TH 8 Strategy Advice

I looking for some farming stratgies to explore. I haven't been having a hard time farming though I do want to keep trying different approaches with different units or with what I already use.

Here is what I have available to me.
-2 lvl 1 Dark Barracks
and 3 lvl 9 barracks with one upgrading to 10 currently

I have lvl 4 everything but balloons,healers,dragsons and wizards.
i have lvl 3 balloons, lvl 2 healers, lvl 3 wizards, and lvl 1 drags.
i also just have lvl 1 minions.

My concerns:
When I do upgrade my lab im a little iffy on if I should upgrade my tier 1 troops due to elixir profit.
i also haven't upgraded my dark barracks because Ive been hearing that hogs aren't as useful. So the Dark Barracks is behind in my priorities when it comes to upgrades. If you recommend me to upgrade to them I would like to heat why.

My current farming strategy involves...
40 barbs
103 archers
9 giants
6 wall breakers
and my Barb King when available

the goal is to use Giants to distract defenses in the area I deploy them in. I try to get rid of the splash damage if I can ASAP. Then when the Giants are deployed I either deploy barbs or archers depending if the buildings are within melee range. When my Giants are getting closer to the walls I deploy wall breakers nearby to get inside.

my goal is to get resources and at least try to get the 50% or one star by getting the TH.

Ive used BAM before but I don't want to use too much Dark Elixir too often. I also could use a little advice on BAM because sometimes it leads to failure. I'm thinking I should add Giants to distract the Splash damage so minions don't die quick then they can attack the splash damage freely.

ive used gobs with much success at getting resources but without getting 50% most of the time. They are weak and the splash damage kills them quickly. I'm really thinking of using Giants as distractions for all my attacks due to how bad splash damage can get for me. Wall breakers get pretty unreliable when dealing with corners so that's something worth mentioning.

I am in Gold 3 for now and noticing a resource dry spell probably due to the one gem boosts. I curious if I should go higher or lower for gold and elixir. I could use a little DE too.
any tips? Or other stratgies you'd recommend?

Minions and goblins the most underrated troops at coc. Forget the low level giants, they are not worth it til at least 5 but in reality 6. Your really only looking to get loot and win 50%. Divide your troop into 25% of each gobs mins arch barbs and go for the outside of bases only. Upgrade to th9 and buy an archer queen.

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Originally Posted by Maulerz

Minions and goblins the most underrated troops at coc. Forget the low level giants, they are not worth it til at least 5 but in reality 6. Your really only looking to get loot and win 50%. Divide your troop into 25% of each gobs mins arch barbs and go for the outside of bases only. Upgrade to th9 and buy an archer queen.

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I've used gobs for longer than minions before. I've had less success with them at getting the 50% as they are weak and I usally lose them all after I get all the resources.

Plus in gold 3 I've noticed more and more people don't leave their collectors outside. Sometimes wall breakers are unreliable because I've noticed they go for corners of walls when your target is in between the corners so getting gobs to inside the base is a challenge plus the splash damage kills them waaaaay to quick when I've tried therefore I've quit using my lvl 4 gobs for now.