no it's not stupid, and sometmes you can find people with their town hall outside for you to snipe and they will also have 1k+ elixer for you to lightning. Who cares if they try to revenge you, just farm up what you need for whatever upgrsde and then use it so when they revenge you they will just be taking trophies..
I recently farmed 20k+ elixer in gold 3 & 2 using this and other methods to get my King to level 5 at TH7
