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 King Pariah wrote:
Recently started playing and I LOVE the St. Louis just for the sheer amount of cannons it has. Finished up a battle in it with 4 kills and 1 kill was a duel between a battleship and myself.

Just find the ship to be amazing.

Rate of fire is what USN cruisers are all about. I love the Cleveland with its 12 152mm guns who can have 3 separate salvoes in the air at once when firing at a target at mix range with the appropriate skills.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Well, just got myself into a New York, didnt give it a go yet. I'm starting to feel a bit of grind fatigue. The game is tons of fun, but its quickly becoming rather repetitive, especially since it seems that the same 2 or 3 maps make up 90% of all games played (at least for me). Would be nice to get a bit more variety in that. I also think some new scenarios might be nice. Beyond that, the cost of upgrades/getting into higher tiers is ballooning up pretty fast, almost to the point that I've lost interest in continuing to chase after higher tier gameplay (and thus losing interest in playing the game entirely).

Don't forget that a) it's a beta, there's only the bare minimum maps etc to keep games working right now, and b) go for your dailys, they can really help keep the edge off the grind.

Welp, it happened, I just traded away Free XP from my Yubari to research all Myogi upgrades in an effort to speed this up. How the hell I'm gonna survive 20k until Kongo, I dunno, I'll probably just cash my way out of this absolute pile of crap.

Yeah. I've been trying to suck it up to reach Kongo cause I hear its a fun ship. I need another 10k and I'll have it. I haven't played WoT in a long time, but the grind curve in WoW feels so much harsher.

Why didn't they just split the tiers into "WWI", "Inter-War" and "WWII" and balance the game around that? Maybe make actual content instead of more stuff to grind.

Try to earn the Confederate achievement. It awards you a bunch of flags that you can use to get a 50% XP bonus in a match. I used that to powerlevel my way through the Langley to the Bogue.

Loving the st.Lois having trouble getting to grips with torpedo carrying ships, doing well with battleship but the slow reload is annoying, had a mach where every time my guns reloaded the enemy battleship went behind a island and i saw my shells hitting the island every time :(

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Try to earn the Confederate achievement. It awards you a bunch of flags that you can use to get a 50% XP bonus in a match. I used that to powerlevel my way through the Langley to the Bogue.

Definitely this; it also stacks with the premium and first victory bonus, I got over 4k exp one match for doing nothing overly impressive.

It is relatively difficult to get the confederate flag though (you need to damage 6 enemy ships for at least 20% of their total HPs).

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Try to earn the Confederate achievement. It awards you a bunch of flags that you can use to get a 50% XP bonus in a match. I used that to powerlevel my way through the Langley to the Bogue.

Definitely this; it also stacks with the premium and first victory bonus, I got over 4k exp one match for doing nothing overly impressive.

It is relatively difficult to get the confederate flag though (you need to damage 6 enemy ships for at least 20% of their total HPs).

I'm trying to save them up for the later tiers. I got 20 from the beta and I'm attempting to hoard the things because I know I'll need them badly... Izumo stock is unbelievably bad but fully upgraded she's a sexy beast.

I am finding that I am really enjoying my time in the Wyoming, It just wrecks unarmoured cruisers, I just killed a full heath Kuma and then a full health Phenoix in 2 consecutive salvoes. Never, ever show your side to a BB at close range....

The Kawachi isn't much more fun. Though for all the talk of the "Tier 3 Grind" I'v heard around i'm finding the Tenryu fairly fun to play in.

IMO none of the IJN cruisers suffer from massive grind cruisers due to them having torpedo's. They always have the option to switch to fat destroyer mode and suicide torp a BB to get some easy exp. Once you get to tier 5 you unlock 203mm guns and you can start laughing at cruisers while you citadel hit them.

 Soladrin wrote:
IMO none of the IJN cruisers suffer from massive grind cruisers due to them having torpedo's. They always have the option to switch to fat destroyer mode and suicide torp a BB to get some easy exp. Once you get to tier 5 you unlock 203mm guns and you can start laughing at cruisers while you citadel hit them.

For you maybe.

I still have 20k xp remaining on the Furutaka and I already hate it with the fury of a thousand burning suns! It can't turn, it can't shoot, its a sailing Citadel and has worse torps than the Kuma! Man I can hardly express how much I hate that ship.

And to think that in the CBT I thought that the Aoba was bad, now I can't wait to reach it so I can sell this pile of junk.

Well, clearly you are doing something wrong because the Aoba is an amazing ship. I'm having more trouble with the Myoko... or rather, matchmaker hates the Myoko and keeps giving me terrible teams. :( And I always get stuck with a carrier 2-3 tiers lower then the enemies.

Edit: Oh by the way. Quick tip for anyone interested in Japanese cruisers. Don't get the Atago if you are planning to go up the tier list anyway. It's a Tier 8 Myoko with some more health. I regularly beat it with the standard Myoko and I can't imagine what I'm going to do to those poor sods once I get my Mogami. Mogami for life.

I always use AP against cruisers now, yes I get less fires but I get far more citadels plus the raw DPS is higher.

I am seriously considering getting the Atlanta.

God damn, happened again.

Is this the kind of result a defeat should have??

