Talk:Zegaloft12's Strategy Guides/Upgrading/@comment-26085630-20150531140411

A cheaper and much quicker upgrade, talking clan war wise, is lightning spell to level 3 instead of heal AND rage.

My reasoning:

The lowbies in my clan, including my TH7 alt, use a different dragon attack than 90% of dragon raiders and we find it more successful overall.

We use 10 dragons, 3 lightning, 4 balloons in Clan Castle.

3 level 3 lightnings can destroy a level 5 air defense. ALl you need to do is destroy one, pick a good spot to drop dragons and you are done. Occasionally you will need your ballons to assist in taking out the second AD on a TH7.

We 3 star TH8's with this same strategy that have at least 1 level 5 AD, but it requires more specific troop drop locations.