Quick and Easy Guide - Where to farm? What troops to use?

Quick Video Summary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae3O0BTaM_Q

Spreadsheet Link: http://tinyurl.com/armyleague

Hey guys I’m Ash and I made a quick and easy guide for you guys to find the best trophy league to farm in and the best army you should use to farm in that league given your circumstances for FAST loot. This is from my experiences as a hardcore farmer who has played basically all Town Hall levels and every trophy league. I also lead 3 hardcore farming clans (Altar of Heroes - average player over 1 billion Gold Grab), and keep track of how everyone is performing. So I’ve compiled all that data into a simple, easy-to-use and understand guide.

A big mistake I see people making all the time is that they use powerful armies like Balloonion that are very good at breaking into bases, but take a long time to cook and the player ends up making very little loot in the long run. While other players are also using Balloonion but are making tons of loot. Why? Because those players who are using Balloonion are able to make so much is because they boost their barracks. So as you can see, farming fast and efficiently is not the same for everyone. If you don’t boost at all, then you shouldn’t be using an army composition consisting of Balloons and Minions.

There are many factors that weigh into what the best leagues for you to farm in are and the best troops for you to use to make loot fast. Such as, if you’re boosting your Barracks, if you’re using the Archer Queen, and if you’re a casual farmer or a hardcore farmer. And whether you’re focusing a lot on Dark Elixir or you just want a good distribution of all resources. All these weigh into what the best league and army is for YOU.

So with those factors in mind along with maximum efficiency and effectiveness in mind for highest potential loot per hour, I’ve created a spreadsheet for the difference types of players, their Town Hall level, and their circumstances.

Understanding the spreadsheet:

The tabs at the bottom indicate the different Town Hall levels. Find your Town Hall level. Then you will see the different categories in each row. Find the category that fits your base on whether you boost your barracks (and how many), if you have the Archer Queen available for farming, and how active you are as a player. A high activity player is a play who players over 2 hours a day, and low active player is who plays under 2 hours. A sporadic farmer is a person who plays very casually and inefficiently as a farmer by logging off after every raid and using powerful armies with inefficient (but very effective) troops such as Wizards or Healers for farming. You will then be given a list of army compositions and trophy leagues that are recommended for YOU. There are two sections, one is whether you’re looking for a good balance of all three resources (Gold, Elixir, or Dark Elixir) or are focusing mainly on Dark Elixir (As Dark Elixir is more abundant in higher leagues).

Additionally, if you would like more in depth help on how to train your troops or and exactly how many troops you should be training, or what the best composition or league is based off of the multiple options in the spreadsheet, you may ask here on this thread. Here is the form you must fill out and post:

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Your Town Hall Level:
Are you boosting anything? (if so, what are you boosting)
Are you using your Heroes?
How much do you play? Do you play in long sessions or log off a lot?
Anything else we may need to know:

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And I or your fellow forum members will give you advice on finding the best trophy league and army to farm with.

What category do you belong to?

Town Halls 2 to 6:
http://i.imgur.com/gDJfIrD.png

Town Hall 7
http://i.imgur.com/OPiddxu.png

Town Hall 8
http://i.imgur.com/JFWu6Wg.png

Town Hall 9
http://i.imgur.com/750LyYM.png

Town Hall 10
http://i.imgur.com/GlHWZAT.png

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Another great guide! Keep up the good work :thumbsup::smirk:

Another great guide from Ash !
Maybe you could add expected average GPH/EPH/DEPH per category ? :)

Good work ash. This will be a very good resource to have and definitely worth another sticky. Couldn't have come at a better time as I have just hit th9 and am still settling in trying to find the best loot.

Thanks for the indepth guides and youtube video's

I'm a Town Hall 10
Lvl 11 Queen + LvL 20 King
Maxed out Wizard tower, Mortar, X-Bow, Inferno, Tesla's
Been farming Crystal III for the past 3 to 4 months since I hit TH10 been doing fine getting 1 gold upgrade every 2 or 3 days witouth boosting.

Looking at your youtube vids and Town Hall charts above, it looks like i'm best of farming Silver 2 am I correct?

Both none boosted and boosted? I mainly wanna use your strat to finish of my lava walls and max lvl walls after that. I already knew about the silver league farming but never tryed it myself cause I didn't think it would work as well as you show us.

I'm mainly confused cause you mention master league aswell at 10b and 10b2

before I forget I play BAM all the time and I got 2+ hours a day.

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Me likely

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:Keep it up Ash! I may end up going back to C3 now and do farming bonus there. I've read (watched, really) your GG and EE army video, but it would be cool if I made my own strategy based off these charts and your vid. Btw, this thread should be in my sig

Thanks for the guide i am a TH9 currently at m3 and I am having a VERY VERY HARD time farming here. Based on your guide i should be dropping down to gold or silver. I really feel like going back down but a part of me is very reluctant because i would feel that all my efforts of making it up to masters have gone down the drain except for the bonus 1000 gems. For your information i am a rusher and i followed Mogauth rush guide. I have all elixir buildings maxed except

1 dark barrack at level 2
1 drill at level 5
1 drill at level 3
4 barracks still have not unlock Pekka

I am at the process of getting them maxed asap including getting my King 5 and Queen 7 up to at least both 15 within the next 1 or 2 months. For dark troops I wanna get my Minions currently at 2 to at least 5, and Hound at 1 to maxed. What advise would you give to me ? Were you ever in my situation and how did you deal with it ? Did you feel reluctant going back down ?

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Originally Posted by ball000000ooooN

Thanks for the guide i am a TH9 currently at m3 and I am having a VERY VERY HARD time farming here. Based on your guide i should be dropping down to gold or silver. I really feel like going back down but a part of me is very reluctant because i would feel that all my efforts of making it up to masters have gone down the drain except for the bonus 1000 gems. For your information i am a rusher and i followed Mogauth rush guide. I have all elixir buildings maxed except

1 dark barrack at level 2
1 drill at level 5
1 drill at level 3
4 barracks still have not unlock Pekka

I am at the process of getting them maxed asap including getting my King 5 and Queen 7 up to at least both 15 within the next 1 or 2 months. For dark troops I wanna get my Minions currently at 2 to at least 5, and Hound at 1 to maxed. What advise would you give to me ? Were you ever in my situation and how did you deal with it ? Did you feel reluctant going back down ?

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Look on the bright side: if you go back down to Silver/Gold, you don't have to feel bad losing trophies getting easy DE. That is my problem in Masters 3 -- I want the DE but half the time I can't penetrate to reach the storage AND get the 50 percent with barch.