@CoJ I might eventually but not until I get my lvl 6 farming troops. i've found that attacking well developed th9s is innefficient loot-wise.
(this is a more general statement not directed at anyone in particular)
i do currently "deal with" the lightning, and i don't begrudge those who do it since there are definitive economic incentives to farm that way. i do, however, feel that there is an imbalance in the efficacy of lightning on DE as compared to gold/regular elixir.
at th 8 i had 3 max gold storages. lets take that lightning attack from the th 9 i pictured above and pretend it was instead directed at a gold storage, the most they could raid in total would have been 198,000 less the 10% loot penalty, so roughly 180,000. that 180,000 is split up among 3 storages, so each storage has roughly 60,000 gold.
their lightning attack could have taken 1,300 DE if they used a 4th spell, which is 72% of the raidable amount for them (which would be 1,800). If they did the same thing on the gold storage they would have gotten 72% of 60,000 which would be roughly 44,000 gold.
the above math isn't 100% exact because there is some HP difference between gold and DE storage but 44k gold is in the ballpark, and 44k gold vs 1.3k DE is a pretty huge difference considering the relative difficulty in farming 44k gold vs 1.3k DE.
Originally Posted by MINTFLEX
