Talk:Shields/@comment-24153048-20140108144954/@comment-24417013-20140113052811

There are a few schools of thought on when you should break a shield and when you shouldn't.

In most cases breaking you shield so you can loot more materials from other plays will get you father than just riding out your shield.

A level 11 Elixer Collector will create 3,000 elixer in an hour, so if you rode out an entire 12 hour shield you would only have 36,000 in each of your Collectors. (Right now i have 6 so I could gain a total of 216,000 elixer in 12 hours)

Considering in most battles i can gain over 100k elixer in a single battle, and that i can attack a bunch of times more, I say that more times than not it is better to break your shield and battle than it is to sit and wait.

Usually the only time i do not break my shields is when i am  about to be offline for a while (Sleeping, working, busy, etc), because having a sheild will keep your enemies from being able to attack you at all.

Hope this helps in some way.

Happy Clashing,

-The Fire Lord