December Digest #5

World of Warship

Saw a regular YT WOW streamer comment tonight on the latest WG offering - an untitled sequential bundle going cheap. Supposedly. The streamer mentioned it was value for money given the average doubloon price for a premium ship is around 11,000+ doubloons. I thought that sounded interesting so I popped into the game afterwards to review it for myself.

Recognised it immediately as something I had dismissed out of hand after sighting upon release at the time. It was a cursory spontaneous decision then. This time upon further closer inspection my opinion confirmed my first impression especially when the price of the final container jumped from 940 doubloons to 3,599 doubloons. Why the big jump in price I asked myself?

I viewed the list of available ships in this last premium bundle, and saw that there were only three of interest that I don't have - Belfast '43, Mainz, and Vanguard. So is it worth the price jump just for the chance of getting one of those three ships? Not really I thought because I would be happy to wait. There will be plenty of opportunities to earn them somehow. 

The Black Friday container (#12 of the sequential bundle) has several Black ships that would be welcomed into my port fleet. However as I have all the originals Black versions really hold no interest other than to boost numbers.

Of the entire sequential bundle, if I was interested enough to buy into this, I would focus on just two - #7 War Is Over and #12 Journey to the West. 

#7 War Is Over costs 520 doubloons and offers the Tier IX premium Barfleur released earlier this year.

#12 Journey to the West features two Pan-Asian premiums I don't have: Wukong and Sanzang. Acquiring both would complete my Pan-Asian fleet for now. Cost is 800 doubloons. 

#8 Soviet Era bundle includes the Tier VIII Belfast '43. But the chances are diminshed by the inclusion of four Soviet Era camouflages, which I don't have and don't really interest me, in the ship drop mix. 

Of the remaining bundles I already the ships listed so I looked at the compensation value instead. I thought the steel was its usual miserly self except in one instance while I would never refuse the Free XP. Only one bundle offered credits.

Of course, these containers are presented in the EITHER/OR format meaning you EITHER get a ship OR you get resources from the entire range of available resources. It's a shame that it's never both but that would be asking too much of WG. 

Prices in doubloons start at 99 doubloons for bundle #1. Then it increments up as you progress through the sequence right through to #13 which will cost you 940 doubloons. Then it's the big jump to the final bundle - the Tier VIII premium ship crate - worth 3,599 doubloons. Overall, the whole exercise will cost you 10,358 doubloons. Or just under AUD63. 

Which sounds a bargain when you consider there are fourteen bundles each containing at least one container. And you are guaranteed one if a ship drops from the other bundle containers (#2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #8, #10, #11, #12, and #14).

In the case of the Santa crates there are a total of 5 Megas and 1 Gift shared out over three bundles - #1 (Gift), #5 (two Megas), #9 (one Mega), and #13 (two Megas). And the same drop rates for Santa crates apply here: Gift - 1 in 100 and Mega - one in 15. Remember that if you've already opened either elsewhere (Dockyard, Event Pass, Festive Rewards) then your progress there counts towards the drop rate.

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