Lightning or Earthquake Spells no longer have any effect on storages. Try dropping one of them on an unsuspecting Dark Elixir storage, and a force field surrounding the storage will provide protection. Yours will be guarded too the next time someone drops a bolt of lightning on your hard-earned loot.
However, the Town Hall and Clan Castle are not immune to these damage spells
Zapping was never intended to be used as a quick way to gain the resource type that you're short on. We know many players used it for getting Dark Elixir in particular, but an even greater number of players felt this made the Lightning Spell a trick for converting Elixir into other resources. We agree, and concluded that this type of tactic is not in the spirit of Clash.
So we can all go back to scoring loot the old fas