What to do with excess gold/elixir in the early game?

I started playing only a few days ago and still have about a day's worth of the newbie shield. I concentrated on upgrading my income while only upgrading my town hall if I absolutely had to. Since I'm not spending any money for gems, I currently have two builders.

I'm finding, now, that I'm generating more resources than I can hold and have lost some resources from a collector being full a time or two. Since my 2 builders are constantly upgrading something, it's difficult to sink excess resources into something productive (especially gold).

Since I'm at a level 3 town hall, the laboratory was a huge help for sinking excess elixir. What are the other constructive, builder-less things I could do with excess elixir/gold while preserving my shield?

Note: I'm open to changing tactics if I can more effectively manage the resources I'm generating.

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Best Answer

If you have excess gold, you must not be upgrading your walls. Walls are very important throughout the game and it takes a while to finish walls, seeing as level 11 walls cost a cool 4 million. Focus on your defenses and resource buildings first, and then dump the remaining resources into walls. That way, you should never have any excess resources (unless, of course, you are waiting for your town hall to finish).

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What do I do with excess elixir?

Go to TH9, you can upgrade TH9 army buildings, dump Elixir into Walls and get AQ and start upgrading her sooner instead of just throwing excess elixir into the air. If you still insist on maxing out, you just have to bite the bullet and keep farming for gold while you attack with overfilled elixir storages.

What is the best way to spend elixir in clash of clans?

You can use elixir to upgrade your gold mines and gold storages. Then you can use the gold to upgrade your elixir collectors and elixir collectors. You can also use gold to upgrade your defenses to get more trophies from defensive raids. You can also use gold to upgrade your town hall.

Can you convert elixir to gold?

For example for every 1000 elixir you can receive 1 gold, and after upgrading for every 1000 elixir you can convert that to 10 gold.

Is elixir more important than gold?

Gold is generally considered more valuable as more upgrades require it where elixir is generally only used for research and troop hire.

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