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ironically, both ships are Arkhangelsk. Royal Sovereign had some more 15cm casemate guns that were removed when it was transferred to the USSR. In game, both use the Arkhangelsk model, missing hte guns.
i’ve played a bunch of hood, but no revenge-class BBs yet, i love the guns just gotta get used to the speed (taking brisk) and the secondaries R p good + superheal. She seems to get chunked pretty consistently tho by full pens
Get the feeling a lot of folks are getting this one this year, it and the Russian one the only new ships in the low-tier pulls so folks who've been around a while will get them as their highest chances....
Which is why I’ll never buy ships outright again. It used to be that new ships skipped satan crates a year, but WG decided to include La Pampa and Sibir this year. Now I’ll just get dubs on birthday and spend them on satan crates, nothing more.
9 years of playing here. Megas. Its great turnout, but after 9 years of playing and having damn near every tt ship purchased, I cant help but long for the smaland that remains outside my grasp.
Oh well. 17 more megas with festive tokens to go. 3 golden crates down. Well see.
Once I get all my snowflakes, steel, and certificates, I'll see which low-tier coal ships to get before tabulating certificates. At which point, I'll have ~21,000 doubloons to blow on crates and see what Santa thinks of my behaviour this year.
My wish list includes a Benham, Musashi, and Smaland.
the hull is absolute trash yes but 11.5km conceal and 40kts with brisk makes up for it, you can work around it. and the guns are *so* good... some of if not *the* individually best BB guns in the entire game they´re amazing
just kinda treat its hull like.. more lightly armored heavy cruiser i guess... its very squishy^^
I already have her luckily enough, think I got her from last year's Christmas containers, heck I got a ton of low tier ships from them so hopefully this year my luck is better, praying for Musashi 🙏
I'm just looking forward to doing the annual roster fill-up. Those crates become great value when you basically have every premium. I just don't buy premiums normally at this point and simply grab them all from the crates instead.
My jaw hit the floor. All I wanted from crates this year was the Hawaii and I nabbed the gold version. Can't believe I hit that .001% drop chance. I literally closed my eyes as I opened my last golden container and opened them to the animation of this ship.
Opened 50 ultras, got 10 gold chests. Also nabbed the Kamikaze!
So this was from 20 Ultra Crates, and I also bought 8 mega crates with leftover doublons from the last 4 months. There were also some other miscelaneous crates from the update.
I think I may have spent most of my luck for the year.
I saw that PSA: don't open Satan's Grift until you have Montcalm thread, and promptly disregarded it. I have enough holes in my V-VII lineup already, the odds are negligible, who cares. Except, whoops, yeah, that happened. I didn't mind too much though, because the initial pull of 20 Satan's Ultra Grift had eight or nine ships, half of which were rare things I hadn't heard of before (Cambridge, Suzuya; why is there a tier 9 Mogami?).
Only three golden containers, though, which contained one drop of steel (which isn't a ship, but I don't exactly mind 5k steel) and the other two were signals.
I have poor impulse control so, fine, we'll do a second 20x Ultra Grift pull. Four ships I don't know/care about (maybe they're good, idk) and Georgia. Which, sure, isn't the world-beating monstrosity it once was because what is balance, but still! Georgia!
Also eight golden containers. From which came Aki, Bremen, and Hawaii.
Well. I suppose I'm done with Satan's Grift for this year.
Went for the 20 Ultra Santa crates - got a few ships, a couple of golden containers, one of which granted the Hawaii :D, also redeemed the free Lepanto as well, so all in all not a bad start to the Christmas Event :D
I decided to finally cave after multiple years of playing and splurge on eight of the Ultra containers, which gave me…
- Boise.
- Three times 12.000 coal.
- Four Golden Crates, which gave me seven red boosters each.
Man I got the 150 doubloon mega satan crate and pulled Kronshtadt?? I have no idea how to feel about this, really exciting to finally get something that I wanted all those years ago even though it seems less powerful now.
A few days ago I finished stage 1 of decorating the Xmas Tree. Got a single Santa's Gift Container. Out popped a "Golden" container, and from it came the USS Hawaii. Fun ship but it needs a fairly high skill level to keep alive in Ops or Assym battles:
You lucky bastard. I got Scharnhorst from the Christmas tree golden container, and I already have Scharnhorst B that I won from a Black Friday container. A ship is a ship, but two Scharnhorsts?
I ended up buying only 8 Ultra containers but got Boise, Munchen and Xin Zhong from them along with 4 Golden Containers. I managed to get Hawaii from my last Golden Container, exactly the ship I was gonna spend my steel on. Now I can get Bremen too!
I think im going to have a stroke guys omg. I thought pulling a Belfast was me spending all my luck, then i listened the voices to gamble again…. I bought the battle pass for the crates and then bought 3 more ultra containers. Ended up with 15 small boxes and 3 ultra. 1 small box dropped a golden gift and 2 of the 3 ultras dropped golden gifts! Super good RNG! well I opened all 3… I’m still shaking.
I have been waiting for years for a Revenge class battleship to come into the game. I just love something about the look of them and the old dreadnought style so much. As it so happens, Royal Sovereign is my favorite of her class. So when I saw she had entered the game, I wanted her so, so bad. I unfortunately wasn’t playing when she was first introduced (not that I would’ve dropped the money they were asking for her anyway) so when I came back and saw she’s in the Santa crates I went kind of hard for her.
I got quite a few higher tier ships, Aki, Bremen, Rhode Island, Ägir, Scarlet Thunder, Flandre, and so on…but no Royal Sovereign. Ironically, I saw online that pretty much everyone was pulling her or Arkhangelsk…which is also just her lol…and it was killing me.
I logged on today and saw that I had some spare doubloons, just enough for 20 small crates. I knew it wasn’t worth it, but I said, “ah screw it.”
Am i going to finish the BP ( play each day 1500 bxp ) plus some extra? If you cant finish the entire line in time you wont get all out of your dubs.. But you have an easy alternative..play without paying…and only pay for the paid extra line the moment you finished or ar certain you will finish it.
Remember that there will be TWO BP these xmas patch so they run shorter!
Am I going to buy Santa crates? —> if you do the paid BP version will give you almost 3500 dubs in Santa crates + a free T7 premium plus all the extra goodies.
Since you have 5k dubs you might get lucky and get enough dubs from Santa crates to also buy the second BP. I already ( bad drops still) got 500 dubs back from 1 Santa crate…
Got free 23 mega containers from tier 10s and spend all my free doubloons collected this year for extra 60 more megas. 83 megas total. Got Bremen from golden containers.
All for free as f2p got Bremen and 15 extra ships
Spend responsibly! You don't need to spend money on this game to have fun!
Just got Smolensk from a Mega, and on the first day of the new update, I got Hawaii from a free Santa container. Also ended up with Halford, Anchorage and Royal Sovereign so far (along with some other random ships). Not a bad haul so far at all.
