world of warships cleveland tier 8 gameplay

IMHO Cleveland could easily be put into tier 8.

With Cleveland WG chose to keep the ship at tier 6 but nerf her over and over and over again, until Cleveland is now the ship you see.

WG's solution in the case of Mogami (which was also insane with the 155mm guns) was to switched her with Myoko that was underperforming at her original tier. Cleveland was generally regarded as a tier 8 ship in disguise and all of the alpha testers were baffled as to what was doing at tier 6. C leveland simply slaughtered everything by bringing death by a thousand cuts with its HE spamming 6-inch guns. Subsequent testing back in alpha and beta showed that whilst this line of thought worked well for battleships, it didn't work so well for cruisers, since it turned out that rate of fire played a large part of the early cruiser meta. Ships back then were also more in line with their historical stats. Which is why Cleveland was placed ahead of Pensacola at tier 6, and Mogami CL/CA was placed at tier 7 ahead of the older Myoko class at tier 8. Once upon a time during the game's development when nobody knew how the future meta would develop, a large part of how WG initially tiered the ships was based on gun size. The cruisers from the same time period should really stay together if they have the same rough ability, and that I am afraid, Northampton does have quite comfortably. Northampton shares all of these attributes if you compare her to Aoba and Molotov. Unless you cripple the ship with terrible armour or another bad characteristic, this ship is adequately suited for tier 7, not tier 6. It is a combination of Armour, Firepower, AA, and maneuverability. Her armour is not the reason she is overpowered. Even without her split citadel, (as she does now? She is definitely easier to citadel than before) Cleveland is not balanced. Yes Cleveland has it's split citadel, but she is the exception. Not by a long stretch.Īrmour should not play a part in it. It's not like Northampton is substantially worse to make up for that devastating firepower. And think of the poor tier 4s and 5s facing tier 7 firepower. Resisting the urge to reply, but in my mind I have very good reason to believe that Northampton at tier 6 would more overpowered than Molotov. Putting Northampton at tier 6 without nerfs is the same as putting Pensacola there. Not going to turn out well. There is literally zero reason to believe the ship will be overpowered. It's practically the same as Aoba now, which is underperforming when compared to Budyonny and Molotov. Northampton does not need any nerfs because she doesn't have Clevelands armor.

World of warships cleveland tier 8 gameplay