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Top 20 Clans by Gold Revenue over Past 2 Months

4:03 pm, October 24, 2014 Top 20 Clans by Gold Revenue, with Data Collected Daily with WG API's     A few observations: wars are expensive. they hurt gold income corollary: current clan wars mechanics disco [..] View

I need an explanation on this

5:03 am, October 24, 2014 I was hull down against an IS-3 in my T29 and he decides to shoot HE. It pens my turret roof once and kills my both my loaders and my gunner, which sucks. But I look again and see that there are two h [..] View

TIL there used to be crew voices for battle won and lost....i want that...

4:03 pm, October 23, 2014 http://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Battle_Mechanics#Unused_Messages and crew voice for gun reloaded, explosion nearby and enemy spotted too....i'd guess somehow it gets annoying but before that it would be [..] View

Trying to improve in my situation

4:03 pm, October 23, 2014 So I have been getting better and wot but my schedule is totally random. When i do get to play it is usually for a few hours super early morning time. I'm just wondering if i should seek out a clan th [..] View

how to play well.

4:03 pm, October 23, 2014 1. understand the roll of your tank and its strongpoints and weaknesses. a t-34 should not be up on a hill sniping , and a toaster should not be up at the front of a charge. don't ******* if your a sc [..] View

Arty as a game mechanic

4:03 pm, October 21, 2014 As a relatively casual player of Tanks but a big video game fan and someone that like to analyze things I just do not understand how arty functions in the game as it stands now. They have some super f [..] View

Ughh, just had a teammate fail at trying to TK me

5:03 am, October 19, 2014 After calling out an allied KV-5 for camping by telling the enemy team that KV-5s are the best sniping platform in the game, he started talking smack and did the usual "ur bad" and "now [..] View

When am I allowed to move up a tier? And a bit of crew training.

4:03 pm, October 14, 2014 Ok so I'm learning and playing the game.  I'm around tier 3-4 through earning but also purchased a pack of 3 tier 5 heavies a couple weeks ago.  I'm not great with those and I know i [..] View

[SUGGESTION] Stopping The Unnecessary Nerfing Of Arty

4:03 pm, October 9, 2014 War Gaming is nerfing artillery to heII. But changes to Arty in general are in fact needed and are justified; we know there is a problem. Most of us recognize it, but…. most of use disagree [..] View

Upcoming 6th Sense change will destroy what's left of passive scouting.

5:03 am, October 8, 2014 - Storm confirms that the Sixth Sense rework (its transfer to the radioman, activated when radioman training hits 100 percent) will happen in medium future (SS: that usually means cca 6 months)- devel [..] View

RDDT1 EU is recruiting!

5:03 am, October 6, 2014 Sat comfortably between [RDDT] and the rest of the RDDT social clans (not [RDDTX] ... we still don't really understand those guys), [RDDT1] acts as a slightly less intense alternative to the main [RDD [..] View

Is there any reason to ever not fire gold in CW? (excluding weird stuff like HESH)

5:03 am, October 6, 2014 I'm in a pretty bad clan but we do do CW and some of the players have said that you shouldn't use HEAT against sloped armor, or that there are times where its better not to use gold. I know that each [..] View

I just shot an E-75 in the cupola and set it on fire?

4:03 pm, October 4, 2014 I can post the replay, I was playing my Jagdtiger and I put one in on an E-75's cupola and set off his fire extinguisher. After battle screen shows I did red damage to the fuel tank? Is this a bug, ma [..] View

Current artillery mechanics remove agency from players.

5:03 am, October 3, 2014 The title says it all. The current randomized aspect of artillery shell distribution means that players lose agency; ie a player's performance in a SPG is no longer dictated so much by skill but rathe [..] View

suggestion for historical battle

4:03 pm, October 2, 2014 so i have been thinking about historical battles for a while now, and an idea just pop out of my head what if you put small objective like capture the town area, or stop the enemy from reaching the to [..] View

Some help with shooting safety in lights?

