Thanks to KrasnayaZvezda for this one

Hello everyone,

recently, Korean server announced some interesting events. In order to celebrate 1st Anniversary of Korean server and the New Year, WoT Korea will run the following event:

In one month (from 16.12.2013 to 15.1.2014), if you manage to grind 100k XP (!) on tier 6 vehicle of one nation, you will get free 3 days of premium account. BUT! If you manage to grind 100k on a tier 6 vehicle of EVERY nation (UK, USSR, France, USA, Germany, China, Japan, eg. 700k XP altogether) within that one month, you will get a free IS-6 tank.

And the best part? Yea, I’m getting to it. There is a Korean staff post, where it is stated:

“본 임무는 월드 오브 탱크 한국 서비스 1주년과 다가오는 2014년 신년을 맞이해
대한민국 뿐만 아니라 전 서버를 대상으로 공동으로 진행되는 글로벌 임무입니다.”

translated by Daigensui (who speaks Korean):

This mission is a global mission conducted not only in Korea, but all servers to celebrate the 1st anniversity of WoT KR and New Years 2014

So yea, we might be getting that stuff too. But 700k XP… damn, that’s brutal. That 23k XP on tier 6 (!) every single day. Well, my best vehicle without premium account is the Jackson, where I have average 560XP. That means 41 battles every day, which (translated to time with 7 minutes being the battle average) is almost 5 hours a day of gaming. Damn. It can obviously be accomplished earlier with premium account (in which case it’s roughly 30 battles a day), but even though I bought PA for the gold I won for the German TD competition, it still most likely means I won’t do it. If it comes that is.

Hello everyone,

here’s a video from Russian portal about how the game improved in graphics since its release. They aren’t saying anything new or important, only that 8.10 will bring some nice graphic improvement and how the game used to look crappy, but eveolved. Overall, it shows a nice comparison between the old WoT and the new one. Gosh, I can’t believe it used to be so ugly…

….this time, with our favourite tank, TOG :)

Hello everyone,

I made a few pictures of STB-1 with green camo. Maybe it’s just my impression, but it looks sort of… less bland. Anyway, here are the pictures, along with camouflage description, so those of you, who have not bought the Chi-Nu Kai know what camo awaits you. Personally I think the camo patterns are very pretty. Still, the suspension is too dark.

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Hello everyone,

as you probably heard (if you haven’t tried directly yourself), the color of Japanese tanks was changed to green. Dark green, specifically. Apart from being less historically important than the brownish one (“artillery brown”), which was the basic primer of all the Japanese vehicle (Daigensui on green: “This is the Southern Army alternative color, willow green, used to replace the olive green for the Northern Army camouflage. Due to its coloring over most of the parched grass primer base, it is considered the base color for IJA tanks in the Pacific”), it’s also WAY too dark. Look, this is how top 3 tanks look now:

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Hello everyone,

you probably remember the T-44-85, the Soviet tier 7 premium tank, that was supposed to come last patch, but it was postponed, because it was imbalanced?

Well, as you know, it’s not coming in 8.10 either, but Wargaming did rebalance the vehicle somewhat – probably not its final form, but to show where this is going:

- hitpoints were reduced from 1150 to 1100
- traverse nerfed from 56 deg/s to 54 deg/s
- terrain resistance nerfed from 0,8/0,9/1,8 to 0,9/1/2
- gun penetration was improved from 126/167/43 to 147/210/43
- gun damage was improved from 160/160/280 to 200/200/300
- ROF changed from 12,5 RPM to 9,52 RPM, lowering DPM from 2000 to 1908
- the price of regular AP shells increased from 109 to 175 credits
- the price of gold shells increased from 7 to 8 gold
- the price of HE shells increased from 98 to 139
- both the AP and gold shells have marginally higher velocity

Overall, it’s hard to say whether it’s a nerf or not. The vehicle will be less mobile, but it will penetrate more. Time will tell how it will end up, but personally, mobility nerf makes the tank less attractive for me, because earlier I really liked its speed.

Hello everyone,

there were some additional changes in 0.8.10 T2. Formally, there were no changes of the vehicles from T1 apart from the STB-1 nerf as far as I can see. The only other thing I noticed was the fact Panther I got renamed to Panther.

Ferdinand got a bit bigger – please note that Storm specifically said they didn’t touch its camo factor

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Hello everyone,

so, today’s T-127 is on discount. Okay, here’s another thing that sort of bothers me. Not much, but still. When Wargaming first came with the concept of event reward tanks, I was actually quite overjoyed. I mean – there’s a collector value in it in the sense that you were THERE (if I recall correctly, the T-127 was a Christmas tank for 2011). And now, it’s in the shop. With discount. You can see where I am going with it.

I understand that creating a new tank is not easy, it costs Wargaming money and they want the money back. But I think that specifically gift tanks should remain gift tanks, so when you drive them, you were “I was there two years ago” special – but that won’t happen now, not when every Dick and Harry can now buy it from the shop. As usual, the discount is not 50 percent as advertised, but only 36 percent (no slot discount of course).

And of course, we have our daily small fail (what would be a WG EU event without one, right?):

While I do think pouring Coca-Cola on a burning engine could produce interesting results, I am not quite sure they did that in real life.

Edit: Yea, checked and I made a mistake with that T-127, it was apparently quite common tank. However, Tetrarch and T1E6 (both Christmas presents) were also sold in bundles.