 Soladrin wrote:
Well, clearly you are doing something wrong because the Aoba is an amazing ship. I'm having more trouble with the Myoko... or rather, matchmaker hates the Myoko and keeps giving me terrible teams. :( And I always get stuck with a carrier 2-3 tiers lower then the enemies.

Edit: Oh by the way. Quick tip for anyone interested in Japanese cruisers. Don't get the Atago if you are planning to go up the tier list anyway. It's a Tier 8 Myoko with some more health. I regularly beat it with the standard Myoko and I can't imagine what I'm going to do to those poor sods once I get my Mogami. Mogami for life.

You've misunderstood me, I mildly disliked the Aoba in CBT, not now, now I can't wait to get it. The ship that I truly hate is the Furutaka that I hadn't played in CBT because when it was released I was already at Tier 8.

Looking back, the reason why I probably didn't like the Aoba much was because the ship that came before it was the Kuma and the ship that was directly after it was the Mogami and those two are probably the best two ships in the Jap CA tree.

PhantomViper wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
Well, clearly you are doing something wrong because the Aoba is an amazing ship. I'm having more trouble with the Myoko... or rather, matchmaker hates the Myoko and keeps giving me terrible teams. :( And I always get stuck with a carrier 2-3 tiers lower then the enemies.

Edit: Oh by the way. Quick tip for anyone interested in Japanese cruisers. Don't get the Atago if you are planning to go up the tier list anyway. It's a Tier 8 Myoko with some more health. I regularly beat it with the standard Myoko and I can't imagine what I'm going to do to those poor sods once I get my Mogami. Mogami for life.

You've misunderstood me, I mildly disliked the Aoba in CBT, not now, now I can't wait to get it. The ship that I truly hate is the Furutaka that I hadn't played in CBT because when it was released I was already at Tier 8.

Looking back, the reason why I probably didn't like the Aoba much was because the ship that came before it was the Kuma and the ship that was directly after it was the Mogami and those two are probably the best two ships in the Jap CA tree.

The Zao respectfully disagrees with that statement. I had the Zao in CBT. 76 Knot torpedo's are made of magic and wizardry.

If a DD is at full speed, you have to take the aiming reticule, and touch the nose of the destroyer with the very end of the line of the tick marks, or sometimes place it ahead, the shots will land just abut on the center or rear of the speedy ships with torps. do not try to fire with the green circle on the fast ships as the shots will miss due to their speed vs the speed of the DD or torpedo cruisers.

Killed a Battleship that was trying to cap last night St. Louis with AP loaded per hints from Jingles.

Wait, people actually aim directly at moving ships? Even most most BB's will not be hit if you just center aim at them from over 10km away.

 shasolenzabi wrote:

Killed a Battleship that was trying to cap last night St. Louis with AP loaded per hints from Jingles.

Can cruiser guns get citadel hits on BBs? I always rain HE on them due to their thick armour.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:

Killed a Battleship that was trying to cap last night St. Louis with AP loaded per hints from Jingles.

Can cruiser guns get citadel hits on BBs? I always rain HE on them due to their thick armour.

They can from close range with very flat trajectories. Though the higher tier BB's get more and more armour as well.

 Soladrin wrote:

They can from close range with very flat trajectories. Though the higher tier BB's get more and more armour as well.

Suicide close then. I think I will stick to HE rain from as close to max range as I can get

This game looks pretty awesome - I'm in. Forget LOL.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:

Killed a Battleship that was trying to cap last night St. Louis with AP loaded per hints from Jingles.

Can cruiser guns get citadel hits on BBs? I always rain HE on them due to their thick armour.

Long range "plunging fire" allows the AP shells from cruiser guns to punch deck armor, allowing hit on the citadel. That was how I killed the BB.


And yes, I see folks try to hit moving ships by centering on them, the shots miss, sad.

2 of these kills were BBs, I'll stick with HE thanks

I got 4 AP hits that game, 3 of which were citadels on a Kuma. When in a cruiser AP for cruisers and HE for everything else seems to be working out quite well.

AP on flat trajectory can bounce, long range AP dropping down is what punches it through, plus the damage it does is higher, fires though can eat up ships as well. But the results I got spoke volumes to me compared to HE spamming.

HE burns carriers, and they can't receive or launch when fire on deck


DD can go easily with HE

Cruisers can be either or, it was recommended AP for plunging fire on BB or other armored targets in tutorial video "How not to suck at WoWS by Jingles

Long range fire is inaccurate though and citadel hits depend on accuracy (or luck). Even with plunging fire you will still get a lot of ricochets on BB's

I did go through a period of using nothing but AP in the CBT but I found that HE was simply more effective. The raw damage of HE has been reduced but I still prefer it against most targets, except in BBs of course.

I was getting over 50% of shells to hit that guy' so i tore his BB up

 shasolenzabi wrote:
I was getting over 50% of shells to hit that guy' so i tore his BB up

How many of them bounced though and how many citadels did you get?

I find that I rarely get citadels with AP unless I am hitting the target in the side.

Anyone broken 200k damage in a match yet? My record in OBT is 178k. My record in CBT was 212K. It feels like a thing that needs to be achieved.