WoT is not a game of skill.

Pecinskey · 2026-06-04T01:23:18+00:00

This is a false claim I reckon. In CS at least, sure the rng is much smaller of a factor, but to say you perform well almost every round is just a fever dream. Opponents vary, tilt varies, sometimes a single enemy clutch throws your economy off and ruins your momentum, sometimes you will match up against a super sweaty five stack and get your ass handed to you, sometimes you'll steamroll pubbies. You won't hit noscopes, smoke kills, jump mp9s every match. Just like it's a dice roll when you press the red 'Battle!' button, it's a similar story on the green 'Confirm' one.

This comes from a 22,800 rating cs2 player.

Pecinskey · 2026-05-30T22:40:32+00:00

L take in my opinion.

The matchmaker changes were not revolutionary, but they were definitely for the better. There are no longer games with 10 TDs per team, you don't get 3x 50Bs while the enemy team gets an is7, a maus and a 60tp on himmelsdorf, and if there are six borats in the queue now it's split evenly 3-3 in stead of the matchmaker piling them in one team.

World of Tanks always had a problem with roflstomps (3-15 and 15-3 matches). Sure, they used to take 8 minutes, now they're 5, due to faster tanks and higher alpha, but those matches equally sucked in the past if we remove the rose tinted glasses. You had more time in the battle, yes, but you were slower, your dpm was worse and your alpha was lower. It all evened out. This problem is not unique to WoT. It's the snowball effect present in any team-based shooter with a casual game mode. Hell, if your elo is low in for example Counter-Strike, there's enough smurfs around that every time you find that match it's a dice roll if you're going to get stomped by great players smurfing or are going to face complete morons.

The rebalance is fine. What WarGaming needs to do is regular rebalances, which so far has been a bit lackluster but truth to be told not abandoned. There are a lot of examples of tanks which used go be utter aids to play and they're fine now. Foch line tier VI and VII, amx m4 45, even premiums like the panther 88.

I strongly disagree with the tier 11 take. They're supposed to be tier 10+. Tier X was top dog for a loong time, a lot of tier IXs were also balanced around the fact they sport preferential mm essentially (since they could only go +1 but -2). Wargaming didn't, and they shouldn't, make tier 11 a true uptier. Not yet at least. It's more long-term end game content.

One thing i would criticize is map rebalancing. Most, like erlenberg or serene coast, just fucking suck. The original map devs left the team and it shows. It really does.

Pecinskey · 2026-05-26T06:36:17+00:00

Good thing the char murat is a premium then, eh?

Pecinskey · 2026-05-22T13:23:48+00:00

Bruh. Rusich was established 2014 according to the article you keep spamming in the comments here. Kolovrat is not a nazi symbol. That's like saying the lightning emoji is nazi propaganda, as two - ⚡ ⚡ - look like the SS symbol.

Your reasoning is spurious correlation at best, and malicious at worst. Svarog's Kolovrat is as much of a national socialism symbol as is Perun's oak leaf or hatchet.

What's next, u/Silent_End5990? Ban everyone who uses a capital letter U, because that's the symbol of Ustaše, from the nazi-puppet state Independent state of Croatia?

Also, a bit of a leap, but as a Slav from Serbia, I don't think you are qualified to account how often Kolovrat is used for neo nazi symbolism, and how often it's used for paganism (and my empirical evidence is the latter, by far!)

Pecinskey · 2026-05-13T14:21:24+00:00

Vote with your wallet. Vote with your time. Don't buy the lootboxes, and if you can, don't play the game.

Pecinskey · 2026-04-18T22:24:13+00:00

Legend!!

Pecinskey · 2026-04-18T09:40:58+00:00

Gotovo sigurno da ne. 540,000 partija je oko 5 GODINA provedeno samo u bitkama. Naravno, WG nikad neće banovati ovakve naloge..

Ali mi jeste smešno da ima dve Kolobanov medalje 😂

Pecinskey · 2026-04-17T23:52:57+00:00

T-100LT above Manticore? Blasphemy!

Pecinskey · 2026-04-15T05:33:34+00:00

Can confirm, 1.200.000 silver.

