T10 Cruisers Tier List - World of Warships 

I feels like Worcester’s been powercrept by new lines and the nerf on radar range. If they return its original radar range, and a buff to its AA, then it might be back to this current meta.

Worcester on S feels like a violation. It’s not particularly good at anything that others already do better. On the flip side nevsky would’ve been an easy S tier for me. Stupid guns, stupid speed, everything about it is just so stupidly op

Honestly think marseille should be B tier, shes quite good. Her guns slap, making her good for crossfires with a bb, reload booster to help catch broadsides and set fires. Very fast with great maneuverability, can hit 40kt with engine boost and has a tight turning radius Rather stealthy for its size, 11.5 iirc, on the stealthy end of these super cruisers/bc’s Really fun too imo

Surprised with your rating of the Marseille. It's fun and can be very impactful. Nothing like a well-timed reload booster ;-)

Worcester? Really? I never see this ship ever, unless somebody is grinding out there TX christmas box.

Marseile at D????. For myself it's a S but hey i guess we vibe different

I’d like to see tier list videos like these for premium ships as well

Great production! Thanks so much. I’ve been looking forward to this from you. Happy sailing!

Marseille, once you get used to it, should honestly be A or S tier. On paper it's not brilliant, but the combination of speed, maneuverability and stealth, paired with excellent guns make it a rather formidable target.

Poor Jinan. One of my best ships!!

Hi pq. How's it going. I just received the gorizia in a Santa container and was curious about your thoughts about this ship seeing how it's not on your list here. Do you have any videos that talk about this ship in depth or how best to play it maybe. Really enjoy your work here. Good luck and fair seas.

Minotaur is my favourite, it's so much fun and it's amazing. Play it like a Wooster for the first chapter of a battle, and in second chapter play as a DD. Pretty okay against planes, radar when spotted, it's good.

Thank you so much. please make more I am addicted

Thanks for making these!!! Once you get to coal/steel/rp and so on, could you please leave the tech tree ships up on the screen so we see how they compare with the resource ships? Thanks again!

I have fun playing as a radar Minotaur and agree it is either high impact or a sinking piece of swiss cheese. Playing the Mino well means have to be prepared to play high-energy as you are basically a mega DD. I also really enjoy the Des Moines now that I have gone to 18km range over a 4.x second reload.

Love your lists. Usually fill the odd gaps when I discover an omission on my behalf. More importantly it helps support what I don’t get ie not suiting my style

I know that this tier list is subjective but it's still looks kinda cursed

Thanks again PQ. Your hints and tips have greatly shaped my tactics and improved my enjoyment of the game.

Good list. DM is my go to cruiser for sure.

Surprised to see Worcester in S tier.

As a Worcester I always go for the supers. That insta-slaughter AA mixed with 37mm of pen with HE makes it a super killer. Landing shells on the superstructure of a SAT isn't hard at all. I burn 50k HP off T10/T11s in less than a minute and watch them run. Such an underrated ship in 2023/2024.

Agree with your take on Mino, high risk/reward with UK lights, have to say they are my favorite tech tree line.

I like this list. I lament the drop of Zao which in the old days used to be one of my favs. I use Nevsky a lot in Clan Battles - Petro/DM I like too. Hindy is still my fav.

where would you put the Moskva considering she was a tech tree ship up until pretty recently?

Hindenburg a decent "oven water" ship, I don't know why but this misspell was so funny it made my day. 🤣Thx potatoe. Keep up the good work. I love your Videos and have nice holidays 😄

I don't really have a problem with this tier list except the Marseille. Sure, the hull is a bit questionable, but i really, really love the guns on this ship. It's quite accurate with amazing penetration, not to mention the reload booster. It can obliterate almost anything if caught broadside. Also I don't play Marseille with bow-in playstyle, despite the turret setup. I find it much better when played as a highly mobile ambusher/flanker, using the speed boost to look for broadside opportunities. Granted, it will not do well on high tier competitive scene where you will find almost no broadside to shoot at. But in randoms and ranked, I'd put Marseille on at least B tier, or maybe even A tier.

How is the grind to Venezia currently going for petro and am almost there looking for the next ship to get

Hindenburg was my first, I find you need to be very aware of your position, and ability to disengage, save it for late game push. Yet to play many games in the Venezia.. that ship scares me. Recently picked up the Minotaur, and oh my god what a fun ship, get into a nice forward secure position, pop smoke and unleash all that ungodly AP rain… after the Neptune that ship feel’s Illegal.

