Less than 1 month in, 4 days away from TH8

So as the title reads my builder is 4 days away from finishing my town hall 8 upgrade. I have been playing for 3 1/2 weeks because my girlfriend's son kept asking her and I to play the game and join his clan. I must say I am pretty shocked I enjoy the game as much as i do (except for the loot for 2-3 days after the maintenance, ugh haha) Early on I bought the 4th builder and then a week later I bought the fifth haha, but no gems after that.

I read the forums and the debate on rushing town halls and all that jazz, so I decided my plan was to rush to town hall 7 and then start maxing out at every town hall. Well, it was late one night and I was going to save for a tesla tower and then call it a night, but then out of nowhere supercell gave me a 300k/300k raid. Soooo that put the thought in my head to push to the 2 mill or whatever the cost to upgrade to th8 was and then go to bed.

My goal is to have a well rounded th10 base in the long run.

So my strategy so far has been:

Upgrade only farming troops. I have BARCH level 4, I also have lightning spell 2, giants 3, goblins 2, and wiz 2

Since only using BARCH 99% of time I have one barracks that is upgrading to level 9, and the other 3 are level 5.

Max Army Camps

Barbarian King level 1 (that was a pain to get might I add)

I have a dark barracks though it is level 1 and I haven't made a single minion.

My defenses are bad but not terrible imo. I have all available buildings and one of the teslas is upgrading to level 2. mortars are level 3 and wiz towers level 2 cannons level 5 and archers level 4... ok my defense is terrible :)

BUT... I have fully maxed level 7 walls.

And so with all of this, am I right in thinking that I made the right move in going to town hall 8? It will be easier to upgrade my BK and though I have a lot of upgrades to do my farming army and walls are maxed and the upgrades that I have left to do are mostly defensive and limited by time and not so much by gold/elixir?

Thanks in advance

Did you make a good decision rushing TH7? Yes.

TH8? No.

Good job on lvl 7 walls though. I'm guessing your barch is lvl 4, but upgrade the spells you use to max, along with spell factory. Max your mortars ASAP as well and lvl 3 wiz tower, then go to TH8.

Since you already bought upgrade, just continue it. But when you hit TH8, make these your priorities (if you don't already have them):

-Lvl 5 Barch
-Lvl 5 Spells (ones you use)
-Lvl 3 Spell Factory
-Lvl 6 Lab
-Lvl 3 Drill
-Lvl 7 Barracks (So that they hold 50 troops each filling your army camps perfectly)
-Lvl 6 Army Camps
-Lvl 6 Mortars
-Lvl 6 Wizard Towers
-New Walls Level 7
-Lvl 5 King
-All 12 mines/collectors Lvl 11

I know it sounds a lot, but this will help A LOT!

And don't go to TH9 ANYTIME soon!

You rushed properly but you should upgrade your spells as well if you plan to participate in clan wars. Defense is the least important thing in this game. There are countless people without defenses, including my second account, that are doing just fine.

TH9 is the best TH to farm everything and TH10 is the best TH to protect your loot and farm DE. TH8 is the worst TH to stay for long IMO though.

TH 8 is much better to farm with, but be prepared to stay there for a loooooong​ time.

Thanks for the replies.

At every town hall I always upgrade lab and spell factory as a priority and the laboratory has always been upgrading something since I have built it. Its just been hard to squeeze in the time needed for the spell upgrades. I still have 4 days left until th8 and I will do lightning level 3 + 1 more lab upgrade in that time.

I really had every intention to stay at town hall 7 and max but I knew my walls were going to be done way before my defenses and my lab upgrades and I would have been sitting there with no instant way to spend gold/elixir and my storages would be full. I probably have loss less than 300k/300k to raids since I have started playing because I'm pretty good at emptying storages before I log out.

I'm currently at around 1500 trophies. Good range for where I'm at in the game or no? I need to look up loot bonuses and see when you start getting those hefty de bonuses lol. I can see dark elixir gonna be a problem.