Here are my results from 80 Ultra Containers and 75 Mega Containers(I rolled my doubloons back into Mega Containers, I also had most of the low tier stuff from the drop list):
I had 80k Dubs, so 4x 20 Mega Containers, and I thought about buying 20 Ultras. I ended up doing so. I added another 20 megas via dub drops
My Ship Haul, not in order.
Rio
Picardie
London
Montcalm (of course...)
Florida
Xin Zhong Guo 14 (yey...)
Tone
Aquila (yey...)
S. Thunder (yey...)
Kronshtadt
Komsa Minin
Rhode Island (after buying Black with Dubloons...)
Aki
Hawaii
Bremen
Smaland
La Pampa
saved all that steel...
And I think I might've forgotten syome because the screenshotting didn't wanna work properly.... I wish I'd have gotten Benham though. Maybe I'll take one more gamba at some point
So far I've opened about a dozen normal Santa containers and got Mysore from one.
Have yet to touch mega containers, will edit this comment when I open them.
EDIT
Opened 11 mega containers (from certificates, spent nothing for them) and got Gorizia, Nueve de Julio, Kidd, and two gold containers... one of which dropped Aki.
Got 40 ultra crates. Was missing 12 ships from the list (15 if you count Aki, Bremen, and Hawaii). Ended up getting all ships I was missing, Aki, Bremen, Hawaii, 360 days premium time, and 2500 steel (you get 1250 steel each time a ship rolls and you have everything on the list). Pretty psyched
I picked up 8 megas solely for the purpose of getting the Halland "Silver Swirls" camo. and received this. I'm not a CV player, so is it just a port queen or should I make an attempt to play it in PvE?
Bought 20 mega crates, got Mysore and Monaghan from them BUT I got Aki, Bremen, and Hawaii from 3/4 golden gift crates and 3000 steel from the last one. Totally unexpected and super happy with that insane luck!
I got a random super container with 1000 dubs. uesd it and the last of my daily free gold . To buy the battle pass, and out of the 10 free Santa boxes, I got the t7 cl Munchin. Very nice.
Many more screenshots to come: armory is now live with the new Satan crates: Ultra will cost twice as much as Mega for a pity drop of 7 vs 15, and double the chance to get any ship.
Results of 20 Mega - bought for Dubs, opened one at a time, the Aki was the very last container opened and was a nice boost to the quality of what I got.
And personally I think they were well worth it, but I already had most of the ships of the drop list.
Highlights were Victoria, S. Thunder, Sibir, Hildebrandt,Kosma Minin, La Pampa, Eskimo, Defence, Monmouth and two Tier VII ships I forgot to screenshot.
And Bremen out of the fourth ,Gold Gift box‘
I remember Sibir alone was on offer for basically the price of 20 ultra crates, so I got well my moneys worth with all these T 10 / T 9
Also the animation of the ,rare‘ ships is fun to watch.
Though I must say I hate these lootboxes within lootboxes.
So I mentioned this in another thread. You are welcome to have your opinions on whaling. I bit the bullet one very large time and if you understand how the drops work in the santa crates, you get the bad ships out of the way and at some point, you are left with very little in the lesser rarity pools. For example after last year's whaling, I had everything in the TV-T8 pool except for the Arkhanglesk and Royal Sovereign as they were added this year. So no surprise I got them but as soon as I got them, then the subsequent rolls that would have netted me another from that group, like a Tokachi or something, I move up to the next rarity group of which I only needed a few of those as well. Those are ships like Cheshire, Kidd, etc. So from that group, I got a few as well and took a few sips from the epic and rare Tv-X well with the Anchorage, Defense, T-61, and Friesland. So with that in mind, here's my haul from this year.
Today is also my birthday so I used my birthday coupon to buy 20 Ultra Containers and used the dubs I got back whcih was around 36K to buy 2x 20s of Mega Containers. So 6 containers in all.
From the 20 Ultras (main reward only):
48,000 Coal
7500 Doubloons
4 Golden Containers
18 Red Credit Boosters
24 Red Ship XP Boosters
36 Red Commander XP Boosters
12 Red Free XP Boosters
Ships (8)
Arkhangelsk
Kozma Minin
Provorny
Eskimo
Friesland
Collossus
Suzuya
Borodino
From the 40 Mega Containers, just the ships and Goldens):
Gonzaga
Anchorage
Cambridge
Defense
T-61
3 Golden Containers
5000 Doubloons
From the 7 Golden Containers:
RB Points X 3
Free XP Red Boosters x 2
Credit Red Boosters x 1
and....
Hawaii, which is what I was after all along.
So a total of 14 ships for a $150 cost plus birthday doubloons, but I also made 12500 in doubloons and I still have a few megas left to acquire from my Tier X ships.
I was extremely lucky - I took my post down earlier as I didn't realise I had broken rule #1 🤦♂️
Bought my first ever Ultra gift today with the money I had saved from not spending on Black Friday.
Out of that I got:
● Tier V - Rio De Janeiro ● Tier VI - Jurua ● Tier VII - Yukon ● Tier VII - FR25 ● Tier VII - Poltava ● Tier VIII - Constellation ● Tier VIII - Anchorage ● Tier X - Carnot
And 5 golden gift containers, mostly with Steel and Research Bureau points...
The last Golden Container gave me Aki - which was a very pleasant surprise.
I then used the Steel I'd been saving up all year for Bourgogne (my first Steel ship actually purchased from the armoury), with the intentions of buying Hawaii with the remaining Steel I'd accumulate during the Steel Fleet event. I had claimed all the festive rewards for my ships today, and had just enough tokens to exchange 1 mega gift container - it was a golden one.
It was only bloody Hawaii. So now I have both the Steel ships I wanted, for the price of one (Bourgogne with Coupon) and a third bonus Steel ship with Aki. I am extremely lucky I guess...
I also used my well-earned coal for Philippe Auboyneau for the Bourgogne, and then Neustrashimy also!
Was thrilled to hear it came to the game as it’s one of my favorite British warships, couldn’t get it or Arkhangelsk when they came out. Now is my second chance and it just isn’t happening. 8 ultra crates, 20 megas, and the smattering of free standards, I’ve gotten a ton of premiums but not the one I actually want 😭
I whaled 20 Ultra crates after buying all missing coal ships: super disappointed to only get 4 ships (basically, Benham). And 8 Golden crates, but zero ship there. Definitely bad gamble: it's not always winning guys.
I have bought 5 ultra containers and 10 mega containers, and my luck compared to last year is… mid? I got Constellation and Ferrante Gonzaga which are interesting ships, and I also got 15k steel which is nice? But idk lowkey was hoping for more.
All from the battlepass, free + paid. Got smolensk on December 1, while Sibir arrives on December 6, and I believe my pass level at that time was only level 16 or 17. Very happy!
