Advice Poll TH8 to TH9

[dannyboy1024]

One thing I haven't seen brought up in this thread is who you attack?
If most of your attacks for loot are against TH7's then your loot will drop from 90% of the available to 50% of the available. However if you attack mostly TH8's, then you'll still get 90% of the available loot.
Personally I'm on TH9 and am maxing all defenses and army before moving on. But walls I'm leaving at 8 for now (Still working on those, they were behind). I figure infernos and extra defenses will serve me better then L9 walls.

[james65]

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.


If you're still not convinced, do this little experiment in your head. If you max 100 skull walls, that's 50mil gold and probably 50mil elixir you've farmed. If you went to TH9 instead and did the same farming, you might lose 10mil or so in gold+elixir due to loot penalty, but you could have 2 max xbows and 2 max wizard towers, as well as max lab, max spell factory, max army camps, and lv 6 giants, balloons, archers.

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

nice post!!!

[F34RTEHR34PER]

I personally maxed th8 except walls to lvl 7. I'm maxing everything th9, then will do walls before going to th10.

[beards]

nice post!!!

^^I beg to differ.

Maxing th8 and everything below is very easy and no you dont have have to be a "no life clasher" for that. Maxing th8 is easy! Very doable.

Also, you CAN use elixir for lvl8 walls (unlike what the other guy said.)

To avoid, idle builders start walls mid way through th8. Also, ♥♥♥ does it matter if you have just walls to do and builders are idle? Doesn't matter a bit.

If you don't max your walls, you'll have a hard time holding back armies and that's more bad if you war. Let's say if you go on to th9 w/o skulls then will you go on to th10 w/o skulls? If yes, then go on but, if no then might as well get skulls at th8 'cause it's 10 easier to get that loot there than at th9.

You probably already have witnessed that how quickly a pack of giants goes through walls.

_________walls deter attacks._______________

[Bwit51]

I'd max as much as you can it's way easier to find resources at th8 than it is at th9

[clashE3]

Make sure your elixir troops are maxed and you have at least 50% skulls

[Danip]

^^I beg to differ.

Maxing th8 and everything below is very easy and no you dont have have to be a "no life clasher" for that. Maxing th8 is easy! Very doable.

Also, you CAN use elixir for lvl8 walls (unlike what the other guy said.)

To avoid, idle builders start walls mid way through th8. Also, ♥♥♥ does it matter if you have just walls to do and builders are idle? Doesn't matter a bit.

If you don't max your walls, you'll have a hard time holding back armies and that's more bad if you war. Let's say if you go on to th9 w/o skulls then will you go on to th10 w/o skulls? If yes, then go on but, if no then might as well get skulls at th8 'cause it's 10 easier to get that loot there than at th9.

You probably already have witnessed that how quickly a pack of giants goes through walls.

_________walls deter attacks._______________

No you can't use elixir for walls at th8. Only gold. From level 8 walls to level 9 you can use elixir.

[Jomarx3me]

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.


If you're still not convinced, do this little experiment in your head. If you max 100 skull walls, that's 50mil gold and probably 50mil elixir you've farmed. If you went to TH9 instead and did the same farming, you might lose 10mil or so in gold+elixir due to loot penalty, but you could have 2 max xbows and 2 max wizard towers, as well as max lab, max spell factory, max army camps, and lv 6 giants, balloons, archers.

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

nc post, almost made me not max TH8
but I did max my walls before the update again

and since the OP hasn't, this is good advice

[Attitude]

Additional info which might be interesting:

I mainly do mine/collector raids. Idc about the TH level.

I use Barch as my farm army. (Starting to use stronger army's now, since I'll have elixir to spare...)

I don't war (don't even have a clan)

[erethizon]

I would say max everything but your lab work (and possibly collectors if you have absolutely everything else done I would not sit around just to upgrade collectors). When it comes to lab work I would prioritize all dark elixir upgrades over regular elixir ones because once you get to TH9 you will have 50 levels of hero upgrades to spend dark elixir on (I am assuming your BK will already be level 10 which should be your top priority as a TH8).