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 ;)

A few different ways of doing it. :) I know there is no "best" way of course, depends on play style at the end of the day I guess.

I like the idea of doing as many splash defenses at once as possible, being vulnerable for a shorter period of time. It will just be a problem holding onto the resources whilst doing this. :o

This is what I had mind, this perhaps too extreme?

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps5e908a99.png

It's good to have a spreadsheet to plan upgrades but you need to think about resources availability (unless you're a gemmer). What I mean by that is for example you plan to upgrade your lab, archers, drill all in the space of 6 days. That's close to 10 million elixir. Same thing with upgrading all splash at once. Great in theory but very costly so you might have to modify your schedule to plan for lack of resources. Your list is also missing new AT, new Tesla, new AD and BK :)

This is how I did TH8 defence tower upgrade sequence:

Mortar L6
Mortar L6
Mortar L6
All wizard towers L4
1 Wizard Tower L5
All cannons L9
All Wizard tower to L6

After splash defense it's personal preference. Hope this helped.:)

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Originally Posted by madmonk3y

It's good to have a spreadsheet to plan upgrades but you need to think about resources availability (unless you're a gemmer). What I mean by that is for example you plan to upgrade your lab, archers, drill all in the space of 6 days. That's close to 10 million elixir. Same thing with upgrading all splash at once. Great in theory but very costly so you might have to modify your schedule to plan for lack of resources. Your list is also missing new AT, new Tesla, new AD and BK :)

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Thanks for that feedback. ;)

I did spread out the resource spending as best I could, might just be rough on days 7 and 11. I will have 4mil gold and elixir once I get to TH8, so I just need another 4.5mil elixir between day 1 and 4 for all the upgrades. That's usually plentiful and easy to get ~1mil a day, especially elixir.

It's also just a rough guideline of what I should be doing, I might leave a day or 2 open in between upgrades to do some walls.

I know what AD and BK are (already have BK), just not sure about AT?

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Originally Posted by AngrehBard

This is how I did TH8 defence tower upgrade sequence:

Mortar L6
Mortar L6
Mortar L6
All wizard towers L4
1 Wizard Tower L5
All cannons L9
All Wizard tower to L6

After splash defense it's personal preference. Hope this helped.:)

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Thanks, how was your defence holding up during this time? More importantly, did you manage to hold onto your resources well enough?

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Originally Posted by rynoster

Thanks for that feedback. ;)

I did spread out the resource spending as best I could, might just be rough on days 7 and 11. I will have 4mil gold and elixir once I get to TH8, so I just need another 4.5mil elixir between day 1 and 4 for all the upgrades. That's usually plentiful and easy to get ~1mil a day, especially elixir.

It's also just a rough guideline of what I should be doing, I might leave a day or 2 open in between upgrades to do some walls.

I know what AD and BK are (already have BK), just not sure about AT?


Thanks, how was your defence holding up during this time? More importantly, did you manage to hold onto your resources well enough?

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Well at TH8 you will always be crushed by some good TH9 in the early stages of TH8. I just dealt with it, it gets much much better later when you have maxed mortar and wizard towers. Just have a strong layout.

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Originally Posted by rynoster

Thanks for that feedback. ;)

I did spread out the resource spending as best I could, might just be rough on days 7 and 11. I will have 4mil gold and elixir once I get to TH8, so I just need another 4.5mil elixir between day 1 and 4 for all the upgrades. That's usually plentiful and easy to get ~1mil a day, especially elixir.

It's also just a rough guideline of what I should be doing, I might leave a day or 2 open in between upgrades to do some walls.

I know what AD and BK are (already have BK), just not sure about AT?

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It's not as easy as you think, at early TH8 you come nowhere near the kind of loot you have at high TH7 and you get raided by TH9 a lot. It will be harder to get 1 million elixir a day, I've been there (getting easier now with archers level 5).
I meant further BK upgrades as he also uses a builder. AT= Archer Tower

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Originally Posted by rynoster

A few different ways of doing it. :) I know there is no "best" way of course, depends on play style at the end of the day I guess.

I like the idea of doing as many splash defenses at once as possible, being vulnerable for a shorter period of time. It will just be a problem holding onto the resources whilst doing this. :o

This is what I had mind, this perhaps too extreme?

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps5e908a99.png

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You put a smile on my face :)

1st version, but decided it was not efficient.
http://i34.tinypic.com/2pydsme.jpg

2nd version, using it now.
http://i33.tinypic.com/w2okjp.jpg

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Originally Posted by madmonk3y

It's good to have a spreadsheet to plan upgrades but you need to think about resources availability (unless you're a gemmer). What I mean by that is for example you plan to upgrade your lab, archers, drill all in the space of 6 days. That's close to 10 million elixir. Same thing with upgrading all splash at once. Great in theory but very costly so you might have to modify your schedule to plan for lack of resources. Your list is also missing new AT, new Tesla, new AD and BK :)

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Originally Posted by madmonk3y

It's not as easy as you think, at early TH8 you come nowhere near the kind of loot you have at high TH7 and you get raided by TH9 a lot. It will be harder to get 1 million elixir a day, I've been there (getting easier now with archers level 5).
I meant further BK upgrades as he also uses a builder. AT= Archer Tower

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Oh dear.... Getting more and more afraid of TH8. :(
Thanks for clearing up AT. ;)

I might buy a few gems to help along the first while, depending on how it goes.

