Troops question. Mana vs non mana

[B1gHeadAss]

@Ultra

In the instant case, Alice already fires as a fast mana generating hero. It will shave off one tile by supporting it with a level 29 mana troop. Currently, OP only has level 10, and its a long ways to go to reach that level.

You are only considering “tiles to fire” on offense. On defense, mana generation doesn’t work exactly the same. Having a lvl 29+ mana troop doesn’t mean that Alice gets a mana break and will fire when hit with 7 tiles instead of 8 b/c that’s not how mana works on defense. There is no cut-off mana break point for heroes on defense b/c there are too many factors (e.g: tiles hitting the defense hero generate different amts of mana depending if there is a combo and how large the combo is). Having the mana troop will affect passive mana generation and will lead to the hero firing faster, especially if on wing.

In your link, as Guv stated:

@Guvnor

Many players choose to use Mana Troops on their defence for a couple reasons:

1. Mana generation is no as straightforward on defence as it is on offence.
2. In war situations, having the Mana Troop means lower net defence score which means lower war points for killing that defence.
3. Additionally, most defences do NOT depend on normal attack (slash attacks) in order to do the majority of damage… Thus the “crit chance” has less and less of an impact.

I agree that in OP’s case, he should use the lvl20 crit troop on defense at the moment. But I think he should give feeders to the mana troop and eventually lvl up it.