everyone shoot at you, if you take a lot of damage just go dark and print a new ship and rinse and repeat. Easy to make 3-4 M potential damage in one match.

For cruisers I would go for Hinden or Henri and just sit at range and annoy BB players while duking their shots.

[LiveWire___]

13 minutes ago, OldschoolGaming_YouTube said:

Is it for any ship or only cruisers or only BBs?

I would take Conqueror for BBs and then just sit in kite away position half-close to battle and spam HE and just let everyone shoot at you, if you take a lot of damage just go dark and print a new ship and rinse and repeat. Easy to make 3-4 M potential damage in one match.

For cruisers I would go for Hinden or Henri and just sit at range and annoy BB players while duking their shots.

 

It's for the dockyard, and has to be accomplished in a cruiser. 

 

Unfortunately, I don't have Henri or Hindi, but I do have a number of high tier cruisers like Brest, Marseilles, Alaska,  Napoli et al.  

[Fatal_Ramses]

Moskva or stalingrad, both are tanky and very visible with long range guns. I used Colbert too, fast and agile.

[ZygZag]

I'm using Brest (currently grinding|) for it and do it mostly playing coops. Quick games that ususally bring 0,5-1 mln of potential dmg. My solution is:
- go quickly using engine boost at the start to some position that BOTs ususally would go

- start making some shots early - it draws BOT attention, ususally BOTs stay focused at the first target

- when some Bot start to fire, I reduce speed, show my bow only (reduced "hittable area") and keep the BOTs entertained.

 

But sometimes it does not work - the BOTs do not do "the BOTs" job and "behave" in stranger ways than most weird PvP player...

 

If I play rankeds or randoms I do not pay a lot of attention to that "potential dmg" farming. Just trying to win, stay alive & kicking.

[OldschoolGaming_YouTube]

8 hours ago, LiveWire___ said:

 

It's for the dockyard, and has to be accomplished in a cruiser. 

 

Unfortunately, I don't have Henri or Hindi, but I do have a number of high tier cruisers like Brest, Marseilles, Alaska,  Napoli et al.  

Dont have the first two but guess they are all pretty tanky.

[LukkaiCH]

I managed slightly over 2.5 million potential damage in one coop battle with Cherbourg. Immediately ran straight forward with motor-boost until nearly the middle, making sure I was the first ship spotted. Then slowly reversed, always angling against AP and torpedoes. Getting shot at by one BB, a DD and three cruisers.

 

Now that was a particular good one of course. But the general idea works well with the large French CAs. Ägir also works quite well. Generally speaking, I would recommend coop battles for those potential damage missions. You can amass a considerable amount of it in very short time, if you play your cards right. The bad aim of the bots very much coming to your aid here.

[LiveWire___]

So i managed to achieve this finally. 

 

I used Brest & Marseilles. Took off concealment mods, turbo boosted in to heart of enemy in co-op, kept angled, didn't fire unless to attract attention and voila. 

 

Worked.

 

Thanks all! 

[Karkong_the_Impaler]

This is why I loathe these idiotic missions. At least OP did this in coop where rolling your face on the keyboard is the minimum requirement to win, so no harm done. But all these who do this in randoms...