Neustrashimy, please! You never ever played it, should come before other ships you featured multiple times ;) Thanks! I know it's not a ship you have a strong interest in (relatively poor accuracy on the guns), however the torps are insane when you make them work, and you got the concealment for it. I personally build it for torps, however the superheal still allows you to pick up fights with gunboats DDs and survive, which is quite unique. Build it for guns, and you'll still have a strong torpedo DD lying underneath, just with a longer reload.
Flandre next ? Maybe its just by curiosity but i'd like to see how the OG french secondary BB hold up today, mostly because its absolute bonkers now on console
@@_ORCApower_ respectfully disagree. Gascogne's secondary layout is superior and the smaller guns on both don't do a huge amount regardless. Either way he said OG and Gascogne came 1st. It's secondaries were a beast before the secondary rework, the German BCs and Massachusetts. I'm not a massive fan of Flandre, it struggles a lot when not top tier. I won't pretend Gascogne is the most competitive ship, but I find it a lot of fun.
What I miss about Zao is the rudder shift on the legendary module, you used to be able to turn out fire a full broadside and turn back in/dodge any return salvo. They nerfed that and then buffed its HP a bit when it was considered "weak" which didn't do anything to compensate.
Zaō was my first tier 10 ship. I noticed how I later really missed its accuracy when researching other ship lines. Very good ship to learn positioning due to its vulnerability, but it's not just great for farming down bigger ships, but also great to help your DDs in cap contesting. Still one of my favourite ships.
It ran entire flanks. It would turn back entire BB divs. Nothing like watching 2 yammies and a montana with 2-3 permas turn back to spawn because of a DD and a Zao.
@@SuperCrazf back in the days i was zao main in clan wars zao + shima one cap when they were pushing i just go dark find crosfire and go ap they ither turn on me and be for my team for broadside or feel the ap of zao , dev strikes on moskvas were always lovely to watch :D
It's been years since I have played WoWs, but I have fond memories of almost all of my Japanese ships. The first year or so after Beta was a lot of fun. As a US player I was in the minority as a non-USA/all Japanese and German loyalist. Zao was a beast back then, even though Atago was my favorite CA. I would love to see PQ start a series of videos showing division play. Showcase the synergy of ship combinations. Great content sir. Keep it up.
Loved your early game positioning in both games! Pushed up, but limited risk to your ship. The 2nd game I was wondering why you weren’t going for the B cap sooner, after the one engagement with Halland, but then you addressed my question right after, so I understand not wanting to risk being out there on your own. Anyways, GG! While I’m thinking about it, I’d love to see a Halland video. Those fast torps are too much fun! And playing DDs without smoke makes things interesting.
Have 1 ritual in wows, must win 1 game in Zao before i play any other ships. And i really love this ship, is not easy farm, but is most of the time fun gaming. Can in many situations deal with all ship types.
Hell yeah brotha ! I do a similar thing. ALWAYS a Cruiser but between T5 Marbrohed, T6 GrafSpee , T7 Southern Draggin' ,T8 Cleav'nd , T9 Rigga , or T10 Hindiburger . Then i start th grind for a while, but then i like to end onna high note w/ more CA's !!!
Zao... the ship that needs the buff hammer BAD, but is so much fun to play because of the challenge it gives you. Objective oriented, it struggles but as a sniper and counter-assassin, its great.
I have seen a video, not sure if yours or not, that mentioned Zao is no longer long range HE spammer, but now mid range. I have been away from the game a bit, what was changed to change this away from being a HE kite ship?
I personally consider Zao to still be a strong cruiser in tier 10. It requires skill to get the best out of it. But its main weakness is that it doesn’t have some of the other abilities like radar that allows other ships to have more impact. In that regard is similar to Yoshino and even Yodo
Zao, is not bad on AP you know. On all IJN CAs Zao has the best AP amongs them. Even on pair with Yoshino. Zao is quite universal when it comes to HE and AP. She is a mix with both. She does reasonable HE damage, AP damage is also spicy. Basically it is a ship with pretty good at adapting in the battle. Broadside Des Moines? Accurate AP will do the trick. Seeing a BB trying to push? Spam the HE that has decent fire chance and damage. Seeing BBs getting too close? Tactical retreat with Torpedoes Love Kiss.
