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Played my first game in the T4 Danae and it feels like a massive improvement over the horrific Caledon. T1 only took one battle, and T2 probably 2, but the 5/6 games I played in the T3 Caledon were a harsh reminder that those tiers loving suck. Right now seems to a really good chance to club seals by playing T3 & 4 BBs, or actual good T3/4 cruisers like the Svetlana. I played one battle that was carried by a Nassau that 5-6 British cruisers just couldn't deal with. The loot box system I also like despite having bought 6 of the high-risk boxes and got 5 flags each time. I still feel like thats better than 30k creds from an old daily. If I have a chance to get an Atago, Gremy or Imperator N. then I am all in. Its also trivial to get 2 per day and 3 at the weekend is not hard either.
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kaesarsosei posted:Right now seems to a really good chance to club seals by playing T3 & 4 BBs, or actual good T3/4 cruisers like the Svetlana. quote:or actual good T3/4 cruisers like the Svetlana. quote:Svetlana KUMA
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Oct 21, 2016 18:33
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Hazdoc posted:KUMA 
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Hazdoc posted:Edit: While the Fujin is indeed T5, it is one of the few boats in the game that doesn't suffer much at all being uptiered, even by 2. In fact, you'll farm a lot more damage getting into T7 games. willing to buy competitive T6+ IJN DDs please With the Fubuki being downtiered to 6 and Kagero to 8, there's a slim chance that you might see
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Oct 21, 2016 18:37
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kaesarsosei posted:The loot box system I also like despite having bought 6 of the high-risk boxes and got 5 flags each time. I still feel like thats better than 30k creds from an old daily. If I have a chance to get an Atago, Gremy or Imperator N. then I am all in. Its also trivial to get 2 per day and 3 at the weekend is not hard either. Since I pretty much have all the rare ships anyway, I decided to just hit the credits one instead. 50k credits was had. A port slot and some reserve slots as well. So, you say that, but it can still happen.
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Oct 21, 2016 19:27
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kaesarsosei posted:Played my first game in the T4 Danae and it feels like a massive improvement over the horrific Caledon. T1 only took one battle, and T2 probably 2, but the 5/6 games I played in the T3 Caledon were a harsh reminder that those tiers loving suck. Yeah, I've been buying all high risk boxes and have gotten squat. I tried the other boxes, but really 50k credits, 10 flags, 3 free 3% detection camos, or some premium modules I could buy for 60k really didn't seem that much more than the old dailies. Certainly it seems they don't offer enough to convince me I shouldn't just always be taking high risk boxes for a shot at something worthwhile. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but you might be getting 150k to 200k worth of "stuff" a day with the "normal" boxes. ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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Oct 21, 2016 22:40
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There really isn't a reason to pick anything over the luck crate. Well, I suppose if you having trouble affording ship repairs and premium consumables, but chances are if you are that hard up for credits you won't be using premium consumables to begin with. Signals might be okay if you're low, but playing ranked will yield you a bunch of flags anyway. 
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Oct 21, 2016 23:05
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Heartcatch posted:There really isn't a reason to pick anything over the luck crate. I switched to the credits because I have a bad habit of taking ships to tier 8 and then playing a different line. Leaving me with a shortage of cash playing multiple lines at once.
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Oct 21, 2016 23:08
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You're doing exactly what you did in tanks. History repeats itself!
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Oct 21, 2016 23:14
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I... I can't seem to win a game in the drat New York. Is it me or is it the ship? I'm currently winning like a third of the games, and I don't think I'm doing terribly, but I just can't win.
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Oct 21, 2016 23:18
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Cippalippus posted:I... I can't seem to win a game in the drat New York. Is it me or is it the ship? I'm currently winning like a third of the games, and I don't think I'm doing terribly, but I just can't win. I feel like the Texas can do pretty well, and it's not that different than the NY. It might just be the games. If you're up against competent T7 BBs you're fodder.
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JuffoWup posted:I switched to the credits because I have a bad habit of taking ships to tier 8 and then playing a different line. Leaving me with a shortage of cash playing multiple lines at once. I do the same thing (in tanks too!). The worst that seems to happen though is that I've got to grind credits for a couple days to afford a new ship. Honestly, 150k credits from those crates is going to make zero difference to me. Then again I'm paying for premium and have (too many) premium ships. In fact, I have the Prinz Eugen with the second gold camo that gives the huge bonus to credits per match, and depending on raking in 250k to 600k credits a match in it (350k average probably). So your mileage from the credit crates might be better than mine. kaesarsosei posted:Played my first game in the T4 Danae and it feels like a massive improvement over the horrific Caledon. T1 only took one battle, and T2 probably 2, but the 5/6 games I played in the T3 Caledon were a harsh reminder that those tiers loving suck. I hated the Danae and free credited it out of it to the Emerald (I refuse to spend any more gold to go farther on the line) and I find that, at least with me playing it, the Emerald is an all or nothing ship. Either I do insanely well and it's a lot of fun, or I get exploded with one or two salvos before I can really do anything, which frustrates the gently caress out of me. ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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Heartcatch posted:With the Fubuki being downtiered to 6 and Kagero to 8, there's a slim chance that you might see Shigure (Shiratsuyu class) and Yukikaze/Tan Yang are two IJN DDs I'd like to see as premiums, since they are both interesting ships. Yukikaze for surviving the war (and many major engagements) and becoming a Chinese boat, and Shigure for being another boat that survived the war while participating in some of the major engagements, and being one of the boats Tameichi Hara commanded. Of course this means wargaming will give us some paper japanese boat with torpedoes that are detected the moment you fire them or something
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No it means one of them will be a paper japanese boat with garbase torps etc. The other will be a new Pan-Asian premium.
