Idea for wirtches

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Originally Posted by AnthonyVince

:facepalm:Wow this thread is going around in circles, do you even get what I'm saying at all?

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Btw, I like your volcano mage idea. That must have ataken a lot of time. Very well written too.

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Originally Posted by AnthonyVince

I know, but I'm just saying we don't need the air version because the witch is built to be a distracting unit, not a damaging one.
Thanks, mind commenting on it :smirk: and voting on poll?

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Commented and Voted.

I understand about the distracting aspect but if someone only attacks with drags, or holds their ground troops, including their King, until the end of the attack, the witches cannot distract the drags. Witches only spawn skeletons when there are ground troops present. If all ground troops are either killed by the skeletons or no ground troops are deployed, the witches are pretty useless (once their skeletons are destroyed). I guess if they 1) spawned ground skeletons regardless of ground troops (maybe make the skeletons run away so drags follow them slightly) or 2) spawned air skeletons, it would distract drags. Currently the skeleton traps when set to air, are only really distractions to drags even though they attack (they don't do much damage). Skeleton traps when set to air, are only truly offensive against balloons as balloons cannot attack other air units. Was thinking this option could be similar for witches.

I think if you had a toggle before donating or using, it might be ok. So long as she's not making both air and ground summons. She stays on the ground though. I haven't though about how the dynamic of it would affect offensive air attacks, but if there was an exploit where using AirWitchLoons or something became OP from it, I'd say no just due to the problem of rebalancing.

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Originally Posted by Goobers

Have you tried dragon raiding a TH8 with a witch in the cc? Most people use their BK or some archers to set their pinch (if they even bother to pinch at all), and the witch's summons run way out of the base towards the area they're at. Then the dragons come in, but they get sidetracked and go off and try to kill the summons. This is all while ADs and point defenses are hitting the dragons. Witches are incredibly useful in war bases against dragons as most dragon raiders are amateurs and do things like this.

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Originally Posted by archyball

This only really works if a person drops ground troops while the witch is still alive. If the person attacking is smart, they'd save their king until all cc troops are destroyed. This is why I thought witches deploying skeletons for air defense would be a good addition. Skeleton traps are able to switch between ground or air, I think having witches do the same would be a good addition.

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I bolded the key point to focus on there, haha. How many terrible/lazy dragon raiders do you come across in wars? They make up probably 80-85% of the dragon raiders at least. And for all those bad raiders, witches do a fantastic job of throwing a wrench in a dragon raids' potential for 3, sometimes even 2 stars. I don't think there needs to be a counter-measure for players who are smart or skilled enough to do it the right way, as you stated with leaving the bk for cleanup.