Originally Posted by
hastur
Good work!
From my recent push to Masters, I'd say sniping to over 2800 is not impossible, but it's a wild guess these days as to how far you might get. With the new loot rules, more are putting their TH outside when they are sitting on millions, but that's just what I'm seeing around Crystal 1, it might not translate higher up because of the lack of snipers (e.g. if my TH9 sees an offer 400k of each and 3k DE, I'll take the open TH and then go for at least half that loot as well - nothing to lose). I certainly saw the occasional snipable TH up to Masters 2, back under the old loot rules, but they were extremely rare, like maybe 2 out of hundreds if not thousands of searches. I only got to 2822 as TH9, and that was full army raiding not relying on TH snipes, my patience wasn't infinite and at that cup level my loot was flat-lining (the winable bases got me no loot). Also, by that stage I was getting hit with revenge for -42 at times, which is a lot to make up.
p.s. FYI I saw a TH6 get to Masters this week, I was stalking them trying to get a revenge, but they eluded me. The last 100 cups took them about 2 days, and they were on for hours at a time - all archers, giants in the castle. I saw them get to 2595, then lose, then lose again, then it was 11pm so I went to bed... the next morning I saw they had finally made masters, and then dropped right back to gold 3. So yeah, anyone can get to masters if they are persistent, but it's hard work and going even higher, well it just gets harder still.