Ryuu_kun

It's too early to talk about that yet: the test is on T6, so for now it only concerns T6 ships. A specific list of ships with depth charges will be published for that test round.

Nothing is set in stone yet, so this may be adjusted or there may be exceptions implemented. So gotta wait and/or try for yourself if you get into subs test.

Me too, random gets boring and your influence on outcome is smaller.

Some keep asking for skill-based mode — here it is, yes, very roughly, but still it really feels when you cross league boundaries that general difficulty jumps dramatically. That's why sometimes you keep bouncing between rank 11 and 10 — you're adjusting to difficulty. Premier league is hell (in a good way, i like challenge).

Now don't complain if in roughly skill-based mode your winrate gets closer to 50%, that's the point — you're on your skill level so to win you need to play to the fullest, use all your knowledge and skills to outsmart the enemy. to work together with your team as much as possible. You gotta sweat, cry and bleed. Now say — do you really want to always play like that? Don't you enjoy easy victories sometimes? That's the point of random PvP mode — it's random, you get varying difficulty and tier distribution.

Don't grind Ranked mod...

No rental ships this season.

To OP: play as much as you enjoy. I recommend stopping after ~200 battles. If you're not close to rank 1 at that point and have better things to do — better stop and try again in the next season, hopefully with more practice. In the worst case you can now use First League flag now for the remainder of the season in all other modes, and that's good too.

I'm currently on rank 4 on my main account, 54 battles, 68.52% :)

What's the error exactly?

I hope you haven't opened those containers?

No, that's Orthodox Christmas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_New_Year is on 14th of January

Hmm, please make a ticket to Player Support: https://wargaming.net/support/products/wows/help/

And at first i thought it's about Personal Rating

Using misleading abbreviations isn't a good idea.

The context is the battle that you've had before that question, just like i had said above.

I've seen this survey too and quite often i'm satisfied with the results even if it's a defeat but i'm one of the tops in the team.

There are detailed surveys from time to time, but understandably few players choose to finish them. So this single question approach is used as well because it covers more players while the answer still can be linked to a battle that you just had (like if it had CVs or not) or other data. So it's only the tip of the iceberg.

Schwirs!

I'm afraid not :( The collection doesn't grant them.

1) You can't fall back so far

2) If you start with bonus stars — play 1 battle to receive rewards for all "skipped" ranks

Approximating 20 to 30 feels weird :)

Wrong. 100 battle XP = 100 ship xp, 100 cmdr xp, 5 FreeXP

So Yamato with standard permacamo = 200 ship xp, 200 commander xp, 20 FreeXP

With free HSF camo = 150 ship XP, still 200 commander XP, 15 FreeXP

Individual XP on tier 10 ship is pretty much almost useless anyway. But yeah, it also loses a small bit of FreeXP.

That's true. We might have more customization options in the future. For now HSF camo for Yamato is valuable for

1) collectors

2) HSF fans

3) those without regular permacamo

Base XP is what you get before modifiers are applied, you can check it out on the second tab of post-battle stats. Do you have a screenshot with 1600+ XP on that tab?

Grindy? Where? Do you remember the time when we had 24 ranks and 6 stars per rank in premier league?! First time i've tried ranked (season 4 IIRC) — it costed me ~500 battles to reach rank 1 but had honed my skills. Since then i only pick ships among those that i have and adjust my tactics taking into account the map and teams compositions.
Irrevocable ranks aren't such a good thing as it seems, especially when they're placed at league borders like it was in one season — some players had reached them by pure chance and turned out to be too weak for that league, you couldn't rely on them at all. So i was playing more at late evening and even night, when influx of such players was very small and the teams skill levels were more even, so the tactics and personal skill decided the battles more often.

Adding irrevocable ranks means relying more and more on pure chance. For simpler and more casual play we have ranked sprints. Good things come to those who are willi...

Where did you get 30%? It doesn't have 20% credit bonus.

(and trades 100% XP for 50% XP and 50% Commander XP, but that's pretty much nothing)

Don't forget there's no permacamo bundled with Yamato, so for a free item it is surely worth using, not everyone has spare 5000 doubloons.

Grozovoi, then Daring from the rank 5 and till 1 :) Unless something changes.

I'll repost my personal advice here from

If you don't have a versatile ship — just use what you're best at that fits in most battles. Just carefully look at teams composition and the map and try to predict where you have a chance to make the biggest bang.

I'm in love with Ranked Battles, probably because it's the only online PvP game that is suitable for me to git decently gud ;) (aside from Agar.io xD )

True, games are intended to evoke emotions :) Sometimes your stern is on fire, but it means you're not bored at least :D

It's a PvP game, so you can't win all the time even if you're a developer and a seasoned competitive player, because it would roughly mean that someone else would have 0% — and where's fun in that :)

If you want to win all the time — you play coop, because bots won't write you salty PMs after losing ;) Bots gave up on winning.