Questions About Farming? Loot Problems? Ask Away!

This is, so to speak, a remake of this awesome thread I saw. However, that thread died in September 2014, so I decided to make a new one.

Another thread that's the same as this also exists in the Base Design, Tactics, and Strategy forum. I have it in both places so that I can attract a larger audience and help out more people :) That thread is here

This thread is a place to ask your questions about loot and get them answered without creating endless, unnecessary threads everywhere. You'll get your questions answered by experienced farmers who are very familiar with the game. I am by no means an expert or a pro, but I consider myself decently knowledgeable in the area of farming (from experience and from browsing the forum).

If you want help with your loot problems, include the following in your reply:

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Town Hall Level:

Current Trophy Count:

Current Army Composition:

Army Camp Space:

How many hours to you play a day on average?

Do you raid in 2-hour sessions or just come on when your army is ready? If other, tell me what it is you do:

If you raid in sessions, do you boost? If so, how many barracks:

Availability of Heroes:

Your question, along with any additional information you would like to provide:

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If you don't include all of that in your reply, I will not be able to answer your question as fully as a question that includes all the above information.

I would also love to have other volunteers who would like to help out and answer questions here. To be a volunteer, you must:

• Have at least 200 posts on the forum
• Have a good knowledge base of farming and raiding
• Have a decent reputation on the Forums
• I may make exceptions to the above

Current List of Volunteers:

• OnyxClan
• Aphrodi
• Lootenant
• Danny11ezko (a.k.a Kaze)
• Eternal625 (a.k.a Ash) (See his DE Farming Guide here!)
• Koof
• ChiefStorm
• Frosticewolf
• SteveChen

Thank you very much, volunteers, for helping out!

If you aren't a volunteer, don't hesitate to answer some questions and provide feedback here and there; additional help is always awesome!

Let's keep the thread alive so people can come and get the help they need :)

Happy farming guys!

bump for questions :D

How do I use BAM? I've always been a farmer and I could never figure out how to use it. Do you clear a side with barch, then send in the minions behind to hit the storages?

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Originally Posted by Argat

How do I use BAM? I've always been a farmer and I could never figure out how to use it. Do you clear a side with barch, then send in the minions behind to hit the storages?

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That's if you're using BAM to hit storages. When I use BAM, my reason for using it is for a faster army, not to hit storages. So what I do is use minions as archers that don't get hit by mortars or cannons. If there's a building only protected by a cannon, for example, just drop a minion and it's yours.

So to recap: two reasons/ways to use BAM:
1. To get more firepower than barch and be able to get storages easier. What you said is correct; barch to clear and send the minions to go in over the walls and get storages. Raged minions are deadly to storages.
2. To get a faster training time, so it feels like boosted barch. Just use BAM to get collectors like you would with barch. That's what I do; I haven't done a storage raid in months.

Need more questions!

I am a TH 9 and I farm at 1800 cups. Is there a better division to find loot for TH 9?

After a push lasting several weeks, I'm now climbing down from Champs and searching for a good spot to begin farming my lava walls.

Do you any such space? And any tips for farming lavas? :p

I guess you guys didn't read the OP. I'll answer your questions anyway.

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Originally Posted by MyNameIsMax

I am a TH 9 and I farm at 1800 cups. Is there a better division to find loot for TH 9?

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Gold 2 and Gold 1 are the best. Where you're at, in my experience over the last week, is the best place to farm G/E for TH9. If you need DE, go to masters with a Giant-based or Loonion-based army.

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Originally Posted by Alisreal

After a push lasting several weeks, I'm now climbing down from Champs and searching for a good spot to begin farming my lava walls.

Do you any such space? And any tips for farming lavas? :p

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Lavas are Gold and Elixir, and I'm farming 10-20 legos a day in the Gold 2/Gold 1 area. Gold 1 is better I believe. You'll be finding a good amount of collector raids (sometimes it feels like I'm a TH8 again. That's how good it is sometimes :)). If you have a giant-based army that can hit hard, you can take out some rich TH8s for some more loot. Have fun farming those lavas!

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What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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Originally Posted by TheShadow23

I guess you guys didn't read the OP. I'll answer your questions anyway.

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My bad, i didn't figure out that the whole large text was the link itself, :facepalm:.

Thanks for the farming help!

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Originally Posted by Snarg

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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I've actually been pondering that question for quite a while. After doing some calculations, however, I've been able to reach a conclusion.