5:03 am, September 28, 2014 I know this is a lot of work to ask, but is there any way someone could throw together a little mock up mspaint or something of when it might be considered to be safe to shoot in a light assuming a ta [..] View

Women-friendly clans

5:03 am, September 26, 2014 So, I'm looking for a clan that's clan-wars capable but with the caveat that it has to be women-friendly. I'm currently clanless and may one day talk my partner, who's a gamer, into taking a dip into [..] View

How to improve: Know your tanks and maps. (Not a basic guide)

5:03 am, September 25, 2014 Let's face it. Most of the people on this forum are not bad. They know the mechanics. They know all the weak spots. Map positioning. Spotting. Crew layouts. And all the other stuff. Those threads help [..] View

Not improving. Time to uninstall?

5:03 am, September 25, 2014 I have been playing this game for quite awhile now. Like most people my first several thousand battles were played in ignorance of game mechanics and strategy.    But I found myself [..] View

Why is crew skill level so ridiculously important for camo?

5:03 am, September 23, 2014 Experiment: Take a 100% crew (without camouflage training), and a 50% crew, and play the same tank using as much camo cover as possible. The difference is astrofuckingnomical. Like, I never, ever expe [..] View

Here are a few problems I have with the game...

5:03 am, September 22, 2014 First of all, let me say I love the game. However, that being said, I have a few issues with the over all game mechanics.   1. When a tank is hit in the front, front armor, why does that disa [..] View

Tired of arty taking the fun out of the TANK game.

5:03 am, September 22, 2014 Tried to get back into WOT, but again it is just no good.  Since the beginning arty mechanics have been a burden, cancer, plague, curse, what ever you want to call it to this great tank game. [..] View

9.3 Camo Changes?

5:03 am, September 20, 2014 Okay, so I've read various things and heard different things from different people, but looking for more to the point answer. What do the changes in 9.3 mean for TDs/Scouts? I believe I heard they are [..] View

Using silver to drop skills and then train tankers to 100% in next tank...does it have consequences?

4:03 pm, September 17, 2014 Somewhere out there is a youtube video that supports this, but I for the life of me can't find it and would appreciate a game mechanic expert's input in this matter. I'm talking about this mechanic b [..] View

[Arty] I'm doing some research that necessitates having a good understanding of SPGs. I have a few questions to ask and if you own a Tier 10 SPG, I could use your help.

4:03 pm, September 16, 2014 This post comes in two parts: a favor to ask, and a few questions in regards to SPGs. As I'm sure some people are aware, the German Sturmpanzer branch (including tanks such as the Brummbär an [..] View

A team mate helped but screwed himself. Selfless sacrifice.

5:03 am, September 13, 2014 So I was in a recent match in my E75 as top tier.  For no reason the T54E1 decided he was going to ride my a$$ and block me from going in reverse to dodge enemy fire.  Did I get mad? [..] View

What do you think about getting xp for bounces at your hull?

5:03 am, September 13, 2014 Well, just wondering what the general opinion about the tanking bonus xp is. Do you think its a good idea to add, or do you think it will promote wrong/bad player behavior? And if you do like the mec [..] View

What has Happened? What Is Different?

5:03 am, September 11, 2014 I don't know what has happened or what is different but something about game play or game mechanics is way different resulting in almost every game being an absolute blow out for one team or the other [..] View

SPG/Arty

4:03 pm, September 10, 2014 Witch are the best SPG for CW and tier 6,8 TC ? For now I have done with Hummel and I can buy the G.W. Panther, the only problem is that I have no skills on the crew(without 100% the tank is not so ef [..] View

Lert's guides to shells, shell types and shell mechanics

5:03 am, September 9, 2014 Some good info in this guide to WoT ammo types and related game mechanics. http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/273627-lerts-guides-to-shells-shell-types-and-shell-mechanics/ submitted by [..] View

Moronic Monday #1: Spotting, Camo and Bushes

4:03 pm, September 8, 2014 We'd like to introduce a new feature for this subreddit. To help all you new players out there too afraid to ask a question or don't know what questions to ask, this will be your home. Any and all que [..] View

what I have learned thus far.....noob improvement

4:03 pm, September 8, 2014 1) situational awarness. I'm constantly watching my mini map   2) Deal damage. Pound tanks. Killing isn't the end all. Reducing their hp is. Your team, hopefully will **** the weakened tanks [..] View

Please explain the mechanics of HE penetration, in regards to SPGs especially

5:03 am, September 7, 2014 I know most of the special rules for standard ammo types, and a lot of the tricks too (double and triple overmatch, shot traps, etc), but HE I'm still a little fuzzy on. I only recently realized that [..] View

Tier 3 Premiums as Crew Trainers?

