Isida is a great weapon. But in my opinion, the amount of XP you get from healing is muy overpowered. My friend DavinceFTW is an isida user extraordinaire. But he is not nearly as active as me. Yet his rank beats mine, by far. He is beginning to leave me and my friends' ranks behind. Also, if i were to not have enough to play tanki frequently, than in order to keep up your level with that of your friends, you would be pressured to switch your primary weapon to isida, even if you dont like it.

One of the reasons why I considered leaving shaft in my garage to rot is simply one reason: My stupid frikin teammates pushing me off the cliff in silence. If you are camping on that cliff in blue team on silence, you are in danger if being pushed off by your newbie teammates overeager to jump off the cliff, where they probably await swift death anyway. Sometimes if they are big noobs they will push you off the cliff for fun. Haha. Well if you are using viking or something, push back, and shoot in the direction opposite your sabotuer, so the recoil helps you push him away. Then will hit that pile of rocks and move no further. Keep pushing. He deserves a little time out.

At m0 and m1, freeze's damage is actually superior to firebird's, factoring in the after-burn. This is short lived, however, because at m2 and m3 fire damage is much more than freeze, especially with the burn. But i believe that m2 and m3 freeze's prices are stupidly cheap, so it is beyond worth it. It has charge is the most of any weapon, and it is easy to retreat under the cover of your allies, then pop up again with full charge. A freeze with full charge can take down a mammoth of the same modification.

Muing sniping damage on a shaft is actually a great idea :) I don't like having to wait for an arcade shot to finish the all-too-common m2 hornet.In fact, all you need is to micro the sniping damage once before you can one-shot that hornet, and some more if you feel like catching some upgraded ones.

Wasp is a great hull; in deathmatch and cp mode in my opinion it outmatches hornet, because even though you will have a lot of deaths with a light hull like wasp, you will have a fair amount of kills if used right, and its manuverability, as well as functioning well with almost any gun allows it to excell on large maps, too. In ctf mode any hull works, because there are multiple routes to cap a flag. If you are a thunder, for instance or a shaft that is great in open spaces, go to the center. If you are going firebird or freeze, like I do, than you can head left. There is always an alternative route to get to an opponent's flag, and a wasp can find and use that route like no other tank. But because of its poor armour, it is not great in TDM mode where the focus is on getting lots of kills and few deaths. Then go with hornet or hunter.

Interesting weapon (though not as good as freeze), but how the heck is this thing pronounced? IH-sid-uh ih-SEE-duh or AY-sid-uh

Freeze is a massively powerfull weapon. It has most damage per second, save for rico of course. M1 is great, but m2 is not much of an improvement... (yes i have it) and the garage stats for m3 seem to be pretty cool. Definitely recommended, i tend to use it with viking and storm. Also VERY cheap weapon at m2 and m3, couldn't believe my eyes when i saw m3 selling for 85k. Edit: I read the stats on tanker's day so I goofed on the m3 price. XD It was 19000 cry.

I had a bad dream where i was in combe and there were railshafts (dont ask) all pointing at me. In my home, serpuhov!

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Urgrh, the number of druggers i will be facing will be 50% greater, and MUs interfere with my saving up for rail m1.

Should I get wasp m1 or save up and get railgun m1? I am not a frequent railgun user, but I am quite impressed by the rotation speed and damage of other railguns... I currentely have only 200 crystall.

My experience with freeze is that even though it is a meelee weapon, it is best on large maps because the tanks are more spread out and there are less enemies in any given place to interfere when you are circling a poor tank.

No not really, If you ever see a railgun in scope mode laugh and as soon as you see that white light of doom shoot it in the side, thereby knocking off its aim, or more likely with the common hornet choice, killing it. It goes poorly with light hulls as the shaft is a camper weapon, and mobilty is generally incompatible with its sniping mode. It is only hard to protect if you choose a far-off camping location.

I see shafts as not only the most interesting weapons, among the most powerful. They are very versitile and can one-hit a wasp or hornet with half charge.Also if you have used up your charge sometimes merely pointing your depleted gun at a small hull and it might very well flee. Not great in dm, because even though you can steal kills easily, in scope mode you are defenseless to any attackers. You will find yourself using arcade shots most of the time, and because of the number of threats, you wont make the most of its infinate range, as you will be forced to target those attacking you. In CTF it depends on how the shaft user uses the shaft. If he kills randomly it has little use in thwarting enemy flag captures or boosting your team's own, but it will get you a decent number or points.If you aim exclusively at tanks that are attacking your base or defending the other, It gets less points, but will help your team a lot. Use this tactic in clan wars! In CP mode this turret is infinately helpful. It's long range can easily replace the speed of a light tank in stopping enemy captures, but its limited visibility in scope mode stops you from making your own capture, especially in a viking or mammoth, the most common choices to use with a shaft (personally I prefer viking). In TDM mode this turret is great. If you are lucky enough to have isidas on your team, than you can easily heal what little damage you take from tanks you generally selence with a small shot.As long as you are defended from close combat tanks, and stick to one place, perhaps hiding behind walls while you're recharging if you have a lighter tank than a mammoth, watch you D/L rise and rise.

Personally my fav hull. It can not be one-hit by a shaft, it is wide, and quite powerful, making it efficient for farming on large maps. Works best with shaft, because, as i said you cannot be one shot by others. Its decent speed in relation to its strengh makes it also great with rico.

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On serpuhov, there is always that time when you are hiding behind the bridge while some shaft on top of the bridge is pointing his gun at you. And then there is always this overeager noob that pushed you right into his scope. Happens with mines too. whenever i try to go safely around a mine, there is always a guy that pushes you into it.

Ur so low rank! Don't beleive u when u say u have it m2. its not unlocked at ur rnk

Quite a strong weapon, but the sound gets annoying after awhile.

This weapon just plain sucks! It is neither annoying now harmful. I almost laugh as some helpless twinn fires at me from a distance plagued by its horrible range. Its damage is quite low and i rarely see it nowadays.

Shaft is the most underrated weapon in the game.If you keep your eyes on the hornets and pic seruhov map on tdm or ctf mode i garuntee you third or fourth place, the only downfall is that since it is commonly used with titan and mammoth it is not the best for crystal boxes. It can target wasps pretty easy from a distance and if you are upclose and a meelee weapon engages you on a head-on dual and you have a heavy tank i garuntee you will win if you wait until you are almost dead to fire.