Talk:List of heavy cruisers by upgraded maximum stats/@comment-116.87.160.77-20150331044412/@comment-16545476-20150401150127

You're priorities should be focused on Myoukou and Haguro at the moment, you can even consider grinding Ashigara and Nachi when you have them. The Myoukou class CAs have the advantage of having an average Kai Ni level of 65 (with the exception of Myoukou), and all four of them come with some great guns that's useful for practially any CL and CAs.

For blueprint ships, focus on Chikuma and Tone first, since both of their Kai Nis are CAVs and they're the best CAVs you can get at the moment. Choukai's status as a CA is overwelmingly powerful, but if you look closely enough you'll find that the four Myoukou class CAs can serve as a really good stop gap measure before you get Choukai Kai Ni so there's no need to rush.

I wouldn't consider Maya Kai Ni as a traditional CA since she have the ability to do AA cut-ins even without a fire director on her, as long as she's got that 25mm Triple Autocannon Mount (Concentrated Deployment) on her and a green secondary gun she'll just start doing AA cut-ins. But there's always a down side of her if you really go by that setup, since you'll sacrifice a lot of your firepower. And if you go by the traditional CA setup......let's just say at the moment there are better picks out there to get the job done. You can always grind Maya along the way though, she's quite a decent CA herself, it's just that you can't kill two birds with one stone when you use her as an AA cut-in platform and expect her to out gun the other CAs at the same time in day and night battles.

For starters I always recommend them to grind the Myoukou class first. Well, yeah, I admit there's always the sentimental reason of those four being my first ever CAs, but statwise they're solid and have some great performances, not to mention their relatively "low" remodeling requirements helps a lot to quickly build up a decent fleet. Their overall status aren't exactly dwarfed by the two Takao class Kai Nis (to my surprise, I thought the gap would be bigger like in their first remodels) and the performance results are quite close to each other. Sure, maybe they aren't that good in the eyes of statwhores, but let's face it, you can't actually put two same ships in the same fleet, can you? Generally the four Myoukou class CAs excels in the "easy to grind and deploy" department and that's what I like the most about them.