Help With TH9

Hi everyone! I need some advice for my TH9 base.
I am a mid TH9 (I've been at TH9 for about 4 months), playing CoC for +1 year, I am a farmer (last time I did a war was a few months ago). I farm with GiBarch in Upper Gold/ Lower Crystal
I have all my cannons, hidden teslas, wizard towers, air defense maxed.
I have all but 1 (lvl 10) archer tower maxed.
My King is level 12, Queen going to 12
Xbows are level 1.
Maxed elixir troops except dragons, Maxed elixir spells except lightning (I don't plan on upgrading that anytime soon), all dark elixir spells maxed except earthquake (you might know why).
I have 134 level 9 walls and rest are skulls.
Maxed minions, hogs going to max, golems level 1, valkyrie level 1, witch level 1, and lavahound level 1

My question is, how is my base so far? Should my heroes be higher than they are supposed to? What can I do to get more dark elixir for upgrading dark elixir troops (keep in mind I don't war much)? Should I prioritize heroes or dark troops?

Upgrade the xbows.

I'm just a little farther then you on the TH9 journey, I will really suggest to start farming only base on DE, at the rate your going in a month of two you will be cap on gold and elexir upgrade and research with only wall left to do but I see a few months worth of DE upgrade and research...

I then suggest adding some WB to your mix to attack the core of bases, and start attacking for 1500 DE and more, even if you dont cover the cost of troops / spells

1. For more dark elixir, bring EQ spells and send in kill squads targeted at the dark storage. I routinely find bases with 2K or more available in Gold/Silver. You could even move up to masters or champs, GiBArch, and live off the loot bonus.
2. Heroes should be higher. I've been a TH 9 for just under a month and my queen is on her way to 8 and king is 10.
3. Defenses are doing good. Just keep chugging along on those walls and up those xbows.
4. I'd prioritize heroes till they are both 15....but those golems only at level 1? That really should get fixed if you are warring with a ground game.

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Originally Posted by SterlingArcher99

1. For more dark elixir, bring EQ spells and send in kill squads targeted at the dark storage. I routinely find bases with 2K or more available in Gold/Silver. You could even move up to masters or champs, GiBArch, and live off the loot bonus.
2. Heroes should be higher. I've been a TH 9 for just under a month and my queen is on her way to 8 and king is 10.
3. Defenses are doing good. Just keep chugging along on those walls and up those xbows.
4. I'd prioritize heroes till they are both 15....but those golems only at level 1? That really should get fixed if you are warring with a ground game.

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I just posted my army comp on another thread... titled "Why GiBarch?"

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Originally Posted by TheSkylian

Hi everyone! I need some advice for my TH9 base.
I am a mid TH9 (I've been at TH9 for about 4 months), playing CoC for +1 year, I am a farmer (last time I did a war was a few months ago). I farm with GiBarch in Upper Gold/ Lower Crystal
I have all my cannons, hidden teslas, wizard towers, air defense maxed.
I have all but 1 (lvl 10) archer tower maxed.
My King is level 12, Queen going to 12
Xbows are level 1.
Maxed elixir troops except dragons, Maxed elixir spells except lightning (I don't plan on upgrading that anytime soon), all dark elixir spells maxed except earthquake (you might know why).
I have 134 level 9 walls and rest are skulls.
Maxed minions, hogs going to max, golems level 1, valkyrie level 1, witch level 1, and lavahound level 1

My question is, how is my base so far? Should my heroes be higher than they are supposed to? What can I do to get more dark elixir for upgrading dark elixir troops (keep in mind I don't war much)? Should I prioritize heroes or dark troops?

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My suggestion would be moving a bit up in leagues, perhaps to crystal 1 or 2, since dark elixir seems to be more common there, not to mention the league bonus significantly helps offset the cost of any dark troops or spells you use in the raid.

Many people suggest using EQ spells to farm dark, but this has always seemed counterproductive to me, since they're very costly and take a significant chunk out of your dark elixir loot. Personally, gibarch with 8 wallbreakers and a cc full of wizards with a jump, rage and 2 heals has always worked really well for me when I was at your stage in the game. Hell, most of the time I only used a single heal on attacks to keep the giants alive until I got their dark.

GiBarch DE storages.

Heroes over DE troops, especially if you're mostly a farmer because you don't have to worry about sitting out wars and dark troops are mainly for war and serious trophy pushing.

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Originally Posted by SterlingArcher99

1. For more dark elixir, bring EQ spells and send in kill squads targeted at the dark storage. I routinely find bases with 2K or more available in Gold/Silver. You could even move up to masters or champs, GiBArch, and live off the loot bonus.
2. Heroes should be higher. I've been a TH 9 for just under a month and my queen is on her way to 8 and king is 10.
3. Defenses are doing good. Just keep chugging along on those walls and up those xbows.
4. I'd prioritize heroes till they are both 15....but those golems only at level 1? That really should get fixed if you are warring with a ground game.

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Why bring EQ spells (4 no less) if you're trying to save up DE? I use jumps with my Gibarch, works 99% as well but costs no DE.