Hey there! Don't have much more advice for you, but start maxing those skulls! I'm a TH9 in under 4 hours, and it definetely will help me when I get there :)
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Hey there! Don't have much more advice for you, but start maxing those skulls! I'm a TH9 in under 4 hours, and it definetely will help me when I get there :)
Thanks and good luck with th9!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by EliteBanana
When Im th9 Im def going to try to max my xbows as fast as I can, I see so many th9s with lvl1 xbows, upgrading will help quite a bit :).
Working on those Skull Walls, have 25 down, 200 to go hahah, but going to upgrade on the way up th8.
Still have to get 2mil gold for my last AD, will do that tomorrow along w 3k DE for my King lvl7 :).
So have been slacking a bit.....
DE Storage lvl4
2/3 Teslas are lvl4
3/5 Cannons are lvl9 (#4 done in a day)
3 days left on Minions lvl3, next upgrade will be Balloons l5 for sure!
About to do some serious gold farming......
4 Builders Idle atm, my goal is to have enough gold for these upgrades, from most to least important.....
AD l6 3/3 (2.2mil)
Tesla l4 3/3 (2mil)
Mortar l6 2/4 (1.6mil)
Archer Tower l9 3/5 (1.5mil)
For a total of 7.3mil gold for it all, idk if i can do it all today.
Will prob boost 3x barracks and my king vs 2 barracks. Since I really need the gold, think all 4 barracks isnt necessary and almost never use spells when farming.
Since its just gold I need will look for hopefully 200k-250k Gold minimum, fairly easy collector raids or easy storage raids.....
Alternatively if I cant farm all 7.3mil gold I will be happy with getting my AD and Mortar started.
So AD and Mortar is 3.8mil gold, ill be happy w that.
And if I get an extra 800k after that I will prob just do my last cannon, bc its cheap and will have to be upgraded sometime anyways
Wish me luck, posting this to help motivate myself aswell :)
Hey man I am only a few days ahead of you I think that balance is the key. But having 4 idle workers is scary!
I have found that staggering the completion times of stuff really helps. Making sure that 2 builders don't get freed up at the same time is clutch for me. I hate HAVING to sit down for two hours to farm to keep builders busy. Which is why teslas are so important, they keep one builder busy for 6-8-10 days at a time while actually providing return investment.
Barch and Bam are more than enough to raid with since they que up fast (2x on barb 2x on arch 2x on minion)
Just a bit of advice i came across
About the idle builders I totally agree with you, the thing is that I dont really plan for it....Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheldama
If I was planning on not playing for a few days I would rather upgrade my collectors than nothing....
My collectors are rather low, including both gold and elixir pumps 3 are lvl10 and 9 are lvl9. Collectors are my absolute last prioruty though, and I feel like keeping them low makes me less of a target when they are full.....
Besides collectors I have 2/4 of my Barrackd only at lvl7, and my Dark Barracks are at lvl1 and lvl4......
I could always upgrade my barracks from 7 to 8, then from 8 to 9......
My logic was that lvl8 Barracks arent any different than lvl7, since i never use healers, but getting my barracks to lvl9 to be able to train 4 dragons at once vs 2 now, that would be sweet.
Might do Dark Barracks first though, thing is it sucks to upgrade a barrack when farming bc u cant use it to train up troops....
But if I boost my other 3 to farm if 1 is upgrading, it will be like having 14 barracks (including 2 Dark Barracks) if the 3 barracks go at 4x the speed, (3×4+2) = 14. vs 15 with it, prob not even noticable.
And boosting all 4 giving me 18 barracks the speed I cant keep up with anyways......
Thanks, will prob start 1 lvl8 Barrack Upgrade tpnight ;).
Personally avoided them at th8, except for getting 1 to lvl10 for Pekkas, just bc I hate farming unboosted with 75% the speed, but since I have like 200 Gems, thats 5x boosting sessions :)
The best thing about the upgraded barracks is the increased training space. Put up a ton of dudes and let it go. For decreased barracks i just boost 1 barracks of barbs, the 2 full of archers and one dark full of minions.
And honestly you can just boost 2 barracks and not notice a huge dip in farming if you are barching.
So just got done with a serious farming session......
4 hours total, 2 X 2 hour boosting sessions. Boosted 3 Barracks + my King, costing 40 gems each round and 80 gems total.
Managed to get 5.2m gold + 4m elixir.....
So I had 4 builders free, was able to start 3 of them working.....
What I started was......
AD l6 3/3
Tesla l4 3/3
Cannon l9 5/5
Which was just under 5million gold total.....
Going to farm tomorrow to get my mortar going, With the 200k remaining gold I got I will only need to get 1.4m for the Mortar.
Seems good bossman.
Planning things out really will help you pace yourself and know how much money you need to save up per day
Just found this thread. Very interesting. I'm in a similar position myself - been TH8 for about a month, I was almost maxed at TH7 save one barracks and an elixir collector.
I prioritised things a bit differently on the defences. I mostly get hit by mass dragons in wars so maxed my AD fairly early on. I upgraded 2 AD at a time which was risky but wasn't hit by any air attacks during the upgrades. In the last war I was only hit once - mass drags, 2 star, so feels like a win to me. Yes the attack wasn't very good but I think 666 AD is intimidating to TH8 air attackers.
I have had a builder on tesla duty since hour 1 of TH8 - I have had as many as 3 teslas upgrading simultaneously but currently have 2x level 4 being upgraded and 1x level 5 currently active in my base. Also, from a war perspective I don't think people are going to expect to see high level HTs pop up when they see the rest of my undeveloped defences :)
I see that most people have mortars quite high up the priority list and, maybe I'm missing something here but 9 DPS from a level 6 mortar just seems weak. Yes, I understand that its actually 45 damage per shot and they do splash damage but I'm just not seeing it as a priority at the moment.
My king is currently on his way to level 9 and I want to max him asap as the long upgrade times are such a pain i just want to be done with them. Plus, level 2 iron first won't hurt :)
In the lab I did barbs, archers, dragons, wiz and now doing loons. Next up is wb probably. I don't see level 5 rage as being a massive uplift over level 4 and will do heal and probably lightning before i get to rage.
I think I made a bit of a mistake in getting all my walls to purple before starting skulls. Funnelling walls don't need to be super strong and I would have been better off getting my core skulled before getting all the pink walls purple I think.
as long as your workers are always.... Working, then getting walls up to par isn't a bad idea. Eventually you will have to level them anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by jannaj