[DISCUSSION] All & Every Tips On Maxing TH9

Hello there everyone,

In this thread, I will try to gather as many tips on maxing TH9 and mix them all together to make a guide out of them. Everyone who dedicated to this thread will be credited in the guide.
All you have to do in this thread is pointing out a tip or two on any topic about farming to a max TH9 base. You can place out literally anything that comes to your mind, preparing, attacking, trophy ranges, upgrade orders and literally anything that pops up to your mind.

Make a small detailed post. Include some tips and a bit of information on it. Place everything that you brainstorm here and feel free to explain about them later.

If you have any guides that you think may be valuable in helping to create my guide, please point them out. Just please place guides that are not outdated (Latest update before the last Christmas update is called an outdated guide by me) and guides that are very well detailed.


Some Of the Most Detailed Tips Until Now:

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Originally Posted by SinOfDusk

1) Doing walls in between defenses is a must unless you plan to have idle builders by the end of TH9

2) Having weak defenses but strong walls is a good enough deterrent that nobody will attack you anymore (average 400k each lost per week at gold 1-2)

3) Start on heroes ASAP, having both down is the best but may be hard for most people.

4) Rushing to TH9 ensures that you max TH9 faster than anyone who maxes TH8. You have other buildings to occupy you when you do heroes, your idle lab time would be shorter if you plan to fully max, you start accruing DE earlier.

Can't think of anything else, you add on stuff when I think of it

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Originally Posted by Godzilla86

Tip one: focus on heroes early. Heroes take the longest time and doing heroes only at the end of TH9 is dead boring!
Tip two: if you are a really active player always keep a builder free for walls. This way I did max skulls and max legoes way before defenses.
Tip three: stay away from higher leagues. TH9's have no business there (I used to hang around Gold II to CIII)
My prefered army: giwibarch (16 giants, 8 wb's, 4 wiz, 8 gobs rest barch). Backed by a hero that army does miracles :)

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Originally Posted by Godzilla86

For my heroes I used gibarch in CI :)
CII might have a good mix between DE & gold/lix so you can do both walls and heroes.

Another tip I forgot to mention: stay TH9 as long as possible because loot at TH10 is far worse than people tell you.
Only people who seem to be happy with loot are the casual raiders who only attack every 2 hours or people doing barchraids in Masters and plus purely for the bonus.

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Originally Posted by Mystery93

- Recommended to max TH8 included the walls before upgrading to TH9. It does helped smoothing your early TH9 journey a lot
- Concentrate on building additional new buildings in the early TH9 such as new defense buildings. Upgrade lab, spell factory and camps on this moment. Maxed the new defensive buildings to at least MAX TH8 level. During this part, upgrade walls to legos as much as possible between any upgrades. Farm around gold leagues by barching/BAM. Less expense, more income :cool:
- After finished the 2nd step, spare a builder to focus on lava walls, a builder for heroes and the rest to maxed TH9 defensive buildings.
With this methods of mine, you can check my base progress and fyi I have just hitted TH9 for 2 months and 5 days :)
Clash On!!

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Originally Posted by Aizen122

For the casual players who attack twice or three times every now and then:

-max all collectors, drills and mines.
-be sure to have a farming base to attract TH snipers
-ride shield as much as you can then raid 2-3x when shield is almost gone
-suggested leagues is from gold 1-3 so you can avoid zappers.
-raid with barch with some wb so you can raid both inactives and bases with deep storages.
-If you go to war, do not take loot on your CC. Think of it as another storage. Take loot only when you are short on elix/gold/DE
-build all new buildings/def towers and bring them to TH8 levels
-mainly focus on upgrading your offense first (army camp, lab, lab upgrades, spell factory, heroes and CC)
-Upgrade the most expensive defense first as much as you can, other defenses will be a breeze afterwards.

Been doing this since I started TH9 and I did not max TH8. :D

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Originally Posted by SinOfDusk

Break a shield when:

1) you have time to do at least 3 consecutive raids
2) the shield cannot last and will end in a period where you're busy or sleeping (break it before you're busy/sleeping)

The following applies if you are a hardcore farmer (the only type of player who can efficiently max TH9)

About walls, do walls while upgrading defenses. Half to full lego is a desirable stage to reach if you found skulls difficult. If you completed skulls in 3-4 weeks (like me), then hopefully you'll finish lavas before heroes and defenses, which puts you in a situation where it is optimal to rush to TH10 before lab,defenses and heroes complete. Because if you found 1bil loot easy to farm as a TH9, there isn't anything much stopping you from farming a mere 400mil to max both TH9 and TH10 defenses as a TH10 while maxing zaps.

After all core offensive upgrades are done, this is the best builder composition for me:
1) Hero
2) Hero (best), defenses (2nd best)
3) Gold Mine
4) Elixir pump
5) Walls

The most important point to note is, defenses do not generate loot, so it is almost pointless to upgrade them in the farming aspect of the game. The best "defense" is actually having no loot and Th outside. Since one builder would be doing walls, you will never have enough loot to be raided, so defenses are pointless. Defenses are done after collectors, because collectors actually generate loot. This is only assuming you can farm well enough, ie. at least 3-4mil each per day and hopefully 20-30k DE

Wall strategy:
DO NOT finish legos then start lavas. Start lavas after you have 100-150 legos, then only do legos when you don't have enough resources for lavas. This leaves easy resource dumps so that you never have more than 1mil of any resource when you log off. You only have loot when you are saving for a defensive upgrade, which should not be too common if following my upgrade strategy.

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Originally Posted by SinOfDusk

Max the following:
1) gold and elixir storages (able to store 6mil each)
2) DE storage, DE drills, at least one DE barracks (if you war)
3) barch troops and loons if you war; optional troops include any combination of giants, goblins, wizards, minions/hogs; for spells maybe heal and/or rage
4) preferably maxed splash, but not necessary
5) hopefully lvl7 walls with 30-50 skulls is sufficient

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Originally Posted by ArcherXVII

I want to point out the strategy for maxing a TH9 if you are a hardcore farmer must be different.

I did some serious number crunching with my current progression and came up with the following results:

With my current playtime (averages here) I do around 900-1200 attacks won per season (I have a lot of free time, yes). I average around 125-250k per raid using barch. Yes I boost my barracks and factory.

Using the aforementioned numbers as a baseline, I deduced the following:

1. At my current farming rate I will finish lavas in about 65 days.
2. With three builders on structures, I will fully max everything at TH9 in 90 days.
3. If I get both my heroes to 20 (currently at 12 each), with one builder it will take 110 days.

Thus, most efficient way to use builders is one free for lavas, three on buildings, and one on heroes.

Originally I wanted to get my heroes max'd to 30, but with hardcore farming I will have fully max'd my base long before this would be possible, resulting in an enormous waste of gold and elixir. I considered having two builders on heroes for this reason, but then my structures would be very behind, and I would have full lavas for a long time, with nothing to spend gold/elixir on (assuming I do not want to gem build time completions).

Again, this is what the plan I came up with for me personally, an early TH9 with full legos and lots of available free time to farm. I am betting I will finish lavas in the next two months and simply move on to TH10 despite not having max'd buildings or heroes, but the alternative is spending weeks (possibly months) at TH9 with full gold/elixir would seem to be a massive waste of my time and energy, for nothing more other than to be 'not rushed' and to prevent a 'loot penalty' which really does not effect me as a hardcore farmer.

Would like to know any others' opinions on this strategy as a hardcore farmer.

Regards,

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Originally Posted by joelcthon

If you are in a heavy war clan, i.e. 2-3 wars per week. I would suggest not building x-bows straight away, especially not maxing them. This should be your final defence structure. This is due to the weight they carry in war matchmaking.

Once your troops are upgraded enough to laugh at the x-bows that's when you should be upgrading them. They are more of an intimidation factor for the base. A lot like high lvl walls. If the right army comes a long, they both don't matter much. With each upgrade of x-bows you will notice a drastic change in your war ranking amongst your fellow clan mates.

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Originally Posted by Sens

http://i.imgur.com/6Rqwl5x.jpg

So here's my current base to show I have a small idea of what I'm talking about. Not a whole but a little.

Upon reaching th9, if you haven't already, you need to decide if you're serious about war or farming. Not that you can't do both but it helps to prioritize your upgrades depending on which you choose.

For farming-
-upgrade xbows to max asap. These will help deter people from attacking your base and help protect your loot from those who decide to attack
-upgrade your farming troops. BAM,BARCH,GIBARCH.... Etc
-throw your new defenses in the board level them up to th8 levels.
-level up defenses as you see fit. Some say splash, some say point. Decision is yours.

For warring-
-do not drop any defenses.
-decide if your going to be a hogger or a laloon. Upgrade troops as you see fit.
-after war troops are upgraded, upgrade farming troops
-upon maxing troops and spells you use, upgrade xbows once you can 3 star the appropriate base with those defenses. IE if you can 3 star bases with lvl 2 xbows but not 3, don't upgrade your xbows past 2

For both-
-Drop AQ
-Upgrade lab
-Upgrade Spell Factory
-Upgrade CC
-Upgrade army camps

Good luck in your th9 journey. As a last bit of advice, don't fall behind on upgrading your heroes. There are 50 levels of heroe upgrades. They are great leveled up so get them there as quick as possible.

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Originally Posted by SinOfDusk

Doing walls later, ie. after defenses will usually leave you with idle builders and you just farming walls. You spent gems to buy builders right? So there is little point of having them idle except in TH9/10. Even then, if you manage your builders wisely then you shall have little idle builder time in TH9.

The following is true for a hardcore farmer:
When you maxed your walls before your defenses, it indicates that your farming capacity is much higher than normal. In my own experience, I maxed my purple walls in TH7 within 2 weeks farming more than 2mil per day. After maxing walls, I had nothing to do with my loot, so my loot per day dropped to a mere 200k per day, a WHOPPING 90% reduction, because I could not spent it. Hence, my TH7 was miserable.

At TH8, I wised up and farmed 3mil per day to max walls asap then rush to TH9 and start doing legos and lavas. If I had maxed TH8, my loot per day would drop from 3mil/day to 600k/day, another huge 80% decrease. Now with lavas occupying me, I can farm 5mil each per day and have somewhere to spend all that loot.

