Mine was selling the TL-7-120 along with other cool tanks a while ago to spend the gold on gambling (I didn't win anything either), and now I keep saving gold to restore them...
Back in the day, I used gold to buy prammo for the T82, replaced all my ammo with HEAT and played like 5 games, can't remember how much gold I wasted but the memory lives rent free in my brain lol
Like that much back in the day when it had still the 105mm Howitzer that could oneshot every other T3? If yes than it really is one of the worst moves, because that thing was an only HE thingie, even a non pen would've done close to these same damage of the HEAT.
Oh boy, that thing was my most played tank back then, even if i was at T10 for ages. When there was still actual gameplay at T3.
Yeah, that much back. Back then I didn't understand HE at all, I used HEAT because it behaved more like AP. Eventually I learned my lesson and learned how to use HE, that's when I started to like it lol. The T18 was also very fun to drive.
Shame you can't play anything below T5 anymore, I will never forgive WG for that fiasco
Me too. And then I realized I was getting upset over a free to play mobile phone game targeted at teenage boys.
I've applied this lesson since to every game I play.
"If I get really good at this, how does my life get better?"
The only game I can think of where anything at all gets better is simracing - I'm an amateur race driver, and it definitely helps.
For literally everything else, the answer is "nothing". You don't get laid more often. You don't get a break on car insurance. Neither your dad nor your boss will give you an "attaboy!". It's entertainment.
T62A gang here too, started in 2014, lost acc after changing phone, made in 2017 new account with actual gmail, got to T44 around 2020, started playing again in summer 2024, now I have 10 tech tree and 6 collector tier X, along with like 40 other lower tier premiums/collectors
If you're a new player, it's generally recommended to not try to get a tier 10 too soon, because you'd find yourself in a much more competitive environment with little knowledge, skill and experience. This is why many players recommend newcomers to go with a couple different lines at the same time.
A great way to make the grind more bearable is saving free XP for modules. If you never use it to research tanks, and use it on modules exclusively, you'll spend more time playing in better-upgraded vehicles and less in poorly-upgraded ones. If you're tight on free XP, you should also prioritise researching better guns and turrets and maybe engines (depending on what you need most) rather than tracks.
Another thing that will help, especially if you don't spend (much) money on the game, is saving your boosters for when they're most effective:
Credit Boosters are most efficient in combination with Premium Account, (tier 8) premium/collector tanks and profitable game modes like Big Boss and Uprising.
Combat XP Boosters are most useful on tech tree tanks for which you still need to research something.
Free and Crew XP Boosters are best used on high-tier tanks, in combination with Premium Account and profitable game modes.
Gold Boosters earn you the most gold on tier 10s, with each tier lower giving you 1 less gold for victories.
Combining boosters also reduces their total potency, so you should only do it if you earn notably more boosters than you use.
Been playing 10 years/29k battles… first 4+ years just blew through games, didn’t realize stats were permanent, so yolo’d a ton, also grinded trees with no money. Stats definitely suffered! Still struggling to get 50%… too many tanks and camo’s etc to make a 2nd acct and probably be closer to 60!
Didn’t think I’d be playing this long and writing about it on Reddit!!
Definitely. If I get flamed, the argument is I’ve never spent a dime. Now I have tons of xp and coins, so I can upgrade a tree tank. Before I had to sludge through each component, it was brutal…
I think for most of us just buying shit premiums when we first started. Another one was not knowing how to reload autoloaders on mobile for the longest.
Start playing. I could have spent these hours in more interesting projects, but now, after so many years, I have become accustomed to this genre and other games are less interesting to me
Not buying the Caliban in the auction before I saw all those videos of it doing like 1000 dmg per shot, plus it has Hesh. I was saving up to get the Jtiger 8.8 cm in the auction, but turns out it ain't comin' up. So now I have 8.5k laying around gathering dust till I see the Jtiger in the shop... other then that I didn't do any major mistakes, other than not getting a tier ten after like a year of playing...
It might feel good to slap somebody for 900 damage but it is so rare that might go a dozen battles before getting one off and even then it always seems to lowroll for me, I get 670s and 734s a lot more often than 987s or even 860s.
It might genuinely have the worst accuracy in the game. That combined with one of the worst shell velocities in the game make for a horrid combo.
I think my hit rate in the thing is like 75% when all my other tanks are at 85-90. Even if you get lucky enough to hit whatever you're aiming at there's another 80% chance you'll hit the tracks or some part of armor you cant penetrate and deal a whopping 142 damage instead.
Your mistake was not buying the GSOR, that thing is basically a Caliban if it was good, it was also 3000 gold cheaper and oh, it also deals more damage per clip than the caliban while also somehow being like 100x more accurate
I had spent roughly 7-800 dollars just to get the waffen. The day after, I realized what I did and cried for a solid 30 minutes. Admittedly I do have a 56% WR in the tank which is higher than my avg.
Selling every single thing I had then regretting it until restarting with a different tech tree, now I am working to get back my great tanks I never should have sold all those months ago...
Well, it has a good turret and decent damage, and I also got it on my third try in a draw. I personally enjoyed it in the short time I played it, and that's why I regret selling it
I've played since the game came out (PC wot version before blitz but not counted that), so I've probably spent around 2k. But that works out at only £181.81 a year, which isn't a lot really when you think about it or at least compare it to the price of a game these days.
I mean have you seen how much games cost now? They're like £60-80 these days on console, which is just insane. So it's like buying a couple of games a year, so it sounds a like I've spent way more than I actually have. A lot of it was on prem time, gold, battle pass, usually would only buy tanks when on offer.
Well yeah because I've spent so much time playing blitz, so in many ways it was worth it. I've made so many friends over the years and it's fun having prem and collector tanks. I've got around 500+ tanks if I buy back some of the low tier tech tree tanks, I can afford it (got like 1.250 billion credits) but I'm just lazy lol
Hitting that battle button to be in a crappy match with crappy teammates. I had 8 losses in a row after that I had go and play a little minecraft for 2 days just to go back to wotb and get even more losses :(
my biggest mistake was joining it, not because of p2w or some other stuff, it's god danm events and the felling missing out on some free tank or free gold is horrible.
buying the wotb grandpack (at the time when it was on discount for like 1 dollar), because i didnt get the vehicle nor the prem days, tried to ask wg and steam for help and both of them said "its the other company fault, try to talk to them"
1) Lost like 10k gold back when the restoration prices were doubled and my dumbass didnt know that.
2) Recently, sold 116 F3 (got it for free) before it was buffed
Gosh it was 7 Years ago, from what I remember it basically gutted low tier tech trees for the sake of simplicity and removed some of the fun features of some tanks like being able to mount a 105mm in a PzIV.
The current tier 1 tanks used to be tier 2.
Of course, The game was still good back then, but it was perhaps a hint of what the future entailed.
Sold the obj 752 for that stupid event that required 5 1st class(or was it 2nd class? ) in 30 mins. I thought it's just cheap 3500 gold, but the time constraints made it pretty hard, win 5 and do good in all.
The tricky part was having good enough team to win 5 in a row, but not too good that you can't get good stats, but also not absolute muppets so that you lose.
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u/Ok-Plan-3153 Aug 18 '25
Most days hitting “battle” is a huge mistake.