[MMO] World of Tanks

[Icepick]

What do the lines above the tanks represent? I see two and sometimes three lines instead of a diamond over some of them.

 

[Skott]

Do you guys have any thoughts about getting the 122mm as a stepping stone to the 107mm?

Unless I am at the very top of a match, I may as well not bother shooting. Except for the couple of matches where I've been the very top I've only managed to damage two tanks total. One game I even got sniper (13 shots, 12 hits) and only managed to damage one TD - I only shot at them once.

In the couple of matches where I have been the very top, I have been able to take a decent number of hits, and actually penetrate things fairly well. I can't kill them fast enough though, as my support tends to evaporate as soon as the enemy starts to gang up on me, and compared to the tanks I'm facing I may as well be completely immobile.

It seems like the 122mm might help this, as I might have a chance of damaging things in the higher tiers (or even my own), and it should absolutely destroy enemy tanks when I'm top dog.

I always felt the 107mm gun was the better all round gun. The 122mm is a powerful gun when it connects, the damage is devastiating, but it misses a lot and loads slowly. I could live with the slower reload but the inaccuracy... you have to be up close much of the time and even then it can miss. I've had it miss when the tanks are just a few meters apart. That is just downright frustrating and embarrassing. LOL

Edit: As you go up the line the 122mm gun versions do get better. They just not that great on the KV3. Just my own opinion though. Some people do like to play them.

 

[Binky]

What do the lines above the tanks represent? I see two and sometimes three lines instead of a diamond over some of them.

Diamond is light tank, two slash is medium, and three slash is heavy tank. Square is arty and upsid down diamond is a tank destroyer.

 

[Visaoni]

I always felt the 107mm gun was the better all round gun. The 122mm is a powerful gun when it connects, the damage is devastiating, but it misses a lot and loads slowly. I could live with the slower reload but the inaccuracy... you have to be up close much of the time and even then it can miss. I've had it miss when the tanks are just a few meters apart. That is just downright frustrating and embarrassing. LOL

Edit: As you go up the line the 122mm gun versions do get better. They just not that great on the KV3. Just my own opinion though. Some people do like to play them.

This is for the KV, and it would just be a way of getting myself to the 107mm gun without playing the next 150-200 matches with the stock gun, which is almost completely unable to penetrate anything T5 and above.

Mostly I want to know if it helps enough to justify the exp and credits, because most T5+ matches right now end up netting me around 80 exp.

 

[stag3]

on my kv grind i saved up until i got the 107 then mounted the turret + gun at the same time. the grind wasn't to bad for me.

the grind to elite the kv was a bitch tho

 

[Possessed Freak]

I went to the 122, the 152 + turret, the 107, and then onward to the KV3/S51...
Getting the stepping stone guns makes the longer grinding faster. I stupidly decided against doing it with the KV3 and did the KV3 with just the 107... then I realized I needed the guns in the IS anyway... so I ground them out on the IS when I could have had them for the KV3.


I eventually gave up on the 107 and went with the 152 on the KV. The ability to damage whatever you are facing was worth it for me in the higher tier games. I am dead anyway as soon as I am shot at, I should at least make em pay for killing me!

 

[stag3]

everyone will disagree with me here but my IS grind went by a lot faster with the idiot gun as i was able to do more dpm compared to the 122's. i still researched them for use on the is-3 but i did not use them on the IS.

 

[Merad]

The 122 derp is viable on the KV until you unlock the 107. You won't do a ton of damage, but you can annoying higher tier tanks by keeping them tracked and etc.

 

[Possessed Freak]

everyone will disagree with me here but my IS grind went by a lot faster with the idiot gun as i was able to do more dpm compared to the 122's. i still researched them for use on the is-3 but i did not use them on the IS.

DPM is a good stat, but I look at it as when I fire my gun I want to HURT the enemy. Reload time is only really important if you are rushed and have to fire every time you cycle your gun (or alternately you rush into combat and thus need to fire OFTEN).

I don't always go with the biggest bore maximum damage gun, but for my heavies I tend to (except for mounting the derpy 105 on a tiger (NO NO NO)).

 

[PowerYoga]

everyone will disagree with me here but my IS grind went by a lot faster with the idiot gun as i was able to do more dpm compared to the 122's. i still researched them for use on the is-3 but i did not use them on the IS.

depends on how you play your tank. The IS has a lot of armor and good mobility and so it's viable as both a brawler and a PAB tank. With PAB you want to be using the 122mm whereas if you're doing brawling the 85mm might not be terrible. But I prefer the 100 mm if you're brawling.

 

[stag3]

haha that's why i said everyone would disagree with me, my goal was to get past the IS to the IS-3 as quickly as possible and the idiot gun was giving me more xp per match than the 122, i didn't care about ammo cost as i had premium at that time.

it was horrible grinding to the T54 using the idiot gun also.

 

[PowerYoga]

haha that's why i said everyone would disagree with me, my goal was to get past the IS to the IS-3 as quickly as possible and the idiot gun was giving me more xp per match than the 122, i didn't care about ammo cost as i had premium at that time.

it was horrible grinding to the T54 using the idiot gun also.

the 100mm is by no means bad. I've used it for a little while myself but I found myself playing PAB a lot more than brawling with my IS, so I changed back to the 122. It's nice because you can 1s most little tanks and when you're playing with Lowes/IS3/Tiger IIs, you can deal very good damage to them when you hit them in the right spots.

