Upgrading walls with elixir

I think the biggest part of the update is allowing the use of elixir for wall upgrade. This completely changes the game. I think its a good change but these are my predictions of how this will affect things:

1. Everyone will have better walls. they can build defenses at the same time as walls, and all the formerly useless elixir will go into walls. Effectively the price of walls just got cut in half. Plus you don't have to stop building defenses to work on walls.

2. Elixir now becomes a raid target, not just gold and dark

3. People use cheaper armies and less spells to save elixir

4. War becomes less popular - people don't want to waste elixir on expensive armies. wars were a good way to reduce elixir and convert it to gold, but that doesn't matter now.

5. Base designs will all have to change to defend elixir just like gold.

6. Elixir loot will be scarce as everyone will use theirs up.

7. Upgrading high level troops will be harder because people will raid large elixir stores

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Originally Posted by pgx

I think the biggest part of the update is allowing the use of elixir for wall upgrade. This completely changes the game. I think its a good change but these are my predictions of how this will affect things:
My Replies are in bold

1. Everyone will have better walls. they can build defenses at the same time as walls, and all the formerly useless elixir will go into walls. Effectively the price of walls just got cut in half. Plus you don't have to stop building defenses to work on walls.
While people will have better walls, its still a two shot from lvl 6 wb until level 10 (i believe). These walls are still ~2 million elixir which is quite expensive anyway, so yes, there will be higher lvl walls, but it won't change too much.

2. Elixir now becomes a raid target, not just gold and dark.
Elixer was always a raid target, as not everyone has maxed out their troops and other elixir-costing things. With this update, it just becomes more of a target.

3. People use cheaper armies and less spells to save elixir.
Barch is already cheap enough as i go for collector raids instead of storage. If your farming, you don't want to use super expensive troop comps anyway.

4. War becomes less popular - people don't want to waste elixir on expensive armies. wars were a good way to reduce elixir and convert it to gold, but that doesn't matter not.
I think wars will always be popular, as they are full of fun. But you do have a point about expensive comps. But if you're in a farming clan and they have a war, people won't use expensive comps anyway. If you're in a trophy clan, expensive comps don't matter.

5. Base designs will all have to change to defend elixir just like gold.
Not really, since elixir can only upgrade walls. A good base will have their storage's spread out nicely, so people will only get 1/2 of your loots anyway, i don't think much change will happen. (Or just mix your elixir storage with your gold)

6. Elixir loot will be scarce as everyone will use theirs up.
This is partly true, but collector raids will always be available for taking, and farming bases tend to not have much elixir anyways.

7. Upgrading high level troops will be harder because people will raid large elixir stores
This is just like expensive gold upgrades. You can complete gold upgrades, so you can complete elixir ones as well.

These are just my replies to your opinions. No offense meant if any was taken. Feel free to counter-argue ;D

Elixir is still great up here is masters.