Level 8 walls before town hall 9 or not?

[Junliang]

Haha skull wall scare you??? But lots idiots attack me I need only 18 mio left to max wall lvl 8,I guess for wall lvl 9 need arround2- 3 month lol

Yup.. but hey, I only have level 4 troops dude haha..

Good luck getting them maxed

[Alexchok]

I am in the same situation...only archer towers left to upgrade to 10. And teslas..all at level 3. The thing that bugs me is the elixir I am wasting. I always have full elixir at 6 mil whilst farming for gold for the remaining walls. It's the thought of the wasted elixir that is making me seriously considering upgrading to th9 now. Any thoughts?

[TimTheEnchanter]

I am in the same situation...only archer towers left to upgrade to 10. And teslas..all at level 3. The thing that bugs me is the elixir I am wasting. I always have full elixir at 6 mil whilst farming for gold for the remaining walls. It's the thought of the wasted elixir that is making me seriously considering upgrading to th9 now. Any thoughts?

You still have a loooooooong time to upgrade teslas (30 days per tesla) to max out at th8. So, for what it's worth (hint: very little) my opinion would be stick at th8 and upgrade those teslas and arch towers while using excess gold to max walls. You've got enough to keep your builders busy.

[TNT]

Upgrade your drill or dark storage

I am in the same situation...only archer towers left to upgrade to 10. And teslas..all at level 3. The thing that bugs me is the elixir I am wasting. I always have full elixir at 6 mil whilst farming for gold for the remaining walls. It's the thought of the wasted elixir that is making me seriously considering upgrading to th9 now. Any thoughts?

[scanners107]

I tend to make 10 dragons overnight to donate to people in the morning, that helps keep my elixer down a little.

[Junliang]

I am in the same situation...only archer towers left to upgrade to 10. And teslas..all at level 3. The thing that bugs me is the elixir I am wasting. I always have full elixir at 6 mil whilst farming for gold for the remaining walls. It's the thought of the wasted elixir that is making me seriously considering upgrading to th9 now. Any thoughts?

thats why my th9 clan members advise me to upgrade my tesla together with my other buildings.

i.e, always have 1 builder for tesla.

so such won't occur haha

[ActionMonkey]

This is really a matter of opinion more so than science. Getting all your walls to lvl 8 is going to take quite some time and if you are truly maxed in all other aspects of your base that means you will have a lot if idle builders for the entirety of that time.

To me I value builder efficiency over walls, I would say go to TH 9 enjoy 25 more walls and having two xbows that snipe my wall breakers just as they are about to crack into, your resources.

Definately agree with Tim.

Having idle builders are a big no-no in my book.

Besides, TH 8 is not *that* much better loot wise than TH 9 in my opinion. But I know many disagree with me on this, so it's not for everyone I guess. But having 5 builders sitting on their hands are the big issue here.

[ActionMonkey]

I am in the same situation...only archer towers left to upgrade to 10. And teslas..all at level 3. The thing that bugs me is the elixir I am wasting. I always have full elixir at 6 mil whilst farming for gold for the remaining walls. It's the thought of the wasted elixir that is making me seriously considering upgrading to th9 now. Any thoughts?

Well... One thing is for certain. You will NOT have full elixir stores one you upgrade considering the 30-40 million of elixir you will feel you need right away. I recently started my last level 6 upgrade and I have level 3 pekkas left to research, and I look forward to not needing to raid for elixir anymore.

[Illustris]

One of these days, I'll get around to writing a long post of ROI from upgrading walls from level 7 to 8 vs. ROI on upgrading defensive buildings. I agree with the previous posters about personal opinion, etc, and not having builders not snoozing away....

But I tend to have differed from many veterans, whether wise or not, haha. I was at 2,750 troph with frilly pink walls. Once I started farming more hard core, I realized pretty soon that it is a steep endeavor to completely surround your tanks well with level 8 (then 9 and 10 walls), and that return on gold investment was less than just upgrading defensive buildings.

It is a common thought (which I disagree with) that level 8 (black skulls) is that much more effective than level 7 with better defensive buildings for that same gold reinvested. Your perimeter of walls is only as strong as your weakest entry point, which requires a large upfront investment.

Case in point, I still have a bunch of purple level 7 walls, with a smattering of level 8 and 9 walls all over the place, because I don't really focus on walls as much. But, I was raided for the first time a few hours ago by someone using L6 giants, L6 barbs, L6 archer, BK, Queen, rage spell, and you can see the loot results in this pic. First time, I was hit with all three L6 troops, thought it was noteworthy.

This fella didn't use many WBs, but I have many of these epic failures, and it's not about WBs vs. Walls... People get all convoluted at times about that elusive perfect village layout, with pretty spikes, and all... but in reality, I find that if someone wants to get in, they will... with more WBs, a rage spell, or a jump spell. It's what happens after they bust thru your walls that matters, in my humble opinion.



Illustris (I'll get to walls one of these days, I promise... lol)

[Apk2O13]

Spend 800$ and max your walls while upgrading to TH9.

(just kidding, don't)