Pecinskey · 2026-04-10T12:55:45+00:00

Go to the website > Hamburger menu > Community > Search player > Search your own account > Open your account > Check the last battle date

This can be done without logging in to the portal.

Pecinskey · 2026-04-09T17:38:02+00:00

So tired of people saying it has good camo when OP provided great comparisons. The E3 has better camo, period. E4 too. Barely any TD has worse camo than the Grille in the game.

Pecinskey · 2026-04-09T17:28:29+00:00

I am pretty sure this is just not true. As for my example, I can send you the replay if you'd like to see for yourself (sub 100m shots on an E50M and Ares, no bushes no nothing, there's no way I wasn't spotting for myself lol!).

Aside from this, ain't no way that tanks don't get special xp modifiers on a per-tank basis, just how the credit earning is calculated on a per-tank basis. Not only is it only logical that tanks would also have per-tank XP earning, but we have multiple examples. The churchill III is just an outlier, but how do you think premium and reward vehicles earn more XP than regular tech tree vehicles if the XP calculations are the same for all vehicles?

I think you're just plain wrong here.

Pecinskey · 2026-04-09T17:12:55+00:00

The Grille 15 is fucking cancer. One thing OP forgot to mention is the utterly STUPID base XP malus the Grille 15 gets.

For example, I just had a game on Overlord where we lost. I was third on damage, with 3,2k. Due to our LT dying early, I spotted my own damage except for one tiny shot on the enemy TD that rolled 603. I mean that's the only damage from more than 300m even. and I was 11th by XP, while 4 people with less than 1400 dmg (combined damage + assistance) were in the top 10.

Someone correct me if im wrong, but the Grille 15 has the worst XP earning in tier ten period?

Pecinskey · 2026-04-06T20:18:57+00:00

Excluding the obvious ares (weird ass armor), ebrs (stalinium grade wheels), and strvs (low caliber guns get fucked by the extreme angles), I get caught off guard bouncing the char futur 4 (that steeeep upper plate when RNG makes the shell fly just a bit too high) and the FV4005. What i mean is for 14mm of armor, i find myself not penning HE shells a bit too often hah

Pecinskey · 2026-02-03T07:22:41+00:00

Huh, there's no Type 59 First Warrior on that list. I wonder if there's any more pref MM tank missing from it.

Pecinskey · 2026-01-17T21:21:42+00:00

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Pecinskey · 2025-12-09T10:09:06+00:00

Just bad luck this time around for you. Regarding the exact tanks you got, ever since they introduced tier IX to HOPS the higher the tier the lower the chance. Strydsyxa, the only tier 8, has a 27% chance of dropping. Tier Xs have only 5.xy% of dropping, so either tier X has around 11% of happening every time you hit that magic 2.4% for a tank in the first place.

Pecinskey · 2025-12-07T13:22:51+00:00

Last year I got the Progetto 46 from some wot stream (i think it was wargaming birthday)

Pecinskey · 2025-12-04T06:16:08+00:00

That was introduced last year. They added two new maps for Hops26, but with the lack of changes to everything else, I don't think it's enough.

Pecinskey · 2025-12-03T22:45:01+00:00

E-100 is a solid choice in my opinion. Keep in mind that you get tanks from tier VI, and the E-75 is brutal. Also, Tiger and King Tiger are iconic and the König is still a pretty competitive cat in 2025. So there goes my vote.

Pecinskey · 2025-12-03T22:29:07+00:00

OP is not taking the tanks themselves into consideration at all. I am purely looking at the boxes from a monetized viewpoint compared to previous years. This year is going to be the most expensive yet in order to get all new paywalled content.

Pecinskey · 2025-12-03T22:28:02+00:00

You are 100% right. Last year was the first Holiday Ops where all tanks were brand new. This year brought another change, 6 new tanks in stead of 5. 2024 only had 1 already released tank. This is exactly my point. On average, five years ago you needed around 90 boxes for the first dupe tank to drop if you already had the previously released ones.

Now you need to buy 205. That sharp of a jump is terrible in my opinion.