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First game in a Fujin, enemy CV parks a fighter over me, bombs me and keeps TBs floating nearby. 2nd game, enemy fighter spots me, and gets TB's to cross drop in my path. I dodge all but one, leaves me with 2000 health. Get into position for torps on a BB, spotted by another DD, I'm dead. So far 2 games in a Fujin, 0 damage done. Yay. So uhh, expect to be singled out first.
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Hazdoc posted:Shigure (Shiratsuyu class) and Yukikaze/Tan Yang are two IJN DDs I'd like to see as premiums, since they are both interesting ships. Yukikaze for surviving the war (and many major engagements) and becoming a Chinese boat, and Shigure for being another boat that survived the war while participating in some of the major engagements, and being one of the boats Tameichi Hara commanded. Shigure was sunk in late January 1945, she didn't survive the war. Shigure and Yukikaze were both regarded as the luckiest ships* of the IJN though, for similar reasons at that, so cases could certainly be made for both of them getting premiums at some point - especially since they're different classes. The connection with Hara is also pretty significant, though he was more heavily associated with Amatsukaze. If you wanted another nation-shifted ship other than Yukikaze, I suppose you could go with the Akatsuki-class Hibiki who was given to, and used for several years by, the Soviets. *Well, personally lucky; considered bringers of horrible misfortune to ships around them. Both had a tendency to come out of heavy engagements with little or light damage, while virtually every other ship didn't. See Battle of Vella Gulf, where Shigure and 3 other destroyers were ambushed at night by US destroyers. All 4 were torpedoed, with sinkings of the other 3, but the one that hit Shigure failed to explode, and she escaped with no further damage. Lord Koth fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Oct 22, 2016 |
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Lord Koth posted:Shigure was sunk in late January 1945, she didn't survive the war. Shigure and Yukikaze were both regarded as the luckiest ships* of the IJN though, for similar reasons at that, so cases could certainly be made for both of them getting premiums at some point - especially since they're different classes. The connection with Hara is also pretty significant, though he was more heavily associated with Amatsukaze. Ah, right, I forgot Shigure didn't survive. Must have been thinking of a Fubuki-class, Ushio, instead (also a good choice for premium, but Fubuki is moving down to T6, however, Ushio is an Ayanami-class version, so she could potentially see T7 instead in the vein of the Akatsuki). Shigure is still a good choice, though her sister ship Yuudachi may resonate more with fans of this game (POI). Amatsukaze would also be a good choice, as not only was it the first vessel Hara captained, it was also a ship tasked with testing the high-pressure boilers that would be used in Shimakaze's design. There's definitely a chance to make Amatsukaze unique amongst Kagero class ships. Because if Yukikaze is made a premium, it'll definitely be as Tan Yang and as a Pan-Asian ship. Hazdoc fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Oct 22, 2016 |
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You get a better variety of flags/camos from the new crates without needing to do specific things, which is nice.
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I sold all my Tier 10 ships (Montana/Yamato/Kurfurst/DM/Hindenburg/Zao). After so much of snipe fest I didn't even want to look at them, so I sold them all. If i want them back I can always contact customer support and use 'exceptions' (apparently you get 4 exceptions per year to roll back ship sales) so that's that. Just need enough credits and port slots ready.
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Aesis posted:I sold all my Tier 10 ships (Montana/Yamato/Kurfurst/DM/Hindenburg/Zao). After so much of snipe fest I didn't even want to look at them, so I sold them all. "Exceptions" are cool and good. I used one to get back the premium time I "used" during hurricane Michael's aftermath.
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Just got 100 dragon flags from a 'supercontainer'. Pretty awesome. Also had a 6 kill battle in the Caledon, I quite like it.
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Velius posted:Just got 100 dragon flags from a 'supercontainer'. Pretty awesome. Also had a 6 kill battle in the Caledon, I quite like it.  No detonations for 250 games 
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Holy poo poo the Danae is garbage. Both rounds I've played it I've instantly died to battleships. The citadel must be enormous. If this is what the rest of the tree is like I can't see anyone bothering.
