Running loot results for entire holiday event

[paradat]

Edit: Will add 2021 for comparison to last year.

Pretty much the same strat as the years before. Max out the free stuff. Pay some in the dockyard and possibly buy some crates toward the end.

So far:

Events:

New years Night:

Collection event, unique commanders, big santa crate, earn star tokens to buy unique Santa commanders 10 skills, perma camo for 3 tier 5 ships. 

New Year fleet:

1x tier 8 perma camo, 4 tier6 tech tree ships with perma camo, 3x 6 skill commanders, 1x 10 skill santa commander.

Snowflakes: Done

Dockyard:

Purchased two starter packs.

Christmas preparations:

18 days of free stuff including 1k coal, 1 day premium, 50 dubs, 12 new years sky, 3 winter strands, 3 frosty tree, 3 new years streamer, 3 type 3 new year, 3 new year, 4 santa gift crate. 

News from the front:

4 Santa gift containers

Santa crates Free: 

Santa crate: 15

1,8 - 8 new years sky camo

2,3 - 10 type 3 new year camo

4,10,14- 7500 Coal

5- 5 Wyvern

6 -50 equal speed charlie london

7,12, - 8 new year streamer

9,11,15- 150 Zulu Hotel

12- 5 Leviathan

Santa crate Big Free: 4

1, - 15 Wyvern flags

2 - 2,500 dubs

3 - 15 Hydra

4 - 90 days premium.

Santa crates Mega Free: 12

1,9 - 40 new year sky

2,12- 60 Hydra

3 - 20 Winter strands

4 - 25 New year

5,6- 60 Red Dragon

6- Jurua

7 - 30 Wyvern

8 - 12,500 Coal

11- 15 Dragon

Santa crates purchased:

Mega: 120

1,8,34,40,72,81,84,82,93,95,97,106,107,114,115,116 - 320 New year sky

2,41,42,44,82,89,103,109- 240 Leviathan

3 - Munchen

4,39,50,71 - 120 Basilisk

5,31,35,50,59,62,63,73,77 - 22,500 dubs

6 - Flint

7,36- 10 Asian lantern

104 - 5 Spring Sky

9,17,86 - 90 Scylla

10, 12,38,60,64,65,112 - 72,500 Coal

11 - Leone

13,18,30,32,66,78,90,101- 220  Hydra

14,57,75,85- 90 Red Dragon

15,53,96,98,102,105- 180 Dragon

16,24,54,79,83- 150 Oroboros

19,33,56,111 - 100 New year

20,43,48,100- 120 Wyvern

21,51,68, - 75 type 3 New year

22, 23,67,80- 80 New year streamer

25,28,45,46,49,52,61,92- 140 Frosty fir tree

26- Agincourt

27- Hyuga (Last of the low tier ships)

29 - Z-44

47- Tiger 59

37- Borodino

55- Fenyang

69- P Bagration

70- Groningen

74,94,117- 60 Winter strands

76- Marceau

87- Smalland

91-180 days premium

99- Indomitable

108 - Hayate

110- Wichita

113 - Neutrashimy

118- Belfast 43

119- Orkan

120- Cheshire

2020

OK well I did this in a note book last year and since we are sharing results thought I would start a running total just to add to the data. I will not add all of the missions and campaigns since those results will be the same for everyone. Will include the dockyard.

Goals: Maximize the free stuff. Get enough steel for Shikishima (with coupon). Get enough Coal for Yoshino. Resupply camo, flags, and prem time.

Methods: Complete all the event Campaigns. Get the most value out of the Dockyard possibly drop cash on this for extra Research points and steel. Max out the fleet size to take advantage of the snow flake event. Potentially buy some crates after the free stuff is over and opened. Max out the free stuff from the twitch events.

So far:

Events:

New years supplies:

12 days of free stuff including 2k coal, 2 Santa crates, 1 big crate and other various goodies. Done.

Dockyard: 

Tachibana or credits, Yahagi or doubloons, Santa crate, big crate, mega crate, Hizen, 2k steel, 10k plus coal, tier 8 perma camo, piles of flags and camo. Done.