 

[stag3]

i liked using the speed of the IS, or at least compared to the KV-3 it felt like a medium LOL
so i preferred the 100mm since it helped me dogfight. 122mm definitely is the better gun if you're gonna PAB. just needed a change after using the slow as shit KV series

 

[Nintendesert]

Killed a T28 in my Chaffee and got a Tiger II, I am so deadly in this tank. It is so damn fun. It looks like some weird midget tank but packs a really good big gun! I'm having so much fun in this. I run around in it with my brother who has the stock gun, but still packs a big punch. Us two Chaffees running around are absolutely causing havoc on the battlefield.

Such a great addition, such a fun tank. I highly recommend it to everyone.

 

[Genx87]

Going through mid tier hell right now. I couldnt get on a team and win a match to save my life last night on my T-28 or PZ III\IV. It was really fun being 1 shot by tier 7-8 tanks\arty and ending the match with 63 experience because we lost, again.

 

[stag3]

lol happens all the time, i won my daily doubles on all my tanks (1st try) except my kv-3. i could not get a semi good team for about 1.5 hours and finally got my win so i could go to sleep

 

[Binky]

Tiers 4-5 are pretty rough. You probably feel like you're outmatched 95% of the time you meet another tank in the field, and its probably true. The XP per battle blows because you can't really penetrate anything and therefore doing actual damage is rare. Your best bet is scouting (spotting enemies and hiding). My recollection is that the T-28 and PZIII are both pretty slow tanks so scouting means certain death once you're found.

 

[PowerYoga]

I'm grinding through the PIV again and I remember now why I hated this tier. The gun is punchy but people LOVE to shoot me. I just can't get a break from shells and arty smacking this pitiful thing around.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Today was a good day for medals, got Halonen's Medal with my Marder II and Oskin's Medal with my E8. Both times it was Fisherman's village. My E8 was just circle killing and I ended up with 7 kills that game (oh and I used auto aim the entire time). The Marder was sniping with superior camo and view range (net, optics, binox). I was never spotted.

 

[Skott]

The E75 is like a bigger slower Tiger 2. I got suspension and 2nd engine and 2nd/final radio and 2nd 105mm gun. Running Vents, Gun rammer, and Spall liner. Now I just need 24k for turret and 63k for best gun and another 50k for best/last engine and its a primo tank. The upside is that the upgraded turret helps a lot more due to extra armor and an extra 100 HPs. The 12.8cm gun does much better damage and penetration and the last engine makes a difference in getting up to speed and dealing with inclines. From what I have read anyway. Then its just another 183k to research the E-100 after all that. I'm gonna be in this tank for a while. I'm starting to like it though.

Going to hold fast at the T29. Thinking I'll wait and see if they improve the American heavies before moving on past the T29. Toying with the idea of going back down the German heavy tree and pushing up that line towards the Maus. No rush pushing the Russia medium line now that I have the Type 59. Its giving me lots of satisfaction. I'll get that T-54 some day though.

 

[Maximilian]

The E75 is like a bigger slower Tiger 2. I got suspension and 2nd engine and 2nd/final radio and 2nd 105mm gun. Running Vents, Gun rammer, and Spall liner. Now I just need 24k for turret and 63k for best gun and another 50k for best/last engine and its a primo tank. The upside is that the upgraded turret helps a lot more due to extra armor and an extra 100 HPs. The 12.8cm gun does much better damage and penetration and the last engine makes a difference in getting up to speed and dealing with inclines. From what I have read anyway. Then its just another 183k to research the E-100 after all that. I'm gonna be in this tank for a while. I'm starting to like it though.

Going to hold fast at the T29. Thinking I'll wait and see if they improve the American heavies before moving on past the T29. Toying with the idea of going back down the German heavy tree and pushing up that line towards the Maus. No rush pushing the Russia medium line now that I have the Type 59. Its giving me lots of satisfaction. I'll get that T-54 some day though.

You get a free premium tank if you have the T34 heavy in garage when they upgrade it. Plus i found grinding through the T32 not so bad after the turret upgrade.

 

[Skott]

You get a free premium tank if you have the T34 heavy in garage when they upgrade it. Plus i found grinding through the T32 not so bad after the turret upgrade.

I grinded hard just to get the E50 and after doing it I wasn't impressed with it. Still not impressed with it. Not keen on grinding for another tank that probably is not that great. My experience with WoT free tanks, premium or not, is not good. Just my own opinion.

 

[Merad]

E-75's are a beastly tank. I still can't fight them effectively in my T34 (which still lacks the gun upgrade). At face hugging range I can pen through the commander's cupola (but they can also hit my hull; they do more damage, so I lose), at longer ranges I can get the occasional shot through the mudflaps, but otherwise I'm either bouncing shots or forced to use HE.

 

[Possessed Freak]

I decided to bite the bullet and get a T59. My premium was running out and I thought about alternate means of keeping income. It rocks!!!

 

[Elcs]

Just popped back on yesterday.

First time in several months (about 4) that I've actually played and in all honesty, the game just hasn't changed.

I think I got screwed over in the German Tech Tree patch as my Elite Panther T8 turned into an Elite P2 T8 which isn't really Elite and a Panther T7 which has been castrated (missing several key upgrades).

The Panther 2 is quite fun, having racked up 3 kills, 5 damages, 1 scout with 39 shots fired and 32 hits in only my second match of the day, and we drew with me being finished off by an IS-3.

The E-50 is handy dandy but I'll be happier with it once I get my 10.5 if I decide to play for that long.

I had a few games with my Patton as soon as it was released and God, that tank is lovely and would be godlike if everyone and their Leichtraktor didn't penetrate it from every conceivable angle.

Game runs infinitely smoother for me but I think it still suffers big time from crap game engine syndrome, or at the very least Developer is too lazy to optimise things syndrome.

Matchmaking, invisible tanks, dodgy bounces and penetrations abound. I'm sorry to say but it's almost the same game as it was this time last year, just with more tanks and more maps to kill them on.