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Hazdoc posted:Shigure (Shiratsuyu class) and Yukikaze/Tan Yang are two IJN DDs I'd like to see as premiums, since they are both interesting ships. Yukikaze for surviving the war (and many major engagements) and becoming a Chinese boat, and Shigure for being another boat that survived the war while participating in some of the major engagements, and being one of the boats Tameichi Hara commanded. Having Yukikaze/Tan Yang would almost certainly cause a forums shitstorm if the latter were to be done as a premium instead of the former.  While you would lose out on premium captain training for the IJN line, Tan Yang probably would allow crossover with an Anshan captain more than a Lo Yang one, unless they're using Tan Yang rebake with the torpedo tubes stripped and a million AA guns added instead. Hazdoc posted:Shigure is still a good choice, though her sister ship Yuudachi may resonate more with fans of this game (POI). Amatsukaze would also be a good choice, as not only was it the first vessel Hara captained, it was also a ship tasked with testing the high-pressure boilers that would be used in Shimakaze's design. There's definitely a chance to make Amatsukaze unique amongst Kagero class ships. Because if Yukikaze is made a premium, it'll definitely be as Tan Yang and as a Pan-Asian ship. Just for you, there is an ARP Yukikaze in the manga. 
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The fact I have a lower than 40% win rate today but still gained stars in ranked really tells you all you need to know about how poo poo ranked players are.
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MoraleHazard posted:
It's really good if you have the Gremy because they have the same problem (turret rotation) and can share a dedicated captain.
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Lord Koth posted:the one that hit Shigure failed to explode, and she escaped with no further damage. Hara's memoir basically goes, "Once we got back to a friendly port, we discovered the sluggish steering was due to a dud torpedo punching a hole in our rudder.  "
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So far the most dangerous thing I have faced in my Edinburgh is the Admiral Hipper. Up close I've brawled every BB and even an NC can't seem to take me down in less than 2 salvos.
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E Equals MC Hammer posted:So far the most dangerous thing I have faced in my Edinburgh is the Admiral Hipper. Up close I've brawled every BB and even an NC can't seem to take me down in less than 2 salvos. That's really not saying a whole lot to be honest. Other than, it doesn't explode quite as fast as the other cruisers in the line. And that's not always going to be the case I don't think because one salvo killed a full health Minatour this morning in my Bismark, and I did it from >12k.
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Heartcatch posted:There really isn't a reason to pick anything over the luck crate. Here's my 'luck' container experience in 5 attempts.. 1st attempt - flags. who gives a gently caress I barely use them 2nd attempt - holy poo poo 105k freexp. boner! 3rd attempt - 3k freexp not bad I'll take it 4th attempt - 5k freexp sure why not 5th attempt - flags. meh The moral of the story is I have been lucky getting freexp off loot containers, but WG knows they have been making me suffer with miserable games so thanks?
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demonR6 posted:Here's my 'luck' container experience in 5 attempts.. Opened 7 "luck" containers, flags (5) every time. On the other hand I just unlocked the Yamato and the guns sure are no joke, shells seem to very rarely bounce and deal huge damage when they don't overpen.
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Is anyone else getting lit the gently caress up in the Fujin? It's like a shell magnet. When I switch to my Minekaze, suddenly I don't have any problems.
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Minenfeld! posted:Is anyone else getting lit the gently caress up in the Fujin? It's like a shell magnet. When I switch to my Minekaze, suddenly I don't have any problems. I just had a Fujin try to engage me in a gunfight at like 6km. I was in a Mahan. I think he hit me with 2 shells before dying. So far i've gotten two luck crates a day, and my "best" haul was 100k credits. Rest have all been 5x crappy flags.
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At last, Rank 10!
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Am I just utter poo poo with German BB guns post-tier 6 or are is it completely luck to land more than 25% of your salvo from anything more than 5km out?
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Wicaeed posted:Am I just utter poo poo with German BB guns post-tier 6 or are is it completely luck to land more than 25% of your salvo from anything more than 5km out? gneiss owns bismarck owns
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Wicaeed posted:Am I just utter poo poo with German BB guns post-tier 6 or are is it completely luck to land more than 25% of your salvo from anything more than 5km out? If your secondaries aren't firing you're too far away.
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Got my first super container. 250 x-ray flags. Not 100k free XP or a ship, but I will gladly take it.kaesarsosei posted:Played my first game in the T4 Danae and it feels like a massive improvement over the horrific Caledon. T1 only took one battle, and T2 probably 2, but the 5/6 games I played in the T3 Caledon were a harsh reminder that those tiers loving suck. I was farming credits with a Konig Albert when the patch dropped; however, I'm guessing the numbers of RN cruisers has gone down in low tiers as people give up. ZombieLenin fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Oct 23, 2016 |
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I gotta say, nothing quite screams "WHY DON'T I HAVE HE!?" like Emerald vs. Hosho + Zuiho with both at ~12km, running separate directions, and focusing entirely on you. It ended up being a win in no small part due to the number of waves the acceleration on an Emerald lets you dodge, but it sure as hell wasn't me that killed either of them. And yes, I know, 2-3k salvos and occasional citadels on carriers are great, but not quite as great as starting two fires would've been.
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Made it to Rank 2, 2 stars, then dropped down to Rank 3, 3 stars. Almost there.
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