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Originally Posted by Junliang

You put a smile on my face :)

1st version, but decided it was not efficient.

2nd version, using it now.

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Wow, nice spreadsheet Jun!! You put mine to shame.... :o

Would you mind sending me a copy or sharing somehow?

collectors and mines were the first thing i did after i upgraded. took a while to do it since i had them at level 8 before TH8.

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Originally Posted by rynoster

Wow, nice spreadsheet Jun!! You put mine to shame.... :o

Would you mind sending me a copy or sharing somehow?

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Haha thanks :)

Its basically just a vertical version of my first version/yours haha.

I hit TH8 6 days ago. Could have done with working out my upgrades better but at the moment.

Have new archer tower at Level 6 and upgrading to level 7
Have 3rd Wizard Tower at level 3 and upgrading to level 4
Have existing Wizard tower upgrading to level 5
Have Mortar upgrading to level 6
Have 3rd Gold storage at level 9 and upgrading to level 10

Research lab upgraded to level 6 (I gemmed this to do in two days)
DE drill is at level 2
New level 1 tesla built

I also got all my new walls up to pink the first two days. I have been expecting lots of killer attacks with so many splash upgrading at once but only had 1 high level attack which took one gold storage and my new one when it was level 4. Everything else has been free shields only.

I highly recommend geming the lab upgrade. My lab is still going, and let me tell you, raiding with lv4 troops and a TH8 loot penalty is painful...


Your upgrade plan sounds pretty sound.;)

@OP

I was about to copy the sequence you're about to do for TH8, then I realized I only have 3 builders </3

Thanks in advance though. lol!

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Originally Posted by 5000tears

I hit TH8 6 days ago. Could have done with working out my upgrades better but at the moment.

Have new archer tower at Level 6 and upgrading to level 7
Have 3rd Wizard Tower at level 3 and upgrading to level 4
Have existing Wizard tower upgrading to level 5
Have Mortar upgrading to level 6
Have 3rd Gold storage at level 9 and upgrading to level 10

Research lab upgraded to level 6 (I gemmed this to do in two days)
DE drill is at level 2
New level 1 tesla built

I also got all my new walls up to pink the first two days. I have been expecting lots of killer attacks with so many splash upgrading at once but only had 1 high level attack which took one gold storage and my new one when it was level 4. Everything else has been free shields only.

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Thanks, this gives me some hope. :)

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Originally Posted by pinser

I highly recommend geming the lab upgrade. My lab is still going, and let me tell you, raiding with lv4 troops and a TH8 loot penalty is painful...


Your upgrade plan sounds pretty sound.;)

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Thanks Pinser. Which upgrade plan you referring to though? :p It's changed a few times lol.

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Originally Posted by Axe

@OP

I was about to copy the sequence you're about to do for TH8, then I realized I only have 3 builders </3

Thanks in advance though. lol!

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Cool Axe, getting 5 builders is highly recommended as most would say, money well spent imo.

I see in your signature you are looking for a clan? Come test the waters in my clan, details in description. ;)

Based on Jun's spreadsheet, I've created my own version. I don't want to plan too far ahead and things might change. This is what I have so far, comments welcome. I will be using builder 5 on day 1/2 in between upgrades to do walls up until gold at least, if I have the time and successful at raiding. :)

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps02158516.png

The latest plan. (DUH!):o

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Originally Posted by rynoster

Based on Jun's spreadsheet, I've created my own version. I don't want to plan too far ahead and things might change. This is what I have so far, comments welcome. I will be using builder 5 on day 1/2 in between upgrades to do walls up until gold at least, if I have the time and successful at raiding. :)

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps02158516.png

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Your building reference is a nice touch :)

Mine is.. :p
http://i37.tinypic.com/t02jjt.jpg

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Originally Posted by pinser

The latest plan. (DUH!):o

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Hehe. ;)

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Originally Posted by Junliang

Your building reference is a nice touch :)

Mine is.. :p

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I give up, always one step and a town hall level ahead. :D

Holding on tight to your version... come on just share it, I know you want to. :rolleyes:

You know you're addicted to Clash of Clans when... you start creating spread sheets like these to support your building strategy :) I'm also soon approaching to a stage where moving to TH8 comes reasonable, so thank you for sharing these!

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Originally Posted by starchild

You know you're addicted to Clash of Clans when... you start creating spread sheets like these to support your building strategy :) I'm also soon approaching to a stage where moving to TH8 comes reasonable, so thank you for sharing these!

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Lol, indeed. :cool:

Glad you can benefit from our addiction, best of luck! ;)

I will try to keep this up to date as to what actually happens with my upgrades when I get there, as time, real life and successful raids have a huge impact on implementing this plan!

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Cool Axe, getting 5 builders is highly recommended as most would say, money well spent imo.

I see in your signature you are looking for a clan? Come test the waters in my clan, details in description. ;)

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Yeah it is, but right now I don't have the money for it. :p Getting the 4th builder soon though..

Yeah we need a new home, yes 'we'. Where is the description? :p

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Yeah it is, but right now I don't have the money for it. :p Getting the 4th builder soon though..

Yeah we need a new home, yes 'we'. Where is the description? :p

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Lol, I meant to say signature.... :)

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Lol, I meant to say signature.... :)

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sent you a pm!

