Because it takes forever to get dark elixir.
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Because it takes forever to get dark elixir.
Try crystal or high gold league. You can also start making the lightning spells... (don't kill me)
high gold 3 upwards - barching and zapping.
3x lightning will get you a good amount from a full DE store and the barch should get you at least 50% if its done right.
Search town halls that are outside and with many dark elixir. Use those 3 lightning spells and attack the dark barracks. I got mine by doing that. Around 1000-2000 dark elixir found on a match is fine. Not around 200-500 because your just going to waste those lightning spells.
Trophy Level = Gold 2 to Gold 1
Army Composition = All Dragons + 3 Rage, CC Dragon
Tactic = target only bases with 1k DE, and 250k elix, do not target strong and maxed bases with their DE storage in the center
Or, use BARCH + WB and target bases with 500 DE with their DE storage near the outside perimeter of their base ie behind 0, 1 or 2 rows of walls
Good lord.....don't use lightning spells. It takes forever and is brutally inneficient. As far as using dragons, if you are away from your device and can't attack for a long time that's a good army to cook. But it you are able to stay on and play for any period of time use BAM. As a TH8 you should be able to profit between 4-6k an hour once you get the hang of it. This is WITHOUT boosting. I have yet to see anyone that doesn't have lvl 6 balloons or giants come up with a better DE rate per hour than this method.
The method is easy. Hover around 1500-1800 trophys. Fill up all 6 barracks with troops (2 with barbs, 2 with archers, and the DB with minions). Have 2 rage and 1 heal cooked at all times (you should never use more than 1 spell per attack and usually no spells). Then when you attack look for exposed drills - if you can get 500 DE with 20 troops take it, forget about losing the trophys and move on to the next attack.
For storages behind 1 or 2 walls clear a path for your minions using the BARCH portion of your army, then send in 1 or two minions to get rid of the air bombs. Once the path is clear send in the minions directly to the DE storage. Use a rage or heal if you find over 1200 DE.
edit: I have no moral objection to using lightning on DE. In fact, if a th9 mows you down I think it's a good way to get back at bullys who pick on little guys! But, it's still not efficient.
You raid people who have dark elexir :rolleyes::rolleyes:
in M3 you can farm dark and avearge 2 to 3k per raid plus 400 bonus.
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...rming-Guide%29
In my case at th 7 i used barchers/cupple of WB with cupple of goblins.
For TH7, I would just stay above 1600 trophies and run mass dragons. 8 dragons and 40 archers work as well.
Make sure you bring as many rage spells as you need.
For TH8, I can farm DE with my regular army of barbs/archers/gob/giants/wb. I can also do BAM and BARCH as well.
I'm not at TH9+ yet, so no comment.
I don't use BARCH to farm dark elixir, I prefer to use GARCH (goblins and archers). Maybe some wall breakers and giants to protect the wall breakers too.
What you're gonna want to do is find a really nice th10 and lure out and kill his heroes and cc troops then zap his DE.
**DO NOT DO THIS**!
I would just mass drag i guess