Apprentice builder is good for fixing upgrade schedules. If I have an upgrade that is 5 days and 18 hours and seems to end in late night, I can just assign him to that building that aligns to my gaming hours.
Yeah..Excatly. Its like a tiny builder potion every day so you would eventually save up whole nights upgrade time or the builder potion which you would have bought otherwise
There is also a not so obvious benefit to the apprentice. There is value in modifying finish time to when you will be able to play. For instance if something finishes when you just got asleep you 'waste' the whole night. But if you can speed it up and finish before bed, there will be no waste.
u are still not getting apprentice builder concept. Its not for all buildings it will work for only one at a time. so apply on the building which still has more then 8hrs to complete. nothing will be waste. even this apprentice builder is huge value pack compared to builder potions.
I agree with that. Being able to "save" time is useful assuming you consistently have enough or more resources for the next upgrade. However, as the math he did before, 5.5 gems make up for 1 hr of gemming. Hence, rather than buying a 500 gems for 1 hr save, you can just spend 6 gems whenever you need. Which, as the video stated, only worth the saving time of 500 gems in 91.2 days. It is a fallacy that an expensive deal seems really good and pays off well but actually requires lots of investment - in this case, regular logins at the exact 23hrs which in terms of saving time, you would be wasting as eventually the builder will reset when you are sleeping unless you wanna trade health for gaming.
I think that they can let it so, the only think that I would love to see, would be a possibility to schedule like 3 or 4 days of apprentice work, as suggested in the video
Goblin event with 40gems/ day. My choice is lv 1 with sale on shop and lv 2 with 500 gem And will get return after 150 days(if compare to goblin event for 40gems/ day ).
If you don't mind me asking, what level are your heroes? I typically burn my excess gems on hero books. If I were to guess, I'd say I probably have purchased about 10 hero books for excess gems acquired through selling magical items, obstacle removal, challenges, etc. My Queen is lv80/90, King is lv80/90, Warden is 60/65. Champ is 30/40. I recently dropped 2,000 gems into that builder, and instantly regretted it. You could only buy 1 book a week, but truth be told, I'd rather have 4 hero books, than that builder, entirely. LOL I guess it's trivial, at the end of the day. With how much heroes cost to upgrade at that level, it's not like you could pop a Dark rune, level up a hero, use a book, and immediately level it again, since they take 200k+ dark to upgrade and the storage only holds 300k :/
@@dollahbill510 Me myself i bought the buidler pack and level up it to lv 4(for easy time control), and i stack my gems to another event like goblin buidler to spen, since i lv 18 10 equip (2K, 4Q,2G,3R) i really chill about speed up the hero upgrade, i just war once per week and stop for 3-4 days for cwl and get 8 star and keep again so i dont use book of hero since th16 release.
6:23 Only 312 days? Most people I know have played for the past 3650 days, this is clash of clans we are talking about, people have been playing this game for over a decade.
@@Vivid_1 it actually much longer, BDlegend only discuss on tradition way to gem, buying book,and buying ores. If u compare this with the goblin buidler event(which is the best way to use gem), it will take 300 days for lv 1-2,450 days lv 3-4, and 600+ for 4 last level. Yeah we will get return when th19 come and the app buidler will reduce the cost to 1/4😂😂😂😂
@GreasePotato Man, maxing is impossible, and by that I'm saying it's not worth it, as you can buy more important stuff like hero equipment or something else rather than the useless apprentice
the one additional thing to consider is, that you have the flexability to use your apprentice builder on anything building related. It can give you the possibility to speed up a upgrade so that for example it does not end in the middle of the night, what would reduce your effective builder time and so the real value grows even more. So i defenetly think it is worthit
agree. I like that part most actually. it's priceless. the video is arguing that it's worth it more to gem ores. but ores are free, and my opinion is that one should rely on skills but not equipment levels to play this game. especially now the defense has been nerf'ed to the ground, one more reason not to gem ores.
Or putting time between your upgrades to make sure all your builders aren't free at once and being forced to wait to collect resources before you can start another one!
Bro the amount of effort you put explaining this game is actually insane, I wish you could carry some of these to other games as well like Elden ring for example, I would love to hear you explain lore and builds as detailed like these videos
Considering the total price of 6.5k gems. If they would have just added new builder for 3.5k gems but would have been locked behind th13/th14 requirement. Then all this drama wouldn't have started in the first place. And cherry on the cake is that normal builder benefits from builder potions. In short AB has worst ROI than normal builder considered max level where it only reduces 1/3 day every 24hrs.
