Dark Spell Idea: Diffusion Spell

First, If you voted that this is a terrible idea could you please tell me why in the comments? Feel Free to comment any changes you think would improve the spell! I'd love to hear either some criticism or some support! Make sure to comment your thoughts!

Unlocked at spell factory level: 6 Town hall 10
Cost to upgrade factory: 4,000,000 Elixir
Spell capacity doesn't increase.
Max level: 3
Cost to upgrade spell:
Level 1: N/A
Level 2: 70,000 Dark Elixir
Level 3: 140,000 Dark Elixir
Spell cost: 800 Dark Elixir (+400 per level)
Spell Radius: 3 (+1 per level)
Spell Duration: 12 seconds (+3 per level)
Spell Effect: Any damage dealt to any troop within the spell is equally distributed to all other troops inside the spell boundaries, Splash damage dealt is counted for every unit it hits and the total is distributed evenly.

Possible Damage Modifier: In the event that this spell is too powerful it would be possible to ad a multiplier to incoming damage that way it is increased before being re-distributed so that damage isn't spread thin enough to imbalance the game.

On first glance you may think that this spell is counterproductive since all it does is make defenses hit everything at once but what it actually ends up doing is lessening the overall damage dealt to any particular unit allowing heal spells to be effective on anything even archers! Since it would effectively stop them from being instantly killed by defenses as long as they are within the bounds of the spell. watch out though, single target inferno towers and giant bombs may prove devastating by being able to overwhelm a heal spell if too few troops are inside the diffusion spell!

Physical description: A dark red (roughly maroon) colored spell.

I like this idea. It will bring many attack strategies into the game and will change how we make the layout of our bases. It has strengths and weaknesses, this would make point defence, not including the inferno tower, much weaker, but when a splash attack is being used it would damage even more troops. When the single target inferno tower attacks it though, it will literally roast all the troops quickly and easily. I really like this idea.

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Originally Posted by KingKhaos

I like this idea. It will bring many attack strategies into the game and will change how we make the layout of our bases. It has strengths and weaknesses, this would make point defence, not including the inferno tower, much weaker, but when a splash attack is being used it would damage even more troops. When the single target inferno tower attacks it though, it will literally roast all the troops quickly and easily. I really like this idea.

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Thanks for the great summary, I was trying to find a better way to explain what it does without over complicating things and you managed to do just that. One of the main things I have been trying to decide is whether infernos should block healing to all troops within the spell area or just the ones they target. I think it would make sense to block healing to only targeted troops but with the overall damage reduced so much it might make the spell a bit too powerful. If anyone has any ideas on which it should be and why then that'd be a huge help!

Anyway, thanks for commenting your thoughts KingKhaos! It is greatly appreciated!

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Originally Posted by evjohn13

Thanks for the great summary, I was trying to find a better way to explain what it does without over complicating things and you managed to do just that. One of the main things I have been trying to decide is whether infernos should block healing to all troops within the spell area or just the ones they target. I think it would make sense to block healing to only targeted troops but with the overall damage reduced so much it might make the spell a bit too powerful. If anyone has any ideas on which it should be and why then that'd be a huge help!

Anyway, thanks for commenting your thoughts KingKhaos! It is greatly appreciated!

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Glad to have helped, even though I didn't intend to at the time.:)

I have to congratulate you on your originality and imagination. I do have questions though.
1. Dose it distribute damage dealt by your opponents heroes/cc troops or just the defensive towers?
2. Dose this spell affect flying troops as well? Let's say you have a dragon, 10 archers, 10 minions and my barb king in this spells radius when the dragon gets hit with an air defense missile; dose the damage get distributed to the archers, heros and minions or just the minions because air defense targets air units only?
3. Vise versa, 1 dragon with 10 minions, 10 archers and my hero inside your spell, my archers are getting lit up by cannon balls and mortar shells, are the air units affected because the damage being dealt is from ground targets only which would never target an air unit.
4. An archer tower is attacking the dragon and wizard tower is attacking the archers, is the archer tower damage distributed to the archers or just to the minions since its locked on an air unit, and is the wizard tower damage distributed to just the archers and hero since its locked on ground units, or is all the damage evenly distributed regardless on what is targeted?
5. Dose it distribute spring trap as well? If one of my archers activates a spring trap, dose the spring trap only effect my archer or dose it spring trap its maximum of 15 units, and if it dose spring trap 15 units total would that effect my minions or just the other 9 archers?

Thanks for reading and awnsering these questions (if you do).

