Tier 6 ranked is a bad idea.

[Glorious Comrade]

when it was tier 8. the players that grinded to that point knew what they were doing. even bronze rank. 80% of the losses I experience in the tier 8 bronze ranked was because we got out played. but in tier 6, my god the amount of time a match was lost because a team mate not understanding their role.

2 DD decided to run along edge of the map and starts to shoot at enemy cruisers
BB that solo charge a DD in smoke and get torped
Cruiser that hang so far back and try to snipe
Full HP BB running away from half HP enemy BB because he felt his flank has no support.

WTF is this

[sneakybass]

Play Random If your not happy .Ranked battles is not that hard , just played today In ranked 8 wins in a row, 2 losses 2 more wins 1 loss only one more win from going to silver. So many neg posts here and on utupe go play random If your not happy. The steel rewards are great so quit complaining......I think Random Is even worse than ranked and payouts. Really do you think Its harder to win battles In ranked than Random Its not.......

[Nepgear]

The enemy team is just as bad on average, so you need to tip the balance in your team's favour, same as randoms. With a smaller team each player has a higher impact, so it should be easier for a good player to win. Even if you lose you'll always save your star if your team sucked, so it doesn't really matter.

[sneakybass]

Originally posted by Nepgear:

The enemy team is just as bad on average, so you need to tip the balance in your team's favour, same as randoms. With a smaller team each player has a higher impact, so it should be easier for a good player to win. Even if you lose you'll always save your star if your team sucked, so it doesn't really matter.

Completely agree Its a lot more easy to swing a battle In your favor with six other players than fifteen players.......all the bad comments will just get WG to quit ranked battles and loose our chance at steel besides daily crates and clan battles.

[Hiei]

T6 was clearly made for newer people which I'm not against. It helps them learn ranked before going into the higher tiers. Also if it's happening to you then it's happening to others which should mean it's easier to carry your potatoes then it is you.

Ranked sprint also started out as being made for new players. Anyways if you don't like t6, don't play it. I'm sure the newer players are enjoying it, so I think it's a good thing.

Edit: I, too, Also got really annoyed doing it last night. But it is likely nice for the people who like teir 6-7
Oh and I was able to regrind two of the IJn gun DDs so that was worth it. I love Atlanta so it still kinda works for me

[widukind]

I disagree. Lower tier ships are as enjoyable to play as higher tier ships. There are many seasoned players who do this. Are more inexperienced players at that level? Certainly. One needs to adjust to it.

[Uncle64]

I like the ranked and I must say that Tier 6 ships are nice to play. Not OP as many of the higher tiers are.

[Draconaut]

I'm playing Tier 6 in Ranked, Battleship preferably
Whenever I lose it is not because I do not enough damage, or go risky, or play too passive.

- DD's go risky as hell, attacking other dds or cruisers, instead of capping, scouting or focusing on BBS/CVs

- BBs love to move into waters with an undetected, unseen, unheard dd around, getting then surprise torpedo-ed.

- Cruisers rather battle BBs instead of hunting down dds, capping or scouting

- CVs love to to send their planes in a group of ships, where they get shot down in a minute, not able to make any damage.

And above all of that, is the greedyness. Perfect tactical playing - I command them to go for A and C, miss B. We got the advantage - points at 700, 8 mins left.
5 of us left: 2 BBs, 1 Cruiser, 2 DDs vs 3 of them: 2 DDs 1 BBS

We can't see the enemy, they go slow and sneaky, trying to surprise us.
I tell them to retreat, DO NOT GO IN, DO NOT SEARCH, DO NOT TRY TO KILL, DO NOT BE GREEDY.

But well, who am I to tell them what to do? My tactical plan had worked out perfectly before, why should it now keep working, right?

SO LETS GO IN AND DIE, surprised by a row of torps comming from each side!
We lose advantage, enemy starts capping, at the end I am the sole survivor against 2 DDs and 1 BBs, losing in the last 2 minutes.

Thank you, teammates, for losing an other great opportunity (and (Rank) for just being stupid greedy.

Such behavior makes it really so damn hard to stay civil and not insult those players.
I mean yeah it is (JUST A GAME :( :( :( ), but in reality? Dude if I was their commanding officer, we'd have 4 executions today.

It is just frustrating, to see a certain victory being thrown away, so many times, rising 1 rank up only to lose it again in the same row.

[BSRDJCHAMP]

tier 7 ships just as bad

[Jackson]

Originally posted by BSRDJCHAMP:

tier 7 ships just as bad

Oh I definitely disagree on that. 7 is one of my favorites. So many really good ships!

Nelson, Cara (Forget whole name, but Italian T7), Colorado, Scharnhorst...
Fiji, Helena, Lazo, there's less good cruisers.
Haida, Z39, Shiratsuyu... and those are just off the top of my head.

Tier 6 on the other hand... eh.

[Nepgear]

Originally posted by Jack:

Originally posted by BSRDJCHAMP:

tier 7 ships just as bad

Oh I definitely disagree on that. 7 is one of my favorites. So many really good ships!

Nelson, Cara (Forget whole name, but Italian T7), Colorado, Scharnhorst...
Fiji, Helena, Lazo, there's less good cruisers.
Haida, Z39, Shiratsuyu... and those are just off the top of my head.

To add a few: SinOP, Gneisnau, Hyuga?, Florida?, Atlanta, Belfast, Flint, Jervis.
I don't think Lazo is very good in ranked though.

[kamikazi21358]

Lazo was fun imo.

But it’s tier 7, so don’t forget the Japanese cruiser. Myōkō, Destroyer of Worlds, she who can defy physics, and make the seven seas themselves burn like oil.

[Jackson]

Lazo is good because it out ranges everything. It's got a long spotter that I think you can boost even further. It would be my pick for a cruiser (but instead I choose BB's).

I don't think Gneisenau is very good. I kill them all the time and it has only 6 guns. Provided you don't get into torpedo range that is... I didn't have good experiences in Hyuga either, but didn't give it much of a chance. I was really hoping it'd be good - but when you have Nelson or Sinop... eh... I didn't really expect Cara to be good, but wow... I leveled the whole ship up in ranked. Very good.

[Nepgear]

Originally posted by Jack:

Lazo is good because it out ranges everything. It's got a long spotter that I think you can boost even further.

It's good because it doesn't have cap presence/pressure and doesn't pressure DDs? I just don't understand how long range, poor DPM spam into BBs is useful in ranked. It can sit back and out range all it wants, just makes it easier to cap/defend unpressured.

[kamikazi21358]

Originally posted by Nepgear:

Originally posted by Jack:

Lazo is good because it out ranges everything. It's got a long spotter that I think you can boost even further.

It's good because it doesn't have cap presence/pressure and doesn't pressure DDs? I just don't understand how long range, poor DPM spam into BBs is useful in ranked. It can sit back and out range all it wants, just makes it easier to cap/defend unpressured.

I wouldn’t call it poor DPM at all. It does have hydro if needed, but not every ship in the team has to be specifically tailored to one single role of suicide-rushing the cap or whatever. What’s wrong with melting ships at long range? You annoy the hell out of battleships and cruisers — enough I’ve gotten hate mail for it — by just melting their HP and setting fires, and when you help your team destroy enemy ships, you still have your ship at fairly good health by later game, so you can be a little more aggressive with the simple fact that you have like 4/5ths of your health and the enemy ships are low.

[OG_senpoi]

complain high tier they dont have high tier ships to play
them WG changed to low tier and still complain
GG players never changes