Nice 2nd interesting video, but what are the exact terms for: S,A,B,C and D? If I missed it in the first one - sorry, but I can't currently explain what the exact names of the letters are supposed to be. Thanks in advance

Cruisers are I think the hardest class to play - you have a citadel and can get one shotted, that said you have a better chance to correct a missed shot without having to wait. I wish they'd buff the deck armour on Zao to similar to that on Atago, it would still have the weak broadside/torpedo trap but you'd have a chance of resisting shells if you angled, I still like playing her but it's more because I remember what Zao used to be like.... Henri is fun but I miss the acceleration and deceleration. I'm not too keen on the superships - don't see the point really. Desmo and Mino I think are my favourites, used to play Hindi a lot too - but a bit too slow, lots of overmatch now too. Venezia is nice but I find it a bit boring and too gimicky - possilby I need to play with it a bit more. Petro's great apart from its dispersion which is frustrating and feels Russian OP... Goliath is kind of the modern zao for me - you can carry out alot of games with it, murders destroyers, surprisingly tanky and AP at close range is really powerful - have to be careful with your broadside or the step in the citadel though. Nevsky with Radar mod is really good against destroyers, probably the best light cruiser in the game as the AP is nasty too (plus you get to play Dmitiri Donskoi which was one of my favourite Tier IXs.... Worcester has too floaty shells for the current meta for me (plus its previously legendary aa is now pants) and its AP isn't that great, it's good but ships like colbert/smolensk/austin do what it used to do only better.The US Heavy cruiser line is probably the one I'd play if I was starting out from Tier VII on it's pretty fun (although careful with buffalo - hide your broadside). That said I do have a soft spot for the british light cruisers - but they're rather niche.

Thanks for your thoughts, interesting.

I love my Venezia but man playing the lower tier cruisers in that line are some of the most painful experiences I've had in this game

You’re list is nuts!!

Legend. I asked for this vid yesterday haha

I love Hindenburg. 82855 avr dmg. 264k dmg record.

How about T10 tier list cruisers for Clan Battle? I think it is not the same as Random Battle.. any suggestions?

i would like to see a one take on Iowa

I don't know, I wreck face with the Marseille, and you can bounce most shots if angled correctly, and can just disintegrate things if they show broadside. Could just be how I play though, but the Marseille is one of my best performers.

My list of favs is the opposite way round, excluding the Yodo which should be in a tier below the barrel. I suppose the best would be to play all of them and find which is the right fit for you

Thought I could get away with skipping to the end, but now I have to see how you justify ranking Marseille a D... inconsistent with it's clan battles limitation where it's grouped with Petro and Napoli and you can only pick one of them. Appreciate the content.

Marseille is great in CB when you've got teammates with complimentary ships. If you have a BB to help take fire and a DD to spot and cause chaos, it can quickly rack up citadels. It becomes an issue when enemy cruisers shoot from longer ranges and get plunging fire though. It's not good at long distance engagements (which is the current Randoms meta), but it's a beast at medium range, which is suitable for Clans and Ranked, as well as certain Brawls formats. Although, they really need to buff the reload booster. It only lasts long enough to recharge 2 salvos, and that's if you time it right and immediately get your first recharged salvo off. I'd says it's less versatile than the Henry though.

So the t11 ships need their own captain ? You can't use the T10 captain on both is that right.?

thanks alot time saving and respect for help

Really like you ranking the ships this is good and not a lot of info like this out there. atleast on youtube anyway maybe there is on some redit some place.

I just got my Worcester today, and it's great. Seattle wasn't all that bad. DM was my first cruiser. It was kinda funny I completed the supercontainer mission with on Seattle and got the Salem from it.

I don't know I just can't really figure out how to play Worcester and have battle impact with how bad its shell velocity is and how long range engagements are at t 10. I have had tons of fun playing cleavland tho. Might be becouse t 8 games are ususaly shorter ranged.

Nice list... fairly well done. But Marseille in D is just wrong...

Good vid, I think I'd put Wostr in A and move Nevsky and Petro to S. While they have different strengths and weaknesses, there's a reason you see both of these in KOTS (the former was so strong it was getting banned) and almost never see a Wster.

