Farming strategies for Champion II and higher
I'm a nearly max townhall 10 with most of my offensive units maxed. I've recently made a push into the champion league for the first time on my account in order to enjoy the league bonus. Formerly, I used to spend most of my time down in silver/gold to farm for gold/elixir and the occasional good base with dark elixir using all goblins. I decided to leave that league range because I jus wasn't coming across enough dark elixir to keep my heros asleep consistently.
I'm not having any issue taking down the bases I'm coming across in champion. However, I am finding that the elixir hungry armies I'm having to build to take down the bases in the higher leagues is barely netting me any profit as far as elixir goes. There are some raids where I even end up losing a few 10,000 or so. I'm currently using a build which consists of 9 baby dragons and the rest loons. Both are maxed for townhall 10. I carry x2 lightning, x1 quake, x3 rage, and a clan castle hound and balloon. This composition works very well to get at least 50% and often times 80-100%. The downside is it costs 367,000 elixir. I've also played around with loonion and lavaloonion. Loonion alone just doesn't seem to lack the firepower alone to 50% most of the bases I come across which are max townhall 10 to mid range townhall 11 and higher. Lavaloon using x2 hounds and a clan castle hound has given me pretty decent success, but it uses 1000 dark elixir alone which eats into the dark profit.
Does anyone have any recommendations for other farming compositions that are not as elixir heavy? I'd love to make great profit on all three resources consistently, but it seems as though that might not be as feasible as I had hoped. If I can make my way to Titan III, the bonus may be good enough to offset the cost of the army I'm using the most. However, I still have a ways to go until I reach that league.
Has anyone had any success with any type of barching composition? Perhaps 12+ giants or 1 golem with lightnings to take out mortars or wizard towers? Obviously, I understand a barching army is not going to net as much of all three resources as the army I'm using now, but I was thinking maybe it would allow me to make a bit of a profit on elixir for a while. Once I've built up enough elixir, I could switch back to my main composition. I've used queen walk successfully, but I try to keep her down upgrading as often as possible. I used to use goblin knife quite a bit in silver/gold, but it is just not as easy up here without having the warden's tome ability.
Any pointers for a cheaper elixir army composition that isn't too terribly heavy on dark would be greatly appreciated. I'd prefer to not use more than 800 to 1000 dark on an army if at all possible. Any elixir army under 300k would be golden.
Thank you
