Calling shenanigans on EARTHQUAKE spell!!!

[Morias]

Simply this: lvl 1 earthquake spell does 6% x4 against walls, 4 lvl 1 earthquake spells destroy any walls up to and including lvl 11 walls (the blue ones), 4 lvl 1 earthquake spells do a total of 96% damage and break the walls. 6%x4= 24% for one earthquake spell, do 4 of those, that equals 96% damage and wall destruction. With me so far? Lvl 2 earthquake spell does 8% x4 against walls, which means one spell does 32% damage against walls, multiply that by 3 and it equals 96% damage, but doesn't break the walls! I was frustrated at first, but figured it just wasn't enough so I have to get to lvl 3 earthquake spell which does 10% damage x4 to walls, meaning 3 lvl 3 earthquake spells should do 120% damage to walls having no problem breaking the walls down. Guess what?! Still doesn't break the walls!!!! It still takes 4 lvl 3 spells to break the walls! If you're saying to yourself that they only break down things that are close to falling anyway, think about this; 3 lvl 1 earthquake spells (against walls) do a total of 72% damage and the fourth spell breaks the walls, 2 lvl 3 earthquake spells do 80% damage, but the third does NOT break the walls even though total damage exceeds 100%....mathematically this does NOT make sense. Four lvl 1 earthquake spells should break walls, which it does. 3 lvl 2 earthquake spells should break walls (mathematically speaking) but they don't. 3 lvl 3 earthquake spells should CERTAINLY break walls, but they don't (not even mathematically, just in common sense) but they don't. And guess what? 2 lvl 4 earthquake spells 12%x4 against walls of course do a total of 96% damage, the same amount of damage as 4 lvl 1 spells. But I'm guessing it'll still take at least 3 lvl 4 earthquake spells to destroy walls if not 4. If it does take 4 lvl 4 earthquake spells to destroy walls, then why have levels at all if it takes the same amount of spells weather lvl 1 or 4 (which is the max lvl btw) to break walls. Can anyone with lvl 4 earthquake spells at least confirm that it only takes 3 spells?
P.S.- if 1,000 people have already posted about this, then YEAH, I should have read the stickies, but I didn't and now I feel better. I'll feel great when this injustice to my bathroom breaks has been corrected. Mistress of "the carter's" clan

[chowbish]

It is percentage of CURRENT HEALTH POINTS. Also, they have a 2nd effect where any buildings or walls that go under 17.5~18.5% of life get instantly destroyed.

Seriously make paragraphs in future.

[hashtagbene]

Nice paragraph but if you bothered reading the spell information you'd know that it deals damage to the remaining hitpoints, and it eventually knocks out severely damaged buildings (~17% HP left for buildings, ~33% for walls)

[mateonyy]

Hasn't there been enough of these posts to understand this already...

[Morias]

If it's 33% for walls the. Why wouldn't a third level 3 earthquake spell do the trick when a fourth lvl 1 spell does? Considering a third lvl 3 has already done MORE damage than a fourth lvl 1?

[coachmoneyball]

Hasn't there been enough of these posts to understand this already...

It is frustrating seeing these posts all the time....but SC really dropped the ball by not explaining this in the first place. They created alot of confusion and also most people assumed that SC didn't create something that was just as powerful at level 1 as any other level.

[Echo006]

When I tell people to use Earthquakes in my clan, they're like:

"My EQ spell is level 1. It sucks."

[hashtagbene]

If it's 33% for walls the. Why wouldn't a third level 3 earthquake spell do the trick when a fourth lvl 1 spell does? Considering a third lvl 3 has already done MORE damage than a fourth lvl 1?

I think that was calculated with level 2 EQs

There's a big thread with all user-driven experiments http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...ght=earthquake

[Monkeyhole]

[Morias]

Thank You, hashtagbene, that link was super enlightening, frustrated I wasted my DE, but onward and upward right? Thanks all