DD lines

[Cake man]

Best DD line for starting player and best overall DD line?

[Jackson]

The answer is basically the same to what you've asked before. It'll depend on the person. They're all good in their own way.

My opinion is that the American line is probably one of the easier ones for beginners. The best? The best at what tier?

[Cake man]

Originally posted by Jack:

The answer is basically the same to what you've asked before. It'll depend on the person. They're all good in their own way.

My opinion is that the American line is probably one of the easier ones for beginners. The best? The best at what tier?

Tier X prob

[Cake man]

Originally posted by Cookie man:

Originally posted by Jack:

The answer is basically the same to what you've asked before. It'll depend on the person. They're all good in their own way.

My opinion is that the American line is probably one of the easier ones for beginners. The best? The best at what tier?

Tier X prob

But I just ant the general nation

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Cookie man:

Originally posted by Jack:

The answer is basically the same to what you've asked before. It'll depend on the person. They're all good in their own way.

My opinion is that the American line is probably one of the easier ones for beginners. The best? The best at what tier?

Tier X prob

Best Gunboat - French DD Kleber
Best Torpedoboat - Japanese Shimakaze.

https://wows-numbers.com/ship/4282267344,Shimakaze/

Just plug in whatever ship you want into there and it'll compare it to other ships of it's tier if you want the absolute best performing. Again, peoples opinions on what is the most fun or the easiest will vary widely.

Edit: Shimakaze looks bad on there because a lot of people go for it. It's BY FAR the most popular destroyer @T10, and most people don't know how to play it right at all. They go for it because it's "easy" I guess. It's got bad AA though, so it can't fight back against aircraft well and it has mediocre guns so it's hard to win a fight with another DD unless you use torpedoes. But people seem to like the fact that it can send torpedoes 20km across the map and maybe hit something? :)

[Comrade Doggo]

As of this moment, the most "meta" T10 techtree DD is the Daring. This is due to her being one of the most versatile DD that is equipped to deal with almost any situation.

You have amazing 360 degree guns with brutal dps to deal with most destroyers, save for the gunboat ones.

You have mediocre 10 km torpedoes but they're special in the sense that you can single fire them for precision shots if you need to.

You have access to both hydro and heal which helps immensely when fighting against other DDs and when contesting caps.

She also arguably has one of the best albeit selfish type of smoke. It's short duration but also very short cooldown. You also get alot of them. They're very useful because you can use it to effectively hide from CVs whenever they come for you. And it also helps when you want to disengage from a fight as you'll more than likely always have it up.

Her AA is respectable but she's no Halland, so don't expect to be wiping any squadrons.

The downside that she is rather slow (slow for a destroyer) due to average base speed and the lack of speed boost consumable. She also has subpar concealment, not the worst but she isn't winning any prizes either.

[Cake man]

Originally posted by Comrade Doggo:

As of this moment, the most "meta" T10 techtree DD is the Daring. This is due to her being one of the most versatile DD that is equipped to deal with almost any situation.

You have amazing 360 degree guns with brutal dps to deal with most destroyers, save for the gunboat ones.

You have mediocre 10 km torpedoes but they're special in the sense that you can single fire them for precision shots if you need to.

You have access to both hydro and heal which helps immensely when fighting against other DDs and when contesting caps.

She also arguably has one of the best albeit selfish type of smoke. It's short duration but also very short cooldown. You also get alot of them. They're very useful because you can use it to effectively hide from CVs whenever they come for you. And it also helps when you want to disengage from a fight as you'll more than likely always have it up.

Her AA is respectable but she's no Halland, so don't expect to be wiping any squadrons.

The downside that she is rather slow (slow for a destroyer) due to average base speed and the lack of speed boost consumable. She also has subpar concealment, not the worst but she isn't winning any prizes either.

Basically the all-rounder DD. How about the best torpedo boat and gunboat

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

"Best" for pure gunboat would probably have been the Smaland, but it's no longer obtainable (previously could be gotten for 2 million Free XP). Currently there's the Kleber, a French destroyer with ludicrous speed, saturation mechanics that basically just make it take less damage per salvo than any other destroyer, and a Main Battery Reload Booster consumable to half your otherwise-sluggish reload time for a few seconds. The issue with the Kleber is that its size and enormous detectability range make it play less like a destroyer and more like an extremely fast, aggressive cruiser. The Russian Khabarovsk is basically a slightly inferior version of the same ship, except trading out the damage saturation and MBRB for 50mm meme armor and a heal.

One other option for pure gunboats is the Friesland, a Tier 9 Dutch ship still available for 1 million Free XP. Like the Smaland, it has only two small-caliber double turrets, but they have a BASE reload speed of under 2 seconds, letting you fire almost constantly. It gets smoke, hydro, and DefAA, but has no torpedoes whatsoever. Pretty much everything else with good guns is more of a hybrid/"all-rounder" like you were saying.

For pure torpedo boat, you actually have two options. First, there is the ever-popular Shimakaze, which can fire a whopping 15 hard-hitting Japanese torpedoes at a time, with excellent concealment to top it off. However, the issue here is that it is, in fact, nothing but a torp boat; your guns, while hard-hitting, have an abysmally slow reload and turning time compared to other same-tier destroyers, your health is much too low to compete with another T10 when you're both full, and your AA is basically just a novelty item, it doesn't really do much of anything.

If you want a torp boat that's a lot more competitive in the current state of the game, what you actually want to go for is the Halland in the "European" tech tree. While it only fires 10 torps at a time, each individually doing much less damage than a Shima torpedo, they move so quickly they're more like lasers than torpedoes, generally leading to a lot more hits per match. They also have incredibly fast reload; Halland torpedoes can fairly easily get down to a reload of only a minute, whereas a fully built Shima with the traditional 12km torps will only be approaching a minute and a half when it's on the brink of death. To top it off, Halland has a heal, guns that are actually competitive in a 1v1 fight, and ridiculously strong AA that will make even a T10 carrier think twice about going after it. Its only real downside is a lack of smoke and a somewhat sluggish base speed (though unlike Daring it does get an engine boost).

[银河里De鱼]

You should go play the Soviet DD If you like a real man.Yes ,especially Khabarovsk,you know my means