Hog riders the only solution?

Now that we're past the loot rules change, I'm noticing a trend that makes me think attacking is highly unbalanced.

As a nearly maxed out TH9 gold farmer; the only army I'm able to get loot with lately is made up of mostly hog riders. Every other army makeup I've tried fails miserably. Since the loot rule change has settled in, the only big loot I'm seeing (200k and above) is deep inside TH10 bases with dual split infernos (absolutely not worth my time). I've tried cup ranges from 1800 thru 2200, and choices were poor.

I've had windows where I was able to find easy loot from sleeper bases, but it's a rare occasion.

The fact that I can only attack with a majority hog rider army to get loot is making the game a bit boring. Even then, gaining loot is much slower then it ever was before the new loot rules, which were supposed to make it easier.

I've been playing CoC for at least a year now, and this is the first time I've started to lose interest in it. The only reason I'm even active is that I'm dumping gold into walls to avoid getting attacked all the time.

I realize results may vary from player to player, but I'm wondering if this is because I'm TH9, or if it's just harder to farm gold and save up now?

Unless things have changed in a week, I was farming my lava walls in the 1800 range as TH9. I was using BAM with goblins.

if you want to break centralized storages on maxed th9s, giant healers (+ rage) and balloon minions (+heal) work just fine.

for 1 layer storages, barch/bam works fine if you're a little skilled.

I agree with you, only a hog army gowipe and gowiwi work now, cant get any loot with regular troops, i used to use the healer in my army, but now shes completely useless against infernos

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Originally Posted by Gubert

I agree with you, only a hog army gowipe and gowiwi work now, cant get any loot with regular troops, i used to use the healer in my army, but now shes completely useless against infernos

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Hogs are completely useless against infernos as well, unless you're willing to drop a freeze/rage spell or more than 3 heal spells every battle.

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Originally Posted by rjdofu

Hogs are completely useless against infernos as well, unless you're willing to drop a freeze/rage spell or more than 3 heal spells every battle.

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Yep, freeze is needed. Plus hogs easily win versus any TH9 village, and they do fine against th10 if used properly, so its a safer troop config to use

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Originally Posted by rjdofu

Hogs are completely useless against infernos as well, unless you're willing to drop a freeze/rage spell or more than 3 heal spells every battle.

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Yeah, any base with even one split inferno I pass on without hesitation (unless it has over 400k resources). No freeze spell at TH9. :(

I am making gold just fine. Using Giants/Breakers with BAG.

Hogs work in Gold/Crystal sure, but costs far too much DE. I want to conserve DE, have heroes and many lab jobs that demand it.

Bloonion also very effective, but slower to cook.

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Originally Posted by daz258

I am making gold just fine. Using Giants/Breakers with BAG.

Hogs work in Gold/Crystal sure, but costs far too much DE. I want to conserve DE, have heroes and many lab jobs that demand it.

Bloonion also very effective, but slower to cook.

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Cup range?

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Originally Posted by Gubert

they do fine against th10 if used properly, so its a safer troop config to use

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How exactally does a TH9 win easily against a TH10 with hogs?