world-of-tanks
I am using valentine and am nearing 19.5 K goal of getting one of these two archer or bishop
please suggest which one should I buy/unlock.
P.S: I like hitting with high alpha damage regardless of reload time…
but I don't like sniper mode of a SPG.
This question is inherently opinion based. But ill bite
"which one is more efficient to know how good of a player you are?"
Neither analyzes skill, they look at performance.
Skill and performance are two completely different things. I can beat the snot out of my friends at chess all day, but going 100000000000 in 0 against poor players will not make me beat a grand-master.
Some tanks are better than other tanks in the same class are not identical, this leads them to having trade offs. This is amplified by stock vs fully upgraded vs crew stats + equipment + perks + gold ammo + the new directives. Certain trade offs work better on specific maps, some are better on a majority.
The aforementioned amplification makes matches where you are playing against the same tier horribly unbalanced even if both teams have the same tanks. Even worse, random matches have teams composed of different tanks. Making the person who upgrades the best on average tank to its maximum potential, have extremely padded stats. Worse still, some people play in platoons which organize some of the otherwise mostly random game-play further padding stats.
Tanks and their upgrading system are far too complex to even begin to use performance averages to find net skill.
If the grand-master started without his queen or rooks, I would have more than a fighting chance. Just like chess, this game is about having more powerful pieces than your opponent and knowing where to put them. The tempo of this game is far slower than an FPS so, as long as they followed orders, all but the most incompetent players could fill in for experienced players in clans given their tanks.
As you can see in the following screenshot, in the battle results "Received" is only the base amount. No boosters or special bonuses count. The mastery badge is based on this amount (experimentally proved). Also, whenever the "Total" amount is counted, it is specified in mission criteria.
Best Answer
If you do not like the sniper mode of SPG then really your only choice is to go with the Archer. The Bishop puts you on the road to the rest of the UK SPG line and in the higher tiers you will use the sniper mode almost exclusively in a SPG.
If hitting with high power regardless of reload time I recommend checking out the FV215b (183). You will need to grind trough another line of the UK tech line to get it, but the nickname of that tank is "the deathstar" because of it's high reload, high alpha damage shots.