Poison spell wasn't a great idea?

New players won't remember when Clan Wars came out but there was a time at the beginning where drags were pretty common war CC troops for a while. Very quickly though people learned how to lure them and kill them very quickly and easily and drags pretty much went away. It was pretty much a joke to use drags in a war CC, clans that did were pretty much mocked and ridiculed.

They have only now made a come back because luring and killing them is just slightly more work than dropping a poison spell. Pretty soon everyone will learn to kill them again and fell relief when they see a drag come out of a CC.

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Originally Posted by troydaboy420

In my opinion witches and wizards were OP as defensive ccs troops, before the poison spell. Not impossible obviously, just annoying hard to take out. I mean really if when im attacking a maxed base, I'm still only worried about the cc there's a problem. I'm glad they fixed the problem.

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This made me smile. Oh no the game was too hard :smirk:

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Originally Posted by sj74

This made me smile. Oh no the game was too hard :smirk:

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Ahahaa, yup yup yup!

A level 1 poison spell shouldn't be able to take out a max wiz on it's own IMO. This can be sorted by slightly altering the poison damage, or creating the badly needed level 7 wiz.

Saying that, I now ask for 30 archers in my cc, as it throws people off who were expecting a drag or a hound.

But yeah, poison spell was a terrible addition to the game.

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Originally Posted by Redfofo

I found it fun to put random things in cc to surprise the enemy, but now filling cc with anything else (beside valks for th9s) is very useless and will die a horrible orange poisonous death..

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Originally Posted by Carsonel

Drag and Maxed Loons filling the rest of the spots is the new default.

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Originally Posted by sj74

unfortunately the poison has (as others have pointed out) decreased diversity and side-lined the usefulness of the CC.

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Inb4, the usual dreamers start claiming (while keeping a straight face) that the poison spell has in fact increased CC diversity.....


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Poison spell is just another nerf to make the game easier so there is less to distinguish between the more and less skilled players. Get used to this trend.

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Originally Posted by Redfofo

I found it fun to put random things in cc to surprise the enemy...

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There is always a default troop combination. It used to be witches, wizards, and archers, now it is dragons, balloons, or lava hounds. Not that much is different. If you want to surprise the enemy you can still put random stuff in the CC. Not everyone brings a poison spell and not everyone uses it if they do bring it. My troop requests haven't changed since the patch. Sometimes they get poisoned, sometimes they don't.

The poison spell brought a much needed balance to the most overpowered defense in the game. It was absolutely disgusting how much damage an unlured CC could do. Now, if the attacker wants to use a spell slot packing poison instead of a haste, they can deal with low health CC troops more easily (though the troops still can oftentimes do some amazing damage if not pulled). Wizards can wipe out a lot of troops before a level 1 poison spell takes them down.

nothing should be nerfed we all need to adapt and deal. tired of getting used to stuff just to have it nerfed.

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Originally Posted by tellingthetruth

Inb4, the usual dreamers start claiming (while keeping a straight face) that the poison spell has in fact increased CC diversity.....


:facepalm:

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Wasn't going to bring that point up (since it was not directly related to the discussion), but since you felt the need to bring it up, I have found a much wider range of troops in CC's than I did before the update. Hounds and golems used to be unbelievably rare, and dragons were not that common either (though they did happen). Now I see all 3 of those plus all the same old combinations I used to see (witches/wizards/archers, all wizards, all archers, etc.). So yes, the update really did increase CC diversity because I still see that old combinations that were popular, but I also see new ones that used to almost never happen. The default troop combinations have changed, but the level of diversity is the same or higher.