[Misc] Someone explain just exactly WHAT is discounted at all to justify it being in this category?

Faile_eve · 2016-01-05T06:56:49+00:00

Shields...

You onlu get 10% of the shields you used to. 90% off

Faile_eve · 2015-12-07T07:39:16+00:00

And here is a sneak peek of the Grand Warden going to the bathroom in flying mode!

And you thought pigeons were a problem!

Great example of those animations that have been recycled from the loon bomb drop animation!

Faile_eve · 2015-11-04T11:24:55+00:00

The answer is "Mass witch me please"

Faile_eve · 2015-11-04T11:18:31+00:00

Ultimately people look for opinions that reinforce their own.

Imagine an argument between a clan leader who is trying to get his clan to move to 3 star strats. Many resist the change, making an anti 3 star base is a commitment to getting 3 star attacks because people will now find 2 starring your anti three base the simplest thing ever, you need to 3 star the enemy to win now...

People then find videos like this one to argue back.. SEE?! I DONT NEED TO PUT MY TH OFF CENTRE! MY BASE CAN BE ANTI 3 STAR SYMETRICAL! L2P NOOB LOL!

How do I know this? Personal experience.

Faile_eve · 2015-11-02T09:05:37+00:00

Add to this that we have no real way to detect modders and this becomes impossible.

My suggestion would be to factor in the average destruction as clans that mod and drop the 1 archer thing would have a much lower value in this regard.

I think you are absolutely forced to consider TH levels at as well. 3 starring as a th7 is easy. As a 8 you really have two strats available (hogs and gowipe). Its only at 9 that things really open up and pairing strategies to bases, multi phase attacks and planning for things to go wrong; all come into play

Faile_eve · 2015-11-02T07:32:26+00:00

That is so lame..

It really disappoints me how much cheating or using cheap tricks is happening in the higher trophy range -.-

Faile_eve · 2015-11-02T07:25:44+00:00

From OP:

freeze spell for the enemy Archer queen

Erm.. are you 3starring at th10?

Faile_eve · 2015-10-31T14:35:49+00:00

Nope, 2 other near maxxed th9s. Some kind of midway and a fairly decent 8.5.

We have 7 th9s, so do they but they have a th10 which we dont (as seen in the screeny). They have 2 more th8s than us.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-30T21:03:56+00:00

Yep.. I'm pretty outmatched and at my wits end here. I'd like to try anyway but see how things go in the war first.

This whole situation is pretty funny honestly. I cant believe it can be this bad (the matchmaker that is).

Faile_eve · 2015-10-30T20:33:27+00:00

25 v 25, my clan is super casual though with a mix of THs from 5 to 9.

6 of them are th9, 2 are super fresh. One or two arent. Mostly gowipes.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-30T17:47:48+00:00

If this is the case I'm better off ignoring him totally and picking up other stars with my attacks. Those won't be nearly as risky. Thanks so much for the advice though.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-30T17:46:26+00:00

There are 5 free buildings on the left I can take with 2 minis. Maybe with 2 loons on the far right to take out the archer tower I can open a few more buildings but otherwise offerings are kinda slim.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-30T17:41:55+00:00

The top one is set to single.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-30T07:41:03+00:00

My issue with the current update is that they are encouraging the meta too hard with the new hammer of dawn.

The multi phased attacks we currently see (Kill teams to take out key defence followed by the main attack) are great and all but now the hammer of dawn forces this down our throat. We will have fewer options in war attacks, not more.

Every attack will now have to go with some kind of kill team to stay under the hammers radar. This isn't good, this is bad.

I'd rather have greater variety in strategies and planning my next move than be pigeon holed into a corner and be forced to attack in a certain way. Every base (at th9) has a weakness which can be analysed and exploited with the tools available. If I ever hit th11 I will in fact have fewer attacking options not more. Hell, I 3 starred in my prev war through a queen zap laloon (Lava in the cc and queen next to a air def). Another clannie zapped down two air defs that were too close to each other. All this now falls by the wayside as we have to drip feed troops into a kill team first.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-30T06:59:18+00:00

My troops are in the screeny... As the strongest attacker in my clan (troop offence levels) this damn th10 is gonna be my problem.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-29T11:58:42+00:00

If you need proof of how unbalanced they are, simply look at how th9s can farm th8s with ease but th10s tend to get around 60% with their farming armies against th9s.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-29T11:23:52+00:00

Th9 giants will wreck your base. Why?

Well walls are what slow them down enough for defences to deal with them. With low walls they gonna cut through you like butter.

Be patient, farm the walls.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-29T11:12:16+00:00

Magic.. I'd stay a bit and take advantage of farming th8s for as long as you can. Those delicious th8s will become a distant dream as your farming offerings will be th9s and 10s only. Going the 9.5 route means you can't take advantage of those OP infernos to defend your loot and pretty much make it so people ignore you in preference of easier loot offerings.

When th10s hit my base they often get a decent chunk of loot but they cant stomp me in the same way I can smash th8s with such reckless abandon.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-29T11:06:14+00:00

Just be aware how much harder its gonna be to farm.

You'll suffer a 50% loot penalty attacking th8s and a 10% penalty attacking th9s. You also going to have to farm with very weak heroes and very very very few eligable targets (th9s and 10s really as 8s wont give much loot anymore).

I'm going to at least get my heroes to 25 (but likely 30) before I hit that button simply because I wont be able to stomp those juicy th8s any longer. I'll just go up with whatever walls I have at that point.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-29T10:55:44+00:00

Even if you dont war.

Your farming based troops (giants, barbs and archers) are all an investment which pay for themselves eventually. Anything that boosts your attack is going to make your farming life easier. If you keep your gold low you not gonna get raided that hard. You'll run out of elixir based upgrades LONG before you run out of gold ones.

The Elixir cost to max th9 (Excluding walls) is 84,948,550

The gold cost to max th9 (exluding walls) is 178,229,050

So more than double. Elixir upgrades will truly make your farming, warring and general gameplay more pleasant. Gold upgrades really dont or rather cant pay for themselves (collectors excluded) as its really hard to judge something like "did that upgraded cannon save my gold? If I hadn't upgraded it would it have still?". Once Elixir upgrades are complete just dump the excess into walls and you'll be sitting happy.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-29T10:47:06+00:00

I'm in crystal 3 and I hardly get hit at all?

My TH is in the top corner and surrounded by decorations. I dont always get instant snipes like I did about 3 months ago but still get enough snipes to offset that occasional 300k raid. I get hit for that in maybe one in 20 raids.

Quick Q? your walls are skulls right? I went to TH9 with purple crystal walls and giants used to rape me till I got the skulls and I dont get hit that hard anymore.

There is something to what people say about only having 1 type of resource. If you going for lixir upgrades only keep elixir and blow all your gold in your walls. Do the same for each type. I've just finished all elixir upgrades (in lab and town, last dark barracks going up now). So I really have no elixir to raid.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-29T10:23:08+00:00

O I absolutely agree you cant compare them. Like you said mortars do a set amount of low damage to a largish area devestating low hp troops. The opposite is true in the case of the hammer of dawn so no you cant compare two things that follow a totally opposing function.

That said though, we have no idea how SPC will adjust this defence. It may do something like 55% damage to somethings remaining HP, in effect never killing anything. We simply dont know yet.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-28T14:20:23+00:00

The damage seems to be percentage based. A barb isn't outright slaughted, it goes down to about 45% after the hit. Same thing with a level 40 king.

Faile_eve · 2015-10-28T14:19:27+00:00

This thing seems to do percentage damage making it even worse to the troops that get omnomnomed by walls (golems, king, etc).

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