Advice Poll TH8 to TH9

[Attitude]

(1)You're much better served using that spare elixir at TH9 to make a start on legos.

(2) (you can't defend more than 20k at TH8, don't even try)

(3) you'll be left with builders twiddling their thumbs, doing pointless upgrades. Don't be that guy.

Maxed walls vs all that- what would you rather have?

Agree on (1). Considered doing a premmy when I saw the last update coming. Decided to at least do all defence buildings at least (all Cannons, 4 AT and all testla's left).

(2) I noticed that. As soon as I hit the 17-20k they start coming through my walls. (The balance between TH's gets worse in the higher TH's, I notice that.. don't even wanna know how easy TH10's ♥♥♥♥ TH9's). Compared to Gold/eli, 2kk is easy to handle.

(3) What do you name pointless upgrades? I was actually thinking about maxing mines/collectors... I won't like my workers doing nothing though.

Yeah, I guess the other option is better, but I'd prefer both! :P

Ps. Tnxs for the nice post!

[d11]

Hello OP! You should most definitely max out defences and rush!

TH9 is way better and the loot is decent enough. You can max the Hogs and Loons here for war, and they're almost perfect.

Upgrading golem might be wise, but there's no hurry unless you war 24/7.

[thelsk]

no need to max all imo.
Max farming troop, max an war troop you like to use (balloon, hog, wizard..), max defense if you can, king to lvl 10, that's it.
Grinding 100M gold for 200 skullies is kind of "sick" to me.
anyway if you can farm like 50 rounds a day then u should max everything.

[blackcollector]

My rule is always the same. You shouldn't waste builder time or resources.

As long as you have somewhere to dump your elixir, you can stay TH8. As long as you have somewhere to dump your gold, you can stay TH8.

If all you village is done (walls, mines, def, barracks) and you still have lab upgrades to do, you can upgrade. King level isn't a problem either.

plan so you have 6M gold, at least 2M elixir and 40k DE when your upgrade finishes. You need to get the queen, upgrade your lab and start those xbows. Many people grinds walls during the TH upgrade and are missing gold at the end.

Good luck

[Attitude]

that's my rule too, but I don't know if I can keep it up. When I was a th7, my walls were done for a long long time before I went to TH8.

[lemonloaf]

If you have most defenses maxed and all the core lab upgrades done (so whatever you use primarily in war or to farm with) then go. Don't wait at TH8 its the worst TH level.

Farming at 9 is fine.

[Goobers]

Strongly disagree with maxing everything, for a few reasons.

First, the wall change- if you decide to max walls, you're stuck with elixir (by the time you're grinding walls, all your defences and elixir upgrades will be done, leaving you with lab upgrades only). That means you're wasting potential time with your elixir, which has no purpose. You're much better served using that spare elixir at TH9 to make a start on legos.

Secondly, DE is much faster at TH9. Those DE upgrades which take forever at TH8 (you can't defend more than 20k at TH8, don't even try) will be a breeze as TH9- as soon as you're moderately upgraded, you'll be able to store far more than that without much fear of being attacked, and the DE flows like wine at higher THs. Finishing your lab is much easier up high.

Third, you'll be left with builders twiddling their thumbs, doing pointless upgrades. Don't be that guy.

All the people saying max EVERYTHING really don't know what they're doing, or they're parroting dumb information from other people that don't know what they're doing. It's fully worth maxing your defences, it's worth maxing your main farming troops (and main war troops if you war), and it's worth maxing all your army camps/SF/lab. Your walls should at least be moderately upgraded, but especially in light of the elixir upgrade there is absolutely no need to max EVERYTHING. TH9 is the place to really focus on maxing (at least up to lego walls) because the upgrade times for builders and lab is far more balanced, and TH10 REALLY is a pain for loot compared to TH9.

Maxed walls vs all that- what would you rather have?

Heed this man's advice.

Do not let a single TH9 tell you to max everything before moving on. They are being incredibly selfish and gaming the broken elixir for walls system in their favor, at your expense (hitting your maxed elixir storage base). If they try to tell you "Well you're gonna have to do skull walls anyway, might as well do them where it's easier farming at TH8."

True, if the most recent walls update didn't come out.

Now TH8s are stuck without being able to use any of that extra elixir (which is incredibly stupid, and it should be removed for both TH9 and TH10 in that case as well), so with lvl 6 farming troops, 220 camp space, and the AQ you will be able to farm gold/elixir at about 85% of the rate that you were able to pull in as a TH8. Still very good, and you are not wasting elixir and also progressing with TH9 structures. The rate of your ability to farm DE is going to at least triple, though. Farming TH7s will be a thing of the past unless they're totally loaded, but hot damn will you be able to crush any TH8 you come across. For the 3 months prior to this update, farming at TH9 was miserable b/c of the lix for walls. Now it's only pathetic at TH10. No reason not to move on right now.

I believe someone mentioned to have certain stockpiles of resources saved up for TH9. They were right, but I think they said 2M elixir. Have at least 5M, so you can upgrade both your lab and your spell factory right away. Then at least 4M gold for an xbow plus a free builder to get all those new buildings built to re-layout your base. And at least 40k DE so you get the AQ right away. Good luck man, and you're making the right decision to move on prematurely.

[ZomDog]

Evrything other then the lab, there's plenty of time for that at th 9

[lemonloaf]

Heed this man's advice.

Do not let a single TH9 tell you to max everything before moving on. They are being incredibly selfish and gaming the broken elixir for walls system in their favor, at your expense (hitting your maxed elixir storage base). If they try to tell you "Well you're gonna have to do skull walls anyway, might as well do them where it's easier farming at TH8."

True, if the most recent walls update didn't come out.

Now TH8s are stuck without being able to use any of that extra elixir (which is incredibly stupid, and it should be removed for both TH9 and TH10 in that case as well), so with lvl 6 farming troops, 220 camp space, and the AQ you will be able to farm gold/elixir at about 85% of the rate that you were able to pull in as a TH8. Still very good, and you are not wasting elixir and also progressing with TH9 structures. The rate of your ability to farm DE is going to at least triple, though. Farming TH7s will be a thing of the past unless they're totally loaded, but hot damn will you be able to crush any TH8 you come across. For the 3 months prior to this update, farming at TH9 was miserable b/c of the lix for walls. Now it's only pathetic at TH10. No reason not to move on right now.

I believe someone mentioned to have certain stockpiles of resources saved up for TH9. They were right, but I think they said 2M elixir. Have at least 5M, so you can upgrade both your lab and your spell factory right away. Then at least 4M gold for an xbow plus a free builder to get all those new buildings built to re-layout your base. And at least 40k DE so you get the AQ right away. Good luck man, and you're making the right decision to move on prematurely.

This. All of this. Except the part about the elixir walls at TH8 but that's not the topic of discussion here...

If you have all level 7 walls then just go. I don't know why anyone chooses to stay and farm at TH8 maxing it out, but that's just my opinion. The loot at TH9 is great. Stupid amounts of DE, everything else that has been said.

I have said before and will again, TH8 is the A-Hole of town halls. Not worth staying there for anything.

[Danip]

Personally I would do the town hall upgrade if you only have research left. Other than that stay and finish. I am and it's nice having all defenses functioning for the only time of a town hall level.