w13 prep

[coarse socket]

just spitballing i might be totally off base but my thoughts atm is

mob: saratoga unicorn indep // ibuki laffey/kagerou watarase

boss: nelson illustrious amagi cv // portland helena sandy

im not really sold on hiei meta, her 3rd skill is dope but her 2nd skill could easily get her killed. so i put nelson there.

reasoning for mob: 3 cv reduces vanguard AA requirement, youll have ibuki, uni, and indep for preloads/fast loading - faster killing = less aa needed. watarase has a really good barrage iirc and its very useful in mob (?) so id put her there to accelerate mobs and reduce aa requirement since your only big aa ship is sandy.

reasoning for boss: portland tankier than ibuki and with lusty she should do quite well tanking there. sandy is here for AA naturally, boss really needs it, lusty alone isn't enough. and you want a BB to help shred priority targets like command ship, and amagi cv will deal the majority of the damage. boss fleet miiight not have nearly enough damage though i am unsure

[runic barn]

really didn't need a paragraph or 2 to explain all of that...

[coarse socket]

idk i want to explain my reasoning so other ppl can pick at it if i got something wrong

[agile lily]

i appreciate it

[runic barn]

if you got it wrong people would tear it to shreds regardless trust me

[dawn snow]

I love how I list around 50 ships that worth levelling, and then I DCed and then my draft gone

[agile lily]

i was thinking about raising hood or nagato meta to replace that hiei but not sure if that would be worth it with musashi rerun coming soon

[runic barn]

anyway, do you have CVs in the medal shop

[agile lily]

no only BB rn

[runic barn]

rip

[coarse socket]

sure but giving my reasoning is better imo than just tossing out ships. plus assuming i am on point it helps them understand why to use those ships

[runic barn]

I appreciate the sentiment but often times throwing out a wall of text is gonna do more harm than good

it makes it that much more intimidating and confusing

[dawn snow]

pls wait

[agile lily]

yeah im still pretty new so i appreciate that kinda stuff. this might be a shocker but i am not averse to reading

[runic barn]

it's better to keep it simple and if they ask for why then elborate

[dawn snow]

[runic barn]

but anyway I would disagree with the recc

mainly swapping Illustrious with Saratoga or ideally Enterprise and the like

also, how far off is Ibuki from Dev 30 exactly

[dawn snow]

So ships can be divided into:

• Endgame content ships (125): Uni Amagi Helena Ibuki Independence SanDiego TaiYuan
• Strong but replacable ships (120): Saratoga, Juneau, Ibuki
• Tech ships (120): shouhou, laffey, penn, saint louis, yorktown, houshouM, long island, houston, fusou, yamashiro, z46, giuseppe garibaldi, california, z23, junyou, minneapolis, deutschland, hiryuu

finally

[runic barn]

Portland is not a ship you'd raise for tech

[dawn snow]

oh frick lol

[runic barn]

I also don't know if I would classify Ibuki as an "endgame" ship

[runic barn]

this is why

[dawn snow]

Oh fair, I forgot ibuki can only go downhill

[runic barn]

you're also missing a lot of tech ships but that's besides the point

they're really not at a point in the game where leveling ships for tech should be a priority

[dawn snow]

No the reason I put that is just in case they are trying to unlock pr ships or grind pr ships

[agile lily]

she is at 25 rn

[agile lily]

oh i thought saratoga was mainly used for mob

[runic barn]

If she's not dev 30 then don't use her for W13

[dawn snow]

[runic barn]

She can still boss especially given your lack of other options

[agile lily]

i have 20k merit now should i get any ships from that shop? eldridge or duke of york

[dawn snow]

do you have the eld retro item?

[agile lily]

uh no what is that from

oh was it event only rip

[dawn snow]

damn, duke of york then for the best gold UR BB cheerleader

[agile lily]

are any of the SR BBs from the medal shop worth getting

[coarse socket]

tirpitz for iron blood tech and you already have hood. i dont think any are really worth for like mainstream use besides hood

shoutout to amagi for torpedo stat padding but that's not relevant here lol

[agile lily]

lol havent had an issue with trp stat padding yet between kagerou and kasumi meta

i guess i'll pick up tirpitz just for the tech then, im pretty far away from being able to research fdg

only at 210/630 rn

[runic barn]

That can be fixed relatively quickly