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Originally Posted by devin68fitch

I have to congratulate you on your originality and imagination. I do have questions though.
1. Dose it distribute damage dealt by your opponents heroes/cc troops or just the defensive towers?
2. Dose this spell affect flying troops as well? Let's say you have a dragon, 10 archers, 10 minions and my barb king in this spells radius when the dragon gets hit with an air defense missile; dose the damage get distributed to the archers, heros and minions or just the minions because air defense targets air units only?
3. Vise versa, 1 dragon with 10 minions, 10 archers and my hero inside your spell, my archers are getting lit up by cannon balls and mortar shells, are the air units affected because the damage being dealt is from ground targets only which would never target an air unit.
4. An archer tower is attacking the dragon and wizard tower is attacking the archers, is the archer tower damage distributed to the archers or just to the minions since its locked on an air unit, and is the wizard tower damage distributed to just the archers and hero since its locked on ground units, or is all the damage evenly distributed regardless on what is targeted?
5. Dose it distribute spring trap as well? If one of my archers activates a spring trap, dose the spring trap only effect my archer or dose it spring trap its maximum of 15 units, and if it dose spring trap 15 units total would that effect my minions or just the other 9 archers?

Thanks for reading and answering these questions (if you do).

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Ahh, these are some great points! So let's get to the answers then :D

1: Yes, all damage would be distributed including enemy heroes and defensive troops.
2,3,and 4: All damage no matter what the originally intended target will be spread evenly to all ground and air troops in order to best lighten the overall load on any particular troop. However the flipside to this is that defenses such as cannons, mortars, and giant bombs will become able to do indirect damage to flying units which they couldn't harm any other way.
5: Spring traps would work normally, since the spell only distributes damage, springs would just pop any units on top of them at the time, whether that is 1 or 15.

Hope my answers helped clarify some things! Thank you very much for the questions, I hadn't even considered how the spell would affect ground damage from ground to air until now :D
Thanks for the support as well!
If you or anyone else have any more questions feel free to ask them and i'll be sure to answer them to the best of my abilities :cool:

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Originally Posted by evjohn13

Ahh, these are some great points! So let's get to the answers then :D

1: Yes, all damage would be distributed including enemy heroes and defensive troops.
2,3,and 4: All damage no matter what the originally intended target will be spread evenly to all ground and air troops in order to best lighten the overall load on any particular troop. However the flipside to this is that defenses such as cannons, mortars, and giant bombs will become able to do indirect damage to flying units which they couldn't harm any other way.
5: Spring traps would work normally, since the spell only distributes damage, springs would just pop any units on top of them at the time, whether that is 1 or 15.

Hope my answers helped clarify some things! Thank you very much for the questions, I hadn't even considered how the spell would affect ground damage from ground to air until now :D
Thanks for the support as well!
If you or anyone else have any more questions feel free to ask them and i'll be sure to answer them to the best of my abilities :cool:

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Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions and best if luck to your bad ♥♥♥ spell idea. My Only concern for your spell is that its somewhat similar to a Heal spell.

Nice Original Idea. This would bring another much needed layer to gameplay.

eg. Pekka and witch combo, people bringing more barbs into gowipe/wiwi etc.


However there will be balancing issues with air attacks since air attacks normally take much shorter times to execute. Air seeking mines will be redundant. Air defense towers will be very weak as well (eg dragon + minions) since at this point of time there are no official splash air targeting towers.

Ill share more of my thoughts later. Good work though

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Originally Posted by babakren

Nice Original Idea. This would bring another much needed layer to gameplay.

eg. Pekka and witch combo, people bringing more barbs into gowipe/wiwi etc.


However there will be balancing issues with air attacks since air attacks normally take much shorter times to execute. Air seeking mines will be redundant. Air defense towers will be very weak as well (eg dragon + minions) since at this point of time there are no official splash air targeting towers.

Ill share more of my thoughts later. Good work though

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*facepalm*
From this it seems that your saying no splash towers attack air. I really hope you mean that no splash towers only attack air. Wizard towers attack both air and ground and are splash.

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Originally Posted by babakren

Nice Original Idea. This would bring another much needed layer to gameplay.

eg. Pekka and witch combo, people bringing more barbs into gowipe/wiwi etc.


However there will be balancing issues with air attacks since air attacks normally take much shorter times to execute. Air seeking mines will be redundant. Air defense towers will be very weak as well (eg dragon + minions) since at this point of time there are no official splash air targeting towers.

Ill share more of my thoughts later. Good work though

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I understand your concern, however I disagree, the main effect of this spell is that it weakens the power of single target defenses, the drawback however is that it amplifies the effects of splash damage. When you say all air attacks I assume what you are referring to is either all dragons or the balloonion attack. So I will explain why it is not in fact overpowered in either case. First, an all dragon attack means only 12 troops so any damage will at most be divided between only 12 which compared to the total damage being inflicted does not lessen it enough to be overpowered however this is unlikely since dragons tend to roam and you'd almost never catch em all in one area unless you were quite lucky or extremely good at attacking. Next is balloonion, and you're right about one thing, seeking air mines would not have a huge overall effect however red air bombs would have an increased potential to do damage since it would allow one to hit an entire group of balloons instead of say roughly half, also, wizard towers would be quite effective as well, but the main defense against either type of air attack would be the inferno tower, a single target inferno tower could quite easily overwhelm any of these situations once it builds up to its maximum damage output.

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Originally Posted by devin68fitch

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions and best if luck to your bad ♥♥♥ spell idea. My Only concern for your spell is that its somewhat similar to a Heal spell.

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Thanks for asking em :D glad to have helped :)