Was wondering if u tried going on legends in a while they added zao and most of the high tier ships from pc including the British bcs and zao and brisbane and many others and Salem and dm its pretty fun. We got Venezia napoli Vermont and few others and out petro is super op and fun They also fixed spawns and moved the ships back on legends too
I think the ijn ca line is great, cl line lacks dpm and shell Velocity in my opinion, but the cas are extremely good. T6 and t7 are highpoints i think t8 is very difficult bc you still have only 300m more range than t6 and no spotter, but t9 then, yes lacks shell velocity but the gun angles are best in line and the dpm ist still as in the Rest of the line extremely good and zao is just top tier, only underrated bc people dont know how to dodge, i build my zao with ruddershift instead of conceal, absolute monster, very often 2 mio pot bc i dont get hit at 14km plus unless the enemy player is quite good or i misplay
You have to unlock the reaserch section. Basicaly you have to regrind a line and buy them again to unlock research points. Its the most grindy part of the game. Cant recommand doing it.
I love my Zao, my average dmg is 150k+. But she is pretty pain in ass in 2024. 20:11 look at this, an example for Zao experience in this days. Yes, she is a cruiser. Yes Ohio has big guns but man she has worst angles, small HP pool etc.
I would like to request Siliwangi, It feels like an odd DD to play & I see it's getting a reload buff in 13.4. Maybe a before & after showing? Request counter: XV
Zao's turret angle limitations have 2 parts: stupid model design (nonsensical fire director support structures limit turret 3, dumb barbettte housing design of turret 3 limits turret 4) and WG's "because we said so" on top of that. In update 14 those angles are getting buffed, but that only removes the 2nd limitation. This buff should be much larger. Make Zao good again!
If Zao would be a new ship it would have good firing and torp angles, better range and speed boost of course. But since its IJN it could also be an absolute pos like Yodo.
Hello guys, i'm thinking about a new coal ship for me and maybe u can give an advice hah Of course u don't know my playstyle etc but what i'm thinking about is Napoli or one of dds (Marceau, Sherman or Hayate) If you could recommend something that would be great hah
Ive got Nap, Mar and Sherma. My pick is Marceau 1st, Napoli 2nd she is also great but I found her harder to get to grips with (im DD main)...both of these are engaging fun ships which I found Sherman is not, I never play Sherman and wouldnt rceomend her, she a SAP gimick ship for me. My view is the Nap does need a high level commander to get the most out of her secondaries etc. but marceau can still be effective with a 10 point comm. Both are great in com.
Well it still suffers from the crap curse of getting straight up cits if AP shells touch it from any angle..DM is a great improvement over it in reload and armour..other than that it's good in the punchiness of shells
Neustrashimy, please! You never ever played it, should come before other ships you featured multiple times ;)
Thanks!
I know it's not a ship you have a strong interest in (relatively poor accuracy on the guns), however the torps are insane when you make them work, and you got the concealment for it. I personally build it for torps, however the superheal still allows you to pick up fights with gunboats DDs and survive, which is quite unique. Build it for guns, and you'll still have a strong torpedo DD lying underneath, just with a longer reload.
you will get it in Coal ships review tho
Have been asking for it a couple of times, but it never got traction. Maybe this time.
@@CheshireTheFat I've been asking too.... I think he's just not interested
@@travelwell8098 he's most likely gonna put it in the coal ship's 2024 vids
@@travelwell8098 He is not, or so I think, but democracy... ;-)
Flandre next ?
Maybe its just by curiosity but i'd like to see how the OG french secondary BB hold up today, mostly because its absolute bonkers now on console
Then you want to see Gascogne not Flandre.
FLANDRE SEC BUILD pls
@@Joshua-fi4ji flandre is more on sec today than gascogne
Wait a ship request based on how it plays on another version of the game? Lmao
@@_ORCApower_ respectfully disagree. Gascogne's secondary layout is superior and the smaller guns on both don't do a huge amount regardless.
Either way he said OG and Gascogne came 1st. It's secondaries were a beast before the secondary rework, the German BCs and Massachusetts.
I'm not a massive fan of Flandre, it struggles a lot when not top tier. I won't pretend Gascogne is the most competitive ship, but I find it a lot of fun.
