Let's Discuss Shaft!

[NewbieCake 3,067]

Shaft is tied for 3rd place in my favorite turret list with Fire. If I get it for my alt, I think I'll skip M2. M2- M3 is a minor upgrade so it'd be better to skip for M0 - M3.

Edited November 9, 2015 by NewbieCake

[Rohit_1997 456]

Shaft+wasp in madness and you jump of the ramp and snipe in mid air, where are your skills now?

[aweomesauce 0]

I used to love shaft at like master sergeant and first sergeant, but then I discovered RAILLLLGGGUUUNNNNNNNN!!!! :)

 

IMA FIRE MAH BA-LAZERRRRAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!

 

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Is it a bird, is it a plane? ITS JOHHHNNNNNNNN CENNAAAAAAAA

[Agent101us 310]

Shaft will be my next m3

I hate ALL shafters, they are so annoying

[Benefactor 6,888]

I don't know if I missed it, but does anyone have the stats for the Shaft's reload speed after an Arcade Shot? Thanks.

[FogOfWar_XXX 793]

I don't know if I missed it, but does anyone have the stats for the Shaft's reload speed after an Arcade Shot? Thanks.

I am in the process of compiling a Shaft guide, and I consulted with a few people on this.  The fact of the matter is, the reload rates aftr scoped shot and the reload rate after a Arcade shot are complicated, but yet the math ends up being a wash.  Use the reload rate for consecqutive Arcade shots.  IT ends up lining up, I don't know if this was by design or some math equation that coincendentally ended up having a pattern they used between Arcade and Scope.  Use the tank stats in the Wiki and whatever you see there for reload rate of Arcade shots is what you use.

 

(Really, this had me banging my head against the wall too)

[beaner_pro2 0]

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anywho I beleive shaft is really nice it can be a real life-saver for some people. I use M1 shaft with M0 viking on Monte Carlo and i quick scope, and always kill the people with my flag. It has a nice recoil knocking some people off the map or off aim. I am not always clueless to what is going on around me as I only go into snipe mode when I have a target and when i lose him I get out. I like using arcade mode for a lot of different reasons but if i wanted too i can easily go into snipe mode and as i soon as I see the scope i let go thus quickscoping he heck out of a M0 or M1 hornet. I usually though equip the M1 shaft with M0 hornet and I have actually capured quite the number of flags as I just use the arcade mode to 3 shot kill m1 wasp and hornet.

Edited November 11, 2015 by beaner_pro2

[Benefactor 6,888]

ɇǢʘˤʱ۞۩ᴥ۝ῺῺ♂♀♠♣♥

anywho I beleive shaft is really nice it can be a real life-saver for some people. I use M1 shaft with M0 viking on Monte Carlo and i quick scope, and always kill the people with my flag. It has a nice recoil knocking some people off the map or off aim. I am not always clueless to what is going on around me as I only go into snipe mode when I have a target and when i lose him I get out. I like using arcade mode for a lot of different reasons but if i wanted too i can easily go into snipe mode and as i soon as I see the scope i let go thus quickscoping he heck out of a M0 or M1 hornet. I usually though equip the M1 shaft with M0 hornet and I have actually capured quite the number of flags as I just use the arcade mode to 3 shot kill m1 wasp and hornet.

 

Does quick-scoping trigger sniper-mode damage?

[dude10-tanki 2]

shaft vs railgun ?

shafts way better

[fordmustang12345 3,910]

I hate ALL shafters, they are so annoying

:angry

[Benefactor 6,888]

Shaft+wasp in madness and you jump of the ramp and snipe in mid air, where are your skills now?

I can't lose what I don't have. :)

[m6ttetu 288]

the worst turret in TO currently. 

