Lighning on infernos

[kdrakakis]

So I am a TH9 and I just upgraded my lightning spell to 6 and noted that it now does a damage of 510. And in the current war my mirror is a TH10 with just one inferno: level 1, with a total of 1500 hitpoints. Great, I think, three lightnings will take it out! So I prepare my army and three lighnings, I zoom into the base of the inferno to drop my lightnings with surgical precision, which I do, but the inferno does NOT go down! It is left there standing with just a tiny bit of health. ♥♥♥ Supercell? 3*510=1530>1500 and that is simple math! Has this happened to anyone else?

[Micheallo]

This is because there is one lightning bolt that strikes outside the bunched up so you basically lost 50-100( I'm not sure ) from each bolt so 150-300 in total this is why you need a earthquake

[JonnyVW]

Lightening spell is more central but not all damage on the same spot, with that close a number i would have deffo taken a eq as back up, seem 1st one now does 25% damage also

edit (but i would still rather 3 rages against an infurno anyway even as th9 haha)

[move4ward]

If you miss one bolt in any of those 3 spells, you lose 75 damage per strike and can't destroy inferno.

You would have been better off replacing 1 lightning spell with 2 earthquake spells anyway.

1500 x 0.21(level 2 eq) = 345
1155 x 0.21(level 2 eq) = 243

2 x Earthquake damage = 588
Lightning damage = 510

[charizzle]

It is staggered damage and it follows a pattern. It isn't just random. There are a couple videos by a few different youtubers that show you exactly how to drop your lightning for maximum damage output.

[MizzouBA]

If you miss one bolt in any of those 3 spells, you lose 75 damage per strike and can't destroy inferno.

You would have been better off replacing 1 lightning spell with 2 earthquake spells anyway.

1500 x 0.21(level 2 eq) = 345
1155 x 0.21(level 2 eq) = 243

2 x Earthquake damage = 588
Lightning damage = 510

I'm sorry but I think your math is way off there bud.

[hoopstime98]

If you miss one bolt in any of those 3 spells, you lose 75 damage per strike and can't destroy inferno.

You would have been better off replacing 1 lightning spell with 2 earthquake spells anyway.

1500 x 0.21(level 2 eq) = 345
1155 x 0.21(level 2 eq) = 243

2 x Earthquake damage = 588
Lightning damage = 510

This isn't how earthquake works anymore. It does damage based on total building HP, but does a reduced (and undisclosed) amount of damage with each subsequent hit.

[Ajax]

If you miss one bolt in any of those 3 spells, you lose 75 damage per strike and can't destroy inferno.

You would have been better off replacing 1 lightning spell with 2 earthquake spells anyway.

1500 x 0.21(level 2 eq) = 345
1155 x 0.21(level 2 eq) = 243

2 x Earthquake damage = 588
Lightning damage = 510

That is not the way EQ works any more, since the last update.

First spell does stated damage (which for level 2 is 17%). 2nd does 1/3 of that, third does 1/5, 4th does 1/7 etc.

But they are all now percentages of original hit points. It is designed so that EQ alone cannot bring down a building completely any more (apart from walls, which have a different mechanism), but in conjunction with lightning, it can.

so 1st level 2 lightning does 17% of 1500 = 255 damage. 2nd does 17/3 = 5.6666% of 1500 = 85 damage. Which means 2 level 2 EQ and 2 level 6 lightning will NOT destroy an IT. Even max EQ (25% stated damage) will not take out an IT with 2 EQ and 2 Lightning unless all the lightning damage hits the IT.

2 max EQ will do exactly 1/3 of building's original hp.

1 EQ (any level) and three lightning will.

[Ajax]

This isn't how earthquake works anymore. It does damage based on total building HP, but does a reduced (and undisclosed) amount of damage with each subsequent hit.

It is disclosed.

It was in the release notes for the update:

Reworked Earthquake Spell
* Earthquake Spells deal much more damage, regardless of a building's current hitpoints
* Repeated Earthquake Spells now deal diminishing damage to the same buildings
* Four Earthquake Spells will still always destroy any level of Wall!
* There are no longer any special "building execution rules" for Earthquake spells - a building just needs to be reduced to 0 HP
* Example: If an Earthquake Spell has 25% damage, the first Earthquake spell cast on a building will ALWAYS deal 25% of maximum HP damage, thus destroying any building with under 25% HP remaining. Repeated Earthquake Spells on the same building deal less damage: 25/3 %, 25/5 %. 25/7 %, etc. This diminishing damage means that it is still impossible to destroy buildings only using Earthquake Spells.

[Freyja1]

A light has 6 bolts. 1:6 of them go off center, so light is 5/6th the damage listed for the target & 1/6th splash, no matter if you are fully zoomed with a perfect strike.
do the numbers on 1 eq, 2 light see if that works