Advantages of upgrading ALL barracks?

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Originally Posted by bengan112

I'm about to go to th9 very soon, and I am maxing my barracks, so I can use my elix for other things at th9, currently I have two level 10's and two 9's, one of them are upgrading.

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Good point! If raiding doesn't pay out as much at town hall 9.. It makes sense... Plus you need all that elixir to fill your xbows too....

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Originally Posted by KAHN

Good point! If raiding doesn't pay out as much at town hall 9.. It makes sense... Plus you need all that elixir to fill your xbows too....

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Yeah indeed. Maybe I will max them all before upgrading to TH 9.

I wouldn't worry about it too much.

If the trophy range you are at, allows you to battle with barbs, archers, giants, gobs and/or wallbreakers, then you can continue to do this, and not worry about the barracks.
Yes you do get the advantage of being able to queue additional units, and yes, it's easier to do it when you are lower levels in terms of easier raiding profits.
But unless you can do without the builder that it ties up for the duration of the upgrade and have spare elixir to do so... I'd concentrate on other things.

When the TH upgrade is done, then the first things to work on would be, the extra defences and the lab. So any excess elixir you have, will soon disappear into the lab anyway.

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Originally Posted by zachUVA

If I know I won't be on, I will have 2 or 3 of them upgrading.

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So you never upgrade them?

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Originally Posted by Ly3rly

You can que more wbs to hide more elixir!

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This will become less important as you level, since you only need 800k to be a 200k target, and all upgrades you are working towards cost 5 million plus.

I got all my barracks at level 7 bar 1 at level 10. Not planning on upgrading them anytime soon.

MY buddy in my second clan, Fight club has them all to 9. Hes a th 7 too. Names R2mick

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Originally Posted by Mendax

So you never upgrade them?

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Lol, it has been a while. I will be taking a break next week and will come back to 2 lvl 10s and 2 lvl 9s. :o

My barracks were the first thing I concentrated on maxing. I just got to TH9 last week, but my barracks were all lvl10 back in mid December. I think maxing them is a must and makes your life so much easier when they are done.

~Jeff

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Originally Posted by skannan

Im TH7, almost maxed out everything including walls. Was thinking whether its a good idea to upgrade all barracks to LVL9 before starting the TH8 upgrade?

Pros and cons are welcome.....

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pros:
1. at TH7, you will never have it so good in terms of raiding/loot again. elixir is like rain (if you live somewhere where it rains a lot).
2. bigger barracks allow for longer queues, though 55 vs 60 troops probably doesn't make a difference
3. dragons are actually useful for higher trophy raids

cons:
1. playing with three barracks, while one upgrades, is painful. but you'll have to do it someday, and you'll likely not have so much elixir to spare ever again.
2. puts off TH8 and lvl 5 troops that much longer

- i upgraded all my barracks at TH7 and i have no regrets. :D