In Pursuit of Strasbourg:

Tier 7 Battleships Strasbourg, assorted flags camo and credits Done

Ships and Fates: 

5 tier 5 ships with perma camo 6 point commanders, 5 Santa crates, assorted flags and camo. (Not much time to do this unless you buy Strasbourg) Done.

Cinemarathon missions:

4 Santa crates and other goodies. Done.

Santa's Eve:

3 sets of missions for misc goodies including 4,500 coal and a tier 8 perma camo. Done.

Winter trophies:

Free daily drops in the Armory including 2 free Santa crates and up to 2k in coal. Done.

Advent Calendar:

24 Daily free drops on web site so far sets of x3 flags. Santa Container and a Big Santa Container. Done.

Snowflake Event:

84,800 coal! 7875 Steel! and 42 Santa crates! (not counting clan bonus) Done.

Santa Crates Free: 65

1,13,20,34,4,46,53,54,64 - 90x free XP

2,3,7,8,33,51,57,61 - 400 papa papa flags

15,27,28,38,55,56- Zulu 300

4,15,16,18,23,24,26,47,60 - 400 Zulu Hotel

5,10,11,21,29,30,37,29,40 - 36 Frosty tree camo

6,14,17,32,43,58- 24 New year streamer camo

19- 4 Type 3 New year camo

42,48,59 -  15 New year camo

9,22,50,52,63 - 1500 dubs

25,35,36,44,92 - 12,500 Coal

31,45,65- 12 Winter strands camo

Big Crates Free: 6

1 - Tier 8 CA Bayard 

2- 7,500 Coal

3 - 15 Basilisk

4 -Tier 8 BB Champagne

5,6- 30 Dragon

Mega Crates Free: 2

1 -  20 New year streamer

2 - 2,000 dubs

Santa Crates: 

Big Crates:

1 - 15 Ouroboros

2- 15 Scylla

3,19 - 2,000 dubs

4,18 - 30 Basilisk

5 - 7,500 Coal

6,7,10,11 - 60 Type 3 New year

8,13,20 - 36 Frosty tree

9 - 15 Red Dragon

12,15 - 24 New year streamer

14 - 15 Leviathan

16 - 15 New year

17 - Tier 7 BB Poltava

 

Mega Crates: 20

1,2,15 - 6,000 Dubs

3 - Tier 8 CA Ochakov

4,11 - 60 Dragon

5,6 - 50 type 3 New year camo

7 - 20 Winter Strands camo

8 - Tier 8 DD Z-35

9,13,18 - 37,500 coal

10 - 30 Red Dragon 

12,14 - 40 Frosty Tree camo

16 - 30 Leviathan

17 - 5 Spring Sky camo

19 - 30 Baskilisk

20- 25 New year

Dock Yard:

Misc notable loot:

Super container - 50 European camo

Super container - 14 days premium

Tier 8 Perma camo x1

Purchases: 

Ark Royal for 6k dubs

E Loewenhardt for 4725 dubs (used coupon)

Purchased the 10 phases and 4 phases for the dock yard about $50 (the dubs were discounted)

Purchased the basic Strasbourg. Will get 9500 dubs back so net cost is just under $2. 

Purchased 20 Mega containers ($75)

Purchased 20 Big with dubs discounted with the dubs from the other crates.

 

Ships I am missing from the main list: 15 total, honestly none of them that are on my want list. Maybe  Neutrashimy and Ark Royal. Only 2 that are on the short list in bold.

Flint, Neutrashimy, Azuma,  Bayard, Indomitable, Wichita, Champagne, Cheschire, Pyotr Bagration, Ochakov, Orkan, z-35, Poltava, Erich Loewenhardt, Ark Royal.

Starting resources 12/6/2020:

Free XP: 12,177

Credits: 19,689,460

Doubloons: 18,599

Coal: 234,651

Steel: 15,951

Research points: 22,074

Premium time: 119 days

380 ships in port reporting for duty. 