This is 100% True, but I wonder if they have data on how often people actually have 6 builders down, because if they weren't able to maintain 6, adding another doesnt make sense and the AB is a more attractive otpion
@@bdlegendcoc how? Builders who can work all the time compared to one who comparatively doesn't work at all. That too at a break neck price of 6.5k gems? It's just a cash grab from supercell. Nothing more. There is no justification for this and you know it.
I have logged on everyday before the AB and after it came out, I just maxed out TH11 going on to 12 and the AB has been one the best things I’ve bought so far in the game I only got it at level 3 so it only take 3 hours off everyday but when my upgrades are starting to take more than a day or two now some take a week / a bit more, to take 3h off everyday has been great help
We have six builders, I don't think building is the limiting factor of the game......lab upgrades, ores or heroes usually are and gems should be spent there imo
I’ve already saved a lil over 8 days with the apprentice. It’s absolutely worth it if u were like me and hoarded gems. I had 6500 gems just doing nothing so I bought it and maxed it. It’s still worth it tho even if u buy the gems over time because u have it forever. That’s only if u are planning on investing that kinda time in this game.
@@blkjohnnybravo3506 ironic because everyone I know including myself literally had that many gems or more and we alll just spent them on books and stuff and immediately after supercel releases this builder like they were waiting for a massive gem spend rush so people wouldn’t be able to actually use the gems they been saving for something like this. I’m almost 100% sure they timed it when most players wasted hella gems.
I wanna buy him but I feel that they’ll lower his cost when they realize nobody is buying it and since the return on investment is so minimal as you said I think I’ll be fine for now. I appreciate you doing the math for us and all your videos
The problem is, the lab is the bottle neck, finishing every other upgrade earlier is meaningless if you've still got to wait much longer for the lab upgrades to finish.
That would mean thay 24 hours of upg would be equivanent to 44 hours of upg so 44/24 = 11/6 = 1 5/6 = 1.83333.... so upgrading a building so every day is equivalent a day and 20 hours (24 hours[1 day] = 44 hours [1 5/6, 1.8333 day's]
There's two arguments that I rarely ever see in these arguments: 1) when finishing a building with a book you may run into the issue of not having enough resources for another upgrade just yet (not a problem with the AB) 2) the main reason why people buy hero books is not to just speed up the process but specifically to SKIP the time without the hero so, at least for those, it makes little sense to compare hero books and the AB
Either way: I love the AB as it's perfect for people with spare gems but not op enough to be considerend pay2win + a year of ROI is totally fine with me in this game :D
Mine is level 6 in my main acc. My alt is level 7. Didn’t spent a penny. I just always wanted to have a lot of gems. Suddenly they released this builder 🤓
Great video and in my own research I came to the conclusion that the best bang for buck was between level 4 and 5 as then it gets way to expensive for the person that misses days/weeks through various reasons
Th 15 here currently have my apprentice builder at level 3 and plan to go all the way with him because I'm one of those Max everything never once have been rushed types. Nice video thanks for your effort☮️☮️☮️
Got level 2 so that I can help with the annoying overnight timers, but will be stockpiling for future goblin builder events because 40/day is a much better value when it comes up IMO
I've shown up everyday for more than 3 years. With an exception of 3 days when i had to repair my phone. I simply have 1 acc. It takes no time to show up tap gems and leave after 🤷🏽♂️
@@bdlegendcoc got to th16 less than a week ago too. Didn't max th15 but I maxed enough of it. I get to enjoy being mad TH... for at least a few months before being left behind again 😅
I've missed you man glad you're back you are a huge help to the clash community I don't get why you don't get enough views your content is top notch you deserve much more views but please don't stop posting keep up the good work love from Bangladesh ❤
I'd like to see an analysis on how many players quit because upgrades take too long and how the builder apprentice shines a little light at the end of that tunnel, keeping some of those people around.
I find it useful coming on TH13 where most upgrades take several days, I can essentially use the AB to take 1-3 days off of a big upgrade and cycle out the smaller upgrades to begin with
It in my opinion not a bad concept to help us out but they could make it always active until upgrade on that building is done and would wait a day to finish an upgrade or add more of them
The other thing is for most players you can't get on during the exact time the upgrade finishes to start a next one or you might not have enough loot. So the builder sits there doing nothing anyway and the apprentice took away his value. So to use him efficiently you want to do some mental gymnastics on when you are playing and whether the upgrade will finish early enough or late enough to hit that time period. Players don't wanna do that. But it does help in that way to give more efficiency to upgrades based on when you are playing. So its value isn't set in stone, just about when you use him. Heck if you max him out and you have an hour to play but a building has up to 9 hours left, that shortens it to 1 hour and you can get that builder up to the next one without wasting his value. Honestly I'm trying to level him for the maxed account aspect... but as a th13 I will never get there.
Ive played the game for years with my friends and i will keep playing it. I just slowly invest in it. Seems like a goodbdeal honestly, you get a permanent upgrade.