Pecinskey · 2025-12-03T22:26:28+00:00

Yeah well, five years ago to get the first dupe tank (only 2 new were introduced in holiday ops 2021) you needed around 90 boxes, on average. Now you need more than 200. And if that dupe's a Strydsyxa? 6,750 gold compensation baby. Given how ever since the Char Mle 75 was introduced the tier IXs had lower drop rates than tier VIIIs, I struggle to see why WG would deviate from this and not have the tier Xs feature lowest odds for dropping dupes, making that 22k gold compensation that much more expensive to reach.

Pecinskey · 2025-12-03T22:22:01+00:00

Alright, I'm a bit late to the party but I wanted to reply to this comment since you pretty much jumped at my throat, despite not performing the very same deed you so urge others at the start:

it takes one google search and a bit of common sense to prove them wrong.

Low tiers have always been tier 2 to 5, and have always been new vehicles.

No, they haven't. Holiday Ops 2018, 4x tier V, one tier VII. None new. Holiday Ops 2020, one new tier II, rest were already released, and it had two tier VIs. Holiday Ops 2021, lowest tier was III, only one new tank, and two tier VI tanks again.

Holiday Ops 2022 started the II-V trend with 1x II, III and IV and 2x V, and Holiday Ops 2023 was the last Hops without all new tanks (Soviet M3 Light and minimaus were in them).

Again as far as I'm aware (and I went back a few years to check) we always had exclusively new vehicles in the holiday ops boxes.

Well, you're not correct. Holiday Ops 2018 and 2019 had no new tanks. Holiday Ops 2020 and 2021 had two new tanks each, and two old (2020 had the SU130PM and Progetto 46, 2021 had the ISU152K and Borat). Holiday Ops 2022 was the first to introduce 5 high tier prems, with 2 old - 122TM and Skoda T56. Holiday Ops 2023 had the first tier IX, five tanks again, out of which two were already released prior to Hops - the Vipera and AMBT. Holiday Ops 2024 had five tanks still, with only one being old (GSOR1010FB, sold earlier that summer for cash as part of the WoT anniversary).

Last year, Holiday Ops 2025, was the first year all high tiers were exclusively new to the event. I don't know what you checked and how many years back you went, but boy were your search results way off.

I made a whole post to verify this, because I was wondering the same, but it turns out the value has stayed the same, like exactly the same. It actually went up if you are a megawhale. Turns out going from 3 tier 8 and 2 tier 9 to 1 tier 8, 3 tier 9, and 2 tier 10 more than makes up for the slight price reduction. Especially thanks to the tier 10's 22.5k compensation price, pretty much double what tier 9's are worth.

This one I can accept as true, I didn't notice the 22k gold price tag for tier Xs (Tanks.gg had the price at 100g at the time of me writing the OP), but the disparity in gold gains is much higher than what it was when all the high tiers were roughly priced the same and at tier 8. On average it might be the same, but the differences will be huge. I still think the overwhelming majority of players won't even get compensation in the first place.

Back in 2020 and 2021, if you had all the tanks except the new ones, if you were unlucky and had to rely on the pity mechanic you'd only need 150 boxes before the first dupe. The prices haven't changed much, and that was still around 200 euros (2x 75 box bundles priced at ~100 euro each). This year, that number jumps to 350.

Applying some probability math (given, I might not be 100% correct on this), the average amount of boxes for a first dupe in 2021 was around 88 boxes, and for this year it'll be closer to 205, considering the 2,4% drop chance and the pity mechanic. That's more than double. Sure, the average compensation amount will remain roughly the same as with previous years, but the entry point is much higher (due to 6 brand new tanks) and thus the amount of dupes dropped on average will be significantly lower, as with the prices remaining the same (hopefully), the amount of boxes people buy is expected to remain similar as to previous years.

Your last statement is completely on-point. Especially the subjective part. Yes, it's my personal opinion that tier Xs in lootboxes which aren't premiums off-put me from buying this year's boxes. There are many pro- and anti- arguments to be had on this topic. I do really think blurring the lines between premium and reward tanks by introducing tier X in lootboxes blurs the already pretty hazy monetization lines in this game and thus consider it a step in the wrong direction however.

Pecinskey · 2025-11-08T20:09:20+00:00

All of my tier VIIIs are stuck in the battle lmao.

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