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Back to posting on forums!!!! Wasn't very active past 2-3 months due to getting a job, and dealing w some personal issues where I felt Tokyo depressed to play, but glad to be active and back.........
So I have been slowly upgrading, all of my Defence Towers are ALL MAXED, technically Air Sweeper L4 has like 3 days till it's finished, but L4 is maxed at TH8........
All Traps maxed except 2x L5 Bombs.
Barracks are: L8, L9, L9,
L10........Minimum want all 4 Barracks@ L9 for Dragons and 2-3 @ L10 for Pekkas, will prob end up maxing all 4 to L10, since I will have time while lab upgrades are finishing up.......
Dark Barracks are: L3, L4................want both L4 so 2x DBs are able to train Golems, and will still be able to make Golems while@ TH9 I upgrade first DB to L5 to unlock Witches.......
160X Walls are Purple L7: the remaining 65 are Skull L8, going to max the remaining 160 walls before moving onto th9, 200/225 at absolute minimum, I know 80mil gold is a TON, but all Skull L8 walls is pretty intimidating, heard from th9 players it's very very smart and will help u tons at th9 to get all Skull L8 walls @ TH8.......
King is L9: Will upgrade to L10 very soon, before th9 for sure.......
Remaining Lab Research:
Going to finish before TH9: Golems L2, Pekka L3, Hogs L4
If I have extra time or saving DE: Lightning Spell L5
Ignoring, never use these troops, will worry about them@ TH9:
Valks L2, Healer L3
All other research is done..........
With the Balloon training time cut in half from 8 min to 4, with boosting the barracks they only take 1 minute each..........
Taking advantage of this while DE farming, I like to boost 4 Regular Barracks, boost King, boost Spell Factory, and depending on if u like more minions you can try boosting 1 Dark Barrack but I find that there would be too many Minions then.......
I just put 4 boosted barracks all Balloons and 2 non boosted Dark Barracks on Minions, I like 2 Heal 1 Rage, you can try 2 Rage 1 Heal but the Wizard Towers and Orange Balloon Traps can knock out the whole group of 10-15 Balloons, Heal is very important bc remember on top of the Orange Balloon Traps, and Wiz Towers you have ADs Hammering at you.....
My Army Consists of:
24-30 Balloons L5
25-40 Minions L4
King L9
2X Healing Spell L5
1X Rage Spell L5
CC Troops: 5x Black L6 Balloons are my favorite, second choice is a Dragon L3-4 (L2 is fine at minimum), 1x Black L6 Balloon (I'll take L5 Balloon minimum, L4 won't cut it) Also 3x Balloons l5-6 and 5x Minions l4+ works as well.......
@ TH9: a CC Lava Hound would be very interesting, esp a new TH9 that hasn't quite unlocked Lava Hounds themselves..........
Also if an Air.Defence is on the outside or first layer of walls and easy to get to 5x L4-5 Hogs if the AD is pretty much a straight shot. or, 6x L5-6 Wiz + 1 L5+ Archer and.use your BK to block.......Rarely this CC army can also help take out an Air Sweeper, if it's extremely horribly placed, 90%+ Air Sweepers I have seen are in the core.
If you are worried about CC troops, which u should be, esp attacking th9 and th10 bases, which can hold 7 Wiz + 2 Arch@ th9, and 8 Wiz + 3 Arch@ TH10........Archers aren't a big deal.bc they will die when one of your Balloon dies and falls Down, but 5-8 level 5-6 Wizards attacking 10-15 Balloons bunched up will go down extremely fast, and Balloons target defences first, so the wiz can shoot at them and the Balloons won't target back untill all defences are gone........
Very easy CC lure: Replace3-4 Balloons w 1-2 Giants 1 Valk and 2 Archers. If.all Archers get to corner and have exploding Loon kill all in one hit)). If Wiz lure to corner, use Valk to take them all down, might need a few minions to help out, or Wiz in your CC.
Having 1 Valk 4 Wiz 1 Arch in CC can help, esp if u can get higher level Valks than you have......
For a harder to Lure CC you can try 2-4 Hog Riders (at least l3, really l4-5 recommended then CC Wiz or Valk + Wiz helps quite a bit.......
