In general, going for pekka lv3 and golem lv2. Resources wise, how hard is it to keep that, at th8, when these are their maxed level?
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In general, going for pekka lv3 and golem lv2. Resources wise, how hard is it to keep that, at th8, when these are their maxed level?
Maybe 3-4h of farming for the de with lab boosted?
Do Pekkas first. Lvl 3 Pekkas are way better than lvl 2 Golems, but both are nice.
To answer the OP: It's hard to determine time as it's predicated on gems spent boosting, luck spent nexting, and the ability of the attacker. Just make sure you farm over the max that can be stolen from you so you don't end a session in the red. Once you hit the 33,333 mark as a TH8 you will offer up the max (2,000) so once you hit that mark it won't matter if you have 33,333 or 55,000 as you've reached the cap. 6% of your total storage can be taken up until 2,000.
Hope this helps.
6 mil elixir is easy to get, just drop a few trophies and leave your town hall outside for the snipers and free shield. Attack a lot. 60k DE is a lot harder, but you can get it with the same method. I'm TH8 level 79 and I was up to 50k but decided to get hogs instead. Now sitting on 40k.
Make sure your defences are decent and and your walls are level 7 to deter attacks.
Hope this helps!
It's tough to target both resources at once as a TH 8. Here's what I would do:
- Start at Gold 3 or Gold 2
- Focus on farming Elixir first. Use Barch or BAM. If you're boosting, use Barch. If you're not boosting, use BAM but limit 16 Minions.
- Target at least 200K Elixir per raid.
- Boost Factory and cook Lightning Spells to zap storages with at least 2000+ DE. Don't worry about spending Elixir to cook spells. You can make over 2000 DE per hour purely from zapping.
- Attack loaded DE Drills on the outsides of the bases. If you can at least get 500 DE, don't worry about losing if you can't snipe. If you can get 500 DE, but can get 50%, take the loss instead. Better to lose trophies and save your army for farming Elixir. This way you won't waste time farming Elixir by grabbing some easy-to-get DE on the road (add the DE bonus from zapping).
- If you're boosting and it's a good day, you should be able to make at least 1.5 million Elixir per hour, and 4,000 DE (about 2000 from zapping, and 2000 from drills and dead bases).
- Once you've your 6 million Elixir, upgrade your Pekka. Then start focusing entirely on farming DE. This time, start cooking Rage Spells instead of Lightning and move to Gold 1.
- For the fastest method of making DE as a TH 8, you can boost your barracks (except de barrack). Use Barch with 8 Wall Breakers and your Barbarian King (boost his timer) and cook Rage Spells (boost factory). This will allow you to make DE fast by breaking into bases for DE storage. You can expect about 8000 DE per hour using this method.
For more helpful information on efficient DE farming, check out my guide: http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...g-Guide/page53
Good luck
Elixir should be easy to get. Almost all th8 bases have a decent amount. But looting 60k DE will take a few days and will be much harder to keep it safe. You will become a magnet for zappers and other th8 & th9 players looking for DE. I would suggest you go with pekka first. That's more important for a GoWiPe. Getting 60k while the pekka upgrades to lvl 3 should be easy.
The best tip I can offer for your sanity is this:
Figure out how much DE you can make in a single, solid boost session (not a super lucky, nor a super terrible one). Take that number, and subtract it from 60k.
That's your target maintenance value.
Get your 6M elixer first, and start your Pekka upgrade. For the first few days, just get whatever resources you need for any building upgrades you're looking to do, and let your DE accumulate naturally. With 8 days left, start focusing on DE. Shoot for the maintenance value.
Once you hit that, you should have a few days left before your lab is ready again. Now, go back to focusing on Gold/Elixer as needed for your other upgrades. Your goal is only to maintain that DE amount, so only try to focus on DE when someone steals some from you.
When your lab is ~2 hours from being ready, boost and farm the remainder of the DE required. Immediately use it.
IMO its TH8 and resource pours in! So getting it is nothing but time, no boost needed really; just a couple blocked sessions each night (boosted is better obviously, but not really necessary in the right range) took me like 2-3 days of pretty casual raiding to fill my elixir storage
for the Dark it is a bit tougher and will obviously take longer, but its much easier to acquire Dark in G1 or C3 or higher, but again you be liable for a bigger base cleaning you out.
the problem is the Defense aspect. especially for the Dark Elixir. once you get more than 25K the zappy happy and their ilk come out, as well as the TH9s with their L6 giants and Heal spells or Healers and that vicious vixen the AQ.
Best defense is to put that TH out away from defenses and hope a sniper comes to claim your TH before Rev or hungry vermin come sniffing around your base. the second best option is to do long sessions when you can, and out earn your max loss.. typically you stand to lose 350K Elixir after a clean out or 2K Dark elixir. so your goal for the first few raids are to recoup the evenings loss, then build from there.
I recently went to TH9. and had Pekkas upgraded to L3 already, but wanted to max my Hogs to L4 and have enough Dark to get the AQ right away, so essentially I needed 80K total but not in one tank so to speak
I did like Nyxigg suggested, and figured out how much I need to Earn a day till my TH finishes and made that my daily goal if you can get 5-7K, or 7-10K a day of the Dark stuff you wont lose that much everyday if you maintain good shield maintenance and out raid your losses. (I went to 9 to finish my Dark upgrades since the AQ, extra troops, spells and maxed drills will help acquire Dark far more efficiently, plus the toys to hold it better too)
Good luck