ı play on 16 accounts, apprentice builder is a life saving change in clash. the value gets crazier when apprentice bought in early game as soon as possible.
I use it to squeeze in another DE Hero upgrade in a month between CWL (yes I have seen your rushed videos, so I know :). It basically saves me a Hero book a month, so 6500/500 = 13 months is is break-even, if you calclated the savings during cwl it is even 25% less . Another way of looking at is is a builders pot is 285 devided by 6 builders times 8/9 (as builders pot save 9 hours) = 42,2 per use of the builder. 6500/42,2 = 154 days as I had the (free) gems on my accunts I used it on all. I play every day, so it will be used...
Honestly, for a f2p a break-even point of 1-2 years isnt that bad, I aint plannin on quitting soon and even though you might get maxed, there'll always be new town halls
Another benefit, aside from the many times mentioned: "finishing an upgrade before you sleep," is that it speeds up upgrades, it doesn't start a new one. Need that hero max level faster? Focus on em. Want to get a new building that needs 15 levels? Reduce the time one it so it catches up much faster. This is extremely useful, and while yes the cost:effect ratio is abysmal to the point of making both notes worthless they still make the issue much less prominent. Great concept, just halve the cost across the board and he would be pretty good, 150 days is still a LOT but definitely more reasonable along with all the tricks.
I've been playing for the past 4 years ~ every day - one 2 month break. Currently max th13, titan 3. I bought to builder pass once, and the 8bit hero skin line/base. Otherwise a completely free base. I use gems for donations and the apprentice has finally given me something to spend my 3k extra gems on!
Those break even’s also assume clicking to use it at the exact same time every day. That is not practical even for the most dedicated clashers, so you probably need to assume the break even point as another 10%-20% of that time because one day you may start it at noon, the next day, you may be starting it at 1pm
What about a comparison to the amount of time to max your townhall level, to time saved? As in if you have max apprentice, how much time does that shave off of your total build time for each townhall? Time is precious, and knowing that ratio could be more worthwhile in the long run compared to breakeven points with in game items and gems. Which could also save gems in the long run too.
I have one thing to add - there’s actually potential for more value/time saved if you use it on upgrades that would finish while you are asleep. e.g. if i save 7 hours on a building supposed to finish at 3 am, i can start a new upgrade instead at 8pm. if i didn’t use the builder, i would have started the upgrade whenever i woke up (say 8am). so even though i technically only saved 7 hours, i’m able to start an upgrade 12 hours earlier than if i didn’t have apprentice builder. this lets you get more value out of it
I will not say I will be on every day bc I don’t know what will happen in the future. But since he has come out, I have been using him every day, I set timers when I’m not sure if I’ll be remembering about him. I like the idea of being able to schedule him every day. But I would like to propose that we should be able to max him the second you unlock him. I didn’t know that he was capped at lvl 2 for th10, you’d get SO much more value if you could even maybe just drop $20 on the first 4 lvls at th10. That would be a nice change. Overall, I’ve said this to everyone that thinks it’s comparatively better than every option bc unlike the BoH or gems he is permanently helping you, every day which is the biggest W.
As max TH16, i was overflowing in gems from the season pass and the natural ones from ingame. So i maxed him out recently. Im sure its worth it in the long run even if its extremly expensive. Besides the pass when its a good hero skin up for grabs, i am completly F2P.
I use it so I can better manage my upgrades. For example if the upgrade will be finished at night i use the apprentice builder so that my builders don't take a break from other upgrades.
I use mine to bring my build finish time to a time I'll be playing. Been a number of times my build finishes in the middle of the night when I'm asleep.
Most important thing is that lots of clash of clans players are not active recent even legend league players was ot doing there 8 attacks per day because I had my own life bases in legend league in this time, maybe clash of focus on there players not focus on money making policies
Who uses gems for ores and books??? 😂😂😂 I normally just use it to finish upgrades that costs less than 100s (I save up for cosmetics and other stuffs, never spend it on ores, since I don't really lack of it, legend rank gives me enough, at least compared to most players ig lol), so upgrading the apprentice builder is a massive win for me!!!
I got him to lvl 2 and its most convenient for getting upgrades to finish in range like before gold pass ends to get upgrades going on the last days with the 20% boost.. or in woken hours and not mid night and waste 5 hrs before getting them back to work
I think you miss one of the biggest values it adds, it makes it so that upgrade that end at inconvenient times are a thing of the past, just boost it a few hours earlier. If you boost something ending at 4 am, you would gain the time from the boost as well as an extra 4 or so hours of downtime between 4 am and whenever you wake up
The main benifit is, for example I'm putting an upgrade on 1pm and its 5d12h the finishing time can be reduced from late night to working hours, its not that much bad tho
i played for the last 312 days daily till now, didn't lose one and I'm very sure about it! I play a secondary game daily on phone and before playing that, I play coc and do my 2 attacks. Also I'm mega farming ores, love the grind for it! I actually buy the event passes only(no other offer).