Broke down and bought 20 "Ultra Containers" hoping to get some ships I'll actually use. I got more coal than I could keep track of, probably 100K or so, lots of red economic boosters, and 4 "Golden" containers. From 1 of those I got the Bremen which was lucky since I already have the Aki and Hawaii, I was afraid I'd get a different version of one of those. I'll attach a screenshot of the other ships in my port using "sort by snowflake". The T9 Navarin is my favorite because I like brawling BB's and it does a fairly good job. The T8 RU BB Borodino has just 6 barrels all up front. It's OK, I wasn't terribly impressed the 1st few battles. The Bremen has amazing DPM if you can keep it alive. I've done 1 Asym battle and stayed at range doing 154K damage. The other ships I haven't outfitted yet.
Well Merry Xmas from Wargaming. For the 1st time I bought the standard Santa Containers, 20 for $17.99 USD. I've bought a number of Ultra and Mega containers but not the basic ones. I just wanted signals and economic boosters. I got a T9 DD Minegumo, which I had planned on buying with doubloons using the coupon, and I got the T8 CA Tiger '59.
My last container of the season gave me a golden gift which opened up with a Hawaii so I am quite content, as opposed to last Christmas when I got only one ship and it was Yahagi or something of that nature.
So I've been extremely lucky in getting Santa Gifts this year. On the paid daily rewards track I got the mega gift on day 1 and then regular gifts on days 2 and 3. One of the small gifts even gave me a golden container. So far I've opened 17 regular gifts, 1 mega gift, and 1 golden container. And I've got...
well just to update from my post last week. spent the 50k dubloons on the santa gift boxes. 1 tier 7 battleship, 2 T6 subs, 1 T8 cruiser, 1 T5 cruiser, 3k steel, 5k dubs and a bunch of flags i'll never need.
I can't believe people would spend actual money on this. That was like $500 in containers and the results are crazy bad.
I filled the tree got the free sign on, advent & event pass etc containers and picked up 30 festive tokens (6 megas). Pulled a load of junk PLUS Hawaii and a JupIter 42 so not too bad!.
Bought 9 Super gifts and 5 Mega. I think Bremen is the best that I've got. Also got Hizen, Haida, Velos, and 180 days of premium. I'm not sure if all of this costs that much, but I'm somewhat happy.
Bought the 150 dub mega crate from the dailies and got Jupiter 42.
Funny enough, last year I got Johnston from the satan containers (as FTP), and then they added GQ Johnny, so odds are, there’s gonna be a FTP version of Jupiter released, watch
Happy Holidays All! My first even where ive spent a decent amount on this game :)
If anyone has recommendations out of this list I got for what ships are fun n such im all ears, I dont have much research on anything other than the t10s i pulled :)
88 Santa Ultra Crates
X Rhode Island
X Bremen
X Aki
X Hawaii
IX Sun Yat-Sen
IX Jager
IX Z-44
VIII Wiesbaden
VIII I-56
VIII Theseus
VIII S-189
VIII Wichita
VII Boise
VII Fr25
VII Arkhangelsk
VII Hyuga
VII Collingwood
VII Weimar
VII California
VII Nueve De Julio
VII Maya
VII Yukon
VII Rodney
VII Jupiter '42
VII Ashitaka
VII Tokachi
VII F. Ferruccio
VI London
VI Mutsu
VI Jurua
VI T-61
VI Gallant
VI Orion '44
V Okhotnik
God knows how many red boosters, coal and steel i got xD
If you want to gamble, then do so. I have the money and can buy many more if I want but I bought 20 mega containers, and my pulls are very poor. I got one ship the Tier 7 F. Ferrucio, 360 days premium time, and the rest are blue and red boosters. That was it. Spend wisely. For me I am done.
Spent $150 USD on 20 "Ultra Containers". Got a total of 7 ships plus lots and lots of coal, enough to buy any coal ship other than that British CA. Also got 180 days of premium. Three "Golden" containers which only yielded red boosters. Around 7500 dubs also in the 20 crates.
Ship List:
T9 BB "Sun Yat-Sen" (Pan Asian)
T8 CV "Colossus" (British)
T8 BB "Flandre" (French)
T7 BB "Arkhangelsk" (Russian)
T6 DD "Jurua" (Pan American)
T6 CA "Orion '44" (British)
T6 Sub "Xin Zhong Guo 14" (Pan-Asian) This was a surprise, I'm a big sub player and hadn't even heard of this sub.
Lots of coal, Captain XP, and gold which I used to get the Battle Pass (Nurnberg 44, 10 more crates which gave me Flandre, more steel, etc.)
Three Golden Containers, which yielded Hawaii and some red boosters
No Musashi, Benham or Smaland, but I am pretty happy overall given I have spent nothing to obtain these boats. And with my certificates, steel, and coal, I may be able to get another boat or two.
e: Since then, I received a surprise Bremen from a normal Santa Crate (Golden Crate), bought Azuma and Tulsa with my excess coal, and am a few days away from getting Valparaiso for steel using the coupon.
So that's 8 (soon to be 9) free ships from this year's event at absolutely zero real money cost.
PSA: if you are whaling Golden ships from Golden boxes, open them 1 by 1. Reason is, when you get all Holly Trinity (10% chance to drop one), Roma Aeterna and Golden versions drop chance Goes from .0001 to 10%. I'm taking this path.
I whaled for the first time ever. 40 ultras, 60 megas.
Looooaaads of shjps, steel, enough rxp to push me to get Irrestible. Need to figure if the steel pushed me kver any thresholds.
Notable ships: Bremen, Hawaii, Sibir and Kami R.
Worthy mention: G Verde, Jager and z44.
Im feeling very happy with my haul. Hawaii is incredible. A colbert with armour?! Oh lord save me, got 409k (ops) first game. Didnt expect Sibir tho, i heard it was good but i never looked at it cos it was in such a stupid event.
I initially bought 40 Ultras and then bought another 20 Ultras after I realized that the first 40 had cleared out the lowest tier. I got incredibly lucky in terms of number of ship drops: 28 from the Ultras + 2 from the Goldens. And, I got 25k doubloons (+ the hundreds of red booster, quite a bit of coal and commander xp).
The RNG Christmas gods blessed me early from the free Event Pass crates. Now I will not get a single ship I want.
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lol
That is a fun one. I have been enjoying her and her sister. The sniper version, the Russian BB
arkhangelsk!
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Yes this one I have been really enjoying. Sitting back with accuracy is not a bad thing
ironically, both ships are Arkhangelsk. Royal Sovereign had some more 15cm casemate guns that were removed when it was transferred to the USSR. In game, both use the Arkhangelsk model, missing hte guns.
i’ve played a bunch of hood, but no revenge-class BBs yet, i love the guns just gotta get used to the speed (taking brisk) and the secondaries R p good + superheal. She seems to get chunked pretty consistently tho by full pens
Oh I have noticed that too. Gotta be weary of that AP coming in at you
Get the feeling a lot of folks are getting this one this year, it and the Russian one the only new ships in the low-tier pulls so folks who've been around a while will get them as their highest chances....
