Thanks to Zipang for emailing me.

These offers are only available for NA players (EU/ASIA users won’t be able to see them). Check them out here:

http://www.gamersgate.com/campaign/id/3664/?aff=ggnews

The Italian cruiser arrives on April 21 at 04:20 PT / 07:20 ET.

0.6.4 Update Notes:

The update happens April 19; preparation begins at 03:00 PT/ 06:00 ET until 05:00 PT/ 08:00 ET.

We’ve seen some questions about mods. Please note that any mods previously installed may cause compatibility issues with any update. If you have mods and have difficulty playing, uninstall or otherwise remove the mods first.

Update notes are subject to change.

French Cruisers Are Here

French cruisers are here!

The new branch includes Bougainville, Jurien de la Gravière, Friant, Duguay-Trouin, Émile Bertin, La Galissonnière, Algérie, Charles Martel, Saint- Louis, and Henri IV.

Highlights

• The branch starts with light cruisers armed with big, long-range guns with excellent armor-piercing potential – 165mm at tier II, 139mm at Tier III, 155mm at tier IV and 152mm for tier V and VI
• French cruiser torpedoes have great aiming angles, a 6km range starting at tier III and IV, and a 9km range starting at tier V
• Torpedo protection starting at tier III reduces torpedo damage by 16% at tier VII, and climbs slightly up to tier X
• French cruisers transition from light cruisers to heavy cruisers at tier VI with a thicker armor belt and access to a unique cruiser consumable
• Starting at tier VI, French cruisers can mount an “Engine Boost” consumable that gives tier VI-VII ships 15% bonus active for to their maximum speed, and a 20% bonus to tiers VIII-X
• Cruisers tier VII and up are considered “full” heavy cruisers and have long-range, hard-hitting 203mm guns, torpedoes, and swift speed
• Befitting its royal name, Henri IV sits at the top of the new French cruiser branch and has the largest caliber tier X cruiser guns and the highest standard speed of all tier X cruisers

For more information about the new ships, watch “Developers’ Diary!”

Continue reading “WoWS: Duca D’Aosta Coming Soon on NA + 0.6.4 Patchnotes” →

To those of you who were excited at the prospect of the De Grasse, the unique french AA cruiser, with 8×2-127mm guns, prepare to be dis-appointed. As we are instead getting a ship that appears to be a retrofitted La Galissonnière-class cruiser. (Probably it is the De Grasse as she was originally designed, which might as well be a clone of the La Galissonière)

Continue reading “De Grasse premium ship unveiled….” →

Off: Excuse me everyone for being away from TAP. I had to visit my grandpa this Easter and I hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Back to the Q&A. Thanks to Babykim, EU:

Top performing ships in version 0.6.3 following profound changes in game-play, such as the removal of open-water invisi-fire.

The performance is evaluated separately for the median and top players, according to RU server statistics available to video-blogger z1ooo.

Source: https://www.youtube….h?v=JJHLw3tG_BE

Separate note on carriers. Carriers still perform better than all other ships types on all tiers. Japanese carriers are still outperforming the American carriers on all tiers, more so in terms of winrate rather than damage and frags. The exception is USS Saipan at tier 7. The skill-gap between the median and the top carrier players have increased. Bogus is still the worst ship on tier 5.

Best ships – worst ships by tiers (except the carriers):

2. Umikaze, V-25

3. Best BB: König Albert, Nassau. Worst: Kawachi
Best CA: Bogatyr. Worst: Kolberg
Best DD: Derzki. Worst: Wakatake

4 (Best BB is a surprise!)
Best BB: Wyoming, Imperator Nikolai I, Arkansas Beta. Worst: Myogi
Best CA: Iwaki Alpha, Yubari. Worst: Karlsruhe, Danae
Best DD: Clemson

5:
Best BB: König (Dispersion will be nervet next patch), Texas
Best CA: Marblehead, Murmansk, Furutaka, Königsberg. Worst: Krasny Krym, Kirov, Emerald
Best DD: Kamikaze, Fuijin, Gremyashchy (feels invisi-fire nerf). Okhotnik. Worst: Mutsiki, Minikaze, T-22

6:
Best BB: Fuso, New Mexico, Arizona (used to be absolute top). Worst: Mutsu (she in 3 top of the worst BBs in game! Right after Kawachi and Miogi)
Best CA: Perth, Admiral Graf Spee. Worst: Aoba, Nürnberg
Best DD: Farragut, Anshan. Worst: Gnevny, Fubuki, Hatsuharu

7:
Best BB: Scharnhorst, Gneisen
Best CA: Belfast, Flint, Fiji. Worst: York, Pensacola, Indianapolis
Best DD: Leningrad (Błyskawica not anymore). Worst: Mahan, Minsk

8:
Best BB: Alabama (!), Bismark
Best CA: Michael Kutuzov, Adagio. Worst: New Orleans, Admiral Hipper, Prinz Eugen
Best DD: Z-23, Benson (Akizuki not anymore). Worst: Ognevoi, Kiew, Lo Yang

9:
Best BB: Missouri. Worst: Izumo
Best CA: Neptune. Worst. Ibuki
Best DD: Black (762 ships on the whole RU server). Worst: Tashkent

X:
Best BB: Großer Kurfürst
Best CA: Minotaur, Des Moins (! rate-of-fire buff) Worst: Zao, Hindenburg
Best DD: Khabarovsk Worst: Grozovoi

De Grasse (a French oversized Atlanta) and USS Kidd (a Fletcher-class, seems like this ship will be equipped with a new kind of consumable to compensate for her torpedo tubes removed) are coming in ST 0.6.5.