Thanks BD. You are the only one that analyse clash give charts etc. That's why I follow you. You are original. Il do agree with what you said. In the end, it will pay off overtime. I'm a long time player, son it will pay off in the end. For occasionnal players... Il would not buy it. Have a great Day and take care.
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Bro this is not a clash of clans channel this is a finance channel
Fr😂 but this helps a lot❤️
Asians are good at math✨😂
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You're right my lord Arceus
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But if you're trying to do your taxes...LOL
Apprentice builder is good for fixing upgrade schedules. If I have an upgrade that is 5 days and 18 hours and seems to end in late night, I can just assign him to that building that aligns to my gaming hours.
That's absolutely true. A completed upgrade in the middle of the night is useless.
Yeah..Excatly. Its like a tiny builder potion every day so you would eventually save up whole nights upgrade time or the builder potion which you would have bought otherwise
I did almost the same comment, totaly agree 🤝
Same
That's my favourite use case for him lol. Definitely worth getting over the outdated gold pass skins that I used to buy.
There is also a not so obvious benefit to the apprentice. There is value in modifying finish time to when you will be able to play. For instance if something finishes when you just got asleep you 'waste' the whole night. But if you can speed it up and finish before bed, there will be no waste.
u are still not getting apprentice builder concept. Its not for all buildings it will work for only one at a time. so apply on the building which still has more then 8hrs to complete. nothing will be waste. even this apprentice builder is huge value pack compared to builder potions.
@@Kickinoffthenoobs Did you even read the upper comment?
You are regarded @@Kickinoffthenoobs
I agree with that. Being able to "save" time is useful assuming you consistently have enough or more resources for the next upgrade. However, as the math he did before, 5.5 gems make up for 1 hr of gemming. Hence, rather than buying a 500 gems for 1 hr save, you can just spend 6 gems whenever you need. Which, as the video stated, only worth the saving time of 500 gems in 91.2 days. It is a fallacy that an expensive deal seems really good and pays off well but actually requires lots of investment - in this case, regular logins at the exact 23hrs which in terms of saving time, you would be wasting as eventually the builder will reset when you are sleeping unless you wanna trade health for gaming.
@@DOHandDOH that's how I have been using it
I disagree with decreasing the price what they should do is scale the bonus and make it stronger
Yes it should be atleast 16hrs or 24hrs man
Good suggestion!
@@Shreyash112 16 or 24?! Maybe 12 but definitely not 16 - 24
@@rowanstree8499 lol why not expect better, 16 seems fine cause normal builder can work 24 x7 while BA can work at 8hr loss than normal builder
I think that they can let it so, the only think that I would love to see, would be a possibility to schedule like 3 or 4 days of apprentice work, as suggested in the video
if 1-2 years to break even is too long for you, then you're playing the wrong game
This is the truth
In 2 years , I can full max my account, till that time my builders will be idle , when will I use apprentice builder
@@SarangGavhane True ur would be maxed if u played continuously for 2yrs, then whats the use of this😂
Ive been playing 10+ years and havent hit max walls ever
@@Sam-tb9xu u must have stopped playing in between cuz i hv frnds who were playing from 6-7yrs and they r fully maxed f2p
What else I'm gonna do with gems as a free-to-play player? Spend it on worthless skins? At least I'm getting something out of this builder over time.
Books, ores even goblin builder
Goblin event with 40gems/ day.
My choice is lv 1 with sale on shop and lv 2 with 500 gem
And will get return after 150 days(if compare to goblin event for 40gems/ day ).
Books ores or apprentice builder now (:
If you don't mind me asking, what level are your heroes? I typically burn my excess gems on hero books. If I were to guess, I'd say I probably have purchased about 10 hero books for excess gems acquired through selling magical items, obstacle removal, challenges, etc. My Queen is lv80/90, King is lv80/90, Warden is 60/65. Champ is 30/40. I recently dropped 2,000 gems into that builder, and instantly regretted it. You could only buy 1 book a week, but truth be told, I'd rather have 4 hero books, than that builder, entirely. LOL
I guess it's trivial, at the end of the day. With how much heroes cost to upgrade at that level, it's not like you could pop a Dark rune, level up a hero, use a book, and immediately level it again, since they take 200k+ dark to upgrade and the storage only holds 300k :/
@@dollahbill510 Me myself i bought the buidler pack and level up it to lv 4(for easy time control), and i stack my gems to another event like goblin buidler to spen, since i lv 18 10 equip (2K, 4Q,2G,3R) i really chill about speed up the hero upgrade, i just war once per week and stop for 3-4 days for cwl and get 8 star and keep again so i dont use book of hero since th16 release.
