Post by YureiKuma on Sept 8, 2020 20:46:26 GMT
I made the (poor) decision to speed-up the 5 Epochs by venturing into random battles for the first time in over a year. Seeing as how I only have CVs at tier 4, I decided, what the heck, how bad can it be.
Yeah, I know, I'm an idiot.
My win-rate was poor (12 victories out of 20 battles) and the level of toxicity reminded me why I avoid random battles. In 2 of the losses, I was TK'd by battleships within the first 5 minutes. I know CVs are less than popular (yet there sure were a lot of them queueing up), but the level of vitriol from my own "team" was disappointing, especially as I went out of my way to scout more than attack.
Sadly, I took karma hits every time I went into battle. I know karma doesn't matter, but still, it is annoying.
Given that many of the people I was playing with/against were experienced players grinding out the mission requirements, it was interesting watching the ships and being able to immediately figure out who had all the skills, flags and upgrades versus those poor newbies that got tossed into the meat grinder. I deliberately concentrated on the better players once I identified them as, let's be honest, any Tier IV CV can make mincemeat of some poor newb in his brand new Tier 3/4 BB. Besides, the DDs usually killed those guys faster than John Wick stacks bodies.
All that said, I was amazed to find that I had more average damage in the Hosho than any of the others even though the AP Bombs refused to find any citadels. Here is the Avg damage per CV:
Hosho - 53.4k
Rhein - 46.7k
Langley - 40.4k
Hermes - 34.6k
I'm almost finish with the Tier IV grind, but I've got to ask myself if it is worth it to keep exposing myself to Randoms, or if I should just stick with the low toxicity environment of COOP.
Yeah, I know, I'm an idiot.
My win-rate was poor (12 victories out of 20 battles) and the level of toxicity reminded me why I avoid random battles. In 2 of the losses, I was TK'd by battleships within the first 5 minutes. I know CVs are less than popular (yet there sure were a lot of them queueing up), but the level of vitriol from my own "team" was disappointing, especially as I went out of my way to scout more than attack.
Sadly, I took karma hits every time I went into battle. I know karma doesn't matter, but still, it is annoying.
Given that many of the people I was playing with/against were experienced players grinding out the mission requirements, it was interesting watching the ships and being able to immediately figure out who had all the skills, flags and upgrades versus those poor newbies that got tossed into the meat grinder. I deliberately concentrated on the better players once I identified them as, let's be honest, any Tier IV CV can make mincemeat of some poor newb in his brand new Tier 3/4 BB. Besides, the DDs usually killed those guys faster than John Wick stacks bodies.
All that said, I was amazed to find that I had more average damage in the Hosho than any of the others even though the AP Bombs refused to find any citadels. Here is the Avg damage per CV:
Hosho - 53.4k
Rhein - 46.7k
Langley - 40.4k
Hermes - 34.6k
I'm almost finish with the Tier IV grind, but I've got to ask myself if it is worth it to keep exposing myself to Randoms, or if I should just stick with the low toxicity environment of COOP.
