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Draschel: To choose? Go with SU-5.Use the 2nd gun, 122mmUse the second HE type. 

Draschel:   If it is a point of pride to have others support your apathy for anyone's experience but your own, then you are right to be proud.  Refusing to answer broken qualities, check.  Hypocrisy, check. 

Draschel:

Draschel:  Can you please answer these bulletins, please? Why is a single class allowed to do something none other can. Do you know why WG changed premium rounds to credits? Consumables? Camo? Directives for credits?Exclusive things are bad. They are problematic.  An artillery, can still direct fire. It still has DPM, alpha, VR even if they pale in comparison to other tank classes. It HAS THEM, and can USE THEM. What artillery has, TANKS DO NOT. They can't do them, poorly. They cannot do them, at all. Broken. Because they operate outside every other class operates in. 

Draschel:  My "tactics" are to eagerly accept annoyingness VS opportunity cost of lethality. I want an enemy arty, not an enemy chieftain or EBR105. I equate brokeness with facts that other classes cannot do what they factually do, exclusivity. And that it skirts outside of the parameters that govern every other class here. There is no equivalency, because nothing is equivalent here. There is no exaggeration, because WG responds to the continued seen problems in turn. That is not what you think, what I think, but their response to what they deem a problem. Your lack of logic ignores it, a pre-determined choice. You have poor experience, so you don't know what mitigation is or not. You don't know of what enlightenment is. I do not struggle against artillery. I just mentioned that I prefer it. The only only lacking intellectual tools here is you.   Just another person, insistent on pro-arty and pro-complainant every nerf that comes. And Nothing else. Because you can't play anything else. 

Draschel:  Many problems. You can't ensure you are defender. Caps have changed in that more arty safe cover is provided.  My point rather, isn't ranking. If I wanted to rank, there are tanks in my garage for rank, grabbing 10k+ damage. Its just the anemic nature. Getting luietenant capt major, pointing and clicking 20-25 times a battle, having 5-6k damageBut usually the bottom of game exp, hurting my battle pass pts. Yet ranking up doing so little. Makes me cringe. Surrounded by sergeants and luietenants who struggled all game, and there I am too, capt or major, with dirt for exp/dmg.  

Draschel: what I certainly do not like, is how arty misses the multi-gun variability and viability in the tier, unfair. Compared to tanks.Sort of like UDES Alt 14 being able to use 2 guns, competitively. Or 53TP, able to use 2 guns competitively. WZ132, Etc.With artillery, only really GW Tiger P and SU14 gain any sort of reason to use stock guns, and primarily GW.         In comparison, M40 43 performs WORSE than M12 with the same gun, a tier higher? What kind of scaling is that                             Lorraine Tier VII can run stock gun, loses any viability with Tier VIII. Same goes with S51 / SU running stock guns vs SU14.  They really need to balance the armament of artillery. There is very poor scaling. Not every target you see in FL is E100. You don't need 8in gun. Generally, scaling seen in most instances elsewhere, you have a gun in tier __. When you beat that tier and move on, that same gun is generally provided stock or mid-gun for next tier grind. That same gun, has higher stats on the next available tier. Not always, but mostly. Why is this completely shafted for artillery? Drives me bananas. 

Draschel: It is extremely random. Seems to fluctuate 4,000-6,000. Good games is above 6,000. Last year, the damages were slightly higher, as strafe strikes and barrages can stack Despite all the easy targets like skorpion G and SU130PM, pens are still very few.  Easiest way to rank. Clicking FL in your tab, ready up arty, guarantees lieutenant and/or captain.Getting major or general is extremely difficult though. The identity of true artillery. 

Draschel:  Try the idea of stock gun the 105mm from VK4502A? While the penetration and alpha are definite loss, what you gain is DPM, gun handling, lighter chassisAt 244mm  it is good enough for important benchmarks in tier 8, such as penetrating 703-II gun mantle or JT UFP. VK can certainly surprise some with 200 more DPM

Jaguarz: Mines shouldnt be seen past tier 6, its stupid.