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sent you a pm!

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Cool, have replied.

It seems like you have a solid plan already.

Few notes based on my personal and somewhat recent experience.

I would upgrade cannons before archer towers. Cannons are cheaper and faster to upgrade. I think you'll find that your bane at TH8 is mass lvl 6 giants. No other "farming" troop is really an issue (perhaps mass lvl 6 barbs), and cannons really help. Plus, on a more subjective note, i know that i always think twice about attacking bases with solid gold cannons and solid pink archer towers.

I wish I had started my tesla upgrades earlier. Having to take 3 teslas to lvl 6 takes a long time (and they're not that expensive, which is a bonus). Teslas are absolutely devastating when leveled, and I'd devote a builder to upgrading them from the beginning.

Upgrade your clan castle as soon as possible, too. Five units on defense always helps.

Good luck!

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Originally Posted by resnullius

It seems like you have a solid plan already.

Few notes based on my personal and somewhat recent experience.

I would upgrade cannons before archer towers. Cannons are cheaper and faster to upgrade. I think you'll find that your bane at TH8 is mass lvl 6 giants. No other "farming" troop is really an issue (perhaps mass lvl 6 barbs), and cannons really help. Plus, on a more subjective note, i know that i always think twice about attacking bases with solid gold cannons and solid pink archer towers.

I wish I had started my tesla upgrades earlier. Having to take 3 teslas to lvl 6 takes a long time (and they're not that expensive, which is a bonus). Teslas are absolutely devastating when leveled, and I'd devote a builder to upgrading them from the beginning.

Upgrade your clan castle as soon as possible, too. Five units on defense always helps.

Good luck!

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Thanks , I appreciate your input!! I will definitely consider putting a builder on teslas asap. My plan is to do them as soon as all my splash is at max, doing 1, maybe 2 teslas at a time.

Any advice on when to build 3rd gold and elixir storage and what level to upgrade to?

It has begun.... :)

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I'd keep the new gold storage at lvl 5 for all (but the very end) of TH8. As far as I know, you'll never need more than 4 million gold until you are getting ready for TH9 and super expensive upgrades, like x-bows.

I upgraded my elixir storage to 5 at first, too. But you will want to take it all the way to lvl 11 for the second PEKKA upgrade. And, once you hit storage lvl 8, which holds 250 000 elixir, raids will be able to loot it for the max amount (67k with three storages) so you might as well take it all the way to lvl 11. personally, i've been swimming in elixir -- i've not farmed for it all and have been focusing on farming gold, yet i've always been able to keep up with my lab upgrades.

I am in the process of going to TH8 as well. I am currently level 63 and almost completely maxed. My Air Defense is only level 4, my Dark Barracks is only level 1 and two Elixir Colectors are 9/10. Other then that every thing is maxed. It will be done on Thursday and I have my own spreadsheet going :D Ha, with a name like Beancounter, you know I love spreadsheets!

Here are my thoughts on what to upgrade first and why:
1. Mortars Level 5 to 6. Three builders. I am going to bite the bullet and upgrade all three at the same time. Right off the bat. Mainly because level 6 Mortars will One Hit Kill level 6 Archers. Which is sweet!
2. Forth builder - Lab - duh! You need offense
3. Fifth builder - Archer Tower, Wizard Tower, Air Defense and walls. I am going to rotate through those items with this builder until the Mortar upgrades are done.

After the inital push, I am going to go for Canons to 9. Level 9 Cannons will OHK Lvl 6 Archers and lvl 5 Wallbreakers.

I am going to put off the Wizard Tower upgrades until after that point. To be honest, I do not think you gain much by going to Level 5 Wiz Towes. Even level 6 are just OK. Level 7 are amazing, but that is not until TH 9.

Just to clairfy on the Wizard Towers. There primary targets is going to be either mass barbs or goblins. Going from lvl 4 to 5 does not really improve our Hits To Kill Rate for them. It gets better at Lvl 6, but it still takes two hits to kill a lvl 4 or 5 goblin. You can get the same results with a lvl 4 Wiz Tower. At lvl 7 the Wiz Tower just mauls goblins with a one hit kill rate. But again that is not until TH9.

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I'd keep the new gold storage at lvl 5 for all (but the very end) of TH8. As far as I know, you'll never need more than 4 million gold until you are getting ready for TH9 and super expensive upgrades, like x-bows.

I upgraded my elixir storage to 5 at first, too. But you will want to take it all the way to lvl 11 for the second PEKKA upgrade. And, once you hit storage lvl 8, which holds 250 000 elixir, raids will be able to loot it for the max amount (67k with three storages) so you might as well take it all the way to lvl 11. personally, i've been swimming in elixir -- i've not farmed for it all and have been focusing on farming gold, yet i've always been able to keep up with my lab upgrades.

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Thanks resnullius, sound advice!!! ;)

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Originally Posted by Beancounter

Just to clairfy on the Wizard Towers. There primary targets is going to be either mass barbs or goblins. Going from lvl 4 to 5 does not really improve our Hits To Kill Rate for them. It gets better at Lvl 6, but it still takes two hits to kill a lvl 4 or 5 goblin. You can get the same results with a lvl 4 Wiz Tower. At lvl 7 the Wiz Tower just mauls goblins with a one hit kill rate. But again that is not until TH9.

