Balancing Blog Series: March 2016 Update

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Originally Posted by zerihal

Seemed to me that the extra 30 seconds for attacks actually encouraged people to think more about strategy rather than throwing down as many troops as quickly as possible to try and get as many stars as possible before the clock ran out. Not quite sure why one of the very few popular things with the recent update is being taken away.

Why is nothing being done about Queen and healer attacks? These require next to no strategy but are constantly being done just because they are easy! Seems that SC have once again failed to observe what people actually want for the game and plan to go ahead with a raft duff changes intermixed with very few decent ones.

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There are plenty of people that disagrees with you and there is a division between the opinion on this. It isn't clear cut and I've tried using it and have not been able to 3 star consistently with it yet. I am finding that it does not work with every base with a specific kind of cookie cutter type of army comp. I have better success with it with different troops dependent on base and when I release the queen. I have the opinion that it is more difficult than other strategies. Other ones, you are literally just staring at the screen for the last minute or 2, especially with air attacks that depends primarily on drags. You're done with that one in around 30 seconds and the rest is waiting on them to move through the base. Queen walks, you are baby sitting and deploying troops beyond that time frame.

What SC does is actually blindly trying to slow the progress without disturbing the balance but they did unbalanced the game in a huge way lets take the witches for an example

My thoughts that level 2 witches were ok we did not need lvl 3 but with TH11 update and many defences SC decided to add a new level to a specific troop to differ it from TH10 and they have chosen the withces and the whales gemmed it but shortly after SC realised they are OP they nerfed the skellies but that was not enough and they are gonna nerf them again (not triggering traps will be a very very huge mistake )

SC renderd the most expensive unit in this game pretty much useless the skeletons not triggering traps will cause the witches to die easily why I even botherd upgrading them If I knew I wouldn't now they will be another dumped and rarely used troop in the game...

SC sure continues to mess with the game ... They will introduce another OP unit people will gem it or max it slowly then SC will say ohh sorry it is OP lets nerf it and introduce another OP unit for you to gem just to be nerfed after a while

The same logic goes for the GW:facepalm:

Yep, the actual problem is the GW, but now that so many players have invested in it, they are nerfng every other troop and buffing defences. They obviously want to make players require the GW to actually have a shot at 2/3 starring.

Very interesting.
I also think that along with the major witch nerf, the new troop will buff the witch somehow. Or, if that doesn't happen, the witch will become the new Valkyrie. Only good for defense. In offense, only good in small amounts.

Any chance in your opinion that Witches lvl3 move to TH10?

With the GW, it's almost like they become lvl4 witches, so I don't really see an issue moving them down to TH10 and having 'level 4' witches at TH11

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Originally Posted by BurkeKnight

First of all, look around. Seems I'm not the only one who sees things the way I do.

Second of all, if really look, you'll see what people's real issue is. They are FREAKING lazy!

Yes, I said it. Yes, I mean it.
Removing TH sniping, the MAIN reason of people quitting, made people actually have to WORK to progress, not just get a free shield for little loss, then use little elixir to train a handful of barbs to snipe a TH.

Either learn strategy, and get off your lazy butt, or quit!

Enough said.

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What the hell does th sniping got to do with this new update??? Who cares about that it's old news. First it was loot problems and an unbalanced th now they're nerfing offense and buffing defense and taken away stuff that made the war game better for th10+ again. Extreme changes is a sign of desperation, again refer back to these posts when your game is gone

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Originally Posted by BBaBy

Very interesting.
I also think that along with the major witch nerf, the new troop will buff the witch somehow. Or, if that doesn't happen, the witch will become the new Valkyrie. Only good for defense. In offense, only good in small amounts.

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Yeah they destroyed the witches on offense in this update. As you said, they wont be as effective in mass crowds. Only work for defense. And I dont think they will recover after this. Witch strategies will be buried after this.

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Originally Posted by JoseJones

Yep, the actual problem is the GW, but now that so many players have invested in it, they are nerfng every other troop and buffing defences. They obviously want to make players require the GW to actually have a shot at 2/3 starring.

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Meanwhile if the king or queen sees a butterfly in the corner of the base, they'll chase after it instead of hitting de storage.

their fav target should be de. Seems logical to me.

The poison thingy won't change anything at TH9+ in clan wars. I haven't seen it done in forever. It shouldn't change the standard TH9 loadout from dragon/loon/hound/pekka/golem.

And why does this not belong in the sneak peek thread?