4:03 pm, September 4, 2014 Hello fellow Tankers, I recently started enjoying the german Light Tank line with the VK28.01 (leveled it back in the days where it was Tier 5 and stopped playing light tanks because I couldn't really [..] View

9.3: WG did the do.

2:01 pm, August 28, 2014 Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.asia/index.php?/topic/44290-93-supertest-patch-notes/ New high-tier light tanks added: U.S.A.: T37 (Tier VI), M41 Walker Bulldog (Tier VII), T49 (Tier VIII). U.S.S.R [..] View

Battle Mechanics

2:01 pm, August 28, 2014 submitted by XaoticOrder [link] [1 comment] View

What tanks are favored by the current game mechanics?

2:01 pm, August 26, 2014 I'm trying to decide what line I should focus on as I'm grinding a lot of different tanks right now, and I have less and less time to screw around with tanks I don't particular [..] View

Quick Guide for Starting Out / First 3K Battles

2:01 pm, August 25, 2014 (what I would do if I started from scratch w/ no premium tanks) Preparation - Setup: Comfortable Mouse (my fav list: Razor DeathAdder, Logitech 400, CM Storm-Spawn, 1800 DPI setting) Mouse Pad (Mono [..] View

New player asking for help in game.

2:01 am, August 24, 2014 Hello all, I am Qmart11 and im here to ask for help in game. Can someone platoon with me in game to show me how to play and show me the ropes of the game. I will be on in an hour or so so if anyone s [..] View

Thoughts on WoT as a "real" (read: long-term successful) eSport

2:01 am, August 23, 2014 Below are my thoughts/ramblings on the long-term success of WoT eSports. 1) The largest problem right now is that the game played by "the pros" does not resemble the game played by t [..] View

Breaking your own "glass ceiling"?

2:01 am, August 22, 2014 Disclaimer: I'm an average player (not in terms of WN8 labels, but how I actually affect the game's outcome). I'm around a 53% WR, my WN8 fluctuates but is currently averaged a [..] View

School of Reconnaissance

2:01 pm, August 21, 2014 I've been playing my scouts more in anticipation of some of the new tanks coming out supposedly next patch and I'm a very casual player so I have a tendency to screw up and need a re-briefing on some [..] View

is pc WOT very different to xbox 360 WOT in gameplay mechanics?

2:01 pm, August 20, 2014 I was wondering, I've played Xbox WOT for quite a while, and have a good pc, so I downloaded WOT for it. Will all the lessons of Xbox (sidescraping, ect.) Still apply in pc? View

Does anyone else ever get so frustrated with this game that they feel like uninstalling?

2:01 pm, August 19, 2014 I know the game mechanics. I have basic tactical knowledge. I know where I should be, I do my job, and I try and survive until the end. I always try to win the battle, and have decent situational awar [..] View

Mechanics Change in Team Damage?

2:01 pm, August 18, 2014 I know it happens, people can be trigger happy and artillery is bound to miss shots... but I recently had a game wherein I was basically shot by my team's artillery platoon not once, but twice, the fi [..] View

[HEB] Is Looking for New Blood

2:01 am, August 18, 2014 Good day! Some of you might have encountered us, some of you might have shopped at that Texas store chain that stole our name... Hoc est Bellum is a small Canadian / American clan currently focus [..] View

Encouraging words for new players

2:01 am, August 15, 2014 You've probably turned on your T.V. and first discovered this game on a commercial or maybe even seen ads on the internet. I actually even watched a show on World of Tanks. I've had a deep passion for [..] View

5 arty per side Serene Coast tier 4 tank- Bye WoT

2:01 pm, August 14, 2014 Enough of this ****, am in a tier 4 Convenator in Serene Coast, each side has 5, thats FIVE arty. So an open map with 10 arty in the game So stupid, once spotted 5 arty pour their sky urine on e [..] View

Spotting Mechanics screwed up - again

2:01 am, August 13, 2014 So the mechanics was changed to no longer grant an advantage to TD's. Now, E100's can shoot TD's without the E100 being spotted. Huh? Fix one thing, break another... geez. View

Question on spotting mechanics

2:01 pm, August 5, 2014 I'm wondering if someone can help me to understand how the maximum spotting range of 445m factors in when you use equipment like binocs or coated optics that could extend it beyond that limit. [..] View

Changes to Tiering and Skill Based Matchmaking Ideas

2:01 pm, August 5, 2014 Don't get me wrong, I love World of Tanks. With that said I feel like some of the game mechanics and features need to be reworked.Keep in mind, I'm not a game developer so my personal opinion only mat [..] View

So much team frustration.

