Strategy for getting Dark Elixir
I have a town hall 10 base that has the defenses maxed out. I'm now focusing on maxing out my king and queen, but still need to upgrade elixir troops for the next two or three months. Before the upgrade I used a combination of a few giants, wizards and a bunch of miners to hit fellow town hall 10 bases. The miners would distract the defenses and since the defenses did not re-target when the miners went underground, the wizards could make it the the center of the base and get the DE. I was able to gain enough loot to keep my heroes under continual upgrade AND have plenty of regular elixir to keep my laboratory busy upgrading regular troops. Now, the attack is hit and miss and really isn't consistent anymore. At times I'm left with nothing, losing tremendous amounts of elixir and making virtually nothing in DE. Over the past week or so my elixir has held steady while I gained DE.
So, what is the best way to gain the dark elixir needed to keep my heroes upgrading AND still gain enough elixir to keep my laboratory busy upgrading regular elixir troops?