How did you get barb king at TH7?

I went up to crystal 3 and started mass dragging for 1000 de raids with 3 lightning spells to get rid of 1 air defence. And it's profitable with the loot bonus as well, 20 successful attacks nets you 1000 de alone. Make sure to leave your th outside.

Sniped to crystal 1 as max th6 while waiting for upgrade (cheap search costs and win bonus enough for maintenance, also for the extra gems achievement). The moment I hit th7, collector raids (lvl3+ de collectors full have 1-2k.5!) on the way down from 2400-1500. Managed to get 10k in between, got the king and rested in silver3. :)

Lol thanks for all this advice. I'm trying to get the barb king :p

As a nearly maxed TH7, I finished my Elix Upgrades rather early (maxed camps and barracks almost first thing) and focused on DE raids with mass drags. As I cant actively play during the week due to work, dragon armies are a blast because they take almost 2 hours to cook but I can be sure I'll get trophies + loot.

Started BK to 4 yesterday and have ~5k DE already from 4 or so raids. I will, on occasions run low on Elix, since the dragons cost 300k and 3 rages adds up to 420k Elix. Usually I try to not use all the drags and if possible, no spells, so i end up doing 4~6 drags and 0 ~1 spells, but on more developed TH9~10 bases i usually need to use all the drags and 2+ spells to guarantee the DE and the trophies, if possible.

I got as close to 10,000 de as I could by raiding with giants, goblins and archers. I got to about 9,000 and gemmed the rest

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Originally Posted by Iblob

I'm currently standing on 2.5K DE i got from a zapping run in Gold III
However i feel this might not be the way to go about it... Lots of people on the forums and in game seem to want to oblitterate any scrub TH7 that tries zapping in the most through and humiliating way possible.
So assuming most people on here maxed at TH7, how did you go about getting the 10K DE back then?

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When I was th7 i used the 450 gems for getting 1250 trophies for half the DE and the other 5k by going with giants and archers on 400 DE+ bases

I barched.. and barched and then I looked at my lvl 1 DE storage and it was full.

I gemmed it. Once I got to TH8 getting to lvl 5 was pretty easy, lvl 5 BARCH makes a world of difference.

I like the mass dragon army compared to barch when trying to get your BK up to lvl 5 at TH7. Like others have said, snipe your way up to Crystal 3 at minimum. The loot bonus will give you DE there.

My army composition consist of, 9 lvl 2 dragons, 20 lvl 4 archers, a BK(if I have him), 3 lvl 4 lightning spells and archers/wizards for CC troops. It's important that you have all your barracks up to lvl 9 so you can train multiple dragons quicker and have 200 slots in your army camps. Make sure your base is near max out and leave your TH outside to attract trophy hunters.

So once your in Crystal League, snipe the outside TH's with archers and leave. If you find a base with 1ks+ of DE, zap one of the AD's and place your dragons in a position where they can travel to the core because that's were all the loot is usually protected. Dragons can make it to the core before all of them die if you can give them a good path by zapping out an AD that's in the way. I average 1ks+ of DE per raid with this strategy.

In the end i found sniping TH to gain trophies while also sniping exposed drills and zapping the storage, i could gain small amounts of DE over time just with an all archer army.
I did find one raid with full maxed DE drills just exposed and ended up with over 2K DE from it.
Here's my new BK!
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