While gold is not as valuable as it once was with the introduction of bonds and components, it is still 2nd most impactful currency in the game after credits, and there are a lot of ways of spending it. In this post, we will cover the best ways to spend gold in World of Tanks, so you get the most value for your money.
Improved Battle Pass
Their price ranges usually from 2,500 for regular battle passes and around 3,500 for special battle passes, featuring collaboration with other games or movies such as Wolfenstein, Rambo, Terminator, etc.
Improved track gives you a lot more valuable rewards than the free track, more premium time, bounty equipment, crew books, and then also, if it’s a special battle pass, you can get a full-blooded tier 8/9 premium tank.
If you have time to complete the whole battle pass, it for sure provides the best value for the gold spent, regardless of whether you’re a free-to-play player or you buy gold on a regular basis.
For the free-to-play players, the regular battle pass for 2,500 gold, I would say, is not as valuable as the month of premium account, but if the special battlepass features a good premium tank, it is worth it in the long run since you keep the premium tank forever. Just make sure the tank is actually decent at making credits, otherwise it’s not worth your gold.
Premium Account
If you don’t have enough time to grind through the full battle pass and you play for an hour or 2 a day, the premium account might be a better option.
It really gives you a lot of benefits, such as: 50% more credits and combat experience, an additional map you can ban from your matchmaker, credits safe, and you can triple your wins up to 5x a day.
You can buy it in various forms: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. The longer the period you purchase, the cheaper per day it is and the more cost-efficient. There is a trap tho that WG uses; people get hooked on the game, and they buy a long premium time bundle, and then they stop playing. When you buy premium time, you feel pressured to play; otherwise, your money is going to be wasted.
The most important aspect still is the extra credits you can earn while a premium account is active, then if it’s paired with the premium tank and personal reserve, you can really earn an extreme amount of credits compared to if you’re a free-to-play player.
If you play the game consistently over the course of the whole year, the yearly plan might be the best way to pay for the premium account. I personally play the most over the Christmas holidays, so I grab the monthly bundle for December, and for the rest of the year, I get a week or a couple of days, depending on my free time.
I would avoid the 7 and 3-day bundles as they provide horrible value. For example, if you only play on weekends, it’s more affordable to get a monthly bundle for 10 euros than 4 times for 5 euros.
In terms of how expensive it is for a regular person, I would say it’s rather affordable for anyone who has a regular job, 70 euros for the whole year or 10 euros a month is a good deal for the amount of things you’re getting. It makes grinding lines and credits a lot easier and enjoyable since you don’t have to stress as much about the credits economy.
Premium tanks
If you don’t have any premium tanks, this is the most important thing you need to have in your garage because it will enable you to purchase more tanks, consumables, and fire more gold rounds at your opponents.
The reason why the premium tanks are not at the top of the list is the fact that in-game stores offer alright tanks, but they are nowhere near the level of competitiveness of the tanks you can purchase using real money.
Strv S1, 50TP Prot, Patriot might be good tanks, but they get smashed by the OP tanks such as the Bourrasque, Škoda T56, BZ-176, etc.
The only opportunity you have to get above average tanks for gold is usually around holiday time, when there are around 4 weeks where 3 tanks are offered for gold in rotation, tanks that are not usually available for gold, so tanks like Ka-Ri, AMBT could be bought for gold
Demount Equipment
If you don’t have any equipment demounting tools, you can use 10 gold per equipment to demount it and store it in the depot, so you can use it on the other tank.
While this can be used on any equipment class, I would suggest not using it for cheap equipment, up to 200k credits. If you are a free-to-play player, it’s better for you to save this gold. For the expensive equipment that can range up to 700k, this is well worth demounting since the time you’ll need to regain those credits after destroying the equipment is more valuable than 10 gold.
Personal Reserves
While not recommended for the majority of the playerbase, you can also purchase personal reserves for gold, which will increase your combat, free, or crew xp for an hour. This is great for using when you’re grinding some bad tanks; this will multiply with your triple XP from a premium account and double XP for the first win of the day.
As you can see, they are really expensive if you consider a day of premium account is 250 gold, but if you are swimming in gold, this will give you a great advantage for training your crew and grinding tanks.
Retrain Crew
When retraining a crew for a different tank, you can either retrain it for free or for credits, and you get up to 60% per efficiency, but if you want to have 100% perk efficiency from the get-go, you have to pay 200 gold per crew member.
In my eyes, this is way too expensive. You can either fire up some boosters or put the crew in the premium tank and get that perk efficiency up in no time.
Convert XP to Free XP
In the standard exchange rate of 25 XP for 1 gold, this is a horrible value, and should be used only in critical situations where the tank grind, for example, the stock grind is absolutely unbearable, and you have a decent amount of gold sitting on your account.
There are tho special events that increase the exchange rate to 35 XP for 1 gold, which does increase the value of such conversion. If you want a good chunk of free XP to lie around for tough times, you can use such events to convert free XP in advance.
Convert Gold to Credits
Just don’t do it…
No matter how much gold you have, this exchange rate hasn’t been changed ever, and there is a huge credit inflation with the introduction of the WoT+ and tier 9 premium tanks. If you have money, just buy a premium account and premium tanks, and you will earn a lot more credits than you could by just converting gold into credits; it’s a huge waste.
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