TH9 bummer

There I was, as happy as a well fed baby. TH8 maxed out and ready to join THE darkside of this game.
While the clock was ticking down, i looted 6mil each ( max resources) to start upgrading defences and troops once th9 was a fact. Man, was that a cold shower.

With th9 the speed is completely taken out of this game; i can understand why players are getting bored with it.
Once i started my lab upgrade and all new defences the loot was gone. It took me à couple of days to get necessary elix for my first troop upgrade.
Untill th8 i kept reminding members to keep the convo in clanchat going, i couldnt imagine members sayin they were bored.
I couldnt be more wrong ( now it seems).

My troops r immature so i cant win with 3 stars ( those sayin to drop trophs to take easy bases; srry guys thats not my thing ;)). So if i get happy when i see bases with 250k + loot, my excitement get less after the attc.

TH9 is a bummer, if i could go back i would ;)

Yeah it's pretty bad at the start of TH9 but in a few weeks when you have level 6 tier 1 troops and giants it gets better.

Update your sig then..

If you are not willing to optimize your gold-per-hour (attacking easy bases; which is "not your thing"), can't really complain about loot. It's like a talented athlete complaining the pro's are to hard, but won't put in the time to hone their skill's. TH9 is big wake-up-call, at that point you really have to start using every advantage you have. It's doable though; it's a bit of a slap in the face, but I'd bet my bottom dollar that you can do it :).

What Solace said. Just in the same way you can't complain that it's too hard to make elixir if you use 11 drags and 4 spells every raid, you can't complain about loot being too difficult to aquire by your style of play. Everyone may play this game the way they wish, but complaining about the game in general because your own favourite gamestyle doesn't cut it is not, in my opinion, justifyable.
With that out of the way, I know the troubles of early TH9, I had to make quite a few adjustments to my game play as well, and the first weeks in particular were tough. I never struggled with elixir though, it was always gold - but once you start getting your key troops to level 6, it gets easier. Just don't expect to be able to play the game the same way as you did on TH8, you will need to adapt if you're not prepared to keep struggling.

You either adapt or you whine about it and quit...

It gets tons easier once you get the essential upgrades out of the way, I'm constantly overflowing elix and gold is easy to come by at the right trophy range with the right army

@ all thinkin this is a complain, Im so sorry u read it that way because it isnt.

Im only pointing out that THE speed is out of THE game. Dont use the reply to message button to boost up ur number of post.

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Originally Posted by Waisech

You either adapt or you whine about it and quit...

It gets tons easier once you get the essential upgrades out of the way, I'm constantly overflowing elix and gold is easy to come by at the right trophy range with the right army

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If i wanted to quit playin i would have joined IQuit and left ;)

Oh, you were simply stating that the upgrade times are longer? Well, I'm in with you on that one, for sure. By the wording of your original post, it was not hard to mistake your real point for an overall whine about problems with loot (and ergo speed of progress) due to playstyle:

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Originally Posted by LegatusLegionis

There I was, as happy as a well fed baby. TH8 maxed out and ready to join THE darkside of this game.

With th9 the speed is completely taken out of this game; i can understand why players are getting bored with it.

My troops r immature so i cant win with 3 stars ( those sayin to drop trophs to take easy bases; srry guys thats not my thing ;)). So if i get happy when i see bases with 250k + loot, my excitement get less after the attc.

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Anyway, one upside with the longer ug times is that you usually have more than enough time to refill your storages inbetween upgrades, as long as you plan ahead a bit and try to stagger the upgrades so they don't all finish at once. If you wish to get resources while 3-starring, I'd advice you to either go for balloonions or hogs, although they are costly either in elixir or DE, respectively.. With that, I welcome you to the dark side, try to adapt and have fun with it ;)

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Originally Posted by Rastis

Oh, you were simply stating that the upgrade times are longer? Well, I'm in with you on that one, for sure. By the wording of your original post, it was not hard to mistake your real point for an overall whine about problems .... With that, I welcome you to the dark side, try to adapt and have fun with it ;)

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Thnx for the words Rastis, already adapting. Lol.

Btw, if i catch u swimming in my DE pool I Will have to shoot you.

Cu in the battlefield.

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Originally Posted by Waisech

You either adapt or you whine about it and quit...

It gets tons easier once you get the essential upgrades out of the way, I'm constantly overflowing elix and gold is easy to come by at the right trophy range with the right army

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What at is the right trophy range and army comp?

Well, i hope it gets better for you soon! Im not upgrading to 9 for a while now :D

The upgrades do get LONG... 14 days for level 3 xbow or lvl 5 hogs. I am happy when I see a 5 or 6 day upgrade. Ha.

But have found I need this time to gather the higher amounts of loot needed for my upgrades. 5-7mil per tower, even when playing a lot, takes some time. Keeping 5 builders going can be tough, but the longer build times actually help.

Like everyone has said, get your troops up and you will have a better time of it.

Just hanging in there, try different farming ranges, it gets better.

having enough DE to get the AQ up to level 2 was key for me, when I first moved over to TH9. This made raiding a lot easier and a lot more fun. When placed properly, I was able to 3-star with her (an my TH8-level troops) fairly often and she would take minimal damage most of the time, and almost always ready for the next battle, while I was farming TH8s in the 1800ish trophy range.

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Originally Posted by LegatusLegionis

If i wanted to quit playin i would have joined IQuit and left ;)

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You'd get kicked after a couple days of inactivity.
LOL :D

TH9 has been better than early TH8, from what I remember. Having full storages definitely helps, I started TH8 with only half-full storages and struggled big time for some time. The one thing you'll notice after a while, is you'll always be sitting on over 1M gold and elixer, and plenty of DE too, waiting to build it up and then spend some... yes the pace of the game changes somewhat, but you don't neccesarily have to raid any harder, in fact some upgades are super cheap in terms of gold per day (e.g. tesla 7), it's just a longer cycle in between each upgrade (up to 14 days).

I am a new TH9 and am having a really hard time farming anything.I am 1500 trophies but trying to get up to 1800 or so. My army comp is

15 giants (lvl5)
6 WB (lvl 5)
15 goblins (lvl 5)
1 healer lvl 3
rest archers

Anything with solid gold canons or purple wizard towers is pretty much a no go for me. I hesitate to use the BAM strategy because I need the dark elixir for hero upgrades. That, and my minions are not upgraded at all.