After the arty nerf, unless you get a good arty player in your team (rare), arty pieces in team are actually a burden and drag down the team rather than help it to victory. Basically the really low average damage by arties after the patch make them far less useful in battles than other type of tanks.

One or two arty pieces is ok. I could live with 3, but in tier 9 and tier 10 battles you would have 4 or more arty on each side practically every game and unsurprisingly at the end of the battle you would often have 3 arty and 1 or 2 tanks left, that is an indication of itself.

I hardly played arty pre-8.6 and when I did I thought it was pretty damn easy too play. I actually play a little more arty since the 8.6 release, granted just tiers 5-7 so I couldn’t really tell how they are doing myself from tier 8-10 but I have seen a lot less arty in T8-10 games and I think it’s a good thing because they were really too dominating at those tiers IMHO.

In 3 years of playing I've had some of the most idiot and least enjoyable games ever since 8.6; its like the whole game has turned into EZ MODE.

Always been that way though, the GW Tiger has always been a giant piece of shit even before the nerfs.