Point is, if you can farm walls before defenses, there is nothing stopping you from rushing to the next TH. There is no point enjoying "better" loot if you have no use for the loot. And if you're not hardcore, its still wise to dump all your gold into walls before logging off so that you have nothing to steal and you would not need such a long grinding to complete walls at the end of the TH

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Originally Posted by mido2malik

My tip. First of all, upgarde all troops related building like: spell factory, laboratory, army camps because they will help you in your attacks.
It preferable to have 6 million gold, 6 million elixir and 40k Dark Elixir to be able to get the queen, 2 xbows, upgrade the spell factory, the laboratory and make a couple of raids and upgrade an army camp instantly.

After that, start focusing on elixir to upgarde your troops esp the ones you use.
You can upgarde your farming troops and move to upgrading defenses.
Put your new defenses and upgarde them to the max level for town hall 8.
At this point, decide weather you wanna start off upgrading walls to level 9 or you are going to leave to the end.
If you are going to leave them to the end, do the following but if you going to upgarde them, do the following after upgrading them. (Make sure not leave any resources for anyone)
Start upgarding splash damage defenses like mortars and wizard towers. Move to air and ground defenses like archer towers, hidden teslas and xbows. Then air or ground defenses like cannons and air defenses.
When you finish upgarding all your defenses start with level 9 walls if you didn't and if you did start with level 10 walls.

this is my plan

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Originally Posted by JKL2207

• Max walls at TH8
• Work on Army camps, spell factory, lab, CC, AQ and "fast and cheap" new defences at the start of TH9.
• Work on getting your new walls to at least skulls before starting on xbows (this gives you plenty of gold at the start to dump into walls, then when your camps, spell fact and other costly elixir based upgrades are done you can dump elixir into level 9 walls.)
• Start on heroes and keep them upgrading continuously during TH9 (they are the biggest bottleneck for maxing TH9)
• Work on walls while working on other upgrades (second biggest bottleneck depending on how fast you can accumulate gold and elixir)
• Work on Dark troops ASAP otherwise you won't be able to farm enough DE to keep both heroes and the lab going towards the end of TH9
• Most importantly learn to farm without heroes, If you plan on maxing TH9 fast you will need both heroes on constant upgrade for the most part.

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Originally Posted by Sathvik

new th9 here(max skulls,few legos & lavas & th7 defences ;) ).here are my suggestions ,some might be repeated.
1.max camps followed by storages(de included) first after basic upgrades like lab xbows are done.
2.Dont stick to a league.keep changing it.anything between 1200-2200 works(im farming lavas at s1 atm).if you cant stay online for long hours then lower gold leagues are good enough.
3.Dont save loot,empty them on walls whenever you can,its mostly cheap gold upgrades at first.
4.always go for the big-stat-increase troops in lab first like loons giants etc.giants preferred,gibarch does wonders.Lvl5 barchers are good enough to empty most bases,so dont be in a hurry to max them.
5.get the queen to 5 asap.it doesnt take too many days,start from th9 day one.
6.Dont use spells unnecessarily.elix is scarce for a new th9(one of the reason why im done at s1)
7.maxing de drill quick should be a priority.
8.dont go maxing xbows if you concentrating on defence.seriously compare the stats,teslas are the best:smirk:
9.if you are a hardcore farmer,then take the new walls to 7 atleast & use them for labyriths or for funneling.take the core walls to lego first.then start farming for second layer & max it..go on...go on...

These tips are mainly for a new th9 from my experiences till now:).
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Originally Posted by SinOfDusk

1) Storages (can store 6mil)
2) DE drill and storage
3) (for war) at least one Dark barracks
4) preferably maxed splash
5) all lvl 7 walls
6) BK lvl 5 (preferably lvl 10)

Lab work:
Compulsory: Barb, Archer, (for war) loons
Optional: (any of the following, can be all, can be none) Giants, goblins, WB, Wiz, Rage, Heal, Minions/Hogs (either one DE troops if the person finds DE overflowing)

The key at TH8, is to find the right balancing point of moving forward and staying behind. Moving too quickly and you may experience some culture shock. Moving too late negates a lot of the advantages of rushing early. Around 20-45 days in Th8 is ideal to max essential structures and necessary troops (including the TH upgrade time)

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Originally Posted by hauw

I'm a near maxed TH9. IMHO for very active players (200+ attacks per season) rushing to TH9 is the best choice.
TH9 will forever always be the best place to stay because you have plenty of work at TH9 : heroes to 30, a lot of walls.

First upgrade should always be prioritized into offense, dump all your gold into walls, don't worry about your defense first except your first 2 XBows. Worry about your camp and troops first.
Why? Because a level 7 wizard tower will not make much of a difference when facing against TH10. Neither does air defenses or mortars. XBows are good for 'intimidating' factor. Your league should be around G2, don't even think about C3 yet.

In terms of troops the first troops you should max is barbarians, archers, and then giants.
There is a lot of DE farming tutorial on the forum, Unity's thread is one of the best i can think of. As soon as you get level 6 giants start raiding TH8 for the DE. Whenever you hit 75% of the storage cap and your heroes is upgrading, stop farming for DE and farm for abandoned bases instead.

That's all i can think of TH9. Peace out.

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Originally Posted by joelcthon

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but some war tips at TH9 (The focus on your upgrades, farming vs wars, will depend on your clans priorities):

1. Ensure you have your Loons, Hogs, Witches, LHs and Giants maxed for your best War troops. Also don't neglect your spells. When you have time upgrade your Golems, they will be a big part of wars as well.
2. Having a cc with 30 space opens a lot more attacks up.
3. Try to have a bread and butter focus (i.e. Air attack, LaLoon or Ground Attack, Hog variations), but don't pigeon hole yourself. Understand a few different styles.
4. Learn to recognize the weakness in the bases. No matter what an enemy does, there is a weakness there.
5. Shift your focus away from TH8/TH9 war attacks and more towards attacks that will transition into TH10 attacks. Dragons are gone, sorry.
6. Straight up GoWiWi and GoWiPe are 2 star strategies. Clan Wars are not won on 2 starring TH9 bases.
7. Make a plan for each member of your army. There should be a reason why you brought that troop.
8. Learn war attacks that can work with or without your heroes. If you are in a full time war clan, this will become reality at some point, unless you want to sit out.
9. Build your army for the target, don't fit a target into a set army. There are base attacks, but they may require some tweaking depending on the base you are attacking.
10. Watch all replays, not only from your own clan, but the enemy clan as well. You can learn a lot from both victories and defeats. You may be able to help the clan member as well with something they are doing wrong, if you are in a leader like position which a lot of TH9s are for lower lvl players.
11. Use or suggest use of a third party website like www.clashcaller.com or war caller. They have aids that are not possible in clan chat. You can call targets and make notes about the base.
12. Follow great war attack youtubers like OneHive Raids, OneHiveLabs, Hulk Files, Clash with Dart, Knightly Gaming, Moskri Clashheads, Reddit Force Chronicles, etc. They have a wealth of knowledge on great war attacks. (I know I'm forgetting some people but you get the idea)

Ok, I may add more to this if I think of things, but that's good for now.:cool:

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Originally Posted by joelcthon

Maybe not a main TH9 tip, but more of a personal preference.

I have come to the conclusion that I would prefer one beastly Hero as opposed to 2 20 yo heroes. My current focus is maxing AQ after which I will head to TH10 and continue the push for max AQ. Once all that is completed I will then forge ahead with BK. With AQ40 it will be a breeze picking up the extra DE needed to keep king asleep constantly.

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Originally Posted by fafaedras

Another tip i've seen before which is pretty logical, is to upgrade your heroes in increments of 5, evening out their levels.

So, you get to TH9, all of your DE goes into the queen until she is level 15

then get your BK 10->15
then get your AQ 15->20
then BK 15->20
then AQ 20->25 and so on

easier said than done though

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Originally Posted by yajat

PHASE 1
Once u have all lvl7 walls and 1/4th lvl8 walls upgrade TH8 to 9.
Once u reach TH9 build all the new structures and start lab and camp upgrade asap.
Once lab is done do the following .
Archer->barb->minions->loons->giants->whatever u use in war.
Start working on defenses and get AQ to lvl5 asap.
As soon as AQ is lvl5 , i guess most of ur elixir upgrades will be done.
PHASE 2
Switch from using barch to using giants/healer to take on weak TH8s in law crystal2.
U can easily make like 30k DE and 2mil gold per day to keep DE lab upgrades, and both heroes going (time the heroes).
Thats the comp.-
28 barbs/76 archers/18 giants/6 wbs/1 healer.
with 1 light/1 heal/2 rage.
Note: lightning is for the sole purpose of getting the last few %.
Dont forget to lure and kill CC.
This strat is only for gathering DE frm TH8s. It will be almost useless against a nicely maxed TH9.
PHASE 3
By now u will have most of ur defense maxes and both heroes around lvl 12-15.
Now go to c1/m3 to farm exclusive DE with either balloonian(24loons/50mins) or barch . U can make like 60-70k DE per day (unboosted)
Also dump all the extr elixir into lvl9 walls. They can be easy if started early.
THE END
This has helped me so far. I hope it helps u out too

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Originally Posted by corrupted027

i recomend that you completely max all elixer/army related upgrades at town hall 8 then move up to town hall 9(doing gold upgrades as you go) once at townhall 9 i recomend:

dark elixer: queen as high as you can then any drak troops you use upgrade(recomend minions to help in BAM) then king to a similar level as the queen
elixer: lab,all lab upgrades (recomend upgradeing your barch army) then drills (maybe between lab upgrades)
gold: if you didnt max your defences for town hall 8 start on those, after that X-bows are very important try and get both to level three(very intimitating) then walls.

hope this helps!:p

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Continuation of tips:

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Originally Posted by fafaedras

Another tip i've seen before which is pretty logical, is to upgrade your heroes in increments of 5, evening out their levels.

