So I will be hitting TH9 in 8days. Have maxed everything except Valkyries, Golems, and BK (lvl5).
I'm thinking:
Gold:
xBows x2
Elixir:
Lab
Dark Barracks (for GoWiWi)
DE:
AQ
Any thoughts from the ones who have gone before me? :D
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So I will be hitting TH9 in 8days. Have maxed everything except Valkyries, Golems, and BK (lvl5).
I'm thinking:
Gold:
xBows x2
Elixir:
Lab
Dark Barracks (for GoWiWi)
DE:
AQ
Any thoughts from the ones who have gone before me? :D
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Originally Posted by casualmortal
Spell factory, army camps, new buildings and dark elixir drill.
EDIT: Clan castle is a very important upgrade as well. It provides an overall boost to both offence and defence in one single upgrade. After that, I would use gold on higher level xbow and wizard tower, but I personally used most of my builders on elixir upgrades. The sooner to have dark elixir drills done the better.
Gold: xbows -> clan castle (unless your clan sux) -> defenses
Elixir: Lab -> Spell Factory -> Army Camps -> DE drills -> DE Barracks
DE: AQ to 5 ->DE researches
I put a lot of effort in to getting my drills to level 6 pretty early. It really paid off for me. With both at level 6, you are getting almost 5k de each day. This makes it almost too easy to upgrade heroes and research de troops.
As an example, I was upgrading golems from level 2 to level 3. While doing this, I was able to upgrade my BK from level 12 to level 13 (costs 55k de) and I STILL had more then enough de to immediately upgrade my golems to level 4 when the research was finished. During this time, I was also the only one in my clan with level 5 hogs, so I was supplying them constantly for clan wars. I don't do a whole lot of de farming. I just kinda pick it up as I look for gold/elixir. So doing these drills has been a huge benefit for me.
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Originally Posted by Foreigner
Thanks for the suggestions. My clan is pretty ok, so I guess xBows first.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peldin
Interested to hear your experience on upgrading DE drills early on Peldin, will definitely do that then, as I plan to use Golems extensively for Clan Wars.
So I guess Spell Factory and Lab gets the first upgrade, with Drills the focus after that. Of course not to forget the new defenses and walls!
Any other suggestions or words of wisdom from others would be appreciated :D
I started with All new Buildings (only one Xbow, didn't have enough gold) and upgrade Lab. Continued with second xbow and upgraded spell factory. Next was camps (still one missing, this week on queue). Next update will be CC with gold and Dark Barracks with elixir (I'm a noob th9 too). After this plan to gold upgrades to put all defenses to TH8 level and max Elixir Drills with Elixir. Next stage didn't think on it yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by casualmortal
My upgrade to 9 will be done in 2 days
I've got almost 7 mil in gold, 6 mil elixer and 50,000 dark
in my storages, collectors and clan castle.
I've got 5 builders
2 xbows
1 camp
1 lab
5th builder will do :
Archer queen
archer tower
walls
2 new storages
and finish with 4th air defense
gold - x-bows
elixir - lab
dark barracks
de - AQ
also get BK at least lvl 5 for his ability
gold- CC > everything else
elixir lab sf > camp > drill > dark barracks
All of your builders should be doing elixir upgrades and you should be dumping gold into walls if you're active farmer. If you can't keep up with the amount of elixir needed then do some defense.
I made the mistake of starting to upgrade my de drills before army camps. Being in a clan that wars constantly, this was a bad decision on my part because I struggled to take on other th9's with only 200 troops. So I stopped doing drills when I had one at level 5 and one at level 4. Got all my army camps done and then went back to doing de drills.
I'm not a heavy farmer, but I still made enough de from wars and farming to get my queen up to level 5 before my drills were all done. Once your drills are done, heroes and researching becomes easy. If you are researching elixir troops, like L6 barbs/archers/loons/giants, then you will be upgrading your queen like crazy. If you are researching de troops, you will have to do some extra farming to keep those hero upgrades going.
The beginning stages of any TH upgrade should always be economy. Unfortunately that is elixir intensive. personally i would do cc first with gold. If you war this will allow you to bring one of those max golem things into war. Best advice is to farm like hell and get your camps upgraded asap(obviously SF and lab come first).
Awesome, thanks for the input guys. I think I have a picture of what I'll do :)
I'd say what you have is good
I did both X Bows right off the bat and don't regret it. With elixir I did the lab and drill, then spell factory. I used the fifth builder to build the new buildings. The clan castle, army camps, and x bows to level 2 were done within the first few weeks.
Just started TH9 this morning. Did both X-boxs, 1 camp, and my spell factory. I have a 5th builder so I had him on new buildings.
After my camp and spell factory finish, I'll be doing either 2 camps or a camp and lab. I'm content not doing my lab right away because I have a few lab upgrades left over from TH8, so I'm working on those for now.
Biggest Improvements from TH8->fresh TH9:
AQ. This one is pretty obvious.
2 Xbows - This makes it much harder for TH9s to attack you with Giant+Healer. I basically went from getting 100% from giants all day in TH8 to immediately having them only get ~30% of my loot, just from gaining 2 xbows. As you get higher, you completely remove this as viable against you.
Lab->Barb level 6 (this might change with the update)
Camps
Spell Factory (4th spell is pretty sweet for war, but you can wait on this if you don't war)
DE Drills
Get ready to save elixer!
my 1st upgrades
2 - xbow
1 - spell factory
1 - lab
1- new buildings + army camp
i just gemmed the lab and farm 24m elixir and just gemmed the upgrade time for my troops(worth it btw)
my progress right now
2 xbow going to level 3
1 lvl 7 wiz tower
1 upgrading my 4th army camp
1 archer queen upgrading to level 7
not sure if people said this already
gold goes to bows, then clan castle
elixir goes to lab first, then spell factory, then army camps
de goes to queen to lvl 2