[MMO] World of Tanks

[Merad]

Premium accounts are significantly reduced in price (1 month for 1800 gold) for about the next 24 hrs.

 

[stag3]

damn wonder if it's worth it for me as my prem just expired, but i'll be out of town next week and won't be able to play...

 

[Possessed Freak]

Premium accounts are significantly reduced in price (1 month for 1800 gold) for about the next 24 hrs.

Question, can I get multiple months built up at the reduced rate?

 

[Merad]

Yep! When I get home I'm gonna buy some more gold and get 4-5 months of premium. My WOT time will probably drop off a lot in September if I get in the SWTOR beta (it's supposed to open up then). But even if I don't get in that will carry me til Skyrim comes out in November.

 

[PowerYoga]

Thanks, a lot of good info. What jumps out is the ammo - I haven't used anything but the default. Maybe that's an issue.

I saw you say what to use with two guns, not sure how to tell that for others.

Crew training also - my highest is about 60%. That would explain why I'm not able to shoot as quickly. I'll try the caps-0 too.

I have looked at some in the wiki and forums, too. Got some tank recommendations there.

For the most part, you can tell what type of gun (derp gun or normal gun) by looking at its length. Most rifled cannons will have a long length (example: pIV's 7.5cm/L71) as compared to the little derp gun (PIII's 7.5cm) and will have a much faster firing rate. Typically, when you mount a large caliber gun on a small tank it'll be a derp gun and you should look at using high explosive rounds exclusively for those.

I'm not too familiar with russian arty, but I believe a good amount of them have AP rounds primarily as compared to HE rounds. That means you won't deal any damage unless you hit them directly.... or so I'm told. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Elcs]

Question, can I get multiple months built up at the reduced rate?

You are only allowed a maximum of 60 days Premium on your account.

 

[Possessed Freak]

You are only allowed a maximum of 60 days Premium on your account.

BAH!

 

[Skott]

BAH!

They will have more sales. This is just one of the first of many to come. I would assume they'll have some again no later than the Holidays at the end of the year. The Battle of the Bulge took place around Christmas and New Years so I expect big deals then. They'll also have other sales celebrating various major battles of WW2 where tanks took part throughout the year I'm thinking. Seems to be a trend of theirs.

 

[Skott]

Thanks, a lot of good info. What jumps out is the ammo - I haven't used anything but the default. Maybe that's an issue.

I saw you say what to use with two guns, not sure how to tell that for others.

Crew training also - my highest is about 60%. That would explain why I'm not able to shoot as quickly. I'll try the caps-0 too.

I have looked at some in the wiki and forums, too. Got some tank recommendations there.

Also go to their WoT Forums and read up on what people are using. I find lot of good up to date info there.

 

[Merad]

You are only allowed a maximum of 60 days Premium on your account.

Seriously? If I go buy 2 months of premium now, with about 7 days still left on my account, does that mean I end up losing 7 days?

 

[Elcs]

Seriously? If I go buy 2 months of premium now, with about 7 days still left on my account, does that mean I end up losing 7 days?

Seriously.

If you have 7 days left, you will only be able to purchase 30 days premium to take you to 37. Then if you wish to increase the number of premium days, you would need to purchase smaller blocks to make it up to a maximum of 60 days.

ie. You cannot lose days.

 

[Craig234]

The upgraded ammo was a big help for my SU-26. Now, it's one-shotting or doing 75%.

It seems to have had HE ammo as stock, FYI.

 

[Nintendesert]

It let me go up to 61 days. Not sure how much buffer they allow. I bought two 30 day blocks.

 

[Merad]

Well I had 4 days left, and it won't let me get more than 34 days. Major suckage.

 

[stag3]

lol i just ran out of my prem, but i'll lose a week, probably still worth the price since 2 mos worth i save 1400 gold

edit: just got 2 mos worth for 3600

 

[Craig234]

Hm, is the game more fun at higher tiers to want to play them, justifying premium?

 

[stag3]

for this price it's a no brainer really, i don't feel you really "need" premium until about tier 7-8 as that's where you start to break even or lose money every battle due to ammo costs. you can still grind up w/o, it will just take longer as you need your tier 5/6 to fund the grinds

 

[PowerYoga]

The bigger tanks are definitely more fun. However, the only tree that doesn't see big improvements from tank to tank is the soviet medium line. Sure, there's a shining t-54 at the end, but the t-34/85, t-43 and t-44 are pretty much all the same tank, except t-44 is faster.

The soviet lines in general have incremental improvements, whereas the german line has big jumps like tiger, tiger II, VK4502, etc.

Can't speak for the americans though, but the t-29, t-32, t-34 all look like the same tank.

 

[Maximilian]

Hm, is the game more fun at higher tiers to want to play them, justifying premium?

Nah not really, unless you are having the hell of a time with tiers 3-4 (worst ones IMO) then i wouldn't bother.

