1.) I am a high th9 at Crystal 3 with most time dark elixir of the loot cap (2K to raid) and Gold/elixir at least half (200K to raid). The last 2 weeks before the barracks boost I got only th snipes. Not a single real attack if you dont Count the barchers that want to raid my empty mines. It took about 15-30 minutes on average to get the th snipe, so you can calculate how long I lasted without real attacks ;-)
2.) A new th8 Needs elixir for troops, a mid th8 Needs elixir for Dragon attacks in cw. A high th8 Needs elixir for upgrading the barracks, dark barracks and maybe pekkas.
A new or middle th9 Needs massive amounts of elixir for dark drills, unit Upgrades, army camps and so on. A high th9 will put it into lvl9 walls doing lvl8 and 9 in one step if needed.
A new and mid th10 Needs massive amounts of elixir again and a high th10 will put it into walls.
So dont tell me it is worthless if most of the time you are farming elxir. The only Players that have a Problem with elixir for walls are the ones that think they have to get skulls at th8. Should I tell you a secret? You dont need skulls or even purples at th9. You also dont need maxed def. You will not get smashed at th9. Defending will get much easier as well as loot is much better if you are doing storage raids.
The only reason I am telling everyone to max th8 is because most th8 players simply suck at attacking. Upgrading their def gives them time to get skilled enough to raid th8 storages instead of barching th7 collectors ;-)
P.S. I went to th9 with maxed def (except some teslas), but with pink walls and it was really easy after saving up for the queen while upgrading and starting with 6 Million elixir. I did not have any Problems attacking or defending and this was directly after the September updaten when loot was a horror.
