1 Day til TH8. Need help with an efficient farming strategy

I am going to be a th8 in 24h. I maxed everything besides mines, 2 lab upgrades(balloons and hogs), and my Barb King is level 4. I planned to farm a certain minimum each day to finish my walls(2.6mil) and then fill storages for buying the new buildings that I get at TH8. I have 42 walls left to upgrade as of posting this so unfortunately, I will not meet my goal. So that brings me to the point of this post, I need an extremely efficient farming strategy so I can get my walls up (as well as BK and lab upgrades later). I would like something that would take around 20min so I can attack around 3x per hour. I have seen a post with the strategy of 10 wb/giants, 15 minions, 50+ arch/gob. I was wondering if this is the most efficient strategy for farming a TH8 can get; if not, what is better; also, is it worth using minions when I want to keep upgrading the BK?

this is by far the easiest way to get a lot of gold and elixir in a cheap army composition and a fast one to train. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRIzdmHIEAs
Use that link to get to a video explaining the strategy. I got it from chief pat and it has helped me a lot.

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Originally Posted by thedangerine

this is by far the easiest way to get a lot of gold and elixir in a cheap army composition and a fast one to train. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRIzdmHIEAs
Use that link to get to a video explaining the strategy. I got it from chief pat and it has helped me a lot.

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I have watched that video before. The amount of searching to find a base you can use the strategy on makes it not ideal.

My farming strategy are as follows :
60 archers
60 goblins
12 giants
10 WBs
3 heal spells

While it takes more time to build compared to barch, this army composition allows me to farm storages and DEs alike.

I farm at silver 1, i was 110m GG when my TH8 completed around 30~40 days ago. Now i'm sitting at 270m GG, level 5 BK and 3~6 mill gold per day when i farm.

These are my ideal targets :

1. 100k collectors with exposed TH, pink walls (no 100% purple walls TH snipe, they are active players and a revenge is guaranteed).
2. 200k collectors with protected TH. Loot, lose trophies, and move on.
3. 200k storages all in 1 compartment. Breach the walls, drop 20-30 goblins and a heal spell.
4. 300k in 3 storages in different compartment with exposed TH. If i were able to breach at least 2 of them. Even better if 1 of the storage is level 7 or lower - grab the other 2.
5. 1k DE. Need i say more?
6. Premmie THs, pink walled THs with any resources. Snipe the TH, move on.

All troops and spells are maxed but i've worked with this strategy since my first day as a TH8.
The green archers are a massive upgrade and should be worked ASAP. I was wrong to upgrade my giants first.

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You might not want to farm DE right after.
I tried it. Get myself to upper gold and didn't worked quite well. Even with maxed wizard towers, mortars, air defenses, and 80% skull walls, the hoggers and loonions hit my base really hard. I always had to loot more because i'm constantly losing. Always had to click my phone every few minutes otherwise someone else would take them.

BARCH with wallbreakers.

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Originally Posted by hauw

My farming strategy are as follows :
60 archers
60 goblins
12 giants
10 WBs
3 heal spells

While it takes more time to build compared to barch, this army composition allows me to farm storages and DEs alike.

I farm at silver 1, i was 110m GG when my TH8 completed around 30~40 days ago. Now i'm sitting at 270m GG, level 5 BK and 3~6 mill gold per day when i farm.

These are my ideal targets :

1. 100k collectors with exposed TH, pink walls (no 100% purple walls TH snipe, they are active players and a revenge is guaranteed).
2. 200k collectors with protected TH. Loot, lose trophies, and move on.
3. 200k storages all in 1 compartment. Breach the walls, drop 20-30 goblins and a heal spell.
4. 300k in 3 storages in different compartment with exposed TH. If i were able to breach at least 2 of them. Even better if 1 of the storage is level 7 or lower - grab the other 2.
5. 1k DE. Need i say more?
6. Premmie THs, pink walled THs with any resources. Snipe the TH, move on.

All troops and spells are maxed but i've worked with this strategy since my first day as a TH8.
The green archers are a massive upgrade and should be worked ASAP. I was wrong to upgrade my giants first.

Edited :
You might not want to farm DE right after.
I tried it. Get myself to upper gold and didn't worked quite well. Even with maxed wizard towers, mortars, air defenses, and 80% skull walls, the hoggers and loonions hit my base really hard. I always had to loot more because i'm constantly losing. Always had to click my phone every few minutes otherwise someone else would take them.

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Thank you for making such a detailed explanation. It seems like this strategy is a lot more versatile than batching since you can get through more than one layer of walls. Right now, my gold grab is about 75mil. Anyway, I want to get my BK from level 4 to level 5 and then really focus on gold for walls. And yes, I will upgrade archers as soon as I get the lab to level 6. I accidentally upgraded giants first when I got to th7 looking through all the stat increases. Also, do you have this guide posted somewhere besides here? It is simple enough to soak in through the first read, but detailed enough to actually know how to use it.

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Originally Posted by KingBrandon

Thank you for making such a detailed explanation. It seems like this strategy is a lot more versatile than batching since you can get through more than one layer of walls. Right now, my gold grab is about 75mil. Anyway, I want to get my BK from level 4 to level 5 and then really focus on gold for walls. And yes, I will upgrade archers as soon as I get the lab to level 6. I accidentally upgraded giants first when I got to th7 looking through all the stat increases. Also, do you have this guide posted somewhere besides here? It is simple enough to soak in through the first read, but detailed enough to actually know how to use it.

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I also posted this composition in

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...-loot-problems!

But i put more details on your thread.

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Using this composition is actually very easy. I could write you a tutorial but you can just google Lazy Farming Youtube - have fun!

Here are some of my latest catches :
http://i60.tinypic.com/25iap10.jpg
http://i57.tinypic.com/334hy00.jpg
http://i57.tinypic.com/330s8dz.jpg

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Originally Posted by hauw

I also posted this composition in

http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...-loot-problems!

But i put more details on your thread.

Here are some of my latest catches :
http://i60.tinypic.com/25iap10.jpg
http://i57.tinypic.com/334hy00.jpg
http://i57.tinypic.com/330s8dz.jpg

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Very nice finds. Will definitely try this strategy out! ^_^

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Originally Posted by KingBrandon

I have watched that video before. The amount of searching to find a base you can use the strategy on makes it not ideal.

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Thats what I was wondering... how many skips did it take you on average and what trophy range?

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Originally Posted by SkippyKangaroo

Thats what I was wondering... how many skips did it take you on average and what trophy range?

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I never count how many times i have to skip but once my army camps have 160 population i started raiding. You've already seen my catches - i rarely deploy 100% of my army for raiding. Also i rarely deploy my CC reinforcements. Usually i have 1 giant 5 wizards for extra firepower in my CC for raiding storages.

Edited my last post.

Executing this strategy is very easy. I could write you a tutorial, or a video. But it's already there! You've already seen it. It's Chief Pat's strategy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRIzdmHIEAs

If you're skipping too many bases then you might not be in the optimal trophy range. For me it's silver 1. With my setup it is possible to do collector raids so i suppose you don't have to skip as much as the barchers and bammers.

Remember :

1. Giants for meat shields
2. Goblins for resources
3. Archers for freebies and DPS
4. WBs for walls
5. Heal for giants (if it's a really tough base) and goblin on compartment raids