First of all, by comparing to other species with similar wingspan to bodymass ratios, the frequency and amplitude of an unladen swallow's flight could be estimated. This is assuming, of course, that we are dealing with a European Swallow, and not an African Swallow, because information on the African Swallow is much more difficult to come by. Also, we must calculate under the assumption that our swallow is going at average cruising speed, because the top speed will likely vary from population to population, based on genetic makeup and mutations.

So you're probably thinking that since the swallow has to maintain it's air velocity, it must beat its wings at about 43 times a second. While it is easy to see how you came upon that conclusion, according to my calculations, is should be 15 beats per second. Now you're wondering how I found this out. Well, it's simple, really. I took the 3 species of birds with closest body masses, and then the 3 species of birds with similar wingspan. By closely observing their flight, I was able to discern their frequency of wing flaps. Averaging all 6 values, it became glaringly apparent that the European Swallow, unladen, beats exactly 15 times a second.

Ok, so now we have frequency. What about amplitude? This was arguably the most difficult part of the process. All flying animals have a particular flight pattern. Observing an average European Swallow in flight, I was able to draw detailed diagrams. It seemed there were two extremes: a very efficient flight pattern and a very inefficient one.

Here is the efficient one. As you can see, the Strouhal Number in this flight pattern is a mere 0.2:

http://i.imgur.com/1FcG2KY.gif

Here is the ineffient one. As you can see, the Strouhal Number in this flight pattern is 0.4, which is double the first one!

http://i.imgur.com/1pufHPu.gif

After much thought, I determined the best way to get an accurate and precise amplitude of flight, I had to average the two Strouhal Numbers. Using several calculators, I found that 0.3 is the average Strouhal Number.

Finally, now that we have found the Strouhal Number, we can proceed to calculating airspeed. Using the simple forumula: (beats/s)*(meters/beat)=airspeed, I multiplied 15 beats per second * 0.73 meters per beat to get 11 meters/second.

This equates to 24 mph.

Any further questions, Snarg?

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Originally Posted by Alisreal

My bad, i didn't figure out that the whole large text was the link itself, :facepalm:.

Thanks for the farming help!

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No problem! See you around :)

How do i beat a th11, with lvl 5 troops?

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Originally Posted by Snarg

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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That would be 16 m/s my friend :D

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Originally Posted by MATHSTER

That would be 16 m/s my friend :D

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I've already answered the question. Kindly scroll up and see it; I even explained my math. How rude, mathster...

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Originally Posted by BluBest

How do i beat a th11, with lvl 5 troops?

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You snipe his Town Hall.

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Originally Posted by TheShadow23

You snipe his Town Hall.

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Yeah...that didn't work...every troop i threw at it turned to dust...even my barb king...and my barb king is still not at my base...and it says i can't build another...thanks 😑

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Originally Posted by BluBest

Yeah...that didn't work...every troop i threw at it turned to dust...even my barb king...and my barb king is still not at my base...and it says i can't build another...thanks 😑

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Yeah, I've heard of that happening to other people. The only way to fix it is to buy the 6th builder.

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Originally Posted by TheShadow23

Yeah, I've heard of that happening to other people. The only way to fix it is to buy the 6th builder.

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The 6th builder hut that you get at th11... I quit this game 😭

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Originally Posted by BluBest

The 6th builder hut that you get at th11... I quit this game 😭

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Only one option left...buy Supercell. Then you can get TH12 and solve all your problems. Except for loot penalty.

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Originally Posted by TheShadow23

I've actually been pondering that question for quite a while. After doing some calculations, however, I've been able to reach a conclusion.

First of all, by comparing to other species with similar wingspan to bodymass ratios, the frequency and amplitude of an unladen swallow's flight could be estimated. This is assuming, of course, that we are dealing with a European Swallow, and not an African Swallow, because information on the African Swallow is much more difficult to come by. Also, we must calculate under the assumption that our swallow is going at average cruising speed, because the top speed will likely vary from population to population, based on genetic makeup and mutations.

So you're probably thinking that since the swallow has to maintain it's air velocity, it must beat its wings at about 43 times a second. While it is easy to see how you came upon that conclusion, according to my calculations, is should be 15 beats per second. Now you're wondering how I found this out. Well, it's simple, really. I took the 3 species of birds with closest body masses, and then the 3 species of birds with similar wingspan. By closely observing their flight, I was able to discern their frequency of wing flaps. Averaging all 6 values, it became glaringly apparent that the European Swallow, unladen, beats exactly 15 times a second.