Draschel:  I don't whine about artillery. If I had a choice I'd rather face you, in an artillery, than someone in chieftain, 907, 260, 279E, 140, 121B, VK7201.....the list goes on and on and on, of tanks and their driver that will kill me. Not stun me and hit me for 100 damage every minute. Artillery is a blessing. Arty is full of drivers in tier 9 and 10, that do 1500~ a game. Do I want to deal with a 907 that does 4000? Thats over 2.5x arty players in a single tank, with more mobility and impact. How arty effects you, me, him, her has nothing to do with it being conceptually broken. Don't take it personally, but that is why you perform so poorly at the game. That is why you are satisfied with causing 200 damage, 400 stun assist a game. Because you point and click, and do not know any better. 

Draschel:  Talking with pro-arties, always boils down to the other party ignoring the blatantly obvious: CAN ARTY SHOOT INDIRECT. CAN TANKS                                                                                                                                                CAN ARTY SHOOT OVER OBSTACLES, CAN TANKS                                                                                                                                                CAN ARTY SHOOT BEYOND 720m, CAN TANKS                                                                                                                                                DOES ARTY NEED 420mm HEAT TO BYPASS ARMOR                                                                                                                                                DOES ARTY SHARE HP WITH THE REST OF THE TEAM                                                                                                                                                ARTY IGNORES, HAS NO USE FOR MOST GAME MECHANICS. DO TANKS?                                                                                                                                                I SIT AT SPAWN TO CONTRIBUTE. EVEN BUSH CAMPER TD....                                                                                                                                                                          DRIVES ON AVERAGE 5x MORE THAN I DO                                                                                                                                                I AM TERRIBLE AT TANKS, KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT THE GAME, SO I WILL                                                                                                                                                                             AVOID TANKS AND JUST ARTA, AND BE DECENT.                                                                                                                                                I AM A GREAT PLAYER. I WIN OVER 60%. I MANAGE EXCELLENT                                                                                                                                                                           SURVIVAL, WR, DPG, KPG, ASSIST. wth MY ARTA SO POOR? Pro arty chaps, just don't read it. Ignore it. Even though its repeated dozens of times. They don't care. Why should they care. Well, I know what I do not care about. I don't care about arta nerfs every 8 months. Lets see the next batch. What is it, in 6 months now?                                                                                                                                                  

Jaguarz: Get a Pz7, its a shot baiting machine and you can angle the nose to create ungodly levels of relative armour and you dont have to search for a hull down position and hope people dont get bored of shooting at your turret and/or arty coming along. All you need is a wall or a rock and just keep peeking that nose out, far easier and no one can resist shooting that lower plate which isnt even a weak spot,, I literally just bounced 9k on the mannerheim line map with it and 2k damage is just 4 shots.  

Draschel:  You have no experience. What experience?  

churchill50: Are you sure you're right-clicking? Left-clicking will bring up the weapon characteristics window you're talking about. Right-clicking will bring up a menu with mounting the gun being an option.

Draschel:  Makes your game. You are hilarious. As I said weeks before. You don't care.The guy is 4x your PR, and perhaps 10x your wisdomAnd you just shrug. So your denial has shifted I am all for opinions. People may have opinions. But when it is ignorance, no one needs that. 

Draschel: anyone can have an opinion. AnyoneIf you play for 42% WR, and are satisfied with maintaining 1,500 PR, guess what - you can have an opinion  We are not talking about subjective, idiotic opinions which lead to poor performance. This helps no one. And the purpose of opinions and expression are to help others Opinions should be effective, logical, which lead to greatest accruable success possible, in terms of damage, assisted damage, WR, SR, PR So, play poorly. But step into an artillery, where .....you no longer have to aim, worry of shells, worry of being spotted upon firing, have to rush shots, have to know and actively use bush mechanics, focus fire/share HP/push with the team,  have base guards erected for you.....And all of a sudden, you aren't doing poorly anymore. You are doing reasonably well, just pointing and clicking. Able to even 3-mark SPGs. That you would otherwise have extreme difficulty 1-marking a tank. But on the flip side, the excellent player who has down on these attributes, extras, skills steps into an artillery and extremely struggles getting anywhere near the stats he procures in tanks.  The class is so broken. Outrageously broken 