So, you get to TH9, all of your DE goes into the queen until she is level 15

then get your BK 10->15
then get your AQ 15->20
then BK 15->20
then AQ 20->25 and so on

easier said than done though

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Originally Posted by yajat

PHASE 1
Once u have all lvl7 walls and 1/4th lvl8 walls upgrade TH8 to 9.
Once u reach TH9 build all the new structures and start lab and camp upgrade asap.
Once lab is done do the following .
Archer->barb->minions->loons->giants->whatever u use in war.
Start working on defenses and get AQ to lvl5 asap.
As soon as AQ is lvl5 , i guess most of ur elixir upgrades will be done.
PHASE 2
Switch from using barch to using giants/healer to take on weak TH8s in law crystal2.
U can easily make like 30k DE and 2mil gold per day to keep DE lab upgrades, and both heroes going (time the heroes).
Thats the comp.-
28 barbs/76 archers/18 giants/6 wbs/1 healer.
with 1 light/1 heal/2 rage.
Note: lightning is for the sole purpose of getting the last few %.
Dont forget to lure and kill CC.
This strat is only for gathering DE frm TH8s. It will be almost useless against a nicely maxed TH9.
PHASE 3
By now u will have most of ur defense maxes and both heroes around lvl 12-15.
Now go to c1/m3 to farm exclusive DE with either balloonian(24loons/50mins) or barch . U can make like 60-70k DE per day (unboosted)
Also dump all the extr elixir into lvl9 walls. They can be easy if started early.
THE END
This has helped me so far. I hope it helps u out too

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Originally Posted by joelcthon

Maybe not a main TH9 tip, but more of a personal preference.

I have come to the conclusion that I would prefer one beastly Hero as opposed to 2 20 yo heroes. My current focus is maxing AQ after which I will head to TH10 and continue the push for max AQ. Once all that is completed I will then forge ahead with BK. With AQ40 it will be a breeze picking up the extra DE needed to keep king asleep constantly.

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Originally Posted by joelcthon

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but some war tips at TH9 (The focus on your upgrades, farming vs wars, will depend on your clans priorities):

1. Ensure you have your Loons, Hogs, Witches, LHs and Giants maxed for your best War troops. Also don't neglect your spells. When you have time upgrade your Golems, they will be a big part of wars as well.
2. Having a cc with 30 space opens a lot more attacks up.
3. Try to have a bread and butter focus (i.e. Air attack, LaLoon or Ground Attack, Hog variations), but don't pigeon hole yourself. Understand a few different styles.
4. Learn to recognize the weakness in the bases. No matter what an enemy does, there is a weakness there.
5. Shift your focus away from TH8/TH9 war attacks and more towards attacks that will transition into TH10 attacks. Dragons are gone, sorry.
6. Straight up GoWiWi and GoWiPe are 2 star strategies. Clan Wars are not won on 2 starring TH9 bases.
7. Make a plan for each member of your army. There should be a reason why you brought that troop.
8. Learn war attacks that can work with or without your heroes. If you are in a full time war clan, this will become reality at some point, unless you want to sit out.
9. Build your army for the target, don't fit a target into a set army. There are base attacks, but they may require some tweaking depending on the base you are attacking.
10. Watch all replays, not only from your own clan, but the enemy clan as well. You can learn a lot from both victories and defeats. You may be able to help the clan member as well with something they are doing wrong, if you are in a leader like position which a lot of TH9s are for lower lvl players.
11. Use or suggest use of a third party website like www.clashcaller.com or war caller. They have aids that are not possible in clan chat. You can call targets and make notes about the base.
12. Follow great war attack youtubers like OneHive Raids, OneHiveLabs, Hulk Files, Clash with Dart, Knightly Gaming, Moskri Clashheads, Reddit Force Chronicles, etc. They have a wealth of knowledge on great war attacks. (I know I'm forgetting some people but you get the idea)

Ok, I may add more to this if I think of things, but that's good for now.:cool:

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Originally Posted by DaddyJay

Many great tips before me. I will add some.

Offense over Defense. No matter how well you construct your base, someone else will beat it. Having capable offense keeps your wallet running.

Poverty is the best defense. No one can take what you dont have.

If you want a smoother transition from TH8, max as much as you can. Unless you can loot 24/7 for the first weeks in TH9.

I find TH9 looting much tougher than TH7-8, at least initially. No longer can you bash TH7s for decent loot and now you have TH10s lurking over you.

Collectors. I used to rely mostly on looting, now I resent not maxing collectors.

Good luck sir.

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Originally Posted by hauw

1. I maxed th9 walls but not heroes and that is what i regret the most
You will have plenty of dark elixir in th10 but starting your heroes ASAP is the single best advice as a TH9

2. Forget about getting your defenses first.
You can always steal back what you've stolen. Instead rush your lab, spell, camp, and drill first.

3. Max your core farming army ASAP and learn to farm de WITHOUT any hero at all. Instead use jump + heal + giants + anything in cc.

4. Farm boosted.
You will lose a lot of de whenever a TH10 stomps over while in upper leagues. Therefore raid a lot and lose a few.

5. Skip collectors if you're very active.
I was hospitalized due to zoster. With nothing to do, i farm nonstop, netting 71 level 10 walls on with over 700 attacks won on 6 days. A sudden realization come upon me that i wasted precious builder time on collector because i can raid so much more that i don't need collectors. Instead i'd rather do core defenses so that when i'm TH10 i'm not underpowered in terms of defense.

6. Trophy range i use
C1/C2 for de raid (managed to do 30k de per boost), G1/G2 for gold /elixir (3m gold elix per boost). Composition used is barch + 12 wb for dead base farming in gold. Gibarch + 8 wb for de farming. Boost sf for jump and heal.

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Originally Posted by Nikolay

I've read a couple of posts and decided to give my 2 cents about TH9.

1) Try to have 4 workers busy at any time
2) If you have a 5th worker - keep him free. Esentially, when you have 4 workers and the Laboratory busy, spend each 500k gold for a wall upgrade (If you've upgraded before having all walls to lvl 8) and each 1mil elixir on lego walls. This has worked very good for me so far.
3) When one of your workers has about a day left on upgrading - start an upgrade with the 5th worker.
4) Train 3 giants, 2 wb's, 20 archers, 16 barbs in each barrack and I get my CC filled with Giants as well. Works very nice for me.
5) Spells are 4 heal spells (3 heal 1 jump for DE farming) - with the jump spell, DE farming becomes extremely easy. I usually manage to collect the required DE for another AQ/BK upgrade by the time the previous one finishes.
6) Usually, the league doesn't matter much, but what I have noticed is that there are quite a few decent bases in Silver and I don't get raided for DE very often (Probably once every 5-6 days).

Hope this helps.

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I haven't read through the whole thing, but what you prioritize really depends on your play style. If you're concerned about how your base is affecting war matchups, as many now are, here's what I'd say:

1. When you first get TH9, DON'T build your new defenses, with the exception of your Air D, sweeper, and new traps. Get that 4th air D up to level 5 or 6, sweeper to 4, giant bomb to level 3, upgrade your skeleton traps, and then save up for your Clan Castle Upgrade. With Elixir, your first priority is Spell factory, lab, and camps. Hopefully you also saved up enough DE to buy your Queen.

2. It may be somewhat counterintuitive, but max hogs are a good place to start in the lab if you are still focusing on camps/want to upgrade drills early on with your E. It will mean your Queen sits at level 1 for a bit longer, but max hogs can help you 3 star early stage to mid TH9s. After that, you'll want to get your Queen to 5 or even 10 before you consider other DE lab upgrades.

3. Even level 1 witches tend to fair better than PEKKA 3 in most cases, especially against bases with higher level teslas. They boost your war weight more than anything except Xbows though, so you're probably ready to build your other defenses as you unlock them.

4. Your regular E labwork will depend heavily on your raiding style, but balloons are the most important upgrade for war. Other than that, giants get the biggest boost, so if you're raiding storages at higher levels, that may be next, or you may elect to upgrade the heal spell if you want to strengthen your hog attacks.

5. The fastest way to a max TH9 army that is capable of 3 starring high level TH9s is to max balloons, unlock and upgrade hounds, and unlock and upgrade haste. You can go all air, but it's generally a better strategy to use a small ground attack first, consisting of a golem in your CC + a minimum of 4-5 wizards, 2-4 wallbreakers, your heroes, and usually 1 or more spells to take out the enemy CC, Queen, and at least one air d before launching the main part of your attack. Look up Shattered and Cold Blooded GoLaLoon for more info.

6. Maxing golems and witches will take longer than getting a max air army, but you'll definitely want these troops before even considering a move to TH10. Although it takes away from hero upgrades, troop upgrades should be considered more important, since heroes really only get a significant boost every 5 levels, and are on the whole much more expensive. Even just going from level 5-10 with your archer queen is only slightly cheaper than upgrading your golems AND witches to TH9 max. (202.5k vs 225k)

7. For defenses, prioritize teslas first. Mortars are a good second option if you want to defend against max barcher in multi player, but mortars, xbows, and wizard towers have a much bigger impact on your war weight than teslas, archer towers, cannons, and air defense, so keep this in mind when prioritizing your upgrades. It's also best to rotate defenses so you don't have too many of the same kind down at once and can stagger your builders. I divide TH9 into 4 phases: 1) new defenses to TH8 max 2) teslas, mortars, and cannons 3) xbows to 2, archers, wizards, air d 4) max x bow, air mines, air bombs, tiny bombs. For the first 3 phases I rotated through, while the last phase is done in that order.

8. If you didn't do level 8 walls at TH8 (and I don't really blame you if you didn't), make sure you buy 1 or 2 pieces here and there. If you plan to max defenses, you'll probably want a minimum of 40-50 so you'll have some place to spend your E once you're done with builds and labwork.

9. Many people prioritize their Queen over their King, but it largely depends on your attack style. When using kill squads, the King's ability to tank is often more important than added damage from an upgraded Queen. The upgrades to the King's ability are also larger...2 more troops spawned instead of 1 and an additional 120-150 health recovery compared to +25 for the Queen. And finally, the King's upgrades are 10k cheaper for the same level, so if you're still saving for troop upgrades, it can help to do him first. Once you have both heroes at 10, I recommend doing 5 levels on the King, then 5 on the Queen until both are at least level 20, if not level 25. At level 25 it may make sense to do the Queen before the King because the added time to the Queen's ability often allows a level 30 Queen to get off an extra shot with her ability compared to a level 25 Queen.

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Here are some analysis of AQ by hit per level.
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...Spots-Analysis

While I don't know to what extent are they true, it is quite useful for what can you AQ do by hit at level shown, as analysed by eternal625@ash.

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Hope i'm not repeating what others wrote too too much but I'm looking at the upgrade from a war clan perspective. First things that need to be upgraded are any space related items. So army camps, clan castle and spell factory. These add a permanent space increase to every single farming and war attack. So this is always encouraged to be done early as possible. Next thing is don't drop new defenses til you have your aq upgraded at least to level 5. Dropping the extra ad and traps is fine to prevent th8s from using an air attack vs you but other than that until you are able to 3 star weak to mid 9s don't increase your war weight too much but do do level your troops and heros as much as possible. The early part of th9 from war angle is tricky. But keeping weight low gives you a jump start on your walls and gets heros and troops into a nicer position for when you start adding the extra th9 defenses or upgrading current th8 defenses to th9 max.

