Hi this is a guide to maxing th8.
1.preparation for th8
You want to come into th8 with lvl6 walls at least and max th7 troops and defense.
Come in with full elixir so you can upgrade lab and get de drill.
2. What to do first
First you want to upgrade your lab so you can upgrade troops to lvl5.
Also get de drill. Upgrade it to max as fast as you can. At lvl 3 it will give you 1,080 de per day.
Lastly get all your new buildings
3. Upgrading
Before you upgrade cannons or archer towers to lvl9 get your new building to the lvl the other ones are.
First upgrade splash damage. Wiz towers can go up 2 lvls. Mortars go up 1 lvl.
Then you want to get archer towers and cannons to lvl 9 and then 10.
Then you want to get air defences up (note: don't upgrade air defences all at once or you will get demolished)
Finally comes the stage of upgrading walls and teslas. I have a guide on wall farming. Teslas are not very hard to upgrade.
Then during wall farming and tesla farming you can upgrade your mines if they aren't max. If they are then you can also upgrade barracks and traps.
So to conclude, th8 is mostly gold farming.
4. How to get gold
this is the strategy you want to use: Barch, bam
I personally used barch. Look for collector raids and go for it. I find the most collector raids at 1600-1800 trophies and 2100-2300 trophies. There are a lot in masters league, but most th8s won't get there. Barch is pretty simple but look it up if you don't know how to do it. You can also do storage raiding but I don't recommend it. You can probably get 4 barch raids in the time that you would wait for a collector raid. It took me 3 weeks to get all lvl7 walls with barch.
5. Getting bk to lvl10
Getting bk to lvl 10 is not as hard as you think. I used the dragloonian strategy (12 loons, 1 drag, rest minions) and got 10,000 de with boosted barracks. You will get attacked and lose 1,700 de sometimes, but at th8 you can't really defend against strong th9 and 10s. You can also attack full de drills. I find alot of de in crystal 2. Unity sharps guide to maxing th9 shows you how to use the dragloonian. Now you shouldn't attack infernos like he does because at th8 you only have lvl5 loons and lvl4 minions. Lvl 6 loons make a huge difference. With this attack you can get 80,000 dark elixir in 2 weeks if you are very active.
6. Getting elixir for lab upgrades
elixir will come fast when you are wall farming because the collector raids will also have a lot of elixir. So getting elixir is really just like getting gold. Here is the top5 things in lab to upgrade that are elixir troops.
1. Archer
2. Barb
3. Wiz
4. Giant
5. Wall breaker
this is if you are going to farm. If you want to push with drags I recommend getting drags to lvl3 instead.
thank you for reading, I hope this helps
