How Lightning Spells Work -- NOT Random

OMG, I just can't believe I didn't know that yet...

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Originally Posted by powerbang

I also discovered this information over at Hebrew Legends thanks to Sweidman. I put together my own clanwar focused guide using this information - maybe you guys will find it helpful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD15_Qko14o

Cheers,
PB

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So helpful...I used this in war today it worked. Up and to the left for spell #2

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Originally Posted by Eternal625

Unfortunately, the only spot that receives the full damage of the spell is the one-tile area onto which it is targeted. So it's always a good idea to zap a DE Storage or any other building at the center-most point. Every other strike strike does 1/6th of the full damage. For example, a Lv 5 Lightning Spell does 420 HP damage. This means that the one-tile area that was targeted by this Lightning Spell will receive 420 HP damage while the other 5 strikes will each deal 70 HP damage each.

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Strictly speaking, in my research for this project, I found this to be a myth. The majority of the damage does not inevitably go into the center as we have always believed. What the spell patterns ought to show, in fact, is that the splash of the strikes--especially stacking strikes from two or more lightning spells--creates pockets of higher damage. Hence this is why, if you're high level barching for instance, you have to slightly alter the spell placements on a wizard tower--if you drop two exactly in the center on two different towers, you probably won't destroy both.

But again, the patterns can be stacked in certain ways in order to achieve more damage than we originally thought was possible (i.e. taking the example above, you could perhaps stack spells 1 and 4, 2 and 3, and overlap the more similar strike densities to kill the towers every time--I don't know if that's true, but as a proof of concept, that's what is now possible with this discovery).

I appreciate all the support everyone!

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Originally Posted by sweidman

Strictly speaking, in my research for this project, I found this to be a myth. The majority of the damage does not inevitably go into the center as we have always believed. What the spell patterns ought to show, in fact, is that the splash of the strikes--especially stacking strikes from two or more lightning spells--creates pockets of higher damage. Hence this is why, if you're high level barching for instance, you have to slightly alter the spell placements on a wizard tower--if you drop two exactly in the center on two different towers, you probably won't destroy both.

But again, the patterns can be stacked in certain ways in order to achieve more damage than we originally thought was possible (i.e. taking the example above, you could perhaps stack spells 1 and 4, 2 and 3, and overlap the more similar strike densities to kill the towers every time--I don't know if that's true, but as a proof of concept, that's what is now possible with this discovery).

I appreciate all the support everyone!

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While it may be true that you can meticulously orient the Lightning Spell drops to maximize your chances of knocking out multiple buildings, it is still a fact that the center-most 1x1 tile space of the 1st strike deals the maximum damage, while every other strike deals 1/6th of that damage.

A Lightning Spell has 6 strikes. The first strike strikes at the exact place you dropped that Lightning Spell and does the maximum damage of that spell. For example, a Lv 5 Lightning Spell can deal 420 HP damage. It's 1st strike will deal 420 HP damage, while every other strike will do 70 HP damage each.

Don't believe me? This is actually calculable and you can easily test it out yourself.

The best way to test it out would be on a DE Storage filled with DE. A DE Storage is a 3x3 tile building, which means that it has exactly one 1x1 tile center-point. A Lv 5 Lightning Spell does 420 HP damage, so if we were to zap say a Lv 6 DE Storage (3200 HP) containing 2500 DE right at its center-point, then we can expect to obtain:

420/3200*2500 = 328 DE

If we have 4 Lightning Spells, then the greatest possible amount of DE we can steal from this storage would be 328*4 = 1312 DE

If you're skeptical of this, then please test it out. I would love to be proven wrong. Testing it is easy:

1. First calculate the most possible DE your Lightning Spells can steal, then zap the center-point of the DE Storage with all your Lightning Spells. If it's within a 95% confidence interval, then it proves that this is the most DE obtainable if zapped at the center-point.
2. Now try again on another storage. First calculate the most DE obtainable if zapped at the center-point. Then try to orient the Lightning Spell strikes to possibly maximize your DE profit. If the total amount of DE you obtained was less than calculated, then that proves this theory wrong. And proves that the best place to drop your Lightning Spells on a DE Storage is still at it's center.

I also took the liberty of screenshotting the pictures on the video:

http://i.imgur.com/EO0D2p0.jpg

And what about the developer lightning spells? They've got 300 of them, and I don't think they made a pattern for 300 lightning spells. Unless the pattern repeats every 5 spells, I don't know where this will make sense.

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Originally Posted by UcsfTeeth

So helpful...I used this in war today it worked. Up and to the left for spell #2

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Yeah it has been pretty reliable for me, especially the noticeable skewed drop location you have to apply for Spell #2 if you're using a jump to access Queen/CC.

Glad it has helped out!