Waste 80 million elixer or go to th9.

[KingSB]

If you are wasting a lot of elixir now, you simply did some bad planning. I maxed my defense an my elixir troops (there was not enough de to upgrade dark troops back in my days) and then went to th9 with pink walls. Guess what defending became a lot easier with 2 xbows and the additional wizard tower, archer tower and tesla.
Walls are a way to dump ressources if you have farmed more than you need, nothing more. There is no need to do lvl8 walls at th8. I think you should do golden walls at th7, pinks at th8 and purple at th9. Everything more is optional. The defenses at a new th level will bring much more benefit. The 2 infernos at th10 alone for 10 million compensate maxing walls from lvl7 to lvl10 for 1 billion gold.

I agree if your priority is your home village. If your priority is clan wars, this is the worst thing you can do. Offense before defense is way better for war and since offense upgrades slower than defense, you want to dump resources into walls.

There is merit to walls being useless since hogs and air raids can 3 star any TH8 and TH9 and even some TH10s, but walls do serve a big purpose in preventing some attacks and slowing down all ground raids.

[Steensy01]

ok thanks for he sugestions, i think that elixer wastage will annoy me the most so i may go and upgrade but buy nothing new to minimise the war penalty for upgrading to th9, that should give me time to get my defences and finall offence upgrades sorted whilst being able to use the elixer to put into the walls. biggest concern i suppose is that ill now b a th10 target and these easy loot raids on th7 will dissapear but hey gotta try

[jonthepirate]

I would go to TH9 and get the archer queen. I would only drop the air defense as far as new defenses and I would upgrade army camps, barb, archers, giants, spell factory, etc while you finish your walls. Keeps the builders and the money busy without much war weight. Good luck!

[Wreckingcrew]

Ok so I have a problem, I have been slacking on raids for a while and so all I did was keep my lab busy. I then got back into it and started upgrading stuff. I am now in the position though of having only 3million left of elixer upgrades but I have about 80 million gold upgrades ( 125 skulls and almost all my defensive buildings, not including traps which are already max for th8) so the problem is that I have always been a believer of the max your base before you upgrade to the next th but this will mean a lot of elixer wasted, so should I waste it or should I move to th9 and dump the extra elixer into my 100 skull walls to make them Legos but buy nothing not even the archer queen untill I get my defences up. Honest opinions on my best route to take please

The "wasting Elixir" argument you have is a bit misguided. you don't always get gold and Elixir in a 1:1 ratio. You have neglected to do your walls and now you don't want to do the wall grind. Do you need to do it? At some point you will want to get them done. I like finding TH9's with pink and purple walls as they are so much easier to crash with GiBarch Level6.

Those wall to level 8 are all going to need gold to upgrade before you can start to poor excess elixir into them. Add in the fact that TH9 is very Elixir heavy in the beginning that you wont have any excess elixir at all. 4 army camps is 9 mil elixir, lab, spell factory, Dark spell factory, DE drills (24 million elixir alone), troop upgrades all cost a ton of the pink stuff. All your Dark Elixir will get poured into your AQ and the Gold will be used to get your new defenses up to TH8 level. The notion of just go to TH9 and do it then just makes the beginning of TH9 miserable.

at the very least, finish up the lab upgrades and dump the gold into walls, use more expensive armies and learn how to funnel the pekkas. Donate higher level troops to your clannies as they will appreciate you.

Good luck

[Cleveland33]

Op you have a false argument going here.

80m in gold upgrades =/= 80 m elixer.

It is extreamly easy to farm for gold if you do not mind spending elixer.

That being said I think maxing your walls are a waste of time.

^This.

One of the "issues" with raiding is keeping it "profitable" on the elixir side. You've pretty much ruled that out as long as you always have enough to train your troops. Take advantage of that, build super strong armies, and enjoy three-starring.

[GrimReaper88]

You won't be wasting elixir, you'll actually be doing us all a favor by providing TH9s with a constant supply of easy elixir which they can use to upgrade their walls

[iPromise]

What the heck is the point of maxing your base if you lose resources because of it?

[Cleveland33]

it hit me last night that there is a factor you are overlooking - at TH8 you can upgrade walls to level 9, and going from 8 to 9 you can use gold or elixir.

Upgrade your inner walls to 8. Then as you are farming gold to complete your outerwalls, you can use any additional elixir (your 80M extimate) to upgrade your inner walls to 9. You don't have to do all the walls to 9 but if you can have your innermost core at 9 while the remainder of your base is 8 - you're off to a great start at TH9.

[Ouail]

i did 175 skulls
moving up =)
nothing left to do in that creepy th =) xD
i want to get my queen , i want to lvl up my barb king ..etc =)

move on dude

i'm around master2 now to collect DE for my queen
(7 days left to be a TH9 ) ^^ cool

[Wreckingcrew]

it hit me last night that there is a factor you are overlooking - at TH8 you can upgrade walls to level 9, and going from 8 to 9 you can use gold or elixir.

Upgrade your inner walls to 8. Then as you are farming gold to complete your outerwalls, you can use any additional elixir (your 80M extimate) to upgrade your inner walls to 9. You don't have to do all the walls to 9 but if you can have your innermost core at 9 while the remainder of your base is 8 - you're off to a great start at TH9.

What you fail to see is the first Month or 2 of TH9 is very elixir heavy so you wouldn't have that excess 80 mil of elixir. Being TH9 for 3-4 weeks now, I have done 1 Lego wall. Just 1. Needing 6 mil Elixir to upgrade troops is rough. Its 9 Mil elixir to do all 4 army camps, Its 24 mil elixir to do 3 more levels of drills, 2 levels Dark Barrack upgrades are 6 milish each. Loons, Giants and Arch are 6 mil and Barbs are a bargain at 4.5 Million. This isn't even factoring all the builder/lab time. Gold will go into new defenses and DE will get sucked up to get your Queen up fast.

If you play 6-8 hours a day and have 5 builders to keep 1 free for walls then go for it and upgrade. There is no excess elixir at the start of TH9.