What does the Repair rank and repair speed do?

[[82AD] Pito Sniberb]

I'm currently in tier 3 almost 4 and I have no clue wtf is that. I just upgraded the Repair rank to level 3 but I don't understand what does the Repair speed at the hangar

[Proteus]

Even if you don't spend money, repairs are going on over time in your currently active tank hangar (with other words, you may get your whole setup repaired without spending a SL, if you just wait long enough).
The repair rank determines the maximum vehicle tier that is getting repaired ... and the repair speed determines how fast repairs are ongoing

[[82AD] Pito Sniberb]

Originally posted by Proteus:

Even if you don't spend money, repairs are going on over time in your currently active tank hangar (with other words, you may get your whole setup repaired without spending a SL, if you just wait long enough).
The repair rank determines the maximum vehicle tier that is getting repaired ... and the repair speed determines how fast repairs are ongoing

So, when I finish a battle, I can chose if I want to spend money on the tank repair or wait to repair it? Isn't that unless? I mean, if you must wait 1 hour to get the tank repaired isn't worth

[Horse Milk]

Originally posted by Tito Sniberb:

I mean, if you must wait 1 hour to get the tank repaired isn't worth

Top tier tanks take days if not weeks to repair for free.
And it saves you a whopping 3-7k SL!

I think "free repairs" is just one of those features Gaijin implemented and forgot about because literally no one ever uses it.

[[82AD] Pito Sniberb]

Originally posted by Anal Liberation:

Originally posted by Tito Sniberb:

I mean, if you must wait 1 hour to get the tank repaired isn't worth

Top tier tanks take days if not weeks to repair for free.
And it saves you a whopping 3-7k SL!

I think "free repairs" is just one of those features Gaijin implemented and forgot about because literally no one ever uses it.

So there is no reason to continue wasting valuable crew experience for upgrading this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥?

[[82AD] Pito Sniberb]

Someone answer me please :(

[Horse Milk]

Originally posted by Tito Sniberb:

Originally posted by Anal Liberation:

Top tier tanks take days if not weeks to repair for free.
And it saves you a whopping 3-7k SL!

I think "free repairs" is just one of those features Gaijin implemented and forgot about because literally no one ever uses it.

So there is no reason to continue wasting valuable crew experience for upgrading this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥?

Exactly.

[Merlin Emrys]

unless its your least cost skill and you need the crew level

[CalErba]

Taken from War Thunder Forums:

- Repair speed (2138 to max) The mechanic’s skill. The rate at which the aircraft is repaired in the hang and at the airfield.

note: This skill can save a lot of money on repair fee on planes that have short repair time and high cost but to make this skill useful, make sure to disable autorepair (on the lower left of the main hangar screen) or it will repair your plane as soon as the battle end without taking advantage of the skill.

50 levels in repair speed skill with halve the time required to repair a plane, further qualification training will reduce it even more.

- Repair rank (2189 to max) The mechanic’s skill. The maximum rank of aircraft that the mechanic can repair.

Note: The plane will repair anyway in the hangar or at an airfield if your repair rank isn't as high as your plane but the repair speed skill won’t make the repair any faster until your repair rank is at least as high as your plane's rank.



Basically if you are repair rank 3 and you are in a tier 4 plane/tank that means that any points you put into repair speed will not be added as bonus to your repair time.

[Dr. Death]

In case people stumble to the forums to see this: there are more reasons to put points into this.

On top of making the free repair time faster (which, on super high tier level vehicles it makes for a BIG difference) it works by making it faster to reduce the price of repair down to 0. So even if you dont wait for the vehicle to be fully repaired, when the vehicle spend some time with maxed out repair time, the bill to repair will be MUCH cheaper.

Another benefit is that it makes airfield repairs much faster, but if that's not important enough, increasing repair rank makes it so that more serious damage can be repaired, even if your plane has a high tier and your repair rank isn't enough to be affected by repair speed in the hangar, it would be able to repair given long enough and several minutes instead of being told that he plane is too damaged and you have to ditch it. Which in games like RB, its a blessing due to the expensive repair bill.

[RedSector73]

Originally posted by XaMu:

I'm currently in tier 3 almost 4 and I have no clue wtf is that. I just upgraded the Repair rank to level 3 but I don't understand what does the Repair speed at the hangar

Repair RANK must be equal to tank rank or else you can't repair tanks above that level. Example. You have repair level 3. All tanks at or equal to rank 3 will be repaired but your rank 4 tanks will not.

Repair Speed - Increases the speed at which free tanks will be available to use.

The effect is more SL for free as you pay for repairs less often.

Nice nerco btw.

[Dr. Death]

Originally posted by RedSector73:

Originally posted by XaMu:

I'm currently in tier 3 almost 4 and I have no clue wtf is that. I just upgraded the Repair rank to level 3 but I don't understand what does the Repair speed at the hangar

Repair RANK must be equal to tank rank or else you can't repair tanks above that level. Example. You have repair level 3. All tanks at or equal to rank 3 will be repaired but your rank 4 tanks will not.

Repair Speed - Increases the speed at which free tanks will be available to use.

The effect is more SL for free as you pay for repairs less often.

Nice nerco btw.

The necro was to add useful information to people finding the thread.

[MoffatCam]

Originally posted by Dr. Death:

Originally posted by RedSector73:

Repair RANK must be equal to tank rank or else you can't repair tanks above that level. Example. You have repair level 3. All tanks at or equal to rank 3 will be repaired but your rank 4 tanks will not.

Repair Speed - Increases the speed at which free tanks will be available to use.

The effect is more SL for free as you pay for repairs less often.

Nice nerco btw.

The necro was to add useful information to people finding the thread.

And helped me a lot in understanding it past the stated mechanic. Thanks!

[flyboymb]

Yeah, didn't know about the airfield aspect. Nice add!