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M60 still has a super long reload though. As for the 121B, I didnt think it needed any substantial buffs, not that substantial at least. all the others (depending on what M60 gets) I dont disagree with the buffs at all

So what, like old arty?

just stacked 4 coherence instructors on my STB crew. my reload is now 5.18 seconds. (5.32 on live) since I cant get to max crew XP rank, unless there's another way to get a LOT more crew XP the sub 5 second STB reload dream is not to be edit: oh I get a whole bunch of XP books just for playing the game. can I play enough battles to get enough XP to do it? probably not

on that crew I specifically picked only skills that DONT have that requirement thing because I absolutely hate the idea of it. here's the skill loadout I have: edit: lmao I've dumped literally 13m+ XP into this crew and its only at specialist 2 now, I could dump all 1.5m free XP I can get (what they gave me+converted from gold) and it still wont be enough to get to specialist 1. okay WG.

finally downloaded the sandbox today. Here is a comparison of my STBs crew, which went from 53% on their 6th skill to Level 75 Specialist 5 mastery on the Sandbox. based on the skills I chose (I tried making the skills as identical as possible to my old, Live loadout) - plus four instructors which I had bonus to the VR skill, the base BIA skill, the consumable reload buff skill, and the make you accelerate faster skill. Notable: Lost 0.05 seconds of reload speed lost 0.02 seconds of aim time (possible but hard for me to notice or confir

my STB crew is at ~75% on their 6th skill (regular, no free BIA). I have 2519 games in my STB (not including CW, advances etc which would add a few more). This crew is also the crew I started the grind with from tier 1. I have around 3100 battles total on that crew. And well over 2000 of them have been played with accelerated training on. 6 skills is a pretty overpowered crew in the current game. Im stuck grasping at straws and training firefighting on a couple members, so Ive got literally everything you'd want already on there. I havent downloaded the sanbox, though I might tonight, so

Went for a quick look at the RU forums to see what they are saying about it: They dont seem to like it for many of the same reasons as us, so far at least. Edit, link to that thread: http://forum.worldoftanks.ru/index.php?/topic/2127797-ваши-впечатления-от-экипажа-20/page__pid__54595832__st__20#entry54595832

I personally think you only need to have one full skill to be decently competitive. just Sixth sense and a full repairs crew and in most tanks I feel perfectly competitive. of course there are a number of tanks that need a specific combination of skills before they start being properly competitive, but in general? Just one 100% skill doesn't feel like any noticeable disadvantage in pubs to me.

Havent seen it properly myself. Friend did a long summary of it. From what he said it sounds horrible. Changing it fully from a mostly passive stat boost that it currently is to a full blown gimmick system. "You get this for 5 seconds after doing this" "if you get this many kills you get this boost" No no no no no no no. It sounds awful. I didnt actually want WG to change crew skills because aside from making 6th sense default, I didnt trust them to not fuck it up. And it looks like thats whats happening to me.

that's a good thing though. that should be ALL premium tanks.

You are attempting to talk shit to pretty much the Number 1 solo player in any region outside of RU. I HIGHLY suggest you shut up, humble up, and listen.

As far as I know in the last ~3 years, most unicums have been running mostly vanilla as WG over time added all of the most useful mods to the vanilla game. You'll probably find there are still a number that run mods due to different visual style to suit their preference, or maybe XVM still.