Town Hall 9 Needs help!

[Ericvera17]

Hey guys! I'm a Th8 With My Th9 done in 6 days! I was wondering what should be my priorities when upgrading! I have 4 buliders! What type of loot should I look for as a th9? 150k? My IgN is m4lover and I'm in the clan centurae! Please help a brother out!

[Rastis]

Hi! Two builders on xbows, one on lab and one on new AD/WT/army camp, whichever strikes your fancy. Just been 9 a few weeks myself, for me loot has been on the lower end with some very nasty search times. The numerous amount of threads on this during the last week suggest that this is something many people are currently experiencing, and at various ranges (1200-1700). There seems to be a decreased amount of collector raids, but it might just be temporary - all in all I think the loot might be pretty close to TH8, at a good day.

edit: If you fill up your DE so that you can upg AQ to lvl 2 right away, your 4th builder should do that. If not, build her with any builder (no building time for lvl 1), then proceed to build any of the other structures mentioned.

[yesup]

I am in the same boat.

When TH finishes, you should have at least 40k DE for the Archer Queen, preferably 62.5k DE so that you can get level 2 AQ right away. Gold (for the 2 X-bows) and Elixir should be full as well.

You also need to upgrade the 4th Elixir storage to 11 if you want to upgrade your archers to lvl 6 when the lab is done.
I am also debating which troop to upgrade first - most of my clanmates prefer lvl 6 archer, but on paper, upgrading Giants first seem to get bigger boost in offensive power (in addition to lower cost and less time).

I also only have 4 builders, and it is hard deciding which to go first - splash defense/AD/Tesla or offense such as army camps.

[hastur]

Hi! Two builders on xbows, one on lab and one on new AD/WT/army camp, whichever strikes your fancy. Just been 9 a few weeks myself, for me loot has been on the lower end with some very nasty search times. The numerous amount of threads on this during the last week suggest that this is something many people are currently experiencing, and at various ranges (1200-1700). There seems to be a decreased amount of collector raids, but it might just be temporary - all in all I think the loot might be pretty close to TH8, at a good day.

edit: If you fill up your DE so that you can upg AQ to lvl 2 right away, your 4th builder should do that. If not, build her with any builder (no building time for lvl 1), then proceed to build any of the other structures mentioned.

I did this, pretty much... you don't actually need max elixer, something like 5M will be plenty, assuming you continue raiding, you can't spend 6M right away. For example after upgrading my lab, and my spell factory, I'm already back to over 5M elixer after less than 4 days of TH9; if I focus on it, I'll max it really quick, quicker than I can spend it.

My first troop upgrade will be Giants - a no-brainer for me, they get a huge boost at level 6, and can be the core of a strong army for farming and/or trophies.

My army camps will be priority #2, and I've got 5 builders. I'd rather wait for the xbows to be done, then start to get all my new defenses up to scratch at the same time as 1-2 camps, which will take a week or two.

Assuming you will leave your spell factory for later, I'd say use your 4th builder to build your new wizard tower, queen to level 2 if you can, archer tower to level 3-4, and get your new storages started - a level 8 storage doesn't take too long, and then your available resources are spread evenly amongst 4 containers making you really hard to loot.