Which should i get first? Lvl 6 barbs, archers, or giants?

At th 9, max ur giants, heal spell and archer and you will be tearing down th 8 and 9 bases. However elixir consumption will be high.

Barch works just fine with lvl 5 archers, but DE farming with lvl 5 giants is a no go. I wanted to rush my queen to lvl 10, so I went with giants.

After giants, I went with barbs, then archers.

Archers first- good for donations and use them in many attack strategies. (Barch, bam, giant/healer, etc all use some arch)

Giants next- giant/healer is a good farming strategy and giants get a pretty good boost at 6

Barbs last- I didnt see a big difference in level 5 and 6

what do u use the most? that's part of the decision

giants get the largest boost as the big breakpoint for archers is at level 5. level 5 and under giants are worthless, level 6 makes them useful even at mid game

barbs get a decent boost and are core farming troops

archers are one of the most versatile troops in the game but the boost is very small and the elixir cost is high

they're great to donatehttp://guide.kencomputer.com/6.jpg

I went with giants first for cw, upgrade finishes in 3 days. I'd like to do archers next but it will depend if I can afford it when my lab is free, if not I might do minions and upgrade drills instead. I don't think it really matters so much which order you do it but I don't like having my lab not working for too long and there's a lot of things to do with elixer early in th9.

upgrade giants first. those of you saying level 5 are not good enough for farming de did something wrong. Every troop has a perfect base to get the desired results. I still don't like raiding th9 unless they offer 2,5k De, raiding a th9 you face level 3 xbows, level7 mortars , teslas and wizards towers so the is a higher risk of not getting the de while th8 offering 1,8k de has no xbow, level 6 splash and not many have their teslas at level 6 so th8 offer the best De at a lower risk compared to high de available and higher risk of failure . economically level 5 giants are good enough for you to farm de if you target th8 and some exposed de storage from th9

On one account I did giants, loons, archers, barbs. On the other I did barbs, archers, giants, loons.

I love them all....such a boost over level 5. Having two accounts similar level, I could really tell the difference when I had only level 5 barbs or level 5 archers.

I really was not going to do archers until later, but I got really lucky raiding on my lab was almost ready. I am so glad I did. Barching is just so much easier now.

i love both the max giants and loons. I pushed to masters with miniball on one account, going to do it with the other next.

i would highly recommend barbs or archers first. If you have the pink, get archers.

I started with barbs for the simple reason archers cost 7.5M so you need to max the new elixir tank and this takes time.

Archers have a very minimal increase over their lvl 5 counterpart....they also are incredibly expensive.

Giants and loons however, get a huge boost and don't quite break your back in terms of cost. They are very much worth it.

So honestly....Imho:

1) Giants
2) Barbs
3) Loons
4) Archers

In that order....but either way you'll be doing them all eventually so upgrade what you like the most.