TH 10 Advice....Continue to max defenses or finish walls

Hey Clashers,

I have reached a situation where I'm not sure what my priorities are. I will list my stats then further discuss my situation.

Name: Charles
Clan: The Great Ones
Level: 117
Heros: Q:20, K:18
GG: around 702M
Walls: 205 lego, 45 lava
War Stars: 568

I'm currently about mid way with maxing my defenses; maybe slightly less then half way...there is a screenshot of my base at the bottom of this thread. I have a decision to make...

1. dedicate the next few months upgrading all walls to lvl 10.

Pros

i. Looks badass/ intimidates players from attacking while farming and may cause mistakes during war.
ii. Will strengthen my overall base.
iii. Slows down troops

Cons

i. Will take FOREVER
ii. Air attacks are so popular making walls useless
iii. Earthquake spell also makes walls useless.
iv. opportunity lost to max defenses (prolonged not lost); talking about opportunity cost.

2. Max defenses first then focus on walls.

Pros

i. Max defenses intimidate players
ii. give base maximum defense capabilities

Cons

i. Will take a long time/will be a while before I touch walls.


I understand there are many pros/cons for each scenario that I missed and feel free to add any in comments. I really want max defenses but I also like having what many players want but don't have....badass walls. However, I also can not stand constantly looking at 4-5 free builders. I also don't play enough anymore to keep builders busy while working on walls. Many people say to use gold for defenses and elixir for walls...however I would rather do one or the other (maybe continue to upgrade troops with elixir).

I understand TH11 is in the near future so maybe my priorities will change. However, for now I would like some advice/thoughts about what the community has to think about base priorities.

Keep on clashing!

ps: I don't gem...I got the 2000 gems from reaching Champs...finally.

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My base as of Sep 15th 2015

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TLDR but def is more important.

I'm a max th10 except for about 35 (current walls). If you like war, work on your royals. Otherwise, only do walls first if they make you happy aesthetically. They aren't much better than lava walls as people tend to jump over them, and either way it is 3 wb to break them.

Defences with gold. Walls with elixir. Excess gold into walls.

Defenses (and heroes).

Max defenses are more intimidating than max walls. Between eq and jump spells and air attacks, walls on their own aren't that intimidating.

If you care about war ug heroes, troops, and walls first. If I could go back I would never have even made mortars as they are completely useless in war. Defenses are overrated on the war algorythem and your base design and offense are much more important to winning wars.

max the defenses. more walls coming in the update, dont even bother with walls right now.

Just do both. Leave one builder open for walls. The way im doing it right now is 2 builders for defenses 2 for heroes and 1 for walls.

I say neither #1 nor 2.

I suggest #3: focus on DE, upgrade both heroes to max it ASAP.
Gold & Elixir will come naturally, albeit slower pace.
Dump into defenses first.
If you farm much faster than builders, then keep a builder free to dump whatever remaining into walls.

Repeat: focus on DE, not gold/elixir.

Max defences first for sure especially if u don't play enough to keep all your builders busy.

But higher priorities than defences are finishing lab and heros.

Do walls only when lab is busy, builders are busy and heros are upgrading.

I went to high champ with level 7 walls no problems.

And personally i didn't bother with lvl 8 or lvl 9 walls. I had level 7 till i maxed everything else, now i am working on level 10 walls. Level 7 need 2 max WBs to break them so they are an important step up from level 6, and level 10 walls need 3 max WBs so that's the next important step. (Besides level 8 And level 9 walls are ugly 😜).

FYI i take no notice of wall level when i attack bases, just look at defences and dps.

Also i take the opposite view with regards to making my base look strong. I like attackers underestimating my base. I got lots of defensive wins in champ, because i think some attackers judge a base on walls and when they see level 7 walls they mistakenly think the base is weak.