TH9 questions

Hello all,

I'll be ready to upgrade my TH to level 9 in a week or so and have done so with just 4 builders. At TH8, I could have done with the extra builder but que sera and all that. I know the upgrade times are increased at TH9 but with the loot penalty and increased cost, is it worth getting the extra builder at TH9? Or will I not have enough resources to keep them all busy?

Also, is it worth getting a week long shield when I've upgraded? I know that a TH9 with only TH8 defenses will make a pretty attractive target so wondered if I should be safe whilst my 2 xbows are building.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I'm able to keep all my five busy and also farm walls, so it's definitely doable. I think it mostly depends on how much you play. Keep in mind that upgrade times will take many days as well, so that offsets the price increases a bit.

I upgraded to TH9 when i was a maxed out(buildings)as th8 and i had no problem being in crystal 2/3.
Just get your xbows done and walls to at least L7

Thanks for your help guys, much appreciated.


I've got about 75% of my walls to skull (think that's level 8) and a few more upgrades to go.


What do you reckon about buying a shield after upgrading the TH? Did you find you got raided a lot whilst the xbows were building?

Nah, do not buy a shield. Definitely a waste of gems.

I upgraded to TH9 on Friday, started my two xbows, started upgrading my lab, and also my spell factory. I have 5 builders, so I then started the new defenses - have all of them level 1 now, plus new storages level 6-8, but no new tessla yet. My trophy range was usually around 1900, but today I got a few defense wins so am now about 2050.

I haven't noticed any difference in people attacking me - in fact, because I've hardly ever got any gold, and under 10k DE, I'm going for much longer than usual without being attacked. I've not got back to about 5M elixer, but so far offering around 200k elixer, and only about 300 DE, and no gold, has only attracted a few quite poor attacks on me.

The main thing I'd say is plan to max out your gold for when you get to TH9, ideally have 5M+ elixer, and ideally about 63k DE. Then as soon as you get to TH9, spend spend spend! Unless you are hanging around over, say, 2200 cups, having no gold and not much DE will do wonders - most people will just skip you and look elswehere.

The only problem I've faced, is upgrading my spell factory - 5 days of raiding without a single spell is quite hard work. However I've easily made enough gold for getting all my new walls to 50% level 6, 50% level 7, a few more skull walls, and all the new defensive structures; I've made a heap of elixer and a few thousand DE because I can only use simple farming armies.

Once I've got my xbows, I'll slowly finish upgrading all the new defenses, then the mortars; usually it's when you're upgrading your mortars that people try and take advantage, but by then I'll have xbows, 4 wiz towers, 4 tessla, etc, so won't be nearly as vulnerable as you are at TH7 and TH8.