Something needs to finally be done about the lightening spell!!!

The lightening spell is the only spell in the game that deals damage without any troop support. There is a counter to most troops in the game, but no counter for lightening (which players use like a troop). Whenever you have more than 35k dark elixer here come the lightening raids. Storages should be immune to the spell all together. Or at the very least give us a couple lightening rods to help negate the damage of someone dropping 3 or 4 spells on the same spot. My dark e storage is in the middle of my base. It should be very hard for players to reach it, but it seems that every raid i lose dark elixer from 1 to 3 lightening spells being dropped on the storage. SuperCell, please help us out with this problem. I know i am not the first player to complain about this.
Sincerely,
Frustrated player.

This would kill my dark elixir farming but I understand why it should be added

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Originally Posted by Dbrad60

The lightening spell is the only spell in the game that deals damage without any troop support. There is a counter to most troops in the game, but no counter for lightening (which players use like a troop). Whenever you have more than 35k dark elixer here come the lightening raids. Storages should be immune to the spell all together. Or at the very least give us a couple lightening rods to help negate the damage of someone dropping 3 or 4 spells on the same spot. My dark e storage is in the middle of my base. It should be very hard for players to reach it, but it seems that every raid i lose dark elixer from 1 to 3 lightening spells being dropped on the storage. SuperCell, please help us out with this problem. I know i am not the first player to complain about this.
Sincerely,
Frustrated player.

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I'm sorry man, but it's just part of the game. SC won't add anything to stop the lightning spell from dealing damage to DE storages, because then how do you expect TH 7's to get DE. SC will never change the way the lightning spell works. You'll just have to get over it and move up to crystal league where all the DE is.:p

by the way, what TH level are you?

Actually I just looked and supercell is considering "*Allow hidden tesla to absorb some/all lightning spell damage if revealed"

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Originally Posted by XavierBOSS

Actually I just looked and supercell is considering "*Allow hidden tesla to absorb some/all lightning spell damage if revealed"

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Key word there: "If revealed."

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Originally Posted by XavierBOSS

Actually I just looked and supercell is considering "*Allow hidden tesla to absorb some/all lightning spell damage if revealed"

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wow... glad i did all my dark elixir farming a week ago! but i dont see this happening any time soon
And what Brenn said above this reply:p

Ths never happens to me not when i had 100k de? Idk :p

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Originally Posted by Brenn

Key word there: "If revealed."

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Very true didnt think of that

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Originally Posted by XavierBOSS

This would kill my dark elixir farming but I understand why it should be added

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It would kill your dark elixir farming? You are lv 117 and TH9...wow...

It's part of the game, and has been forever so I don't think it will change.

I don't care if people zap me, as long as they shield me up in the process.

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Originally Posted by gallantblade

It would kill your dark elixir farming? You are lv 117 and TH9...wow...

It's part of the game, and has been forever so I don't think it will change.

I don't care if people zap me, as long as they shield me up in the process.

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I know I shouldn't be but I have nothing else to use my lightning spells on.

P.S I do sheild people to keep my trophy count at a good range

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Originally Posted by XavierBOSS

I know I shouldn't be but I have nothing else to use my lightning spells on.

P.S I do sheild people to keep my trophy count at a good range

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Fair point, but as a TH9 loot penalty will not protect you. I dare say you have had a few ugly revenges...or you are damn lucky.

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Originally Posted by gallantblade

Fair point, but as a TH9 loot penalty will not protect you. I dare say you have had a few ugly revenges...or you are damn lucky.

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I must be pretty dang lucky

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Originally Posted by gallantblade

Fair point, but as a TH9 loot penalty will not protect you. I dare say you have had a few ugly revenges...or you are damn lucky.

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i'd watch it with the cussing or you might get banned... just saying

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Originally Posted by VLX

i'd watch it with the cussing or you might get banned... just saying

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What cussing bro?

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Originally Posted by Brenn

Key word there: "If revealed."

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Keyword, the top of that list is not what Supercell is considering, but frequent ideas that they have yet to rule out.

Dear god, how difficult is this to understand around here?

To Be Considered is not the same as Is Considering.

The top of that Sticky even explicitly states that being on that list does NOT imply that Supercell is working on the idea. They are just user submitted ideas that Twister added to the list from forum topics.

Just deal with it bro. Stop complaining. Just do the same thing to them

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Originally Posted by VLX

i'd watch it with the cussing or you might get banned... just saying

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I chuckled.

Sucks for th7's. Pick off an inactive instead of zapping my de. It would be great but it's also one of the ways a th7 can get de primarily, because taking de from a high town hall is quite the challenge for th7.

This is a terrible idea

Thanks for comments, good and bad guys. It looks like SC has ruled out the usage of a revealed tesla absorbing lightening. It would be a good idea, but still would not stop the main problem of players using lightening like troops. I just feel there needs to be counter for it. If they don't want to do that, then my biggest suggestion is to make the storages immune to lightening. That way it would be used the way I believe it was intended for, and that is to take out defensive weapons while raiding. They have addressed dark elixir farming with lightening in the past by raising the hit points of the dark elixir storage, but that was not sufficient in my opinion. Last time I was raided player used 3 lightening and got 950 of my dark elixir, player before that used 4 and got 1200. That wiped out most of my dark elixir gained from 3 or 4 legit raids during the day.