I just bought a lowe to deal with the late game credit problem. People on the forums will say lowe is worst tier 8 etc but in reality its as good as the rest of them as it comes fully upgraded and its not everyone that is aware of its weakspots, a lot of people will ding your turret repeatedly for example.

 

[PowerYoga]

Nah not really, unless you are having the hell of a time with tiers 3-4 (worst ones IMO) then i wouldn't bother.

I just bought a lowe to deal with the late game credit problem. People on the forums will say lowe is worst tier 8 etc but in reality its as good as the rest of them as it comes fully upgraded and its not everyone that is aware of its weakspots, a lot of people will ding your turret repeatedly for example.

Tend to disagree on both counts. I had a blast in higher tier tanks, hated most of the lower tier tanks (except for the stug. stug is love.)

Lowe is squishy as hell if you know where to shoot it. The only redeeming factor is its credit earning ability and its powerful gun, and you'll make about 40k (with premium account) even on a loss. Almost every penetrating hit will guarantee a broken engine, and the gun gets damaged or knocked out at an alarmingly high rate as well. Never had the problem in the IS-3 or the KT. (well... KT catches on fire...)

It is for sure the weakest tier 8, only thing possibly weaker is the KV-5 with its enormous R2D2 weak spot in the front, where anything with > 100mm penetration will suffice.

And anybody dumb enough to shoot at the strongest part of your tank (the super curved turret...?) is probably not the best example to use anyway.

 

[Maximilian]

Tend to disagree on both counts. I had a blast in higher tier tanks, hated most of the lower tier tanks (except for the stug. stug is love.)

Lowe is squishy as hell if you know where to shoot it. The only redeeming factor is its credit earning ability and its powerful gun, and you'll make about 40k (with premium account) even on a loss. Almost every penetrating hit will guarantee a broken engine, and the gun gets damaged or knocked out at an alarmingly high rate as well. Never had the problem in the IS-3 or the KT. (well... KT catches on fire...)

It is for sure the weakest tier 8, only thing possibly weaker is the KV-5 with its enormous R2D2 weak spot in the front, where anything with > 100mm penetration will suffice.

And anybody dumb enough to shoot at the strongest part of your tank (the super curved turret...?) is probably not the best example to use anyway.

People do not know where to shoot it half the time. The WoT forum (EU one anyways) is filled with moans about noobs/teamkillers/idiots etc who run in and die or other assorted daft things, dosent bother me much but these are the same people who also dont know where to shoot a lowe. Plus the lowe gets favourable matchmaking compared to the other tier 8's taking everything into account the lowe is the best tier 8 heavy imo. For purely combat alone and no other factors it would be the KT or maybe IS3.

 

[Possessed Freak]

There are some sweet spot tanks at earlier tiers... ones that can do damage to anything it faces in the the ranges of tiers it faces.

For me it was the Marder, the Stug, the KV (derp or 107). My friend loves to play his Easy 8, and I enjoy my 3001P (even though the 88 is bouncy).

 

[PowerYoga]

People do not know where to shoot it half the time. The WoT forum (EU one anyways) is filled with moans about noobs/teamkillers/idiots etc who run in and die or other assorted daft things, dosent bother me much but these are the same people who also dont know where to shoot a lowe. Plus the lowe gets favourable matchmaking compared to the other tier 8's taking everything into account the lowe is the best tier 8 heavy imo. For purely combat alone and no other factors it would be the KT or maybe IS3.

The issue is not on EU alone, trust me. Disregarding the uneducated that don't know how to fight a lowe in a full frontal assault, its still laughably easy to flank and its side armor is made of good will and rolls of tissue paper.

It also doesn't weight any more than an IS3, KT or a T-32 in the matchmaking, not sure what you mean by "favorable matchmaking". You mean just in general people not knowing how to fight it? I'd say those same people have problems fighting other tier 8s as well.

It's like arguing security through obscurity. Once you know how, its laughably easy to kill a lowe or at least cripple it enough with 1-2 shots that its worthless the rest of the game. Saying there's some people that don't know how to fight it is kind of a moot argument, because I can say the same for KTs and IS-3s.

 

[Merad]

taking everything into account the lowe is the best tier 8 heavy imo.

Not really... the Lowe is good for making money and that's about it. It isn't that fun to play, it's a big target, gets torn up by any competent enemy, etc.

 

[Maximilian]

Well the lowes matchmaking is better than other tier 8 heavys:

http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/10168-match-making-system/

It will never be placed in a tier 12 battle whereas tier 8 heavys can be, even tier 7 heavys can be. KV5s matchmaking is even more favourable as it avoids tier 11 battles as well.

Each to their own, i still think lowe is best tier 8 heavy overall.

Also FYI for anyone on EU its back at 7500 gold again because the servers are screwed up. Wont be for long though as people are shouting about it on the forums