Talk:Haste Spell/@comment-26506870-20150706023711/@comment-24800279-20150707153441

When looking at balloons, damage increase is not very important. That's because their damage is already so high that they kill most defenses on the first shot even without the damage boost.

By the time you get haste, you should have max balloons. A pair of max balloons does 1296 damage on their first attack without any damage boost. That's enough to kill every single defensive building on the first attack except xbows and infernos.

So that's why people ignore the damage increase from rage when comparing the two spells. You probably want to rage your balloons thru the infernos and xbows, but for all other defenses, just having the speed boost is good enough, and you get 2 haste for every rage.