Thanks for stopping by. I started playing WOTB about 18 months ago. I'm 40 and haven't seriously played any video games in a long time. Like many, I started off as a NOOB! I thought the idea was to do as much damage as possible, as fast as possible, so I would always lead and get killed in a matter of minutes. Having never played a WOT game on any platform I had no basis for how to play.
Sometime around the time that clans actually launched, I started to pay attention. I remember reading Alexbuildit's requirement for the 501st and then I looked at my stats and said I wanted to get better. I now understood that clans with good players cared about WR, Hit Rate, DMG Ratios, etc. I started watching videos, I learned to hull down and peek a boom a bit better (I still struggle with side-scraping, the idea of taking shots scares me). I dedicated myself to getting good enough to make it into a clan (my goal was a 57% WR).
My problem was that despite my level of poor play at the beginning, I played a lot of matches. That would mean that I would have to play really well for a long time to dig myself out. I'm pleased to announce that today I have hit a 55% WR (I'm afraid to hit battle again). That's probably not great to most of you, but given I've played over 24k battles, it's been hard. My 30 and 60 WRs are 62.87% and 60.83%.
My goal remains to get to 57%, and I recognize that if I keep running ~60% WR, that's going to take me another 18 months, but I'm going to get there. While I am trying to accomplish that goal I have a few other intermediate goals for myself:
- I am training my skills like crazy. I pick whatever tank type has the highest % complete on the next level of skills and abuse the 2x multiplier as much as I can playing almost exclusively that tank type until I have trained I skill, then I move to the next. As a result I have only 1 medium and light tank skill left, and 2 TD and Heavy skills left.
- I have researched every tier X tank, but still need to grind credits for the STB1, JgPz E100, and Maus. (I still have to go back and research the JPanther II...thanks WG for adding a tank that I had already sold the predecessor of).
- My final goal once I am done with skills is mastering the mastery! As it stands I have 61 ( somehow I got lucky and did my 183 and Leo 1 a long time ago...I struggle in both!).
- Hopefully along the way I'll see some light purple...but I'll take that as a buy product of pursuing my other goals.
Anyway, thank you to WG for such a great game...yes there are things I would change, but overall, I love this game. Thanks to the few people I have platooned with along the way, I've learned a few things from those I've been lucky enough to toon with. Thanks to 501DV and the whole 501 family. When you accepted me into the clan I believe I was around a 52% WR, thanks for giving me a chance, wanting to represent has helped me be a better player. Finally, thanks to the full community. It's been great playing with all of you and I look forward to more fun!
Edited by Turd___Ferguson, 22 March 2016 - 04:13 PM.