Why Max Out?

[IDBGOD28]

It's just a great idea to max everything, not only for the awesome looking base but it's also the intimidation factor of your defs. I am currently an almost maxed TH8 (like 110 walls and 3 bombs) so getting those walls to L8's (skulls) are and awesome feature and they scare the ♥♥♥♥ outa people.

I agree with maxing out if you can, but I don't really think skull walls "scare the ♥♥♥♥ out of people."

It takes the same amount of wall breakers to break lvl 7/8 walls and most people know that. As an 8, you are mainly going to be attacked by hall 9's anyway (and any semi decent 9 will steamroll you regardless, max or not). The could care less if you have skulls as max lvl troops, 4 spells, 20 more cap and the AQ is too much for any TH8 to handle.

Now as for other hall 8's and lower levels, sure there might be some "intimidation" there...but most know they won't be able to really get much from an upgraded 8 anyway unless they use higher lvl comps like mass drags. They will typically target a storage or two (if they are exposed) or snipe.

[GodII]

Just upgrade to TH 8. The loot penalty is pretty unimportant (how often are you really farming th 6 bases?) and for defense you will always get crushed. I used to barch th 7 maxed bases with th 8 troops and get 100% or all the resources. Nowadays at th 9 I can use a handful of giants and smash a maxed th 8 base. It's only at TH 9 and TH 10 that you can start to defend somewhat against the next townhall's farming armies. So go forward to th 8 quickly and max that instead.

[ds276]

I just love finding loot-laden TH8s with gold and pink walls. There is absolutely no need for maxing out your walls. Just leave them at the pink or preferably gold stage.

[WoWnoMore]

Max th7. It's super easy to get resources in S1-S3 as a th7. You don't want to go to th8 and have to upgrade your wizards towers 3 times. Another reason to max th7 is so you can spend less time at th8. TH8 can be fun, but it can be tough to defend your loot there. Definitely don't preemie th9, max your lab at th8!

[herman2net]

well, i think if you can get atleat half your wall to purple that would be enough just dont do gold wall...too tempting.....you will get attack the moment you log off......i rush to th 8 from start in less then a month...and hopefully be alright...not make sense to stay in th 7 anyway if you have overflow elixir all the time...you can always drop your trophy if things getting hard...and ALWAYS...dump your gold then you will be fine.. (dont care much about elixir tho....)

[jgarcia3209]

Half of u guys are saying rush the other half is saying max out which one is it

[Mobad]

Just upgrade to TH 8. The loot penalty is pretty unimportant (how often are you really farming th 6 bases?) and for defense you will always get crushed. I used to barch th 7 maxed bases with th 8 troops and get 100% or all the resources. Nowadays at th 9 I can use a handful of giants and smash a maxed th 8 base. It's only at TH 9 and TH 10 that you can start to defend somewhat against the next townhall's farming armies. So go forward to th 8 quickly and max that instead.

I'm a th6 and maxed on all defences, but walls. Im about halfway done maxing my walls. Only have one barracks and one spell left to max along with a few mines and pumps. Every bloody night I get three starred by a lvl 8, 9, or 10 th. They get little, and I do mean very little, loot. It's always less than 10000 combined. One dude attacked for less than 1500 combined. He didn't even earn back a wall breaker. So yes smaller townhalls do come up quite readily in search, but I'm thinking only morons attack them. I haven't been attacked at someone my level since I upgraded to 6. The nice thing though is I get16 hours to collect and spend before some moron decides he has too much elixer and must go throw it at my village

[hauw]

Half of u guys are saying rush the other half is saying max out which one is it

Now here's the catch :

I don't get this upgrading to get a stronger army so you can loot easier concept. Everything is relative. You go to Th8, Th6 are no longer lucrative to you, so you have to raid TH7 and TH8 with stronger defense, nullifying any advantage of your "stronger army". Also, as others have stated, you will get beat on everyday by well developed TH8 and 9's. Upgrading for a stronger army for loot is a misconception and logical fallacy. There is no such thing. All the defense upgrade at each town hall level were balanced to nullify any upgraded troops at the same town hall: either way you end up grinding. Would you rather grind as a well developed Th7 against weak TH6 or comparable 7, or grind as a preme TH8 against comparable TH7 and tough 8? The answer is obvious.

I think you missed the concept.
You upgrade because you have nothing to progress on your base anymore.
Why would you to TH 8 with underleveled defenses? Level 5 WB one shots gold walls. You will be picked very, very often and you will have harder time folding your supposedly more powerful army against TH 7 because you can't loot TH 6 anymore.

Most people here who rushed their town halls has plenty of time. By plenty, i mean a lot so that it doesn't really matter rushing because we always loot back what was stolen from us.
As for me i was level 26 TH 6, i was level 38 TH 7, i was level 55 TH 8 and i was level 74 TH 9.
Every time i go premmie my walls are completely maxed out. I have nothing else to do, why would i wait on upgrading collectors, cannons, ATs, bombs, and teslas?

[Tallos]

So many people saying to max everything, just because they've been fed that ♥♥♥♥ from when they first asked. I was told I'd never keep 5 builders busy from an early stage... Funnily enough I'm well into Th9 and they're still yet to take a break. Max offence and rush to Th7, get your walls + splash maxed, then onto Th8 - This is where you need to be a little more defensive, as Th9's (strongest looting TH level, due to max level farming troops and Aq) and will come for you. Get Th8 mostly maxed (I had most of my skulls done, and Aa were all level 4 and Teslas were 2-3).

I strongly suggest against maxing pumps/mines/barracks until you're Th9, assuming you're fairly active - The time they take can go elsewhere and get you to Th9 quicker. Then once you're Th9 and you're pulling 200-250k/200-250k/500-1k collector raids every 30mins and your upgrades are 2-5m a time and take 5-10days, you can stick a builder om Barracks, Pumps and Mines, to keep them all ticking over.

To put things into perspective, I started March 1st, my IGN is Tallos and I'm in Centum Arena, tell me that base level is worse than a Th8 maxed one.

[vajayjayjay]

go straight to th8 man. th7 sucks.