 

 

from my opinion :ph34r:

 

Edited November 12, 2015 by m6ttetu

[FogOfWar_XXX 793]

So, last night updates happen, world up on arms, no server access, blah, blah, blah.  Comes back up, I play, it goes back down.  Wait a little, boom, back.  In that little time I read up on the upgrade to micro upgrades.  I'm like NO FREAKIN' WAY!  I hit my account again and DON'T go to the garage though, it hadn't sank in what it all meant.  I'm playing and I'm single shotting hulls that usually take more work when scoped.  I was like WHAT?!  and my hull, it's all a little off, strange, it can't seem to respond quiteright, like I'm touch out of control.  For the record, M1 Shaft, M2 Hornet.  So you might ask, what's my post about?

 

HA HA, I MU'd my Shaft in Reload and Arcade to the MAX before the update, and I hadn't had the M2 Hornet all that long either2, maybe 3 months, BUT I had finished upgrading the srmor on it, all 25 levels, like 6 days ago.  BAM! LIKE BOSS, MF's!  I got baseline M2 Shaft performance and M3 Hornet performance!  OH, and guess what?  When I rank for my my Shaft, it's free!  Yep, or as all the little kids say now, "yup".  Oh, and the Hornet, yeeeaaahhhhh, M3 freebie when I rank to that (maybe new tanki will be around by then, but whatever, the Shaft is mighty close now).  So yeah, Sporting M2 Shaft stats like a boss now, and I "likes" the upgraded scoped damage, talk about boom boom, and I can't imagine what picking up a DD and hammering away with it will be like too.  Stoked to play again soon.

 

Okay, Quasi Shaft related rant over, as you were.

[smokeyh2 1,512]

got my m3 shaft fully upgraded to m4 in the new update :)

gave it a try tonight on a serpuhov ctf match

i tell you what ?

i would not like to be on the receiving end of this beast

it must be the most powerful shot in the game

i dread to think what its like on double damage?

 

mmmmm i might just go and try that out :)

let you know next time i post

[FogOfWar_XXX 793]

got my m3 shaft fully upgraded to m4 in the new update :)

gave it a try tonight on a serpuhov ctf match

i tell you what ?

i would not like to be on the receiving end of this beast

it must be the most powerful shot in the game

i dread to think what its like on double damage?

 

mmmmm i might just go and try that out :)

let you know next time i post

The decent person in me says "no, no, let us not all to hubris and pride for our big guns", the real me is like "DUDE, DO IT!  CRUSH THEM, and tell me how satifying it was."

[Benefactor 6,888]

got my m3 shaft fully upgraded to m4 in the new update :)

gave it a try tonight on a serpuhov ctf match

i tell you what ?

i would not like to be on the receiving end of this beast

it must be the most powerful shot in the game

i dread to think what its like on double damage?

 

mmmmm i might just go and try that out :)

let you know next time i post

How are the Arcade shots at that M-level??

[The-Operator219 1,929]

To those that think we have simple tasks...

You will buckle under the pressure on your fist game using it. You constantly feel vulnerable, you know you're a glass cannon.

[FogOfWar_XXX 793]

To those that think we have simple tasks...

You will buckle under the pressure on your fist game using it. You constantly feel vulnerable, you know you're a glass cannon.

Well said, it takes somenerves some times to play with Shaft.

[dataDyne 24]

The old Shaft was better.

 

The laser ruined this turret, it's for noobs now..

[The-Operator219 1,929]

The old Shaft was better.

 

The laser ruined this turret, it's for noobs now..

You let a red dot ruin your spirits?

The red dot made it easier to find, it made the gun a challenge to use.

[FogOfWar_XXX 793]

You let a red dot ruin your spirits?

The red dot made it easier to find, it made the gun a challenge to use.

The "positive" attitude does nothing to speak to the reality of it.  I've adapted, but stop lying to yourself, yes, Shaft is a shadow of its former self.

[Amagi 1,728]

Looks like fully MUing my arcade damage in the last MU sale wasn't such a bad choice after all :3

[Amagi 1,728]

-Double Post-

Edited November 14, 2015 by Stinger911

[dude10-tanki 2]

your tank looks good

Edited November 14, 2015 by dude10-tanki

[Tank_TR1 1]

That did kinda ruin shaft. I mean I will surely use it. but when they added the laser scope, its defenseless. Shaft had a huge advantage of surprise attacks/