Should I upgrade all walls before I go to TH9?

[TullSadum]

whatever you do max, or push on, make sure you reach your finished TH with full storages Gold and Elix and you must have at least 40k dex (you can add full CC and collectors if you like).
That only will give you a head start when reaching TH9 and you really want that ! Also AQ L1 is instant, no buildtime!
That is why I do advise against continuing to upgrade walls during the TH build time. Holding on to 40k dex is hard enough as a TH8, let alone if you have max gold and elix cap on affer on top of that. Consider that.

Have Fun
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[blackcollector]

So here you go. At least level 7 walls and hero maxed. Just gather your elixir, upgrade your pekkas. And launch your TH upgrade. During the upgrade, gather your 6M gold, 40K DE and enough elixir for lab upgrade and spell factory upgrade. Dump the rest into your walls.

TH9 is the place to max everything. Because you will always have a place to dump gold, elixir and DE. At TH8, you are just too limited in hero level and wall level. There is no shortage of loot for TH9.

Good luck

[Goobers]

I can pretty much guarantee you that it's TH9s telling you to max your walls. They will be feasting off your overflowing elixir while they make faster progress on their walls than you can.

Anyone who tells you to stay back and max your walls at TH8 either has no clue what they're talking about or does not have your best interest in mind.

Every one million elixir you let go to waste (whether due to raiding with overflowing storages or getting hit for 270-300k in raids b/c you have no elixir outlet) is a lost lego wall piece. Figure out how many skull walls you have to do, and to get a rough estimate of the legos you're missing out on (not to mention general TH9 progression that still needs lots of elixir), divide that number of walls by 2, 2.5 to be conservative. That's how many lego walls you are simply wasting as far as progression goes.

Your gold/elixir farming dropoff will be around 15% less per hour as a TH9 than it is currently as a TH8. That is nothing compared to you having an entire 1 of your 2 resources going to waste every raid, not to mention the massive DE farming boost that you can accomplish as a TH9.

I haven't even bothered to read any of the comments here, but I can promise you that 80-85% of them are just terrible, awful advice. Probably mostly one-liners that parrot the "max it or you'll regret it" or "better to get it done at TH8 cuz TH9 is harder" drivel that they can't back up with one bit of their own analysis.

Go to TH9, get your offense on par with other TH9s, and start farming the hell out of the other TH8s who are foolishly refusing to move up early.

[SamClash]

I can pretty much guarantee you that it's TH9s telling you to max your walls. They will be feasting off your overflowing elixir while they make faster progress on their walls than you can.

Anyone who tells you to stay back and max your walls at TH8 either has no clue what they're talking about or does not have your best interest in mind.

Every one million elixir you let go to waste (whether due to raiding with overflowing storages or getting hit for 270-300k in raids b/c you have no elixir outlet) is a lost lego wall piece. Figure out how many skull walls you have to do, and to get a rough estimate of the legos you're missing out on (not to mention general TH9 progression that still needs lots of elixir), divide that number of walls by 2, 2.5 to be conservative. That's how many lego walls you are simply wasting as far as progression goes.

Your gold/elixir farming dropoff will be around 15% less per hour as a TH9 than it is currently as a TH8. That is nothing compared to you having an entire 1 of your 2 resources going to waste every raid, not to mention the massive DE farming boost that you can accomplish as a TH9.

I haven't even bothered to read any of the comments here, but I can promise you that 80-85% of them are just terrible, awful advice. Probably mostly one-liners that parrot the "max it or you'll regret it" or "better to get it done at TH8 cuz TH9 is harder" drivel that they can't back up with one bit of their own analysis.

Go to TH9, get your offense on par with other TH9s, and start farming the hell out of the other TH8s who are foolishly refusing to move up early.

Wish I could give you + rep on this system!

[TullSadum]

I haven't even bothered to read any of the comments here, but I can promise you that 80-85% of them are just terrible, awful advice. .

Get off !!!! that were just 12 comments, you lazy bones !

[Goobers]

Wish I could give you + rep on this system!

