How the change in wall upgrades screwed TH8's ability to keep GOLD.

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Originally Posted by squirlz

I did this, got mauled 3 times. Then I put the storages back and just my TH was taken twice in a row now. Its just the luck of the draw. It also does not help that I am sitting on 33K DE and 4M gold. This 1 gem boost really lets me raid a lot, trying to get 40K DE to get BK to lvl 10.

I am in the same boat, all of my elixir upgrades are done, barbs, archers, WBs, giants, wizards, are all upgraded and dragons are finishing in a day. I still have a lot left to spend on troop upgrades but i am sitting on 5.5M elixir now and can not spend it fast enough. I have been doing war armies every time I log off to use some of it, it is nice for the practice, but it would be nice to have elixir walls back. But as others have said, that's the way it is so i deal with it.

I have 1 mortar left, all 3 air defenses, 3 cannons, all 3 teslas, and all 5 archer towers left to upgrade.
I will probably just cook drags to donate after they are complete.

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I'm dealing with this too. Just putting the elixir out is the best thing solution i have come across so far. It ensures that you won't have your base completely destroyed because of elixir. I have lots of gold and elixir as well, but I know if they go for that it wasn't a byproduct of them wanting the elixir.

As far as real armies go, I could recommend training one full dragon army overnight, doing it as your first attack, and then going back to farming armies.

Between those 2 things you should lose about a million elixir a day.

EDIT: I've been in crystal 3 with elixir out for 2 days. Out of 8 attacks 2 attempted to get my gold and DE.

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Originally Posted by Puddelglumm

I got fed up with TH9s wrecking me for elixir too. L6 Giants, Heros, spells, there goes all my loot. Much as it pains me, I took the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach and just dropped down to Silver II. Plenty of TH7s and rushed TH8s to raid down here and haven't been hit by a TH9 yet. Although I have seen a few. But they're rare.

Note that this solution won't help if you're trying to farm DE, not much of that down here.

Edit: I've also been training dragon armies whenever possible to keep elixir levels low.

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Hmm is there decent gold down that far? Can you find bases with 200K+ at that level or are you raiding mostly for 100K gold. i might give that a try, sure as heck better that having TH9's running over you at 1350 trophies (where I like to sit right now because the loot is really good).

I was a th8 during the great and long period before exilir walls. I sat with full storages which could have completed my walls.

Instead, I did dragon farming, dropped spells like crazy, pekka farming, donated like a madman to my clan, supplied all the troops for 40 war castles, almost, gave out war troops, etc.

It was really, really fun but caring about exilir costs.

If I got raided (which rarely happened because my th8 base was tough as nails), the max I could lose to a th9 was only 270k, otherwise known as a raid or two. You hit max raidable storage as a th8 at 3mil or so, so everything above that is safe. You have no more available loot at 6mil than 3mil, so you might as well have a larger portion protected.

But if the OP wants to avoid getting hit, go to th9 and join big boy clash......

Or drop to silver.

Some of you are just never satisfied :confused:

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Originally Posted by LordHutch

Hmm is there decent gold down that far? Can you find bases with 200K+ at that level or are you raiding mostly for 100K gold. i might give that a try, sure as heck better that having TH9's running over you at 1350 trophies (where I like to sit right now because the loot is really good).

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I could show you three screens of this. Raised 6M gold since last night. I'm not normally using that many spells, average is more like 1 per attack, the most recent attack I dumped them because I needed to empty spell factory for a war attack.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8671/...5f9a1404_o.jpg

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Originally Posted by Tycho23

I'm dealing with this too. Just putting the elixir out is the best thing solution i have come across so far. It ensures that you won't have your base completely destroyed because of elixir. I have lots of gold and elixir as well, but I know if they go for that it wasn't a byproduct of them wanting the elixir.

As far as real armies go, I could recommend training one full dragon army overnight, doing it as your first attack, and then going back to farming armies.

Between those 2 things you should lose about a million elixir a day.

EDIT: I've been in crystal 3 with elixir out for 2 days. Out of 8 attacks 2 attempted to get my gold and DE.

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I stay in C3 as well, best place to be to get the DE needed for upgrades. I think in TH7 though i never put elixir in walls, things worked out more evenly. Just something we have to deal with.

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Originally Posted by Tycho23

Put TH+elixir storages together in one corner.
Problem Solved.

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Precisely, then we will leave whatever paltry gold you have and traps alone, saving every drop of gold you have.

SuperCell do not have to do anything to make it easier for you, every TH9 & TH10 before you had the same "problem" and managed just fine, and still think TH8 was easier than where we are now [except for DE]

The way they handled this reverted wall update was flat-out stupid, that is inarguable. But since it will be incredibly less likely now for SC to make yet another change, which would "admit failure," you might as well just game the poorly slapped together band-aid of a fix and head to TH9 if you're basically maxed out minus walls. You'll have a use for elixir, and when you finish those upgrades you can just dump all your elixir into walls and continue to screw the economy over for TH10s.

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Originally Posted by Goobers

The way they handled this reverted wall update was flat-out stupid, that is inarguable. But since it will be incredibly less likely now for SC to make yet another change, which would "admit failure," you might as well just game the poorly slapped together band-aid of a fix and head to TH9 if you're basically maxed out minus walls. You'll have a use for elixir, and when you finish those upgrades you can just dump all your elixir into walls and continue to screw the economy over for TH10s.

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Agree on both counts.

The elixir wall story has been a mess, we know it is a failure, SuperCell will not want to make that obvious.

Any near maxed TH8 is mad to stay at TH8 now, too many carrots at TH9.

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Originally Posted by Puddelglumm

I got fed up with TH9s wrecking me for elixir too. L6 Giants, Heros, spells, there goes all my loot. Much as it pains me, I took the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" approach and just dropped down to Silver II. Plenty of TH7s and rushed TH8s to raid down here and haven't been hit by a TH9 yet. Although I have seen a few. But they're rare.

Note that this solution won't help if you're trying to farm DE, not much of that down here.

Edit: I've also been training dragon armies whenever possible to keep elixir levels low.

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Yep, this is my thought exactly. Drop to 1200 trophies and you'll be good. That's where all the TH7s hang out.

You're likely in the gold league which is where the TH9s, like me, feast on TH8s.