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Thanks Beancounter, some very nice food for thought.
Another way to think about this is TTK (Time to Kill). It will take a Wizard Tower 2 shots to kill 30 lvl4-5 goblins, 30 shots from a cannon or archer tower. But duly noted, thanks again. ;)

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Originally Posted by rynoster

Thanks resnullius, sound advice!!! ;)


Thanks Beancounter, some very nice food for thought.
Another way to think about this is TTK (Time to Kill). It will take a Wizard Tower 2 shots to kill 30 lvl4-5 goblins, 30 shots from a cannon or archer tower. But duly noted, thanks again. ;)

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Right, but lvl 4,5 and 6 wiz towers all take 2 shots to kill 30 lvl 4/5 goblins. Which is why I am going to upgrade the third wiz tower to four and then upgrade the point defense.

good luck on your new base!

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Right, but lvl 4,5 and 6 wiz towers all take 2 shots to kill 30 lvl 4/5 goblins. Which is why I am going to upgrade the third wiz tower to four and then upgrade the point defense.

good luck on your new base!

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Also a good point. I must say my biggest problem has been archers, not really goblins. I might end up doing point defense in-between anyway, the amount of Gold required is quite hectic... :o

Things still going according to plan and on schedule for the next upgrades tonight - DE Drill lvl3 and Wizard Tower lvl4. I ended up gemming the last 2 days of the lab upgrade, like someone suggested.
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I'm currently running Junliang's farming setup, with 4 splash towers upgrading at once - 3 wizard towers and 1 mortar. Last 7 gold walls will all be pink tonight and start getting the new 50 to purple...
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I've only had one serious attack. Not to bad defending with only 1 mortar, the other had a bad case of lightning damage... :) He only ended up getting 2.5 protected storages - revenge will be sweet when the time is right. :) He also got lucky as the previous guy emptied out my clan castle, would have been an entirely different story then.

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Well sure, with gems everything goes smoother :rolleyes:

My two week TH8 anniversary was yesterday, everything still going according to plan. I have not had a serious attack since all my mortars maxed out, even while I was ~1650 trophies. All my walls went purple yesterday and started with my skull walls... :o

I please need some advice on what to do with builder 3 later today - should I rather start upgrading my gold and elixir storages (they both lvl1) or continue with the Archer Tower lvl7 upgrade? Any other advice also welcome of course, thanks in advance!

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For those interested, a link to the spreadsheet file shown above.
http://sdrv.ms/17YUSiL

nice topic bro! =)
keep posting shots of ur village =)

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Originally Posted by mandark

nice topic bro! =)
keep posting shots of ur village =)

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I actually abandoned this thread as I saw no interest. :) Glad you enjoying it.

Just because you asked so nicely, a quick update. ;)

Changed my layout to Pingfao's TH8 farming layout, skull walls started but due to work commitments it's slipped a little the last couple of days.

No upgrades have slipped though and stil going to plan - maxing out defenses asap is my mission (splash first, and done), so I can start focusing on gold for walls more. Tesla's are a real pain..... I hope they change their long upgrade times in an update sometime!!

Just a note: I would not recommend using this upgrade plan if you don't like wasting resources. I've wasted a LOT of elixir as I'm always maxed out - spent 1mil on Elixir yesterday for dragon donations.

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Haha what a coincidence... I was already subbed to your youtube channel cause of your single player tutorials!
I love this thread, i'm a lvl TH8 myself! :)
Keep up the good work, and posts some vids on your youtube channel please!
Cheers!

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Originally Posted by Loigie

Haha what a coincidence... I was already subbed to your youtube channel cause of your single player tutorials!
I love this thread, i'm a lvl TH8 myself! :)
Keep up the good work, and posts some vids on your youtube channel please!
Cheers!

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Thanks for the support Loigie!

I just started the series as I saw a lot of people were getting frustrated without updated strategies to beat the goblin missions, never thought I would get this many hits. Anyway, I have quite a few ideas of videos I want to do, just going hectic busy at work at the moment. I will start uploading more content as soon as I can.

Really nice preparations :)

Level 4 spell factory requires TH9 so replace that with the Clan Castle

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Really nice preparations :)

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Thanks. A lot of work to keep the plan going though. :) One raid at a time! :D

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Level 4 spell factory requires TH9 so replace that with the Clan Castle

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Thanks, I've progressed quite a bit since my initial post, someone else also commented on the TH9 requirement for Spell Factory lvl4.

See this post for the latest update - Post 48.

I'd start teslas immediately once your splash is maxed. Teslas are deadly, and are a higher priority than cannons and towers IMO.

Lol this is sort of like a thread im gonna make once i max my TH8 and go to TH9. Im gonna call it "My TH9 Journey", and every week or so ill post the new upgrades ive made, so everyone will be able to see my journey from Maxed TH8 to Maxed TH 9.

Rynoster:

Really enjoying the updates on your TH8 journey- it's like watching a butterfly emerge from a cocoon!

My Town Hall 8 finished building last Sunday, so I'm still painfully early in the cycle. When I first saw your post a month ago, I foolishly thought I could copy your upgrade plan, but I'm unable to raise gold as successfully as you, so the cheaper upgrades are all I've been able to do so far. I even had to loot Sherbet Towers quite a bit to get the elixer to start my Archer lvl5 upgrade :o

Anyway, keep up the good work!