Jaguarz:  Big difference between a skill based light tank (with incredibly limited ammo capacity) and a grossly overpowered for tier fast medium with great hull armour and 150 rounds of ammo, I got one in that key things from the BM, played one whole game in it....

Jaguarz:  Bad players bring out the t9s as soon as they can from my experience, most dont seem bother till end, I only really break out a t9 on gun defence stage then I break out the Concept 1b which allows for me to rack up stupid amounts of damage.

Jaguarz:  How about not piling up worthless rentals on people who dont want them in the first place, necessitating the hassle of having to contact customer support? How about also not filling up the barracks with garbage 75% crews from unwanted frontline rentals after frontline? I dont want a rental in any way shape or form on my account, they are completely worthless especially as the "purchase" option has never worked making the whole "rental" scheme pointless. Also every time you "hide" the rentals they are showing up again every time you switch to Frontline games.

DomoSapien: Honorable mention, my sweet anniversary/rock n roll Batchat

TragicLoss: You can hide it as well using filters, or have CS remove it.

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churchill50: The problem with the T92 LT in my opinion is how the strengths and weaknesses interact.You have incredible acceleration, but are really hampered by your low top speed and low traverse speed.You have insane gun performance and good gun depression, but an anemic combination of alpha and DPM.And the credit income is hampered by the fact that HEAT shells cost 5,600 credits a pop, so as soon as you fire any of them you can kiss your profit goodbye. And what makes it worse is how easy it would be to fix.Give it 5kmh (or more) better top speed, slightly better traverse, slightly better reload, and cheapen the HEAT shell cost. That's all it needs. 

Draschel:  Bigger gun mantle.  LFP is auto-ricochet zone. Better for auto-aim defense. I think the armor better tier-tierThe stock gun also gives you shell velocity, accuracy, is lighter with same DPM 

Draschel:  If I am 12, you must be 4. At any rate, your alt doesn't even play well. If you are here in an alt, at least do well in it.I recommend another game. This isn't your type.  

Draschel:  He does not care. He makes excuses when its a reroll. He makes excuses when its someone double his PR talks. He hides behind rhetoric. He does not care.He plays very bad in a tank, yet put him in an artillery its enough for a 3-mark. He does not care. Because he does not understand, so why care to begin with.  

churchill50: The last Clan Wars Campaign just ended near the end of July/beginning of August. It's not likely we'll get another until early next year.There's currently a Clan Wars Gold Season going on, if that's what you meant. It just started this week.If you mean a Personal Mission Campaign, there hasn't been any recent news I've heard of about another one coming any time soon.

Draschel:  You had no credibility to begin with.You are the perfect example of why artillery is broken. Let's create a class, where someone performs miserably, and I am talking miserably in every direct fire, rule governed class. And put them in a class without rules. And they do well. I don't tell WG to nerf anything. They don't operate on my whim. Oh, ......how I wish it were true. But it ain't   WG does what they want to do. That is your argument?  

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Jaguarz:  Post xmas imo, as per italian line, release prem in boxes, then line

Draschel:  clearly you don't even read. Nevermind play the gameDo you know what,  would you rather....?  means? read again. And read again until you understand. 

