DE Farming (Preemie TH9)

Hi Guys,

I'm new to the forums so be easy on me! So basically here is the deal. I upgraded to TH9 way too fast for my defenses. I didn't learn about the penalties and such until too late. I was upgrading my TH to keep up with my clan. Thought more walls and more defenses would help... whoops. Here is a quick snapshot of what I'm working with defensively...

Walls - level 6
Mortars - level 5
ATs - level 8
Cannons - level 8
WTs - 3 level 4, 1 @ level 3
Teslas - 3 @ level 1, 1 @ level 2
X-box - 1 @ level 1 (want to save for #2...)

Troops:
Barb/Giant/Arch/Gob - level 5
WB - level 4
Balloon - level 3
Wiz - level 3
Healer - level 3
Dragon - level 1
Minion/Hog - level 1

Heroes:
Barb King - level 3

I'm around 21k DE right now and trying to get to 40k for my AQ. TH is outside, DE storage in the center, surrounded by teslas, x-box, air defenses etc etc etc. Now here are my questions (again bear with me, I'm a forum newbie...)

- Should I save up for AQ or get Barb King to level 5 to get his rage spell?
- To go along with the top one, if I do that, then do I shift to getting gold to get x-bow #2?
- What farming method should I be using? I currently have 200 troop capacity. I do: 20 barb/6 giant/4 WB/ 20 gob/1 healer/rest archer. I've seen people mention BArch and BAM but I can't find a guide on them, just people referring to them...

I'm sitting at about 600 gems and do not want to purchase any... I can still get the 250 bonus for donating clan troops and getting to the crystal league. I am thinking I need to save gems for builder #4. Or should I try to save gems and get DE to eventually just get the AQ that way? Sorry this is a lot of stuff in one post. Any help will be greatly appreciated!!

Also I'm at about 1350 trophies. Do I need to make the push higher to find better bases to raid for DE?

1700-1900 use 12-14 giants 25-30 gobs,archers/barbs and 8 wbs. You can get gold/de at decent rates.

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Originally Posted by AMazzIng

Hi Guys,

I'm new to the forums so be easy on me! So basically here is the deal. I upgraded to TH9 way too fast for my defenses. I didn't learn about the penalties and such until too late. I was upgrading my TH to keep up with my clan. Thought more walls and more defenses would help... whoops. Here is a quick snapshot of what I'm working with defensively...

Walls - level 6
Mortars - level 5
ATs - level 8
Cannons - level 8
WTs - 3 level 4, 1 @ level 3
Teslas - 3 @ level 1, 1 @ level 2
X-box - 1 @ level 1 (want to save for #2...)

Troops:
Barb/Giant/Arch/Gob - level 5
WB - level 4
Balloon - level 3
Wiz - level 3
Healer - level 3
Dragon - level 1
Minion/Hog - level 1

Heroes:
Barb King - level 3

I'm around 21k DE right now and trying to get to 40k for my AQ. TH is outside, DE storage in the center, surrounded by teslas, x-box, air defenses etc etc etc. Now here are my questions (again bear with me, I'm a forum newbie...)

- Should I save up for AQ or get Barb King to level 5 to get his rage spell?
- To go along with the top one, if I do that, then do I shift to getting gold to get x-bow #2?
- What farming method should I be using? I currently have 200 troop capacity. I do: 20 barb/6 giant/4 WB/ 20 gob/1 healer/rest archer. I've seen people mention BArch and BAM but I can't find a guide on them, just people referring to them...

I'm sitting at about 600 gems and do not want to purchase any... I can still get the 250 bonus for donating clan troops and getting to the crystal league. I am thinking I need to save gems for builder #4. Or should I try to save gems and get DE to eventually just get the AQ that way? Sorry this is a lot of stuff in one post. Any help will be greatly appreciated!!

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It's going to be tough gathering DE with low level troops, and even harder to keep it with low level defenses. Max Giants, WB, Arch, Barb, and Gobs quick and use them to help you raid DE. As far as your defense, get the splashes done asap.

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Originally Posted by TrentSabanRobot

It's going to be tough gathering DE with low level troops, and even harder to keep it with low level defenses. Max Giants, WB, Arch, Barb, and Gobs quick and use them to help you raid DE. As far as your defense, get the splashes done asap.

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That was my fear. So that begs the question of do I put the AQ on hold for now and bring my Barb King to level 4 with the DE I have stored (since it'll be harder to keep) and focus on farming elixir and gold to boost my defense? Or do I keep making the DE trek up to 40k even though it'll be a long hard road?

I'm also working on bringing my trophy count up as well too.

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Originally Posted by AMazzIng

That was my fear. So that begs the question of do I put the AQ on hold for now and bring my Barb King to level 4 with the DE I have stored (since it'll be harder to keep) and focus on farming elixir and gold to boost my defense? Or do I keep making the DE trek up to 40k even though it'll be a long hard road?

I'm also working on bringing my trophy count up as well too.

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It's up to you man. If you can get AQ I think that would be best, but if it becomes too hard then dump DE into BK. Also, you may want to rethink climbing in trophies. Higher cups means heavier attacks on your base, especially for a rare resource like DE. I would think you wouldn't want to go higher than 1650ish.

Thanks! Yeah I want to get above 1500. I was getting 500-1k DE an attack up there. It's really tough to find @ 1300-ish trophies. I'm going to keep going for AQ as of now. I don't think I want to use my gems to get her though when I get in range. I would think a 4th builder is more important to use the gems for, correct?

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Originally Posted by AMazzIng

Thanks! Yeah I want to get above 1500. I was getting 500-1k DE an attack up there. It's really tough to find @ 1300-ish trophies. I'm going to keep going for AQ as of now. I don't think I want to use my gems to get her though when I get in range. I would think a 4th builder is more important to use the gems for, correct?

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Yes, you will want all the builders you can get your hands on to help you catch up! Of course, this is coming from someone who only has 3 builders still :).

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Originally Posted by TrentSabanRobot

Yes, you will want all the builders you can get your hands on to help you catch up! Of course, this is coming from someone who only has 3 builders still :).

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Haha that is awesome. Well thank you for all your help. MUCH appreciated. It'll be a grind but still quicker than deleting my village and starting over! At least I didn't go to TH10. That would have just wrecked me.

Good luck!

If it makes you feel any better, I was a premature TH9 4 months ago (about in the same boat as you, except wizard towers were a bit higher I think). My troops were a bit higher, so it may take you some time to recover, but for the most part it hasn't been a bad journey at all.

I now have maxed nearly all of my elixer troops and spells for TH9, maxed minions, I have BK10, AQ9, max splash, max xbows, about 100 skullies done/rest of walls L7, and am working on catching up teslas at the moment. It will probably take another 2-3 months but my TH9 defenses will soon be maxed :).

It was a long journey but with 4 builders and a bit of patience you should be fine! Take it from me, it is worth it to put in the time instead of starting over. You won't regret it!