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The most memorable tips I've given were here:

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...16#post3981116
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...s-as-a-New-TH9

If I remember any more I'll add them.

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The most memorable tips I've given were here:

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...16#post3981116
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...s-as-a-New-TH9

If I remember any more I'll add them.

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Thank you very much!

Though I would appreciate more of the pure "All & Everything" Guide, rather than a blog or focus on one thing.

Making sure to focus on farming a particular resource and keeping storages low of the other resources is a good way to decrease the attractiveness of a raid on the base, plus lets you use those empty storages as "meat shields" in base defenses.

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Making sure to focus on farming a particular resource and keeping storages low of the other resources is a good way to decrease the attractiveness of a raid on the base, plus lets you use those empty storages as "meat shields" in base defenses.

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Thanks, but care to share your level and town hall level as well?

1) Doing walls in between defenses is a must unless you plan to have idle builders by the end of TH9

2) Having weak defenses but strong walls is a good enough deterrent that nobody will attack you anymore (average 400k each lost per week at gold 1-2)

3) Start on heroes ASAP, having both down is the best but may be hard for most people.

4) Rushing to TH9 ensures that you max TH9 faster than anyone who maxes TH8. You have other buildings to occupy you when you do heroes, your idle lab time would be shorter if you plan to fully max, you start accruing DE earlier.

Can't think of anything else, you add on stuff when I think of it

Finish all/any left elixer upgrades ASAP that way elixer can be dumped on walls

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1) Doing walls in between defenses is a must unless you plan to have idle builders by the end of TH9

2) Having weak defenses but strong walls is a good enough deterrent that nobody will attack you anymore (average 400k each lost per week at gold 1-2)

3) Start on heroes ASAP, having both down is the best but may be hard for most people.

4) Rushing to TH9 ensures that you max TH9 faster than anyone who maxes TH8. You have other buildings to occupy you when you do heroes, your idle lab time would be shorter if you plan to fully max, you start accruing DE earlier.

Can't think of anything else, you add on stuff when I think of it

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That is actually brilliant, never thought of it!
Thank you for all the help!

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Finish all/any left elixer upgrades ASAP that way elixer can be dumped on walls

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Any TH8 will learn that the hard way! Haha, thanks

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Finish all/any left elixer upgrades ASAP that way elixer can be dumped on walls

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CORRECT, but a bit deeper look at this: Keep the lab busy with all elixir troops while poring ALL DE directly into heroes. Continue this until the lab is completely finished with Elixir upgrades. This should net you a King 15-17 and a Queen 12-15 (if the King was 10 upon starting TH9) before pouring DE into lab to upgrade Dark Troops (this is a range from my experience in doing twice).

User experience will vary.

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CORRECT, but a bit deeper look at this: Keep the lab busy with all elixir troops while poring ALL DE directly into heroes. Continue this until the lab is completely finished with Elixir upgrades. This should net you a King 15-17 and a Queen 12-15 (if the King was 10 upon starting TH9) before pouring DE into lab to upgrade Dark Troops (this is a range from my experience in doing twice).

User experience will vary.

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Thank you for the detailed tip! Want to add more tips?

The thing with upgrading walls inbetween buildings is quite difficult, because I don't really know how much resources I'll be able to substantiate before the upgrade finishes, because I don't farm in a specific set pattern/time..

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The thing with upgrading walls inbetween buildings is quite difficult, because I don't really know how much resources I'll be able to substantiate before the upgrade finishes, because I don't farm in a specific set pattern/time..

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Think of it as you have 1 less builder than you really have. Those builders will work on buildings. While those are busy on buildings, upgrade your wall with the builder you thought you didn't have.

Care to add a tip or two?

I'm a 9 @88

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That is actually brilliant, never thought of it!
Thank you for all the help!


Any TH8 will learn that the hard way! Haha, thanks

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It's not a new idea to rush to th9 so that u max your base earlier. Usually, those who maxed th8 will eventually be stuck at th9 and upgrade to th10 with legos and lvl20 heroes.

Rushers would be in th9 longer, do heroes while catching up on defenses, while maxers would be purely doing heroes after all defenses have maxed. Idle lab time would be zero, while a maxer would have at least 1-2 months where their lab is doing nothing, while doing heroes. If a maxer stays at th8 for 4 months and a rusher moves to th9 after a month, the rusher would have almost 3k more de per day because of drills, so 90*3k is a 270k de advantage over the maxer. At the time the maxer reached th9, the rusher would have lvl10-15 in both heroes while the maxer has lvl10, lvl2

Tip one: focus on heroes early. Heroes take the longest time and doing heroes only at the end of TH9 is dead boring!
Tip two: if you are a really active player always keep a builder free for walls. This way I did max skulls and max legoes way before defenses.
Tip three: stay away from higher leagues. TH9's have no business there (I used to hang around Gold II to CIII)
My prefered army: giwibarch (16 giants, 8 wb's, 4 wiz, 8 gobs rest barch). Backed by a hero that army does miracles :)

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It's not a new idea to rush to th9 so that u max your base earlier. Usually, those who maxed th8 will eventually be stuck at th9 and upgrade to th10 with legos and lvl20 heroes.

Rushers would be in th9 longer, do heroes while catching up on defenses, while maxers would be purely doing heroes after all defenses have maxed. Idle lab time would be zero, while a maxer would have at least 1-2 months where their lab is doing nothing, while doing heroes. If a maxer stays at th8 for 4 months and a rusher moves to th9 after a month, the rusher would have almost 3k more de per day because of drills, so 90*3k is a 270k de advantage over the maxer. At the time the maxer reached th9, the rusher would have lvl10-15 in both heroes while the maxer has lvl10, lvl2

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Tip one: focus on heroes early. Heroes take the longest time and doing heroes only at the end of TH9 is dead boring!
Tip two: if you are a really active player always keep a builder free for walls. This way I did max skulls and max legoes way before defenses.
Tip three: stay away from higher leagues. TH9's have no business there (I used to hang around Gold II to CIII)
My prefered army: giwibarch (16 giants, 8 wb's, 4 wiz, 8 gobs rest barch). Backed by a hero that army does miracles :)

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So I normally find best loot at gold III, so you mean that I should go to masters or so to farm heroes constantly? (Gold III has no DE, yet excessive gold and elixir)

thanks!

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Thanks!

So I normally find best loot at gold III, so you mean that I should go to masters or so to farm heroes constantly? (Gold III has no DE, yet excessive gold and elixir)

thanks!

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For my heroes I used gibarch in CI :)
CII might have a good mix between DE & gold/lix so you can do both walls and heroes.

Another tip I forgot to mention: stay TH9 as long as possible because loot at TH10 is far worse than people tell you.
Only people who seem to be happy with loot are the casual raiders who only attack every 2 hours or people doing barchraids in Masters and plus purely for the bonus.

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For my heroes I used gibarch in CI :)
CII might have a good mix between DE & gold/lix so you can do both walls and heroes.

Another tip I forgot to mention: stay TH9 as long as possible because loot at TH10 is far worse than people tell you.
Only people who seem to be happy with loot are the casual raiders who only attack every 2 hours or people doing barchraids in Masters and plus purely for the bonus.

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I need more tips on maxing TH9 with farming, rather than other things!

Thanks anyways though!

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Hello there everyone,

In this thread, I will try to gather as many tips on maxing TH9 and mix them all together to make a guide out of them. Everyone who dedicated to this thread will be credited in the guide.
All you have to do in this thread is pointing out a tip or two on any topic about farming to a max TH9 base. You can place out literally anything that comes to your mind, preparing, attacking, trophy ranges, upgrade orders and literally anything that pops up to your mind.

Make a small detailed post. Include some tips and a bit of information on it. Place everything that you brainstorm here and feel free to explain about them later.

If you have any guides that you think may be valuable in helping to create my guide, please point them out. Just please place guides that are not outdated (Latest update before the last Christmas update is called an outdated guide by me) and guides that are very well detailed.

Thank you for your time and I hope you can help,

PRODIGY

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- Recommended to max TH8 included the walls before upgrading to TH9. It does helped smoothing your early TH9 journey a lot
- Concentrate on building additional new buildings in the early TH9 such as new defense buildings. Upgrade lab, spell factory and camps on this moment. Maxed the new defensive buildings to at least MAX TH8 level. During this part, upgrade walls to legos as much as possible between any upgrades. Farm around gold leagues by barching/BAM. Less expense, more income :cool:
- After finished the 2nd step, spare a builder to focus on lava walls, a builder for heroes and the rest to maxed TH9 defensive buildings.
With this methods of mine, you can check my base progress and fyi I have just hitted TH9 for 2 months and 5 days :)
Clash On!!

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- Recommended to max TH8 included the walls before upgrading to TH9. It does helped smoothing your early TH9 journey a lot
- Concentrate on building additional new buildings in the early TH9 such as new defense buildings. Upgrade lab, spell factory and camps on this moment. Maxed the new defensive buildings to at least MAX TH8 level. During this part, upgrade walls to legos as much as possible between any upgrades. Farm around gold leagues by barching/BAM. Less expense, more income :cool:
- After finished the 2nd step, spare a builder to focus on lava walls, a builder for heroes and the rest to maxed TH9 defensive buildings.
With this methods of mine, you can check my base progress and fyi I have just hitted TH9 for 2 months and 5 days :)
Clash On!!

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Thanks a lot!

I'm a TH9, level 93.

Although some people might disagree with me, but I think level3 xbow is a priority. I think they do scare opponents away.

Focus on spell and army camp then only laboratory because when you have an extra spell and 20 camp space, your farming will be easier.

Max your DE drill asap, although the catch up time is very long but it will help a lot in the long run.

For the casual players who attack twice or three times every now and then:

-max all collectors, drills and mines.
-be sure to have a farming base to attract TH snipers
-ride shield as much as you can then raid 2-3x when shield is almost gone
-suggested leagues is from gold 1-3 so you can avoid zappers.
-raid with barch with some wb so you can raid both inactives and bases with deep storages.
-If you go to war, do not take loot on your CC. Think of it as another storage. Take loot only when you are short on elix/gold/DE
-build all new buildings/def towers and bring them to TH8 levels
-mainly focus on upgrading your offense first (army camp, lab, lab upgrades, spell factory, heroes and CC)
-Upgrade the most expensive defense first as much as you can, other defenses will be a breeze afterwards.

