What exactly is up with shaft?

[Cook.My.Sock 269]

Hey everyone,

I'm currently using a m1 shaft with my m1 mammoth and i have some questions reagarding it.

 

1) I read in the forums that shaft lost many of it's "abilities" were lost after the rebalance. What exactly happened to the shaft at the renalance?

 

2) It seems to be that less and less people are getting to use shaft. I really really don't know why people are underrating shaft so much when there are maps that you can use it really well (for ex. Iran and Blue side of silence) in both of those maps decribed above i always manage to get to the podium WITHOUT using a single power up. And i really dont know why many don't even consider shaft to be used on CTF's but a well placed shaft on blue team of silence can paralyse the entire red team if they dont give much attention. This is deadly if the shaft user has an allied isida nearby. Does all of this show us that shaft is really underrated ?

 

3) I also read that tanki online are going to make shaft stronger in the updates to come. Is this true?

 

Please feel free to share your ideas with me.

Thanks

Zeus374

[Gio_Control 581]

Hey everyone,

I'm currently using a m1 shaft with my m1 mammoth and i have some questions reagarding it.

 

1) I read in the forums that shaft lost many of it's "abilities" were lost after the rebalance. What exactly happened to the shaft at the renalance?

 

2) It seems to be that less and less people are getting to use shaft. I really really don't know why people are underrating shaft so much when there are maps that you can use it really well (for ex. Iran and Blue side of silence) in both of those maps decribed above i always manage to get to the podium WITHOUT using a single power up. And i really dont know why many don't even consider shaft to be used on CTF's but a well placed shaft on blue team of silence can paralyse the entire red team if they dont give much attention. This is deadly if the shaft user has an allied isida nearby. Does all of this show us that shaft is really underrated ?

 

3) I also read that tanki online are going to make shaft stronger in the updates to come. Is this true?

 

Please feel free to share your ideas with me.

Thanks

Zeus374

Here are the ansewers:

 

1)  and  2)  before the rebalance, shaft was the strongest gun, it could kill every tank in a single full charge (180 HP max damage, and m3 mammoth had 200 HP, so you could kill that with full charge + fast shot). Now people consider it's strong among low levels, and it's true, till m2. But m3 is not good enough among generalissimos with a lot of m3 and protective paints. Also in a generalissimos battle, you can find a lot of druggers, and everything is way fatser than low level battles. So shaft can't cover enough if everything is going to be faster and can't kill if drugging buyers come in your battle(just think that you can kill a mammoth, the most used tank in a supplies battle, with almoust 2 full charges at m3). That's all you need to know about your first 2 questions.

 

 

3) yes, shaft will be stronger, its RELOAD will last 8 seconds, while it's CHARGE (the one it's longer now) will last 4 secs. So shaft will be more suitable for Hornets, as you will need to shot and go instead of camping in a single spot, because if someone knows you've just shot, he or she will try to kill you, that's why you must wait for your reload somewhere else.

 

I hope you learnt something new and useless.

[LETCHIK_WOLK 370]

Don't forget about the first generation of Shafts which were able to kill a Mammoth M3 at M1.