Give us other things to spend our elixir at TH8!

[meow525]

Title says it all..
I wasn't able to experience upgrading walls using elixir but I think this update caused an imbalance in the usage of resources at TH8...

You spend gold on towers/defenses which has two/three level upgrades, CC, TH, lots of traps, and expensive walls which leaves my gold storage always empty unless I don't have an idle worker.

DE is scarce/hard to loot and most of the time, my DE storage gets emptied when I upgrade my troops or BK.

What about elixir? You spend it on DE storage, barracks, dark barracks, lab, troop upgrades and building troops.

Now, compare the expenses for gold and elix... you'll see a big imbalance...
When you build farming troops, you spend less than 50k then get more than 100k loot. Some say spend elix on advance troops, but it takes too long to build one so you'll get raided before you could even build your army.
With barracks upgrades, you only need to upgrade one to unlock troops and the others are optional.
Troop upgrades on the lab takes too long, and also if you're upgrading dark troops, you don't use elix which also stalls your usage of elix for days...

So here's my suggestion:
-add a dark lab at th7 for upgrading dark troops
X-add a second lab at th8

Or maybe just bring back elix upgrade on walls ..

PS.
Don't bash me about this post. I didn't think much about the consequences/drawbacks of my suggestions

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For those saying that there's no imbalance:

Ok, I challenge you to post your plan on how to properly upgrade a base from a fresh TH8 to a fully maxed TH8.
I'd like a timeline of your upgrades plus the amount of resources you used and amount that is left. Show us that both gold and elixir will have an almost equal amount when you reach a fully maxed TH8 with no elixir wasted. Assuming you have 4 or 5 builders and you spend 50k elixir for farming army and get a 150k-200k gold/elix per raid.

[UndeadZombie]

I know what you are going through but gold was always meant to be more precious (behind DE). Gold is meant to be hard earned because you can find less gold than elixir in raiding. Elixir, by the way, is used for upgrading offence while gold is for defense. Don't worry, the game is still balanced.

[Vaktus]

Im at th8 and it's totally balanced.

[meow525]

I don't think it's balanced..I already upgraded all my barracks(I was forced to because I don't have other things to do with my elix) and still have lot's of defenses/walls to upgrade.. My lab is still busy upgrading troops so I don't have other things to do with my elixir. Having full elix only attracts high level players and most of the time, they include your gold and DE.

With gold, you can have 5 builders to spend it on structures but with elix, you only have the lab and it also takes too long to upgrade troops. If gold is more important, then I guess they should have not made the mines/collector/storage equal for elix and gold

If you'd check the building upgrades, most buildings that use elix don't have an upgrade at th8. (army camp, spell factory). What about the defenses? They get 2 to 3 level upgrade + expensive walls to spend the gold.

[Chrishtofu]

lol I completely get what you mean. but supercell got rid of it for a reason, and supercell puts a lot of effort and time into making sure that the game is an equal and fair experience for all. it might be hard, but trust me, if you have no patience, this game isnt for you xD

[Jomarx3me]

well.. the older players lived with it....

elixir abundance is normal for TH8s

also, a second laboratory is currently ruled out:

Other Buildings Related:
*Gem mines/drills
*Wizard Laboratory to create/upgrade wizard projectiles/spells
*Add a second laboratory or a second slot in current lab to do two researches at once
*Queue upgrades/builds
*Troop Armor Building. Research upgrades to troop armors/attack/speed, etc.
*Swap buildings – drop one on the other, pop-up or double tap to swap if same size
*Ability to turn on all def building radius circles at once to check coverage
*Trap/Explosives hut to upgrade/build bigger ones

[NF2335]

A second lab is ruled out.
Please read the sticky.

[meow525]

well.. the older players lived with it....

elixir abundance is normal for TH8s

also, a second laboratory is currently ruled out:

Other Buildings Related:
*Gem mines/drills
*Wizard Laboratory to create/upgrade wizard projectiles/spells
*Add a second laboratory or a second slot in current lab to do two researches at once
*Queue upgrades/builds
*Troop Armor Building. Research upgrades to troop armors/attack/speed, etc.
*Swap buildings – drop one on the other, pop-up or double tap to swap if same size
*Ability to turn on all def building radius circles at once to check coverage
*Trap/Explosives hut to upgrade/build bigger ones

I thought the elixir on walls update was just recent?

If a 2nd lab is ruled out, then they should just think of other stuff to spend this elix.

[meow525]

Come on.. Give us the Dark laboratory + more useful stuff to spend our useless elixir!

[Jomarx3me]

I thought the elixir on walls update was just recent?

If a 2nd lab is ruled out, then they should just think of other stuff to spend this elix.

yep it's quite recent...

what I meant was, older players "dealt" with it back then, because the option to upgrade walls via elixir is non-existent