2:01 pm, August 4, 2014 Team, after team, after team. I don't understand. How is the 'average' player this... bad? I really don't get it.... I don't. Surely they don't like los [..] View

A technical question regarding the precise definition of 'accuracy' or dispersion in WOT?

2:01 am, August 4, 2014 Accuracy of any gun can be affected by human error in a big way if the person shooting isnt experienced and doesnt practice regularly. But when a gun's inherent potential accuracy is measured, we aren [..] View

My World of Tanks

2:01 am, August 1, 2014 One thing, I think we don't do enough of on these forums, is talk about the game in a larger sense. It's all well and good to discuss arty changes or gold rounds specifically but I think a lot gets lo [..] View

Why arty is permanently broken

2:01 am, July 29, 2014 No other class has been repeatedly nerfed as much as arty, though no class is nearly as broken as arty. Arty has no place in pubs, it only fits into CW to break up turtle strats, it has no where else [..] View

BROKEN STEALTH SYSTEM

2:01 pm, July 28, 2014 NOW BEFORE YOU READ THIS POST PLEASE KNOW THAT I AM NOT SAYING THIS GAME IS **** OR NOT PLAYABLE, IM JUST STATING THAT I HAVE SOME MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH IT, THAT ID LIKE TO SEE BE MORE POLISHED OR FIXED [..] View

WoT Guide for all colors of WN8

2:01 pm, July 27, 2014 I'll go ahead an mention that /u/damienjaxx tempted me to do this by offering the possible banning of attention whoring posts that I hate, but hey, everyone benefits right? This is a relativel [..] View

Experienced players: What's some advice that you wish you had gotten early in your Tanking career?

2:01 am, July 26, 2014 I've been playing off and on since Beta. My highest tier is a VII. I usually lose motivation after a month or so, but right now is the longest I've played consistently. I'm lea [..] View

The ULTIMATE secret to becoming a great player is....

2:01 am, July 26, 2014 ... the ability to continuously gather and process information, and making every decision based on the processed information. That's it. Really. It's that simple. It's not about focusing on **** vs [..] View

WoT for the Xbox

2:01 am, July 23, 2014 So I just played a couple games on my cousins account on the Xbox version. I've only ever played the PC version and I'm an average player (~1000 wn8 in 5k battles, I understand the arm [..] View

Is it possible to not get pissed off while playing tanks?

2:01 am, July 23, 2014 Yes it is but it takes a good amount of control. "Its only a game" is my mantra while logging in. " I'm only playing to have fun." If you can keep it this simple then it wont ma [..] View

User Interface Changes Required

2:01 pm, July 22, 2014 This game has come along way since I started playing at the v8 release. I think there is room for improvement in the UI though. The font size used to show a players progress on a mission is just t [..] View

ARTY, and the lack there of

2:01 am, July 21, 2014 I have posted several time on this matter, within the arty page, but to no lack luster. So I am going to put it here into the general discussion.. WG has been reducing the ability of artillery, due t [..] View

"In Strategic View, all tracers are shown that originate from within your strategic view port"?

2:01 pm, July 19, 2014 What does this mean in regards to counter-battery? I was reading this under the shell tracer section of WoT Wiki mechanics. I'm trying to understand when I see enemy arty tracers while in arty [..] View

How to discourage camping and make armor more relevant

2:01 pm, July 16, 2014 Make the penetration loss over distance mechanic actually relevant, it's basically a joke right now, when it has the potential to be a dynamic and intuitive mechanic. Vastly increasing pen-los [..] View

I am new and I **** horribly, how do I learn the mechanics without pulling my hair out?

