Should TH7 Air Defense Be Stronger?

[HeatSeeker]

At the moment, it is extremely easy to 3-star a Town hall 7 base with mass dragons. The most consistent way is to kill one air defense with lightning spells, overwhelm the other with 10 dragons. Works every time, regardless of what's defending in the clan castle.

As a result, it requires minimal effort for TH7s to destroy each other in war even if they have maxed defenses. Should TH7 get a defense boost against mass dragons? And how should that be done:

Another air defense?
Ability to have level 6 air defenses?
More air traps?
Nerf level 1/2 dragons?

Or should they just focus on getting to TH8 as quickly as possible/enjoy the fact that they an easily 3-star each other?

[Nazmark]

3 air def from th7 would fix the problem

[Powwder]

well even as a TH8 you can't really stop mass drags until you have all 3 air defenses lvl 6 and higher level archer towers. I say this because I used mass drags for about 15 clan wars (still using them) and I pretty much 3 star any th8 base unless they have lvl 6 air defenses, lvl 10 archer towers, and a good design (no exposed air defenses)...those bases I 2 star.

that being said any small bonus to th7 isn't really going to stop that. only way to really stop that is to beat dragons to death with the nerf bat but all that would do is make them a useless troop. no one would want to use them because they cost way too much, take up too much troop space and can't even 3 star a th7 base. as it stands dragons are only good for th 7 - th 8. after that they are outclassed and people stop using them for serious attacks

the thing I realized is the point of this game isn't really defending its attacking people. clan wars aren't about who has the best defense, its about who sucks more at attacking. only thing you can really do is go mass drags yourself and pray the dude whose attacking you doesn't know what he's doing....and yes I have seen mass drags 2 star a th 7 before.

[MandarDeodhar]

well even as a TH8 you can't really stop mass drags until you have all 3 air defenses lvl 6 and higher level archer towers. I say this because I used mass drags for about 15 clan wars (still using them) and I pretty much 3 star any th8 base unless they have lvl 6 air defenses, lvl 10 archer towers, and a good design (no exposed air defenses)...those bases I 2 star.

that being said any small bonus to th7 isn't really going to stop that. only way to really stop that is to beat dragons to death with the nerf bat but all that would do is make them a useless troop. no one would want to use them because they cost way too much, take up too much troop space and can't even 3 star a th7 base. as it stands dragons are only good for th 7 - th 8. after that they are outclassed and people stop using them for serious attacks

the thing I realized is the point of this game isn't really defending its attacking people. clan wars aren't about who has the best defense, its about who sucks more at attacking. only thing you can really do is go mass drags yourself and pray the dude whose attacking you doesn't know what he's doing....and yes I have seen mass drags 2 star a th 7 before.

As you mentioned, any TH7 with lvl 2 dragon can clean any other TH7. Even maxed TH7. Whereas the case is not same for TH8. Hence TH8 require some skills than a standard way as TH7.

May be, allow only lvl 1 dragon in TH7 ? Will that balance it out ?

[Gama321]

Im not familar with th7 wars but are you trying to say that every th7 war always ends in ties with full stars?

[schwag]

Im not familar with th7 wars but are you trying to say that every th7 war always ends in ties with full stars?

It should, if it's all th 7s and they know what they're doing. A lot of times th 7s will be too noob or unwilling to spend the elixir for all drags.

Lvl 1 drags will still overrun a th 7 without a problem, so I don't think that's a solution. They also wouldn't be able to remove an upgrade because some th 7s already have lvl 2 drags and they can't retract them. I think the best way to go about it would be to add an extra air mine and slightly increase the damage they do. This would not only balance out drags at th 7, but it would also help balance laloon at th 9.

[Gama321]

It should, if it's all th 7s and they know what they're doing. A lot of times th 7s will be too noob or unwilling to spend the elixir for all drags.

Lvl 1 drags will still overrun a th 7 without a problem, so I don't think that's a solution. They also wouldn't be able to remove an upgrade because some th 7s already have lvl 2 drags and they can't retract them. I think the best way to go about it would be to add an extra air mine and slightly increase the damage they do. This would not only balance out drags at th 7, but it would also help balance laloon at th 9.

If theyre not then theres no real reason to change it. Even hounds havent been nerfed and they are pretty much the only way to get three stars against max th10s. You could still three star max th7s with other armies like giant healer too.

People seem tp exaggerate this problem like any other on the forums.

[KingOfSaints]

Why should TH7 be tougher to be raided? That doesnt make sense.. Upgrade to TH8 because you start to fend off attacks successfully and to add to that, youre at the sweet spot to farm for loot.

[TheUnseenz]

None of the above - Dragons stats should be rescaled.

Buffing the air defenses will not only affect mass dragons, but balloonion, and how fast healers die (though not the issue here). While mass dragons is admittedly OP at th 7, balloonion is not. At the same time, I'm sure we all know that dragons are more or less balanced at th 8 and get pretty useless at th 9 with 4 air defenses and 4 air mines.

Hence: Dragons lv 3 should have more or less the same stats as I believe they are quite balanced, but lv 1 and 2 drags should get nerfed, while lv 4 drags get buffed... and we need a lv 5 dragon, but its fair enough for that to take its time to come. Not too sure if their hp or damage or both should be nerfed, but maybe simply making the stats per level go from +200 hp and +20 dmg go to +300 hp and +30 dmg with the same stats at lv 3 might do the trick.

[Thekiller]

If your base has a really good layout, then you can atleast fend off a star.

One of my war bases are anti-dragon. I usually only get 1 starred, and maybe 2 starred.