Niord Dockyard Progress Thread (PVE)

[AdmiralThunder]

As I usually do, I am starting a progress thread for the new dockyard ship for PVE mains. This go round it's the T9 EU Premium BB Niord. Only 20 phases that aren't too bad (other than week 8's 99,000 BXP task!!!!). Starter packs and phase cost are on the expensive side this time. We also get the new T5 EU Premium DD Kalmar as a midway point reward ship.

Per my usual I purchased both starter packs (one way I get Steel seeing as I do not play the PVP modes that give it). Not sure I will collect that final token compensation that calls for 99K BXP, but the rest won't be too bad. This meant I got the T5 DD this week when I finished.

Week 1 is in the books and was super easy. Only needed 6 games (2 Georgia / 3 Dalian / 1 Shinano). Could have been 4 but fell just short and needed an extra game in Georgia and Dalian for their respective tasks. Still, 6 is great. Shinano was a mop up of the damage task for the final one needed.

So, week 1 out of the way. Wish all the weeks were this easy LOL but obviously it will get harder as we go. Doesn't look like a horrendous dockyard though. More medium difficulty other than week 8.

Week 1:

• Win 2 Games
• 6 Kills
• 400,000 Damage
• 34,000 XP
• 330 Ribbons (BB)
• 450 Ribbons (CL/CA)

Edited November 27, 2024 by AdmiralThunder

[Asym]

I'm done with it as well.

[Efros]

Likewise, fairly painless. I notice we got another one of those get achievements with COOP being an allowed mode.

Mission 2 in the 5th set of missions

[Wowzery]

13 minutes ago, Efros said:

Likewise, fairly painless. I notice we got another one of those get achievements with COOP being an allowed mode.

Mission 2 in the 5th set of missions

I saw that.  Wondered how a player can get achievements in coop mode.

[AdmiralThunder]

32 minutes ago, Wowzery said:

I saw that.  Wondered how a player can get achievements in coop mode.

Can't unless they plan to add a temporary one or set.

[oldblackdog]

1 hour ago, Efros said:

Likewise, fairly painless. I notice we got another one of those get achievements with COOP being an allowed mode.

Fortunately, it's not a token misson....

[MidnightPhoenix07]

1 hour ago, Wowzery said:

I saw that.  Wondered how a player can get achievements in coop mode.

Most likely it's the same reason we've sometimes gotten caps/assists/defends missions with ops as an eligible mode. The eligible modes seem to only have a few variations (for example, random/ranked only, all modes without CB, all modes with CB, etc), and they're enabled without necessarily confirming that the mode can actually complete the mission. It also lists brawls, and I don't think there are any achievements in brawls either, or at least there weren't the last time I played it. 

If you want to do that mission without touching pvp modes, you'll have to do it in ops. And if you're decent at ops, that shouldn't be too difficult to complete (either with a competent team or a pre-formed division).

[Efros]

I'm not bothered by it, I also have no intention of doing that mission, it just seemed to be another example of WG not checking their copy before publishing.

[Captain Slattery]

Easy first week.  I got done in 2 days with minimal effort.  Since I'm fully FTP, I'm just grabbing up what free stuff I can.  I'd like to get to phase 13 or 14 if I can.

[Wowzery]

I thought shooting down 20 planes would be harder.  Did 30 in my first game, got lucky in the Anhalt.  Even managed to get 2 torpedo hits in it and a spotted ribbon.

This week will just be a FXP grind in any ship I want.

[AdmiralThunder]

Week 2 done whilst doing flakes. Feels odd not to focus the tasks with the best ships, which makes it go way faster, but it got done eventually. I did cheat a bit and used Kaga for one game to do the spots and torp hits vs letting them happen as they came during flakes. Just wanted them out of the way. The rest just as I went along with flakes.

• 7 Spotted
• 11 Torpedo Hits
• 450 Main Gun Hits
• 20 Plane Kills
• 4500 FXP (BB)
• 4500 FXP (DD)

[Wrath_of_Deadguy]

I must've completed the week 1 missions without even noticing, because they were all done when I finally bothered to look.

I'm probably just going to play for Kalmar, and not bother with the big-ticket final reward this time- unless I get within spitting distance of it as a result of shoveling snowflakes, that is. Nothing about Niord really speaks to me.

[Efros]

The missions for the most part seemed to just complete themselves, the only one I consciously took note of was the 4500 FXP BB one as I was focussing all my efforts on cruisers to get the 7 festive rewards,  games in Kii, Massachusetts and its black clone and it was completed.

[Arcus_Aesopi]

Week 2 was over before I noticed with snowflake clearing and Operations.   4500 FXP is one (successful) Op with blues.  The main gun hits mission is nerfed in ops, but since I needed to knock a RB thing and snowflake off of Akizuki in co-op... Done: I do love the fast firing Harugumo line once one gets to Akizuki! 🙂

[utgotye]

Are we expecting Asym to show up as an option for at least some or all of the missions?  Even gimped like operations?  I certainly won't be playing nearly as much Asym if I can't use it to move the dockyard missions forward.

Edited December 9, 2024 by utgotye

[Efros]

Played 5 games this morning, completed one of the dockyard missions and it looks as if the rest might be done today. Very ungrindy.

Edited December 11, 2024 by Efros

[CFagan_1987]

4 hours ago, Efros said:

Played 5 games this morning, completed one of the dockyard missions and it looks as if the rest might be done today. Very ungrindy.

Do Asymmetric battles count? 

[Efros]

1 hour ago, CFagan_1987 said:

Do Asymmetric battles count? 

Apart from the last one all of this weeks are doable in asymm.

[Efros]

Few more games and finished my dailies noticed I only needed 4 floods to finish the dockyard for the week, two Jinan games and a couple of pissed off Schlieffens I was spawned with later and it was done. I guess they want the monopoly on an obscene number of torps in the water at anyone time.

[destruktomatik]

I’m almost done with this week’s missions, just one more halfway decent op in Worcester and I’ll have the cruiser portion done and the 6th mission done

 

The dd mission and the flooding mission was pretty easy with the Fletcher in asymmetric, only took three battles (it would’ve been two but the second one was mostly dds on the red team)

[utgotye]

Four CV games in Asym got me to 4/6 last night.  I'll play something else this afternoon to finish it off.

[Wowzery]

Finished this week.  Harder mission, flooding.  Had a streak of 15 torpedo hits with 0 floodings.

[AdmiralThunder]

Just got around to doing this week's dockyard missions tonight. Only 6 games to finish (2X Libertad / 1X Schlieffen / 2X Dalian / 1X Agir). Might have been the easiest week so far?

• 16 Fires
• 8 Floods
• 850 Ribbons
• 62,000 Capt XP
• 500 MBH/SBH (BB)
• 650 MBH/SBH (Cruiser)

[utgotye]

18 hours ago, utgotye said:

Four CV games in Asym got me to 4/6 last night.  I'll play something else this afternoon to finish it off.

One accidental Los Andes game  in Asym finished it off.  I can relax and farm Asym stuff for the next 4-5 days.

[tm63au]

Finished section 3 of the Dockyard, will have to wait around for 5 days for the next exciting instalment of 

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