Ideas for Elixir Spending?

[mido2malik]

I knew that you are a th 8 just by reading the title of your thread just becuase I had a similar situation and many other players also do.

The best solution is to train expensive armies and try to get at least the same amount of elixir you spent in gold.
If you train a 200K elixir army, make sure that you get at least 200K gold and of course getting also your elixir back again will be better.

[FisherPrice]

But I have lv. 7 walls. So moving to th 9 would make it harder, no? Is that not the essence of maxing?

The essence of maxing, esp at TH8, is to make it harder at the next TH. Wasting millions of elixir is just...wasteful.

I went to TH9 (8.5) with half skull walls, and maybe should have gone a little earlier (except I was missing a lot of defenses, but still, def did not go too early)

[Triskaidekaphob]

Is it worth it?
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[Deadlyxda]

Is it worth it?
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IMHO go to th9. But don't expect the attacks to stop. They will be more if not same.. But you'll have plenty use of elixir.. Just upgrade all walls to skull before doing defense. Otherwise you'll be just skipping walls again at end of th9.

Work on lab and aq and walls. Get skull and put elixir on it to get Lego. But loot will be harder first month. So farm harder

[Aegonkai]

Try using spendy army compositions to raid. Loonion worked perfectly for me. Doing raids with Minions (15-20)+ Loons (rest)+ Rage Spells uses up quite a lot of that pink, and brings back a lot of DE as well. Some people prefer mass Drags.

[MrCe]

8.5 is a good way do dump elexier.
You upgrade the lab, campfires,... and the wall for elexier, while only use gold on walls

[btcc1721]

I went to TH9 without maxing walls, (I did 80 skulls first), and while it does make the first 2-3 weeks very tough, as long as you farm hard, you won't regret it

[FisherPrice]

Is it worth it?
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You don't look active enough to benefit from 8.5. All that progress with builders and lab but such weak walls. You don't seem to raid often enough/well enough.

And full 9 right away will hurt for war + you'll never have the gold to get your walls up if you spend it on new defenses.

You may just have to deal with having all the elixir you want.

[luk3namop]

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In my personal opinion, yes. The most important upgrades once you hit TH9 (laboratory, spell factory, army camps, new troop levels, de drills) are all elixir upgrades. What I did when I was at almost exactly your stage in the game was go right to TH9. This will cause you to waste a lot less elixir

Steps (if you decide to upgrade now):
1) Build all new defenses to TH8 old level. Unless you war 24/7 and your clan would not let you war if you do this, I say get those xbows ASAP. They're the only real defensive advantage TH9 has over TH8.
2) Build level 1 AQ (40k de) and possibly level 2 AQ (22.5k de). Get her to level 5 as soon as you can with your de, prioritize her highest.
3) Upgrade your laboratory and spell factory. It is very important to get these done right away!
3) At this point, you want to throw all gold at getting your 250 walls to level 8. At this time, all your elixir should be used to upgrade your army camps, de drills, and farming troops. Realistically, you should have 250 skull walls and maxed out camps and farm troops at about the same time.
4) Do you now have 250 level 8 walls? Start throwing your gold towards defensive structures! I personally build wizard towers before mortars before air defenses before canons before archer towers before teslas before traps.
5) Continue to upgrade both heroes with all de you get. Once you get 15/15 heroes (or if you need higher dark troops for wars), start upgrading lab stuff with de.
6) Once your camps, farming troops, and de drills are maxed out, try to always have a troop upgrading in the laboratory. Whenever you get 1,000,000 elixir and you can't put it into the lab, upgrade a wall to level 9.

This is the basic system I have so far followed, and I am now a near max TH9 with 15/14 heroes, 44 level 10 walls, and 206 level 9 walls. All of my elixir upgrades are complete except level 4 dragons, and all of my defenses are max level except my archer towers.

[tyler4]

Go 8.5. If you don't have the discipline to finish your walls before building other defenses, that's entirely on you.