Clash of Clans: Upgrading Guide General Rules

When your Town Hall levels up, there will always be some buildings and upgrades
that will have priority among other structures. If you will understand these rul
es, you will have an idea on whats best to upgrade when your Town Hall levels up.
However, the rules are less rigid at the level 9 and 10, because of the high co
st of upgrades.
Laboratory
Every time your Town Hall levels up, your main priority will be to upgrade the L
aboratory. This will allow you to upgrade units and it will be the most effectiv
e way to increase your war and farming abilities. At the same time, the research
is often the most intensive step at each Town Hall level and when youre upgradin
g, you will have the time to complete all your researches before reaching the ne
xt Town Hall level.
Army Camps and Barracks
Since one of your builders is already busy upgrading your Laboratory, the other
free builders should start building the new available Army Camps and Barracks th
at were unlocked when your Town Hall leveled up. However, keep in mind that not
many Town Hall levels unlock new army camps and barracks. Were talking about BUIL
DING UNLOCKED army camps and barracks, not about upgrading your current army cam
ps and barracks.
Army Camps and Spell Factory Upgrades
After upgrading the Laboratory and building your new army camps and barracks, th
e third priority is to UPGRADE your Army Camps and Spell Factory. Upgrading thes
e two structures will highly increase your offensive capabilities, with other wo
rds it will improve your war and farming capabilities.
However, when your Town Hall gets to level 9, upgrading Army Camps will not be y
our priority because of the high cost and the long build time. Instead of upgrad
ing Army Camps, instead you can build/upgrade the buildings from priority number
4.
Walls, Towers, Storage buildings and Dark Elixir Drills
After you maximize your offensive structures it is time to upgrade some of your
defensive structures. The best and fastest way to improve your defense is to bui
ld new towers and upgrade a few levels as long as its not expensive and doesnt tak
e too long to do it. Besides Towers, you should start building walls, but do not
max them yet, since they might be too expensive, and instead build some additio
nal storage buildings. By constructing new storage buildings, you will save more r
esources, because the one who attacks your village is able to steal only a perce
ntage of your available resources.
Dark Elixir is a very limited resource and you will want to build new Dark Elixi
r Drills in order to get your hands on some Dark Elixirs.
Upgrading old Towers
After you added the new towers and walls, youre ready to upgrade your old Towers.
However, keep in mind that you should not upgrade more than one Air Defense Tow
er at a time, because your base will be very vulnerable to air attacks.
Whatever its left
Now, you can upgrade all the remaining structures, as long as you have the resou
rces. Level up structures such as Dark Barracks and Barracks to the max level, w
alls and resource collectors. There is no rush on upgrading these, but when you
have enough resources to spare for them, do it.