World of Warships

20 December 2024

Repeating what was done with Chapter 1 of the Battle Pass event. It costs more for sure. For 45 points, or 1200 BASE XP, two Festive certificates are awarded. With nineteen days left, that's roughly fifty-plus certificates or at least ten Megas. Maybe a ship will drop then.

23 December 2024

The Advent Calendar is unreliable. It usually unlocks around 10am AEST. Today however unable to claim the reward. Keeps saying "Available soon". How soon? Tomorrow? Then it will be two rewards.

Two more ships left to go (aside from the Dockyard Niord which I am continuing to grind). 

Acquired Satsuma today which I played when they first started the whole supership thing. Played both the Satsuma and Hannover in some forgotten event. Promptly forgot thereafter although I enjoyed both in the few Random games played. 

Because I'm determined to finish the year on six hundred ships, I'm having to spend hoarded credits on superships, carriers, and submarines - ships I rarely play, especially the last two classes - in order to achieve this goal. Maybe run them in Asymmetrics to recoup some of the lost credits? Best bet would be to run those Enhanced Credit Income premiums instead.

Ship drops have been disappointing in terms of rare ones. So far, this Christmas, only received two rare ones from the nearly thirty ships dropped. Can't complain because I never thought I would make six hundred. But now there's a real chance it will happen.

Noticed a trend after viewing several other Mega drops on YT. The ships are much the same for nearly all which seems to be standardise. Much like the daily coal crates. Supercontainers continue to spew garbage rewards.  

24 December 2024

Usual cmdr-upskill grind today which for now is the new "normal routine". List includes Unique or Legendary commanders Swirski (Europe), Lisboa (Pan-America), Auboyneau (France), Kuznetsov (USSR). Seasoned commanders include Doe (USA), Jutland (Germany), Dunkirk (UK), and Honore (France). The remaining duo are normal commanders Hallgren (Europe) and seasoned de Ruyter (Holland).

Battle Pass bonus rewards. So far, since Chapter 2 began on Thursday, I now have eleven Festive Certificates which is just over two Mega crates worth (remember 5 festives trades for 1 Mega. Going for Gift crates is really not worth it unless you're only after resources instead of ships, but even so Megas offers more for value). 

Cost? Nothing but time. 

Normally first game is sufficient because of the leftover from the previous day's session. That leftover DOES eventually whittle down to zero but if my calculations are correct, that won't happen until Monday (30th December), and the last day of the event (9th Jan 2025).

For example, today's effort yielded the usual two Festive certificates. The leftover value is +20. Tomorrow I just have to play one game to get the next two Festive certificates; the leftover value will be +15 after I've completed the second task (1000 Base XP). Diminishing value is -5 per day. 

Every Thursday besides the usual 45 points an additional 50 points (two attempts of 2000 Base XP for 25 points apiece) unlocks. This means Thursday is a booster day yielding four Festive certificates instead of the usual two. For a total of 3200 Base XP. Or at least ten games. 

Why waste time grinding for no reason?

Cheers. And Merry Christmas.

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27 December 2024

Decided to whale in order to cross the 600-ship line. Paid for 20 Megas. Converted the pool of accumulated Festive certificates for another 3 Megas. 

And succeeded. 603 to be exact. 

Ships acquired include Tier V - Kamikaze R; Tier VIII - Asashio, Massachusetts, Kutusov, Fenyang.

Happy New Year.

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