Thanks for the compliment.

Btw Lets reverse our buyers thinking logic a bit.

If those pro-streamer said this IS-3A is meh, as a buyer, would you be interested to buy without rental? For like RM200? or even motivated to get it in Lootboxes?

And recent there is a pro streamer who complains about IS-3A and "how would he fix WoT" if given the chance; (14 Dec 2018), he did propose a similar solution as WG did at premium ammo nerf part,

something like if "prammo damage is reduced to -50%, a lot of superheavies will be massively buffed", "Currently Type 5 heavy is 27% pay to win", makes me kind da think that -27% prammo damage would be logical while maintaining same PEN and same cost, BEFORE WG announced prammo fix.

14 Dec 2018: The video release on youtube
15 Dec 2018: WG announced 2019 solution on prammo fixes + superheavies armor fixes

What a timing huh?

Anyway, having seen too many pro-streamer videos on those OP tanks, somehow I have to make a long post describing my IS-3A experience as a player below average...

Comparison for what I said:

Defender(BAD) vs IS-3A(BAD) frontally in snapshot distance, Defender's thicker armor + bigger alpha allow more room for errors.
Defender(BAD) vs IS-3A(BAD) face-to-face brawling, IS-3A almost 100% wins by average burst damage 390+390+390+390, while losing half of the HP by average

Defender in good hands, can push the line effectively with support. But its damage potential severely limited by its derpy gun and long reload times than IS-3A
IS-3A in good hands, can defend a flank very well with little support, but due to its subpar snapshotting capability, its more like derpy support fire if used offensively. Best rush into face to face brawling if got any chance. Side shotting is very possible even at long range due to shell speed.

Personally I feel they should switch names for each other.

This post has been edited by air: Dec 19 2018, 09:59 AM

Short clip but it shows can punish careless flankers. But compare to Defender, its still not that OP offensively.

You din mention what server?
how many ppl by the time you login?

MMR changed on Asia Server, much lesser occurence facing tier X battles.

3-0 is teammates quality issues which MMR hard to save them also...

And you never mention which tier, and which tank are you using?

10am - 12pm is normal as today is a working day... at night it will be a lot more players, monkeys too...

About the lootbox gold value per RM spent:

Just read from some players' statistics so far 25 boxes can break even the cost, but if you are lucky then you can get a rare tier 8 prem

Buy 3 or 11 boxes will always rugi even on gold part
Buy 25 boxes only can cover the gold part, and maybe more if you are lucky (major rugi part is 25 gacha tries only)

75 boxes still the best package you can get the gold for whole year, but 38-44% more gold per RM spent.

Personally I feel wheeled turbo mode is a great counter against SPG at open map. Its balanced within city maps due to limited steering.

A lot of ppl keep ranting wheeled vehicle is not yet ready... from what I see, well almost everyone yelling arty is cancer VS WG want to retain this tank class, Wheeled is 1 of the win-win solution.

Some ppl just know how to rant, and even make selfish suggestion,

WG have to make money too for introducing the new wheeled vehicle...

The suggestion made should be alleviating the issues player faced and provide reason how WG can profit from it.

Abo you want Arty auto-explode in certain time lapsed?

Bruh, even 25 boxes gold just enough cover the cost. 11 boxes definitely rugi and not much chances to gacha for extra gold... my earlier calculations show how much % of your cash went to gold & gacha respectively

Update on Xmas & Advent Calendar:

1. LT-432 cannot be purchased by gold
2. CaernavonAX cannot be purchased by gold (missed RAAC due to Comic Fiesta, damn should buy that better-than-CAX medium, but I still more interested in Primo Victoria)

Progress:

1. Grinding 6 regular tanks same time under X5 victory with prem accounts + reserves from Boxes:

IS-3 to Obj257 (that nuclear war skin on IS-7 really effective to get me kickstart again)
T-10 to Obj277 (Convert another set of crew)
LTTB to T54 ltwt. (Super fun highspeed crasher)
P.43 ter to P.44 Pantera (Long way to go, assigned Simon Claws as commander + 1 girl)
53TP to 50TP (Going steadily with top gun, super painful alpha, very similar to T34)
T25/2 to T28 Prot. (This Tier 7 is awesome and comfortable to grind, On the Track)

Revised plan on grinding efficiency:

1. Whenever there are X4/X5 victories, I will activate premium account temporarily.
2. Reserve is only effective if combine with Prem Acc.
3. Premium Account XP bonus can be X5 with victories bonus.
4. Other non X5 times, playing premium tanks is the better idea.

This week highlight:



This post has been edited by air: Dec 28 2018, 12:54 PM

Hightlights of the Xmas + new year

90,000++ XP left for reaching T30...

Whoa all USSR, no other variety??

