I'm a lvl 84 th 8 with maxed defenses but need a lot of dark elixer to upgrade my golems, hogs and bk before I go to th 9 is there a dark elixer farming strategy that I could use to fill my storages fast? Thanks
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I'm a lvl 84 th 8 with maxed defenses but need a lot of dark elixer to upgrade my golems, hogs and bk before I go to th 9 is there a dark elixer farming strategy that I could use to fill my storages fast? Thanks
What I used to do is accumulate gems from cleaning shrubs & boosting barracks for 2 hours in order to do 8 dragon raids in 2 hours.
Of course that's a bit extreme, you can probably just use a combination of giants, wall breakers & goblins most likely..
What I use which isn't just to target DE is giants, barbarians, archers and a few wall breakers. It works well when a DE container isn't fully centered, may need a heal spell tho but no biggie. I'm using level 6 troops but should still be possible with level 5 troops, just need the practice.
1) BARCH with 4+ wallbreakers.
2) Bring lightning spells for CC troops, splash towers, or juicy DE storages. Bring rage if you prefer.
3) Gold III or higher league recommended.
4) Your base needs the TH outside, DE storage in the middle protected as well as you can.
5) How much DE did somebody wipe you for last time? Be sure to farm more than that amount before logging off.
6) Don't log off if you are close to your goal.
I'm farming DE as of right now and the army im using is 16 Giants, 16 Wizards, 8 Wb's, Rest archers 5-6 more Wizards 4+ in my cc, as well as my barb king and heal spells. It takes about 48 Mins to train and costs 106K E. It's not cheap it's not fast but it's powerful.
How I execute the strategy is send a few archers to check for cc troops, deal with them. Then I send my giants in first supported by heal spells and wallbreakers. I then use my wizards to clear the outside buildings and once that is done they will go into the base and I send my Barb king in after them. If needed I deploy my cc troops. I've farmed 2.6k DE in the past 5hrs.
If needed I can post attack logs.
Get used to cheaper & faster armies because 2.6k in 5 hours isn't much. People with good experience Barching can get around 1k per raid & it takes 20mins to build which means it's 3k/hour. Not hating on your reply, just letting you know there is a simpler way.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackJewl
I'm always up to suggestions. What do you recommend?Quote:
Originally Posted by erdnexela
Stay in gold 2+ leagues, keep your army cheap but decent amount of power.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackJewl
When I was th8 I used to do:
8 giants
76 barbarians
76 archers
4 wall breakers
I kept 2 heal spells & 1 rage
I'd look for DE containers whom aren't fully centralized & not that heavily guarded. The army above is about a 20 min build. Use a bit of barbs & archers to clear outside buildings, try to lure CC if possible, once the coast is hopefully clear, send in giants followed by breakers & go in hard with barbs followed by archers (if you have lvl 5 barb king, send it with the group of barbarians & rage them, it will take out a lot of buildings quickly). I usually heal if barbarians are near death because they are the ones doing most of the damage, just try to group troops towards DE container.
I send waves of 15-20 barbs/archers at a time so if a wave gets killed another will come behind and hopefully finish the job. Since your current rate is 2.6k in 5 hours, you won't need to go for full containers to improve. In fact going after poorly guarded DE containers with only 500 DE in it would still net you 1.5k DE per hour with this set-up.
NOTE: You can also substitute barbs/archers for goblins since they have a higher damage & do x2 damage on resources. Their health isn't too good however so make sure wizard towers & other splash damages are distracted by giants or barbs.
I'm currently using the same technique at TH9, going after containers with around 1k+ in them & I netted over 15k DE yesterday. lvl 6 troops are a bit better than lvl 5 troops but not by too much so a TH8 should be able to get a similar result.
Hopefully this helps!
I just really used BArch for farming DE when I was a TH8. Hit 'em exposed DE storages and full DE collectors!
I make it a priority to look for full DE drills when I am barching they are often either outside the base or just behind the first layer of walls. Hitting a lvl 9 with 2 full lvl 3 DE drills will net you a cool 625 DE. Archers take them out super quick too.
Alright, Thanks man! I will try this, hopefully it works well.Quote:
Originally Posted by erdnexela
Get to Crystal 3, there's a loot bonus of 50 de per win. I know that's not much, but if you win 20 attacks an hour, that's already 1k de.
I barch at low crystal 3. It's sort of a hit and miss on different days. Usually if I find a collectors base within my first 5 minutes of nexting, I would boost 2 of my barracks and raid for 2 hours. If you're lucky, you might get 3k+ de from 3 maxed TH10 drills, I've gotten that on at least 10 occasions.
I've probably not really farmed for DE intentionally and I've only relied on exposed drills mostly, unless the DE storages are behind the first rows of walls. But usually, these easily looted de storages would probably only have 100-300 de available. The only time I intentionally farm for DE is when I'm close to what I need for any upgrades and don't want to lose my DE after getting raided. But still I rarely go for DE storages unless it's relatively easy and have at least 500 de available for loot.
My BK is lvl 9 and I'm 5k short to get it to lvl 10, and I'm still about 1 month away from maxing my base. Considering that the primary resource I go for is Gold on most raids, I would think it's pretty effective. If you change your intentions to focus on DE, I would think you can get even more.
5k de (inclusive of win bonuses) for about 2 hours of raiding is the norm for me. On good days I can get between 10-15k if I meet at least 2 abandoned TH10 bases. This is all done with 2 boosted barracks.