Point Defense Counter Spell: Spirit Link

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March 24th, 2014
SargeantZeal

Point Defense Counter Spell: Spirit Link

First, point defenses are defenses that have single target attacks, very much all defenses currently other than WT, mortars and the multi mode disco infernos.

Description: The spirit link enables troops on the battlefield to share their pain. But beware, while one will never fall alone, all mightl fall together within the boundaries of this powerful spell.

The spell Spirit Link drops a circle of power similar to current spells in coc. All friendly troops within the spell radius will have their health 'linked' to one another and share the damage taken by any and all troops within the circle..

example:
There is a group of 10 barbarians with 100 hitpoints each hitting an archer tower. The archer tower that does 100 damage per shot attacks this group of barbarians. Normally, each shot will kill a barbarian, reducing their numbers one by one and this simply reduces the total dps of the barbarians gradually while they are trying to demolish the AT. After 5 shots, only 5 barbs are left and they dont have enough dps anymore to destroy the archer tower and results in the defeat of the barbarians.

The same situation, but with spirit link dropped on top of the attacking barbarians. The spell enables the barbs to share their injuries, thus all 10 barbs take an equal 10 damage for each 100 damage from the AT arrows. After 5 shots by the AT, there are still 10 barbs left but with 50 hp each. Their total dps are still the same as when they started attacking the AT. Result: barbs took down the archer tower.

The spirit link would have a lesser effect on splash and multi targeting towers as total damage recieved by a group are incresed when taking fire from these towers, but they are still distributed evenly to all troops within one circle of the spell.

The major weakness of the spirit link are the single target inferno towers, seeing that troops that share their health are essentially one big pile of hitpoints, they dont have to switch targets and heat up continously at one target while damaging the rest at the same time. The extremely devastating damage of a heated single target infernos will make short work of a large group of troops under the effect of this spell.

Troops with different amount of hp will be killed at different times. Meaning, if a golem and a barb are effected with this spell together, and the golem takes a devastating shot of 200 damage, the golem would share this damage with the barb and gets the barb killed while the golem only takes half the damage.

The spell effect is only active within each circle of power and multiple stacks of the spell on the same location would not have any further effects.

The spell will not distribute any healing done to friendly troops.

Spell statistics
Brewing cost: 26000; 28000; 30000 elixir
research cost: 5 mil; 7.5 mil elixir
Spell effect: 75% of damage shared; 88% damage shared; 100% damage shared
Brewing time: 30 minutes and 1 second
Area of effect: 5 tiles
Spell duration: 15 seconds
requires spell factory level 4 (this is because having a level 6 factory also gives 6 slots of spells and unless defenses are more powerful, 6 spell slots would kill any current base)

Also, using this spell together with the current heal spell will have a very powerful effect (all takes damage, all gets healed)

thank you for reading this.
March 24th, 2014
VollsRain

very interesting idea:D
you have also pinpointed the major flaw in the spell...

what i dont like is that the inferno will get to negate yet another spell..

the downpoint about the spirit link is that its just a slightly modified heal spell if you really think about it, not really anything new so as to speak...maybe an interesting twist would be to transfer a certain amount of the damage taken back to the defence that inflicted it in the first place:)..now that would be really cool..maybe has the potential to be very OPed but the details can be figured out later:D
March 24th, 2014
SargeantZeal

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Originally Posted by VollsRain

very interesting idea:D
you have also pinpointed the major flaw in the spell...

what i dont like is that the inferno will get to negate yet another spell..

the downpoint about the spirit link is that its just a slightly modified heal spell if you really think about it, not really anything new so as to speak...maybe an interesting twist would be to transfer a certain amount of the damage taken back to the defence that inflicted it in the first place:)..now that would be really cool..maybe has the potential to be very OPed but the details can be figured out later:D

Thank you for the reply, well its not a healing spell, just because it does not have any kind of effect that increases loss hitpoints. Its a spell that manipulates the hitpoints damage taken and redistribute the total to all affected troops. From the example i have given, dropping a healing spell to the barbarians does not help change the result at all. So, your assesment that this is just a slightly modified healing spell is completely wrong sir.

The main objective of this spell is to increase the value of lower tier troops that have such small hitpoints that they can be one-shot by most defenses, as i can see that in higher level raids, lesser numbers of tier one troops are brought along in favor of troops with a higher survivability, being its higher hitpoints. More number means less damage taken by each troop.

This is not a new and fresh idea, i have never claimed it to be so. The title says it. Nothing 'new' is written in the title. I just tought that it would be interesting if such a spell is available in coc.
March 24th, 2014
VollsRain

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Originally Posted by SargeantZeal

Thank you for the reply, well its not a healing spell, just because it does not have any kind of effect that increases loss hitpoints. Its a spell that manipulates the hitpoints damage taken and redistribute the total to all affected troops. From the example i have given, dropping a healing spell to the barbarians does not help change the result at all. So, your assesment that this is just a slightly modified healing spell is completely wrong sir.