Draschel:    Games W/R DPG KR Exp 3MoE   VII 1977 52 1553 1.37 656 Y Acc1 VIII 3090 55 1228 1.28 710     IX 2190 52 1461 1.23 742 Y   X 1098 53.5 1553 0.93 691                     VII 506 55 1433 1.32 559 N/A Acc2 VIII 417 51 1637 1.48 566     IX 246 52 1751 1.00 621     X ___ ___ ___ ___ ___      There are two present accounts, listed. Not too much difference to note, other than games played and the damage caused. As I said, hard to take into account pre 9.17 artillery games because they could actually find damage adequately. Now artillery struggles with it. Let us void experience, shall we? I have experience in artillery. For the benefit of the OTHER party, we shall also void experience in other classes. which are massively lopsided to one account huge favor. Massively.  And this is a huge issue. One personally can do ailing & poorly in other classes. But step into an artillery and more or less perform reasonably well. But the other account via other spectrum, does exceptional in other classes and makes effective use of many more complex game mechanics, but steps into artillery and these extra skills don't translate to much more gained results. Broken.  Back to discussion. 1. How is it fair, that artillery can attack without direct line of sight and in curved arc of fire, from outside of 720m render, and over obstacles like terrain and structures?No other class can. Though artillery do not have the boosted DPM, accuracy, aim-time, applicable alpha, muzzle velocity of tank-fire....these attribute are explained as *better than*  not wholly different. Artillery is wholly different. This massively disrupts game balance. I will not use the word broken, but will use unfair. Artillery trades less ability to cause sustained damage, for ability to apply unfair damage other classes cannot.  2. Artillery does not contribute to tactical movement of teams. It can assist in the strategic movement, surely. But it will not share HP, scout, push, cap, defend. The very rare times it does, are late game emergencies where they are likely the last alive to do anything anyway. No other class is so helpless. All other class will, can, do these.  3. The producer, understands the issue, acknowledges it....war gaming trie and trie to correct the problem. Artillery is the single most, and commonly at that, nerfed class. Repeatedly nerfed as well. This leads to many other decisions as well. Like no further releases in artillery tech tree, artillery premium, Etc. For fear of reprisal, having to nerf a premium arty.   You can broach, talk all the logic you wish. It does not matter. This is black and white. And ultimate, yes or no. Artillery can do what other tanks can do. Perhaps not well, poorly. But it can. It can directly spot, attack directly, Etc. Tanks CANNOT do what artillery can. This is unfair. The simplest form of logic, is yes or no. And yes, it is unfair. Because only it does it, and to none other does it apply. Rules do not apply to only them.   

Einzelganger7: I didn't play it last year and will not do it now, it is mainly a pay to play mode if we want to use the Waffenträger so I really hope they give us the Mirny 13 event in Halloween, that was one of the best game modes they've released.

Jaguarz:  Also a goodish turret but a paper tumor which makes the 59-Patton point and laugh at it, and a 4 second interclip

Jaguarz: Theres a tier 3?

Jaguarz:  His account is a year older than yours and has over 3x your games.... at what people do people "stop" being a reroll....... *Edit* my bad, reading fail and non stacking quotes

Jaguarz:  Probably due to people pulling this kind of shenanigans in the early hours 

KRZYBooP: Howdy Boom Jockeys!  More details about the Return of the Waffentrager have surfaced.    More information can be found HERE.

churchill50: I agree with the issues with role experience.Some tanks get role experience quite literally just for existing, whereas others are incredibly limiting.Tanks like the Kranvagn, Vz 55, and S Conq are incredibly powerful in the point blank brawls that happen so much in 10v10 Ranked. However, that is only emphasized by the fact that their role experience system gives them xp for everything they would do otherwise.Meanwhile, I've stopped playing the Leopard I in Ranked since on half the maps you end up using it as a close support tank and thus get no role experience from your damage. As far as "fun factor"... I'm not sure that should be a goal for a Ranked mode. That might just be me though.Because Ranked is so reliant on both your personal performance and your teams' performance to progress, it's always going to be stressful in my opinion. Focusing on minimizing that stress, or giving rewards that make the stress worth it (more or less) make more sense.I'd also like to see WG focus on changing the meta, or changing things each season to keep the meta from getting stale (as it definitely has now).But, again, that might just be me.

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