Been doing this since I started TH9 and I did not max TH8. :D

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For the casual players who attack twice or three times every now and then:

-max all collectors, drills and mines.
-be sure to have a farming base to attract TH snipers
-ride shield as much as you can then raid 2-3x when shield is almost gone
-suggested leagues is from gold 1-3 so you can avoid zappers.
-raid with barch with some wb so you can raid both inactives and bases with deep storages.
-If you go to war, do not take loot on your CC. Think of it as another storage. Take loot only when you are short on elix/gold/DE
-build all new buildings/def towers and bring them to TH8 levels
-mainly focus on upgrading your offense first (army camp, lab, lab upgrades, spell factory, heroes and CC)
-Upgrade the most expensive defense first as much as you can, other defenses will be a breeze afterwards.

Been doing this since I started TH9 and I did not max TH8. :D

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Thanks a lot, they seem fine to me!

Do legos before defenses and lavas while doing defenses? What do you think?

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Think of it as you have 1 less builder than you really have. Those builders will work on buildings. While those are busy on buildings, upgrade your wall with the builder you thought you didn't have.

Care to add a tip or two?

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You see, that doesn't answer my problem - I can't always plan how much resources I will be able to get and thus, how much I'll be able to spend.
Not much tips from me, since I'm a new TH9, like I said.

General consensus, as I see it, is to max EVERYTHING at TH9 before TH10

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For the casual players who attack twice or three times every now and then:

-max all collectors, drills and mines.
-be sure to have a farming base to attract TH snipers
-ride shield as much as you can then raid 2-3x when shield is almost gone
-suggested leagues is from gold 1-3 so you can avoid zappers.
-raid with barch with some wb so you can raid both inactives and bases with deep storages.
-If you go to war, do not take loot on your CC. Think of it as another storage. Take loot only when you are short on elix/gold/DE
-build all new buildings/def towers and bring them to TH8 levels
-mainly focus on upgrading your offense first (army camp, lab, lab upgrades, spell factory, heroes and CC)
-Upgrade the most expensive defense first as much as you can, other defenses will be a breeze afterwards.

Been doing this since I started TH9 and I did not max TH8. :D

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good tips here, though I dont agree with the bolded. You should take loot from the clan castle when your storages are capped at the max stealable amount (i don't remember the exact numbers, you can look at wiki).
Basically, if the stealable amount is capped, you should take loot from clan castle, elseway, the clan castle just offers additional resources, OVER the cap from storages, to the attacker

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You see, that doesn't answer my problem - I can't always plan how much resources I will be able to get and thus, how much I'll be able to spend.
Not much tips from me, since I'm a new TH9, like I said.

General consensus, as I see it, is to max EVERYTHING at TH9 before TH10



good tips here, though I dont agree with the bolded. You should take loot from the clan castle when your storages are capped at the max stealable amount (i don't remember the exact numbers, you can look at wiki).
Basically, if the stealable amount is capped, you should take loot from clan castle, elseway, the clan castle just offers additional resources, OVER the cap from storages, to the attacker

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Ok thanks! Hope you can provide some tips soon!

First here is me of March 6, 2015. Feel free to use this picture in your guide.

Edit: Oh, and don't mind my walls. They're about to get a re-vamp.

http://i61.tinypic.com/2mmp7l.jpg

Some tips:

• Upgrade lab, spell factory, and clan castle first. Also buy new defenses.
• USe an efficient farming strategy like barch or bam and upgrade those troops. I usually farm in C3.

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First here is me of March 6, 2015. Feel free to use this picture in your guide.

Edit: Oh, and don't mind my walls. They're about to get a re-vamp.

http://i61.tinypic.com/2mmp7l.jpg

Some tips:

• Upgrade lab, spell factory, and clan castle first. Also buy new defenses.
• USe an efficient farming strategy like barch or bam and upgrade those troops. I usually farm in C3.

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Thank you very much! Would you please place your last 9 defenses with NO EDITING? Thanks!

Tip 1: If you know you have a lot of time to boost and raid keep one builder busy for walls for a few hours
Tip 2: Stagger the build times of your buildings

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Tip 1: If you know you have a lot of time to boost and raid keep one builder busy for walls for a few hours
Tip 2: Stagger the build times of your buildings

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Thanks! What does Stagger mean though?

To break or not to break a shield?

The answer to this would help a lot!

If I want to rush to TH9 as some people have recommended, what should I max or nearly max?

Highly in need of answers!

PRODIGY

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To break or not to break a shield?

The answer to this would help a lot!

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Break a shield when:

1) you have time to do at least 3 consecutive raids
2) the shield cannot last and will end in a period where you're busy or sleeping (break it before you're busy/sleeping)

The following applies if you are a hardcore farmer (the only type of player who can efficiently max TH9)

About walls, do walls while upgrading defenses. Half to full lego is a desirable stage to reach if you found skulls difficult. If you completed skulls in 3-4 weeks (like me), then hopefully you'll finish lavas before heroes and defenses, which puts you in a situation where it is optimal to rush to TH10 before lab,defenses and heroes complete. Because if you found 1bil loot easy to farm as a TH9, there isn't anything much stopping you from farming a mere 400mil to max both TH9 and TH10 defenses as a TH10 while maxing zaps.

After all core offensive upgrades are done, this is the best builder composition for me:
1) Hero
2) Hero (best), defenses (2nd best)
3) Gold Mine
4) Elixir pump
5) Walls

The most important point to note is, defenses do not generate loot, so it is almost pointless to upgrade them in the farming aspect of the game. The best "defense" is actually having no loot and Th outside. Since one builder would be doing walls, you will never have enough loot to be raided, so defenses are pointless. Defenses are done after collectors, because collectors actually generate loot. This is only assuming you can farm well enough, ie. at least 3-4mil each per day and hopefully 20-30k DE

Wall strategy:
DO NOT finish legos then start lavas. Start lavas after you have 100-150 legos, then only do legos when you don't have enough resources for lavas. This leaves easy resource dumps so that you never have more than 1mil of any resource when you log off. You only have loot when you are saving for a defensive upgrade, which should not be too common if following my upgrade strategy.

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If I want to rush to TH9 as some people have recommended, what should I max or nearly max?

Highly in need of answers!

PRODIGY

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Max the following:
1) gold and elixir storages (able to store 6mil each)
2) DE storage, DE drills, at least one DE barracks (if you war)
3) barch troops and loons if you war; optional troops include any combination of giants, goblins, wizards, minions/hogs; for spells maybe heal and/or rage
4) preferably maxed splash, but not necessary
5) hopefully lvl7 walls with 30-50 skulls is sufficient

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Break a shield when:

1) you have time to do at least 3 consecutive raids
2) the shield cannot last and will end in a period where you're busy or sleeping (break it before you're busy/sleeping)

The following applies if you are a hardcore farmer (the only type of player who can efficiently max TH9)

About walls, do walls while upgrading defenses. Half to full lego is a desirable stage to reach if you found skulls difficult. If you completed skulls in 3-4 weeks (like me), then hopefully you'll finish lavas before heroes and defenses, which puts you in a situation where it is optimal to rush to TH10 before lab,defenses and heroes complete. Because if you found 1bil loot easy to farm as a TH9, there isn't anything much stopping you from farming a mere 400mil to max both TH9 and TH10 defenses as a TH10 while maxing zaps.

After all core offensive upgrades are done, this is the best builder composition for me:
1) Hero
2) Hero (best), defenses (2nd best)
3) Gold Mine
4) Elixir pump
5) Walls

The most important point to note is, defenses do not generate loot, so it is almost pointless to upgrade them in the farming aspect of the game. The best "defense" is actually having no loot and Th outside. Since one builder would be doing walls, you will never have enough loot to be raided, so defenses are pointless. Defenses are done after collectors, because collectors actually generate loot. This is only assuming you can farm well enough, ie. at least 3-4mil each per day and hopefully 20-30k DE

Wall strategy:
DO NOT finish legos then start lavas. Start lavas after you have 100-150 legos, then only do legos when you don't have enough resources for lavas. This leaves easy resource dumps so that you never have more than 1mil of any resource when you log off. You only have loot when you are saving for a defensive upgrade, which should not be too common if following my upgrade strategy.

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Max the following:
1) gold and elixir storages (able to store 6mil each)
2) DE storage, DE drills, at least one DE barracks (if you war)
3) barch troops and loons if you war; optional troops include any combination of giants, goblins, wizards, minions/hogs; for spells maybe heal and/or rage
4) preferably maxed splash, but not necessary
5) hopefully lvl7 walls with 30-50 skulls is sufficient

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Thank you VERY MUCH!!!!!!
You'll receive a special thanks in the guide!

I want to point out the strategy for maxing a TH9 if you are a hardcore farmer must be different.

I did some serious number crunching with my current progression and came up with the following results:

With my current playtime (averages here) I do around 900-1200 attacks won per season (I have a lot of free time, yes). I average around 125-250k per raid using barch. Yes I boost my barracks and factory.

Using the aforementioned numbers as a baseline, I deduced the following:

1. At my current farming rate I will finish lavas in about 65 days.
2. With three builders on structures, I will fully max everything at TH9 in 90 days.
3. If I get both my heroes to 20 (currently at 12 each), with one builder it will take 110 days.

Thus, most efficient way to use builders is one free for lavas, three on buildings, and one on heroes.

Originally I wanted to get my heroes max'd to 30, but with hardcore farming I will have fully max'd my base long before this would be possible, resulting in an enormous waste of gold and elixir. I considered having two builders on heroes for this reason, but then my structures would be very behind, and I would have full lavas for a long time, with nothing to spend gold/elixir on (assuming I do not want to gem build time completions).

Again, this is what the plan I came up with for me personally, an early TH9 with full legos and lots of available free time to farm. I am betting I will finish lavas in the next two months and simply move on to TH10 despite not having max'd buildings or heroes, but the alternative is spending weeks (possibly months) at TH9 with full gold/elixir would seem to be a massive waste of my time and energy, for nothing more other than to be 'not rushed' and to prevent a 'loot penalty' which really does not effect me as a hardcore farmer.

