Subtle, but potentially Pekka-breaking update

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Originally Posted by Gama321

That's nice and all, but you are saying that because buildings had their hp buffed they should balance it by nerfing it, that about sums up what you want. SC rarely do rollbacks so it wont happen. They buffed the hp because they felt it was necessary, that pekkas shouldn't be one-shotting collectors. You haven't stated why it is a problem that they cant, its called re-balancing.

Another thing which seems to fly straight passed you is that this was a defence buff, not a pekka nerf. All troops are affected, but troops like loons, drags, pekkas and wizards would naturally be affected more as they have a slower rate of fire. These troops had always had a slower rate of fire, and there has always been things they couldn't one-shot and have to use an extra attack on even before the update.

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"What seems to fly straight past you" is that this update makes the upgrade from lvl 2 to 3 pekkas next to worthless in dps. 6million elixir for 400hp and the same number of hits on a cannon, archer tower, and basically everything else. May as well keep DPS the same LOL. Sure i'll pay 6mill for 400 hp! NOT.

This is what a pekka couldn't one hit before: air defense, lvl 6+tesla, cc, wizard tower, and town hall. You can add cannons and labs, and collectors to the list now. It only gets worse at th9 who don't have lvl 4 pekkas available to them.

You also said that the update doesn't specifically nerf pekkas, and that it affects dragons, wizards, and balloons too. But then you said "pekkas shouldn't be one hitting collectors"; a nerf. Also, none of those troops mentioned take up 25 spots each, and all are usually used in masses (All dragons). Try using 8 pekkas and tell me how u do. If 4 dragons are attacking a building and it takes 4 hits instead of 3 do you think that makes a difference? No because one attack that would miss hits instead. With pekkas though would that happen? Well no because often times after they get that TH, they split.

It's one thing to "nerf" a troop, but to indirectly completely wipe out one of its key characteristics and make upgrading to the next level next to worthless (you may value 400hp more than i do), just doesn't work- it creates more problems than it fixes. It only results in lack of use of a troop, which should not happen.

Oh yes, and i did state why it is a problem why they can't one-hit some of these buildings. I'll list them here for easy findings.

1. 6million elixir and +30DPS in the upgrade to lvl 3. If 30DPS does not produce any difference in results it may as well be 0DPS (doesn't make sense though).

2. There is no lvl 4 pekka for th9 which only worsens the problem as it loses more buildings it can one-hit. Honestly, if they just moved pekka lvl 4 to th9, the lvl 3 situation might not be bad enough to complain about.

3. It takes twice as long for a pekka to take out the same building. Pekkas are deployed and only effective in small quantities of 2-4, using all pekkas just does not make much practical sense. (This isn't isn't about pekkas going around the base- it's about cleanup at the end when all defenses are down and there are buildings outside). For example, 4 collectors are left and 20 seconds left. One pekka will take 2 hits on each building and take all 20 seconds to if it could teleport. Beforehand, it would take 1 hit and 10 seconds if it could teleport.

If they kept collectors' hitpoints the same and introduced the lvl 12 ones with more than a one-hit kill from a pekka, i think that would have been fine because they are obviously higher leveled and should have more hp.

I think it is worth noting that it appears that the lvl 12 cannon at th10 does not have increased (or at least not significantly) hitpoints, which means, that the lower level defenses had their hitpoints increased.

Since the update i have been trying to get this point across, but peoples biggest response is that we are useing pekkas wrong...not true at all, if they are so good with pekkas i want to see 3 starred th9 pics with Gowipe post update. I could 3 star strong th9s 8 out of 10 times, now with update i struggle to wipe even weak th9s.

Pekka aren't designed to hit low level building such as barracks and spell factories, they are designed to go into the middle of base and hit the high level defenses and town hall. If you are complaing about how the pekka isn't strong enough to one shot useless buildings, then you aren't using pekka properly, that is why people bring wizards to kill those building to let pekka focus on important stuff.

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Originally Posted by Phinagin

Pekka aren't designed to hit low level building such as barracks and spell factories, they are designed to go into the middle of base and hit the high level defenses and town hall. If you are complaing about how the pekka isn't strong enough to one shot useless buildings, then you aren't using pekka properly, that is why people bring wizards to kill those building to let pekka focus on important stuff.

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Lol correction, pekkas are no longer designed to take out low level buildings like barracks and... fact is that pekkas could take out those buildings and now that cant....the op isnt asking what he is doing wrong in his pekka attack, he is asking why they nerfed to so bad........read.

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Originally Posted by Gama321

pekkas shouldn't be hitting collectors anyway...

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How do I tell my pekka to not hit the collectors it encounters? (it never listens to me you know)

This is a very important thread. As a TH9 GOWIPE is my main war army, and now it's decreased. Since war started TH10 have got Pekka 5, Archers 7, Barbs 7, Giants 7 and Th 9 have got nothing. (I count the dog as nothing) They have made TH 10 much stronger and TH 9 even weaker. The picture is clear, they try in every possible way to push people to be premature TH 10. Once there the lured players find horrible loot and the temptation to gem stuff will be strong.

They can one shot camps now.

Mine race the barbs for the furthest camp away from the th so. Im good. And my pekka are lvl4

It was horrible, felt so weak. I only got one star. Ok, it was against their best th9 but my feeling was I normally should have had two or three stars against it. What the f... are we suppose to attack with now??!?!?

They are are about to make TH9 the worst TH level for war. I three starred their strongest TH8 with my TH 8 using hogs with ease.

This doesn't feel good, really not. :mad:

Add a poll to this thread. Edit to TH9 Level 4 P.E.K.K.A. Poll....maybe someone from SC will take note. I think this is already in the works...but lets get it moving already........Worst gowiwi and gowipe results I have had ever since update. Lvl 4 pekka for TH9 would be great.