Balancing Blog Series: March 2016 Update

I was not a big fan of dec update and that is an understatement but I really welcome all the changes.
Great job supercell still a lot of improvements needed but changes are moving in right direction.
Now awaiting new troops and possibily clan tournaments

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Originally Posted by BasedP0tat0

I am very happy with this patch and the fact that the company is making an effort to communicate with the community.

As someone who's played competitively for 2 years I felt like the extra thirty seconds really closed the gap between okay attacking and skilled attacking pre th10. I still think the defensive power of a th10 is too strong but that's a whole different story and is probably better solved a different way rather than adding extra time.

The skeleton nerf really only gonna affect th11. Witches were already pretty weak at th9 and 10 in comparison with goho and lavaloon variations. I haven't reached th11 yet but from what I've seen spamming witches and getting three stars reliably is really unskillful and really boring so I agree with the changes there.

Poison was too strong. Never had too many problems dealing with cc troops before it was introduced. Having a spell that completely eliminates that part of an attack AND having extra time to drop it is ridiculous. You guys should be centralizing your cc troops to get the most benefit off of them in defending anyways.

Lastly, I'm really excited for the war matchmaking changes. My clan needs some competition >:)

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If witches were already pretty weak at TH9 and TH10, wouldn't this update make them even more obsolete?

By balancing SC should make less powerful troops more power and overpowered troops less powerful. Witches are only overpowered at TH11 because of Grand Warden's ability, but they are okay at TH9 and TH10 and some people like to bring a few of them to scout traps and shield other troops. By eliminating that utility it will make TH9/TH10 attacking strategies less diverse in my opinion.

Even if the new Valkyrie is as good as Ashlain described in post #1005, I'd like to have some place in my army composition for a troop I spent so much resources and laboratory time to upgrade.

I predict a new loot shortage. With the strengthening of defensive structures and weakening of some troops and reduction in attack time and nerfing of poison, etc. there will be fewer successful attacks which means less loot won per attack. Total loot will thus decrease.

If you want to change how poison works then in new case you have to make the poison being effective from start. I mean we drop poison and aafter few seconds the poison starts its effect. If i have to engage mu troops with cc then i dont need poison coz wehn poison actually starts its effects wither mu troop will be dead or the cc will be
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I see and end for poison spell now

Hmm, Now clan wars will be more competitive.

Looking forward to use those walks, not sure about the reduction in attack time tho.

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Originally Posted by tinman610

I predict a new loot shortage. With the strengthening of defensive structures and weakening of some troops and reduction in attack time and nerfing of poison, etc. there will be fewer successful attacks which means less loot won per attack. Total loot will thus decrease.

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Agreed, maybe the real reason behind this update. Less loot = spend more gems to get anywhere... A SC strategy that has now become the norm and seems to be the main driver behind their updates now.

We can only hope that when clash royale fails they will try and do something real to try and revive CoC.

I like the Posion Spell Update, and the 3min time again, will make th9 harder to 3 star inbetween how it used to be and now.

Also I don't use witches but I thought their point was to dismantle traps, so the witches will get sprinted and giant bombed after the golems die, I dont use witches though so okay for me.

Multi Inferno targeting faster?? Only thing I don't like, how will th9s be able to even take down a level 1 without zapquakkng it?? Oh well minor....


But what i really wanna know is are they really going to take away Queen Walk or what?????

The update seems 100% to help defence!making looting and war harder??how on earth are we supposed to farm or get war stars now!?!
....stronger wiz towers
...stronger xbow
...better inferno ability
...traps affecting witches
...poison less effective


And for attackers????
Improved valks..one of the most useless and under-used troop!

What is SC thinking? This is just plain stupid!

there are a few , and i say few, good things.
reduced spell training time...why has this taken them so long to realise the need for this?
poison in war.. Yes i used this to kill drag cc but agree it was a necessary change.

next,lets get some 'balancing' to help the attackers!!

Am i the only one thinking this? If you agree, let SC know!

Here we go again with more nerfs, cannot wait for the ninja nerf on SQ.......
RIP my sweet SQ you'll be missed.

SC is listening to the war community lol, those guys rarely play fair and by lowering the time back to 3mins you're giving them another excuse not to play fair.*sigh* Those 30secs were very helpful.