Last things for TH8

Do you feel ready for TH9 ?
Are your fingers itching to press that button ?
YESSS !
Well have you thought about what you want to do once you you're there, and, what's more, have you met preparations?

If you max out or rather push on as soon as your troops are up to scratch, is entirely up to you. But when people say you should max to, I think they ought to be meaning this:
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(for all you clever people out there…don't bother to go looking for me, that pic was made 20h ago!)

In my opinion the step to TH9 is a biggie and I gave it quite some thought, which I will share with you here. But I'm also interested in what you think! What did you do? What were your priorities and did you make preparations? Let's hear about it !

I knew I'd be TH9 with all the negative consequences immediately and with the positive sides only after more building time, I'd still be where I was at TH8 with offense and defense.
So it was important to me to get those TH9 goodies right away or at least get started with them i.e. summon AQ and set builders to work on the lab and both x-bows and the second dex-drill (of course I did the new AT and both storages to L2 before I did the drill).
That meant I needed to reach my finished TH9 with full storages and near the end of a shield.

Ok, I know some say "easy!" But I do not play long sessions and going 6 mill gold and elix as well as 40k+ dex is not such a simple feat, not to mention clinging on to those resources once accumulated. Yes, gold and elix will more or less replenish during a shield, but dex won't.

I focused on dex first until I'd reached 30k, then dropped my trophy range until I mainly got offered TH7s, switched to BArch and farmed for gold until 4 mill then pressed the button.
Planned my shields to last through the night and then through the day and had short sessions morning and evening. Three days before the end of building time I stopped emptying my collectors so they'd be holding additional resources; even with a three star devastation in the closing 12 hours, I'd still have more than 6mil gold ready.

It was fun and got me away from boring gold-for-walls-farming. I didn't max all the walls, my mistake for leaving them till last.

What were your experiences? Let us know !

TS

PS: I even planned my TH 9 to be ready on a saturday morning, close to the end of a shield so any losses would be replenished by my collectors.

Out of curiosity, how many lvl 8 walls did you have and were all your defenses maxed?

I've been debating the jump to TH9 for quite some time, I have 100 lvl 8 walls and my teslas are upgrading to lvl 5

I maxed th8 apart from teslas and a load of lab upgrades lol.. But 6 days left and my teslas will be lv5 however one will still be upgrading when I get th9, for 4 days...

I have everything maxed except walls and DE upgrades except minions i have 83ish level 8'walls should i do my th yet or do walls?

my friend...

all the negative consequence that you think will not happen,

I jump to TH9 when I'm lvl 60-ish with TH6 def and I never suffer of loot and never get farmed badly by those th10 guys...
you might think that's playing in long session, but no... I don't even play shield, I always broke shield to attack people. I got attacked 8-10x a day and mostly it's just TH snipe.

TH9 loot is not horrible, actually as soon you have maxed sf and camps, TH9 loot will be very close to or even better than TH8
and as soon you have the Giant/Balloon Lv.6 you can destroy almost everyone on gold league... Loot is much better than TH8.
so, that should be your first priority on TH9. (lab->sf->camps)

and to prevent getting farmed, xbows won't help you.
just have 4 maxed gold storage and spread them, then 4 maxed elixir storage to tank
believe me, it's better than having xbows...

as my habits as farmers, xbows means nothing for me until they are lv.3, they are very weak and can't kill my BK
but I hate farming people with 4 storage spread around their base

TH9 is the best... loot is great, you got strong lv.6 troops, both heroes, 4 spells to play

good luck bro :)

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Originally Posted by CaesarII

Out of curiosity, how many lvl 8 walls did you have and were all your defenses maxed?

I've been debating the jump to TH9 for quite some time, I have 100 lvl 8 walls and my teslas are upgrading to lvl 5

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Ave CesarII

of my walls only 82 were max (L8) and the rest were all L7.
I did a lot of walls during TH as I'd got through TH7 with mainly L5 walls; I had a lot to catch up there.

My defenses were maxed, also my teslas; with hind sight they're the strongest single target defs you can have at TH8.

(Pics to follow.)

Have Fun
TS

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Originally Posted by Ivantheawesom

I have everything maxed except walls and DE upgrades except minions i have 83ish level 8'walls should i do my th yet or do walls?

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That's up to you. I originally wanted to max everything, also all the walls, but I didn't start with L8 walls until after all my other buildings were maxed. Soon I got bored though and before I lost interest in the game, I went for TH9 with only 82/225 of my walls at L8. At TH9 I'll mix in a few weeks of only walls....

My troops were maxed when it gets to elix, my dark troops and BK were not. I was farming TH7s with BArch (it's just too easy) but there's not a lot of dex to be looted there. I left that for TH9 (second dex drill and L6 giants will help a lot).

TS

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Originally Posted by sharonsym

my friend...

all the negative consequence that you think will not happen,

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...well of course it's a matter of trophy range, but from where I am (th7 area) loot's practically gone. Am going up in trophies now.

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Originally Posted by sharonsym

myI jump to TH9 when I'm lvl 60-ish with TH6 def and I never suffer of loot and never get farmed badly by those th10 guys...
you might think that's playing in long session, but no... I don't even play shield, I always broke shield to attack people. I got attacked 8-10x a day and mostly it's just TH snipe.