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Oh, this is gonna be fun! Thank you Santa 🎅
I hate you.
FFS I want that ship! Crazy luck 😄....Good for you.
I hate you too.
Literally my top ship i want from crates. I doubt I'll ever get it. Congrats lucky bastard
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From a lone container. Dont even have the regular one
crazy pull, congrats
God damn
Spend steel on Valparaiso, played few ranked matches and got few basic satan containers. Got golden container from it. It drops Aki.
OK WG, I see what you are trying to do here.
Geez man leave some of luck for us
Update: I opened 15 Santa Crates from the pass and all I got were signals and credits... I just want some luck man :(
(Imma edit this comment just to show you how unlucky I am with this game usually lol)
got a golden crate in the medium xmas one ( from daily duub pass), got eco bonus >.> at least that more stuff for trying to get surcouf i guess
I’m Aki’ll you
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Welp this fall off the free crate when you finish decorating the tree
Seal-clubbing heaven...
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Got the Sibir from the Free Crates. Wasn't she going for $$$ a couple of months ago?
yes
Which is why I’ll never buy ships outright again. It used to be that new ships skipped satan crates a year, but WG decided to include La Pampa and Sibir this year. Now I’ll just get dubs on birthday and spend them on satan crates, nothing more.
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Quite nice!
(Megas)
And then the Golden dropped Bremen :)
but MOOOOOOM I want to make my own post.
Edit: Just opened my containers from certificates and the event pass.
23 smalls dropped 1 ship
22 megas dropped 3 ships and 3 golden containers
3 Golden containers dropped 2 ships
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9 years of playing here. Megas. Its great turnout, but after 9 years of playing and having damn near every tt ship purchased, I cant help but long for the smaland that remains outside my grasp.
Oh well. 17 more megas with festive tokens to go. 3 golden crates down. Well see.
Well, in two days.
Once I get all my snowflakes, steel, and certificates, I'll see which low-tier coal ships to get before tabulating certificates. At which point, I'll have ~21,000 doubloons to blow on crates and see what Santa thinks of my behaviour this year.
My wish list includes a Benham, Musashi, and Smaland.
My wishlist is just Georgia.
I got one for coal years back, and yeah it's worth it.
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Out of all the event pass crates so far... this is my luck.
tsurugi guns are absolutely incredible
Pity that the armor is so bad, I think it's the worst BB hull at high tier?
the hull is absolute trash yes but 11.5km conceal and 40kts with brisk makes up for it, you can work around it. and the guns are *so* good... some of if not *the* individually best BB guns in the entire game they´re amazing
just kinda treat its hull like.. more lightly armored heavy cruiser i guess... its very squishy^^
Dear god I wished I had any semblance of this kind of luck with just event pass crate. Not a single ship yet :(
Enjoy that Tsurugi tho, she’s a very good large cruiser
tone is my spirit animal
That is absolutely insane!
Best i can do is 500 doubloons - WG
I want to buy containers already 😢
The gambler in me is driving me MAD
Trying to hold out till I get Montcalm to take that out of the drop pool but it’s tempting.
I already have her luckily enough, think I got her from last year's Christmas containers, heck I got a ton of low tier ships from them so hopefully this year my luck is better, praying for Musashi 🙏
I'm just looking forward to doing the annual roster fill-up. Those crates become great value when you basically have every premium. I just don't buy premiums normally at this point and simply grab them all from the crates instead.
I am 2 super containers away from the guarantee drop…I just hope is not Khaba
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My jaw hit the floor. All I wanted from crates this year was the Hawaii and I nabbed the gold version. Can't believe I hit that .001% drop chance. I literally closed my eyes as I opened my last golden container and opened them to the animation of this ship.
Opened 50 ultras, got 10 gold chests. Also nabbed the Kamikaze!
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Literally the first batch of containers I opened
3rd container from the second row of the Event Pass dropped this very rare baby - 0.1% chance from a standard Santa crate
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Ah yes, the best light cruiser at tier 6
Her bombers are cracked too but the rest aren't much to write home about
So this was from 20 Ultra Crates, and I also bought 8 mega crates with leftover doublons from the last 4 months. There were also some other miscelaneous crates from the update.
I think I may have spent most of my luck for the year.
Edit: The gold crates 3k steel and red boosters
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Because I can't help myself I used the Dubs on more crates and got lucky again.
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Really lucky good for you man !
What a disappointment. Bought 8 ultra containers, got 7 coal and a Gonzaga. So I paid $65 for 45000 coal and a port queen.
I got the Suzaya from a BP container.
first day from BP regular santa gift container -> golden container -> aki
I saw that PSA: don't open Satan's Grift until you have Montcalm thread, and promptly disregarded it. I have enough holes in my V-VII lineup already, the odds are negligible, who cares. Except, whoops, yeah, that happened. I didn't mind too much though, because the initial pull of 20 Satan's Ultra Grift had eight or nine ships, half of which were rare things I hadn't heard of before (Cambridge, Suzuya; why is there a tier 9 Mogami?).
Only three golden containers, though, which contained one drop of steel (which isn't a ship, but I don't exactly mind 5k steel) and the other two were signals.
I have poor impulse control so, fine, we'll do a second 20x Ultra Grift pull. Four ships I don't know/care about (maybe they're good, idk) and Georgia. Which, sure, isn't the world-beating monstrosity it once was because what is balance, but still! Georgia!
Also eight golden containers. From which came Aki, Bremen, and Hawaii.
Well. I suppose I'm done with Satan's Grift for this year.
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Not bad for a Mega Crate from turning in 5 certs!
Well done. I think they've awarded me every cruiser in the game. Except I'm not a cruiser guy at all.
I got a rock too... Well, a sub. ugh
My white whale ... yarr ...
Got a musashi, could be fun for ranked and I certainly ain't complaining
Wish I can get mine
Meanwhile wg: best I can do is boosters
Yea WG is trying to do it's damnest in getting me to cough up money, I got a Rhode Island Black from the BP containers last week.
I got the hornet from a BP santa container.
I don't play CVs :(
As far as CVs go though, Hornet is actually pretty fun. If RNG blesses you, you can one shot DD's with the B25s
Makes a mockery of aerodromes in Cherry Blossom as well. You might as well be dropping MOABs when you hit those.
Rules are supposed to be broken so ima post over 9000 post about how disapointed im being from opening 3 santa crates!
