A Heads up on Upgrading Splash Defences. [MUST READ]

As you might now splash defenses are probably THE MOST important base defense buildings in the whole realm. Which includes Mortars and Wizard Towers.

So, Let's get to the upgrading part.

Let's say i got over confident and super-happy when you see that you have so, so much coins that you could upgrade lots of your defenses at once. E.g You decided to upgrade both of your Mortars or Wizard Tower to a higher level at the same time.

If you did that, then;

YOU

ARE

SCREWED*.

Why so? Lets say i somehow had the same experience recently and i feel regretful every time i see both of my mortars being upgraded, while my wizard towers are almost dope without mortar's support.

All my resources being stolen in a HUGE, HUGE amount on every attack. And my point defenses can't do much without mortars too, so that's probably the reason you're getting screwed BIG TIME.

This usually happens in TH5 (who upgrade both their Wiz tower and mortar at the same time) and TH6 (what i said above)


Conclusions:

Simple; DO NOT, i repeat, DO NOT and NEVER, upgrade your splash defenses all at once, because your other defenses are counting on each of your splash defenses.

So it is advised to upgrade your splash defenses ONE-BY-ONE. I know this might seem time-chopping and might be difficult for the impatient players, probably like me.. But No, you HAVE to deal with it and wait. Because if you don't, You'll be sad later, just like i was..


Hope i helped some of your peeps precious resources int he future :o

Peace.

I upgraded 4 Wizard Towers at the same time... Its the new trend. :)

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Originally Posted by JosSi

I upgraded 4 Wizard Towers at the same time... Its the new trend. :)

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Well basically since you're a higher TH, and you have other splash defenses to cover up your upgrading defenses.

This is basically for TH5 - TH7, since many ruin their life with this lol

This can also apply to th7 and 8 in the case of air defense. It's not splash, but I've seen a lot of people upgrade more than one at the same time.

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Originally Posted by Pandanoid

Well basically since you're a higher TH, and you have other splash defenses to cover up your upgrading defenses.

This is basically for TH5 - TH7, since many ruin their life with this lol

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Just get the pain over with and don't keep allot of resources in your storages.

I alway keep one builder free for walls, the lab uses up the elixir fast enough. Dark Elixir can be difficult cause it takes days to save up for the larger upgrades.

I'm TH8 which allows two levels and I just went for it. I got my butt handed to me and really to get enough to keep the other builders busy i had to stay online.. I allowed a small gap while I upgraded other things but now all 3 air defense are going to lev6.. Mass dragon and healer favored nightmare but I'm used to it by now.. Mortars were maxed at th7 but they are next on my all at once strategy list. I have upgraded a couple archer towers and canons. Also note that first all new th8 defenses were brought to th7 max.

I'd rather be without ALL my mortars for 1 week, than be down to 2 mortars for 3 weeks.

When mass upgrading all your splash defenses (you can include air def as well) all you have to do protect your resources is keep 1 builder free to spend the extra gold on walls.

Just get it all over with I say. For mortars and wizard towers, if you have 1 down your base immediately becomes much less effective, so why not just do them all at once?. With air defense, not so much. If you are a TH8 and only have 1 AD upgrading then you can centralize the other 2 and still do fine, as long as they are a decent enough level. Also, if you do upgrade them all at once, just cash in your resources on walls or other things.

Wiz towers and mortars are , indeed some of the best defences in the game. But you're not screwed if you upgrade all of them together. I myself upgraded my 3 mortars to level 6 and then 7 at the very same time, and i also upgraded 3 wiz towers at the same time and nothing significant (like: every time i logoff someone attacks me) happend. But there is no doubts that these 2 are realy important defences.

The funniest thread so far today. You SHOULD upgrade your splash towers ASAP at lower town halls because they are the most important. Just put your town hall out while they are upgrading! You might get wrecked on defense while they are upgrading but it will only last for a couple days.

I upgrade all of my air defenses at the same time. Wait 1-2 weeks and you'll never have to worry about them again for your current TH. If you upgrade one at a time, one side of your base will always be crippled. Same principle applies for Splash Defenses.

I upgraded WTs and mortars at the same time I had 3 WTs upgrading and 2 mortars then the rest without waiting till the others end.

You are screwed at this time but I like to go faster through this and after that you got peace with it.

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Originally Posted by Pandanoid

Simple; DO NOT, i repeat, DO NOT and NEVER, upgrade your splash defenses all at once, because your other defenses are counting on each of your splash defenses.

So it is advised to upgrade your splash defenses ONE-BY-ONE.

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Good advice!!!!

At th 8 i upgraded all my WT at one time and all my MT at one time. I don't regret anything and will do the same for th 9

Early TH8, I upgraded 2 mortar, 1 AD and 1 wiz together without much problems. All gold to walls, donate dragons and since I haven't got the drill yet, no worries on DE.

Same with upgrading all air defenses at once...it's just asking people to raid you with air units.

However...I did on several occasions upgrade more than 2 splash at a time, no big deal. I had my th on the outside and people gave me shields.

I agree that splash towers are the backbone of a bases defence, but instead of making them a priority when you go to the next townhall level like most people say to do. I always upgrade most of my point defences 1st to compensate for the loss of splash damage.

1. all new towers
2. tesla
3. cannons
4. start the splash
5. evertything else

Always only upgrade one wt or mortar at a time. Every time I see a noob upgrading all of their mortar/wt at the same time, it's an automatic raid, and I take all the available gold. If only one of each mortar/wizard towers are down, simply because the other ones are still operational it is still a deterrent.

The week I upgrade 2 mortars and a wizard tower...defense log would make you cry...almost always lost 700k total loot and 2k de... :(

You must play as a low TH in low leagues?

BTW there is merit to go on a marathon playing session, kick off all splashes and take a few days off from the game

You can upgrade any tower you want and it wouldn't matter if you are upgrading walls too. If your base has only one active tower and was an easy three star it wouldn't matter if you only lose 20k on an attack. So don't think that there is only one way to do things.

I agree about upgrading multiples at one time. If doing them one by one I always feel weak. Right now I have 3 air defenses upgrading st the moment up in a few days I will be through them all. I just do walls which are only a mil for now so I never have enough to worry about losing really. Also I'm pushing to champ so I'm generally staying on for long period anyways st the moment.

Did 4 wizard towers, then did 4 air defenses and 3 mortars simultaneously as the builders were freed up. People still sniped me. Don't sit on loot is the real advice you should be giving out.

It's better to get all the hard parts over and done with IMO, wiz towers especially. Mortars are cheap and don't take that long anyway.

At TH8 I did all my ADs at once, then did all my splash at once, then did all my teslas. There was a stretch of 2 days or so where all three mortars and two wizard towers were upgrading at once. At 9 I think I will do one of each at a time though, but I'm not sure. I just made the jump last week so I'm concentrating on my army camps and drills right now.

I'm in the do it and get it over with group. When my TH8 got done the first thing I did once the new stuff was up to TH7 level was upgrade all my Mortars and Wizard Towers. Yeah it sucked for a week or so but now it's over and done with. Much better to me than having a crippled base for a month or so. Just suck it up and get it over with.

I upgraded all 3 of my morters to level 6 at once and I was raided alot ;/