The main objective of this spell is to increase the value of lower tier troops that have such small hitpoints that they can be one-shot by most defenses, as i can see that in higher level raids, lesser numbers of tier one troops are brought along in favor of troops with a higher survivability, being its higher hitpoints. More number means less damage taken by each troop.

This is not a new and fresh idea, i have never claimed it to be so. The title says it. Nothing 'new' is written in the title. I just tought that it would be interesting if such a spell is available in coc.

what i meant by the analogy was that its a spell that reduces the amount of damage taken by a single troop right? whether it be point or splash...let me take an example

spirit link- 1 barb...1 archer tower...1 shot dead...spell...still alive
heal- 1 barb...1 archer tower...1 shot dead...spell...still alive

(of course in the 2nd case the barb will have to die in 2 hits for the heal to be active but you get my point)

so basically what your spell does is instead of letting 1 troop die it spreads the damage... in essence dealing reduced damage to the 1 troop...he might be left with reduced health but the end effect is the same as with the heal spell:)

no matter how you twist it with the distributed damage...both spells do basically the same thing i.e. keep the troop alive...yours just gives him slightly reduced health to deal with:)..but nevertheless the twist that i mentioned in my previous post might give your spell the spirit link some originality:D
March 24th, 2014
SargeantZeal

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Originally Posted by VollsRain

what i meant by the analogy was that its a spell that reduces the amount of damage taken by a single troop right? whether it be point or splash...let me take an example

spirit link- 1 barb...1 archer tower...1 shot dead...spell...still alive
heal- 1 barb...1 archer tower...1 shot dead...spell...still alive

(of course in the 2nd case the barb will have to die in 2 hits for the heal to be active but you get my point)

so basically what your spell does is instead of letting 1 troop die it spreads the damage... in essence dealing reduced damage to the 1 troop...he might be left with reduced health but the end effect is the same as with the heal spell:)

no matter how you twist it with the distributed damage...both spells do basically the same thing i.e. keep the troop alive...yours just gives him slightly reduced health to deal with:)..but nevertheless the twist that i mentioned in my previous post might give your spell the spirit link some originality:D

Well, thank you. But as i have said before, the spirit link itself is hardly original, only functional. Damage reflection isn't original either but it could add a twist to troop damage increasing spell existing in coc, the rage spell. Rage increases the total dps and effective damage of troops by buffing their damage and movement speed while a damage reflection spell will also increase effective damage done by the troops before they are killed. Like I said, a twist to an already fimilar concept.

moreover, a spell that have 2 effects, one increases survival and one increases dps would be most overpowered IMO.

The strenght of spirit link is that it can actually save an archer from being killed in one shot, while a healing spell could never do that. Oh, heroes have an innate penalty when being healed, and infernos also renders healing useless for its targets. So i think a spell that increases survivability without healing would be a good option no?

and dont forget, this spell is a double edged sword, use it wrong and you might end up wiping your entire army at the same instance. (Imagine a dying group of 50 barbs, all with 1 hitpoints left thanks to this spell versus a single archer tower. It would take the AT 50 shots to get rid of all the barbs normally, but drop this spell down.... The archers on the tower can do what is impossible, kill 50 with a single arrow.)
March 24th, 2014
VollsRain

gotcha

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Originally Posted by SargeantZeal

Well, thank you. But as i have said before, the spirit link itself is hardly original, only functional. Damage reflection isn't original either but it could add a twist to troop damage increasing spell existing in coc, the rage spell. Rage increases the total dps and effective damage of troops by buffing their damage and movement speed while a damage reflection spell will also increase effective damage done by the troops before they are killed. Like I said, a twist to an already fimilar concept.

moreover, a spell that have 2 effects, one increases survival and one increases dps would be most overpowered IMO.

The strenght of spirit link is that it can actually save an archer from being killed in one shot, while a healing spell could never do that. Oh, heroes have an innate penalty when being healed, and infernos also renders healing useless for its targets. So i think a spell that increases survivability without healing would be a good option no?

and dont forget, this spell is a double edged sword, use it wrong and you might end up wiping your entire army at the same instance. (Imagine a dying group of 50 barbs, all with 1 hitpoints left thanks to this spell versus a single archer tower. It would take the AT 50 shots to get rid of all the barbs normally, but drop this spell down.... The archers on the tower can do what is impossible, kill 50 with a single arrow.)

alright man its your idea:D
March 25th, 2014
SargeantZeal

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Originally Posted by VollsRain

alright man its your idea

The only thing that is mine for the spell is that i tought it might be interesting seeing this in coc, you know.. spicing up gameplay a bit. But thanks on your comments and feedback, you got me thinking about how to relate ideas, 'new' ones with existing 'old' ones.

on what you said of damage reflection spell, its possible that the spell could stand on its own, as a spell or as a troop ability. A troop that counterattacks whenever it is fired upon by defenses sounds... Different.