farming de help

im having problems farming dark elixir while i can max my gold/elixir storages in less than a day within a week ive only been able to obtain 3.5 k dark elixir and i dont even have my barb king i am th 7 and my troops are the following
db minion
barracks
archer level 3
barbs level 3
giants level 3
goblins level 3
wall breaker level 2
balloons level 2
wizard level 2
sf
rage spell level 2
heal spel level 2
lightning spell level 3
army space 170 175 soon
my current army is 26 giants 20 barbs 20 archers(mainly for cc troops) and i normally dont use cc troops as i save them for defense and the spells i use are 1 rage spell and 2 heal im in silver 1 and im having trouble finding people with a decent amount of dark elixir/elixir and being able to obtain it. ive gotten a 98% and missed a de drill i was very mad that day

Try 12 giants and split the other troop space between barbs and archers. DE in Silver isn't great for the most part. try to move up to gold 2 or gold 1. Focus on hitting next more times than you are used to to be even more selective in what bases you attack. use the next strategy to search for weak bases so you can move up. you'll start to see more and more bases with upgraded drills. Use the same next strategy to find th8s with full drills that are located on the outsides, don't concern yourself about getting a star everytime. Don't be afraid to attack a stronger base if they have drills that are full and easily accessible. Learn the visual cues of DE drills and don't even bother unless it is a level 3 drill minimum.

Good luck!

thx for the help ill keep that in mind

Farming DE as a th7 is hard especially with level 3 troops. The best advice I can give is do all your barracks to max, army camps and use all dragons. Hit baby TH8s with over 1,000.

Yep as already said, you could probably scale down on the Giants, taking a max of 16, probably even less. Also you don't need to use all spells or even all troops, just get to the drills/storage and quit, stars don't matter. You could also use some troop upgrades to make your raiding life easier and maxing out camps asap is a necessesity. I also strongly recommend using those cc troops. You don't even need expensive ones, but with a couple of high level giants you don't even have to take your own anymore and you can just barch for the storage.

Base selection is also key, never attack a th7 that has fewer than 800 de. If you keep these things in mind your King will be lv5 before you know it.

I'm a TH7...defenseless (so saving DE is hard!!!)....here is my army comp....granted I have no spells upgraded (you don't need spells till TH8/9)...it's just a waste of elixer. If you have them only use spells for war....never for farming...you don't need them.
Get your camps up...those are more important than leveling spells!!!!)...troop comp is at 200 (which is max TH6 camps)

Troop comp: 54700 elix
10 Giants
30 barbs
40 arch
40 minioins
6 bomb
2 healers

I target any base that has Elix and DE....but if you really need DE you can hit ones with just DE. Look for bases with DE, that have ADs on the edge or all to one side. prefer TH7 or weak TH8. Send the 10 giants with 2 healers or split 5 and 5 with a healer for each set. Then spam barbs and archers behind them...I'm sure you know how to barch at this point. The goblins are once most of the splash defense are focused on giants or destroyed.

You will lose DE on defenses...just make sure to get more from attacks than you lose from defenses and you will have your BK in no time.

Alternate armies

14 giants - standard army or cheap war army 80,400 elix
10 bombs
8 wiz
33 barbs
30 arch

10 giants - most of these are to take out the ADs...then drop loons and gobs for cleanup 85060 elix
6 bombs
18 arch
16 loons
40 minions

fyi...like already mentioned...stars don't matter for you...neither does league....I know I only used gobs for all raids until TH7.

I go for stars....but that is so I can save something in my CC.