Would like to know any others' opinions on this strategy as a hardcore farmer.

Regards,

If you are in a heavy war clan, i.e. 2-3 wars per week. I would suggest not building x-bows straight away, especially not maxing them. This should be your final defence structure. This is due to the weight they carry in war matchmaking.

Once your troops are upgraded enough to laugh at the x-bows that's when you should be upgrading them. They are more of an intimidation factor for the base. A lot like high lvl walls. If the right army comes a long, they both don't matter much. With each upgrade of x-bows you will notice a drastic change in your war ranking amongst your fellow clan mates.

http://i.imgur.com/6Rqwl5x.jpg

So here's my current base to show I have a small idea of what I'm talking about. Not a whole but a little.

Upon reaching th9, if you haven't already, you need to decide if you're serious about war or farming. Not that you can't do both but it helps to prioritize your upgrades depending on which you choose.

For farming-
-upgrade xbows to max asap. These will help deter people from attacking your base and help protect your loot from those who decide to attack
-upgrade your farming troops. BAM,BARCH,GIBARCH.... Etc
-throw your new defenses in the board level them up to th8 levels.
-level up defenses as you see fit. Some say splash, some say point. Decision is yours.

For warring-
-do not drop any defenses.
-decide if your going to be a hogger or a laloon. Upgrade troops as you see fit.
-after war troops are upgraded, upgrade farming troops
-upon maxing troops and spells you use, upgrade xbows once you can 3 star the appropriate base with those defenses. IE if you can 3 star bases with lvl 2 xbows but not 3, don't upgrade your xbows past 2

For both-
-Drop AQ
-Upgrade lab
-Upgrade Spell Factory
-Upgrade CC
-Upgrade army camps

Good luck in your th9 journey. As a last bit of advice, don't fall behind on upgrading your heroes. There are 50 levels of heroe upgrades. They are great leveled up so get them there as quick as possible.

I'd say start walls very early! I messed up by maxing defences while still having half level 7 walls, so am now farming leogs with max defences which is boring. Start those legos straight away!
Have fun and keep clashing!

Always keep a builder free for walls. And keep your AQ ug constantly until 20. Then get your King up to 30.

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I want to point out the strategy for maxing a TH9 if you are a hardcore farmer must be different.

I did some serious number crunching with my current progression and came up with the following results:

With my current playtime (averages here) I do around 900-1200 attacks won per season (I have a lot of free time, yes). I average around 125-250k per raid using barch. Yes I boost my barracks and factory.

Using the aforementioned numbers as a baseline, I deduced the following:

1. At my current farming rate I will finish lavas in about 65 days.
2. With three builders on structures, I will fully max everything at TH9 in 90 days.
3. If I get both my heroes to 20 (currently at 12 each), with one builder it will take 110 days.

Thus, most efficient way to use builders is one free for lavas, three on buildings, and one on heroes.

Originally I wanted to get my heroes max'd to 30, but with hardcore farming I will have fully max'd my base long before this would be possible, resulting in an enormous waste of gold and elixir. I considered having two builders on heroes for this reason, but then my structures would be very behind, and I would have full lavas for a long time, with nothing to spend gold/elixir on (assuming I do not want to gem build time completions).

Again, this is what the plan I came up with for me personally, an early TH9 with full legos and lots of available free time to farm. I am betting I will finish lavas in the next two months and simply move on to TH10 despite not having max'd buildings or heroes, but the alternative is spending weeks (possibly months) at TH9 with full gold/elixir would seem to be a massive waste of my time and energy, for nothing more other than to be 'not rushed' and to prevent a 'loot penalty' which really does not effect me as a hardcore farmer.

Would like to know any others' opinions on this strategy as a hardcore farmer.

Regards,

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Thank you very much! This will certainly be added.

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If you are in a heavy war clan, i.e. 2-3 wars per week. I would suggest not building x-bows straight away, especially not maxing them. This should be your final defence structure. This is due to the weight they carry in war matchmaking.

Once your troops are upgraded enough to laugh at the x-bows that's when you should be upgrading them. They are more of an intimidation factor for the base. A lot like high lvl walls. If the right army comes a long, they both don't matter much. With each upgrade of x-bows you will notice a drastic change in your war ranking amongst your fellow clan mates.

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So you are basically saying to stay a TH8.5 in order to war?

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http://i.imgur.com/6Rqwl5x.jpg

So here's my current base to show I have a small idea of what I'm talking about. Not a whole but a little.

Upon reaching th9, if you haven't already, you need to decide if you're serious about war or farming. Not that you can't do both but it helps to prioritize your upgrades depending on which you choose.

For farming-
-upgrade xbows to max asap. These will help deter people from attacking your base and help protect your loot from those who decide to attack
-upgrade your farming troops. BAM,BARCH,GIBARCH.... Etc
-throw your new defenses in the board level them up to th8 levels.
-level up defenses as you see fit. Some say splash, some say point. Decision is yours.

For warring-
-do not drop any defenses.
-decide if your going to be a hogger or a laloon. Upgrade troops as you see fit.
-after war troops are upgraded, upgrade farming troops
-upon maxing troops and spells you use, upgrade xbows once you can 3 star the appropriate base with those defenses. IE if you can 3 star bases with lvl 2 xbows but not 3, don't upgrade your xbows past 2

For both-
-Drop AQ
-Upgrade lab
-Upgrade Spell Factory
-Upgrade CC
-Upgrade army camps

Good luck in your th9 journey. As a last bit of advice, don't fall behind on upgrading your heroes. There are 50 levels of heroe upgrades. They are great leveled up so get them there as quick as possible.

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Thank you very much, but please share pictures with Tinypic

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I'd say start walls very early! I messed up by maxing defences while still having half level 7 walls, so am now farming leogs with max defences which is boring. Start those legos straight away!
Have fun and keep clashing!

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Thanks, though I can't say I didn't get this a lot.

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Always keep a builder free for walls. And keep your AQ ug constantly until 20. Then get your King up to 30.

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Thank you!

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My advice is to use all builders for defences, until you complete most of elixir researches. From now you can invest almost all elixir into walls, so you can save gold fot other staff :smirk: I am still th8, but that would be the best move, considering that you need much less time for research unlike th8(less building days), where you need some strategy as well.

Maxing walls early in the game is naive...you need to max walls, where you have a lot of time because of long upgrading time or loot, i this case elixir, that is issue at th8....it would be nice to maxing skulls with elixir.

Dont maxing walls too early.

So I hope PRODIGY shares this question with me, and I just somehow manage to lose gold for lvl 7 walls (500k per wall) even tho I can make a a good setup to keep it. I (and hopefully PRODIGY too) just wonder what it would take to even make a decent base to keep it all, or where to go to find easier bases with more loot. It would be greatly appreciated

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My advice is to use all builders for defences, until you complete most of elixir researches. From now you can invest almost all elixir into walls, so you can save gold fot other staff :smirk: I am still th8, but that would be the best move, considering that you need much less time for research unlike th8(less building days), where you need some strategy as well.

Maxing walls early in the game is naive...you need to max walls, where you have a lot of time because of long upgrading time or loot, i this case elixir, that is issue at th8....it would be nice to maxing skulls with elixir.

Dont maxing walls too early.

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Thanks! Going to make some grammatical changes to this though :smirk:

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So I hope PRODIGY shares this question with me, and I just somehow manage to lose gold for lvl 7 walls (500k per wall) even tho I can make a a good setup to keep it. I (and hopefully PRODIGY too) just wonder what it would take to even make a decent base to keep it all, or where to go to find easier bases with more loot. It would be greatly appreciated

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Tons of farming bases out there. I prefer to make a wizard tower protect two storages in a small wall box, then make two bigger wall boxes around the whole base. Seems to work out perfectly for me.

Waiting for more professional people to answer though!

Mind if I add this to the index Prod?

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My advice is to use all builders for defences, until you complete most of elixir researches. From now you can invest almost all elixir into walls, so you can save gold fot other staff :smirk: I am still th8, but that would be the best move, considering that you need much less time for research unlike th8(less building days), where you need some strategy as well.

Maxing walls early in the game is naive...you need to max walls, where you have a lot of time because of long upgrading time or loot, i this case elixir, that is issue at th8....it would be nice to maxing skulls with elixir.

Dont maxing walls too early.

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This is so wrong is many ways. When u complete walls, just rush to the next th. I only did this in th8, where I rushed to th9. I regretted maxing th6,7 after completing walls early. Furthermore, th9 has 1bil gold/lix for walls, so it's difficult to finish them before defenses. And if you do, just move to th10

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This is so wrong is many ways. When u complete walls, just rush to the next th. I only did this in th8, where I rushed to th9. I regretted maxing th6,7 after completing walls early. Furthermore, th9 has 1bil gold/lix for walls, so it's difficult to finish them before defenses. And if you do, just move to th10

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Mind to explain a bit more? Thanks though!

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So you are basically saying to stay a TH8.5 in order to war?

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Yes, at least until you can take on the xbows without trouble, but this is typically only necessary for clans that war 2+ times a week.

If you participate in wars alot, please DO NOT upgrade your bows to lvl 3 straight away. You'll end up being higher on the war map than you should be. I see 2-3 of those bow rushers every war with their tanky lvl 7 walls, some TH8 defenses and bad troops/heroes with the same rank as me, almost maxed TH9 (few cannons and collectors left) with mostly lvl 9 walls and maxed lavaloonion/gowiwi. It really hurts your clan.

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Yes, at least until you can take on the xbows without trouble, but this is typically only necessary for clans that war 2+ times a week.

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Gotcha! Good idea!

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If you participate in wars alot, please DO NOT upgrade your bows to lvl 3 straight away. You'll end up being higher on the war map than you should be. I see 2-3 of those bow rushers every war with their tanky lvl 7 walls, some TH8 defenses and bad troops/heroes with the same rank as me, almost maxed TH9 (few cannons and collectors left) with mostly lvl 9 walls and maxed lavaloonion/gowiwi. It really hurts your clan.

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Got that before, but still thanks!

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Mind to explain a bit more? Thanks though!

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Doing walls later, ie. after defenses will usually leave you with idle builders and you just farming walls. You spent gems to buy builders right? So there is little point of having them idle except in TH9/10. Even then, if you manage your builders wisely then you shall have little idle builder time in TH9.