Snowflake break down at the start:

Tier 5 - 43 ships

Tier 6 - 49 ships + Arc Royal + E Loewenhardt + Strasbourg

Tier 7 - 52 ships + Poltava

Tier 8 - 62 ships + Bayard + Champagne + Ochakav + Z 35 

Tier 9 - 39 ships + Hizen 

Tier 10 - 40 ships (So all of this should = 85,600 coal, 7,575 steel and 40 Santa crates) +Yoshino (bought with coal) + Shikishima (Steel from events to finish)

Cheers and please share your event results.

 

 

[paradat]

Just finished the grind for my last tier 10! Whoop! Finished the German CV line. So all lines complete!

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Reporting for duty.

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Just opened the 3 free crates from Twitch.

Santa - 50 zulu

Big - Tier 8 cruiser Bayard!

Mega - 20 New year streamer camo

Opening the free crates first is paying off so far.

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Wanted to use the 25% Discount coupon on Ark Royal before it expired. Screwed that up and bought it for 6k Dubs.... dang it!

So then just decided to use it on the E Lowenhardt instead for 4725 dubs. 

So 10,725 dubs spent on the two tier 6 CV's (lowest tier ship I do not already have.

[iDuckman]

On 12/6/2020 at 11:59 AM, paradat said:

Santa Crates Free:

You should update the global Santa crate tracker.  Look on the About page for the link to add data:

black_falcon120's Christmas 2020 Crate Data Collection (Responses) - Google Sheets

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35 minutes ago, iDuckman said:

You should update the global Santa crate tracker.  Look on the About page for the link to add data:

black_falcon120's Christmas 2020 Crate Data Collection (Responses) - Google Sheets

Oh cool will check it out

 

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Nice Random surprise.

[AdmiralFox08]

17 hours ago, iDuckman said:

You should update the global Santa crate tracker.  Look on the About page for the link to add data:

black_falcon120's Christmas 2020 Crate Data Collection (Responses) - Google Sheets

i updated it with the drops from my 4 free crates 

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Finished the Santa Eve. It was actually a challenge to find a tier 8 that did not have a perma camo lol. WG has thrown so many of them at me.

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Oh boy here we go!

So starting with dockyard bought the 14 early start phases.

First large batch of coal put me over so bought Yoshino.

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OK pretty good first day. All of my time in tier 10's

Should finish tier 10's tomorrow maybe blast thru a bunch of tier 8's and do a round of ranked.

So WG is throwing free crates at me lol.

Ship of fates campaign looks like it will be a close thing (about one week to do the entire thing) if I wait and get Strasbourg for free. I guess I would have to decide would I pay for the tier 5 perma camos 5 Santa gifts and Santa commanders? Hmmm..... for lets see...40.00 bucks... I don't think so. Do we get dubs if we earn Strasbourg after we bought it? That would make it potentially a good deal. 

Edit: If you already have VII Strasbourg in your Port, completing the Campaign will reward you with a Port slot; the Winter Holiday permanent camouflage; and 9,500 doubloons.

So wow yeah that does make it a good deal. Net expense about $2. 

Got a head start on the dockyard, bought the 14 phases in advance. Primarily did this for the 2k extra steel. 

[Admiral_Kartoffel]

congrats on getting Yoshino, might have to pull the trigger on it myself

are you the guy that built the coal/steel/crate tracker?
awesome job whoever did that

[paradat]

1 minute ago, Admiral_Kartoffel said:

congrats on getting Yoshino, might have to pull the trigger on it myself

are you the guy that built the coal/steel/crate tracker?
awesome job whoever did that

No it is from :Rukenshia on the EU server.

Thanks now working on the steel for this years Steel ship. I think I it will be Shikishima.

 

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Had some good play time in between errands today.

Had a free crate drop a Champagne so that was nice. Still a lot more free crates to come before I think about buying some. 

Finished Tier 10 snowflakes. Started tier 9. Lots of fun playing ships I do not play regularly. 

