TH7 Trophy Rampage

Hello everyone, I am a nearly maxed TH7 user who has been inactive for a while, but now I decided to play the game again, so here I am. I had left my village in a farming layout, so I lost tons of trophies, and I am currently at 720 (Bronze I). I would like to know what army composition and base to use to quickly rank up in trophies (around Gold III) to get good loot once more. All troops maxed for TH7, apart from dark troops at lvl 1 and BK at lvl 3. Only two teslas remaining to max (both are lvl 2). Any help is appreciated. Many thanks to you all.

As a townhall 7 who has been anywhere between 800 and 1600 trophies in the past month:

- The fastest gold/elixir farming is between 800 and 1200 trophies. The number of bases with exposed collectors which can be farmed easily using barch drops off significantly between 1200 and 1300.
- As alluded to above, I use barch for farming gold and elixir. It is fast and effective. It allows you to wipe TH6s and destroy enough of TH7 bases to get at collectors or a couple of storages if you're aiming for one resource.

- For dark elixir farming there are three strategies I've used - all with some success:
1) Zap storages with >2k raidable elixir - not my favorite, I generally do it casually when I'm gold/elixir farming if I come across a base with that much DE.
2) Use barch with a handful of giants/WB and 3 lightning spells. Find a storage with 500+ DE, then take out the exposed buildings, destroy walls and if necessary, use 2 lightning spells to destroy the nearest splash tower, and core in to the storage with the help of the barb king.
3) If you have excess elixir, build up a full dragon army with whichever combination of spells you prefer (I like 3 lightning spells), hit next until you find a base with ~2k DE, preferably with other resources as well. These will almost always be near maxed TH8 bases. Strategically take out one AD with the lightning spells and funnel the dragons into the location of the DE storage.

Note: It is easier to find DE farming targets above 1200 trophies. Generally speaking - the higher you go, the more targets with a lot of DE you will find. I've used the dragon strat for most of my DE - about to upgrade my Barb king to 5 and I have raided ~30k DE using 16 attacks with this strategy. I have excess elixir though, and 4 level 9 barracks, so it only takes me 1.5 hours between raids.

Edit: to answer your central question - the easiest way to level up in trophies is to snipe exposed town halls. The 2nd easiest is to use giant/healer or barch to wipe TH6 bases.

Attack will gain you more trophies. And I suggest you go to silver 1 league to farm resources.