Depending on the situation you might need to deploy your.king first to distract the CC troops and then CC Wiz to kill their troops.......
CC Dragon + Wiz + Arch works too esp if u can lure to the corner..,,,,,
All archers I wouldn't use your CC and just use a balloon......
Also if your Hogs are L4-5 you can bring 5-10 Hogs and maybe 1 Giant L5+ in place of mostly Loons, and a few Minions as well, also have 5x L4-5 Hogs in your CC, use 1-3 hogs to Lure out CC Troops, if Arch kill w Loon, if Wiz or Drag use Minions, if u brought a Giant drop him first then your Minions, but you might need to have your King block or use most of your Minions.....
Easily able to get an average of 1,500 DE each raid, over 1,000 unless I fail, its not uncommon to find 2,000-2,500+ DE and get it all.
So let's say I loot 1,500DE on average. I use anywhere from 200-400 on Minions, have used Hogs but not while DE farming hardcore :). So 300DE on average, that's 1,200 DE profit per raid, but 2,400 DE profit in a raid isn't unheard of: ).
Personally I go for bases that have at least 1,300 DE, that I know I have to use my full army......if Drills are full and outside walls (not uncommon), depending on the level it's worth losing trophies and just going for the Drills........
@ TH8 Full DE Drills hold 540 DE each, with 75% lootable, that's 405DE each full DE Drill, 810DE if u snipe both of them........
Also a quick question guys........have just over 40k DE, I think 42k, so I have enough to start Hogs L4 and King L10. Really would like to farm another 18k to get 60k DE for Golems L2, but maybe the smart thing would be to start my King L10, then save up the remaining 4mil Elixir for Pekka L3?
I think tonight I'm going to see how much DE I can farm tonight and end up w over 50k DE I'll farm the rest tmrw and start Golems 2, if not I'll start King L10 tonight and start saving elixir for Pekka l3......
For Lab Research I want to do Golems L2 first, then Pekka L3, Hogs L4, Lightning L5 (if I have time). The King I will prob do while Pekka is upgrading........
The reason why I'm asking.is bc my new clan is good but ALL the th8s we are up against in war all have anti Dragon Bases, L2 Golems and L3 Pekkas will help w War attacks.......
Not good w GoWiPe what so ever, need to brush up........
Which is the most helpful for Gowipe? Pekka 2 to 3? Or Golem from 1 to.2?
I know BK L10 is a big boost from.9, ability level goes up. I just really want Golems and Pekkas to be maxed.........
Have a little over a month, 40 days Maybe to find.ish the lab research and will max out the rest while I can:).
Btw my Collectors used to be SOOOO bad, all l9. Have improved a bit on those........
8X L10
3X L11
1X L12
If everything else finishes I will prob just get collectors to 11 and maybe a few to 12, hate collectors but nothing else to do, might as well keep builders busy while working on walls.......
I'll post my progress and let u know how the boost session goes, 4 barracks, king, spell factory. 60 gems, best way to Sepnd gems imo.
K time to play:)
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Started another.Bomb,.1 left......
Did some nice.DE.farming using balloonian and drag loon ian.......
Have 55k DE, only 5k DE to start Golems L2, I'll do it later on this afternoon.:)
Now all left to upgrade besides the last little bomb, are walls, barracks, DB, and finally collectors.......
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Started Golems L2, a little more than 8Days to go, my 6x Little Bombs are done,
Started my last L9 Barracks upgrade, 3 Days to go, then 4/4 will be able to cook up Dragons. (Only 1 atm is L10, would like to have at least 3 Barracks L10, have enough time to do it, might as well!:)
Air Sweeper has less than a day to go.........
The only upgrades left are:
Barbarian King L9 ====>L10
3X Barracks L9 ====> L10
1X Dark Barracks L3 ====> L4
150X Walls L7====> L8
Atm am mainly DE Farming using:
(Boosts on all Regular Barracks, King, and Spell Factory, ((usually I boost all 4 Regular Barracks but since 1 is upgrading I only boost 3 atm))
My Gem Cost: 60 gems/2 hours.= 30 gems an hour.
