Tweak to Air Defense

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Originally Posted by BattleBorn007

I think TH7 can only hold 9 lvl 2 drags (and 1 drag in the cc) and it can 3 star if the base isnt for anti drag, if the cc troops arnt good, and depending on the skill of the player. Like right now im a Th9 ive gotten 3 stared by Maxed Th9 GoWiPe why because the attacker new how to attack and my base isnt meant for GoWipe

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Argue that TH7s should be able to level another TH7 with mass dragons all you'd like, but don't try and make the case that there's ever a situation in which mass dragons won't 3-star another TH7. If you use 3 lightnings to destroy the more difficult to reach AD, you can level the entire base with 5 dragons. When I was a TH7, I 3-starred TH7s with 10 dragons without using any spells. Heck, on a couple occasions I closed my eyes and just rolled my face on the screen and still got the 100% win. If you are willing to spend the elixir, they are a guaranteed 3-star.

To the OP: what you're suggesting basically just ups the damage of ADs, given they are attacking dragons. Nobody would not set them to dragons as the favorite target, as they'd still hit other flying troops (if the raider even used any other flying troops in his/her army) once they take down whatever dragon(s) are in range.

What you need is some risk/reward with your idea. What if you could set an AD to target dragons at double the damage, but then they didn't attack any other flying unit? It would be hidden from the attackers, meaning they couldn't click on it and see what the setting was, unlike inferno towers/xbows, but during war they would learn fairly quickly which ones are "anti-dragon ADs" vs regular ADs. It would make those bases more vulnerable to balloon raids, giant-healers, etc (this is the risk in the situation), but maybe not until after a failed dragon raid or two were committed to that particular base.

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Originally Posted by Goobers

Argue that TH7s should be able to level another TH7 with mass dragons all you'd like, but don't try and make the case that there's ever a situation in which mass dragons won't 3-star another TH7. If you use 3 lightnings to destroy the more difficult to reach AD, you can level the entire base with 5 dragons. When I was a TH7, I 3-starred TH7s with 10 dragons without using any spells. Heck, on a couple occasions I closed my eyes and just rolled my face on the screen and still got the 100% win. If you are willing to spend the elixir, they are a guaranteed 3-star.

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And should be . . . they are dragons. A just above half way village shouldn't be able to survive swarms of giant fire breathing reptiles in the sky.

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Originally Posted by iceageg

And should be . . . they are dragons. A just above half way village shouldn't be able to survive swarms of giant fire breathing reptiles in the sky.

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We could argue for hours on whether TH9s should be able to kill an army of armoured robots with bows and arrows, but that is all irrelevant. As well as the idea of 'a just above half way village' being able to create 'swarms of giant fire breathing reptiles in the sky', or the idea of golems existing, or anything else in this game (I find it difficult to believe that you seem to expect a game with dragons and golems in it to be realistic), you are completely ignoring the balance of the game.

Dragons are OP at th7, and they will level the base. If your serious about war 3 lvl6 air defenses should be high priority as a th8. With a half decent layout and high ads 3 stars is much more difficult against th8s with mass drags and then you can laugh at the clans that do nothing but mass drag that can't touch your base.

I agree it is annoying to see mass drags every attack but if drags isn't a 3 star strategy they would have zero use. They are expensive, they take a long time to train and there aren't any other good air troops to match them with at th7 (lvl 4 balloons don't count as good). Air+ground combos tend not to work (yes people use hogs for specific tasks with drags but it is still max dragon), so that leaves mass drag as the only alternative so either get on the band wagon or save some elixir test out your skill and use giant+healer, hogs, mass goblins or whatever else you want to 3 star with and know that you will be better positioned for some of the other attacks at th8/9/10.

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Originally Posted by Goobers

Argue that TH7s should be able to level another TH7 with mass dragons all you'd like, but don't try and make the case that there's ever a situation in which mass dragons won't 3-star another TH7. If you use 3 lightnings to destroy the more difficult to reach AD, you can level the entire base with 5 dragons. When I was a TH7, I 3-starred TH7s with 10 dragons without using any spells. Heck, on a couple occasions I closed my eyes and just rolled my face on the screen and still got the 100% win. If you are willing to spend the elixir, they are a guaranteed 3-star.

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Originally Posted by iceageg

And should be . . . they are dragons. A just above half way village shouldn't be able to survive swarms of giant fire breathing reptiles in the sky.

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And I don't think it's enough of a problem (b/c it's only at TH7 vs another TH7--they should only be there for a brief period of time--and only advantageous in the realm of clan wars) to really fight for a re-balancing. But the players who bring up that once you invest the elixir into them, it's the only strategy that guarantees a 3-star when used against the same TH as you are not incorrect. I just figured I'd try to offer helpful ideas, as I don't think that giving the AD a "favorite target" does anything except make ADs stronger. There's no opportunity cost there; it would be a no-brainer to toggle them to that setting for the increased damage against dragons.

when you move to Th8 dragon are not much of a problem when you have max air def and good lay out..

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Originally Posted by Godsmoker

But then we become part of the "problem", not the solution...

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I disagree hat it is 'a problem'. The time that it is tough to deal with is nothing but a passing phase in your COC growth. You will soon reach the point where you like it happening because you roll them back. Its not the inferno's or x bows that make a difference so much that at th9 and above you can add more stuff that the dragons have to destroy before the AD gets them and that allows for layouts that dragons fall short against. I was actually having luck doing that even at TH8 as approached max level I used a spread out design that forced them to wander around too much while getting shot out. Didn't stop all (12 max drags from a pushed down TH10 is what it is, or 9 maxed drags and a couple hounds) but it did force guys to try other things at me. (The bad news, they come with gowipe and gowiwi that make you yearn for the days when it was just dragons)

Also, if I am getting a mass dragon attack my AD targets the dragons now already, so I was not sure what your suggestion was about. If there are minions and balloons mixed in it will sometimes take shots at those instead of course. But the minions go fast from AD attack and the balloons I would rather it got those before going back to the dragons so that's good when it happens. And making it shoot at other air troops while ignoring the Lava hound would negate the entire reason the introduced that troop.

So for those reasons I think AD is fine as it is.