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I'd start teslas immediately once your splash is maxed. Teslas are deadly, and are a higher priority than cannons and towers IMO.

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I am just going to have to disagree with that statement. Sure LVL 6 Teslas are really strong, but it takes 90 builder days to bring all three to that level. In comparision you can max cannons in 35 days and archer towers in 55 days. So in the time it takes you to max three teslas I could have maxed Archer Towers and Cannons.

5 Max Archer Towers and Cannons > 3 Max Teslas.

You get way more bang for your builder time by boosting the cannons and archer towers.

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I am just going to have to disagree with that statement. Sure LVL 6 Teslas are really strong, but it takes 90 builder days to bring all three to that level. In comparision you can max cannons in 35 days and archer towers in 55 days. So in the time it takes you to max three teslas I could have maxed Archer Towers and Cannons.

5 Max Archer Towers and Cannons > 3 Max Teslas.

You get way more bang for your builder time by boosting the cannons and archer towers.

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I guess you do have a valid point. Cannons can be maxed very quickly. Archer Towers aren't very helpful because cannons take out the unit the AT was targeting before the projectile hits.

I guess max Cannons and then focus on Teslas. Archer Towers aren't the highest of your priority, and AD can deal with air units anyways.

Love your spreadsheet! Any chance you could post it for others to use? Just hit TH8 myself and am trying to get organized.

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I am just going to have to disagree with that statement. Sure LVL 6 Teslas are really strong, but it takes 90 builder days to bring all three to that level. In comparision you can max cannons in 35 days and archer towers in 55 days. So in the time it takes you to max three teslas I could have maxed Archer Towers and Cannons.

5 Max Archer Towers and Cannons > 3 Max Teslas.

You get way more bang for your builder time by boosting the cannons and archer towers.

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i maxed cannons first because they were so cheap and fast. they also help against lvl 6 giants (my bane as a TH8 farmer)

i'm in the process of maxing teslas now, with lvl 5 and 6 teslas (i upgraded two teslas, one air defense at a time). i don't know what base set up you have, but if you use an inner core for dark elixir/gold, a lvl 6 tesla is simply amazing. its limited range (so it doesn't get distracted), fast attack speed, and ability to one-shot lvl 5 wallbreakers simply can't be understated. they're effectively a guarantee that your attacker will have to beat on your walls with troops because wallbreakers won't be able to clear a path. lvl 6 teslas also obliterate lvl 6 giants.

i'm upgrading archer towers last. they are more expensive and slower than cannons, and their ability to target air is off-set by the fact that i have lvl 6 air defenses anyway. their marginal benefits from hit to kill is also underwhelming. finally, as a farmer, i really just don't see very many dragon/heavy air attacks (i'm sure my lvl 6 air defenses help deter would-be attackers, too).

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I'd start teslas immediately once your splash is maxed. Teslas are deadly, and are a higher priority than cannons and towers IMO.

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That's exactly what I started doing AngrehBard. :) Been having 2 builders on tesla upgrades since my last wizard tower maxed out. What a tedious process.... :)

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Lol this is sort of like a thread im gonna make once i max my TH8 and go to TH9. Im gonna call it "My TH9 Journey", and every week or so ill post the new upgrades ive made, so everyone will be able to see my journey from Maxed TH8 to Maxed TH 9.

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Lol, kind of ahead of you there. :P
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Rynoster:

Really enjoying the updates on your TH8 journey- it's like watching a butterfly emerge from a cocoon!

My Town Hall 8 finished building last Sunday, so I'm still painfully early in the cycle. When I first saw your post a month ago, I foolishly thought I could copy your upgrade plan, but I'm unable to raise gold as successfully as you, so the cheaper upgrades are all I've been able to do so far. I even had to loot Sherbet Towers quite a bit to get the elixer to start my Archer lvl5 upgrade :o

Anyway, keep up the good work!

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Thanks eastcoastceo. The farming for gold is hardcore, some days I only just make the cut for the next upgrade and miss out on walls. It gets better as the upgrades takes longer, so more time to accumulate resources. Best of luck!

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I am just going to have to disagree with that statement. Sure LVL 6 Teslas are really strong, but it takes 90 builder days to bring all three to that level. In comparision you can max cannons in 35 days and archer towers in 55 days. So in the time it takes you to max three teslas I could have maxed Archer Towers and Cannons.

5 Max Archer Towers and Cannons > 3 Max Teslas.

You get way more bang for your builder time by boosting the cannons and archer towers.

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I guess you do have a valid point. Cannons can be maxed very quickly. Archer Towers aren't very helpful because cannons take out the unit the AT was targeting before the projectile hits.

I guess max Cannons and then focus on Teslas. Archer Towers aren't the highest of your priority, and AD can deal with air units anyways.

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Good points by both, thanks for that! I do 2 point defense and 2 tesla's at the same time, maxing out cannons first before starting to work on archer towers.

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Love your spreadsheet! Any chance you could post it for others to use? Just hit TH8 myself and am trying to get organized.