2:01 am, July 16, 2014 I got WoT maybe a year ago and played two games before I uninstalled it not wanting to put the time into learning the game. With the release of Blitz on iOS it fueled my desire to give the PC game ano [..] View

De-crewing a tank with one shell

2:01 pm, July 15, 2014 As I understood the game mechanics, it should be impossible to de-crew a tank with one HE shell from arty. However... I did just that today. http://i.imgur.com/uBKX737.jpg Shot him once: gunner, drive [..] View

Dodgy game mechanics lead to this beauty

2:01 pm, July 15, 2014 submitted by Gnermo [link] [8 comments] View

Artillery: The class we love to hate. My views and suggestions for making artillery bearable and playable.

2:01 am, July 14, 2014 It is not news to anyone on this subreddit that artillery is a hugely controversial part of WoT. From "Finger of God" to "Sky Cancer" and (just last night) &quo [..] View

What can I do to improve my play?

2:01 am, July 14, 2014 Hi everyone, my name is Sengar. I play on the NA servers, if anyone wants to check out my account. I've been playing WoT off and on for about a year and a half now. I don't yet have a [..] View

Artillery reloading mechanics, adding to artillery game-play depth.

2:01 am, July 14, 2014 My idea is actually prettysimple and represents a real life phenomenon that should make sense to all players. If artillery is stationary for a momentit should reload faster than it does when it moves. [..] View

A tank considered OP, that secretly needs a buff.

2:01 am, July 13, 2014 Many of you have played the powerhouse tank destroyer FV215b 183, and have been both frustrated and highly enthused by the glorious 1-shot capability that it brings to the battlefield. Unicums and to [..] View

Even on large tanks, camo CAN be made more effective than you'd think

2:01 am, July 13, 2014 When I first started reading about camo mechanics, I repeatedly read not to concern myself with camo on tanks that are very large or heavy tanks, because heavies wont benefit much from it, and dont ne [..] View

My idea for a TD nerf (fix)...

2:01 am, July 9, 2014 Ok, If you are even remotely good at WoT and pay attention to the game dynamics and such, you probably know that TDs in general need a big nerf. Like, a HUGE nerf. Don't get me wrong - I absol [..] View

A bit of perspective on the game as a whole.

2:01 am, July 9, 2014 Hi guys! I keep seeing seriously misguided opinions on here about game mechanics, WG design choices, and pretty much everything else, and I wanted to provide information for the newer players. I&# [..] View

A noob tomato looking to turn green

2:01 am, July 9, 2014 So I decided to check this game out this past weekend and it turns out it might have been the worst time for it with the 5x weekend. I ended up in tier fours nearly in tier fives and all that. I manag [..] View

Changing out the gun, pre-battle

2:01 am, July 3, 2014 Not knowing in advance what map,spawn, or opposing armor you will be facing is, IMO,acceptable, but why not let us change out our gun once we know? Unless WoT has revised the battle mechanics, the [..] View

I'm a recovering tomato, could you please give me some constructive criticism?

2:01 pm, July 2, 2014 Hey guys, My win rate was once as low as 44%, after reading lots of guides and trying to improve my mechanics I feel like I now play at a mediocre level. My current mission is to reach the promised la [..] View

What are some crazy shells that you bounced/got bounced?

2:01 pm, June 29, 2014 Sometimes, shell autobounce and autopen mechanics can make the darnest shells bounce. What shells that you fired bounced even though they were not supposed to, and which shells bounced on you? And how [..] View

Game mechanics question: accuracy

2:01 am, June 29, 2014 Does the accuracy of guns within the dispersion circle vary gun-to-gun? Reason I'm asking is, about 30 games into the E4 I feel that I'm whiffing a lot of shots that I was making in my [..] View

Looking to get back into the game

2:01 am, June 28, 2014 I took a short leave of absence after my computer broke, now all my friends are gone and my clan kicked me. I would like to find a platoon partner to help me relearn some forgotten mechanics. My IGN i [..] View

Just got 1-star on Hellcat... after 35 battles?

