Can we make healers viable for high lvl play?

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Originally Posted by chow13

Still wouldn't make them viable for high level play there is to much trap damage.


TH8 - Healer level max is 3 which is

840 hitpoints

TH8 - has 4 air bombs at 144 spash damage. and 2 seeking airmines at 1500 damage not to mention the 3 air defenses.

So you would need at least 2 dragon's to divert the damage. Or an army with 4+ healer's
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TH9 - Healer level max is 4 which is

1176 hitpoints

TH9 - has 4 air bombs at 173 spash damage. and 4 seeking airmines at 1800 damage not to mention the 4 air defenses.

So you would need at least 4 dragon's to divert the damage. or an army of 6+ healer's

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If higher level healers could heal each other, would this help?
(still wouldn't help with the seeking airmines, but this would only take out one of the healers)

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Originally Posted by Gama321

I can understand where youre coming from but the reason i dont use healers is because they are too fragile, not because i dont think theyre healing enough. With 4 ads you may get passed one of them but by the time you get to the second the healers will most likely die, also with the high number of sams at th9-10 they would be taken out quite easily. You have to remember that healers only heal ground troops so will be used with ground troops so they will have no defence against ads or traps which are abundant at high levels making them redundant.

I know you are going to say something about loons or hounds but having to bring troops just to protect the healer seems to be more effort than its worth. A level 5 healer which can survive lvl1 sams at least would be better, and maybe some resistance to ads (however no troop properties change as they level, so this would have to be at all levels making them too resistant at low levels and thus OP)

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Mate i come from valhalla and we love fun combos lol. We dont just use loons to tank a bit, we use them to kill off an AD or two, many interesting ways to combine both ground and air and be viable in wars. But the problem ive seen time and time again isnt the healer dying quickly (only when used in a strategic manner of course) its that the healer gets caught up on a single troop or a rouge group of troops. Now an extra lvl for th10 would be nice but still believe healing rouge troops is not the way healers should work. Just my experience from playing too many RPGs.

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Originally Posted by Slaskio

Mate i come from valhalla and we love fun combos lol. We dont just use loons to tank a bit, we use them to kill off an AD or two, many interesting ways to combine both ground and air and be viable in wars. But the problem ive seen time and time again isnt the healer dying quickly (only when used in a strategic manner of course) its that the healer gets caught up on a single troop or a rouge group of troops. Now an extra lvl for th10 would be nice but still believe healing rouge troops is not the way healers should work. Just my experience from playing too many RPGs.

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Hmm when you put it that way I'm inclined to agree with you :)
In the end, healer ai has been tweaked recently so the devs clearly have their attention on the troop being useless (i thought now it targets the highest number of troops? And healers are supposed to be deployed in different angles so they dont all go off together).
I wouldnt be surprised if they do change it somehow to make it more viable at high levels soon.

I don't think this will reallyhe.lp. i tink the problem with healers is that they dont have enuff helth, and they die too soon. sure yu could use loons, but still, they dont really stay alive very long. while in some scenarios, multi target cold bebetter, I think in most scenarios, a splash would work better. As in the other one, I say it would be better if they heal themselves every time they heal someone else.

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Originally Posted by sirhybrid

I don't think this will reallyhe.lp. i tink the problem with healers is that they dont have enuff helth, and they die too soon. sure yu could use loons, but still, they dont really stay alive very long. while in some scenarios, multi target cold bebetter, I think in most scenarios, a splash would work better. As in the other one, I say it would be better if they heal themselves every time they heal someone else.

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Im not sure how i feel on the healers healing itself or another healer, i do like the idea just unsure. When youre talking attacks those few extra seconds can mean the difference between an extra star or not. Whats most scenarios? Your giants, golems, wiz, valks, hogs, insert more ground troops here splitting up. It usually ends up happening at some point in a lot of raids. If youre using many troops in a strategy then healers currently find 1 group and spam that group, but if say it targeted 1 golem, 2+ wiz maybe a skeleton or a random witch that just got targeted by defense and a hero, would this not help your raid more so than your 1 golem, or rogue troop getting healed as they go ham on those high lvl walls? (Has to be the most funny way to watch a healer fail ever lol)

I once saw a guy that used healers in Masters to trophy push. Probably won't see that again.

I have never sen anyone above Gold II even use healers once, let alone upgrade them. They are made for Giant Healer, which a low level strategy, so they become useless around TH7 or 8...

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Originally Posted by ChiefNero

I have never sen anyone above Gold II even use healers once, let alone upgrade them. They are made for Giant Healer, which a low level strategy, so they become useless around TH7 or 8...

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I see it every day atm from someone in m2, against nice th10s. A troop isnt limited to one strategy and trust me strategy plays a big part in these raids >.< expand your mind and have fun with your raids, who knows you may find a good combo that actually works like this gent. However it takes 1 rogue troop/group to mess it all up

Revised and edited for an easier read. Same suggestion, better 1st post. Please lets revisit this idea

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Healers have already been balanced out in the latest update. They can only be shot down by archer towers and air defences.