The following is true for a hardcore farmer:
When you maxed your walls before your defenses, it indicates that your farming capacity is much higher than normal. In my own experience, I maxed my purple walls in TH7 within 2 weeks farming more than 2mil per day. After maxing walls, I had nothing to do with my loot, so my loot per day dropped to a mere 200k per day, a WHOPPING 90% reduction, because I could not spent it. Hence, my TH7 was miserable.

At TH8, I wised up and farmed 3mil per day to max walls asap then rush to TH9 and start doing legos and lavas. If I had maxed TH8, my loot per day would drop from 3mil/day to 600k/day, another huge 80% decrease. Now with lavas occupying me, I can farm 5mil each per day and have somewhere to spend all that loot.

Point is, if you can farm walls before defenses, there is nothing stopping you from rushing to the next TH. There is no point enjoying "better" loot if you have no use for the loot. And if you're not hardcore, its still wise to dump all your gold into walls before logging off so that you have nothing to steal and you would not need such a long grinding to complete walls at the end of the TH

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Doing walls later, ie. after defenses will usually leave you with idle builders and you just farming walls. You spent gems to buy builders right? So there is little point of having them idle except in TH9/10. Even then, if you manage your builders wisely then you shall have little idle builder time in TH9.

The following is true for a hardcore farmer:
When you maxed your walls before your defenses, it indicates that your farming capacity is much higher than normal. In my own experience, I maxed my purple walls in TH7 within 2 weeks farming more than 2mil per day. After maxing walls, I had nothing to do with my loot, so my loot per day dropped to a mere 200k per day, a WHOPPING 90% reduction, because I could not spent it. Hence, my TH7 was miserable.

At TH8, I wised up and farmed 3mil per day to max walls asap then rush to TH9 and start doing legos and lavas. If I had maxed TH8, my loot per day would drop from 3mil/day to 600k/day, another huge 80% decrease. Now with lavas occupying me, I can farm 5mil each per day and have somewhere to spend all that loot.

Point is, if you can farm walls before defenses, there is nothing stopping you from rushing to the next TH. There is no point enjoying "better" loot if you have no use for the loot. And if you're not hardcore, its still wise to dump all your gold into walls before logging off so that you have nothing to steal and you would not need such a long grinding to complete walls at the end of the TH

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Ah, ok! Thank you for sharing your experiences as well!

Are there any DE farming guides out there? I tried searching briefly (got homework currently) but came up with nothing

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Are there any DE farming guides out there? I tried searching briefly (got homework currently) but came up with nothing

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Yup, there's a great one by UnitySharp
Another one by TimeForShady
And another one by Eternal325 (not completely sure about the numbers)

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Yup, there's a great one by UnitySharp
Another one by TimeForShady
And another one by Eternal325 (not completely sure about the numbers)

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Okay thanks. You gave me names so that makes it 20x easier

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Okay thanks. You gave me names so that makes it 20x easier

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Just used advanced search!!

Don't forget to add a tip here...

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Just used advanced search!!

Don't forget to add a tip here...

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No problem, I will. I plan on making a simple DE farming guide that is yet effective (for TH9 of course) and posting it here.

Also, best place to farm is between 1700-1800 cups to not waste gold for attacking and there are bases with pretty good loot that are poorly made or a little weak for their lvl

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No problem, I will. I plan on making a simple DE farming guide that is yet effective (for TH9 of course) and posting it here.

Also, best place to farm is between 1700-1800 cups to not waste gold for attacking and there are bases with pretty good loot that are poorly made or a little weak for their lvl

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This should be noted that you will primarily find Gold and Lix at 1700-1800. You will do alright for DE just not quite enough to keep you heroes going non-stop at their higher levels.

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Yup, there's a great one by UnitySharp
Another one by TimeForShady
And another one by Eternal325 (not completely sure about the numbers)

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As for UnitySharp's philosophy of prioritising DE over gold and elixir after initial phase at TH9 really useful.

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This should be noted that you will primarily find Gold and Lix at 1700-1800. You will do alright for DE just not quite enough to keep you heroes going non-stop at their higher levels.

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Exactly. My bad for not pointing that out. Very good gold and elixir, but DE raids are like 10% chance of finding weaker bases for good DE raids. Push to ~2000 trophies to start finding good DE raids, but comes at a price of much stronger bases

EDIT (and add on question needing a suggestion): Should I create a DE farming/hunting guide or a journal kind of thing with suggestions about what actions should be taken based on experience?

My tip. First of all, upgarde all troops related building like: spell factory, laboratory, army camps because they will help you in your attacks.
It preferable to have 6 million gold, 6 million elixir and 40k Dark Elixir to be able to get the queen, 2 xbows, upgrade the spell factory, the laboratory and make a couple of raids and upgrade an army camp instantly.

After that, start focusing on elixir to upgarde your troops esp the ones you use.
You can upgarde your farming troops and move to upgrading defenses.
Put your new defenses and upgarde them to the max level for town hall 8.
At this point, decide weather you wanna start off upgrading walls to level 9 or you are going to leave to the end.
If you are going to leave them to the end, do the following but if you going to upgarde them, do the following after upgrading them. (Make sure not leave any resources for anyone)
Start upgarding splash damage defenses like mortars and wizard towers. Move to air and ground defenses like archer towers, hidden teslas and xbows. Then air or ground defenses like cannons and air defenses.
When you finish upgarding all your defenses start with level 9 walls if you didn't and if you did start with level 10 walls.

this is my plan

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This should be noted that you will primarily find Gold and Lix at 1700-1800. You will do alright for DE just not quite enough to keep you heroes going non-stop at their higher levels.

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As for UnitySharp's philosophy of prioritising DE over gold and elixir after initial phase at TH9 really useful.

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My tip. First of all, upgarde all troops related building like: spell factory, laboratory, army camps because they will help you in your attacks.
It preferable to have 6 million gold, 6 million elixir and 40k Dark Elixir to be able to get the queen, 2 xbows, upgrade the spell factory, the laboratory and make a couple of raids and upgrade an army camp instantly.

After that, start focusing on elixir to upgarde your troops esp the ones you use.
You can upgarde your farming troops and move to upgrading defenses.
Put your new defenses and upgarde them to the max level for town hall 8.
At this point, decide weather you wanna start off upgrading walls to level 9 or you are going to leave to the end.
If you are going to leave them to the end, do the following but if you going to upgarde them, do the following after upgrading them. (Make sure not leave any resources for anyone)
Start upgarding splash damage defenses like mortars and wizard towers. Move to air and ground defenses like archer towers, hidden teslas and xbows. Then air or ground defenses like cannons and air defenses.
When you finish upgarding all your defenses start with level 9 walls if you didn't and if you did start with level 10 walls.

this is my plan

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Thank you all! I will give better comments when I come home

• Max walls at TH8
• Work on Army camps, spell factory, lab, CC, AQ and "fast and cheap" new defences at the start of TH9.
• Work on getting your new walls to at least skulls before starting on xbows (this gives you plenty of gold at the start to dump into walls, then when your camps, spell fact and other costly elixir based upgrades are done you can dump elixir into level 9 walls.)
• Start on heroes and keep them upgrading continuously during TH9 (they are the biggest bottleneck for maxing TH9)
• Work on walls while working on other upgrades (second biggest bottleneck depending on how fast you can accumulate gold and elixir)
• Work on Dark troops ASAP otherwise you won't be able to farm enough DE to keep both heroes and the lab going towards the end of TH9
• Most importantly learn to farm without heroes, If you plan on maxing TH9 fast you will need both heroes on constant upgrade for the most part.

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Dude you totally ignored my comment.. Loll

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Dude you totally ignored my comment.. Loll

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Sorry about that!

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• Max walls at TH8
• Work on Army camps, spell factory, lab, CC, AQ and "fast and cheap" new defences at the start of TH9.
• Work on getting your new walls to at least skulls before starting on xbows (this gives you plenty of gold at the start to dump into walls, then when your camps, spell fact and other costly elixir based upgrades are done you can dump elixir into level 9 walls.)
• Start on heroes and keep them upgrading continuously during TH9 (they are the biggest bottleneck for maxing TH9)
• Work on walls while working on other upgrades (second biggest bottleneck depending on how fast you can accumulate gold and elixir)
• Work on Dark troops ASAP otherwise you won't be able to farm enough DE to keep both heroes and the lab going towards the end of TH9
• Most importantly learn to farm without heroes, If you plan on maxing TH9 fast you will need both heroes on constant upgrade for the most part.

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Thank you ver much!

More trophy range ideas, MORE, MORE MORE MORE

Since you wanted some opinion so I gave mine. Not even a thank you? So disrespectful man.

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Since you wanted some opinion so I gave mine. Not even a thank you? So disrespectful man.

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Were you not loved enough as a child that you have become insecure? OP acknowledged your contribution. Sure it has some merit, but it's not anything new. In fact if you are in a clan that wars fairly frequently, I would suggest it being bad advice.

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Sub 200 is okay. You can get raided quite a bit and lose a lot down there because many higher lvls do it, so proceed at your own risk

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Were you not loved enough as a child that you have become insecure? OP acknowledged your contribution. Sure it has some merit, but it's not anything new. In fact if you are in a clan that wars fairly frequently, I would suggest it being bad advice.

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Were you not taught of simple manners? Nothing here is really new actually. Everyone else opinion was thanked but not mine. You have your opinion, I have mine. Who are you to disregard my opinion? How can you suggest that what I said was bad advice? I have no problem in clan war, having Army Camp and Spell Factory done asap helps in clan war as well. I know having a level 3 xbow ranks me higher in war but so what? No big deal, just attack.

I am just focusing on defenses that help with my base design for war, so archer towers, tesla and soon another level of AD... I admit was a rushed TH9.

mmmm... Walls ... Maybe eventually... At least they make my base look easy

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Since you wanted some opinion so I gave mine. Not even a thank you? So disrespectful man.

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Well guess what?
What are you sharing this for? You want to be thanked or you want to help people?

Thank you though

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Sub 200 is okay. You can get raided quite a bit and lose a lot down there because many higher lvls do it, so proceed at your own risk

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Then wh should i even go there?

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Were you not taught of simple manners? Nothing here is really new actually. Everyone else opinion was thanked but not mine. You have your opinion, I have mine. Who are you to disregard my opinion? How can you suggest that what I said was bad advice? I have no problem in clan war, having Army Camp and Spell Factory done asap helps in clan war as well. I know having a level 3 xbow ranks me higher in war but so what? No big deal, just attack.