Went for the 20 Ultra Santa crates - got a few ships, a couple of golden containers, one of which granted the Hawaii :D, also redeemed the free Lepanto as well, so all in all not a bad start to the Christmas Event :D
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Lol 50% drop on ships. I got 7ships + Aki from 20 Ultra, very happy
I decided to finally cave after multiple years of playing and splurge on eight of the Ultra containers, which gave me… - Boise. - Three times 12.000 coal. - Four Golden Crates, which gave me seven red boosters each.
Once and never again, methinks.
From all the free Santa crates ( paid BP, xmas tree reward, 1 CT Santa crate, 1 rng daily drop): 500 dubs… rest flags, boosters, credits, cxp.
Man I got the 150 doubloon mega satan crate and pulled Kronshtadt?? I have no idea how to feel about this, really exciting to finally get something that I wanted all those years ago even though it seems less powerful now.
If you filter out all the super recent low battle chaff, Kron is the 2nd highest winrate Cruiser at T9, so feel good about it ;P
A few days ago I finished stage 1 of decorating the Xmas Tree. Got a single Santa's Gift Container. Out popped a "Golden" container, and from it came the USS Hawaii. Fun ship but it needs a fairly high skill level to keep alive in Ops or Assym battles:
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You lucky bastard. I got Scharnhorst from the Christmas tree golden container, and I already have Scharnhorst B that I won from a Black Friday container. A ship is a ship, but two Scharnhorsts?
Result from opening 100 Mega Gifts:
21 Ships (13 missing this Year including Hildebrand and Sibir, 8 x steel) 8 Golden Gifts (1 Bremen out of it) 180 days premium 12.500 dubs
Pretty decent so far :)
From 40 Megas:
Ise, Montcalm (yeah, I read the post), Maya, Scharnhorst, Collingwood, FR25, Goriza, Wichita, Thesus, Okhotnik.
And 3 golds with red boosters in each.
No complaints seeing as it was all free dubs. Now to get those snowflakes.
edit: 20 more from free dubs
Hyuga, Boise, Weimar, Hornet, Provorny, Alaska
1 gold with reds.
edit 2: 12 megas from snowflakes. Fucking Smaland yeah, and Aquila.
Ahahahahahahahhahaah Montcalm 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I feel blessed! Went with 20 mega containers with Doubloons.
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Nothing bad for a new player 🥹
I ended up buying only 8 Ultra containers but got Boise, Munchen and Xin Zhong from them along with 4 Golden Containers. I managed to get Hawaii from my last Golden Container, exactly the ship I was gonna spend my steel on. Now I can get Bremen too!
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Had my wife open the first 4 mega gifts from snowflakes.
She dropped Krasny Krim, Montclam and Congress plus a Golden Container.
I will let her open all containers from now on...
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From the 5 small satan crates in the second BP line so yeah...
To put that in perspective, that is 1 in 1.56 million or 0.0000641% as i have none of the ships from that category. Yippee
I think im going to have a stroke guys omg. I thought pulling a Belfast was me spending all my luck, then i listened the voices to gamble again…. I bought the battle pass for the crates and then bought 3 more ultra containers. Ended up with 15 small boxes and 3 ultra. 1 small box dropped a golden gift and 2 of the 3 ultras dropped golden gifts! Super good RNG! well I opened all 3… I’m still shaking.
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IM GONNA CRY TEARS OF JOY (even though I don't play DD but I certainly will after this!)
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I have been waiting for years for a Revenge class battleship to come into the game. I just love something about the look of them and the old dreadnought style so much. As it so happens, Royal Sovereign is my favorite of her class. So when I saw she had entered the game, I wanted her so, so bad. I unfortunately wasn’t playing when she was first introduced (not that I would’ve dropped the money they were asking for her anyway) so when I came back and saw she’s in the Santa crates I went kind of hard for her.
I got quite a few higher tier ships, Aki, Bremen, Rhode Island, Ägir, Scarlet Thunder, Flandre, and so on…but no Royal Sovereign. Ironically, I saw online that pretty much everyone was pulling her or Arkhangelsk…which is also just her lol…and it was killing me.
I logged on today and saw that I had some spare doubloons, just enough for 20 small crates. I knew it wasn’t worth it, but I said, “ah screw it.”
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And there she appeared. I’m so unbelievably, indescribably happy.
Am I missing something? I don't see any place to purchase the lootboxes, NA server btw
You can earn some free Santa crates in advance before getting access to snowflakes/ paid satan crates.
A few while progressing on the BP. Even more if you activate the paid version.
Daily free log in rng can earn you up to 5 satan crates.
Paid daily log in reward can earn you 1 mega and several normal crates
Xmas tree ornaments give you a few crates.
thank you! I have around 5k gold, would the bp be worth buying or should I hold it for later?
One BP cost 3500 dubs..
Ask yourself these questions:
Remember that there will be TWO BP these xmas patch so they run shorter!
Since you have 5k dubs you might get lucky and get enough dubs from Santa crates to also buy the second BP. I already ( bad drops still) got 500 dubs back from 1 Santa crate…
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Got this from the second batch of santa crates in the pass. Is it any good? (also why do I always get pan asian ships from crates lmao)
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Open 14 small crate from battle pass thinking i wouldn't get it since it's 2.5% to get a ship and there is 143 diferent one but still got it ...
Well, not bad with free containers, i got a Bearn, a Ferrucio... And a Bremen :D
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Spin to win baby!
I was saving steal for Hawaii, only for it to dropped from the Golden Container. How convenient lmao.
I guess WG knows I have the USN bias.
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Got free 23 mega containers from tier 10s and spend all my free doubloons collected this year for extra 60 more megas. 83 megas total. Got Bremen from golden containers.
All for free as f2p got Bremen and 15 extra ships
Spend responsibly! You don't need to spend money on this game to have fun!
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Just got Smolensk from a Mega, and on the first day of the new update, I got Hawaii from a free Santa container. Also ended up with Halford, Anchorage and Royal Sovereign so far (along with some other random ships). Not a bad haul so far at all.
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Oh and there's Bremen
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Got this for completing the Christmas tree
I really need to stop reading this thread. Sets me up for inevitable disappointment when I open mine.
I got my first mini (4.5%) container and...got a VI cruiser
The rest of Xmas will likely be pain
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wuppiduu got a ship from free crates :D
Here are my results from 80 Ultra Containers and 75 Mega Containers(I rolled my doubloons back into Mega Containers, I also had most of the low tier stuff from the drop list):
TX: Aki, Bremen, Bremen G, (Already had Hawaii)
T9:Musashi, Freisland, Velos, Cambridge, F. Gonzaga, Tsurgi, Victoria, Alaska, Taihang, Hizen,
T8:S-189, Kidd, Provorny, Eskimo, Orkan, P. Bagration, Chkalov, Indomitable, Colossus, Aquilla, Assahio, Siliwangi,
T7: FR 25, Weimar, F Ferruccio, Gorzia, Lenin, Arkangelsk, Royal Sovereign
T6: Xin Zhong Guo, K. Schoenberg, Graf Spee, T-61, Schill
T5: Fungin, Kamikaze R, Klamar, Giulio Cesare, Kamikaze,
Non Ship drops:
1,180 days of premium time
~3 million Commander FXP
~285,000 coal
3750 Research Points
50,000 doubloons
~30,000,000 credits
~529 Red Boosters of various kinds.
