8.8cm Kwk/PaK 36 L/56 is the worst gun in game

NTRabbit, on 10 June 2011 - 03:13 PM, said: Seriously, not only is the short 88 the worst gun in its competitive grouping - the tier 7 'general purpose name a tank that doesn't use it' gun, with the 100mm D10T and the 90mm M3 - but pound for pound, it is the worst gun in the game.
8.8cm L/56: Tier 7 - First available at tier 6 - 220hp / 132 pen AP, 270hp / 44 pen HE - RoF 10r/m tanks 11-12.5r/m td - accuracy 0.36 tanks 0.34 td - aiming time 2s tank 1.5s td
100mm D10T/S: Tier 7 - first available at tier 6 - 230hp / 175 pem AP, 330hp / 50 pen HE - RoF 7.06-8.5r/m tanks 9.82r/m td - accuracy 0.37 tanks 0.35 td - aiming time 2.5s tank 2.3s td
90mm M3: Tier 7 - first available at tier 6 - 240hp / 160 pen AP, 320hp / 45 pen HE - RoF 7.31-9.01r/m - accuracy 0.33 - aiming time 2s
The short 88 wins a single solitary category, rate of fire - but this is an entirely pointless victory, because the penetration is so outrageously deficient that it means you simple end up with more bounced shots per minute.
It can't even be argued that the gun has more damage or a greater HE capacity than the 7.5cm, because it finishes last in those categories too.
This gun is so deficient that it makes playing a number of tanks, most notably the 3002 (DB) and Jagdpanther, the most painful grind in the game. With no capacity to reliably damage even their own tier, you're left to rely on getting more low tier games than high, something a tier 7 lie the DB generally never gets.
What this gun desperately needs is much increased penetration, even if it comes at the expense of damage per shell. Simply increasing the rof or accuracy of the gun - short of giving it Konisch levels of super accuracy to hit small weak spots at proper ranges - do nothing but make the problem even worse.