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Low XP for carriers?

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Ok...so I finally figured out some of the problems I was having playing a carrier, as well as an issue where my planes for some reason wouldn't attack anything....but here is a question I have right now.

 

Do carriers always get such low XP for matches?    I have played 3 random matches now, all of which I won, but barely got 400+ XP per match even though in all of them I got at least 2-3 kills.

 

Is this normal?   I can't believe it would be considering the amount of XP needed to advance to the next tier.   Would take forever to upgrade if that' is truly the case.

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 I have played 3 random matches now, all of which I won, but barely got 400+ XP per match even though in all of them I got at least 2-3 kills.

 

Really. Because it shows you with 5 battles in a Hosho, no wins and no kills. Plane kills yes, but not ship kills. 20k dpg is a good start, but if you don't do solid damage to ships and sink them, you don't get much XP. Plane kills don't give much XP.

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Really. Because it shows you with 5 battles in a Hosho, no wins and no kills. Plane kills yes, but not ship kills. 20k dpg is a good start, but if you don't do solid damage to ships and sink them, you don't get much XP. Plane kills don't give much XP.

 

Is he accidentally in co-op? That xp would make sense for three decent kills in co-op. It'd make sense he went there to learn how to carrier and then forgot to switch back. 

 

I accidentally trash talked a bot once doing that very thing.

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If you are air superiority... you're not going to be getting much XP, if you are strike and dishing out the damage to the enemy ships... you'll get XP like any other class

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Is he accidentally in co-op? That xp would make sense for three decent kills in co-op.

 

His co-op stats show 10 wins for 11 games, so that's entirely possible. But still only 0.73 kpg, so I don't know where he's getting the 'atleast 2-3 kills' from. His average XP of 663 in PvP also suggests that he might be in co-op without realizing.

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Carrier xp does have a lower multiplier compared to other ships.  However that's because carriers are capable of such high amounts of damage per match that it ends up balancing out.

 

Your goal as a carrier isn't to get kills - it's to soften all the high HP targets that your team cannot reach so that you team can push their weakened battle lines with better success.  If you're getting 2-3 kills but only dealing 20k damage a match, that means you are wasting a lot of damage on weakened targets.  Do 40k damage a match and you will get XP on parity with your other ships

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Carriers are just like any ship, if you don't do a lot of DMG, you don't get a lot of XP.

 

The Fighter mods can actually get you decent XP of around 1500 xp.  However you need roughly 60 planes shot down + as much dive bomber damage as possible.

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