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Of course! I did post a few days ago as well, but here you go. ;)
http://sdrv.ms/17YUSiL

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i maxed cannons first because they were so cheap and fast. they also help against lvl 6 giants (my bane as a TH8 farmer)

i'm in the process of maxing teslas now, with lvl 5 and 6 teslas (i upgraded two teslas, one air defense at a time). i don't know what base set up you have, but if you use an inner core for dark elixir/gold, a lvl 6 tesla is simply amazing. its limited range (so it doesn't get distracted), fast attack speed, and ability to one-shot lvl 5 wallbreakers simply can't be understated. they're effectively a guarantee that your attacker will have to beat on your walls with troops because wallbreakers won't be able to clear a path. lvl 6 teslas also obliterate lvl 6 giants.

i'm upgrading archer towers last. they are more expensive and slower than cannons, and their ability to target air is off-set by the fact that i have lvl 6 air defenses anyway. their marginal benefits from hit to kill is also underwhelming. finally, as a farmer, i really just don't see very many dragon/heavy air attacks (i'm sure my lvl 6 air defenses help deter would-be attackers, too).

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Started maxing out my cannons as soon as my splash finished, 2 down and 3 to go. I must say, ever since all my splash maxed out, I have not had a single serious attack! Also actively working on my teslas, 2 at a time, can't wait for them to finish, but still a long way to go...

I reccomemd you max your wizards and then mortars because archers and cannons arnt that strong also do it like this go from wizards and mortars then go from lowest cost to highest! :cool:

PS: Nice base your the first premature i haven't seen! :D

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I reccomemd you max your wizards and then mortars because archers and cannons arnt that strong also do it like this go from wizards and mortars then go from lowest cost to highest! :cool:

PS: Nice base your the first premature i haven't seen! :D

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Yeah the OP was more than a month ago, have progressed quite a bit since then, check the last 2 pages of the thread.

Premature?

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Lol, kind of ahead of you there. :P
My TH8 Journey


woah, how did you make that discussion thread thingy. Im still learning all the tricks to the forums. i only figured out how to post pictures on here lol.

and I'm gonna make a real thread, not a discussion group chat thingy that i have no idea whatsoever how to create. PLUS IT WILL BE TH9

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Lol, kind of ahead of you there. :P
My TH8 Journey


woah, how did you make that discussion thread thingy. Im still learning all the tricks to the forums. i only figured out how to post pictures on here lol.

and I'm gonna make a real thread, not a discussion group chat thingy that i have no idea whatsoever how to create. PLUS IT WILL BE TH9

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Click the community tab on top, then Groups. You can create groups there then have your own discussion threads inside.

Looking forward to see your TH9 thread!!! I might actually change this thread's title, updating the original OP, as interest seems to have picked up. :D

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Click the community tab on top, then Groups. You can create groups there then have your own discussion threads inside.

Looking forward to see your TH9 thread!!! I might actually change this thread's title, updating the original OP, as interest seems to have picked up. :D

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Click the community tab on top, then Groups. You can create groups there then have your own discussion threads inside.


thanks!

Looking forward to see your TH9 thread!!! I might actually change this thread's title, updating the original OP, as interest seems to have picked up. :D

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i can't wait to make it! except for the sad fact that I'm a long way to maxing TH8, with only lvl 6 walls *COUGHPREMATURECOUGH* . the only things I've maxed for TH8 ( or completely maxed ) are: Army Camps, Lab, Spell factory, 3 outta 3 gold storages, 2 outta 3 elixir storages, and most of my mines and collectors. still gotta max those defences and walls! http://forum.supercell.net/images/icons/icon8.png

and yes interest has picked up!

ok i have no idea how i messed up my last post quote so much

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Yeah the OP was more than a month ago, have progressed quite a bit since then, check the last 2 pages of the thread.

Premature?

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What do you mean OP?

Premature means when a person upgrades there town hall before maxing everything! :cool:

Thanks for sharing (again :p) Rynoster!

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What do you mean OP?

Premature means when a person upgrades there town hall before maxing everything! :cool:

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Thanks for sharing (again :p) Rynoster!

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Not sure I understand then. :) My TH upgrade was not premature.

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

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They take 1m to build, no big deal.

I'd say mortars would be a good upgrade. focus on splash damages and also wizard towers. i guess it depends on how ur base is designed, that you can decide which of the two would be best to upgrade first.

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Good points by both, thanks for that! I do 2 point defense and 2 tesla's at the same time, maxing out cannons first before starting to work on archer towers.


Started maxing out my cannons as soon as my splash finished, 2 down and 3 to go. I must say, ever since all my splash maxed out, I have not had a single serious attack! Also actively working on my teslas, 2 at a time, can't wait for them to finish, but still a long way to go...

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Sounds like you are rolling on as a TH8!

That is a good rate to upgrade, two cannons/archer towers and two Teslas. One other point, lvl 9 archer towers and lvl 10 cannons, combined with max splash is very intimidating! Plus the archer towers are just cool looking!

how are you doing with the skull walls? I have only been able to get 22 so far.takes forever to upgrade those.

keep up the good work, and I look forward to TH9 upgrade strat. Really want those dual crossbows. One point for 9 is too upgrade camps or lab. Camps give an extra 10% to all armies, vs camps just up one troop.

start the th9 upgrade in around 50 days.

:O
Great plan DO IT!
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Sounds like you are rolling on as a TH8!

