Deadeye gives you 10% buff to accuracy which is about 20+% reduction of your dispersion ellipse area. They blat things harder than anything else. Fire Prevention is working everytime a HE shell hits you.ĭeadeye (NOTE - IT'S BEING REMOVED SOON) is a straight buff to the number 1 job of a BB - guns.īBs job isn't actually tanking, it's gunnery. If you are wondering why Fire Prevention and not ERE basically the frequency that you get benefits out of that skill for 4 points is limited. The only ships you want to build for that are those who are AA beasts (Halland) or have excess skills to spare (Mysore). Your modules are ok but I'd swap Artillery Plotting 1 (slot 3) for Turret Traverse and run Spotter plane instead of Fighter.įighter doesn't stop CVs dropping you, AA skills and things don't stop CVs dropping on you. (10) Concealment Expert, (14) Deadeye, (18) Fire Prevention (6) Adrenaline Rush, (21) Basics of Survivability Something wrong with my builds and Captain skills?

I frequently compare Iowa to NC in the review, Massa is a more secondary-focused and less main-guns focused but is otherwise similar to NC. I have a full review below, updated Captain Skills are pinned in the Comments. If you can focus on the gunnery over absorbing damage, Iowa can be good. Iowa is not, she just isn't as tanky as her peers and is more of a mobile fire support platform. Her main guns are also far less accurate than Iowa and can be harder to land thanks to that slower shell travel time.īUT Massa is extremely strong tier-for-tier being one of the top BBs at Tier 8. What you are probably finding is that because of her slower shells, Massa can get plunging fire more often OR possibly she overmatches more enemies she sees thanks to being a tier lower. Massa actually doesn't have as much pen and has slower shells. Massa is more forgiving to play thanks to being tankier tier-for-tier and a quicker cooldown on her heal. Ok there's a little bit going on here tier for tier and Massa is a poor comparison. Really regretted WASTING my EPOCH Tier 9 perm camo on the IOWA, should have used it on better Cruisers.

Really hate the IOWA, even Massa pens better and main guns deal MORE damage.

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