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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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.....
Why not? Imagine getting to train dragons with all your rax.
Cons:Quote:
Originally Posted by skannan
Long waiting time 'til the next exciting TH.
Pros:
Less elixirs needed to be raided from TH7-TH9 targets, since you already raided the required elixirs to upgrade them from TH6-TH8 as a TH7.
More dragons overnight.
Bigger queues.
A little bit more health on the barracks.
Cooler barrack animation.
With that said, I didn't max my barracks before TH8. :rolleyes:
I would upgrade it :)
Sometimes when I'm desperately in need of troops I can use all of them. For example, I need dragons fast, so I can make my upgraded barracks train a couple of dragons at the same time. If you have one upgraded barrack and the rest are low levels (can't train dragons), you need to wait for the upgraded one to deal with a few dragons, then after that continue with the rest cuz it can't fit. So in this case, it takes more time.
Make sense? Unless, you have troop composition of archers or barbs or gobs it's not necessary to upgrade your barracks. But I prefer to upgrade them, cuz upgraded barracks can train more variety of troops anytime you need them.
im th 8 and I have 3 level 5 barracks and 1 level 7. I don't dont need the extra level barracks.
I only use barbs, archers, gob, giants and wb's. And when Im upgrading my barracks my raiding is tooo slow.
And after a raid I can fill my barracks to get the full 200 troops. So the queue is just big enough.
I just finished upgrading my balloons to level 5 so I am going to upgrade my level 7 barrack to level 10, so I can upgrade my higher level troops.
I dont see any reason to upgrade the other barracks
Im currently upgrading my barracks slowly, only because i make a full army of dragons/pekkas before bed so i can donate them in the morning.
On the other hand if i didn't do this then i would only upgrade 1 barracks to level 10 and the rest i would do every now and then just for the longer que.
Good points out there, I would just like to add some of mine
Cons:
1. Troop training really suffers when barracks are being upgraded. (one barracks at LVL9, others are at LVL7 - so atleast 3 days to go on each of the three non upgraded ones.)
2. My 'bread and butter' army only includes 1 (or max 2) high-level troops (like healer or dragons), so my lone barracks has been serving me good till now - but if I upgrade to TH8, i might need more dragons to attack the TH9's.
3. I have waited sooo long for maxing out my TH7, extends my wait a big longer....
Pros:
1. Queue lengths.
2. Got a ton of elixir and dunno what to do with it, might as well spend it on barracks upgrades (i am upgrading DE storage now!!!!lol!!)
If you guys can also chk out my base and let me know what you think, would appreciate it..
Clan - BangBang-UrDead
Player name - siva the great
Lol bro. level 5 barrack upgrade to level 6 only requires 10 hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by xaboetje
Thats like 1 night sleep. Will you be raiding when sleeping ? :rolleyes:
Not to mention
3*40 + 1* 50 = 170 Troops.
Your army camp is 200 space.
After a match when you used all 200 troops, you can't queue all your troops, afk, come back and get 200 troops lol.
Level Build Cost Build Time Hitpoints Maximum Unit Queue Length Town Hall Level Required Unlocked Unit 1 200 1m 250 20 1 Barbarian 2 1,000 15m 270 25 1 Archer 3 2,500 2h 280 30 1 Goblin 4 5,000 4h 290 35 2 Giant 5 10,000 10h 310 40 3 Wall Breaker 6 80,000 16h 320 45 4 Balloon 7 240,000 1d 340 50 5 Wizard 8 700,000 2d 350 55 6 Healer 9 1,500,000 4d 390 60 7 Dragon 10 2,000,000 6d 420 75 8 P.E.K.K.A
When u have excess elixir, u want to train something other than your bread and butter army.
I enjoy sending hoardes or dragons to visit those TH5 bases. Loots? Who cares? Chief's got to have a little play time sometimes.
You can que more wbs to hide more elixir!
Yes, if you got the free builder(s) do them as soon as possible cos if you then plan to upgrade one of them this won't cripple your army building queue like happens to me right now.. I was dumb enough and did the stupid mistake of not upgrading them all at the same level while I was at Town Hall 6, and did just one so I could to the new troop. This is one of the mistakes I won't repeat for sure from now on. :)
I think it's a good idea to upgrade and research all the current Town Hall level provides, cos will help you on the long therm when would have upgraded to the next level of Town Hall.
Beat me to it. Aside from this, I can queue in all my barbs and archers on two barracks log out a few minutes minutes, to do something else, like go here, and come back with my camps full. Of course that can be done with 4 lvl 7 barracks too on th7&8 but I also donate like crazy if there are pending requests so the extra spaces take care of that. Having said that, I'm not yet done upgrading them. Currently stands at 1 max, 1 lvl9 and 2 lvl8 barracks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ly3rly
Barrack upgrades drive me mad - really throws me off my rebuild routine.
Just saying.
