Pushing to Masters

Hi,
I just started pushing to masters league for the achievement,
I have max defences, walls, and buildings.
My lab is mostly complete, I just have hogs, minions, healer, lightning, rage, poison, and EQ left.
Currently I'm trying to keep my de upgrades going nonstop, but I'm having issues getting enough DE while getting cups at the same time.

My Base: https://imgur.com/gallery/0XLOf

After Hitting 2200+ The bases with DE are close-to-max th9s.
There are a few th7's with barely any cups or de.
There are some th8s with good de rations, but not many.
Th9s are everywhere, mostly maxed with all legos.
Also a few th10s and 11s that I even try to touch

Currently I'm using dragons & a 4 loons for my army comp
They 2/3 star th8s but cant get de from the th9s

Any suggestions on cheaper army comps to get de from th8s and 9s?
Also, how should I use my shields?

Thanks,
Vts

Cheaper army cmps, no.

Better for getting DE, yes.

What I am using with my 3rd account, which is maxed TH8, is 4 healers, 4 pekkas,11 wiz, 1 heal 1 rage 3 EQ, then giants and quake in CC.

You need to choose bases where one set of 4 EQ will open up a route to the DE. You drop gianst with healers first, to provide some tanking, then use wiz to clear rubbish to the sides of the breach, making a funnel, then drop pekkas and king, plus any remaining wiz.

Usually get at least 1 star, more often 2, and most of the DE.

I would prefer to not use stuff like GoWiVa. Stick with GoWiPe. Sure it might be a noob attack, but it is mostly 2 star, which gives you a lot of cups. Cheap on DE also, only a thousand that you can get from your drills.

Here is a screenshot of my last 3 attacks, all against TH9s, in Crystal 1

http://imgur.com/a/bsHFn

The earliest of those I messed up, and only got 555 DE - still just more than the cost of the spells, plus bonus.