Lightning spell vs. dark Elixir storage

This HAS to be modified. It is preposterous that with NO battle, and no defensive recourse, someone can peel large amounts of dark elixir off of a base, utilizing NO troops. I understand it's a damage spell and they have to spend the time to make it, but when you pull 1000 dark elixir dropping four lightning spells and nothing else, that breaks the game a little.

Please AT LEAST adjust the amount that spell damage can take in resources. I know it might be tough to program or whatever, but you could make it so the percentage of damage that the spell does to the storage grants LESS resource, and FURTHER damage would provide much higher reward from the remaining hit points.

I'm sure I'm not the only one frustrated by this. If it was up to me, I'd just condense all the resource available in the storage to remaining hit points. If I drop a nuke on your bank, I don't get the cash added to my account. That's bull. Personally I'd be very happy if lightning only killed clan castle defense troops, and defensive buildings/walls.

Nevermind now that I read more than just the stickies, everyone is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ about this. Why is it not solved? Easy - lightning doesn't steal resources. Done. If that's how you get your resources you suck and need to go play animal crossing. Lightning rods, consumables, better teslas... All that stuff is great, but it ruins the effectiveness of the spell as it's meant to be used. Prohibiting the game breaking "resources plundering lightning" is the best recourse. I know this is a world of wizards and dragons, but hell, that doesn't mean you can't THINK about it like in most other facets of your game.

You want my resources, COME GET EM. You aren't Thor. I expect to have to work for what I take too.

I lighting a lot of peoples DE. The fact of the matter is you need a lot of DE to upgrade the heroes and people will go to those lengths to get as much as they can for as little cost.

For me, this is how I think about it. If you have good enough gold and elixir for me to take in addition to a good amount of DE, I will hit you. But if all you have is DE why waste my army?

On the downside, there have been rare occasions that people lightning me back but heck thats the name of the game :)

And if people lightning my DE, I wait till their DE is juicy enough and raid them back.

They've addressed this a while ago by increasing the hit points on the dark elixir storage. I personally haven't been having a huge problem with it--3 lightning's will get the opponent about 850 dark elixir (out of 3k max as its usually lvl 7's that do this to me). Furthermore, most people who are lightning-ing your dark elixir have rather underdeveloped bases/armies. It's almost trivial to revenge them for a large portion of it back, along with gold and elixir. There are of course town hall 7's that are lightning-ing, but it's just part of the game. Just max out the de storage as soon as possible.

In all honesty though, I dont see dark elixir as being abundantly useful after you get the first lvl of your heroes anyways. There are dark elixir troops, but if you are spending large amounts on them, your storages will likely be empty anyways.

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Originally Posted by Theknightofni88

Nevermind now that I read more than just the stickies, everyone is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ about this. Why is it not solved? Easy - lightning doesn't steal resources. Done. If that's how you get your resources you suck and need to go play animal crossing. Lightning rods, consumables, better teslas... All that stuff is great, but it ruins the effectiveness of the spell as it's meant to be used. Prohibiting the game breaking "resources plundering lightning" is the best recourse. I know this is a world of wizards and dragons, but hell, that doesn't mean you can't THINK about it like in most other facets of your game.

You want my resources, COME GET EM. You aren't Thor. I expect to have to work for what I take too.

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How do you know the lightning spell wasnt created for getting resources? Also u dont have to think much about raiding with all dragons or pekkas! All u got to do is tap and area and hold down until they are all deployed...not much else u can do. Its almost the same as a lightning spell.

Some people see using a lightning spell on a DE storage as converting gold into dark elixir....I AGREE! However isnt raiding in general just converting resources into more resources?

P.S. No, I actually dont lightning DE.

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Originally Posted by Theknightofni88

This HAS to be modified. It is preposterous that with NO battle, and no defensive recourse, someone can peel large amounts of dark elixir off of a base, utilizing NO troops. I understand it's a damage spell and they have to spend the time to make it, but when you pull 1000 dark elixir dropping four lightning spells and nothing else, that breaks the game a little.

Please AT LEAST adjust the amount that spell damage can take in resources. I know it might be tough to program or whatever, but you could make it so the percentage of damage that the spell does to the storage grants LESS resource, and FURTHER damage would provide much higher reward from the remaining hit points.

I'm sure I'm not the only one frustrated by this. If it was up to me, I'd just condense all the resource available in the storage to remaining hit points. If I drop a nuke on your bank, I don't get the cash added to my account. That's BULL♥♥♥♥. Personally I'd be very happy if lightning only killed clan castle defense troops, and defensive buildings/walls.

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You could instead make a defensive structure which prevents any spells from activating in that particular area. So make like a new defence building that can range a 4-5 radius so that it can protect that particular area from having any spells. So they can't use freeze spells, jump spells, healing spells or lightning spells there so that it can protect your resources. This is what they should do. I think it's the easiest and best idea because it'll make it more interesting and fun. Perhaps only 1 building of this should do enough or maybe 2 at town hall 10.
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Originally Posted by 457sandwiches

Some people see using a lightning spell on a DE storage as converting gold into dark elixir....I AGREE!

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you nailed it :)

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Originally Posted by TheRealMrMiagi

you nailed it :)

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Continue reading my response...i go on to say that RAIDING in general is just converting RESOURCES into MORE RESOURCES! Sorry for the caps yall.

I'm th7 now and I admit, I occasionally grab the easy DE with a lightning spell.... But that's practically the only way to get DE at th7...
I do have a policy with lightning DE storages, I at least make an effort to get to the townhall and get that star, so they can revenge attack me later and get lots of other resources later if they can beat my base. I do this because I know that this will annoy me later on at th8+ and the only way to get back at them is revenge which u can't do if they don't get any stars.

Something has to be done in my opinion. Originally the game was simply an army vs an army. Spells didn't even exist [neither did Dark Elixir]

Yet now we have a situation which is completely against the original form of the game - using troops to loot others resources.

I think it's a huge flaw that resource can be stolen without a single troop.

I would either like storage's to have some partial immunity to lightning [up to 50% resistance against it] making the tactic unsustainable. Or offer us ways to protect against lightning damage. Such as giving a Tesla the power to reduce some lightning damage in their area.