6:23 Only 312 days? Most people I know have played for the past 3650 days, this is clash of clans we are talking about, people have been playing this game for over a decade.
@@pb99-z3r +1 lmao it takes more than 312 days to even max out th1-10 😂
@@sameerkarkal2112Is this still true? I may need to start a new one to test that out?
@@MrPink-ro1tu you can check on clash ninja website
@@MrPink-ro1tuNo need, just have some checkup on ClashNinja and u will have the answer.
@@MrPink-ro1tu yes, back when th12 was the highest th. Now, upg times r much shorter now, at least for me.
Just to be careful:
Don't assign the apprentice builder to remove obstacles.
He will work and sleep just after that.
I tried 😅😅😅.
thank you for your sacrifice 🤣
respect for you sir 🙏. That's a valuable information
I too tried that 🤣
First thing I used him for just after spending 500gems 😂
@@shyamkuntla7490 even I tried that 🤣🤣
The best way to describe it is that it's like buying a solar panel or a diesel car, high initial investment but long returns
@@DekuMav except, it will never return it until at least you give it 4 months.
@@Vivid_1that's the damn point
@@Vivid_1 it actually much longer, BDlegend only discuss on tradition way to gem, buying book,and buying ores. If u compare this with the goblin buidler event(which is the best way to use gem), it will take 300 days for lv 1-2,450 days lv 3-4, and 600+ for 4 last level. Yeah we will get return when th19 come and the app buidler will reduce the cost to 1/4😂😂😂😂
@GreasePotato Man, maxing is impossible, and by that I'm saying it's not worth it, as you can buy more important stuff like hero equipment or something else rather than the useless apprentice
Haha true (:
I did the same math, happy to see my calculation is correct... You gain a new subscriber buddy
Thank you! Glad the math worked out (:
@@bdlegendcoc are you a mathematics or computer science student?
@@Arpan4119he's a financial manager
I’ve been waiting ages for this omg 😭😭😭😭
AT LONG LAST
Sorry for the wait :(
the one additional thing to consider is, that you have the flexability to use your apprentice builder on anything building related. It can give you the possibility to speed up a upgrade so that for example it does not end in the middle of the night, what would reduce your effective builder time and so the real value grows even more. So i defenetly think it is worthit
yes very true! A lot of people noticed that and I'm glad you all are pointing it out! (:
agree. I like that part most actually. it's priceless. the video is arguing that it's worth it more to gem ores. but ores are free, and my opinion is that one should rely on skills but not equipment levels to play this game. especially now the defense has been nerf'ed to the ground, one more reason not to gem ores.
Or putting time between your upgrades to make sure all your builders aren't free at once and being forced to wait to collect resources before you can start another one!
Me watching after spending 7000 gems
where?
@@AdityaKumar-bk5ei same here 😂😂
Same all those good gems are gone
5 k😭
😭
Bro the amount of effort you put explaining this game is actually insane, I wish you could carry some of these to other games as well like Elden ring for example, I would love to hear you explain lore and builds as detailed like these videos
Haha thanks!
Maybe once I have some more time and freedom as well as experience with running a channel (:
Considering the total price of 6.5k gems. If they would have just added new builder for 3.5k gems but would have been locked behind th13/th14 requirement. Then all this drama wouldn't have started in the first place. And cherry on the cake is that normal builder benefits from builder potions. In short AB has worst ROI than normal builder considered max level where it only reduces 1/3 day every 24hrs.
This is 100% True, but I wonder if they have data on how often people actually have 6 builders down, because if they weren't able to maintain 6, adding another doesnt make sense and the AB is a more attractive otpion
@@bdlegendcoc how? Builders who can work all the time compared to one who comparatively doesn't work at all. That too at a break neck price of 6.5k gems? It's just a cash grab from supercell. Nothing more. There is no justification for this and you know it.
I have logged on everyday before the AB and after it came out, I just maxed out TH11 going on to 12 and the AB has been one the best things I’ve bought so far in the game I only got it at level 3 so it only take 3 hours off everyday but when my upgrades are starting to take more than a day or two now some take a week / a bit more, to take 3h off everyday has been great help
We have six builders, I don't think building is the limiting factor of the game......lab upgrades, ores or heroes usually are and gems should be spent there imo
@@Sameer-vb1sw you already have 3 research pots from raid shop every week....
True...I'll actually be looking at this further in a future video (:
I’ve already saved a lil over 8 days with the apprentice. It’s absolutely worth it if u were like me and hoarded gems. I had 6500 gems just doing nothing so I bought it and maxed it. It’s still worth it tho even if u buy the gems over time because u have it forever. That’s only if u are planning on investing that kinda time in this game.