2:01 pm, June 27, 2014 The "stars and stripes" (and tomahawks) mechanics still elude me. It was said that you need "between 50 to 100 battles" but time may be a factor too. It has been ex [..] View

2 reasons I will never spend another dime on this game

2:01 am, June 26, 2014 1) Ghost tanks as a mechanic for a WW2-based game in 2014. ******* facepalm. 2) Autoloading .47 Magnums on tracks in a WW2-based game. Get ******. submitted by goergesucks [link] [3 comments] View

That's it, they got to me. One last vent.

2:01 pm, June 25, 2014 So, a night of just unbelievably garbage RNG, lemming trains, and so on. Typical stuff, but nothing unusual. However, round after round of just massive ********? Ending my game before it starts? Givin [..] View

People with issues

2:01 pm, June 23, 2014 Fortunately things like this only happens every few thousand games. Nevertheless, I am always intrigued by the mechanics at work inside the head of people like this M60. Take a look for yourself: htt [..] View

i play too aggressive

2:01 am, June 23, 2014 I play far too aggressive. I rush. I'm not the worst player, just having my playstyle doesn't help in solo queue games. Does anyone have this problem of over commiting, doing incredib [..] View

Let's talk premium ammo

2:01 pm, June 21, 2014 Yes, why not beat this dead horse some more? So it's generally agreed that premium ammo needs to be in the game to some degree, due to how matchmaking works. A tier four light/med needs some [..] View

Game Mechanics

2:01 am, June 21, 2014 I understand most of the game, and there are a few things I don't i just assume it's something idk. Now i'm assuming this is something i just don't understand.. How can my Foch 155's 293 pen, bo [..] View

Thoughts at 37K

2:01 pm, June 19, 2014 I jotted down some thoughts after playing 37K battles and unlocking every tank in the game. It's a wall of text in the spoiler. Enjoy, rage, argue as required... Spoiler I thought I would write [..] View

PZ IV H

2:01 am, June 19, 2014 HI. This is my first post here. I have 1700 battles, recently started working towards Tiger 1, which I think is awesome. I got to Pz IV H and grind to a halt. I use 10.5 gun as it seems to be the best [..] View

Has anyone figured out how the new "Marks of Excellence" mechanic works yet?

2:01 am, June 18, 2014 I checked my Leopard 1 stats and noticed that I'd received the first "Mark of Excellence"! Upon further inspection I noticed that I apparently have a better 'ratio&am [..] View

Confessions from a Recovering Tomato

2:01 am, June 17, 2014 Hi, Im Ted, and Im a tomato. It all started a few years back when I jumped into my first Loltraktor. I couldnt hit the broadside of a Province barn and soon found myself a smoldering wreck halfway dow [..] View

MUPET is recruiting!

2:01 am, June 17, 2014 MUPET, and it's subclans which make up FELT GAMING [NA], are actively recruiting. We offer: Active Clan Wars - We fight multiple battles every night, and are always ACTIVE on the map. We don& [..] View

Help me scout?

2:01 am, June 12, 2014 Hey Tankkit. This is infuriating. No matter how many videos and strategies that I watch, I just can't seem to be able to scout. I play heavy tanks relatively well, but as fun as I find light t [..] View

How to get better?

2:01 am, June 10, 2014 As the title suggests, I need ways of learning things like the mechanics of the game and tactics. Personally I cant watch live streams due to my ****** internet connection, but feel free to suggest th [..] View

Screw winning. I'm here to farm damage in pubs.

2:01 pm, June 9, 2014 Screw stats, screw teamwork, I'm out to reap as much damage as humanly possible. Team work has been proven to be nonexistent in pubs due to a failing game mechanic, so team mates stay out of my way an [..] View

Important, Important!

2:01 am, June 9, 2014 Well, somewhat important anyways. Is there a limit to the length of a Forum Post that you can make? If so, does anyone know what that limit is? Also, what is the maximum number of images that you may [..] View

Daily Random #1

2:01 am, June 9, 2014 Edit: Still working on my Guide to Spotting Mechanics; it will be done by the end of the day.Also, I should have posted this in Off-Topic. I'll make sure to do so next time! As promised, here is th [..] View

9.1 RNG/MM Testing

2:01 am, June 9, 2014 Link to RNG Testing Wikia (Outdated):http://official-rng-testing.wikia.com/wiki/Official_RNG_Testing_Wiki After much deliberation with WoT friends, past RNG Testers, and simple thought, I have deci [..] View

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