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[ilovesparky13]

I will help you out here:
Currently Ruled Out:
Here are some amazing ideas that have been ruled out by the dev time for the time being.

Ruled out ideas have been implemented in the past. But there is no real point in bringing up an idea they have ruled out, as they have decided that they don't like it. As the game changes they may change their mind about some of them, but that is no reason to spam the forums with them.

also opt out wasn't ruled out, don't know why people keep saying it was.

I will help you out here: the guy I was replying to made it sound like ruled out ideas will never be implemented, and so I was telling him that it doesn't matter if they're ruled out because we might still get them some day. And yes, opt in/out WAS ruled out. You seriously need to learn to read.

[erethizon]

So.. I'm a TH9 (late stage), I maxed out my healers many months ago but have never used them since then...

With the upcoming update Healers will no longer trigger air traps, making useless the seeking mines which are great to insta-kill them.

I personally don't really like the decision SC has made and i feel that after this update there will be a never-ending series of threads of complaints about healers being OP.

So, there's a doubt coming up in my mind: Will we be able to defend the same as we did before against a new and improved Giant-healer?

Tell me your opinion and let's discuss!

I think healers were considered by many to be the least useful troop in the entire game. I think this change is just to see if it will make healers something people use again. Personally I don't think it will be enough to make healers popular again, but we shall see. I don't intend to use healers still so it has little effect on me (especially since I don't waste money arming traps in my base anyway), but we shall see if it results in more attacks with healers after the update.

[Phunkfan02]

What about a healers attack with hogs? Assuming they can reach two of the AD quickly it could be useful. Also max healers in cc after a lava loon attack to deploy on heroes for cleanup. Just an idea.

[Diegoxx]

This happened to Apple in the past where a bug resulted in early patch note release.

They probably planned to release this update Jan 21, but had some delays, then they accidentally released what they already had typed up.

hopefully it comes on tuesday or so

[playitlikegabo]

Or we could keep having fun and you can go be a grouch somewhere else. Here's a crazy idea. Ignore the thread.

I agree, no need to be toxic! I am looking forward to the update.

[schwag]

The last update was Jan 21, they just accidentally replaced last update's notes (winter theme removal) with this update's notes.

[o0oAnnyo0o]

What about a healers attack with hogs? Assuming they can reach two of the AD quickly it could be useful. Also max healers in cc after a lava loon attack to deploy on heroes for cleanup. Just an idea.

Yes. It helps. But hogs move too quick. And healers doesn't heal when she moves.

[Killa4nia]

What is this leek everyone is talking about...I haven't been active at all lately.

[W4RD3N]

There's an update coming? What leak? Dude I'm so lost. Someone fill me in.

[choczombie]

I've seen a raid with all healers, a handful of WB, plus a lv40 AQ that wrecked a well developed th9 base of a clanmat: about 70+ damage plus town hall with the attacker quitting when it looked like the AQ was going to start taking more damage than the healers could handle.

I used to use one healer in a giant/barch farming army to help save on spells. TH9 gets four mines compared to TH8 with 2, there's not really any way to avoid 4 seeking mines without something to trigger them. So for attacking at that level healers were useless. This update means that there are tactical opportunities for using single healers again.

Centralised air def means that you can get the heavy hitters with heal support into the centre before the healer drops (better than heal spell). Outside air def you can hold off the healer until the AD goes down, and maybe use a heal spell first before deploying the healer to help really punch through the base.

Is it OP? I don't think so. Anyone who's at TH9 who is upset they now have to plan to take them down are likely to be go down weeping in the forums as people tell them to toughen up and get an inferno. Even then, at high levels I suspect it's feasible that top players who never even bothered with lv7 giants might now start dabbling in healer-giant again.

I haven't used a healer since the AI update...