max TH8 is the biggest waste of time ever if your goal is to progress in this game quickly. Do you like wasting hundreds of millions of elixirs?
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max TH8 is the biggest waste of time ever if your goal is to progress in this game quickly. Do you like wasting hundreds of millions of elixirs?
Hundreds of millions of elixir? To MAX TH8, including everything from TH's 1->7, only cost 115m elixir. That's inclusive of buildings and troops. Unclear how you think it's hundreds and hundreds, it's barely 100m.Quote:
Originally Posted by Morgauth
Max TH8. Or come as close as you can. If you plan on progressing to a good, solid TH10, you're going to want to do this stuff now.
That's actually kind of his point. Since you only need 100m elixer, but you need a whole lot more gold (especially now since TH8s can't dump elixer into walls), your elixer will go to waste once you finish those elixer upgrades.Quote:
Originally Posted by mungoflago
For me, I would say:
Finish the valuable elixer upgrades. That means: Rage, Pekka.
Then, move up. The only critical thing is to move up with full storages, full CC, and buy a 2 day shield 2 days before the upgrade finishes and let your collectors fill. Then you can immediately purchase both xbows, AQ, lab, spell factory, and then start an army camp. Once you're there, you'll find yourself barching TH8s with ease, and actually be able to dent TH9s in wars.
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Originally Posted by Nyxiggon
That's fair, everyone has a different opinion. But I don't mind having full elixir at the moment at all. I have full DE too. If I lose all three of my elixir storages I lose ~300k, and that hasn't happened to me in forever thanks to my base. The shield gets me 252,000 of each resource so after one successful attack I'm back at full. I know it feels like a waste to people to actively only farm one resource, but everything I've heard from and think is that if you want to progress strongly and efficiently into the depths of TH10, the quickest way to do it is to max TH8. It might feel as if you're stagnant, but talk to people who are early TH10's and the majority of the ones I've spoken to wish they spent the extra week farming walls, or the extra 22 days getting hogs to 4 so they can max them now...or getting their heros to 10, etc etc.
I'm interested in some advice too.
I've been TH8 for almost 3 months with five courageous never-resting builders, so I'm close to the end.
Defenses are maxed, traps too except for 3 baby bombs, 2 barracks left, 80 walls to skullify and most collectors need to be upgraded to lvl12.
Even with 1 builder kept free for dumping gold into walls, it will only take 20 days before there's nothing left to build.
Problem is... I would need exactly 71 days to do all the stuff left in the lab (who has been working non-stop too, it's just so frustrating).
Here are the troop/spells upgrades left:
- Pekka 3 (I'm launching it tonight unless it's a bad idea?)
- Goblin 5
- Rage/Heal/Lightning 5
- Healer 3
- Minion 3 & 4
- Golem 2
- Valkyrie 2
In theory, I could have the time to upgrade back-to-back pekka3, minions3 and 4, then golem2 while building TH9, but I don't think I'll manage to have such heavy and steady DE income for 3 weeks, especially since I'll have to upgrade my BK to lvl10...
So, here's my question, I'll probably have room for 1 or 2 more upgrades in the lab, even if my builds will probably have to stay idle for a few days, which ones should I do first ?
I was thinking Goblin (I use them a bit, mixed with Barch) and maybe Rage ? Or Heal ?
PS: I've been throwing away millions of elixir since last week, not sure I want to do the same with gold, once my walls are finished.
Right there with you buddy. Pekka, minions, rage/heal are pretty much mandatory. Loonion is such a destructive force at TH9 that you don't want to be far behind.Quote:
Originally Posted by DayTayCay
Don't worry about valks, healers, goblins, lightning if you're trying to push it.
I've had idle builders forever, everything is on it's way to max (few elix collector with a day left, then max buildings), and valk->2 is already on it's way. 75 skulls left. I'm just grinding through them all, regardless of how long it takes...in it to win it baby!
I would upgrade a bit more or max, but if you want to upgrade now then at least your not really low level th8.
As a TH9, I wished I had finished some of those upgrades you guys are referring to. I went to TH9 with all skulls, mostly maxed defenses except air defense (wish I had maxed it) and I didn't do a lot of the DE upgrades. I only did Minions -2 Hogs -3 and my BK was 5. I also never upgraded my healer bc I didn't use her. Now I am finding I use her, so I'm playing catch up now. Farming is much easier at 8 than at 9, so take advantage while you can. The only difference is I can farm DE easier now, so my DE upgrades are coming along, problem is I'm having to prioritize with some of the upgrades I should have done at 8 (i.e. healer, goblins, and lvl 5 spells.) So, I know "the struggle is real" and it very much is, but it's worth it to grind it out. I only went to 9 bc I was getting so bored I was gonna quit playing, so to keep myself engaged I said screw it and upgraded TH. You have to do what's most entertaining for you.
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Originally Posted by QueenRosie
I don't plan on ever using hogs. I find they are too "iffy" with everyone doing double giant bombs now. I definitely do not need to have them for war. I consistently get between 4-6 stars in a clan that wars constantly. They look boring and the attitude of hog users turns me away from them also. I find balloonion and GoWipe to be much more fun and have more skill required.
Thanks everyone for the advice!
I decided I'm going to finish the following before upgrading to TH9:
Teslas - Max
Wiz towers - Max
Archer towers - Max
Traps - Max
Everything max in the lab except: Hogs, Valks, Goblins, and healer.
BK - Max
Walls - IMO SC can suck it. As soon as I get to TH8 they stopped the elixir walls for level 8. I'll do walls again when they change the rules again to allow minimum level 8 walls to be updated with elixir. If they never do, I'll be a TH10 with level 7 walls eventually. I will NEVER again use only gold for walls. If the game was balanced properly then you wouldn't have excess elixir.