Best & Worst of Clash of Clans 2014

[daz258]

As the year comes to an end lets look back at all the updates SuperCell have added to the game, and pick your best 3 & worst 3 for the year.

It could be a major aspect of an update, such as Clan Wars; or one of the finer points in an update; such as the new level icons. Pick your top 3 of absolutely anything in any of this years updates.

This will no doubt vary based on your town hall. So please also state what hall you are now, and approximately when you started the game.

Here are links to all the major updates this year to help you look back.

Mine will come later, just want the opening post done first.

29.1.14 - Hero Abilities
9.4.14 - Clan Wars
15.5.14 - Saved War Base
3.7.14 - Hero Changes
16.9.14 - Lava Hound
22.10.14 - Halloween
11.12.14 - Winter is here!

[hwong0715]

Th10 been laying since March 2013.

i hate the new levels on the icons. I'm so used to the asterisk and sometimes I get confused which one is the level and which one is the quantity.

CHANGE IT BACK!

best thing is CW especially when you're in a clan that wins

[daz258]

TH10
Started Jan 2013

Best

1) Saved Base Designs: 3 designs for regular & war base. This is absolutely massive, I've been around almost two years and absolutely love the base design aspect of the game. It is where I feel the game is most strategic. I love making my own base designs…but hated losing an old one in the process of making a new one. This has already saved me many hours of re-arranging bases. And will save me many more hours in the future. By far my favourite update this year.

2) Hero Abilities: This update made Heroes awesome, really; really awesome. BK raged up for 10 seconds going absolutely crazy; Queen hiding away allowing her to live longer. Added another element of strategy to the game, and gave great value to those who power levelled their heroes. With this update they truly felt like heroes. Nothing was more beautiful then the rare chance you got to use both heroes at the same time under these conditions. The investment was paying full dividends.

3) League Bonus Increase: The most frustrating thing about loot is how inconsistent it is, by boosting the league bonus it is possible to earn a stable income by farming in high leagues without giving too much consideration to how good or bad loot is on any given day. Fixed income is a beautiful thing. Finally something to help motivate higher level players to clash in the big leagues; rather then put up with the inconsistency of the low leagues. Huge tick from me.

Worst

1) Elixir walls: Why, why, why? Why did this have to happen? I absolutely loathe this update, I actually quit the game for about 2-3 months the second it was announced. Firstly, the premium of players who farmed their walls with gold just got diminished. Secondly, this was forever going to make elixir harder to find. Surplus elixir in the game was a good thing; never a bad thing. SuperCell have since repealed this update somewhat; but the damage is still been done and particularly felt by TH10s. As our prime targets at TH9 & TH10 can all dump elixir $1 million at a time.

2) The hero nerf: This also really frustrated me. After putting in a solid 6 months of farming both of my heroes at a time hard at TH9…I get rewarded with weaker heroes? How annoying, I did not get to use the old heroes that much due to upgrades. And when I can…they got their wings clipped big time. Even more annoying is regeneration time did not change; it took an update over 2 months later to fix this aspect of it. Cannot believe SuperCell did not test it properly and adjust regeneration at the same time - if regeneration was done at the same time this would not be in the worst 3. That was a very painful 2 months. Which led to retiring due to the update at 1 been included in the next one...

3) SuperCells backflip on using heroes in Clan Wars: SuperSteve said himself heroes WOULD be available in Clan Wars; update comes out? They were not. Now Steve may say it was a mistake; but he made it crystal clear they would work - and they don't. That is a backflip. Clan Wars will never; ever be balanced while this exists. Players who upgrade high level heroes during Clan Wars will forever be punished by this system because their level is heavily considering in matchmaking. Because of this I refuse to participate in Clan Wars and have joined a no Clan Wars clan.

[Aske]

worst when i got kicked from my clan been there for 4 months and got to know everyone but the leader got ♥♥♥♥ed and he hated me so he only kicked me

[Wintaburr]

TH10
Started playing March 30, 2014, semi-quit on September 18, 2014, and came back to the game on November 2, 2014.

Best:
- Clan War

Worst:
- None because I'm appreciative.

[Blackbeard]

worst of year and all time: hero nerf, end of story

[BoardGuest808888]

Th 10, played since Oct 2013 :

Best :
1. 2 Hours boost for barracks, heroes and spell factory.
2. Increased league bonus.
3. Heroes ability Iron fist/Royal cloak.

Worst :
1. Elixir for walls deal.
2. Heroes' power nerf.
3. AI change for troops who target non-specific.

[d11]

Best and Worst for me - Skeleton Traps.

Had to stop using lvl 4 Hogs as a TH8.. But nevermind, will get level 5 tomorrow. Even though we can 3star any decent TH8 base with dragons.. they're just not a challenge.

Trap are good for defence though. People barely use hogs at lower levels now.

[ZenCoC]

Best
Clan wars - The reason why many players are still playing this game.
Heroes change - The first time SC shows they are serious in trying to balance the game.
Save layout - really useful feature
Skeleton traps - kinda a love/hate relationship.

Worst:
None really. Maybe elixir walls which kills the economy a bit.

[THNSUM]

Best:
saved base layouts.
Lvl 12 collectors
select row of walls to upgrade


Worst
ALLOWING ELIXIR FOR WALLS!!!
skeleton traps
ALLOWING ELIXIR FOR WALLS!!!