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Originally Posted by Dbrad60

Thanks for comments, good and bad guys. It looks like SC has ruled out the usage of a revealed tesla absorbing lightening. It would be a good idea, but still would not stop the main problem of players using lightening like troops. I just feel there needs to be counter for it. If they don't want to do that, then my biggest suggestion is to make the storages immune to lightening. That way it would be used the way I believe it was intended for, and that is to take out defensive weapons while raiding. They have addressed dark elixir farming with lightening in the past by raising the hit points of the dark elixir storage, but that was not sufficient in my opinion. Last time I was raided player used 3 lightening and got 950 of my dark elixir, player before that used 4 and got 1200. That wiped out most of my dark elixir gained from 3 or 4 legit raids during the day.

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Just start zapping yourself. I just collected 70 K of DE without problem, just some minor zaps. I revenge if I care. Honestly this is not a problem. If lightnings would no more be effective against storages that would be a problem because that is what they exist for. Th7 has no chance against th9 and th10 bases so they would not get DE without zapping. If zapping is a problem to you then you are at a wrong trophy range, smashing weaker players that can by no means prevent your raiding (is that fair?). Just go to the level of your equals and dont cry here that you get treated in an unfear way.

If lightning spell could only do damage but not take any loot from the storage would solve it all. Zapping is pretty much effortless. For the record, people think hogging is effortless, so SC nerfed it. So why not nerf the lightning spell as it is an epic effortless strategy.:o

It's part of the game, deal with it

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Originally Posted by Henptk14

If lightning spell could only do damage but not take any loot from the storage would solve it all. Zapping is pretty much effortless. For the record, people think hogging is effortless, so SC nerfed it. So why not nerf the lightning spell as it is an epic effortless strategy.:o

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Hogs were nerfed as it was a spammable strategy for 3 star win for cups/clan wars
However, lightening a storage is different. Yes a lose DE but you can trophies as people throw down lightening spells and leave.

I think its a viable strategy to farm DE at TH7. Once you upgrade you DE storage the HP boost helps against lightening spells. Also being in a higher league also prevents lightening. All-in-all, there is nothing to ''fix''

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Originally Posted by nzxt

Hogs were nerfed as it was a spammable strategy for 3 star win for cups/clan wars
However, lightening a storage is different. Yes a lose DE but you can trophies as people throw down lightening spells and leave.

I think its a viable strategy to farm DE at TH7. Once you upgrade you DE storage the HP boost helps against lightening spells. Also being in a higher league also prevents lightening. All-in-all, there is nothing to ''fix''

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Nope, if u think that hogging was a spammable strategy for 3 star win, then I can also argue that zapping is a spammable strategy to easily farm DE even more effortlessly.
Zapping makes farming DE at Th7 way too easy. Easier than hogging.
As a th9, i raid mostly th9 and 10 for 2000+DE and then some dude from Th7,8,9,10 came to zap me for 1000+DE effortlessly.
Lightning should never be able to take loot from storages because it's a spammable strategy to farm DE just like hogging for the precious 3-star before the update. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Henptk14

Nope, if u think that hogging was a spammable strategy for 3 star win, then I can also argue that zapping is a spammable strategy to easily farm DE even more effortlessly.
Zapping makes farming DE at Th7 way too easy. Easier than hogging.
As a th9, i raid mostly th9 and 10 for 2000+DE and then some dude from Th7,8,9,10 came to zap me for 1000+DE effortlessly.
Lightning should never be able to take loot from storages because it's a spammable strategy to farm DE just like hogging for the precious 3-star before the update. :cool:

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Hogs were never nerfed,just giant bombs were buffed against them

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Originally Posted by P12321

Hogs were never nerfed,just giant bombs were buffed against them

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Hogs were nerfed but not in the latest update. It was way before that. The latest update countered the hogs with g.bombs and heroes. But this thread is about lightning spell, so let's not go too far with hogs.:rolleyes:
Lightning should only do damage but not take loot from the storages because it's an effortless strategy even worse than hogging. :o

If any one lightning saps my de i just revenge n take everything they have lol

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Originally Posted by Henptk14

If lightning spell could only do damage but not take any loot from the storage would solve it all. Zapping is pretty much effortless. For the record, people think hogging is effortless, so SC nerfed it. So why not nerf the lightning spell as it is an epic effortless strategy.:o

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Yeah.. the lightening spells should be nerfed.. And of course the higher town hall player shouldn't be able to attack lower town hall players even if they are in sub 200!!.. Lets make this game fair..

Tired of these kind of posts in the forum..

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Originally Posted by Jt47

If any one lightning saps my de i just revenge n take everything they have lol

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A fully upgraded th10 crushed me and got 80%, 300k gold and around 700 DE.
I revenged him with 4 lvl 5 lightening spells and took around 2K DE and left him with no shield... that seems legit and fair to me..

