Strategy for farming elixer at TH8
What is a good strategy for farming elixer at TH8?
I've been floating between 1000 and 1300 trophies, and have tried the following:
- Barbarians and Archers, a few bombers
- Barbarians, archers and goblins, a few bombers
- 12 Giants, Header, 10 bombers and cheap troops
- Balloonions
- All archers
I'm generally getting 30-50k per successful attack, along with the occasional attack that fails and the occasional attack that gets 100k+. The armies cost from 20k up to 70k, so I am typically getting around 20k with cheap armies and breaking even with the expensive armies.
At that rate, it takes days to accumulate a million elixer, and some tasks (e.g., upgrading troops) require over two million elixer. In the past, once I started to get close to a million elixer, I would start losing it in raids faster than I could acquire it.
My current base is has the elixer tanks in a well defended center, and the town hall completely undefended outside the walls. So most attacks now take out the town hall for 1k elixer and a few trophies, then leave.I'm now starting to get some real attacks that takes tens of thousands of elixer. I think I'm still making forward progress, but I suspect I'm near the limit of what I can get with this strategy. As I stockpile more and more elixer, I'll become a more inviting target and the number of real raids will increase.
Is there a better strategy than that?