Upgrade walls

[jokos]

Can someone inform us if supercell reconsidered about bringing back the option to upgrade walls with elixir from lower levels at least at level 7 ? It's pretty hard to move on with the gold option and spends a lot of time gathering gold , it's almost impossible. Can someone from the members reply ?

[BattleBorn007]

Can someone inform us if supercell reconsidered about bringing back the option to upgrade walls with elixir from lower levels at least at level 7 ? It's pretty hard to move on with the gold option and spends a lot of time gathering gold , it's almost impossible. Can someone from the members reply ?

Im pretty sure they havent reconsidered since the vast majority of clashers (myself included) want it to stay as it is so I dont think its likely they will bring it back which is good.

[TreeBranchTwig]

I don't think they're going to change it to how it was. The highest level wall you'll have to upgrade to with just gold is level 8. They cost 500,000 gold, which I know seems like a lot but the amount below them is just 200,000.

Think of it in this way. Every time I upgrade a wall with 3,000,000 gold you can upgrade 15 if you're getting the purple walls. It's annoying that you can't use elixir but it's still easier to farm low level walls than 9, 10 and 11.

Personally I wish they never added the elixir wall upgrades, even though they are incredibly helpful. It didn't make much sense to be and I think it would have meant a lot of arguing never would have happened. That is just my opinion though. Clash on!

[Unoki]

They have not, nor do I expect them to. However, I do wish they would rule this out so we stop getting these threads. Not that half the people actually read it, but still, it would be nice.

[Thekiller]

Im sure you pay builders gold to upgrade walls, not elixir

[iceageg]

. . . I do wish they would rule this out so we stop getting these threads. Not that half the people actually read it, but still, it would be nice.

Don't fool yourself. We would still get 20 new threads every day. We would just have a SC quote to reference and they may end up getting deleted instead of polluting the later pages.

[Xitra]

Can someone inform us if supercell reconsidered about bringing back the option to upgrade walls with elixir from lower levels at least at level 7 ? It's pretty hard to move on with the gold option and spends a lot of time gathering gold , it's almost impossible. Can someone from the members reply ?

Level 7? Do you mean upgrade to level 7 walls (i.e., click on a level 6 walls and upgrade it)? Or do you mean upgrading from level 7 walls (i.e., upgrade to level 8)?

I always refer to the level you are upgrading to. So when you say level 7, I'm thinking of the purple crystal walls that cost 200,000 gold each.

If that's the case, I'm really not sure why you're here. TH7 is very well balanced, in terms of gold and elixir upgrade. For the total cost of all the elixir upgrades, you can upgrade all your defenses and about half your walls, using the same amount of gold. Considering that you should also be spending at least some elixir on armies and spells for raiding, and it really is very well-balanced. Sure, if you want to max your walls before upgrading to TH8, you may have to grind some of the walls, maybe half of them? More or less depending on the ratio of gold/elixir that you were farming. But still... It's not that bad.

And 200k gold isn't that much. Yes, at TH9, you can upgrade to level 9 walls with gold or elixir. But it's a full million. At TH9, if you have a million gold and a million elixir, you can buy two L9 walls. At TH7, if you have a million gold and a million elixir, you can buy 5 L7 walls and build 3 all-dragon armies and go raid TH6's or TH7's for a ton more gold.


Now, if you were talking about upgrading from level 7 walls, to level 8 walls (the walls with the skulls on top), then it's a little different story. TH8 is horribly imbalanced, in terms of gold and elixir. The cost of gold upgrades is nearly twice the cost of elixir upgrades, and that's not including walls. And 500k does start to get a little steep. It's no longer a matter of raiding for 200k gold and buying a wall after every raid. You might have to session raid, 2-4 or more raids per wall, depending on the type of army you're using and the trophy range you're farming in. If you don't have time for session raids, then you risk being raided every time you log off. It's not an impossible task, of course, because you can only be raided for 14% of your loot. So as long as you make at least 70k gold per raid, you'll always be able to eventually save up 500k gold. But it's annoying to risk losing resources in a raid.

At the end of the day, my best advice, if you are grinding out skull walls, is to upgrade to TH9 as soon as you can. If you want to max TH8 first, consider maxing everything except your walls. I mean, you have 225 pieces of wall to upgrade, so if you want to upgrade some of them, go for it.

It's simple. Figure out what your upgrade priority is for your walls. Assume you are planning to upgrade all of them, but that you know it will take a month or more. During that month, some walls will be stronger than others, or conversely, some will be weaker than others. Where do you want the stronger walls? Personally, I always start with junctions first. Wherever 3 sections of wall meet, a T-junction. (You shouldn't have 4-way junctions, but if you do, then those are higher priority than 3-way junctions.)

I start by upgrading all the junctions first. Then I upgrade 1 wall segment in each direction from the junction, because wall breakers do splash damage. It's possible for the junction to remain intact, but all the walls around it get destroyed, so they still get access to 2 new compartments.

After junctions and near-junctions, I start upgrading the core of my base. And for each layer that I upgrade, I start at corners or near critical items that an attacker might target.

The point is, there is always a way to choose to upgrade your walls that is better than doing it at random or starting in one spot and spreading out from there.

Just follow that order, and once you've upgraded all the junctions and near-junctions, as well as your core, and maybe a few critical external sections, then just upgrade to TH9. At TH9, you can spend 500k gold to finish a wall that you didn't finish at TH8. And when you do, you then immediately open the option to dump 1M elixir into that same piece of wall, if you have it.

[jokos]

First of all i am 22 years old and not just a kid playing a game , second i congrats xitra for his analysed and complete answer , third such game like coc should be some kind of 'easy' games for encouraging people and most those ones who it's referring to , so I don't think that using elixir to upgrade walls from 7 to 8 would be so bad in the end. I am playing almost a year and I am 82 lvl , how many years should I play more to go champion in an online not so heavy in graphics and difficulty mobile game ?

[jokos]

And after all since coc sees all players ask for elixir upgrade why it falls on deaf ears ? Games become better and more attractive when sometimes they pay attention to their players

[BattleBorn007]

First of all i am 22 years old and not just a kid playing a game , second i congrats xitra for his analysed and complete answer , third such game like coc should be some kind of 'easy' games for encouraging people and most those ones who it's referring to , so I don't think that using elixir to upgrade walls from 7 to 8 would be so bad in the end. I am playing almost a year and I am 82 lvl , how many years should I play more to go champion in an online not so heavy in graphics and difficulty mobile game ?

Not sure your age is a factor unless I missed seeing someone call you a kid(which is possible), and at this point a fully anazlized answer isnt needed there are hundreds of post asking for the same things if you searched you could get an answer that you wanted instead of posting a thread that isnt unique by any regard. Also champions isnt "hard" its not tedious th3's get there all the time