New Heroes make jumping to th10 a no-brainer?

Wanted to pose a quick question (which may have been asked/discussed in length elsewhere).

I play when I can. That generally means a few raids a day, the past few months approx. 1.5-3m gold per day and a few hundred to a few thousand DE. When I am tired and want to veg out or if it's a weekend, I can put in more time and raid 4m-8m per day along with a good helping of DE.

I am a maxed defense TH9 as of the christmas boost. During busy times, this strategy has allowed me to wrap up research, finish Lego walls, and get my heroes to 15 BK / 17 AQ. My thought a few weeks ago was, jump up to Masters and raid the ♥♥♥♥ out of DE, bringing heroes to as far as I could stomach it before I got bored and doing lavas every 3m.

With the new Hero update, and just finishing 17 on my AQ, I feel like SuperCell is continuing to force us to move higher and higher with these last few updates. My BK/AQ blows. Seriously. Sure, the AQ's ability pumps out some serious damage, and I historically used them well - pick off a few mines/buildings at the end of a raid, or use them full force to get a juicy target while BArching. The BK now mows through a fraction of what he used to.

I have come to the conclusion that there is no reason/incentive for me to continue to stay at 9. Bringing them each to 20? Who cares. What will I gain except an arbitrary number by their heads. The damage gain is minimal and the ability gain is the same. Plus I can save/loot DE much easier at 10 since its all from 9's and 10's anyway. Lava walls? I'm not getting hit by anything but hogs, dragons and loonian anyway so what's the point? I will upgrade them as I can at 10.


Yes this is a bit of a rant, but I am curious if there are others on this forum who had the same plans as me and have altered their decisions after the last update. It's a shame that they have changed the hard work and end goal of heroes so drastically. I, for one, am not a huge fan.

I'm still gonna stick with my plan. Both lvl 20 heros and all lvl 9/10 walls. The update doesn't bother me :rolleyes:

I am a much newer th9 on both accounts, but I feel you. I no longer care about maxing heroes. I see no reason to stay at Th9 once my lab is dry. I might go up once my last pink upgrades are done. I want full legoes but I am not sticking around for them when th10 has so much to offer.

My defenses will be maxed in a month or so. I hate having idle builders, at least more than one.

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Originally Posted by Wafflesaregoodforyou

I'm still gonna stick with my plan. Both lvl 20 heros and all lvl 9/10 walls. The update doesn't bother me :rolleyes:

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I hear that now, but you have quite a ways to go on those Legos.
Wait 'til you're finished with them and then let me know what you plan on doing.

I found it somewhat difficult to raid DE/upgrade heroes in conjunction with walls. Maybe it's my farming style, maybe I'm just a terrible farmer. When the gold was available, I took it. When the DE was 1k+ I took it if it was close. When the DE was 2K+ i typically raided for it.

I think the higher your Heroes go, the more you will realize that the update does in fact bother you. Level 0-10 you don't notice much of a difference. I was just starting to see the power of my AQ and BK when they changed the entire formula.

I can't imagine sitting on a max TH9 for 7 months doing heroes and walls. I upgraded with mainly legos and level 15/15 heroes. No regrets.

I would upgrade. Walls are mainly aesthetic and your heroes can be upgraded anytime. If you like to clan war or trophy push you'll have more fun as a th10

I too have maxed def, 12 BK, 15 AQ, a mix of 7/8/9 walls.
When I saw sneak peak, I decided to upgrade to TH10 immediately. Because there is not much reason to continue grinding those walls and heros any more.

I do however love this update. I respect a game company that is interested in doing balance update and is not afraid of making unpopular decision. Sure the heros might be over-nerfed but that is another topic to discuss on. I think we can all agree that heros are overpowered... It's so dumb when you see videos from Chief Pat playing using his nose and feet and still able to pull off a win simply because he got level 40 heros.

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Originally Posted by ZenCoC

I too have maxed def, 12 BK, 15 AQ, a mix of 7/8/9 walls.
When I saw sneak peak, I decided to upgrade to TH10 immediately. Because there is not much reason to continue grinding those walls and heros any more.

I do however love this update. I respect a game company that is interested in doing balance update and is not afraid of making unpopular decision. Sure the heros might be over-nerfed but that is another topic to discuss on. I think we can all agree that heros are overpowered... It's so dumb when you see videos from Chief Pat playing using his nose and feet and still able to pull off a win simply because he got level 40 heros.

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It seems to be the popular decision, and one that I will likely pursue this week.

I 100% agree on your second point. It has changed the game for sure and appears to be unpopular at best. I think what makes me a bit tired of SuperCell's update history is what Facescraper brought up in the General forum: they have only boosted hero abilities over the last 1.5 years. Why nerf them now? Why continue to increase their strength only to nerf them in the future.

The conclusion that I have come to is that I really don't see the payoff for specifically raiding for DE anymore. Upgrade and get the extra drill, prey on 9's with 20 extra troops and further research upgrades.

Thanks for the interesting perspective guys.

Yeah. About 2 months ago I'd say To stay TH 9 forever and finish heroes and level 10 walls. But now it seems simply doesn't worth it. Once the level 9 walls finished, I'm not going to do anymore farming for heroes. I'll flip a coin to go either TH 10 (with whatever hero level I got at the time) or just quit.

Wait, your heroes can only go to lvl 20 at TH 9?