When it comes to farming? No way, not a chance.
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It's an xbow glitch, not a balloon glitch. They can appear to be set to ground but fire at anything in the air.
Day 3:
Lab: Lvl7 barbs (day 3/10)
Builder 1: Still on spell factory (day 3/5)
Builder 2: Still on xbow (day 3/7)
Builder 3: Still on xbow (day 3/7)
Builder 4: Army camp to 6 (days 2/5)
Builder 5: Tesla to 2 (days 2/3)
Not much doing today. Farmed a few mil, but all my builders are busy. I've been trying to get a shield for the past few hours (7.5 hours, to be exact) but can't seem to get one.
Here's the best attack of the day:
http://i.imgur.com/3V94h54.png
Approximate total gems used for upgrades so far: 1500
Approximate total gems used for boosts so far: 90
Approximate total gems used so far: 1590
The balloon glitch is basically where you are employing balloons on a village while CC troops are on the screen shooting. I read about it here a few days ago, so it is not a secret or anything. This is NOT the glitch with the xbow pointing down but still hitting aerial targets.
When cc troops are on the screen, SOMETIMES your balloons will go through the bomb drop animation, and no bombs will actually drop, significantly reducing the DPS of your loons. It does not happen all the time, but the thread I read about it in had multiple videos and multiple replies from people who have experienced it. I do not do videos or I would try to replicate the glitch and post about it here. If you search the forums you can find the relavent thread.
Good luck farming!
R/
Keith
Day 5:
Lab: Lvl7 barbs (day 5/10)
Builder 1: Still on spell factory (day 4/5)
Builder 2: Still on xbow (day 4/7)
Builder 3: Still on xbow (day 4/7)
Builder 4: Army camp to 6 (days 3/5)
Builder 5: Tesla to 2, starteed Tesla to 3 (days 1/5)
Had max resources, didn't get a chance to farm at all. Built some more legos and some more skulls....quiet day today and yesterday!
Approximate total gems used for upgrades so far: 1500
Approximate total gems used for boosts so far: 90
Approximate total gems used so far: 1590
Day 6:
Lab: Lvl7 barbs (day 6/10)
Builder 1: Spell factory, gemmed queen to 3, started queen 4
Builder 2: Still on xbow (day 5/7)
Builder 3: Still on xbow (day 5/7)
Builder 4: Army camp to 6 (days 4/5)
Builder 5: Tesla to 3 (days 2/5)
Built some more legos and some more skulls. Had enough DE to warrant a gem of AQ level 3. Plan on farming the 30k for AQ 5 by the time she comes out of hibernation :cool:
Approximate total gems used for upgrades so far: 1760
Approximate total gems used for boosts so far: 90
Approximate total gems used so far: 1870
Day 8:
Lab: Lvl7 barbs (day 8/10)
Builder 1: Queen 4, storages, AD to 2 (day 1/1 -- 9 hours left)
Builder 2: Xbow, xbow to 2 (day 1/10)
Builder 3: Xbow, army camp (day 2/5)
Builder 4: Army camp to 6, another army camp (day 2/5)
Builder 5: Tesla to 3 (days 4/5)
Has been a random "what resources do I have, how long until my next builder comes free? few days for me. I got my storages up a bit simply because of the short build time. I started xbow 2 on one, but haven't really gotten the chance to farm for DE all that much so my AQ is still 4 unfortunately. I'm only ~9k DE away so I hope sometime tomorrow early I can get enough to start my AQ.
Approximate total gems used for upgrades so far: 1760
Approximate total gems used for boosts so far: 100
Approximate total gems used so far: 1860
You mistyped it as lvl 7 barbs :P
Any particular reason you have gone for a 10 day X-bow lvl 2 upgrade so early? My plan is to get wiz towers and mortars up first, then upgrade the Xbow and Tesla.
Great progress on the AQ. My BK is going to 12 and AQ to 9, but it has honestly become painful to try to keep them upgrading. Let us know how it works out for you and good luck!
Xbows at 1 are really pretty weak, they get better at two. Level 3 is pretty expensive, for a young th9, and it takes 14 days...but level 2 is very do-able. He's doing pretty much what I did so far, a little faster with gemming...but close. I did xbows to 2, Wts to 7, all my lagging point defenses to 9(theyre now going to 10), then I'm gonna do mortars to 7, teslas after all that to 6, and finally xbows to 3...lol.
This!
Day 9:
Lab: Lvl6 barbs, gemmed last 10 hours, started loons 6 (day 1/10)
Builder 1: AD to 2, AQ to 5!!! (day 1/2)
Builder 2: Xbow to 2 (day 2/10)
Builder 3: Army camp (day 3/5)
Builder 4: Army camp (day 3/5)
Builder 5: Tesla to 3, Tesla to 4 (day 1/6)
YES!! AQ going to 5! Had max elixir and only 10 hours left on my barbs (6) so I gemmed it forward and started max loons :cool:
Approximate total gems used for upgrades so far: 1860
Approximate total gems used for boosts so far: 100
Approximate total gems used so far: 1960
Good luck Mungflago!
Interesting. 5 or 7 million gold is not an issue for me currently, but I am focusing on getting all elixir upgrades out of the way. Got lava hounds today, 30 CC space and doing drills now. Defences after this.
I will keep the bit about X-bows in mind. They are now the first defences I will max now, even ahead of the wizard towers.