We have first update of 2025 soon and my god there are massive change that would affect every ship’s BR effectiveness - penetration.
I’ve checked out almost every AP/SAP shell on dev server and omg change was so massive that I may have to change every ship’s list from 6.3 to 8.0
I’ll start to work ASAP since update dropped, and would love your ideas about the ship’s BR near future.
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And Gaijin actually did the opposite of decompress lol…
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Yeah I figured out.
For capital ships, it’s good change. Some ships needs readjustment, but overall way is okay for me, considering capital ship exclusively.
But now cruiser and destroyer becomes problem. Now they need to lower reserve destroyer BR from 3.3 to 1.0 and decompress BR compression of destroyers and cruisers.
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Yeh, its good for the ships that was moved down for sure, just completely backwards to move them down instead of moving others up, as they should’ve done a long time ago, starting with the absolutely gamewrecking piece of s**t Scharnhorst!
I’m making ver.2 of the list based on current BR. Just lots of things needs to be done before that for me.
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Good job! We ( the naval community) should all promote it whenever there’s new proposal of BR changes, unless Gaijin surpirses us all and gets their heads out of their asses and figure it out themselves!
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Gaijin seems prefer using gun performance to measure the BR, I can’t believe that Gaijin just moved tons of WWI BB to 6.0 and 5.7…
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I also wonder, seeing the rank changes for Hyuga, Francesco, PK etc, if they are making room for a new rank soon to come in an update or two!
They almost certainly are. We know that the top-end battleships are coming this year, and they probably will need a new BR/rank to not be completely busted.
Most ships buffed to 6.0 and 5.7 has got their gun characteristic unable to fight against 7.0 bbs so I think this is reasonable. Problem is cruisers and destroyers, and if Gaijin choose not to expand to 8.0 due to Arcade’s CAS circumstances, then it should be lowering cruisers and destroyers’ BR
They almost certainly are. We know that the top-end battleships are coming this year, and they probably will need a new BR/rank to not be completely busted.
Now I’m skeptical about new Rank, though I think new BR definitely comes. Moving Kommuna and Hyuga to Rank V does fit current meta of dividing Rank V and Rank VI, but also makes their three ship line to two so making their final battleship available to be in Rank VI.
But it’s too crazy for DDs and CLs, I can’t believe today at the first battle that there is a BC towards me, even I was just a 4.7 DD, Naval BR compression is the craziest thing in the whole game, It sounds like using 4.7 tanks against 7.7
Well, not it is clear that Arcade’s CAS problem will make Gaijin hesitate Br going upward, let’s wish destroyers’ and cruisers’ BR got lower
In Hornet’s Sting update Gaijin put massive change on both gun performance and capital ships between 5.7 ~ 6.7. While originally put on idea to extends BR from 6.3 to 7.0 for most capital ships, I welcome Gaijin’s change of spreading BR through lowering 6.0~6.3 ships(Though it makes further need of lowering cruisers and destroyer’s BR)
| United States of America |
Germany | USSR | Great Britain | Japan | Italy | France | |
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| 5.3 | IJN Ikoma IJN Kurama |
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| 5.7 | HMS Invincible HMS Glorious |
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| 6 | USS North Dakota | SMS Westfalen SMS Nassau SMS Von der Tann |
HMS Dreadnought HMS Colossus HMS Queen Mary |
IJN Settsu | Courbet Paris |
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| 6.3 | SMS Oestfriesland SMS Helgoland SMS Kaiser SMS Derfflinger |
Poltava Imperatritsa Mariya |
HMS Orion HMS Repulse |
RN Dante Alighieri RN Leonardo Da Vinci RN Andrea Doria RN Francesco Caracciolo |
Bretagne Lorraine |
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| 6.7 | USS Wyoming USS Arkansas USS Texas USS Nevada USS Arizona |
Erstatz Yorck | Parizhskaya Kommuna Marat Izmail |
HMS Iron Duke HMS Marlborough HMS Renown |
IJN Yamashiro IJN Hyuga IJN Kongo IJN Haruna IJN Kirishima |
Dunkerque Strasbourg |
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| 7 | USS Mississipi USS Tennesse |
SMS Bayern SMS Baden SMS Saschen |
Novorossiysk | HMS Barham | RN Conte di Cavour RN Duilio |
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| 7.3 | USS Colorado USS Alaska |
Kronshtadt Arkhangelsk |
HMS Warspite HMS Rodney HMS Hood |
IJN Fuso IJN Ise |
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| 7.7 | Scharnhorst | IJN Mutsu IJN Amagi |
So, I make Ver.2 of it, making capital ship BR starts from where Gaijin stands, though extend current 7.0 ships from 7.0 to 7.7. Currently, 7.0 ship is too crowded imo, and most premium 6.7 capital ships constantly meet Scharnhorst or Mutsu/Amagi, which those ships are almost unable to fight of, because they have only 0.3 difference.
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