Crystal as a TH8

Basically I am just wondering if it is worth it to go up to Crystal 3 or Crystal 2 as a TH8. I have been finding very good loot in Gold 3 aside from D.E. I need to start getting dark elixir now so I was wondering if it is good to go up to Crystal league as a TH8 because I always see people saying how good the loot is up there as in 300k-300k raids all the time. This is hard for me to believe because whenever I push (highest trophy count is only 1870 or something) up to Gold 1 the loot (gold and elixir) absolutely sucks except for some well defended TH9 and TH10. The D.E. is decent up there though and I will occasionally find a base that I can get the D.E. from but never really a sufficient amount of gold or elixir.

Other info:
Level 5 troops: archer, barb, giant, wall breaker, wizard
Level 4 troops: goblin, balloon
Level 3 troops: healer
Level 2 troops: dragon
Level 1 troops: hogs, minions, valks
Don't have golems or pekkas yet

Crystal is very good for resources as a th8, mostly because it's all th9s and 10s so you will have a large loot bonus. Just prepare to get 3 starred a lot and lose resources on defense since again, it's mostly th9s and 10s. As for getting to crystal, easiest, fastest, and cheapest way is to snipe bases with their th outside with archers. Good luck!

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Originally Posted by lamborghini90

Crystal is very good for resources as a th8, mostly because it's all th9s and 10s so you will have a large loot bonus. Just prepare to get 3 starred a lot and lose resources on defense since again, it's mostly th9s and 10s. As for getting to crystal, easiest, fastest, and cheapest way is to snipe bases with their th outside with archers. Good luck!

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Yeah I mean I could get to crystal with a lot of sniping but what I'm asking is how the actual loot is. Presumably there will be more D.E. than in any part of Gold league but are the bases going to be well-upgraded TH9 and TH10 all the time? I can't really do anything to those bases with the troops that I have without doing mass dragon everytime. I heard from someone that there are lots of abandoned bases in crystal but I'm not sure if I believe that.

Dude I am in Meister 3 and still doing fine.

Honestly, if you're looking for easy loot in abondoned bases, gold 2 is probably the best... I'm th9 and the loot in crystal 2/3 is awesome, but I have level 6 troops and have no problem reaching their resources. At th8 I remember farming in crystal with a barb/archer army with 3 rage spells. Best bet is to just give it a try.

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Originally Posted by MetalGreymon

Dude I am in Meister 3 and still doing fine.

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What troops do you use? Do you find collector or storage raids? Is there just D.E. or gold and elixir too?

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Originally Posted by lamborghini90

Honestly, if you're looking for easy loot in abondoned bases, gold 2 is probably the best... I'm th9 and the loot in crystal 2/3 is awesome, but I have level 6 troops and have no problem reaching their resources. At th8 I remember farming in crystal with a barb/archer army with 3 rage spells. Best bet is to just give it a try.

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I know. I can find some good collector and storage raids (since the storages are in easy TH8 and or TH7 bases) in Silver 1/Gold 3 but I want to know if there are at least some bases with raids that are manageable for TH8 without having to do a mass dragon raid everytime. I mainly just want to go to a higher league for the D.E.

Yes I think farming de in crystal should be fine.

I'm about 70 trophies away from Crystal 3 and I'm an almost maxed th7

It seemed like DE was fairly plentiful in Crystal. You can definitely brute force a lot of zero star raids by just streaming a bunch of barbs, archers, goblins and about 10-12 wallbreakers at a DE storage 1-2 walls away. But I found I dropped out pretty fast losing that many trophies and the gold and elixir was pretty thin.

Otherwise as a TH8, I find Gold2 is a pretty comfortable farm.

You can farm crystal 3 as a th8. In the begining you may get 3 starred alot but by the end when you'r deffense is upgraded alot it's really not so bad, huge deffense difference from a new and a maxed th8. hogs are not the issue they used to be either.

I went to crystal 3 as a th7. th9 in crystal 2 now. I did it because i aim for DE alway's and find i get enough gold to keep my builders bussy anyway.