Ministry of Balance: Spring Changes

Due to Hawke's increased citadel vulnerability and longer reload than most other battleships, she currently feels uncomfortable to play and underperforms. To combat this, we're improving her reload substantially this update.

Stock Hull total health increased from 38,800 to 40,000:

Credit-Earning Reductions:

Friedrich der Große credit-earning rate increased by 11%.

Stalingrad shares the same situation as Alaska, so she's getting a similar nerf to her survivability. We prefer to make nerfs via the saturation system rather than the armor plating, as modifying HP and saturation leads to more predictable outcomes.

Stock Hull Magazine HP increased from 19,400 to 20,000.

Stock Hull Stern HP increased from 2,900 to 3,000.

Upgraded Hull Bow HP increased from 3,000 to 3,300.

Credit-Earning Increases:

Stock Hull Superstructure HP increased from 3,000 to 3,100.

Casemate HP increased from 6,900 to 10,000.

Credit-Earning Increases:

Stock Hull Superstructure HP increased from 3,000 to 3,100.

Stock Hull HP increased from 29,100 to 30,000.

Main Battery Reload Time decreased from 10 to 6.5 seconds.

Stock Hull Bow HP increased from 2,900 to 3,000.

Casemate HP increased from 8,700 to 9,300.

Upgraded Hull Magazine HP increased from 19,400 to 22,000.

Saint Louis is designed around being one of the ultimate glass-cannon ships, focused purely on damage potential. However, she often still struggles to compete, so we're improving her survivability and reload.

Temeraire credit-earning rate increased by 11%.

Main Battery reload time reduced from 6.5 to 5.5 seconds.

Brest credit-earning rate reduced by 5%.

Credit-Earning Reductions:

Main Battery reload time reduced from 5.7 to 4.5 seconds.

The primary pain point anyone playing the French large cruisers will notice is the lengthy reload time, so we're slightly improving Cherbourg's rate of fire to address this. She's only slightly behind most other Tier VII cruisers, so the change is small.

Credit-Earning Reductions:

Stock Hull total health increased from 38,800 to 40,000:

HP increased for bow, stern, casemate, and superstructure - increasing the damage the ship takes before saturation:

Bow HP increased from 4,900 to 9,800.

Stock Hull Steering Gear HP increased from 11,600 to 12,000.

Upgraded Hull Steering Gear HP increased from 12,300 to 13,200.

Credit-Earning Reductions:

Superstructure HP increased from 5,800 to 11,600.

Credit-Earning Increases:

Bow HP increased from 3,500 to 5,000.

Credit-Earning Increases:

Hull HP increased from 41,400 to 44,300.

Casemate HP increased from 5,300 to 10,600.

Superstructure HP increased from 3,700 to 5,000.

Sejong credit-earning rate reduced by 5%.

At Tier VIII, the playstyle of the French large cruisers becomes even more difficult to achieve, so Brest gains a bigger change to her reload time than Cherbourg.

Friedrich der Große credit-earning rate increased by 11%.

Engine HP increased from 55,200 to 59,000.

Main Battery reload time reduced from 29 to 28 seconds.

Petropavlovsk credit-earning rate reduced by 5%.

Magazine HP increased from 27,600 to 29,500.

Stern HP increased from 4,200 to 6,000.

Credit-Earning Increases:

Izumo credit-earning rate increased by 11%.

Dmitri Donskoi credit-earning rate increased by 5.5%.

Repair Party moved from slot 2 to slot 4, making this an additional consumable for the ship.

Stock Main Battery reload time reduced from 10 to 9 seconds.

Stock Hull Steering Gear HP increased from 11,600 to 12,000.

Upgraded Main Battery reload time reduced from 8.5 to 7.5 seconds.

Upgraded Hull HP increased from 30,700 to 33,000.

Upgraded Hull total health 40,900 to 44,000:

HP increased for bow, stern, casemate, and superstructure - increasing the damage the ship takes before saturation:

Upgraded Hull HP increased from 30,700 to 33,000.

Upgraded Hull Casemate HP increased from 3,000 to 3,300.

Upgraded Hull Superstructure HP increased from 3,200 to 3,400.

Upgraded Hull total health 40,900 to 44,000:

Credit-Earning Increases:

Upgraded Main Battery reload time reduced from 8.5 to 7.5 seconds.

Upgraded Main Battery reload time reduced from 31 to 28 seconds.

Main Battery AP shell damage increased from 11,350 to 12,000.

Upgraded Hull Steering Gear HP increased from 12,300 to 13,200.

Stock Hull HP increased from 29,100 to 30,000.

Stock Main Battery reload time reduced from 10 to 9 seconds.

Overview traits changed: Added Slow trait. Agile trait was changed to Heal Consumable.

Stock Hull Stern HP increased from 2,900 to 3,000.

Bow HP increased from 2,800 to 3,000.

Stock Main Battery reload time reduced from 34 to 31 seconds.

Maine credit-earning rate increased by 11%.

Stock Hull Casemate HP increased from 2,900 to 3,000.

Upgraded Hull Stern HP increased from 3,000 to 3,300.

Upgraded Hull Magazine HP increased from 19,400 to 22,000.

Torpedo speed increased from 57 to 65 knots.

Saint Louis is designed around being one of the ultimate glass-cannon ships, focused purely on damage potential. However, she often still struggles to compete, so we're improving her survivability and reload.

Main Battery reload time increased from 18 to 20 seconds.

Stock Hull Magazine HP increased from 19,400 to 20,000.