u/EyeoftheTato

• SU-130PM
• Char MLE
• Obj 703 (II)
• TS-5

Two of them are bond tanks permanently available in the bond store.

The third is available in every single trade-in, and offered at a discount when the player finishes Tank Academy.
The fourth has been sold umpteen times this year and is also offered at a discount when the player finishes Tank Academy.

At this point gold is like food stamps.
Any new tanks or older ones that players want are always available for cash only and we get these same tired, recycled old offers over, and over again for gold.

So the German heavy line's new ability lets you improve your normalization and ricochet angles.

I'm assuming tanks that rely on crazy armor angles rather than simple armor thickness will be the worst affected: such as Coccodrillo, Strv and the new SU-122V.

Any others that should be worried? Which tanks will be particularly hard hit by this new ability?

I was so stoked to get it because the French B1 is one of my absolute favorite tier IVs.

And then I realized that the Germans $%#@ed up every single aspect of the B1.
Literally every single stat.

100 less health (w/hardening - at tier IV this is huge), less alpha, 32% less pen, worse aimtime, worse dispersion, worse camo, worse power/weight. It even has 200 less radio range of the B1 despite having two radiomen. WTF are those two radiomen even doing?

This thing is a steaming pile of s**t.

It was this morning, for 180 minutes of watch time.
There are no notifications ingame of receiving anything, and it's not 1 day of premium time.
WTF is it?

Morning folks,

I was just trying to help someone by recommending some Tiger-Maus tutorials and I noticed iyouxin's recent Tiger-Maus - the best tier IX premium in the Bond Store video requires you to join the channel at a minimum $4.49 subscription to see it.

Is he starting to switch some of his tutorial videos to paid content now? Or is this a regional thing?

I swear I've watched this video a few times before and I have never subscribed to a Youtube channel in my life.
There's no way I'm paying $4.49-29.99 a month for a single Youtube channel.

Wargaming wants you to eat their pudding.

Hey folks.

I was reading another thread where someone was saying ".....in capable hands the tank can perform".

"In capable hands". O_o

Well yeah, a SuperUnicum could farm most of us in the absolute worst tier VIII in the game.
But that got me thinking: which is the worst Tier VIII in the game?

Please nominate what you think it is. Tech Tree, Premium, Collector's, whatever.

Preferably in Canada but I will order them from the US if I have to.

This is for the 1" PE pipe inlet from a well pump. All I can find in both local shops and online are short barbs with ~3 ridges. I called my local plumbing supply and they haven't even heard of long barbs.

Apparently everyone just uses the short ones here, but I'm very hesitant to use a short barb for high-pressure PE since if it slips off at any point it will cause tens of thousands of dollars of damage. I'd rather just spend a bit more time sourcing the proper parts.

Ideally I need a 1" NPT - 1" male barb, and a male-male barb. Any help is appreciated - thank you in advance!
Cheers

Hi folks,

I am replacing the line to the left of the pressure tank tee, and I'd like to simplify this and take out as much of the galvanized as I can.
I have a couple of questions:

• Why is there a coupling and galvanized nipple between the 1" check valve and the tee? If it's all 1" NPT can't I just thread the brass check valve directly into the brass tee?
• Why is there a galvanized union in this setup? The water supply is in a 1" PE pipe attached to a 1" galvanized barb fitting. Why add a union here? If I want to disconnect in the future I can just pull the PE pipe off the barb. Seems this guy just added fittings for the sake of it (there are TWO check valves right beside one another).
• Are there any issues with using 304 stainless barbs with this setup? Will I get galvanic corrosion with the brass or is this an almost insignificant issue?

Thanks in advance!!
Cheers

...and you're greeted by the TBT and Nemesis.

(ok, the LT-432 is good -- but lights aren't for everyone and it's quite common in the Personal Gem offers for ~6k gold).

Good day folks,

I have a philosophical question for you. Please don't let this devolve into arguments, there really are no right or wrong answers. I'm just really interested in hearing everyone's own personal outlook on this.

I've ground out most of the Special BattlePass tanks like the Zwilling, H3, Predatore.
While I was deep in grindmode I pretty much lost track of the hours -- I do know that I had to religiously do all of my dailies no matter how difficult, and I had to spend most of the weekend grinding like a madman. I actually ground out the Zwilling and Predatore on both my EU and NA accounts. As many of you well know, someone who has been subjected to WoT Randoms and RNG for 12+ hours straight is not pleasant to be around.

Then someone posted a Calculator that lets you track your progress and estimated grinding time. It really opened my eyes as to exactly how many hours of time investment it actually takes to grind out 40 levels in a little over a week. You're looking at a best case scenario of around 25 hours, and a worst-case scenario of over 45 hours if you can't complete all dailies, have a bad losing streak or don't always end up in the top 3 players (which admittedly is very hard to do consistently for average players at high tiers).

After this realization, I skipped the Robocop and Duke Nukem passes. It wasn't a hard decision because neither the tanks, nor their appearance really appealed to me or my playstyle. Naturally if another Zwilling caliber tank comes along I will grind it out, but what about these middling tanks?

The upcoming M-VII-Y Far Cry tank actually looks decent. Not OP, but decent.
It seems similar to the SPHT, and the slight alpha/DPM/mobility it gives up it somewhat compensates for with more effective armor. A lot of people slept on the SPHT so this will be an obtainable alternative until WG decides to rotate the SPHT into the store.

But this brings up the question: Grind it out? Or just wait until it hits the store and buy it.

Yes, buying tanks outright in WoT is expensive. But so is your time. It has value.
If you complete every single daily mission and place top 3 in every single battle you play you can complete the Special BattlePass in around ~22-25 hours.
If not, it can take you over 40 hours of grinding to do. That is an entire work week. And that doesn't get you the tank for free - you still have to pay 3500 gold to get it.

A tier IX heavy is roughly 11,500 gold. So basically you are grinding almost an entire work week for the equivalent of 8000 gold. That has a 'value' of around $30/30 EUR. I'm aware that there are regions and circumstances where this is a significant sum of money, however no matter where you live your time is also valuable.

Naturally, if you normally play several hours of WoT each day and would complete it anyway (or most of it) in the 10 days then a halfdecent tank like this for 3500 gold is a no-brainer.
But if you don't typically play WoT for hours every single day, is it worth actively grinding out?

What do you think? Will you be "grinding" it out?

It's only a tier II, but it's a fast wheeled tank and kindof fun.

Not sure if anyone noticed this, but if you fail the new Crucible missions the first time, it will cost gold to attempt them again.

InB4 "WoT Plus Ultra Mega Super" that gives you one extra retry attempt.

Oh, and where is my Monetizing Practices Rage flair??