Maxing literally everything at th9

[Antdroid]

If you are in a hardcore war clan, then yes. If you farm a lot, then no.

[Allybug01]

Max defenses definitely and your man troops, personally I would get your walls to 9 and then heros to at least 20 before going but its your choice. Do whatever you feel most comfortable with...... go with your gut.

[jlanz]

At the rate I'm going I'm going to finish lavas way before heroes... finished defense with full lego a week ago, now have 18 lavas... and 13/13 heroes i figure ill max walls in about 3 months and heroes will take at the least 8 and a half months...

[LuciiTigger]

I personally 100% maxed TH9 before TH10, and it was worth it for me. Starting out with such a strong base has helped a lot, even while both infernos & all 3 xbows were upgrading at the same time I still never got raided because my walls scared a lot of people off.

I'm almost 8 weeks into TH10 and only a couple weeks away from having a maxed King.

It did get boring towards the end, so it's not for everyone. But I always recommend it. Hold out as long as possible.

[zeroxxx]

Maxing everything at th9 is not worth it. If anyone tells you otherwise, he is stupid. Do not follow his advice.

I crush th9 max with ease as th10, and they get burned by my inferno if they try to revenge. I never maxed my base as th9 and now reaping the benefit as the top of the food chain.

My clanmates who started first than me now are maxing their base, when i simply upgraded after i got all tower upgrades. Now i have better base and troops than them. See the difference?

Maxing has never been an efficient way to play the game. Idle builders and labs are useless.

[Kody1217]

I maxed out Th9 before going to TH10 simply because I got turned off by the idea of going to TH10 and started the grind again...

Now at TH10, I don't raid at all and just wait for my collectors.

[Polaris]

Maxing everything at th9 is not worth it. If anyone tells you otherwise, he is stupid. Do not follow his advice.

I crush th9 max with ease as th10, and they get burned by my inferno if they try to revenge. I never maxed my base as th9 and now reaping the benefit as the top of the food chain.

My clanmates who started first than me now are maxing their base, when i simply upgraded after i got all tower upgrades. Now i have better base and troops than them. See the difference?

Maxing has never been an efficient way to play the game. Idle builders and labs are useless.

Funny that the top of the food chain is 75% of my th9s diet these days.....and infernos are merely an inconvenience if you know what you're doing.

[erethizon]

Is it really worth it to max literally everything at th9? Well it is time consuming to grind those walls to level 10 or heroes to level 30 each. I wonder if it is really worth it

I can't tell you how much more I am enjoying the game now that I have maxed my heroes at TH9 and get to actually play with them. Currently my heroes and buildings are done (except for the 2 new ones of course) and I have 76 level 10 walls to go. My lab work was going to finally finish in 11 days but thanks to the new update I have another month and a half of lab work to do as well.

The game is much more fun now that I don't have the pressure of trying to keep every builder busy all the time and playing is more fun with two level 30 heroes (rather than settling for lower level heroes or having to put up with one or both being asleep all the time).

I definitely am enjoying the relaxed pace that only working on walls provides, but if that would bore you into leaving the game you may as well go to TH10. I have been very happy, since once my buildings and heroes were done I was able to focus more on my real life and felt less of the call to play Clash for many hours a day.

[kirky74]

probably depends on what you mean by worth it. if you're asking is it the most fun way to do things, that depends on what you find fun about the game. if you're asking is this the most beneficial way to upgrade in terms of base strength and destroying enemies, there is the thought that the new th10 defenses and better troops far out wiegh the max heroes and full lava walls then there is the opposing thought that an absolute max th9 will make you a stronger th10 when you get there so it's worth maxing. if you're asking if it is the most efficient way to fully max your base (reach end game) again there's 2 opposing thoughts one being no you are wasting all this builder time, resources, etc vs yes th9 loot is easier to come by and maxing now allows you to focus on the new th10 stuff without having to go back and finish th9 stuff.

tl:dr
no one knows... it's up to you...

[OnyxDS]

Max everything. Take your time at th9. It's probably the most fun times you'll have in the game war-wise and farming-wise.

I'm another one that agrees with this, and not this...

Maxing absolutely everything is 100% not worth it. Unless you have a perfect upgrade schedule, you will finish with 1 or 2 resources long before you finish with the third (elixir isn't really as big an issue as gold or DE is though). That leads to lost resources, and even lost builder time if you can't keep 5 busy at the end (which you wouldn't). The disadvantages of TH 10 in gold and elixir can look quite small when compared to all of the inefficiencies you would have at a nearly maxed TH 9.

Ask yourself - why are you upgrading stuff? (Anything, I don't just mean the TH) Is it so that you get to a maxed-out base and then trophy push? Which as I understand it involves 18 hours a day of competing to see who can stare at clouds for longest. Well maybe that sounds like fun for some people, but not to me.

Now war is what interests me, and TH9 seems like the sweet spot there - a variety of strategies needed, and 3* always possible in theory, but often hard to achieve. In a few weeks once my heroes are maxed I'll probably try pushing as a TH9, which seems like it might be more interesting. I won't reach serious cloud country, so it will come down to attacking skill (or lack of!)

I started off in TH9 keeping 5 builders and the lab busy and juggling resources to keep everything active. But then luckily a few months back I realised my error. The game became so much fun once I learnt to value idle builders. I haven't even maxed out some of my guns - doing so wouldn't benefit me at all. I'm building walls just as a way of dumping loot (got to the half-way point, 125 lavas today)

So, it all depends on what you want from the game: if you want to max out and stare at clouds, then upgrade. If you just like doing thousands of barch raids to get the billion or so loot for your zaps as fast as possible (sounds as boring as clouds to me but YMMV), then upgrade. If you enjoy attack different attack strategies and war... then you might want to hesitate and think what you lose by going to TH10.