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OK another fun session. Finished all the tier 9 snowflakes.

First game in the Champagne: Thanks for the free ship WG. It is a strange ship oddly fun. Absolute garbage at everything except epic sniping and amazing speed. 

Finished the first Directive in the Dockyard. Finished the first mission in Pursuit of Strasbourg. Made into the third mission for Ship of fates.

Tomorrow is Christmas eve so will likely only have a short session in the morning.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Cheers.

[paradat]

Finally enough steel for Shikishima!

Getting there:

 

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Got a little game time in today. Still making good progress.

Shikishima is a monster.

Made it into the 5th stage of ship of fates.

[GambitHG]

I only bought my usual 8 Big and 8 Regular Santa crates early in the event to stock up on my flags and camo for the year. But then I got some surprise money for Christmas and asked my wife if I could spend a bit on warships, and she agreed! I decided to splurge and go for mega containers for the first time because it had the Vanguard (which I really wanted) and I already had the Duca D'Aosta so I thought it would give me the best chance at a reroll. I went with the 20 pack instead of an 8-pack to give myself better odds and I got (in order):

30 Basilisk

12500 Coal

12500 Coal

2000 Doubloons

Vanguard (Yes!) +10pt Captain (gift box)

30 Scylla

Ochakov + 10pt Captain (gift box)

Yahagi (lol, of course)+ 10pt Captain (Supercontainer)

E. Loewenhardt + 10pt Captain (Supercontainer)

30 Hydra

2000 doubloons

12500 coal

2000 doubloons

25 Type3 New Year Camo

25 Type3 New Year Camo

20 Winter Strands Camo

25 Type3 New Year Camo

25 Type3 New Year Camo

25 Type3 New Year Camo

30 Red Dragon

Here are my drop percentages compared to the spreadsheet percentages (in brackets) that was linked to up-thread:

Coal 15% (8%); Doubloons 15% (11%); Flags 20% (29%); x25 Camo 25% (12%); x20 Camo 5% (17%); Premium Ship 20% (15%).

Overall in monetary terms, it came out to over double the value of what I paid for purchase, so I am more than satisfied with my results this year. I am also glad that I purchased a 20-pack instead of an 8-pack because I would have only ended up with mostly camo and would have felt put out. It really is a mater of RNG as to what you receive, with the outlier results mitigated by more purchases. But that's why they're loot boxes. Kudos to those who put the cumulative spreadsheet together to help me refine the amount I thought I would need to spend to get my desired result!

 

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Getting there. Finished the tier 7's deep into tier 6. More free crates. I may not buy any Santa crates and instead just use a coupon on a dubs ship. In the last mission of Ship of Fates.

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OK deep enough into the event bought my first set of 20 Mega crates. Very happy with that result.

Mega Crates: 20

1,2,15 - 6,000 Dubs

3 - Tier 8 CA Ochakov

4,11 - 60 Dragon

5,6 - 50 type 3 New year camo

7 - 20 Winter Strands camo

8 - Tier 8 DD Z-35

9,13,18 - 37,500 coal

10 - 30 Red Dragon 

12,14 - 40 Frosty Tree camo

16 - 30 Leviathan

17 - 5 Spring Sky camo

19 - 30 Baskilisk

20- 25 New year

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OK Big crate time. Results:

Big Crates:

1 - 15 Ouroboros

2- 15 Scylla

3,19 - 2,000 dubs

4,18 - 30 Basilisk

5 - 7,500 Coal

6,7,10,11 - 60 Type 3 New year

8,13,20 - 36 Frosty tree

9 - 15 Red Dragon

12,15 - 24 New year streamer

14 - 15 Leviathan

16 - 15 New year

17 - Tier 7 BB Poltava

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So Poltava.... more of a large Cruiser? Good first game but played more like a heavy cruiser. 

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OK Ship of Fates is done. So that makes 64 free Santa Crates. I think that is the end of the free small crates.

Finally down to tier 5 for the snowflakes:

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Almost there