TH 8 Upgrade Priorities
Key Initial Upgrades
Once your Town Hall is upgraded to level 8, the first upgrades and purchases you should complete are as follows:
Continue to upgrade your Barbarian King as a top priority until he is maxed.
Troops and Spells
Based on which attack strategies are most effective at TH8, the following is the order in which you should upgrade your troops and spells:
Traps & Defenses
The order in which you should upgrade your defenses is also based on maximizing your defensive capabilities while minimizing the effect on the war matching formula. Upgrade your defensive structures in the following order:
Key Initial Upgrades
Once your Town Hall is upgraded to level 8, the first upgrades and purchases you should complete are as follows:
- Upgrade Laboratory
- Upgrade Clan Castle
- Upgrade all Army Camps to max
- Buy Dark Spell Factory
- Upgrade Dark Spell Factory
- Upgrade Barracks
- Upgrade Dark Barracks
- Buy new Dark Barracks
- Buy new resource structures
- Upgrade all resource structures
Continue to upgrade your Barbarian King as a top priority until he is maxed.
Troops and Spells
Based on which attack strategies are most effective at TH8, the following is the order in which you should upgrade your troops and spells:
- Dragon
- Rage Spell
- Earthquake Spell
- Lightening Spell
- Hog Rider
- Heal Spell
- Wizard
- Archer
- Barbarian
- Goblin
- Golem
- all others in any order
Traps & Defenses
The order in which you should upgrade your defenses is also based on maximizing your defensive capabilities while minimizing the effect on the war matching formula. Upgrade your defensive structures in the following order:
- Buy new Giant Bombs
- Existing Giant Bombs to max level
- Buy new Seeking Air Mines (leave at lvl 1)
- Buy new Spring Traps
- Buy new Skeleton Traps
- Existing Skeleton Traps to max level
- Buy new Air Bombs (leave at lvl 1)
- Existing Air Sweepers to max level
- Buy new Air Defences (leave at lvl 1)
- Buy new Hidden Teslas (leave at lvl 1)
- Buy new Archer Towers (leave at lvl 1)
- Existing Air Bombs to max level
- Existing Air Defences to max level
- Buy new Mortars (leave at lvl 1)
- Buy new Wizard Towers (leave at lvl 1)
- Existing Cannons to max level
- Existing Hidden Teslas to max level
- Existing Archer Towers to max level
- Existing Wizard Towers to max level
- Existing Mortars to max level
- Existing Bombs to max level