I've never been so frustrated

[Fighter of the Nightman]

3xp from unlocking next tier cruiser...

[Torchfire]

Just use the free EXP to cover the difference if you don't want to play one co-op battle with the ship.

[Sidian]

Never been so close, but whenever i need less than 300 XP, i just do a quick coop match. :)

[eMercody]

Well, if you are like me, you will be several million credits from buying the next tier.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Fighter of the Nightman:

3xp from unlocking next tier cruiser...

Don't you have 3 free xp?

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Originally posted by Jack:

Originally posted by Fighter of the Nightman:

3xp from unlocking next tier cruiser...

Don't you have 3 free xp?

I dunno I've been playing for like 4 days.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Fighter of the Nightman:

Originally posted by Jack:

Don't you have 3 free xp?

I dunno I've been playing for like 4 days.

After every battle, 5% of your xp gets turned into free xp that can be used for anything. You may be already accounting for that when you said you still needed 3 tho

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Originally posted by Jack:

Originally posted by Fighter of the Nightman:

I dunno I've been playing for like 4 days.

After every battle, 5% of your xp gets turned into free xp that can be used for anything. You may be already accounting for that when you said you still needed 3 tho

Oh, yeah already accounting for that. I knew I only had one game left b/c I had to go to work, so I got stuck waiting until today to play the omaha.

[Torchfire]

Originally posted by Fighter of the Nightman:

Originally posted by Jack:

After every battle, 5% of your xp gets turned into free xp that can be used for anything. You may be already accounting for that when you said you still needed 3 tho

Oh, yeah already accounting for that. I knew I only had one game left b/c I had to go to work, so I got stuck waiting until today to play the omaha.

Omaha? That's one of the best, if not the best tier 5 cruiser in the opinions of many players.
But, really, you should try conserving free EXP. It's really useful for some things, and there are even a couple of premium ships that you can only get for free EXP (the cheapest being the Nelson for 375.000).

[Sorrydough]

Originally posted by Torchfire:

Omaha? That's one of the best, if not the best tier 5 cruiser

Hahahaha you're hilarious. Omaha is a piece of hot garbage. The top 3 tier 5 cruisers are:
1. Furutaka
2. Kirov
3. Murmansk

Notice that omaha is not on this list.

[Banzai]

Originally posted by Flypaste:

Originally posted by Torchfire:

Omaha? That's one of the best, if not the best tier 5 cruiser

Hahahaha you're hilarious. Omaha is a piece of hot garbage. The top 3 tier 5 cruisers are:
1. Furutaka
2. Kirov
3. Murmansk

Notice that omaha is not on this list.

This post makes me want to go back and check Omaha (cos i seem to remember it being decent). And wheres Emerald in that list btw?

[Sorrydough]

Originally posted by Banzai:

This post makes me want to go back and check Omaha (cos i seem to remember it being decent). And wheres Emerald in that list btw?

I've not played it so I can't speak to its performance first hand, but what I've heard is that it's like an omaha with an even bigger citadel, even less armor and even less range. So basically the worst tier 5 cruiser by a long shot.

[Lavian]

Originally posted by Flypaste:

Originally posted by Banzai:

This post makes me want to go back and check Omaha (cos i seem to remember it being decent). And wheres Emerald in that list btw?

I've not played it so I can't speak to its performance first hand, but what I've heard is that it's like an omaha with an even bigger citadel, even less armor and even less range. So basically the worst tier 5 cruiser by a long shot.

Well, checking the stats from wowsnumbers reveals that at Tier 5 the cruisers with the worst win rate on NA from worst to best are Emerald, Omaha, Krasny Krym. The top from best to worst are Exeter, Émile Bertin, and Marblehead (not Lima).

On EU the top 3 are the same, but Omaha is third from the bottom, topping out over Furutaka (Emerald is still the worst). Interestingly, Krasny Krym is above Königsberg, Kirov, and Marblehead Lima (in that order).

[Sidian]

Originally posted by Lavian:

wowsnumbers
[...]
On EU the top 3 are the same, but Omaha is third from the bottom, topping out over Furutaka (Emerald is still the worst). Interestingly, Krasny Krym is above Königsberg, Kirov, and Marblehead Lima (in that order).

Well, wowsnumbers combines all data of all patches/updates, and the Furutaka was buffed some time ago.

In addition, you actually need knowledge about the game to play the Furutaka well, since it's got very few guns and a high reload. On the other hand, those guns a t9 guns. Yes, the very same guns the Ibuki uses. At tier 5. And before the Ibuki buff, they even had the same reload.

That means, on t5, you can easily citadel battleships, overmatch and citadel cruisers and hit with an incredible accuracy for a t5 ship at 12 km range.

The Furutaka can probably beat any ship in a 1 on 1 and afaik it was the most popular cruiser in the t5 ranked season.

However, that doesn't mean that it's the best. Because of the low DPM, it has troubles dealing with destroyers, and new players (or players who lack knowledge about the game mechanics) might have an easier time with the Omaha.
The stats, especially on wowsnumbers, often don't show the full picture regarding the performance of a ship.

But the Emerald is really the worst t5 cruiser/ship. There's no doubt about that.

[Sorrydough]

Originally posted by Lavian:

On EU the top 3 are the same, but Omaha is third from the bottom, topping out over Furutaka (Emerald is still the worst). Interestingly, Krasny Krym is above Königsberg, Kirov, and Marblehead Lima (in that order).

Interesting. Players on EU are overall more skilled than the players on NA, I wonder if that's influencing the ranking of ships in terms of skill floor.

[Howard Roark]

I think what the best and worst tier 5 cruiser is largely personal preference (though Emerald does suck); my favorite tier 5 cruiser is the Koingsburg, but many people seem to think it's bad and I didn't like the highly praised Furutaka (though I might like it more if I were to go back to it now).
For what it's worth, I liked the Omaha well enough. I wouldn't call it a bad ship but it's not a great ship either.

Also, I find it odd that the stats indicate the Marblehead is one of the best preforming ship while the Omaha is one of the worst. The Marblehead is pretty much an Omaha (and some would say a worse one). To me, this suggests that the Omaha ships are quite good if used right, but a lot of inexperienced players bring Omaha's stats down (it is a squishy ship). Of course, it could also be that the players who have the Marblehead are uncommonly good, or a combination of the two.