Ok, so now we have frequency. What about amplitude? This was arguably the most difficult part of the process. All flying animals have a particular flight pattern. Observing an average European Swallow in flight, I was able to draw detailed diagrams. It seemed there were two extremes: a very efficient flight pattern and a very inefficient one.

Here is the efficient one. As you can see, the Strouhal Number in this flight pattern is a mere 0.2:

http://i.imgur.com/1FcG2KY.gif

Here is the ineffient one. As you can see, the Strouhal Number in this flight pattern is 0.4, which is double the first one!

http://i.imgur.com/1pufHPu.gif

After much thought, I determined the best way to get an accurate and precise amplitude of flight, I had to average the two Strouhal Numbers. Using several calculators, I found that 0.3 is the average Strouhal Number.

Finally, now that we have found the Strouhal Number, we can proceed to calculating airspeed. Using the simple forumula: (beats/s)*(meters/beat)=airspeed, I multiplied 15 beats per second * 0.73 meters per beat to get 11 meters/second.

This equates to 24 mph.

Any further questions, Snarg?

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Sorry, I don't have a question, finding loot isn't an issue for me. But I couldn't let this pass. The original question had me laughing out loud, and the reply is just pure class. Love it.

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Originally Posted by TheShadow23

Any further questions, Snarg?

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That reply was full of awesome. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by TheShadow23

That's if you're using BAM to hit storages. When I use BAM, my reason for using it is for a faster army, not to hit storages. So what I do is use minions as archers that don't get hit by mortars or cannons. If there's a building only protected by a cannon, for example, just drop a minion and it's yours.

So to recap: two reasons/ways to use BAM:
1. To get more firepower than barch and be able to get storages easier. What you said is correct; barch to clear and send the minions to go in over the walls and get storages. Raged minions are deadly to storages.
2. To get a faster training time, so it feels like boosted barch. Just use BAM to get collectors like you would with barch. That's what I do; I haven't done a storage raid in months.

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Sweet! Thanks for the reply :)

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Originally Posted by Argat

Sweet! Thanks for the reply :)

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Anytime. Best of luck!

Do you think Gold 1 is best for a near maxed TH8? Trying to farm the last bit of walls.

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Originally Posted by MstaKilla

Do you think Gold 1 is best for a near maxed TH8? Trying to farm the last bit of walls.

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Gold 1 should be fine, but Gold 2 is probably going to be a bit better. Anywhere in gold is amazing for TH8 right now though. Good luck with your walls!

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Originally Posted by MyNameIsMax

I am a TH 9 and I farm at 1800 cups. Is there a better division to find loot for TH 9?

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Go to the gold league as there is the boost collecters/mines for one gem event, and there are some not-so-active players there, so easy barch loot of above 200,000 each gold and elixir about every 15-20 minutes.

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Do you think Gold 1 is best for a near maxed TH8? Trying to farm the last bit of walls.

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Gold I and gold II are both great places for a town hall 8.

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Originally Posted by BluBest

How do i beat a th11, with lvl 5 troops?

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Snipe his town hall good.

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Originally Posted by Snarg

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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About 25 miles per hour. Are you trying to get a mutant balloon swallow in clash of clans?

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Originally Posted by Frosticewolf

About 25 miles per hour. Are you trying to get a mutant balloon swallow in clash of clans?

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I already answered that one...correctly. Scroll up to Post #23

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Originally Posted by TheShadow23

I already answered that one...correctly. Scroll up to Post #23

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That just made me see you in a whole new light. Are you a mad bird scientist?

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Originally Posted by Frosticewolf

That just made me see you in a whole new light. Are you a mad bird scientist?

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I don't know about mad :)

After the increase to barch, are you having a harder time farming elixir and de at the same time? I'm having to use elixir troops to farm de and a more de heavy army to farm elixir successfully.

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Originally Posted by Kenchafer

After the increase to barch, are you having a harder time farming elixir and de at the same time? I'm having to use elixir troops to farm de and a more de heavy army to farm elixir successfully.

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No, it shouldn't be any harder, except for the obvious fact that your army now costs a bit more than it did. Just continue using barch and it shouldn't be a problem. Keep doing quick raids with little time between each raid, and you should be able to farm both E and DE effectively at the same time.