@@blkjohnnybravo3506 ironic because everyone I know including myself literally had that many gems or more and we alll just spent them on books and stuff and immediately after supercel releases this builder like they were waiting for a massive gem spend rush so people wouldn’t be able to actually use the gems they been saving for something like this. I’m almost 100% sure they timed it when most players wasted hella gems.
Couldn’t agree more. That’s thy the goblin builder, especially for lab, is the best use of gems in the game.
I got an idea, maybe the devs could add a Level Up system similar to Clan Perks and Level, the more u use it the more the exp more bar will fill😊
that would be really cool (:
Mine got maxed the day it came out . I am enjoying and loving it. Hero upgrades are fun now
I just upgraded it to level 7 and it’s excellent when their is a urgent need for upgrade.
I wanna buy him but I feel that they’ll lower his cost when they realize nobody is buying it and since the return on investment is so minimal as you said I think I’ll be fine for now. I appreciate you doing the math for us and all your videos
I came here from OJ and wow your content are just as good as hell man yo keep it up
haha thank you (:
A daily reset at the same time would be so much better than cooldown
The problem is, the lab is the bottle neck, finishing every other upgrade earlier is meaningless if you've still got to wait much longer for the lab upgrades to finish.
COC is life. I've been in it since the beginning.
💯
They have to at least give the apprentice builder ability to upgrade walls and remove obstacles
@@AkmalYergeshbayev no he's good as he is
They should do the apprentice builder work 2 times a day
Nah just 2x his speed
Fr mans just chilling I study more than that too lmao
That would mean thay 24 hours of upg would be equivanent to 44 hours of upg so 44/24 = 11/6 = 1 5/6 = 1.83333.... so upgrading a building so every day is equivalent a day and 20 hours (24 hours[1 day] = 44 hours [1 5/6, 1.8333 day's]
2 8 hour shifts, what a terrible boss
First we have judo sloth being the teacher of the game then we have Seth gaming the cosmetic analyzer now we have BD as the financial advisor
Been waiting on your videos!!! Glad you are back! (Hope the studying went well!)
Love your videos man, dont stop posting. You have a huge potential in ClashofClans TH-cam
You´re amazing! Love your videos!
Thank you! I appreciate it (:
There's two arguments that I rarely ever see in these arguments:
1) when finishing a building with a book you may run into the issue of not having enough resources for another upgrade just yet (not a problem with the AB)
2) the main reason why people buy hero books is not to just speed up the process but specifically to SKIP the time without the hero so, at least for those, it makes little sense to compare hero books and the AB
Either way: I love the AB as it's perfect for people with spare gems but not op enough to be considerend pay2win + a year of ROI is totally fine with me in this game :D
Awesome video…. Well explained . Thank you for the video was doubtful about the apprentice builder . ❤️
you're good at making content like this. your content is different, You stand out. that's why I follow you. Keep it up
Thank you! Appreciate it
Mine is level 6 in my main acc. My alt is level 7. Didn’t spent a penny. I just always wanted to have a lot of gems. Suddenly they released this builder 🤓
nice lol
Great video and in my own research I came to the conclusion that the best bang for buck was between level 4 and 5 as then it gets way to expensive for the person that misses days/weeks through various reasons
Thanks! The highest level you can achieve the ROI time frame on is the best
Th 15 here currently have my apprentice builder at level 3 and plan to go all the way with him because I'm one of those Max everything never once have been rushed types. Nice video thanks for your effort☮️☮️☮️
Bro your dedication is amazing
Got level 2 so that I can help with the annoying overnight timers, but will be stockpiling for future goblin builder events because 40/day is a much better value when it comes up IMO
Yeah! Good idea
I've shown up everyday for more than 3 years. With an exception of 3 days when i had to repair my phone. I simply have 1 acc. It takes no time to show up tap gems and leave after 🤷🏽♂️
Congrats!! Well done
@@bdlegendcoc got to th16 less than a week ago too. Didn't max th15 but I maxed enough of it. I get to enjoy being mad TH... for at least a few months before being left behind again 😅
I have in fact played every day for the past 312 days. But I do not log on the exact second the apprentice builder is ready again lol
i last seen your vids like months ago and damn the set up upgrade hitss
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love your video, i have been playing the game for about 7 yrs
You're the most technical channel on clash of clans out of all . Your analysis is on professional..👍🙂
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Nice Analysis.
Thank you!