My target in 2019: (All grinding to the tank then FREE XP the top gun/critical module only)

T28 Prot. => T30 (soon to get)
Obj257 => IS-7 (for da nuclear war skin)
P.43 Ter => P.44 Pantera or even Standard B
T-10 => Obj 277
LTTB => T-54 ltwt + T-54 (a bit hard tho)
53TP => 50TP

Finally I now considering unlock Czech Tree until T-34/100 Konstrukta tier 7 and start grinding from that...

The Prems I might trade away:

252u(rarely drive this brainless tank, and it doesn't earn good silvers due to VERY LOW VIEWRANGE)
T34 (Got this in a really bad timing, MM improvement really made this tank obsolete furthermore)
DickerMax (upgrade to SU-122-44)
M4A1 Revaloise (plays like a TD, but with a weaker + high speed shell, my affinity with french tank really terrible)

Prems that I would get from trade in:

SU-122-44
WZ-120-1G-FT
Maybe sweedish medium after WG release another tech tree

This post has been edited by air: Dec 31 2018, 08:04 PM

This 2 weeks achieved:

1st class mastery: IS-3, T28 Prot, P.43 Ter
1st marked: IS-3, T28 Prot

Mention 1st class mastery here, becasue I am not that perfectionist, seeking better result than 95% players cukup syukur...

Then finally:




Upcoming tier 9... 50TP (I feel its better than 60TP tier-by-tier)

Currently there are a lot of monkeys per game, I prefer to spot my own target, thus my TD/LT/MT heavily relied on Binocs & Net, and it net me quite some consistent damage per game, albeit slower pace than common equips...

EGLD is overrated on any non-SPG tanks...

Currently having a blast in LTTB as a rapid high speed rammer and hill climbing tank with lend-lease OIL... (totally give up fire extinguisher).. too bad its profile too big as LT...

Similar like you, I prefer extremities, and I can adapt those type of weird tanks based on my style... FV4005/T-100-LT/T95 etc...

T30 = 60TP = 50TP these are very generic traditional huge alpha TD/HT hybrid playstyle...

luckily I no need to spend a lot of free XP to unlock T30 due to T95 unlocked previously (155mm gun is very expensive to FREEXP'ed)

Now I running concurrently 2 autoloaders/reloaders tier 6 & 7 and grind by daily x2 victory mission.

x2 x3 x4 x5 first victories of the day are important to grind those regular LT/MTs...

Current progress on Campaign:

Re-bought the SU-14-2 after very long long time ago, and completed SPG-15



Completed LT-15 + MT-15 with 8 orders and Voila:



First battle:





This tank seriously not bad, but since no credit bonus & only 20% XP bonus, thus gonna trade it away for SU-122-44 in the future...


Other update:

T34/100 KONSTRUKTA is seriously not bad with top gun.

Pssst.... I complete the LT-15 with 4 orders, completed MT-15 with 4 orders because:

I only have 1 LTTB, 1 blackdog, 1 italian MT and 1 Czech MT

SPG-15 on T55A is simply insane to clear even for primary condition...

My logic on campaign mode:

Use orders to complete any tank class -15 missions until u reach T-55A

Then reclaim every orders from StuG IV and T28 HTC by going back complete the missions.

From StuG IV => T55A => 16 orders u can obtain...

these 16 orders can use to skip any 4 tank class at Obj260 campaign...

Haha you can set 1 week achieve 1 missions, 1 year 52 weeks... 52 missions done and voila!

Obj 279e is really my cup of tea, Great DPM, Super cool Quad-track design, not really very dependent on teammates, almost all direction decent armor, decent mobility.

Nowadays since MM so unstable, I could care less about Win/Loss of the match(MM can screw your game outcome in first 3-4 minutes before you can even start to perform and improve), I prefer to clear missions and get my average damage per games improved.

WG themselves also mentioned they never put a player's stats/rating into MM calculations due to "long queue times", but a lot of elitists tend to ignore that and keep stat-shaming in the official forum.

1.3 version wise usually we try to overmatch its bottom 20mm plate whenever possible BUT
1.4 version they improved the 20mm plate to 50mm which overmatching is no longer possible.

This tank can take even HESH/HE/HEAT very well due to its super sloped 150mm upper plate, but a tier X or even tier 9 tank destroyer can easy PEN its sloped armor frontally using AP shells(5% normalization against sloped armor)



THere is a huge chunk of front-side plate(above mudguard) when 279e poking out, which is only 245-270mm effective, no matter how it sidescrape + angling poking, thats the weakspot that mediums/HTs can PEN.

T30 AP shells will be easy to pen that part AND also frontally.

Some might said its OP due to its armor profile, but as a hard-earned reward tank, not everyone can access this tank and it deserve to be able to tank frontally against most MTs & HTs.

You should be worry more about fighting against 705A than this super duper ultra rare reward tank...

This post has been edited by air: Jan 24 2019, 01:14 PM

EU server announced Prem tank trade in since 24 Jan;

Anyone know when is Asia server's turn?