That is a good rate to upgrade, two cannons/archer towers and two Teslas. One other point, lvl 9 archer towers and lvl 10 cannons, combined with max splash is very intimidating! Plus the archer towers are just cool looking!

how are you doing with the skull walls? I have only been able to get 22 so far.takes forever to upgrade those.

keep up the good work, and I look forward to TH9 upgrade strat. Really want those dual crossbows. One point for 9 is too upgrade camps or lab. Camps give an extra 10% to all armies, vs camps just up one troop.

start the th9 upgrade in around 50 days.

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Things have been going well yes, thanks for the kind words. ;) Not looking forward to the tesla, archer and AD grind... Yeah gold cannons make me think twice before I attack, but a good TH9 army with archer queen don't even worry about that lol.

Have done 77 skull walls so far, almost half way, should be done by mid-July by my calculations, I hope.

I think I have about 2 months left for everything to be maxed, have not planned that far ahead. I know all my defenses, except AD will be maxed out by end June, then just barracks, dark barracks and mines/pumps.

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Great plan DO IT!
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Done and busy. :):p

Great thread. You guys are ahead of me, so I'd love to know if you saw more swarm attacks or giant attacks? I ask because I want to do beancounter's "all 3 mortars simultaneously" approach (good against swarms), but am also tempted to pay 4m for all 5 cannons at once (good against giants).

Also, was the DE drill worth prioritizing? Seems easy enough to get DE from raiding, but perhaps it's more difficult at TH8...

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Great thread. You guys are ahead of me, so I'd love to know if you saw more swarm attacks or giant attacks? I ask because I want to do beancounter's "all 3 mortars simultaneously" approach (good against swarms), but am also tempted to pay 4m for all 5 cannons at once (good against giants).

Also, was the DE drill worth prioritizing? Seems easy enough to get DE from raiding, but perhaps it's more difficult at TH8...

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In the beginning I got hit by mostly TH9's with Archer Queens, coming to steal some gold, this was while all my splash was upgrading. Their mix was the typical giant/wallbreaker/archer/barb combo.

I would rather try to stagger your builders, starting them all of on the same day on cannons will have them finish on the same day, meaning a lot more resources for the next upgrades, also 3 days without builders is a long time when just starting off TH8. I staggered my builders on day 1 so I had time to collect resources for walls when the builders finished (check my spreadsheet for day 1 upgrades).

Regarding DE, hell yes! 1080 DE a day is worth it in the long run. 30 days after drill finished it's 32400 DE I did not have to farm - busy upgrading my barbarian king to lvl7 now by the way, was lvl2 when I started TH8. Farming DE at TH8 is the easy part, it gets difficult to hold onto it once you reach >17000 DE in your storage, that's when the TH9's start hitting you!! If it weren't for my splash, imo, I would have lost a lot more.

Good luck. ;)

See the link to my latest planning sheet. I will give an update and make some changes to the OP over the weekend.

http://sdrv.ms/18Tioht

Hey, Rynoster we are both pretty much at the same point. Lvl 75 here too. My archer towers are farther along, but your teslas are a level ahead of me. And we are both upgrading dragons to three. Lol

I am not sure i want to boost the second dark barracks. It is very time intensive. My first will start upgrading to four this Saturday.

Lastly, if I can tuff out the lab upgrades I will finish my th9 upgrade on aug 2. But I may blow off the last two rages levels and shoot for July 20th.

Keep it up

Original post updated
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Current village status
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps89b27a39.jpg

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Hey, Rynoster we are both pretty much at the same point. Lvl 75 here too. My archer towers are farther along, but your teslas are a level ahead of me. And we are both upgrading dragons to three. Lol

I am not sure i want to boost the second dark barracks. It is very time intensive. My first will start upgrading to four this Saturday.

Lastly, if I can tuff out the lab upgrades I will finish my th9 upgrade on aug 2. But I may blow off the last two rages levels and shoot for July 20th.

Keep it up

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Thanks for the feedback Beancounter. Every time I try to upgrade an archer tower, something comes up. :D
For instance I decided to max out my 3rd gold storage, due to me filling up the 4mil limit I had so frequently that I basically wasted, and could have raided for some extra walls. Now busy maxing out my DE storage, to add some hitpoints to it, mainly to lessen the triple-lightning blow.... man that's annoying and cheap!!

The main thing that has haltered my archer towers upgrades have been the barbarian upgrades though, going to level 8 now. :cool:

Regarding 2nd Dark Barracks, have not decided yet to be honest, I just completed the spreadsheet for the sake of having all the pieces in there, to get an idea for my end date. However, knowing me, I will probably finish it all before going TH9... :)

Good luck on your quest to TH9! ;)

I finally passed the halfway mark on my skulls walls. As of just now, 116 down, 109 to go.

I also managed to get a back-to-back Barbarian King upgrade going, right now busy maxing him out to level 10 - 4d10h to go... :cool::cool:

Below the latest village screen and updated Excel plan.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps181d4370.png

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps9791e925.png

http://sdrv.ms/16fEmJR

Very nice plan here. I am about to finish my TH8 Upgrade and this is so helpful! Thanks for sharing bro!

