Anyone else have this gripe about resources?!

I keep getting short on elixir. Right now the only repeat gold expense is skipping bases in matchmaking. Every other gold expense we pay we get something that is permanent like a wall, defensive structure, or building upgrade. But some things that are elixir expenses aren't permanent like spells & troops that are gone after every battle. I keep running low on elixir cause of battles!

They should change the price of spells back to gold or decrease a troop's cost from pure elixir to a mixture of both gold & elixir or maybe all three with some DE even. I.e. If an archer cost 200 elixir change it to 100 gold & 100 elixir or 50 gold & 150 elixir, etc.

quite the opposite for me... running out of gold but overflowing with elix :)

I also have excess elixir, but that may be because I am 95% maxed TH9 and my only updates left require DE, or gold for walls.

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Originally Posted by silkenhut

quite the opposite for me... running out of gold but overflowing with elix :)

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I just don't get it.... Because only at TH8 is there a pretty big need/use for gold with lvl 8 walls costing 500K apiece. But after all the walls are upgraded and the all other buildings are upgraded gold just isn't needed. Just the nominal fee of pressing "next" for matchmaking.

If you have such an overflow of gold, why not press Next hundreds of times until you find an easy base with full elixir collectors, if you're low on it? When there's nothing to spend the gold on, use it on searching easy battles...

I am frustrated by trying to save elixer too. Troops, and spells cost elixer. So farming for elixer means you either have to use all DE troops, or make sure the elixer you spend results in at least that much elixer earned. DE isn't exactly easy to come by, and 2 dark barracks means a long wait for your army.

There are many ways to deal with this issue:

-give us the option to spend elixer OR gold on troops
-give us the option to spend elixer OR gold on spells
-give us more dark barracks
-give us a new building "market" that exchanges gold for elixer

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Originally Posted by Janniboy0312

If you have such an overflow of gold, why not press Next hundreds of times until you find an easy base with full elixir collectors, if you're low on it? When there's nothing to spend the gold on, use it on searching easy battles...

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I'm already searching until I find the weakest bases... Let's be real now what is 580 gold (the TH8 "next" fee)? Relative to the price of a single archer!? Only 200 elixir for a level five archer.

Have you tried changing your army composition to use less elixir? If used effectively, Barch (barbarians and archers) or BAM (barbs, archers, minions) can yield high resource raids while using less elixir than other army compositions.

One thing I do if I'm concerned about maintaining elixir levels is I add up the total elixir cost of my raiding army and compare it to how much elixir I think I'll get from a raid. If I don't think I'll get more than I spend, then I won't raid.

Another idea may be to strategically target elixir pumps and storages using as few troops as possible and then ending the battle, even if this means you may lose trophies. You can always get them back using 1 star raids, TH sniping, or using stronger troops when you are no longer as dependent on elixir.

I hope this helps.

Quite strange..
normally, after you have upgraded your extractors and troops in the lab, you end up in an excess of elixir compared to gold...
What I normally do in farming is attacking with barchs (so an attack will cost 10-20K elisir max) and target easier bases which can give me 200K combined (gold + eli) , no matter if I loose cups.

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Originally Posted by TheOrkinMan

I keep getting short on elixir. Right now the only repeat gold expense is skipping bases in matchmaking. Every other gold expense we pay we get something that is permanent like a wall, defensive structure, or building upgrade. But some things that are elixir expenses aren't permanent like spells & troops that are gone after every battle. I keep running low on elixir cause of battles!
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I mainly uses an army of archers, barbarians, giants and wallbreaker which cost me about 70-80k elixir per attack (add in 3 spells and it's still 150k only).

I'm at the end phase of TH8 now and I have never had any shortage of elixir through out the whole TH8 experience. Sometimes I even build full dragons army just to use my excess elixir