Tonight, they dropped a massive cost reduction update along with some purchasable books and potions for speeding up progress on us who are badly lagging behind all the pros. But with this update, a player like myself who is at TH11 and has been grinding away at it for some time or recently started it, it’s a major blessing.
Probably, the biggest improvements for me were the gigantic cost reductions for Heroes and Walls. Originally, my plan for my Archer Queen on my main account was to use the Dark Elixir Rune and Book of Heroes towards the end of the season to complete her progress. However, even with the 15% season reduction bonus, my new cost is a little over 120k. I was at 110k Dark Elixir at the end of today and have a Book of Everything from the store that I probably will use once I get the last little bit of Dark Elixir to push her to level 50. Then whatever remains will just go into research or my Barbarian King
On top of that, my outer walls for my base is now all at level 11, with a few upgraded to level 12 from Wall Rings. I believe I have roughly around 70 more walls or so remaining before all my walls are at least level 11. Right now, the way I’m handling walls is using my normal Elixir to sink into them whenever my laboratory is busy. Also, if I target a structure like an Archer Tower and have spare gold, I might dump some of the remaining Gold into a few Walls just before starting the upgrade, especially if the rest of my Builders won’t be cleared for days.
The plan for my main base with all these cost reductions is to first aim for cheaper structures that have a two level upgrade and just get the first level started. Then push towards the final 20% reduction cost to go for the costlier level to really maximize all these benefits. I might toss in some traps here and there since my Hidden Teslas are nearing completion.
Meanwhile, my older account is starting to work through stuff such as storage and army camps. I think once my storage are half way done, I might try upgrading another Barracks. So far I only have a single max level Barracks for this TH11 level and it’s painfully slow to train Electro Dragons. Now, that I’ve become reasonably decent at using Electro Dragons, it’s going to be hard going back to another troop until I start getting Siege Machines.
As part of this update, other buildings had come down in price and upgrade time as well. I can’t speak to the new Super Dragons because I won’t be able to use them until the next laboratory/TH level. But I am setting my eyes on getting my Hog Riders as something to be upgraded in the near future. One nice thing about this update is how lower level troops are far cheaper and more importantly take less time to upgrade. The troop combo I’d like to master is Hogs + Miners. So those are high on my list of troops that I need to upgrade.
At any rate, I’m pretty pleased by this update. I saw other people complaining on reddit but I figure most of those people are either maxed out or close towards the top already. This update is mostly a catch up one to encourage lower level people to push a bit further. I think once I get my main account to TH12, things ought to become a lot more painful but at least this update paves a nice way for me.