Thanks for the update. It is interesting to see how far other people are progressing. Even though I can not seem to keep up with you - especially on the walls and barb king upgrades. I have only gotten 73 skull walls and my king is just lvl 6. I am starting my dreaded tesla upgrades. Three builders going non stop for twenty+ days. I also have a builder dedicated to air defense. I am leaving a builder free for the king upgrades and walls - just so I can keep my sanity while the teslas grind out!

I have been having a great time using a dragon army, rage dragons is amazing. Nothing like completely flattening a TH9 or TH10!

I have have not lost hardly any stores on defense, which is great. THe most I have lost is two stores in a single raid and that was someone revenging me with dragons, lol!

How is loot in 1500 range? I have been hanging around the 1300, which is probably why I have not gotten as much DE as you.

Keep on posting updates! Maybe, just maybe I can can cach up to you on the walls!

Edit: Make sure you skip my base if you come across it! I go by the user name KevMan.

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Thanks for the update. It is interesting to see how far other people are progressing. Even though I can not seem to keep up with you - especially on the walls and barb king upgrades. I have only gotten 73 skull walls and my king is just lvl 6. I am starting my dreaded tesla upgrades. Three builders going non stop for twenty+ days. I also have a builder dedicated to air defense. I am leaving a builder free for the king upgrades and walls - just so I can keep my sanity while the teslas grind out!

I have been having a great time using a dragon army, rage dragons is amazing. Nothing like completely flattening a TH9 or TH10!

I have have not lost hardly any stores on defense, which is great. THe most I have lost is two stores in a single raid and that was someone revenging me with dragons, lol!

How is loot in 1500 range? I have been hanging around the 1300, which is probably why I have not gotten as much DE as you.

Keep on posting updates! Maybe, just maybe I can can cach up to you on the walls!

Edit: Make sure you skip my base if you come across it! I go by the user name KevMan.

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Walls are quite the pain yes, I just try to raid as much possible to get some extra walls done. I think barbarian king upgrades are mostly due to the high trophy count yes. I do however farm mainly for gold, the DE is usually collateral. The only exception to that is when I see a builder freeing up and I can chase down the remaining DE before then.

Teslas.... don't get me started on those... :) Only just worse than Archer Towers. :D

Will post updates when I can. ;)

Lol, I will probably skip you anyway, maxed out splash defenses is usually a skip for me, unless you have a crappy layout. :p

It's been a while since my previous update. Thought I'd pop in for the latest. Not much has changed really, just doing the normal gold grind for defenses and walls. All defenses besides 3 archer towers are either done or finishing up. Up to 160 walls now, not so far to go, especially since the defensive upgrades are basically done.

My barbarian king is now maxed out, was still busy upgrading when I posted here.

I have moved my TH9 upgrade to be finished by July 29th, 2013.

Anyway, below the latest village status as well as the spreadsheet update.

http://i.imgur.com/6T7VSnK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XR6Az9l.png

http://sdrv.ms/14TRJ1k

All my defenses are now maxed, only 26 walls left. I started my TH9 upgrade 2 days ago, 8 days and counting. :)

This will be my last udpate, I might just pop in here when all my walls are done and point in my TH9 journey direction, when I start it.

http://i.imgur.com/pwzVuVC.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/jkrl0lP.png

Edit: I also changed my layout to a "DE Protector". I need to protect the black stuff to ensure I can make Archer Queen level 2 the moment I hit TH9. :) I am able to drill to the max before I hit TH9, already on 75694 DE since I took this screenshot. Join the clan if you want some dark troops donated. :p

Hi Rynoster! I just found your thread as I'm 3 days away from my TH8 finishing up.


My question for you is how did you balance saving coin for upgrades vs. saving for walls?



I forsee myself at TH8 for quite some time, but will look forward to your TH9 journey! :cool:

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Hi Rynoster! I just found your thread as I'm 3 days away from my TH8 finishing up.


My question for you is how did you balance saving coin for upgrades vs. saving for walls?



I forsee myself at TH8 for quite some time, but will look forward to your TH9 journey! :cool:

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Hey DeeJayDebs.

I did not have a specific strategy for doing walls, it basically just depended on how much I could raid after I had enough gold for my next defensive upgrade. I would say however not to sacrifice defenses at the cost of walls, defenses always get priority over walls in my opinion.

Hope this helps, and good luck with your journey!!

My strategy is simple. I try to keep the defenses being upgraded at the same time, not more, not less (have a lot of catch up to do after a premature TH8).

Usually it means one defensive upgrade (sometimes 2) initiated each day. I usually play just a couple of hours in the evening and that is about 10 raids per day. I simply keep raiding for this 2 hours and try to get as much gold as possible. Then when I am done for the day I leave aside what I need of rthe upgrade scheduled for that day, max walls with the rest, then start the upgrade and then go to bed in peace knowing that there almost no 0 gold left in my storages.

Next day, rinse and repeat.

Have been going great for me so far. 40 days ago I was a premature TH8 with TH4 defenses and walls, level 3 troops. Now I have maxed mortars, level 7-8 archer towers, 8-9 canons, 4-5 WT, 2/3 of wall to level 7, level 5 barbs, archers, giants, 5 lighting and rage spells, full army camps, 1 level 4 dark barracks (the other is still level 1), maxed DE drill and storage, level 6 BK, 1 level 8, 2 level 9 and one level 10 barracks, etc. I think that is a good progress.

My hidden teslas are still level 1 but I was intending to max the splash defenses first and then switch to HT.