Are you a TH10 ?
I maxed my TH10 relying on barch... It's funny to see how many TH9 are telling everybody you cannot farm decently being a TH10 altough they have never been there. That's simply totally wrong !
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Depending on how high you're talking about this is kind of a myth. My th9 has been floating in champs three for about the last month doing the last of my hero levels and almost always just get sniped, keep in mind I always have at least one hero down and for 2-3 days have both down. With a little focus I've been able to outpace my th10 in dark elixir procurement as well, even without the 3rd drill. Just for reference my queen is currently going to 28 and king is at 27.
I agree with this guy. You've got a couple months of lab upgrades left, why not get them out of the way?
That said, if you don't really like to war, you'll have more fun at ten after you get your farm troops and camps maxed. So just do what will bring you the most joy
I think you will regret not finishing your walls before you go to townhall 10. One thing to consider is whether or not you are serious about Clan Wars. If you just farm and play the regular game I would suggest going to townhall 10 for the new items. If you are in a warring clan I would suggest maxing your walls first. While it is easier to get dark elixir at townhall 10, your gold and elixir intake is severely affected.
Do you need lvl 30 heroes with all lava walls ? No
But I'd recommend maxing all your troops, spells, def, buildings
When its all said and done, TH10 is hard. Really hard. No more 3 star clan war attacks (unless you're facing a really crappy TH10 or attacking down on TH9s.) Even getting that 2 star attack isn't easy.
The higher level hero's you have, the easier it is. This is from someone who slightly rushed things. I went with lvl 30 royals (combined). Max it out, you wont regret it.
(Loot is also harder at TH10. You wont be able to get anything worthwhile off of TH8s.)
If you war and stay at near max Th9, you will start facing early TH10s with an inferno or two. It will start getting annoying, as you don't have the offense to deal with it, like a TH10 does. At worst, just upgrade to TH10 and focus on just upgrading your offense. Even if all you did was the camps and SF, your offense would be much much better and war weight only slightly higher.
Staying at TH9 to max everything is a bad idea, unless you don't war, then it doesn't matter either way. You get an extra DE drill and with the improved offense, will be able to get more storages. I'm at TH10 now and haven't built any new defenses, just the DE drill. I went to TH10 with level a 20BK and 23(now 25)AQ. Still have all TH8 level mortars, cannons and 4 ATs. Lego/lava walls and was maxed lab at TH9(level 2 valks). I purposely didn't upgrade my point D, too keep my war weight down. In war now, I get paired with preemie TH10s or max TH9s and I have 240 troop space, 5 spells, Level 6 wizards and soon Level 5 Pekkas. I only get sniped and have only been 1 starred in the last 6 wars, so who needs the extra D??
It made more sense before the extra war weight to Walls and heroes.