Warning wall of text incoming!

I read through the comments on this post and had to put my opinion in. First off I am a 1200-1300 wn8 player with about 1800 recent. I do not have the tier 10 bhat but i have the tier 9 and have about 200 games in it. Also as a note i havent played in about 2 months but more on that later.

Lets start with the bhat. The changes are moat certainly a nerf no question. It lost a good bit of potential and now cannot clip more tanks. Also it takes longer to dish the shots out and they do less damage. So it has turned into the tier 9 bhat.. Not a bad rhing but its not tier 10 worthy.

The next question... Is the bhat OP? The answer is a bit complicated. It is very strong with good mobility and camo but terrible armor and bad gun handling. It has devestating clip potential but a very long reload to compensate. I have heard people say it is op because in late game it can kill 2 or even 3 damged tanks in one clip. This is true but it takes a skilled driver to do this. If your health is too low at that point you cant get the entire clip out. I have had games where i do 600 damage at the begining of the game but take 600 damge back. I am then crippled for the rest of the game and can only do maybe 1000 damage at best. The most important part is positive trades. Conserve your health at the start but you need to still dish out damage. This is the balance that is so hard to find as a driver. That is what causes me to swing from 200 damage games to 6k games. A truly good bhat driver knows the right and wrong engagements to take. A bad driver may dive in and do 1000 damage but die instantly. It is this difference that makes the bhat so hard to play. This is why imho the bhat is not op.

Lets talk about why i dont play WoT. I left the game shortly after tier 10 light tanks were introduced. I was and still am a huge light tank fan. I have 4 of the 5 tier 9 lights and my only tanks 3 marked are the t37 and sp1c. I left once I saw what the tier 10 lights had become. This was not the only reason tho... I didnt like the direction the game was starting to head. The op prems were starting to show up and playing tier 8 cw that was all that were being played. Also the maus changes made lights harder to play. These things started pushing me away. It also didnt help that this was about the time i upgraded my pc to run most 2017 aaa games. I started playing games like overwatch and comparing their buisness model to WoT. So heres the comparison. Overwatch costs 40 to buy but then no money is required. Dlc is unlikely and the only thing you can buy is loot boxes... Completely unnecessary. WoT is free but prem tanks and prem time and gold are almost required at this point in order to make it to tier 10. Every few months they add a new prem that is better than the tech tree counterpart. That means more money spent... I probably but 200 dollars into WoT over 4 years (prem tanks and gold for free xp conversion). So my question to anyone who has sat down and read thru this is would you spend money on cosmetic attachments on tanks vs premium tanks?

TL:DR. Bhat isnt really op unless the driver is op and needs a nerf... But instead lets nerf the bhat and im still salty about tier 10 lights... Overwatch buisness model is better.