Do people max before they move up?
I rushed to TH7 before I started reading this forum and watching Youtube videos, so I am trying to avoid doing the same thing again. My question is do most people fully max out before they move up? I am pretty sure moving up without all my defenses maxed would be a bad idea but some of the other stuff I'm not sure. The 3 places I'm a little behind are.
1. My collectors, I get far more loot from farming then I do from my collectors so I've been neglecting them. Currently level 6/7, I wonder if having small value collectors is one of the reason I don't get raided that often.
2. My Barracks, I hate not getting my troops as fast so I have been just upgrading one at a time. I have one level 9 to cook dragons for war the rest are level 7.
3. Dark Elixir upgrades, TH7 has been really easy to farm gold and elixir but getting DE has been a grind. I have my my Barb King upgrading to lev 2, upgraded minions.
Without doing any collectors/barracks/DE upgrades I should be able to max out everything else in 2 weeks. Its probably another two weeks to do everything else. Thanks for the help
Max Defenses...others not as important
I'd definitely say to max all defenses and walls at whatever TH lvl you are at until TH9. Dont worry about gold mines or elixir pumps as much.
A little known secret:
Since I dont rely on pumps/mines for resources, why spend the unnecessary time on its upgrade. Plus when possible attackers see your scrawny pumps, sometimes they just skip your base. I had lvl 9 pumps mines until TH9. By not maxing then to lvl 11...I've saved nearly 60 days in upgrade times that were used for much more important things and was raided less often!
Lastly, when you reach TH9 and everything is 3-5 million gold and/or elixir and you can't keep your builders busy enough...THIS IS NOW the time to max pumps/mines. They are cheap upgrades and builders stay busy.
So not only is it okay to not max out pumps/mines, it can definitely be argued its the more logical approach!
Good luck.