11 Golden Containers
You'll never run out of premium
I am hoping for some kind of exchange to pop up in the future.
In the last salvage for victory you could use your premium time as a salvage option.
Yup, got a free Blys '44 for needless premium time
So, so far I've kept up what I wanted to cash in.
I had 80k Dubs, so 4x 20 Mega Containers, and I thought about buying 20 Ultras. I ended up doing so. I added another 20 megas via dub drops
My Ship Haul, not in order.
Rio
Picardie
London
Montcalm (of course...)
Florida
Xin Zhong Guo 14 (yey...)
Tone
Aquila (yey...)
S. Thunder (yey...)
Kronshtadt
Komsa Minin
Rhode Island (after buying Black with Dubloons...)
Aki
Hawaii
Bremen
Smaland
La Pampa
saved all that steel...
And I think I might've forgotten syome because the screenshotting didn't wanna work properly.... I wish I'd have gotten Benham though. Maybe I'll take one more gamba at some point
Edit: I had forgotten Hornet and Mutsu
wow, nice Steel Will drops. Florida is a lot of fun IMO.
So far I've opened about a dozen normal Santa containers and got Mysore from one.
Have yet to touch mega containers, will edit this comment when I open them.
EDIT
Opened 11 mega containers (from certificates, spent nothing for them) and got Gorizia, Nueve de Julio, Kidd, and two gold containers... one of which dropped Aki.
9 Mega's = boosters and silver
5 regular containers from missions = Montcalm & München
Go Figure
Today is a good day. Some highlights:
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I'm guessing you have a fairly full port with all those rare ship drops, or went full whale lol
fuzzy soup coherent sheet hospital grandiose full offbeat mysterious rob
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Well there goes my luck
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Got 40 ultra crates. Was missing 12 ships from the list (15 if you count Aki, Bremen, and Hawaii). Ended up getting all ships I was missing, Aki, Bremen, Hawaii, 360 days premium time, and 2500 steel (you get 1250 steel each time a ship rolls and you have everything on the list). Pretty psyched
14 Megas from Festive Tokens.
I picked up 8 megas solely for the purpose of getting the Halland "Silver Swirls" camo. and received this. I'm not a CV player, so is it just a port queen or should I make an attempt to play it in PvE?
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Bought 20 mega crates, got Mysore and Monaghan from them BUT I got Aki, Bremen, and Hawaii from 3/4 golden gift crates and 3000 steel from the last one. Totally unexpected and super happy with that insane luck!
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I’m glad I didn’t spend a single steel on the event. It’s Christmas, boys
So just got this out of 4 golden containers...
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Just got these from 8 Ultra Gifts. I think I got my money's worth...?
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... I'm waiting to fulfill my port with the remaining coal ships I don't have yet before opening my presents :-)
Today I got Yukon from free small container, from Battle Pass containers got Weimar and FR25. So far so good.
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From the free BP crates
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Just got the Hood from free tree crate
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Pretty lucky from BP smalls!
I got a random super container with 1000 dubs. uesd it and the last of my daily free gold . To buy the battle pass, and out of the 10 free Santa boxes, I got the t7 cl Munchin. Very nice.
Many more screenshots to come: armory is now live with the new Satan crates: Ultra will cost twice as much as Mega for a pity drop of 7 vs 15, and double the chance to get any ship.
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Second mega crate - 12% chance ship - so OK.
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Woot!
AND
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Results of 20 Mega - bought for Dubs, opened one at a time, the Aki was the very last container opened and was a nice boost to the quality of what I got.
3 Golden Gift Containers
10-Aki
2 @ 3.75K research points
2 u/2.5K Dubs
1 @ 2.25M Credits
2 @ 20 +800 Ship XP
2 @ 20 +800 Commander XP
2 @ 20 +2400 FXP
7 +7200 FXP
7 +1600 Ship XP
8 - Orkan
8 - Kidd
7 - F.Ferruccio
7 - Leningrad
6 - Mutsu
5 - Hill
I got myself 40 Ultra Crates for Christmas.
And personally I think they were well worth it, but I already had most of the ships of the drop list.
Highlights were Victoria, S. Thunder, Sibir, Hildebrandt,Kosma Minin, La Pampa, Eskimo, Defence, Monmouth and two Tier VII ships I forgot to screenshot. And Bremen out of the fourth ,Gold Gift box‘
I remember Sibir alone was on offer for basically the price of 20 ultra crates, so I got well my moneys worth with all these T 10 / T 9
Also the animation of the ,rare‘ ships is fun to watch.
Though I must say I hate these lootboxes within lootboxes.
180 mega crates:
🇯🇵 VII MAYA, VII TOKACHI, X AKI
🇺🇸 VII MONAGHAN, VIII KIDD
🇷🇺 V OKHOTNIK, V KRASNY KRYM, VI MAKAROV, VII LENINGRAD, VII, TASHKENT '39, VII POLTAVA, VIII OCHAKOV, X SMOLENSK
🇩🇪 VII MUNCHEN, IX AGIR, X BREMEN
🇬🇧 VII ORION '44, VII COLLINGWOOD, VII ROYAL SOVEREIGN, X MONMOUTH, X DEFENCE
🇫🇷 VII STRASBOURG
🇮🇹 VII FR25, VII ABRUZZI, IX F.GONZAGA
🇨🇳 VI XIN ZHONG GUO
COMMONWEALTH: YUKON
🇪🇺 IX JAGER
AL V RIO DE JANEIRO, VII NUEVE DE JULIO
20 Mega
Krasym Krim Rodney Kamikaze R Tirpitz London
Update: Total of 41 megas + 8 ultra
Giuseppe Verdi, Kamikaze R, Tokachi, Suzuya, Monaghan, Krasny Krym, Scharnhorst Tirpitz, London, Jupiter 42, Montcalm
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2 fucking gold crates
Free crates so far: 10 megas, ~6 regulars
Pretty mediocre, but free ships are free ships
Exchanged my 50 Certificates for 10 Megacrates:
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I managed to win at the casino this year: a T7, 180 days of premium and Hawaii from 13 free mega containers. :D
So I mentioned this in another thread. You are welcome to have your opinions on whaling. I bit the bullet one very large time and if you understand how the drops work in the santa crates, you get the bad ships out of the way and at some point, you are left with very little in the lesser rarity pools. For example after last year's whaling, I had everything in the TV-T8 pool except for the Arkhanglesk and Royal Sovereign as they were added this year. So no surprise I got them but as soon as I got them, then the subsequent rolls that would have netted me another from that group, like a Tokachi or something, I move up to the next rarity group of which I only needed a few of those as well. Those are ships like Cheshire, Kidd, etc. So from that group, I got a few as well and took a few sips from the epic and rare Tv-X well with the Anchorage, Defense, T-61, and Friesland. So with that in mind, here's my haul from this year.
