Let me first say that is not a thread to complain or praise the loot system, or anything else of that nature. This is simply just my observations of being a new TH10 two weeks in. After being on the forums for a while and hearing all the tales of woe from so many TH10 I was terrified to move on up, so I'm simply sharing this so maybe other TH9 have something to think about before doing the same.
So, as a TH9 I was defensively maxed 100% before deciding to go up to TH10. My heroes were relatively low at L14 and L10 and my golem is only L3 but with all other troops/spells being done in the lab. I decided that it was time to move up for two main reasons. The first being that farming walls is incredibly boring (I have 150 L9. More than enough for me) and I tire of it easily. The second being I wanted my inferno towers!
On the day my TH got some lava flowing on it I transitioned with full storages of elixir and gold. I instantly dropped elixir on my spell factory, lab and my new DE drill. My 8 million gold went to one IT, and I quickly farmed enough gold to four hours later start my second IT. 2 weeks in my upgrades are as followed...
- Both IT on their way to L2. One with 3 days remaining, one with 7.
- My third xbow on its way to L2 with 9 days remaining.
- L6 cc on its way with 4.5 days remaining.
- New archer tower and cannon both L7
- New traps bought and one GB to L3.
- New mines at L5
- Third DE drill at L3
- L3 golem had 7 days left in my lab when new to TH10... now freeze spell is 2 days away from L2.
- BK to L15 and AQ to L11 (tomorrow)
- 2.6 million in gold atm and 2 million elixir.
As for loot in general my first two weeks have left me in awe of how easy it has been to get gold and de as a TH10. After being on the forums all the time so many people make it sound like the end of the world while in my experience thus far (remember, my experience) the loot has been just fine. I decided to just stick around my normal TH9 farming range of 1800-2100 trophies and I've yet to have a problem. I am not a BAM, barch or mass archer farmer and I go after storages when I farm so really things have been great! Do I miss not being able to steamroll TH8 with full storages for easy 500k raids? Absolutely I do, but there are so many TH9-10 with maxed storages that are making up for it. Whether I am going with giant/healer combos, loonions or mass hog raids I am doing very well and very rarely need to next more than 15-25 times.
For 2-3 months as a TH9 I was always full on elixir... always. For the first time now I am struggling to keep up with elixir and the new upgrades. Especially with all the lab upgrades being so costly. My lab was dead for the first time in 14 months a few days back which bothered me but luckily I finally got enough to get my L2 freeze going. Elixir is going to be my grind!
That being said while a TH9 I would normally not battle unless there was at least 400k-500k combined that I knew I had a chance at, but as a TH10 I'm not happy knowing that I have the chance to get 300k-400k combined. When using loonions or mass hogs I'm still normally taking in 500k-600 combined though. All this being said, I'm still losing some raids going after tough bases and this needs to be factored in.
The biggest thing I've noticed however though is that I've only had two attacks on my base since building my IT. 2. Thats it. Sure, I've had TH snipes a plenty and people failing with barch or mass archers which I don't count. But only two actual attempts at going for my storages. One was a mass hog that got 21% and the other was a giant/healer combo with two L26 heroes which did all the work and got 2600de from me as two of each storage. That's it, nothing more. Not even when I had the maximum 800k combined a few times. I find this absolutely crazy but I guess I pass on every base with two IT as well when farming.
No one has attacked me in CW yet either since building the IT.
So. As a new TH10 all systems are go and I'm still having a great time. A bit bored that no one is raiding me, but farming has actually gotten more fun as I like tough battles to earn my loot and having to go after TH9-10 is giving me many of these types of battles. Don't get me wrong, there are still the occasional battles where I clean out a premmie easily, but the collector raids have been veeeeery few.
Just my thoughts and what has happened in my first few weeks. Hope it helps some that may plan on moving up to TH10 soon. Don't fret people, if you have any skill at raiding your loot will be fine, maybe even better!
Originally Posted by Anarchos
