TH12 is a huge pain not because of the cost of upgrades but the sheer time it takes to complete one. Yesterday, I rushed my Archer Tower from when I had started from TH11 so I could free up a builder and use for my first Army Camp upgrade of TH12. I believe the number of days I have to wait until completion is 12. It would have been two weeks if not for my Seasonal bonus so I should take what I can get. But man, what a nightmare!
Pretty much at this stage, I’m devoting 6 Builders to my base because of how much I need at this stage. There is a temptation to pick up the $100 package just for the gems to finish some of the more critical buildings off. No wonder this company is raking in the dough! But what a nightmare it is just to get through a single upgrade.
On the bright side, taking down bases has been incredibly easy with the Ice Golem + Witch combo. Certainly, the key ingredient I had been missing up to this point was a Wall Wrecker. It makes me realize that once my Electro Dragons are done being upgraded, I might have to consider upgrading the Wall Wrecker over the Lightning Spells initially. That said, the nice thing is that I have a Book of Spells, so if I time everything right, I can do both once the Season finishes. If I get motivated, I might even try the Ice Wizard event for a season Book of Spells.
On the plus side of things, I saw that there’s an event starting up tonight called Town Hall Wrecking. Doing some research, it looks like completing it provides a Book of Building. So what I might do is push hard to complete that event (which I believe just requires one to destroy 10 Town Halls), pick up the Book of Building and use that on my Army Camp that I’m upgrading. Then from there, I’ll work on my Elixir Storage since I have a lot of Gold at the moment until the next Season starts. By then I should have a good chunk of Elixir that I plan to use on whatever Army Camps remain.
On the down side, I’ve mostly been targeting TH11 and below bases for my attacks. Generally, I go for dead bases where the Inferno Towers are either under construction or deactivated, which trivializes the attack. Most of the loot has been bad anyway so I don’t see much of a loss.
For my other account, it’s been a slog too as there are just a lot of things I’m waiting upon to finish. But the good thing is that at least on this account, I can also use the Ice Golem + Witch attack since I have the Wall Wrecker compared to previously. It’s just not as powerful since my Lightning spell here is weaker. Truthfully, I should just figure out a way to do the Ice Wizard event, pick up the Book of Spells and complete it so I can start using that attack there too. But I’ve been farming normal Elixir as I want to start upgrading my Grand Warden again. I only have him at level 10 so that’s still a bit of work.
The thing is that I know Super Cell brought down the time and cost for things in a recent update, which was cool. But even then, it’s still the amount of time that is the killer at this point. And I know I’m not the only person. I’ve seen people on reddit complain about this issue as well. So things like Gems no longer mean much in terms of anything except speeding a build up. I mean, considering that my Town Hall isn’t even near the max, it just sucks because I can’t enjoy a lot of the features for months.