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cool ! I prefer a snipe to anything, still I had every third attack take 2000 dex, that is not replenished easily against TH7s. And please do not harp about base design...

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Originally Posted by sharonsym

myTH9 loot is not horrible, actually as soon you have maxed sf and camps, TH9 loot will be very close to or even better than TH8
and as soon you have the Giant/Balloon Lv.6 you can destroy almost everyone on gold league... Loot is much better than TH8.
so, that should be your first priority on TH9. (lab->sf->camps)

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...sounds like you did do your offense before upgrading, I'd say you didn't wing it, or did you? Did you plan ahead ?
Let's hear it !

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Originally Posted by sharonsym

and to prevent getting farmed, xbows won't help you.
just have 4 maxed gold storage and spread them, then 4 maxed elixir storage to tank
believe me, it's better than having xbows...

as my habits as farmers, xbows means nothing for me until they are lv.3, they are very weak and can't kill my BK
but I hate farming people with 4 storage spread around their base

TH9 is the best... loot is great, you got strong lv.6 troops, both heroes, 4 spells to play

good luck bro :)

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...as to priorities, each to their own. I've heard x-bows need to be at L3 for them to be of any real use from this forum, still I wanted them asap; to me every extra defence is worth it, either as threat or as tank or lure or even as what they are: defenses. That's only my opinion, what about your's out there? Post it!

Have Fun
TS

I haven't made the leap to TH9 yet, but I am seriously considering it. I currently have all max defenses except for Teslas (level 5), walls (level 7 with a few level 8) and all my normal troops and spells are maxxed. The only upgrades I really have left are BK and DE troops, so based on what I've read that puts me in good company with this thread. I definitely COULD go to TH9 and play successfully, but I wonder if it would be a while before I could reap the benefits. So I find myself at a crossroads:

1.) Upgrade right now, today, and have 10 days to farm and upgrade and save for TH9 upgrades (a lot of priorities competing there.)

2.) Wait, upgrade absolutely everything to TH8 max, then go.

3.) Somewhere in between (probably where I will wind up.)

Just writing about all this is making me want to wait a little longer. There's no real rush- I'm able to farm effectively, and my nearly max TH8 is very competitive at my normal farming level. Barch is quick and effective as a farming strategy. I think I'll wait a little while longer and make sure I can really get those TH9 benefits quickly.

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Originally Posted by TullSadum

...well of course it's a matter of trophy range, but from where I am (th7 area) loot's practically gone. Am going up in trophies now.



cool ! I prefer a snipe to anything, still I had every third attack take 2000 dex, that is not replenished easily against TH7s. And please do not harp about base design...

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Well that will happen on every TH8 even maxed one because for us TH9, farming A decent th8 is relatively easy. The Giants lv.6 overpower th8 def... I think you knew this. The only thing could stop them is spring traps and luck. Otherwise, 2 stars is guaranteed.

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...sounds like you did do your offense before upgrading, I'd say you didn't wing it, or did you? Did you plan ahead ?
Let's hear it !

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Yes, I think almost everyone attack more often than defending. So, of course maxing offence first is better than def first. My ratio of attack is about 5-10/defense. So It's far better to do offence first.

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...as to priorities, each to their own. I've heard x-bows need to be at L3 for them to be of any real use from this forum, still I wanted them asap; to me every extra defence is worth it, either as threat or as tank or lure or even as what they are: defenses. That's only my opinion, what about your's out there? Post it!

Have Fun
TS

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Yep... The level 1 and 2 takes too long time to kill a Giants lv.6... Sure, every def worth... But Xbows is not as effective as wizard towers lv.7 or the 4th storage.

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Originally Posted by sevenhelmet

.....that puts me in good company with this thread. I definitely COULD go to TH9 and play successfully, but I wonder if it would be a while before I could reap the benefits. So I find myself at a crossroads:

1.) Upgrade right now, today, and have 10 days to farm and upgrade and save for TH9 upgrades (a lot of priorities competing there.)

2.) Wait, upgrade absolutely everything to TH8 max, then go.

3.) Somewhere in between (probably where I will wind up.)

Just writing about all this is making me want to wait a little longer. There's no real rush- I'm able to farm effectively, and my nearly max TH8 is very competitive at my normal farming level. Barch is quick and effective as a farming strategy. I think I'll wait a little while longer and make sure I can really get those TH9 benefits quickly.

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I know exactly how that feels! Yes I hadn't got my dark troops all maxed either though hogs were at L4 and minions at L3 ...but I wasn't using them. If you're happy where you are, keep on farming, I got bored, because I really like to have muscle in my attacking army and although BArch was and is delivering fine, I still want may Giants!!!
I'm still searching for the right trophy range...finding that is quite essential and you'll have to go searching anew once your TH is one up.

Fun is, what this game's about, so anything to sustain that, is right for you!

...and it certainly helps to think things through once in while, doesn't it ! That's what this thread's about.

TS

Maxed all my base and walls only things that wasn't upgraded were my de troops not at all I got my king to lvl 10 and have to say I was glad I spent my time on th8 getting my walls to 8

http://i.imgur.com/rD5JeoO.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/czmjl53.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/l3j0XQe.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/AxVWk4h.jpg?1

these are the promised pictures.

TS