*~4 gems per raid. (With Balloons temp taking half the training time, takes 1min to train each Balloon X 3 Barracks being boosted.
Army Composition:
24-30 Balloons L5
25-40 Minions L4
2 Heal Spell L5
1 Rage Spell L5
***1-3 Dragons Substituted, (75% Balloons and 25% Minions going by housing space, so if I add 2 Dragons (40 spots)I will take away 5 Balloons (30 spots) + 5 Minions (10 spots)
Even though I said up to 40 Minions usually it's like 30, L4 Minions cost 9DE each to make, so just to be simple let's say 200-400 DE is used on Minions, with 300 being the average.
I try to go for bases where I know I can get to the DE storage and I will profit over 1,000 DE after taking into account what I spent on the minions.
1,500 is usually average
2,500+ I will try even if it looks really hard.
DE Drills I will snipe if on outside and gain at least 250DE each, usually 500 for both
DE Storages that are easy to get if they have 600 and I only have to use 10 balloons then I go for that too
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All my defences, air sweeper included, and all traps are 100% maxed.....
Farming DE w Balloonian to get 40k for my King to be L10, have less than 15k left, so might even be able to hit 40k tomorrow.......
My Barracks aren't quite maxed, 1/4 is L10, the other 3 are L9, Also 1 Dark Barracks is maxed L4, the second one is L3, going to save up the 4.3mil elixir to upgrade my Dark Barracks to L4, then will do 1 regular Barrack at the same time but will only tie up 1 reg Barrack at a time...
Golems L2 have 5-6 days to go, going to have 6mil elixir saved up so I can start Pekka L3 right after Golems finish, then Hogs L4 after Pekkas.
I have around 150 walls still purple, hopefully I can finish them in the ~30 days it will take to finish my research, should be done well before though.
My collector's I have 8x L10, 3x L11, and 1x L12....
So will leave a builder free for walls it might as well put the other builders on my collectors, it's better than nothing.
Hopefully I will be able to finish th8 the right way and am really looking forward to starting th9, heard even though maxing all defs, troops and walls is very tedious it's well worth it at th9
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Just got the 40k DE I needed for the BK L10!!
Golems2 will be done in 3d 1h, next I'm trying to do Pekkas3, but 6million elixir is ALOT!
Before Pekkas L3 going to upgrade my Dark Elixir storage sleep they are both maxed @ L4, will be nice to have double the barracks that can make Golems :)
Also have 3 free builders atm, Going to keep 1 free at all times for walls. 1 on Dark Barracks L4, and last one for walls.,...,,
Also just realized I forgot to upgrade Lightning Spell L5, I think it's 2mil elixir + only 4 days.,,,,,,
So far my walls are doing good, I have done around 85-90 skull walls so far, so that means I have 130-135 walls left, 65-67.5million gold to go lol.
All I have left that isn't maxed @ TH8 (except lab research): 1x Dark Barracks L3 (will be starting to upgrade to L4 by the time anyone reads this Hahah. 3x Barracks L9 (can all train dragons now! Will upgrade those soon 1 by 1), 3x Gold Mines L10, 2x Gold Mines L11. Also 140 walls to do hahaha.
Lab Upgrades Left:
Pekka L3 (doing next)
Hogs L4 (after Pekkas)
Lightning L5
Valks L2
Healer L3
By the way I might as well upgrade it bit is there any significance between a Lightning L4 and Lightning L5? Like does 2x Lightning L5 tape out a low lol air def that would take 3x spells? I personally feel like I would be wasting my time.
Last time I ever used Lightning Spells was early th7, zapping DE, (remember we didn't have a DE Drill at th7,
Had to raid it), also early to mid th7 would atk other th7s in war w 11x Dragons (1 in CC) drop 3x Lightning on the hardest to get Air Defence, deploy and enjoy your three star.
Also heard it was a good idea to upgrade Valks to L2 @ th8 bc they are so useful at th9
Esp w the jump spell.
Does anyone agree with that guy.about upgrading valks to L2 @ th8? 50k DE +
10 days wait for what looks like a 12% at most go and DPS increase, doubt I would notice, I'm probably not going to do that, same that DE for the Queen :)