What I miss about Zao is the rudder shift on the legendary module, you used to be able to turn out fire a full broadside and turn back in/dodge any return salvo. They nerfed that and then buffed its HP a bit when it was considered "weak" which didn't do anything to compensate.
Yep that was almost criminal, that nerf.
It's still in a bad place compared to the other cruisers at tier ten
Zaō was my first tier 10 ship. I noticed how I later really missed its accuracy when researching other ship lines. Very good ship to learn positioning due to its vulnerability, but it's not just great for farming down bigger ships, but also great to help your DDs in cap contesting. Still one of my favourite ships.
Zao in a division with a US DD smoking me in made for great Cap support and DD eraser.
The old stealth firing Zao was a thing to be feared.
It ran entire flanks. It would turn back entire BB divs. Nothing like watching 2 yammies and a montana with 2-3 permas turn back to spawn because of a DD and a Zao.
Thing about the Zao, if you miss a target it's because of you..not the Zao.
All the Japanese heavy cruiser line is like that, if you miss, is because of your aim, because the ships fire at the exact spot you click on.
Rip full ap zao
AP is honestly underrated on Zao, it can do good damage and get citadels on many ships
@@SuperCrazfyou know how terrible a playerbase is when a Ammo type is underrated
@@SuperCrazf back in the days i was zao main in clan wars zao + shima one cap when they were pushing i just go dark find crosfire and go ap they ither turn on me and be for my team for broadside or feel the ap of zao , dev strikes on moskvas were always lovely to watch :D
It's been years since I have played WoWs, but I have fond memories of almost all of my Japanese ships. The first year or so after Beta was a lot of fun. As a US player I was in the minority as a non-USA/all Japanese and German loyalist.
Zao was a beast back then, even though Atago was my favorite CA.
I would love to see PQ start a series of videos showing division play. Showcase the synergy of ship combinations.
Great content sir. Keep it up.
I'd like to see Vanguard next for I think it's underrated.
Yea who wants a BB with guns or armor
"Vanguard is underrated" is a meme at this point
Been a year since you've looked at the Nevsky, might as well finish up the trend of cruiser ship requests
So, well-balanced setup without "special" classes participating is a recipy for a good game? Who would've though that?
Would love to see henri in 2024
thank you for displaying the port of Marseille it s for me one the most beautiful normal for a french person who follow you
Would be nice to see Goliath, there are like no in depth Goliath videos on yt.
i'd really like to see the chikuma II next, following the hybrid cruiser trend
Same. I got super duper lucky and got it for free so of course now I’m interested in it lol.
GG. Also, I find RDF invaluable on Zao as a proper DD hunter.
Loved your early game positioning in both games! Pushed up, but limited risk to your ship. The 2nd game I was wondering why you weren’t going for the B cap sooner, after the one engagement with Halland, but then you addressed my question right after, so I understand not wanting to risk being out there on your own. Anyways, GG!
While I’m thinking about it, I’d love to see a Halland video. Those fast torps are too much fun! And playing DDs without smoke makes things interesting.
Great video today, I loved the positivity!
Have 1 ritual in wows, must win 1 game in Zao before i play any other ships. And i really love this ship, is not easy farm, but is most of the time fun gaming. Can in many situations deal with all ship types.
Hell yeah brotha ! I do a similar thing. ALWAYS a Cruiser but between T5 Marbrohed, T6 GrafSpee , T7 Southern Draggin' ,T8 Cleav'nd , T9 Rigga , or T10 Hindiburger . Then i start th grind for a while, but then i like to end onna high note w/ more CA's !!!
My lead-off hitter was Atago, but I feel you. First year of WoWs was the best of times. So much fun before WG turned it into a money printing machine
FLANDRE PLEASE WE DYING OUT HERE MAN
Day 41 waiting for Patrie secondary build.
Surely not 41 days l ao
You get to pick the ship not the playstyle ;(
Patrie takes an amount of damage that leads to a full tank build being drastically superior to a secondary build.
I run mine secondary....she nasty
@@02bigd84 I know, but this build is funny
Dang. Zao. My second t10 (after Hindenburg). This and Hindy used to be one of my favorites at t10 back in the good ole days.
