Crew Qualifications Explained - HUGE Differences Between Stock, Expert, And Ace Crew [War Thunder] 

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Exactly.. the value of GE is far better spent on premium time or unlocking a shell to make your stock grind not dogshit imo..

But aren't you a snail partner?

Don't you get free GE from Gaijin

​ I think he just wants to name a pricetag, so people don't just see the positive effects from expert crews.

I got the Survivor award in Ground RB once with a crew level of 4. It isn't that important.

@@robertbirchfield5655 Keyword is "once" lol. Yeah ik it isn't that important compared to overall skill, but every little bit helps during the grind. Especially if your tank's life depends on that extra half second reload or quicker repair/replacement during those 1v1 moments.

@@robertbirchfield5655 depends on the br, if everyone has autoloaders/bad ones (T-72) the most important skill doesnt matter but at lower br's its very important ("important" doesnt mean "cannot win/get kills") like the jumbo for example 6.5 second reload, really good but it goes down to 5 seconds which is much better and to use the jumbo again the turret traverse base is 14 degrees/second which goes up to 24 degrees a second which is a massive improvement and with all tanks the repair speed gets halved which is extremely good

I only ever notice it if I'm silly enough to go heads up with a newish crew, say the Chinese line which I don't have much in crew in so far, with the same tank in someone elses hands from the Russian and US lines. Generally you don't want to be relying on reload speeds unless you're into brawling and dying fast. I've pretty much experted every crew and loader/commander in all my tank lineups (I'm an og so I had years to build up crew points before tanks even came out) and I'm very aware when I meet someone, as in the previous described instance, who has Ace'd their crew and I've fired first, by fractions of a second, and they still reload faster than my crew, it's a bit sad but some people need the p2w edge. Back to the newer lines where I'm starting from zero with Israel being the next obvious lineup you're diving in at 5.7 BR for ground RB which means everyone not in an Israeli tank probably has an expert crew and I don't struggle because situational awareness beats reload speed even when I'm using a zero point crew that hasn't even got the lowest point at which you get +3 expert level boost.

​@@robertbirchfield5655 what matters in the game is K/D and winrate,not having 1 good game under tens or hundreds of games,but being consistently good

Agree. Even if I focus on Reloading and traverse speed as the 2 main skills to max out, I think now, having more and more experience, that Field Repair should be the number 1 skill to max. You can plan and overcome the drawbacks of a slow turret and slow reloading. But as you said, the difference of staying inactive and exposed for 1 minute compared to 30-40 seconds is huge.

Ohh ho ho ho rank 3 just wait till rank 6-8 where you can pay anywhere from 1 million to 1.5 million PER expertise.

@@theapexdragon5010 I know, I’m in Rank VI US ground right now. It’s pretty fun, at least.

This is assuming everyone is buying crews for all their vehicles. People complain about SL all the time, so I doubt it, most are probably around 3ish 4ish average level of crew ability I would say

Tbh i just grinded the ace for the vehicles i liked since i already play them a lot

The main issue is since people spread out their vehicles over a number of crews grinding skill becomes even slower

>complains about SL cost of training crew >flies top tier jets with a crew that has no G tolerance clearly a skill issue. go back to low tier with your feeble biplane pilot. and by the way, you dont even have to pay gold for the ace qualifications, just get the basic training and then grind it out.

sshhhh, we dont want gayjing to find out you know theyll nerf it

It hugely matters in just about any duel which does not end in the first shot, as the person to get the 2nd shot has a massively higher chance of winning, I'd almost argue that the higher your reload speed is normally, the less important it actually is, as your chances of being in a knife fight where it counts are alot lower.

Sadly, God damn gaijin made the expert price be the same as the vehicle price, making u pay for the vehicle 2 times and 1 for training. That means dat, already at tier 5, u could be spending 1M sl just to get a decent crew

On Rank 1 it costs nothing. Do that at rank IV and upward xD

WT crew system was meant to extract money from the players, not be more convenient for them.

@@Panocek Of course, but it's hella expensive. can live without it. Impossible to do this for all your tanks as you play through a nation.. madness.

​@@Panocek and who pays has an advantage ull never reach unless u pay

Not exactly, to begin with low tiers are literally filled with bots Gaijins provides. sure, there'll be those who'll play n try sealclub, but anyone who's got a brain could at least be able to grind to tier 2 fine, not to mention Gaijin does care at least to some extent to their players. Most of the time matchmaking will give you bots, The learning steep of the game is steep at 1st but give it a couple of days you'll be able to learn the map layout, plus arcade exists that literally shows the most fundamentals of the game, the game is literally giving you ways to learn where training rooms and test drive exist, there's also heck ton of videos online what nations are meta that may or may not be more advantageous than others, the community itself is very active and could give you help on how to improve, if that still doesn't work then that's an actual skill issue. Honestly have no clue why people gets mad at Gaijin for the most basic things, I'll understand if it's a mid tier top tier issue.

​@@Donpru there are no bots in game lol. Ure playing against real players. Bots are those in custom Batles that follow a straight line and don't have a profile

@@DatBoi_TheGudBIAS Theres bots only on your first 2 Matchs

The game is just Russian biased full stop. The problem with Russian's is they think their shit is better than it really is & better than everyone else's.

@@DatBoi_TheGudBIAS Bro there's literally shit ton of steam forums that talks about this, literally 1st 10 matches are a given of bot players for ease of gameplay for newbies

Yes the repair speed on all the crew members

yes they will still be expert

yes, performance of an 8.7 tank at 8.3

If I ace one tank will the other tanks on that crew get expert?

no, sadly gaijin gets to decide that

you are supposed to take literal days to do this fully

This. I remain an exclusive Britain player because of the difference between my crews in that nation (two 60+ for planes, two 60+ in tanks and a third 130+ in tanks) and all others (basically zero) is just too much.

Till a 20 mm turret ace gunner crew does shred 5 planes in a fly-by.

Crew skills matter a ton for a bomber as maxed out gunners can shred planes.