Lol thanks, I'm just so sick of players getting the absolute worst advice from others who are either totally clueless or worse, know better but try to keep their personal gain up at the expense of the person looking for a helpful answer.

These people who are telling them to stay at TH8 and max walls are the same ones who are fighting me tooth and nail on reforming the elixir for walls system. They are sitting at a golden TH (TH9) to do their wall upgrades and general base progression at, all due to Supercell's mucking around with a broken system, and they are trying to keep that exploitable edge in the game as long as possible.

I have lost so much respect for a ton of these TH9 players that say that the elixir for walls system is good how it is and needs to stay at lvl 9, while simultaneous giving TH8s this counterproductive advice to stay back and get their bases maxed so that they can continue to crush their storages and use the elixir for their own personal gain.

[blackcollector]

I can pretty much guarantee you that it's TH9s telling you to max your walls. They will be feasting off your overflowing elixir while they make faster progress on their walls than you can.

Anyone who tells you to stay back and max your walls at TH8 either has no clue what they're talking about or does not have your best interest in mind.

Every one million elixir you let go to waste (whether due to raiding with overflowing storages or getting hit for 270-300k in raids b/c you have no elixir outlet) is a lost lego wall piece. Figure out how many skull walls you have to do, and to get a rough estimate of the legos you're missing out on (not to mention general TH9 progression that still needs lots of elixir), divide that number of walls by 2, 2.5 to be conservative. That's how many lego walls you are simply wasting as far as progression goes.

Your gold/elixir farming dropoff will be around 15% less per hour as a TH9 than it is currently as a TH8. That is nothing compared to you having an entire 1 of your 2 resources going to waste every raid, not to mention the massive DE farming boost that you can accomplish as a TH9.

I haven't even bothered to read any of the comments here, but I can promise you that 80-85% of them are just terrible, awful advice. Probably mostly one-liners that parrot the "max it or you'll regret it" or "better to get it done at TH8 cuz TH9 is harder" drivel that they can't back up with one bit of their own analysis.

Go to TH9, get your offense on par with other TH9s, and start farming the hell out of the other TH8s who are foolishly refusing to move up early.

Worst of all, I got a TH8 in my clan who wanted to max his walls before upgrading. For 5 days he had:

1) max storages. 6M of each and tons of dark
2) max collectors and mines. CC full of resources
3) all idle builders
4) can't farm at all because everything is full

Some would say that he could have timed his TH9 upgrade better. But he worked on his defs too long. He should have started his walls upgrade sooner with an idle builder.

5 days farm lost, that is for him between 20-30M gold and elixir lost. Quite a waste.

[Goobers]

Get off !!!! that were just 12 comments, you lazy bones !

Your comment was actually informational/helpful. Congratulations, you are in the minority here.

Yes, OP, make sure you have 40k DE before your TH9 construction completes (the AQ), and it also helps to have at least 5.1M elixir (lab/spell factory) and at least 3-4M gold (get started on one xbow while having other builders create all the new defenses/traps).

[JamieNC]

I was one of those people that maxed TH8 before moving up to TH9, including getting all Skull walls.
That being said, this probably set me back a month in the game because I had nothing to spend elixir on while I was maxing the walls at the end. If I had it to do over, I'd have moved up when I hit 100 Skulls and completed the walls with my 5th builder as I entered a mid-TH9.

All that being said, I play often, so I build up loot while 4 builders stay busy and that's why I keep one free for walls. I just don't want to have to grind them all out at the end of TH9. I've been at TH9 for about 7 weeks and here's what things look like now. Reaching the mid-point on upgrades, but troops and heroes will still take a while.

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[Attitude]

Tnxs for all the reply’s. I won’t quote to keep the post short.

I think I’ll go to TH9 as soon as my pekka research is on, because I still can use quite some gold upgrades first. By the time my elixir collectors are full I’ll be well up my way with my upgrades, so that should be ok!

The 40k DE for the AQ is a good advice, I’ll keep that in mind. Of course the gold for a X-Bow comes in handy too!

Tnxs for all the info & feedback!