I'd go up to 1500-1600. Lots of decent bases there to raid depending on time. I hope your not waitijg for all walls before starting TH especially since t takes so long. Builder time is more Important especially since th9 is a better farming TH than th8 from my experience.
If your cool using some de I'd BAM should bump your gold up quite a bit due to squeezing another raid per hour every hour mkes a difference.
Also I'd reccomend not cooking any dragons unless your not gonna attack for quite awhile. Just wasting the elxir to raid more often will give you gold faster than wasting time making dragons at the cost of your gold for the day