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Stop fighting.

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I am just focusing on defenses that help with my base design for war, so archer towers, tesla and soon another level of AD... I admit was a rushed TH9.

mmmm... Walls ... Maybe eventually... At least they make my base look easy

:)

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Thanks, though i don't really see how this is a tip

I'm a mid th9: maxed x bows teslas and wiz toewrs i have to farm my heros (AQ lv5 and BK lv 7) and even some gold and elixiers for other defenses adn other stuffs...any tips on the league and the troop comp?

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I'm a mid th9: maxed x bows teslas and wiz toewrs i have to farm my heros (AQ lv5 and BK lv 7) and even some gold and elixiers for other defenses adn other stuffs...any tips on the league and the troop comp?

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You can rely on this thread for answers!

I sincerely offer my point of view here. I've never commented anything negative until someone started saying something stupid :) I'm not fighting so please direct your message to him/her.

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I sincerely offer my point of view here. I've never commented anything negative until someone started saying something stupid :) I'm not fighting so please direct your message to him/her.

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Just forget this ever happened.

Back on topic: TIPS!

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Just forget this ever happened.

Back on topic: TIPS!

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Good troops to upgrade for new TH9s are farming troops, particularly barch, WBs, giants, gobs and minions. All are quick to train and are cheap, and all can make great farming strategies

I still have lvl 7 walls with air d, arch twrs and cannons to max. I need help and tips about how to do walls in between defenses. Help!!! I have about 70% lvl 7 walls, 28% lvl 8, 2 % lvl 9.

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Good troops to upgrade for new TH9s are farming troops, particularly barch, WBs, giants, gobs and minions. All are quick to train and are cheap, and all can make great farming strategies

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Thank You!!

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I still have lvl 7 walls with air d, arch twrs and cannons to max. I need help and tips about how to do walls in between defenses. Help!!! I have about 70% lvl 7 walls, 28% lvl 8, 2 % lvl 9.

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Can I get some help? I really don't know when to upgrade my walls, and right now I'm going to crystal for some de for my heroes, their 8/6

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Can I get some help? I really don't know when to upgrade my walls, and right now I'm going to crystal for some de for my heroes, their 8/6

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Upgrade your walls meanwhile you are upgrading your defenses!

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Can I get some help? I really don't know when to upgrade my walls, and right now I'm going to crystal for some de for my heroes, their 8/6

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Plan your upgrades. Farm more than you need, eg. you need 4.3mil for an AD upgrade, farm 6mil gold and 6mil elixir. Before you start your AD, create 7 legos from your excess loot. Have you maxed your drills? You can upgrade heroes from passive income of maxed drills all the way to 15/15 before really needing to farm hardcore for them

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Plan your upgrades. Farm more than you need, eg. you need 4.3mil for an AD upgrade, farm 6mil gold and 6mil elixir. Before you start your AD, create 7 legos from your excess loot. Have you maxed your drills? You can upgrade heroes from passive income of maxed drills all the way to 15/15 before really needing to farm hardcore for them

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Thank you for the contribution!

I've been TH 9 for quite a while as I rushed to it back in my more noobish days, one thing I regret not doing right away is focusing on wizard towers and army camps. The extra 20 troops help out quite a bit and the wiz towers help out tremendously with their dealing of splash damage to attacking barchers

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I've been TH 9 for quite a while as I rushed to it back in my more noobish days, one thing I regret not doing right away is focusing on wizard towers and army camps. The extra 20 troops help out quite a bit and the wiz towers help out tremendously with their dealing of splash damage to attacking barchers

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Thank you for informing us!

MORE MORE MORE tips!

More trophy ranges needed with cons and pros and reasons!

new th9 here(max skulls,few legos & lavas & th7 defences ;) ).here are my suggestions ,some might be repeated.
1.max camps followed by storages(de included) first after basic upgrades like lab xbows are done.
2.Dont stick to a league.keep changing it.anything between 1200-2200 works(im farming lavas at s1 atm).if you cant stay online for long hours then lower gold leagues are good enough.
3.Dont save loot,empty them on walls whenever you can,its mostly cheap gold upgrades at first.
4.always go for the big-stat-increase troops in lab first like loons giants etc.giants preferred,gibarch does wonders.Lvl5 barchers are good enough to empty most bases,so dont be in a hurry to max them.
5.get the queen to 5 asap.it doesnt take too many days,start from th9 day one.
6.Dont use spells unnecessarily.elix is scarce for a new th9(one of the reason why im done at s1)
7.maxing de drill quick should be a priority.
8.dont go maxing xbows if you concentrating on defence.seriously compare the stats,teslas are the best:smirk:
9.if you are a hardcore farmer,then take the new walls to 7 atleast & use them for labyriths or for funneling.take the core walls to lego first.then start farming for second layer & max it..go on...go on...

These tips are mainly for a new th9 from my experiences till now:).
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Originally Posted by Sathvik

new th9 here(max skulls,few legos & lavas & th7 defences ;) ).here are my suggestions ,some might be repeated.
1.max camps followed by storages(de included) first after basic upgrades like lab xbows are done.
2.Dont stick to a league.keep changing it.anything between 1200-2200 works(im farming lavas at s1 atm).if you cant stay online for long hours then lower gold leagues are good enough.
3.Dont save loot,empty them on walls whenever you can,its mostly cheap gold upgrades at first.
4.always go for the big-stat-increase troops in lab first like loons giants etc.giants preferred,gibarch does wonders.Lvl5 barchers are good enough to empty most bases,so dont be in a hurry to max them.
5.get the queen to 5 asap.it doesnt take too many days,start from th9 day one.
6.Dont use spells unnecessarily.elix is scarce for a new th9(one of the reason why im done at s1)
7.maxing de drill quick should be a priority.
8.dont go maxing xbows if you concentrating on defence.seriously compare the stats,teslas are the best:smirk:
9.if you are a hardcore farmer,then take the new walls to 7 atleast & use them for labyriths or for funneling.take the core walls to lego first.then start farming for second layer & max it..go on...go on...

These tips are mainly for a new th9 from my experiences till now:).
.

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MY EYES ARE BLIND NOW!!!!! Why such a small font?

Though, thank you very much!

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Originally Posted by PRODlGY

MY EYES ARE BLIND NOW!!!!! Why such a small font?

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Small?
Im using web version in phone,let me increase it:facepalm:

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Originally Posted by Sathvik

Small?
Im using web version in phone,let me increase it:facepalm:

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Dang, forums on phones really do suck.

This is now humongous, change it back

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Originally Posted by Sathvik

new th9 here(max skulls,few legos & lavas & th7 defences ;) ).here are my suggestions ,some might be repeated.
1.max camps followed by storages(de included) first after basic upgrades like lab xbows are done.
2.Dont stick to a league.keep changing it.anything between 1200-2200 works(im farming lavas at s1 atm).if you cant stay online for long hours then lower gold leagues are good enough.
3.Dont save loot,empty them on walls whenever you can,its mostly cheap gold upgrades at first.
4.always go for the big-stat-increase troops in lab first like loons giants etc.giants preferred,gibarch does wonders.Lvl5 barchers are good enough to empty most bases,so dont be in a hurry to max them.
5.get the queen to 5 asap.it doesnt take too many days,start from th9 day one.
6.Dont use spells unnecessarily.elix is scarce for a new th9(one of the reason why im done at s1)
7.maxing de drill quick should be a priority.
8.dont go maxing xbows if you concentrating on defence.seriously compare the stats,teslas are the best:smirk:
9.if you are a hardcore farmer,then take the new walls to 7 atleast & use them for labyriths or for funneling.take the core walls to lego first.then start farming for second layer & max it..go on...go on...

These tips are mainly for a new th9 from my experiences till now:).
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Hello
i will get my xbows lv 1 done in 2 days
now i have 2.6m gold waiting in the storage, lv 1 wiz tower, lv 1 arch tower, lv 1 tesla, lv 1 air def

Should i:
a. Farm all the time to get xbow to lv 3 non stop, leave the def at lv 1
b. pause upgrading xbows when they are done, get all new defense and walls to max th8 level then start upgrading xbow

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Originally Posted by SnuSnu

Hello
i will get my xbows lv 1 done in 2 days
now i have 2.6m gold waiting in the storage, lv 1 wiz tower, lv 1 arch tower, lv 1 tesla, lv 1 air def

Should i:
a. Farm all the time to get xbow to lv 3 non stop, leave the def at lv 1
b. pause upgrading xbows when they are done, get all new defense and walls to max th8 level then start upgrading xbow

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The best way would be to take all new defences to th8 max level first.Then max defences according to your priority.i will be maxing teslas and wt first.And trust me,maxing xbows first thing has a big impact on wars.SC overrates xbows,you will be pushed up in your clanwar map,not the best thing to do when you dont have troops to 2*/3* enemies at that level.

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Originally Posted by SnuSnu

Hello
i will get my xbows lv 1 done in 2 days
now i have 2.6m gold waiting in the storage, lv 1 wiz tower, lv 1 arch tower, lv 1 tesla, lv 1 air def

Should i:
a. Farm all the time to get xbow to lv 3 non stop, leave the def at lv 1
b. pause upgrading xbows when they are done, get all new defense and walls to max th8 level then start upgrading xbow

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get all the defs to at least th7 level, this will provide you the biggest boost in DPS per hour/resources spent on building.

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Originally Posted by Sathvik

The best way would be to take all new defences to th8 max level first.Then max defences according to your priority.i will be maxing teslas and wt first.And trust me,maxing xbows first thing has a big impact on wars.SC overrates xbows,you will be pushed up in your clanwar map,not the best thing to do when you dont have troops to 2*/3* enemies at that level.

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Originally Posted by fafaedras

get all the defs to at least th7 level, this will provide you the biggest boost in DPS per hour/resources spent on building.

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Thank you for helping while I'm offline guys!

We have a beast TH9 in our clan IGN: Nate Clan: AgentofDarkness #92YV8PCR. He has flown through ALL TH levels maxxing each one out. He will soon be part of the "Billion" club, he has his own strategy and attack plans. Asking him would be the only way to learn how he does it, mostly barch that we know of to date. If I remember right he has only been playing 9-10 months. Feel free to check out his profile and base, lava's look awesome. Best bet is to have him teach you as he is stingy with his plan and will usually only share with seasoned clan members. I think he averages 200-400 attacks per season if not more.