He Angi I finished off his builders and didn’t know the apprentice builder existed so he started spending gems on jamming upgrades
You should rename your channel to Clash of analysis or Clash of economics.
honestly besides ores and hero equipment,theres is no better way to spend your gems, and is speed building upgrades ralated so is worth it
I'd like to see an analysis on how many players quit because upgrades take too long and how the builder apprentice shines a little light at the end of that tunnel, keeping some of those people around.
I find it useful coming on TH13 where most upgrades take several days, I can essentially use the AB to take 1-3 days off of a big upgrade and cycle out the smaller upgrades to begin with
It in my opinion not a bad concept to help us out but they could make it always active until upgrade on that building is done and would wait a day to finish an upgrade or add more of them
That would be nice yeah
The other thing is for most players you can't get on during the exact time the upgrade finishes to start a next one or you might not have enough loot. So the builder sits there doing nothing anyway and the apprentice took away his value.
So to use him efficiently you want to do some mental gymnastics on when you are playing and whether the upgrade will finish early enough or late enough to hit that time period. Players don't wanna do that. But it does help in that way to give more efficiency to upgrades based on when you are playing. So its value isn't set in stone, just about when you use him. Heck if you max him out and you have an hour to play but a building has up to 9 hours left, that shortens it to 1 hour and you can get that builder up to the next one without wasting his value.
Honestly I'm trying to level him for the maxed account aspect... but as a th13 I will never get there.
well yeah but if youre limited by how much loot you can gather then gemming isnt going to be any better of a way to spend gems either
It is good for me as a th 12 player and max level 6 on th 12 . Since I'm always in titan 1or 2 no issue of ores 🤩
Nice!!!
Great breakdown! Slight opportunity missed by not comparing to the goblin builder, which is BY FAR the best use of Gems.
Ive played the game for years with my friends and i will keep playing it. I just slowly invest in it. Seems like a goodbdeal honestly, you get a permanent upgrade.
I have been playing from about a year and i am a almost maxed th12 getting 13 in start of august
Nice!
Nice vid, I got the AB up to level 3 but I regret it, wish I could refund my gems 😅
So level 4 it is then, no more upgrades.
My brain wasn't Mathing, but thanks to your video I've finally undertood the difference 😅
Haha anytime!
I’ve been consistently playing for around 2 years now ill take a 3-4 day break here and there to prevent burnout th13 75% complete
Bro you should rush to TH15
ı play on 16 accounts, apprentice builder is a life saving change in clash. the value gets crazier when apprentice bought in early game as soon as possible.
Found value in the video, I started with CoC June-2023, been playing 7-days a week since. TH14, and 2x TH13 accounts
Consider maybe:
HammerJam Event or smth like a Goldpass. Makes this little guy also 20% more effektive.
Sub 3 mins in thanks lol great work got money real financial situation fixed too
Underrated channel big time
Haha much appreciated (:
1:23 wow... isnt this like common knowledge?
I use it to squeeze in another DE Hero upgrade in a month between CWL (yes I have seen your rushed videos, so I know :). It basically saves me a Hero book a month, so 6500/500 = 13 months is is break-even, if you calclated the savings during cwl it is even 25% less . Another way of looking at is is a builders pot is 285 devided by 6 builders times 8/9 (as builders pot save 9 hours) = 42,2 per use of the builder. 6500/42,2 = 154 days
as I had the (free) gems on my accunts I used it on all. I play every day, so it will be used...
been playing this year for maybe 3/4 years straight after a few months break lol.
Nice!! Well done
Honestly, for a f2p a break-even point of 1-2 years isnt that bad, I aint plannin on quitting soon and even though you might get maxed, there'll always be new town halls
Another benefit, aside from the many times mentioned: "finishing an upgrade before you sleep," is that it speeds up upgrades, it doesn't start a new one. Need that hero max level faster? Focus on em. Want to get a new building that needs 15 levels? Reduce the time one it so it catches up much faster.
This is extremely useful, and while yes the cost:effect ratio is abysmal to the point of making both notes worthless they still make the issue much less prominent. Great concept, just halve the cost across the board and he would be pretty good, 150 days is still a LOT but definitely more reasonable along with all the tricks.
Whats the point in spending 6.5k gems on a builder that only works 8 hours a day, I'd rather just buy skins and hero gear with that
Playing continue from 343 days but I do feel burn out in between but since I am co leader I still do my chores
BEAST and yeah :(
I've been playing for the past 4 years ~ every day - one 2 month break. Currently max th13, titan 3. I bought to builder pass once, and the 8bit hero skin line/base. Otherwise a completely free base. I use gems for donations and the apprentice has finally given me something to spend my 3k extra gems on!
Those break even’s also assume clicking to use it at the exact same time every day. That is not practical even for the most dedicated clashers, so you probably need to assume the break even point as another 10%-20% of that time because one day you may start it at noon, the next day, you may be starting it at 1pm
It cost 6500 gems for 8 hours a day (so a third of a builder's productivity). This is insane, this is like buying a builder for 17 500 gems.
