Arsonist completion

[Omogoto]

I have one stubborn mission task I have never been able to complete, getting an "Arsonist"
You would think that well over a 1,000 battles I would get one along the way somewhere?
Any tips or suggestions on how to complete this one? I know its any level between 4 and 10, and Random or Ranked.
Thanks

[mono_wolf]

Set an enemy ship on fire and destroy her. Damage caused by fire must exceed 40% of the destroyed ship's normal HP.

That's how.

It was one of the achievements to get Steam-chan, but I also couldn't do.

It is somehow tricky, not sure if you can get it on lower tier battles than higher

[Banzai]

Its a bit dependant on your team not finishing the target off but as in the description:

"Set an enemy ship on fire and destroy her. The damage caused by fire must amount to at least 40% of the destroyed ship's base HP. Can be obtained multiple times per battle."

Important to note that you dont have to finish them with fire, so if you know you have done a lot of fire damage to them already you can kill them by other means.

If you set someone on fire, keep an eye on them or your damage total and see if they use their damage control. If they do then any further fires will burn for their full duration.

As for which ships to use, Brit BBs work as does anything with good HE. The Dutch cruisers are a pretty good option since you can set fires without being spotted with the bombs then follow up with guns if needed.

[Ace42]

You want to be lighting fires on ships that have heals - so T9+ where pretty much everything has a heal is your best bet.

All fire damage is healable, so you don't have to worry so much about stuff dying to your direct damage before you score enough (even partial duration) fires to reach the 40% health damage to qualify for the achievement.

Same rational goes for ships with lower direct damage potential (lower calibre so more shatters) that won't be eating too much of the remaining 60% of the target's health away before getting to light those fires.

Jinan line; Smolensk, Dalian, Vallejo; Fries / Groningen, Gdansk, Smalland; Yodo line. No IFHE obv.

40% fire damage is more than 2 full duration fires (36% health) on a BB; and more than 4 full duration fires on a typical cruiser (37%); and more than 3 on superheavy cruisers.

Obviously DCPs and fire-duration reducing flags, CO skills, modules, etc reduce that percentage of damage dealt corresponding to how much they shorten the fires.

Spread fires around multiple ships - let single fires burn while you move onto another target to spread as many fires around to maximise your chances of burning ships that your teammates don't get the kill on; go back to a ship that has extinguished to relight it - if it's used its DCP concentrate on getting two perma fires on it before moving back to other ships. Make sure you get the killing blow on stuff you've burned for a decent amount of time.

[Elesh Norn]

Its quite a difficult mission but I suggest taking one of the British BBs (Vincent line) and light every ship (preferable BBs) you can see.

Originally posted by Ace42:

Spread fires around multiple ships - let single fires burn while you move onto another target to spread as many fires around to maximise your chances of burning ships that your teammates don't get the kill on; go back to a ship that has extinguished to relight it - if it's used its DCP concentrate on getting two perma fires on it before moving back to other ships. Make sure you get the killing blow on stuff you've burned for a decent amount of time.

Best tactic as Ace mentioned. If you get 3 full duration fires on a BB, its pretty much a save medal - you just gotta sink him before your team does!

[⭐T⭐D⭐]

I would join a squad, then ur at least 3 that won't kill ur target and maybe say to chat early u need an achivement.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Elesh Norn:

Its quite a difficult mission but I suggest taking one of the British BBs (Vincent line) and light every ship (preferable BBs) you can see.

Originally posted by Ace42:

Spread fires around multiple ships - let single fires burn while you move onto another target to spread as many fires around to maximise your chances of burning ships that your teammates don't get the kill on; go back to a ship that has extinguished to relight it - if it's used its DCP concentrate on getting two perma fires on it before moving back to other ships. Make sure you get the killing blow on stuff you've burned for a decent amount of time.

Best tactic as Ace mentioned. If you get 3 full duration fires on a BB, its pretty much a save medal - you just gotta sink him before your team does!

I believe Conq line has better fire chance than Vincent line. They are the fire spamming BB's. Vincent line has better AP.

[alf_radagast]

If all else fails, do a T1 random and farm the bots there. Just have to tolerate the 5 minute queue time and move away from the 1 or 2 human players on your side in the game

[Ace42]

Originally posted by Jackson:

I believe Conq line has better fire chance than Vincent line. They are the fire spamming BB's. Vincent line has better AP.

Conc's got imperceptibly better FPM (0.2 base); both are decent enough choices, but the HE has such high pen (Conq more so than Vincent, but at 76mm Vincent's going to be penning similar things anyway) that there's a lot of unavoidable direct damage that can potentially nuke stuff that you're desperately trying to light fires on.

@OP - in case it wasn't clear already, once you've dealt fire damage equal to 40% of target's health, it's fine to just kill them with guns, torps, whatever. Don't need them to actually burn to death.

[Superczar]

Originally posted by Omogoto:

I have one stubborn mission task I have never been able to complete, getting an "Arsonist"
You would think that well over a 1,000 battles I would get one along the way somewhere?
Any tips or suggestions on how to complete this one? I know its any level between 4 and 10, and Random or Ranked.
Thanks

IIRC you can do it in Tier IV. Try that on bots. I remember getting an arsonist or two playing Ishizuchi back when i first started using the HE.

[R[e]venge®-uk*]

Got one last night in a Jinan and one night before in a Zao! HE and Torps just focus 3 targets and hope the rest of your team are awful

Got Arsonist and Witherer
https://profile.worldofwarships.eu/achievements/564785017

[christof]

Originally posted by Superczar:

Originally posted by Omogoto:

I have one stubborn mission task I have never been able to complete, getting an "Arsonist"
You would think that well over a 1,000 battles I would get one along the way somewhere?
Any tips or suggestions on how to complete this one? I know its any level between 4 and 10, and Random or Ranked.
Thanks

IIRC you can do it in Tier IV. Try that on bots. I remember getting an arsonist or two playing Ishizuchi back when i first started using the HE.

While generally not a bad idea, the mission most likely does not allow for it.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by christof:

Originally posted by Superczar:

IIRC you can do it in Tier IV. Try that on bots. I remember getting an arsonist or two playing Ishizuchi back when i first started using the HE.

While generally not a bad idea, the mission most likely does not allow for it.

Assuming he's talking about the campaign tasks it might. Some in there do.

[christof]

Originally posted by Jackson:

Originally posted by christof:

While generally not a bad idea, the mission most likely does not allow for it.

Assuming he's talking about the campaign tasks it might. Some in there do.

It's worth checking, I concur. Just warning that it might not work.

[Superczar]

Originally posted by christof:

Originally posted by Jackson:

Assuming he's talking about the campaign tasks it might. Some in there do.

It's worth checking, I concur. Just warning that it might not work.

if it is the campaign task I am thinking of it will allow.

[christof]

Originally posted by Superczar:

Originally posted by christof:

It's worth checking, I concur. Just warning that it might not work.

if it is the campaign task I am thinking of it will allow.