Preventative Maintenance Captain Skill and Priority Target on Battleships?

[Marmmadog]

Is putting Preventative Maintenance Captain skill on battleships a waste of a point and Priority Target a waste of 2 captain points? I have both on all my battleships and was wondering if I should make changes.

 

Thanks for your help and opinions.

 

Edited October 10 by Marmmadog

[Nav999]

I used to use Priority Target when I was starting out in the game but I don't use it at all anymore. I find it to be a distraction and a waste of 2 points compared to other choices. I do use Preventative Maintenance for the AA and Secondary damage protection when building for Secondaries on Battleships. With so many ships having rocket or bomber planes on them these days it is useful.

[Wolfswetpaws]

59 minutes ago, Marmmadog said:

Is putting Preventative Maintenance Captain skill on battleships a waste of a point and Priority Target a waste of 2 captain points? I have both on all my battleships and was wondering if I should make changes.

Thanks for your help and opinions.

I do use Preventative Maintenance, in the hopes of preventing something getting incapacitated at the worst possible moment.

I feel that incoming fire alert and priority target are a waste of skill points.  I cultivate my own situational awareness, instead.
I subscribe to the notion:  "Anything that can shoot at me, probably will shoot at me.  (So plan accordingly)".
 

[Wowzery]

Priority Target when it was a 1 point skill was useful, not so much as a 2 point skill.

I used to use it in random all the time.  Was handy to know how many were targeting me, especially if I wanted to make a 180 turn.  Or if I was doing my job tanking the enemy fire for my teammates.

Honestly I don't find any tier 1 skill useful for a battleship anymore. 

As for Preventative Maintenance, can't recall the last time I lost my engines or rudder in a battleship.  Secondaries, don't expect a lot of damage from those most games.  And AA, its variable to me.  If you like it use it to get to tier 2.

I wouldn't spend another point on a tier 1 skill after that.

[Wolfswetpaws]

8 minutes ago, Wowzery said:

Priority Target when it was a 1 point skill was useful, not so much as a 2 point skill.

I used to use it in random all the time.  Was handy to know how many were targeting me, especially if I wanted to make a 180 turn.  Or if I was doing my job tanking the enemy fire for my teammates.

Honestly I don't find any tier 1 skill useful for a battleship anymore. 

As for Preventative Maintenance, can't recall the last time I lost my engines or rudder in a battleship.  Secondaries, don't expect a lot of damage from those most games.  And AA, its variable to me.  If you like it use it to get to tier 2.

I wouldn't spend another point on a tier 1 skill after that.

Out of curiosity, do you use "Grease the Gears"?

[Unlooky]

2 hours ago, Marmmadog said:

Is putting Preventative Maintenance Captain skill on battleships a waste of a point and Priority Target a waste of 2 captain points? I have both on all my battleships and was wondering if I should make changes.

 

Thanks for your help and opinions.

 

Short answer: yes

 

Long answer:

Preventative maintenance can be useful on secondary battleships but if you actively use both ammo types gun feeder is preferable. I believe I only take it on Schlieffen and Kremlin (to not have all my AA removed in two salvos.) 

Priority target on battleships is absolutely worthless. There are many decent two points skills, but PT is not one of them. Brisk, Grease the Gears, even that AA skill is more useful (if only for the consumable cooldown.) 

[Wowzery]

53 minutes ago, Wolfswetpaws said:

Out of curiosity, do you use "Grease the Gears"?

Absolutely, on all battleships.  For me that is mandatory. 

[Wolfswetpaws]

35 minutes ago, Wowzery said:

1 hour ago, Wolfswetpaws said:

Out of curiosity, do you use "Grease the Gears"?

Absolutely, on all battleships.  For me that is mandatory. 

Thanks.

[Marmmadog]

Yes I do take grease the gears on all my battleships

 

[BOBTHEBALL]

18 hours ago, Marmmadog said:

Is putting Preventative Maintenance Captain skill on battleships a waste of a point and Priority Target a waste of 2 captain points? I have both on all my battleships and was wondering if I should make changes.

 

Thanks for your help and opinions.

 

I feel like PE is not a waste of points however PT is. Imo at least. There are much better 2p skills (Brisk and GTG)

[Taylor3006]

21 hours ago, Marmmadog said:

Yes I do take grease the gears on all my battleships

I am just going to mention I take GtG on almost all of my BBs. The only exceptions are the French and British BBs that have just turrets up front like Nelson and Dunkerque. It is pretty easy to keep their guns on target just by small maneuvers of the ship.   BTW to the OP, I always take Priority Target because it is a cheap skill and when you play against bots, it is really nice to know how many have you targeted. However, I tend only to take one of the 4 point skills since I only play against bots.

Edited October 11 by Taylor3006

[mashed68]

I take PM on all BB's. It helps all modules, not just aa and secondaries. 

I do not normally take grease the gears. It its the German BC line I need IFHE instead. On the Pan American BB's I'm going for torp protection/detection since they are ships meant to push in to the danger zone. Some ships, like Massachusettes [which already has great torp protection] and British BB's with glacial turrets do get grease the gears. 

[BOBTHEBALL]

10 hours ago, mashed68 said:

On the Pan American BB's I'm going for torp protection/detection since they are ships meant to push in to the danger zone. 

That skill is honestly basically not ever worth taking

[Admiral_Karasu]

25 minutes ago, BOBTHEBALL said:

That skill is honestly basically not ever worth taking

Why? It's ineffective or there's better use for those points?

[BOBTHEBALL]

8 minutes ago, Admiral_Karasu said:

Why? It's ineffective or there's better use for those points?

Mix of both

[Kynami]

Ehh. Vigilance is admittedly niche, but there are at least a couple ships where I have used it to decent effect. Mainly for some of the British or Commonwealth ships where reducing the amount of irreparable damage you can take from torpedoes aerial or otherwise extends the value of your improved heals. But yes you are directly competing with Brisk and GtG for what you slot in that row generally.

[mashed68]

Increasing my torp spotting by 25% is a good skill imo. The pan american bb's have the rudder shift and propulsion reaction time to really take advantage of it. 

[Unlooky]

11 hours ago, BOBTHEBALL said:

That skill is honestly basically not ever worth taking

I think its worth it on immobile tanky BBs with fast turret traverse (aka Kremlin and thats it lmao)