Almost TH8, what first?

I started this thread 4 days before my TH8 upgrade finished, asking for help on what upgrades to focus on first. I was maxed at TH7 with gold and elixir storages loaded before I went to TH8 of course.

Some way into my TH8 upgrade now, I will share my experience and planning as to how I got where I am currently. I will update the original post (OP) as I go along.

Main takeaways for me:

• Plan ahead, know what your next upgrade is going to be, save up for it, then some extra for walls as you have time.
• Get splash towers over and done with asap, this reduces the overall time you will spend without all your splash towers.
• A lot of elixir is wasted with this specific upgrade plan, as I barely do any elixir upgrades, i.e. very defense focused.

My TH7 village, 4 days before I hit TH8.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...psab1de570.jpg

Based on the input from forum members, I drew up a build plan. - concept by Junliang
You will notice that I focused primarily on splash towers (mortar and wizard towers) in the beginning, getting it out of the way as soon as possible. It was a long wait initially, but so worth it!!
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps02158516.png

When the moment finally arrived. :)
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps4a06e305.jpg

Things have progressed mostly according to plan, with only barbarian king upgrades coming in the way of defensive upgrades.

The latest plan, also see link below for the actual spreadsheet, for your own planning.
http://sdrv.ms/14TRJ1k
http://i.imgur.com/jkrl0lP.png

Current village status - Day 81
http://i.imgur.com/pwzVuVC.jpg

Max either your Mortar or WT first. Pick one.
Cannons are not that important.

Sounds like a good plan, though I prefer to upgrade all the splash buildings first. I would defeinatly upgrade the lab to start her researching ASAP and maybe also get that DE drill goin

Spell factory 4 requires TH9 so no need to worry about that one.

I'd make your archer tower lvl 1, then use that builder for the DE drill and upgrade it constantly until its level 3. 1080 DE a day adds up, best to get it ASAP if you want to level BK or DE troops.

I'd also second the lab builder and AD builder going onto mortars and wizards instead of cannons.

Anoher thing to note, tesla is not necessarily the best thing to spend builder time on early, but that thing takes like a month and a half to move from level 1-6, so you want to get that going sooner than later so you aren't stuck with 30 days of tesla and nothing else to do at the end of TH8.

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Originally Posted by fabr1c

Sounds like a good plan, though I prefer to upgrade all the splash buildings first. I would defeinatly upgrade the lab to start her researching ASAP and maybe also get that DE drill goin

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Originally Posted by MintberryCrunch

Spell factory 4 requires TH9 so no need to worry about that one.

I'd make your archer tower lvl 1, then use that builder for the DE drill and upgrade it constantly until its level 3. 1080 DE a day adds up, best to get it ASAP if you want to level BK or DE troops.

I'd also second the lab builder and AD builder going onto mortars and wizards instead of cannons.

Anoher thing to note, tesla is not necessarily the best thing to spend builder time on early, but that thing takes like a month and a half to move from level 1-6, so you want to get that going sooner than later so you aren't stuck with 30 days of tesla and nothing else to do at the end of TH8.

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Thanks for the feedback guys!

Oops, didn't know that about the spell factory, thanks. :o

Just to be sure, are you saying build the archer tower lvl1, then move onto DE drill maxed, then after that upgrade the archer tower?

Does this look better?

Builder 1 - Lab lvl6 then onto archer tower upgrades once done
Builder 2 - Max out all mortars, one at a time
Builder 3 - Wizard Tower lvl1 and upgrade as finished
Builder 4 - Archer Tower lvl1 then maxed out DE drill, then upgrade all archer towers one by one
Builder 5 - Max out wizard towers, one at a time

This is 3 splash buildings at once, this ok?

How about my wall strategy? Or should I rather plow the first 3.6 million into mortar and wizard tower and do the walls as I move along?

I also forgot about Clan Castle. When is it recommended to do it?

IMO better to upgrade all splashes at once because doing them one at a time makes u cripple for more than 2 month!! Better to be weak for shorter period of time and get it over with.. Clan castle upgrade is always useful and not too long as far as I remember

I can tell you i'm in the same situation ... almost 2 weeks ago i made it until level 8. I decided to work in another way. I went to TH8 with 4 million gold and 4 million elixir. The first i did was upgrading all my walls (the 50 new ones) to level 6. After that i decided to focus mainly (first) on upgrading all my troops to level 5. First i did the archers (done), then the giants (almost done, 1 day) and after this i still have to decide whether going for the barbarians/goblins/wallbreakers (still not decided). Meanwhile i kept on raiding and have been upgrading my walls, the new AD and a few cannons to level 9. My gold storages have been almost empy during whole this process. All my defences have been focussed on protecting my elixir. That's why i decided not to invest in WT and mortars for now.

After my troops are finished i will work in the same way but with protecting my gold and leave the elixir less protected. All this will give me the chance to work on the splash defences.

So to summarise, my working schedule for level 8 :
- first laboratory and troops (and mainly defend the elixir)
- occasional works on walls and canons to level 9 (+ the new archer tower and air defences)
- finally : protect gold for splash defences upgrades

Hope this helps.

I got my TH8 10 days ago with full storages and 4 builders, this is what I went for:
- Lab level 6
- All new walls to Gold
- Simultaneously Archer Tower up to 8 and Wizard Tower up to 4
- Drill (started level 3 upgrade yesterday)
- Tesla level 1
- New Air Defense up to 3
- Currently 2 Mortars upgrading to 6, hopefully 3rd one tonight
- Archers level 5 done and Minions level 3 ongoing

I haven't spent anything on gems, but to be fair I'm home after surgery so I can raid all day :p

i forgot, during the first steps of my progress i also decided to upgrade the new wizard tower to (already) level 3 and a tesla level 1. Level 4 upgrades of my WT and tesla upgrades will follow after my troop upgrade projects ;)