Today is also my birthday so I used my birthday coupon to buy 20 Ultra Containers and used the dubs I got back whcih was around 36K to buy 2x 20s of Mega Containers. So 6 containers in all.
From the 20 Ultras (main reward only):
48,000 Coal
7500 Doubloons
4 Golden Containers
18 Red Credit Boosters
24 Red Ship XP Boosters
36 Red Commander XP Boosters
12 Red Free XP Boosters
Ships (8)
Arkhangelsk
Kozma Minin
Provorny
Eskimo
Friesland
Collossus
Suzuya
Borodino
From the 40 Mega Containers, just the ships and Goldens):
Gonzaga
Anchorage
Cambridge
Defense
T-61
3 Golden Containers
5000 Doubloons
From the 7 Golden Containers:
RB Points X 3
Free XP Red Boosters x 2
Credit Red Boosters x 1
and....
Hawaii, which is what I was after all along.
So a total of 14 ships for a $150 cost plus birthday doubloons, but I also made 12500 in doubloons and I still have a few megas left to acquire from my Tier X ships.
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I was extremely lucky - I took my post down earlier as I didn't realise I had broken rule #1 🤦♂️
Bought my first ever Ultra gift today with the money I had saved from not spending on Black Friday.
Out of that I got:
● Tier V - Rio De Janeiro ● Tier VI - Jurua ● Tier VII - Yukon ● Tier VII - FR25 ● Tier VII - Poltava ● Tier VIII - Constellation ● Tier VIII - Anchorage ● Tier X - Carnot
And 5 golden gift containers, mostly with Steel and Research Bureau points...
The last Golden Container gave me Aki - which was a very pleasant surprise.
I then used the Steel I'd been saving up all year for Bourgogne (my first Steel ship actually purchased from the armoury), with the intentions of buying Hawaii with the remaining Steel I'd accumulate during the Steel Fleet event. I had claimed all the festive rewards for my ships today, and had just enough tokens to exchange 1 mega gift container - it was a golden one.
It was only bloody Hawaii. So now I have both the Steel ships I wanted, for the price of one (Bourgogne with Coupon) and a third bonus Steel ship with Aki. I am extremely lucky I guess...
I also used my well-earned coal for Philippe Auboyneau for the Bourgogne, and then Neustrashimy also!
What a day!
I bought 8 ultras, got 1 golden container and 2 ships. I was hoping for Hawaii or Bremen, didn’t expect to pull BELFAST! I also got Sun-Yat-Sen.
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So i guess im happy :D
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20 Megas got me Bremen, Indomitable and Royal Sovereign. I'm more than happy with that!
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11 Megas from my Festive Tokens, got these rewards.
I just want the Royal Sovereign man.
Was thrilled to hear it came to the game as it’s one of my favorite British warships, couldn’t get it or Arkhangelsk when they came out. Now is my second chance and it just isn’t happening. 8 ultra crates, 20 megas, and the smattering of free standards, I’ve gotten a ton of premiums but not the one I actually want 😭
All this talk about "steel ships from Ultra crates" made me think "maybe I will get lucky too!".
It did not, 20 Ultra crates, zero steel ship, only a T9 Velos, T8 Eskimo, T8 russian sub and a T5 Fujin.
Just to curb the expectations, crates are still a scam, and if you get a T10 ship from it, consider yourself FUCKING LUCKY!
Truth.
I whaled 20 Ultra crates after buying all missing coal ships: super disappointed to only get 4 ships (basically, Benham). And 8 Golden crates, but zero ship there. Definitely bad gamble: it's not always winning guys.
I have bought 5 ultra containers and 10 mega containers, and my luck compared to last year is… mid? I got Constellation and Ferrante Gonzaga which are interesting ships, and I also got 15k steel which is nice? But idk lowkey was hoping for more.
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Im ok with this altho Hawaii would been nice.
Just got the Prinz Eugen from a Veteran Recruiting Station container.
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Big crate from the 2nd level event pass was kind to me
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Opened up one of the first of my Mega Gift boxes I got from all my X snowflakes
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Don't think I can top this one
Just got the first Christmas pass done, bougt the second reward track and Got Guiseppe Verdi, Collingwood and California.
I like battleships, but i can't say any of those are peculiarly interesting to me? Guiseppe maybe.
All from the battlepass, free + paid. Got smolensk on December 1, while Sibir arrives on December 6, and I believe my pass level at that time was only level 16 or 17. Very happy!
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Late update. I got Victoria in a regular Santa crate today through the event pass.
Very unexpected.
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Eyyy thats all for me folks
Bought 20 Mega Containers, got 12K coal, some misc economic boosters and 5 ships, 2 that I had never heard of:
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Broke down and bought 20 "Ultra Containers" hoping to get some ships I'll actually use. I got more coal than I could keep track of, probably 100K or so, lots of red economic boosters, and 4 "Golden" containers. From 1 of those I got the Bremen which was lucky since I already have the Aki and Hawaii, I was afraid I'd get a different version of one of those. I'll attach a screenshot of the other ships in my port using "sort by snowflake". The T9 Navarin is my favorite because I like brawling BB's and it does a fairly good job. The T8 RU BB Borodino has just 6 barrels all up front. It's OK, I wasn't terribly impressed the 1st few battles. The Bremen has amazing DPM if you can keep it alive. I've done 1 Asym battle and stayed at range doing 154K damage. The other ships I haven't outfitted yet.
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I finally got my white whale!
Well Merry Xmas from Wargaming. For the 1st time I bought the standard Santa Containers, 20 for $17.99 USD. I've bought a number of Ultra and Mega containers but not the basic ones. I just wanted signals and economic boosters. I got a T9 DD Minegumo, which I had planned on buying with doubloons using the coupon, and I got the T8 CA Tiger '59.
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My last container of the season gave me a golden gift which opened up with a Hawaii so I am quite content, as opposed to last Christmas when I got only one ship and it was Yahagi or something of that nature.
Also looted Gonzaga, Toulon and Poltava.
So I've been extremely lucky in getting Santa Gifts this year. On the paid daily rewards track I got the mega gift on day 1 and then regular gifts on days 2 and 3. One of the small gifts even gave me a golden container. So far I've opened 17 regular gifts, 1 mega gift, and 1 golden container. And I've got...
*checks notes*
Ah, yes. 0 ships.
well just to update from my post last week. spent the 50k dubloons on the santa gift boxes. 1 tier 7 battleship, 2 T6 subs, 1 T8 cruiser, 1 T5 cruiser, 3k steel, 5k dubs and a bunch of flags i'll never need.
