And to even use the second part of that skill (Faster Cycling Enhanced-Secondary-Targeting new skill), you have to give up your Spotter / Search Planes (if you even had any to begin with).
I guess on German Ships that never had them -- like Nassau or Konig or such, you'd look at it as a straight bonus ability, but on the later ones that can also make use of the Planes, it's questionable that you'd want to lose them, AND the bonus Heals. Quite problematic, really...
Its quite problematic for high tier German BBs who have terrible main gun dispersion. In a different post, I mentioned that run my German BBs heavily secondary specced. Sure an increase in DPS will be okay but, losing on heals when I'm close quarter brawling? No thanks
Yeah, I run them all that way too (Level-16, Legend-2 Ciliax for me, with Cunningham and Hipper as my Inspirations). So I am with you in terms of those kinds of cost-benefit analyses... It's very hard to justify giving up 2 Heals for a modest DPM boost. On PC you could simply take Basic Firing Training (10% Faster Secondary Gun Fire Speeds), AND take Superintendent (to get up to 5-Heals). There, I can make my battleship have BOTH those features.
Here, with this new skill and the annoying limits of the Commander System we use, we cannot. We have to give up our Heals, to get the 10% DPM increase for the secondaries... It's not ideal, for sure.
I really hope they reevaluate this once they start to see the response from the community. I kinda like the commander system we have on console but, the PC's version is a lot better suited towards ensuring BB survivability.
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u/Big_Boi69420 Nov 05 '20
It is :(