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.