Des moines being above petro and nevsky is something special

Venezia was my first tier x and I absolutely love it

I love the Des Moines, but in the grind when switching from Baltimore to Buffalo play styles, it was hard for my brain to adapt quickly.

can you make a country tech tree play style.?

Can’t wait to see Gearing as S tier DD in the DD tier list

Good job

I feel like the British light cruiser line is the best to start with because 1) they only have 1 ammo type so there's less things to confuse new players, 2) they have a heal so they can survive a couple hits and be able to learn from mistakes, mispositioning, being overly aggressive etc, 3) they have smokescreens which further increases survivability especially at lower tiers where there is no radar or submarines and where hydro and CVs aren't as good.

bro how do you put marseille in D tier lol it can play so laughably aggressive and get away with it

Zao was my first T10 ship and i love it to bits but it is a pain to play

I don't know if yodo is much better, but I played 1 game in the t7 omono and don't want to touch that line again, never. Hope they get out soon so I can sell them and at least get some credits out of them 😂

Petro was my first cruiser i got. When I got to the ship i didn't like it as it was so different from the previous ships. Now 2 years after I got it, i like it much better. The shell speed is just insane. It feels so unfair when facing a DD.

i think petro is definitely S tier，quite broken，I think giving petro a burst fire，it can be a super ship

here in Brazil we have a saying the describes the Minotaur super well, "its either 8 or 80" xD

honestly marseille is a great ship. try use it like a bourgogne it works great for me. i hardly ever had a bad game in it.

Thanks for the tier list,now I'm in 80k exp algerie and still confused on where to choose between cruiser or battlecruiser line

How the times have changed... when this game first came out and it only had 2 tier X cruiers (DM and Zao), the forums everywhere were FILLED with complaints asking to buff DM because it was so 'bad' compared to Zao.

Agree on a lot of things, although not everything. I would put Marseille in B. Insanely good HE and AP, great maneuverability, tankiness, concealment, she's really good imo. Zao is also B for me, very consistent and has my highest avg damage in a cruiser (134k). Jinan is a weird one. I struggled with the line until I realized that you can lob shells over freaking mountains. So going full gun build, finding an island and never letting go of LMB works well, but then Worcester is straight up better at this. C for me Radar Mino is S+

Any chance of a step by step tutorial on playing Des Moines? I cannot get the hang of her.

I love Des Moines. My first T10 and most played ship. Still my favorite of all. Sometimes you get games where you're non-stop sweating and kicking ass. It gets rarer and rarer though. Most games have subs and CVs and the low range/super floaty shells make for games of pure torture or utter boredom because you cant push but you still barely do damage. I don't get your problems with nevsky and petro dispersion.

I'm surprised you didn't have higher praise for the henry I f'n love that ship. One of the if not the best (tech line) cruisers in the game.

Certainly makes sense to me. Sad to see Zao (and Yodo) down in C. Even though the D tier entries may be worse in some ways, they at least have remarkable (if not exactly meta-fitting) niches. The IJN CA/CLs' combination of characteristics just doesn't accomplish anything at all (certainly nothing that other ships can't do better). We can maybe say the Zao is a concept that got left behind by the game, but the Yodo...

I have my best games in Goliath, I don’t know why, but I do love the Japanese cruisers. The HE just seems to hit harder and more consistently than any other line. Nice tier list!

I generally agree. But Marsielle for me should be at least Tier B. Her alpha can surprise even bbs. Speed allows you to quickly change position and deal a lot of damage to an opponent who is not watching map.

Happy Holidays. I tend to agree with your rankings. For me, Mino is an S tier. But you did explain it's tricky and smoke is not a cure all. I love deleting minos hiding in smoke with a Montana. But my best cruiser games have been Mino and Wooster. I can't get the Hindi just because I absolutely loathe the T8 and T9 ships to get to it. I played the T8 a few times and hated it. I just skipped it.

Make a submarine ranking video (and put them all into E tier). 🔫

Grind for DM was fun and semi easy. Compared to Hindenburg or zao.

AP nose with Wooster and BBs melt if at a good distance

For this series I'm giving you an attaboy. ATTABOY!

Zao was once a very good ship. Her problem is nowadays, she is always spotted in one way or the other. Submarines, DDs, CVs and radar ships. She is a ninja with great dispersion, but as you said the guns and torpedos are hard to use. And she still has one of the lowest hp pools in the game. She needs a huge buff in terms of hp. But it won't happen, because she is T10 silver ship and WG wants to sell premiums.

