Talk:Kasumi/@comment-26877181-20160119084957/@comment-175.156.32.28-20160119093424

....except the job of a destroyer is never to do damage. If you're counting on DD for damage you're doing it wrong. Yes, some of them like Ayanami can do outstanding damage with a torpedo CI. But CA, CL, CLTs, etc do more damage and more reliably. The job of DDs is AA, meeting map/fleet/routing requirements, FCF retreat, ASW, etc. And to do that survival is the most important thing. The most survivable DDs in this game have been around for as long as in memory(the only recent addition was Ushio k2, but she isn't even that survivable). A destroyer that has high damage but lacks survivability is just going to be a liability that forces you to retreat wasting a huge amount of resources, or be unavailable for FCF, indirectly forcing retreat. A DD's resource consumption is pittance compared to a combined fleet+support sortie, the opportunity cost of having a DD taiha force a retreat is tremendous.