Lets grease up and get ready to purge bois! Its directive time

[Archaic_One 1,853]

I'm not sure whether the iEquipment will ever make it through beta in the face of all the pubby rage, but I suspect the single largest use of bonds by most players will be to purchase the new consumables, aka Directives (such a Soviet era name . . . "Here are your directives komrad - do not fail us")

The crew skill directives seem kind of haphazardly balanced (some double a bonus that has already been determined to be pretty irrelevant like snap shot).  The notion of being able to purchase an untrained perk or skill on a single game basis is kind of interesting I guess, especially if you want to use a relatively new tank crew in CW for example.  The crew directives seem pretty similar to crew skills - a few of them are really important and most of them are just stupidly pointless.  

Being able to buy the firefighting perk on a crew is basically getting food and an extinguisher at the same time.  Food is still >>>> any of the iEquipment, so yeah.

The equipment directives seem more clearly defined as a flat % improvement on existing equipment.  All of them seem pretty useful except the toolbox one.

What do you guys see as the most consistent values?  I wonder if there will be 'sales' on directives where they are reduced in price for a weekend.  I can personally see iEquipment  getting axed, but I would not be surprised if directives are here to stay.

 

[SaintLaurentius 532]

any data page for all these?

[Jaegaer 180]

What really bugs me is that WG already admitted like 2 years ago that Crew Skills and Equipment need a rework.

But not only did nothing come out of it, they also expand on a one dimensional system full of noob traps with expensive and hard to earn features.

[Sapros 348]

Experienced Firefighters is pretty kickass for anything with frontal fuel tanks. And it's really cheap. 

[SmirkingGerbil 110]

I just keep wondering about the converging similarities between Archaic One and SaintLaurentius Avatars. Is it just me? Serendipity, blind chance, or a Machiavellian plot?

[lavawing 498]

39 minutes ago, SmirkingGerbil said:

I just keep wondering about the converging similarities between Archaic One and SaintLaurentius Avatars. Is it just me? Serendipity, blind chance, or a Machiavellian plot?

It's a dao thing

[Archaic_One 1,853]

2 hours ago, SmirkingGerbil said:

I just keep wondering about the converging similarities between Archaic One and SaintLaurentius Avatars. Is it just me? Serendipity, blind chance, or a Machiavellian plot?

Holy shit, it is REAL.  Its like I'm a Pokemon evolving into the legendary form of @SaintLaurentius:

 

 

 

 

[SmirkingGerbil 110]

See, told ya!

 

 

[SaintLaurentius 532]

LOL.

The character in my avatar is Väinämöinen, the main figure in the Finnish epic book Kalevala. There's quite a few awesome paintings made by Gallen-Kallela about Väinämöinen. Sammon Ryöstö and Väinämöisen lähtö to name a few.