Just do it....Or wait? Question regarding TH9 Upgrade

Hey,

I'm a TH8 who is hovering around the 1750-1800 trophy region, where the loot isn't even half bad.

I have literally maxed out every single building and troop in this TH level, with the exception of:
- 2 Barracks (Still lvl 9, but I don't really mind or care for that matter)
- 3 Hidden Teslas (Only level 5, one of which is being upgraded to 6 as I type this)
- Around 150 walls (level 7, dark purple, the rest are already level 8, skeleton)
- Barb King (level 7, max level of TH8 is level 10)

I've been stuck at this point for little over a month now, whereby I'd just be upgrading the teslas, dark barracks and walls. It's getting pretty boring and it's gotten to the point that whenever I save up to 2m gold, a lvl 120+ comes along and takes 250-400k of all my resources. I'm so, so sick of this. Even with a farming layout, they still 100% me and I'm thinking with a couple of xbows and an archer queen things will look up.

Addressing all you TH9+ clashers, do you believe I shlould make the upgrade to TH9 or should I make the final push to completely max this out?

Also, how is the loot looking at TH9?

Many thanks,
-B

Upgrade ur TH for sure

Do not save up 2 million gold.

Forgot about the upgrades leftover, as soon as you hit 500k gold, use it straight away on the walls. I highly recommend doing the walls right now, your going to regret it if you do not.

Once all your walls are max out, then you can upgrade. Wall is the most important factor, if you have all black walls, high level farmers will skip your base straight away.

If you're having an issue saving up 2m gold, why would TH9 make that any better? Upgrades cost more than that so you'll be in the same situation.

From your post, I'd say finish the teslas and then go to TH9, the rest isn't that important but definitely try to do more walls while you upgrade. The only reason I feel that you should do the upgrade is because you'll get the AQ. For that reason you may even want to max your BK since you'll be putting most of your DE into the AQ. Plus Lvl2 ability will be nice.

I wouldn't go to th9 yet. I've been at th9 for 3 months. The farming truly sucks most of the time and upgrading your walls at th9 is a MASSIVE undertaking.

At the very least I would get your teslas to 6. They are your best defense at th8 and will help you at th9. Even with AQ and lvl 1 Xbows you are still going to get rolled by those lvl 120s so why take on the additional loot penalty. At th8 you can raid ths 7-10, once you get to th9 because of the loot penalty you can no longer raid th7 efficiently so you are limiting the amount of bases you can farm by a significant amount.

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Originally Posted by Dragonn

Do not save up 2 million gold.

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But the cheapest thing I can upgrade at the moment is 3m gold (hidden teslas), other than the 500k walls, obviously.

I'm thinking that if I'm TH9, with an extra storage for each resource, as well as additional defences, it'll be harder for those pesky TH10s to 100% my base.

Thoughts?

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Originally Posted by Bianko

But the cheapest thing I can upgrade at the moment is 3m gold (hidden teslas), other than the 500k walls, obviously.

I'm thinking that if I'm TH9, with an extra storage for each resource, as well as additional defences, it'll be harder for those pesky TH10s to 100% my base.

Thoughts?

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By upgrading and building a new storage, you're just giving attackers another target for your resource and reducing their loot penalty by decreasing the TH difference. Maybe drop to 1500-1600 trophies while farming gold and raise to about 1800-2000 to farm DE.

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Originally Posted by Smalls

I wouldn't go to th9 yet. I've been at th9 for 3 months. The farming truly sucks most of the time and upgrading your walls at th9 is a MASSIVE undertaking.

At the very least I would get your teslas to 6. They are your best defense at th8 and will help you at th9. Even with AQ and lvl 1 Xbows you are still going to get rolled by those lvl 120s so why take on the additional loot penalty. At th8 you can raid ths 7-10, once you get to th9 because of the loot penalty you can no longer raid th7 efficiently so you are limiting the amount of bases you can farm by a significant amount.

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you are farming in the wrong places if you think TH9 farming sucks.

i've gained 40 million GG just this past week

Upgrading to TH9 won't help you gather then 3M your need for your teslas.

You should upgrade your teslas before upgrading your TH. 3M is not that hard. Just get to 1.5M then try to gather 1.5M in a single session without logging out.

Don't listen to people saying to burn your gold into wall. You'll never upgrade your teslas that way.

Good luck

If you have to ask, don't upgrade. You have to be entirely confident that you're ready to upgrade without needing other people to confirm your decision. That said, you should definitely upgrade your teslas, and I think you're overestimating how good th 9 defenses are. I don't consider myself an "elite" farmer, nor do I have a particularly heavy-duty army, but as a th 10, I can get 3/4 gold storages from most th 9s (especially the new ones), and all 4 from a few. It's your decision, but don't expect defending at th 9 to be a walk in the park.