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Best strategy for Experience farming?

m0rf0

m0rf0

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Morning all fellow tankers!

I started playing WoT during one of those long waiting times on a HB downtime almost two years ago, and I must say now it's one of my favourite games. I purchased Tankleader back in TL 1 days and I grinded quite a few tanks, managing to get around 5xTier8 and one Tier9, but to be honest I'm a little bit worried in terms of experience. The grind now is extremely painful and botting a Tier 8-10 game is really risky as everyone there knows how to recognize a bot.

I have seen many different strategies here, but I can't make it work properly. Some say using Tier5 tanks works, others claim they managed to unlock a full tier just by botting artillery, etc...

So, how do you farm experience? Do you farm with the actual tank you want to upgrade? Do you use lower tier tanks so the gameplay is not so obvious? And if so, how much time it takes? Do you stay 24/7 as well?

Cheers and thanks a lot!
 
good thing you asked, i was asking myself the same thing.

ive been botting for around 15 hours straight now and it looks like after about 180 games and an average of 45k credits / hour im getting around 70 xp per game (around 100-200 for a win and below 70 for a loss)... since TL2 doesn't have an experience counter implemented yet (would love to see that in the future) i would roughly put the xp per hour at around 850 xp / h (it could well be at around 1k, might be off by a bit here)... i've read that others have better stats with 1k-2k / hour without premium (which im running) so i guess it depends on the tank, here i might add that im running tier 5 pzkw III/IV as main priority followed by stug2 and then by kv-5 premium.

i've had an awful experience with grille (arty) so i chose to let arty be for now even though i heard people botting only with arty being viable.

cheers!
 
Would also like to know which tanks farm exp the best. I usually use gold to convert to free exp.

I'm pretty sure profiles have a big thing to do with it. I use Gloomy's free profiles for now but I'm pretty sure a couple tank type specific profiles would be better.


My experience:

I usually use tier 5 premium tanks and farm credits with the bot. Sometimes they net a decent amount of exp to convert as well. Tanks I use: T-25, Churchill 3, Matilda 4
 
The british Matilda is an absolute beast with the bot from what I know, my Panzer 4 always gave me good results as well. There's a bunch of premiums that should work well too, one being the Matilda Black Prince, the premium Churchill (the V, I think) and the T-25, although that one's matchmaking could be a bit unfavourable.

I can't say this from personal experience because I haven't tried it yet, but I'm thinking the British premium TD, the AT15A should work well too; it's well armoured, it's slow and has a high rate of fire with a high penetration gun. I reckon that may work well with TankLeader always trying to complete the objective, rushing through the middle of the map on a very high armor vehicle and having that sit in the middle of the map shooting at people could work out well. Theoretically, at least.

You could also bot the premium tier 8's, although a bit more risky. People won't be surprised seeing the money tanks do bad.
 
I've seen the new offer in the gift shop for the Matilda and the month of Premium and... Oh, the joy! It comes with 1.500g as well! Exactly the same amount of goold needed to purchase a Churchill III! Looks like the perfect botting package ^_^

I'll give it a try, as I've got the RAM II as well (incredibly fast firing rate, not very slow and durable). Now I'll set up a round of Churchill III/Matilda/RAM II/L?we and see what happens.

Thanks a lot for the advice!
 
Anyone tried botting with the TOGII? It might be slow but its on sale right now =D
 
im not exactly sure where this is heading but isn't this thread about experience rather than credits? all the info posted so far surely is helpful for people looking to rack up some credits, but for the sake of this thread i would admire some posts on the experience grinding part since im not trying to grind credits rather than unlock new tanks where experience is the main issue...
anyway i have one thought on the topic: what is the faster way of farming experience? grinding with premium tanks and converting to free xp or grinding with the actual tanks that need the xp?

for one, the first option requires gold, i believe it could add up pretty quickly if you only get your needed xp through premium tanks which transfers over to you spending more cash for gold.

the other option would involve some long a$$ TL sessions, since as mentioned above in my calculations you aren't exactly getting sh**loads of xp per game... due to the long sessions you are more likely to get reported.


so my conclusion is that you either spend cash or run a higher danger of getting caught botting, this being said under the circumstance that you want your tank withing x amount of days. (since nobody is keeping you from only botting 1h a day, but we do want a tier 10 tank within the next 2 months, right?)

of course there are other combinations (like normal tanks with premium account...) which i haven't touched on, i think i might as well do some pseudo-realistic calculations to figure this out since i have some spare time atm.
let me know what you think and what your experiences have been!


edit: alright guys, just letting you know i've successfully started creating a formula that will calculate an approximate credit and experience output per hour, per tank, depending on queue priority. (i guess you could do this by just having one tank in queue and running it a few hours... but i'm trying to mesh efficiency with statistics :cool: )
anyway i need your help on the most important (still missing) factor in my formula: the tank itself. i need a few factors which represent the tank the best (ex. armor, penetration...) for which i can calculate an efficiency x between tank A and all other tanks in the queue.

cheers!
 
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