I can't believe people would spend actual money on this. That was like $500 in containers and the results are crazy bad.
Ise
Got RI and AK in the same drop.
I obviously will not be getting anything else, for the rest of Santa time.
First ship that for from the regular containers was a Hildebrand, so I'm perfectly happy with this so far.
I filled the tree got the free sign on, advent & event pass etc containers and picked up 30 festive tokens (6 megas). Pulled a load of junk PLUS Hawaii and a JupIter 42 so not too bad!.
So far:
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AND:
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On top came: Mysore, Florida, Weimar and Picardie as well as three Golden Gifts from 1x 20 Mega and 1x 20 Standard Gifts (all for dubs)
Bought 9 Super gifts and 5 Mega. I think Bremen is the best that I've got. Also got Hizen, Haida, Velos, and 180 days of premium. I'm not sure if all of this costs that much, but I'm somewhat happy.
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Did get a Cambridge out of my free megas today. Not great not terrible I guess. Feels decently strong for T9.
Bought the 150 dub mega crate from the dailies and got Jupiter 42.
Funny enough, last year I got Johnston from the satan containers (as FTP), and then they added GQ Johnny, so odds are, there’s gonna be a FTP version of Jupiter released, watch
Happy Holidays All! My first even where ive spent a decent amount on this game :)
If anyone has recommendations out of this list I got for what ships are fun n such im all ears, I dont have much research on anything other than the t10s i pulled :)
88 Santa Ultra Crates
X Rhode Island
X Bremen
X Aki
X Hawaii
IX Sun Yat-Sen
IX Jager
IX Z-44
VIII Wiesbaden
VIII I-56
VIII Theseus
VIII S-189
VIII Wichita
VII Boise
VII Fr25
VII Arkhangelsk
VII Hyuga
VII Collingwood
VII Weimar
VII California
VII Nueve De Julio
VII Maya
VII Yukon
VII Rodney
VII Jupiter '42
VII Ashitaka
VII Tokachi
VII F. Ferruccio
VI London
VI Mutsu
VI Jurua
VI T-61
VI Gallant
VI Orion '44
V Okhotnik
God knows how many red boosters, coal and steel i got xD
5 ships out of 40 crates, 1 in 8, it used to be 1 in 4 for me. Not bad. Also 2 golden which I haven’t opened yet.
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Free certificates containers from TX:
Arkhangelsk, Tsurugi, Picardie, Montcalm and Provorniy.
Reposting this...
If you want to gamble, then do so. I have the money and can buy many more if I want but I bought 20 mega containers, and my pulls are very poor. I got one ship the Tier 7 F. Ferrucio, 360 days premium time, and the rest are blue and red boosters. That was it. Spend wisely. For me I am done.
Spent $150 USD on 20 "Ultra Containers". Got a total of 7 ships plus lots and lots of coal, enough to buy any coal ship other than that British CA. Also got 180 days of premium. Three "Golden" containers which only yielded red boosters. Around 7500 dubs also in the 20 crates.
Ship List:
T9 BB "Sun Yat-Sen" (Pan Asian)
T8 CV "Colossus" (British)
T8 BB "Flandre" (French)
T7 BB "Arkhangelsk" (Russian)
T6 DD "Jurua" (Pan American)
T6 CA "Orion '44" (British)
T6 Sub "Xin Zhong Guo 14" (Pan-Asian) This was a surprise, I'm a big sub player and hadn't even heard of this sub.
Bought 20 Megas using my 10th anniversary gold.
No Musashi, Benham or Smaland, but I am pretty happy overall given I have spent nothing to obtain these boats. And with my certificates, steel, and coal, I may be able to get another boat or two.
e: Since then, I received a surprise Bremen from a normal Santa Crate (Golden Crate), bought Azuma and Tulsa with my excess coal, and am a few days away from getting Valparaiso for steel using the coupon.
So that's 8 (soon to be 9) free ships from this year's event at absolutely zero real money cost.
PSA: if you are whaling Golden ships from Golden boxes, open them 1 by 1. Reason is, when you get all Holly Trinity (10% chance to drop one), Roma Aeterna and Golden versions drop chance Goes from .0001 to 10%. I'm taking this path.
I whaled for the first time ever. 40 ultras, 60 megas.
Looooaaads of shjps, steel, enough rxp to push me to get Irrestible. Need to figure if the steel pushed me kver any thresholds.
Notable ships: Bremen, Hawaii, Sibir and Kami R.
Worthy mention: G Verde, Jager and z44.
Im feeling very happy with my haul. Hawaii is incredible. A colbert with armour?! Oh lord save me, got 409k (ops) first game. Didnt expect Sibir tho, i heard it was good but i never looked at it cos it was in such a stupid event.
bought 40 x Santa Mega containers.
Got 5 ships, so below average. I should be getting 20 more Santa Mega containers via snowflakes so hopefully that luck changes.
On the other hand, those 40 Mega containers gave me 7 x Golden Gift containers and one of them gave the Breman :)
So: RNG givith, RNG takith away :p
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12 free megas from my T10 collection, + 2*8 packs of megas + 1 ultra.
Also got the S-189 from a BP container.
All in all, not great, not terrible, though I guess WG really wants me to play subs
The goldens dropped steel, RP and some red boosters
I spent all my voyage tokens/doubloons on Mega containers and all my festive tokens. I got 9 Golden containers from them, the pity drop is at 10.
Santa crates 2025 thread
From 40 mega crates + 20 ultra crates & few mega from dubloons
Golden gift: T10 Bremen
Crates: T10 Incheon T10 Monmouth T10 Hildebrand T9 Suzuya T9 Taihang T9 Cambridge T8 Proworny T7 Arkhangelsk
So far I got every possible ship from the santa crates, I'm just missing the golden gift one except for Bremen.
Opened 89 Mega Santa containers.
8 Golden crates - one dropped X Aki
20 ships, most notable are IX Benham, VIII Anhalt
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Any good?
Um, well, uh, yeah, so, um….no.
Here is my semi-whaling statistics.
12 free mega
+ 120 bought mega
+ 20 bought ultra
The last ~80 mega are opened after I exhausted the lowest tier pool
Got all 3 steel will ships.
Only 2 ships from the rare pool: Jean bart and Kamikaze R. Kamikaze R is a bad drop since I already have Fujin.
I think my luck is average.
I initially bought 40 Ultras and then bought another 20 Ultras after I realized that the first 40 had cleared out the lowest tier. I got incredibly lucky in terms of number of ship drops: 28 from the Ultras + 2 from the Goldens. And, I got 25k doubloons (+ the hundreds of red booster, quite a bit of coal and commander xp).
So, my effective cost per ship was $11.67.
I’m quite happy, but now I need to stop. ;-)