I have maxed out all my barracks :) Its a pain while doing it however you can really see the after effect
Oh, best ideaQuote:
Originally Posted by Ly3rly
Who wants to hide elixir (when your farming)??Quote:
Originally Posted by Ly3rly
I have my (always full) elixir storages outside my defense. They always take 200k from me and those nasty TH6's take even 250K but that really does not hurt me.
And when you want to start raiding you have to wait 15+ minutes caus you have to generate your troops.
I used this trick once but I really did not like it
Im guessing you are town hall 7?...Quote:
Originally Posted by xaboetje
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Originally Posted by Ly3rly
8? He seems to imply a loot bonus for th6 raiding him.Quote:
Originally Posted by GorillaMan
Th8 (th6 taking 250k must have cleared that)
edit:
beat me to it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by silentwill
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Originally Posted by xaboetje
I dont do this either, losing a bit of elixer isnt really a problem, i get it back within 1 attack, currently th8.
Getting credit for picking on the weaker ;) nice!Quote:
Originally Posted by silentwill
And it prevents that elixir is waisted when raiding because my storages are full.Quote:
Originally Posted by scanners107
Just spread the wealth ;)
Last time I hide elixir I was TH5. I'm now TH8 and have no way of hiding 6 mil elixir. My storages are always full since I can easily raid max elixir before I need anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ly3rly
On the topic of barracks I'm upgrading them to max slowly. Currently 1 lvl 10 and 3 lvl 9. I train pekkas and dragons before bed so I can donate them to clan members in the morning. Also helps me get rid of some excess elixir.
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Originally Posted by Spikefood
Same, helps everyone else out.
hmmm, don't get this.Quote:
Originally Posted by GorillaMan
Did you read my post correct?
When I learned my clan would have a trophy hunting week, I upgraded my other three barracks from level 7 to 9 so I could make dragon armies. Its not bad to have,but I didn't like the fact that it meant I basically stopped playing for 6 days.
Me neither. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by xaboetje
Nothing feels better than making 8 dragons in 1 hour 😃
I upgrade mine in bunches. If I know I won't be on, I will have 2 or 3 of them upgrading. Love the extra large queues too.
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.
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....Quote:
Originally Posted by bengan112
Yeah indeed. Maybe I will max them all before upgrading to TH 9.Quote:
Originally Posted by KAHN
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.
So you never upgrade them?Quote:
Originally Posted by zachUVA
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ly3rly
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
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. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Mendax
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
pros:Quote:
Originally Posted by skannan
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
I have two tens, a six and eight with my Barracks but if you follow the rule of thumb and upgrade everything before advancing your TH, you will have all four at level nine at TH7. I am in no hurry to upgrade as I find more important things such as defense's to stay on top off.
I've always maxed eveything for my town hall level, so I never even considered not upgrading them.
I had them all at level 9 at TH7, and it was nice only waiting an hour for 8 dragons :P
Now, at TH8, I have them all at level 10 and the biggest advantage I found was when I upgraded my wall breakers. I queued 300 of them right before they finished upgrading, then unloaded them right after for a 150,000 elixir profit :D
My wife is doing this same thing....I jumped to Th9 when it first came out. I am almost maxed and yet again another update, how convenient lol...I am aware this is something I need to do..just bad about it as I always find something I feel need more attention and I hate when one of my Barracks are in upgrade time.Quote:
Originally Posted by CanadaX21
I did the same thing at TH7. Its the best way to go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peace
Thanks for the reminder. Put wb at the end of my priorities to upgrade. Not that it matter coz I don't use them with my current army combo.Quote:
Originally Posted by CanadaX21
Cant stand having things not maxed when i go up a TH level. so barracks have always been maxed. had 4 lvl 9's at th 7 and loved it. 8 dragons in an hour is awesome and so is the DAM (dragon, archers, minion) strategy. 1 dragon per rax, 5 archers. then fill the dark rax up twice with minions assuming the DB is lvl 2. thats 4 dragon 50 minions and 20 archers in like 35 minutes. awesome attack for th 7.
Their are a ton of reasons why high lvl barracks are great. I dont understand the "well. my army combo dosnt require...." huh? you never experiment? switch it up? just have some fun?
Hey there:) welcome to the forums! Heres a tid bit of advice... If a thread is longer than a pregnancy don't post on it;) anyway please don't necro old forgotten threads!Quote:
Originally Posted by nikkisixx101
Ranger the noob
I find the best time to upgrade barracks/dark barracks is when you're using hogs to trophy push/farm. That's the best time to upgrade barracks..when you use barch then upgrade dark barracks. No downtime farming :)
I enjoy doing GoWiPe and Mass Dragons, so of course all my barracks are at max level.
I so hate upgrading barracks.. :(
Max barracks are very handy when using BAM (barbarians, archers and minions). You can just fill all the barracks and never have to worry about them going idle.
I suggest doing it during the 1-gem boosts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Godzilla86
That way you can constantly upgrade two barracks and boost the other two.
This way you are still at double speed with troop generation than normally.
I upgraded all my barracks to level 10 during the x-mas 1-gem boost.