Hey PQ, what kind of graphics settings and nvidia filters do you use because i want my game to look like yours?
Still my second most played ship overall...It's too bad they nerfed the UU rudder shift. The bad turret angles were more bearable with it.
can we get hurugmo next? grinding for reset.
When the Zao came out...We called it Mr. Zao...cause if you were in a DD, you did not F with Mr. Zao.
Zao... the ship that needs the buff hammer BAD, but is so much fun to play because of the challenge it gives you.
Objective oriented, it struggles but as a sniper and counter-assassin, its great.
id like to see yodo full torp build. That thing hits like a truck and has a faster reload than a shima
i love when you do your straight guy voice
Can u cover Hampshire or Plymouth? My 2 favorites
I would love to see a video on the Zieten if only because I'm about to unlock the ship and I would really like to see how it plays.
How about a Shima after Zao?
I have seen a video, not sure if yours or not, that mentioned Zao is no longer long range HE spammer, but now mid range. I have been away from the game a bit, what was changed to change this away from being a HE kite ship?
Thank you @PotatoQuality, wp Sir.!
AP on broadside US BBs. Can do a ton of damage (17k+ no cit) and no HE shatters on 38mm deck.
Ninja Zao waits behind dd's 💀
Stealth firing is what made the Blys powerful back in teh day as well.
Mogami 155, day 1 😎
I love my 155 mogami
Original post-Beta 155 Mogami was a lot of fun as long as your rudder shifts didn't outrun the glacial turret traverse.
I personally consider Zao to still be a strong cruiser in tier 10. It requires skill to get the best out of it. But its main weakness is that it doesn’t have some of the other abilities like radar that allows other ships to have more impact. In that regard is similar to Yoshino and even Yodo
So close,..... Maya Brigade! Assemble!
lol do 8km shimakaze next because apparently AL Shimakaze is a thing
Henry IV - How is it after the mobility-nerf in 2024?
I found IHFE in this case to be very useful, 42mm pen and still get 12.5% fire chance.
The whole line was buffed about a year ago and now every ship after Furutaka get DD dispersion.
Really need to see the Neustrashimy on the channel
Zao, is not bad on AP you know. On all IJN CAs Zao has the best AP amongs them. Even on pair with Yoshino. Zao is quite universal when it comes to HE and AP. She is a mix with both. She does reasonable HE damage, AP damage is also spicy. Basically it is a ship with pretty good at adapting in the battle. Broadside Des Moines? Accurate AP will do the trick. Seeing a BB trying to push? Spam the HE that has decent fire chance and damage. Seeing BBs getting too close? Tactical retreat with Torpedoes Love Kiss.
How about Indianapolis? Baltimore radar at tier 7
Weird you mention Baltimore because Balti is broken because of the stealth radar it gets and Indi doesn't
@@derrickstorm6976 Yes I know, Balti is a very good tier 8 cruiser, but I think that Indy is also pretty good, 17km range, balti radar a tier lower
Benham! Torpedoes!
Glad you noticed the Dalarna
Was wondering if u tried going on legends in a while they added zao and most of the high tier ships from pc including the British bcs and zao and brisbane and many others and Salem and dm its pretty fun. We got Venezia napoli Vermont and few others and out petro is super op and fun
They also fixed spawns and moved the ships back on legends too
Play the Chikuma II! It just recently came out, it has an incredible amount of utility, and it prints money!
what happened to asking for tiger '59 everytime?
Graf Spee with new CMD skills gets the dispersion under control, it's op
I guess there will never be Stream for the Van Speijk.Really sad.
Yo if you see this could you play the super BB devastation for the brits. I wana see if its worth buying
Mainz! Let's get some doubloon ships in here
That Dalarna in the second game had 4 kills, should have complimented him as well
Lets try wichita next, i am wondering how she is holding in 2024
Smolensk next?
Tachibana for the next request ?
any recommendation on my first steel ship
Bourgogne.
