Balancing Blog Series: March 2016 Update

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Originally Posted by RAppel

Update hasn't hit. Proclaims death to th10 and 11.

Makes sense :facepalm:

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Here's the reality of it. Supercell made a mistake with their TH11 update and changes surrounding it.

TH9 was balanced until they added time and poison update to unbalance it in favor of offense. Now they're undoing that. GOOD.

TH10 never was balanced, being too heavily defensive. TH11 was originally the reverse of that, with max witches rolling over everything. They nerfed and made TH10 and 11 unbalanced in favor of defense. Now rather than undo their mistakes they are buffing defenses and nerfing offenses? That's the end playing for me if there isn't another huge offensive improvement coming along with it.

Alarmist? Maybe, but I'd rather Supercell see that their sneak peek looks a lot like they're ruining the game for their top players rather than sit around smiling and hoping. They've proven they are capable of huge mistakes before, I'd rather speak out than sit on my hands and hope they have it under control.

basically this update is not really doing anything for TH9

and we are left with the same loot issues.

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Originally Posted by TangoFever

Lack of reading skill on the forum is really not a rare commodity. Anouska is stating clearly SC wants people to use more valks.

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Yeah, we saw that. We don't want them to because another wizard basically. People don't use them because they don't know how to. SC doesn't lose a dollar whether people do or don't use a specific troop. They're just dumbing them down to help gemming thumb spammers.

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Originally Posted by fieldofdreams

I hear you but I think there are balancing issues. Having a really spread out base is not good base design much of the time. Well, I suppose you could argue it is because it stops 3* attacks and works within the rules of the game. I, on the other hand, would argue a spread base is just gimmicky. A great base stops an attack regardless of time. With that said, I like that there is a time limit but picking it must be done very carefully. You want time to be a constraint but not the primary constraint. At 3:30 it appeared it may have been too lenient and allowed for slow, meandering attacks to win. At 3:00 it seems poorly designed but heavily spread bases defend too easily. maybe they should've split the difference at 3:15.

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What they need to do is adjust time limit differently for different town halls. One universal time limit makes it nearly impossible to balance each town hall. As a result, this change is welcomed by many and hated by many.

A recent video by Powerbang showed how his whole raid went south because he placed his AQ one tile too many to the East. I really like PB, but man I do not dissect my war attacks that much. And lower beginners in our clan don't / can't come close. When we are matched against pro clans over and over it becomes discouraging. I hope the changes in matchmaking help with our war matchups.

The extra 30 seconds - we welcomed it. We are not elite attackers who map every troop placement. We just play to have fun - not make a profession out of it. The 30 secs made it better for our very "average" clan to perform better in war. We have no desire (or time) to spend hours dissecting an attack. I already spend too much time on the game! lol. I do like depth, but I really don't want this already challenging game to get any harder. Removing the time will be a blow.

Super skilled players may welcome it... and I guess that's the crowd SC is trying to please.

Love the Valk buff - looking forward to it. Mine hit level 3 in a few days.

Ultimately we will adapt, but I will say everyone in our camp will miss the 30 seconds. Hopefully our new players don't get too discouraged. I also really feel for those trying to do well at TH10 and up with the reduced time. I will continue to hang at th9 for a while and try to master the three star while improving heroes.

In testing, the new valks were 3 starring max Th11's without fail by just spamming them and using 5 rage spells.
Hence the balancing of the hit points.

They always test the changes guys :)

because ♥♥♥ never use them, they don't know what problem Valks have lol!


now inferno will kill them even faster and they will be th9 exclusive troops

oh wait.. xbow got increase dps?? they will be th8 exclusive troops??? :smirk::smirk::smirk::smirk::smirk:

Im a pro update person but not this one.. They r really tryin to kill the game with this one.. I feel like r just making it impossible for town hall 10s to have any kinda fun

SC please explain why would a TH11 request a reduction in time this was requested by TH9's not war comunity...

TH11 defences including infernos got even more buff Grand warden nerfed witches almost renderd useless and you say hmmm we must help the defence by removing 30 seconds ....

In december update the best part was the extra 30 sec which allowed strategic attacks specially against the EA

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Originally Posted by TangoFever

Lack of reading skill on the forum is really not a rare commodity. Anouska is stating clearly SC wants people to use more valks.

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The OP clearly started this thread to express disagreement with SC that this change will in fact make valks better. This is what the rest of us are debating, not what SC's intentions were/are.