What about a comparison to the amount of time to max your townhall level, to time saved? As in if you have max apprentice, how much time does that shave off of your total build time for each townhall? Time is precious, and knowing that ratio could be more worthwhile in the long run compared to breakeven points with in game items and gems. Which could also save gems in the long run too.
And here i am farming with the same army for two years nonestop !!
LOL
I have one thing to add - there’s actually potential for more value/time saved if you use it on upgrades that would finish while you are asleep. e.g. if i save 7 hours on a building supposed to finish at 3 am, i can start a new upgrade instead at 8pm. if i didn’t use the builder, i would have started the upgrade whenever i woke up (say 8am). so even though i technically only saved 7 hours, i’m able to start an upgrade 12 hours earlier than if i didn’t have apprentice builder. this lets you get more value out of it
I came here to check whether he turns into a full fledged builder after level 8 or not as I just made it to level 7.
An idea i really like is that the apprentice builder slowly gets xp over time, kind of how a irl apprentice slowly gets better at his work
So we under pay them and make them work 12 hours a day. That's a good idea 😂
@@bowxfire5275 I mean apprentice's get treated like that as well lmao
I will not say I will be on every day bc I don’t know what will happen in the future. But since he has come out, I have been using him every day, I set timers when I’m not sure if I’ll be remembering about him. I like the idea of being able to schedule him every day. But I would like to propose that we should be able to max him the second you unlock him. I didn’t know that he was capped at lvl 2 for th10, you’d get SO much more value if you could even maybe just drop $20 on the first 4 lvls at th10. That would be a nice change. Overall, I’ve said this to everyone that thinks it’s comparatively better than every option bc unlike the BoH or gems he is permanently helping you, every day which is the biggest W.
I was waiting for this lol ? I literally searched your channel after A.B came out . But you were inactive. Glad it came out .
Sorry about that!!! Glad I got to it (:
As max TH16, i was overflowing in gems from the season pass and the natural ones from ingame. So i maxed him out recently. Im sure its worth it in the long run even if its extremly expensive. Besides the pass when its a good hero skin up for grabs, i am completly F2P.
I use it so I can better manage my upgrades. For example if the upgrade will be finished at night i use the apprentice builder so that my builders don't take a break from other upgrades.
I use mine to bring my build finish time to a time I'll be playing. Been a number of times my build finishes in the middle of the night when I'm asleep.
Great vid thank you been wondering if the AB was a waste of time for me 😊
Most important thing is that lots of clash of clans players are not active recent even legend league players was ot doing there 8 attacks per day because I had my own life bases in legend league in this time, maybe clash of focus on there players not focus on money making policies
very informative video thank you! i have him at level 5 right now but i have 3 heroes maxed out and my last one is at 73(barbarian king)
Who uses gems for ores and books??? 😂😂😂 I normally just use it to finish upgrades that costs less than 100s (I save up for cosmetics and other stuffs, never spend it on ores, since I don't really lack of it, legend rank gives me enough, at least compared to most players ig lol), so upgrading the apprentice builder is a massive win for me!!!
I will be honest since getting the A Builder I have struggled keeping all builders active and I never had that issue before
I am town hall 12, this account goes on for 6 years, I grow at a slow pace but never give up on this game
I got him to lvl 2 and its most convenient for getting upgrades to finish in range like before gold pass ends to get upgrades going on the last days with the 20% boost.. or in woken hours and not mid night and waste 5 hrs before getting them back to work
I think you miss one of the biggest values it adds, it makes it so that upgrade that end at inconvenient times are a thing of the past, just boost it a few hours earlier. If you boost something ending at 4 am, you would gain the time from the boost as well as an extra 4 or so hours of downtime between 4 am and whenever you wake up
The main benifit is, for example I'm putting an upgrade on 1pm and its 5d12h the finishing time can be reduced from late night to working hours, its not that much bad tho
You can save an additional 8 hours per building or hero by adjusting times so it doesnt finish while you are asleep or bussy otherwise.
best use of gems is to get epic ability and use event medals for 60 starry ores and remaining glowy etc whatever you need.
i played for the last 312 days daily till now, didn't lose one and I'm very sure about it!
I play a secondary game daily on phone and before playing that, I play coc and do my 2 attacks.
Also I'm mega farming ores, love the grind for it! I actually buy the event passes only(no other offer).
Thanks BD. You are the only one that analyse clash give charts etc. That's why I follow you. You are original. Il do agree with what you said. In the end, it will pay off overtime. I'm a long time player, son it will pay off in the end. For occasionnal players... Il would not buy it.
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