Yes get burger
Mogami is decent but Ibuki it's a shit ship. I get pretty consistent whiterer and arsonist with Zao and Yoshino
Yeah Ibuki is grindy as hell and rubbish after 155 Mogami. Very hard to get a good game in as it only has one playstyle
I think the ijn ca line is great, cl line lacks dpm and shell Velocity in my opinion, but the cas are extremely good. T6 and t7 are highpoints i think t8 is very difficult bc you still have only 300m more range than t6 and no spotter, but t9 then, yes lacks shell velocity but the gun angles are best in line and the dpm ist still as in the Rest of the line extremely good and zao is just top tier, only underrated bc people dont know how to dodge, i build my zao with ruddershift instead of conceal, absolute monster, very often 2 mio pot bc i dont get hit at 14km plus unless the enemy player is quite good or i misplay
would love to see some druid or z-52 action
Yes, I love this boat!
T H U N D E R E R 🤞🏻
The original burninator.
This matchmaking was not fun for my Balti -_- ggs
How do you unlock the legendary upgrade?
You have to unlock the reaserch section. Basicaly you have to regrind a line and buy them again to unlock research points. Its the most grindy part of the game. Cant recommand doing it.
Brick therapy?
I love my Zao, my average dmg is 150k+. But she is pretty pain in ass in 2024.
20:11 look at this, an example for Zao experience in this days. Yes, she is a cruiser. Yes Ohio has big guns but man she has worst angles, small HP pool etc.
Always bothered me that the Zao has less HP than some Tier X’s light cruisers.
I would like to request Siliwangi, It feels like an odd DD to play & I see it's getting a reload buff in 13.4. Maybe a before & after showing?
Request counter: XV
Zao got destroyer shell accuracy.
I'd appreciate some Druid gameplay!!
Zao's turret angle limitations have 2 parts: stupid model design (nonsensical fire director support structures limit turret 3, dumb barbettte housing design of turret 3 limits turret 4) and WG's "because we said so" on top of that. In update 14 those angles are getting buffed, but that only removes the 2nd limitation. This buff should be much larger. Make Zao good again!
If Zao would be a new ship it would have good firing and torp angles, better range and speed boost of course.
But since its IJN it could also be an absolute pos like Yodo.
Wait but doesn't zao have good range?Like hindy,yodo,Nevsky,Henri etc?
Would love to see the Flint.
Light House HIV would be nice to see maybe try and break JTR's record from the need for speed video on Jingle's channel
Well JTR plays Colbert and Colbert has the highest AP and HE dpms of cruisers so it will be very hard to do I suppose?
Perhaps Goliath to compare the differencea between zao and Goliath
Kii secondary build pls.
Maybe the Hector next? It's kinda a weird ship
Ah finally !
Neustrashimy! Neustrashimy! Neustrashimy!......😂
Where is my haland
Patience from zhou
Mogami with 155mm would be nice to see
Jesus...I remember when full AP Zao were a thing...
Hello guys, i'm thinking about a new coal ship for me and maybe u can give an advice hah
Of course u don't know my playstyle etc but what i'm thinking about is Napoli or one of dds (Marceau, Sherman or Hayate)
If you could recommend something that would be great hah
id go Napoli first its really useful for misiiop grind plus its a blast to play
Ive got Nap, Mar and Sherma. My pick is Marceau 1st, Napoli 2nd she is also great but I found her harder to get to grips with (im DD main)...both of these are engaging fun ships which I found Sherman is not, I never play Sherman and wouldnt rceomend her, she a SAP gimick ship for me. My view is the Nap does need a high level commander to get the most out of her secondaries etc. but marceau can still be effective with a 10 point comm. Both are great in com.
thank you, i think i'll go for Napoli first cause i think it's a bit more. Then i'lll go for Marceau
do the petro and show how it does in 2024. Btw love your vids, and keep it up (:
Petro does just fine. Had 5 mil potential damage the other day in it.
I always have an awesome dmg output with zao
The Charleston, please. :]
Lol rip full AP Zao guy
Chkalov!! Use the OP Russian CV before the rework
Nevsky would be fun
Buffalo Please! I find that ship SOO strong. The trick is to NOT use the back guns all the time..
Well it still suffers from the crap curse of getting straight up cits if AP shells touch it from any angle..DM is a great improvement over it in reload and armour..other than that it's good in the punchiness of shells
play the mecklenburg next
old name was fire stick....almost every salvo was a fire.
Xth request for Neustrashimy!! 🙂
I never see zao as a problem in games
Its always just been a minor nuisance that i gotta angle to sometimes