I'm a huge fan of Hindy. Maybe a B+/A-? Overmatch is why cruisers have been so hard to play last year or two. it's insane.

I have the reverse view of Zao and Hindy, Zao's excellent concealment makes it great at going dark and its maneuverable enough to be able to dodge the BBs. Hindy I feel suffers what I call 'the Hipper problem' where you will eat cits and take massive damage at very weird angles especially a long range which this passive meta makes it more likely to happen.

I still remember a match when I had 24k SAP salvo on a Kearsarge and I was shocked at what just shocked at what just happened. P.S.: That wasn't arms race mode.

I love the Mino

You're wrong about everyone wanting superships. I've been playing for 7 years now, and have a LOT of T10 ships and I recognize superships for the crappy credit sinks that they are. They are not worth it because in any battle you are in you get hyper focused and deleted. So, no, I don't own a single one, and only played them when they had that limited event where you could used them for a few days at a time. They just aren't worth it. Oh, and I love my Marseille but I do agree with you on Jinan. I did that grind and Jinan is such a disappointing ship, and it's made me rethink getting Austin as a result, so, now I am looking at Mecklenburg and Bourgogne more for my first steel ship.

Don't quite agree with the new player part on wooster and dm. As you said, one has to know the islands well before using their high shell arcs as a weapon, which I found hard playing through atlanta, mino, jinan, and dm. I would recommend mino and even jinan first just because of their smoke.

I would disagree on the point that super ships are something that everyone is going to look at having at some point. There are a great many of us who've been in the game for a long time who are making sure to stay away from anything super ship related. They are game breaking and I refuse to be part of that crime. Those so-called super ships are the reason that tier 10 and 9 have become so unpleasant. I have been playing 8s and below of late actually just to guarantee I'll never have to see a super ship and I got to tell you, it feels pretty damn good! I'll still take my Gearing, Somers or YY out every now and again though.

IJN got so incredibly powercrept... "Look how they massacred my boiz!"

Hindenburg is my favorite ship in the game. I think Hindi should be at least an A

Next Dev blog: Clan battle restriction: Only one ship of DM, Worcester or Napoli.

Been playing the game since Beta and have ZERO interest in superships. Ditto for Carriers and Subs.

As a veteran player i am avoiding supershits because they break tier X and make it so annoying to play... (my poor Marlborough trembles at the sight of a Satsuma)

Worcester over Nevsky... pal it is ok, we are human, we do mistakes xDDDD

Seeing my first love and the original battlecruiser Hindenburg at B tier makes me incredibly sad.

Gouden Leeuw should get 30s burn time and better damage since she has the biggest guns of the list lol

For me Hindenburg and Zao works as a S-Grade.

Des Moines is such a great ship

Can someone explain how the Tier rating work? Why not ABCDE?

Pretty much agree with this list, although I am biased towards the Hindenburg since it works so well in ranked for me and Venezia since it is just so fun to play in almost every match whatever the game mode. I will say the Italian cruiser line overall is extremely fun as well, if you can figure out how to make the low tiers work (in my case, open water gun-boating and constant moving/dodging) you can apply that same gameplay and tactics throughout the entire line. I wouldn't say it is beginner friendly, but a good intermediate line to run. I just got the Worcester so will need to play it more but it seems like a beast if you can keep it alive in a match. The grind up to her was rough, but really if you are able to make the others work it seems like those skills would apply to her too.

Question: Isn't super ships technically apart of the tech tree?

LOL, Buffalo and Seatle being pain points. I mean, yes? but I got my first Kraken in a Buffalo and shot down 50 planes in one match in the Seattle so even those are very capable.

OMG that was Hilarious. I am a little surprised that you are screwing with the new players and trying to get them to grind so many boat anchors. I am sure they will fall for it, good one. You are a cruel man. When is the real list coming out?

Yodo is weird. From pretty much every perspective, Takahashi does a better job than it despite having fewer guns and slightly weaker torps, simply because Taka turns so much better and hence can use both sides torps more effectively. This whole line looks like it’s about the guns because you get so many, but a smart player will be getting most of their damage from the 12k torps. Played at medium range, Taka can match the Japanese DD lines in sheer number of torps in the water, and don’t need to rely on reload boosts to do it so they can afford to use them tactically to steer enemies into your teammates lines of fire. The guns are a potent tool for when you get spotted or to finish off a target, but relying on them for your main damage source is a mistake.