is it the direction pointing to the Barb King or is it the direction pointing to the dark barracks?

sometimes people tilt their axis with respect to the square layout

Current base now

Garciaparra, I highly suggest not skipping level 7 wall straight to 8.
And don't forget you can max out both of your dark elixir collectors and this will help bring in A LOT of DE needed.

S3th show us your war base.

My drills will be a work in progress. Once I start an upgrade in the lab I will start to get the drills up

and they would be wrong

I plan on redoing it with the same style while grouping bombs and pulling my queen in more center.

i see lots of free% for minions on the outside, u should change that