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Originally Posted by Jt47

If any one lightning saps my de i just revenge n take everything they have lol

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what if the guy is a Th7, and I m th9? Or a th7 zapping a 10. Revenge cannot bring justice in these scenarios.

In my experience zapping DE happens a lot less in crystal 2 and above because other spells are so valuable for attacks. While it does not completely eliminate the threat it does fix the problem for the most part. In this way it is a game balancing tool. Lots of people want to drop for the easy loot and this is the only drawback. For the TH7's who complain about people dropping to farm them this is the benefit they get, and their only way to fight back. Zapping lightning is good for the game as a whole, no matter how much I hate it when people do it to me.

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Originally Posted by Delphin

Yeah.. the lightening spells should be nerfed.. And of course the higher town hall player shouldn't be able to attack lower town hall players even if they are in sub 200!!.. Lets make this game fair..

Tired of these kind of posts in the forum..

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What are you talking about?;) It's never been about fairness. It's a back door, lazy strategy with 0% chance of failure. I don't always succeed when raiding lower level town halls, and I believe u have failed a couple of times too. But I am sure you never fail when zapping right? It's not about fairness dude.

I love wen some low th7 or 8 lightning zaps my de cause i revenge n some times u get ur de back plus a ♥♥♥♥ load of gold n elixer so really lightning zap is bad for them..i make a lot of my gold n elixer from pple that th snipe me

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Originally Posted by Delphin

A fully upgraded th10 crushed me and got 80%, 300k gold and around 700 DE.
I revenged him with 4 lvl 5 lightening spells and took around 2K DE and left him with no shield... that seems legit and fair to me..

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This proof that zapping is a spam strategy. Th9 CAN raid the s**t out of th10. It's just you're too lazy to analyze the base and come up with proper troop and spell composition. I two star th10s in clan war most of the time with air attacks and air-ground hybrid attacks. Just suppose the DE storage as a town hall and you'll be good to go.:o

Dear frustrated player, please go find yourself another game to play if you are getting frustrated about a game and the way the game is played. I would rather see you move off the forums and off the games instead of polluting the forum with ALREADY POSTED IDEAS!!!!!! which IF YOU READ THE STICKIES should NOT BE POSTED AGAIN!!!!!!

If that wasn't clear, I'll give up....., pfffff

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Originally Posted by mcleo

Dear frustrated player, please go find yourself another game to play if you are getting frustrated about a game and the way the game is played. I would rather see you move off the forums and off the games instead of polluting the forum with ALREADY POSTED IDEAS!!!!!! which IF YOU READ THE STICKIES should NOT BE POSTED AGAIN!!!!!!

If that wasn't clear, I'll give up....., pfffff

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That wasn't for me aye..cause I was saying its good lol cause im a mad revenger i try revenge everyone that attacks me so I can scout there base first

From the opening post

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Originally Posted by Dbrad60

Sincerely,
Frustrated player.

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So, yeah, not for you Jt :-)

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Originally Posted by mcleo

From the opening post



So, yeah, not for you Jt :-)

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Yeah didn't think so :)

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Originally Posted by Henptk14

This proof that zapping is a spam strategy. Th9 CAN raid the s**t out of th10. It's just you're too lazy to analyze the base and come up with proper troop and spell composition. I two star th10s in clan war most of the time with air attacks and air-ground hybrid attacks. Just suppose the DE storage as a town hall and you'll be good to go.:o

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Really!!!, would love to watch one of your replays attacking a fully upgraded TH10 getting 2 stars and stealing all the DE he has.. I hope I can learn a lot from your replay ?..
Would you be kind enough to share the replay ?.

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Originally Posted by XavierBOSS

Actually I just looked and supercell is considering "*Allow hidden tesla to absorb some/all lightning spell damage if revealed"

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That is actually a pretty smart idea.

I don't know about you but I enjoy using lightning spells on a dark elixir storage if it has over 3k in it. Very easy farming for me especially if I do it during a revenge.

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Originally Posted by QuantumChief

That is actually a pretty smart idea.

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But it's useless.

it says "Allow hidden tesla to absorb some/all lightning spell damage if revealed"

If someone comes across your base and just spams lightning spells on your DE, then their teslas will never be revealed in the first place, meaning it can't absorb any of the lightning spell damage. Get it?

I have a town hall 7 account. I had no problem getting my king, upgrading my minions and hogs, to be honest there is not much need for dark elixir at that level. I never used 1 lightening spell to get resources from a higher level player. I find that most of my lightening attack r from town hall 8's, 9's & 10's. All of which could use smart raids to get dark elixir. I hope people keep posting threads like this. I love the game, just don't like this 1 thing. Make enough noise and people might start to listen.

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Originally Posted by mcleo

Dear frustrated player, please go find yourself another game to play if you are getting frustrated about a game and the way the game is played. I would rather see you move off the forums and off the games instead of polluting the forum with ALREADY POSTED IDEAS!!!!!! which IF YOU READ THE STICKIES should NOT BE POSTED AGAIN!!!!!!

If that wasn't clear, I'll give up....., pfffff

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I hope players keep posting about this...