Okay, school season starts soon so alot of people wont be able to boost for 4 hours straight

How would you reccomend Dark elixir farming? (DE would be a priority, while defenses are not much)

Right now i see 3 options:
master 3 loonian
master 3 barch
master 3 th snipe

what would you reccomend? or what else that i have not mentioned

Oh btw, i am a th9, about 1/4 way there with 20 skulls 180 legos and 25 lavas

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Originally Posted by Boomdasbeach

Okay, school season starts soon so alot of people wont be able to boost for 4 hours straight

How would you reccomend Dark elixir farming? (DE would be a priority, while defenses are not much)

Right now i see 3 options:
master 3 loonian
master 3 barch
master 3 th snipe

what would you reccomend? or what else that i have not mentioned

Oh btw, i am a th9, about 1/4 way there with 20 skulls 180 legos and 25 lavas

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All three methods you've listed are valid DE farming strategies. But I have recently been informed that Gold/Crystal is the best. If you do have your queen available for use, farm in Gold 1 to Crystal 3. However, if you do not have your queen to use, go a little lower, to the Gold 2 to Gold 1 range.

As for army, barch and BAM are best because you want to be able to raid as many times as possible. If you want to pack a more powerful punch, go ahead and add a couple giants and wallbreakers to your army, but keep in mind it'll slow down your army training.

Make sure you're raiding at the right time too. Generally, these are the best times:

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00)
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00)
3:00 AM - 5:00 AM (GMT -5:00) *BEST*

Avoid farming from 7AM - 1PM EST. It is not a very good time at all for collector raids, but you'll probably be at school during the morning anyway, so hopefully that won't be a problem.

See you around and good luck!

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Originally Posted by Kenchafer

After the increase to barch, are you having a harder time farming elixir and de at the same time? I'm having to use elixir troops to farm de and a more de heavy army to farm elixir successfully.

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Bam-ing bases should be effective. Using little elixir and dark elixir each, you can quickly demolish sides of a base or completely destroy a whole side of the same base. For more information about bam-ing if you need it, then just private message me. Hope this helped.

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Originally Posted by Boomdasbeach

Okay, school season starts soon so alot of people wont be able to boost for 4 hours straight

How would you reccomend Dark elixir farming? (DE would be a priority, while defenses are not much)

Right now i see 3 options:
master 3 loonian
master 3 barch
master 3 th snipe

what would you reccomend? or what else that i have not mentioned

Oh btw, i am a th9, about 1/4 way there with 20 skulls 180 legos and 25 lavas

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I wouldn't farm in masters. I would farm in gold II through crystal III, depending on what you want. I would Bam, Gibarch, or Barch. If you think I didn't explain well enough, please private message me.

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Originally Posted by Frosticewolf

I wouldn't farm in masters. I would farm in gold II through crystal III, depending on what you want. I would Bam, Gibarch, or Barch. If you think I didn't explain well enough, please private message me.

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Way to summarize what I said :D

I don't have any CofC farming questions but I just have to say that answer about the swallow speed is pure gold. Top 3 best ever posts I have seen in internet forums...ever

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I don't have any CofC farming questions but I just have to say that answer about the swallow speed is pure gold. Top 3 best ever posts I have seen in internet forums...ever

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Haha thanks! If you ever do have a farming question, you know where to go :)

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I don't have any CofC farming questions but I just have to say that answer about the swallow speed is pure gold. Top 3 best ever posts I have seen in internet forums...ever

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Top 3? What are the other 2?

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Way to summarize what I said :D

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Oh I didn't know you answered that question.....

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Oh I didn't know you answered that question.....

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No problem haha we had pretty much the same answer, so we can't be wrong!

Th9, (newer). Currently see-sawing between 1500-1750. 220 troop space. 30 space cc--rarely use for normal raiding. Giants will be lv6 in 2.5 days. Archers lv6. Healers maxed (it was what I could afford at the time). The rest are still th8 max, including dark troops. BK 10, AQ going to 5 (22 hrs and counting down, lol). DE is low because of AQ, and Elix is almost maxed due to boost (yeehaw) so balloons will go up before another dark troop. Rage spell maxed, heal and lightning at 5. New jump, level 1 poison and eq.

At at the moment I check in game off and on most days, with some periods of hours long play (and chat) here and there during the day, especially in wars. Long story. But I play a lot. And talk a lot... a clanmate friend who plays about as much as me attacks twice as often, lol. But that's what I like to do.

While gem boost is on, I am going full attacks with hogs and the odd practice gowipe.

My "cheap" raiding army is: 6 giants, 6 wb if needed, 44 archers, rest evenly divided between barbs and gobs. I look for collector raids and use giants, one or two here and there to distract, place barbs, then archers, then gobs in I guess what some call a "surgical" fashion, at each collector.

Usually works, but sometimes get tired of nexting, wastes time and gold.

Is is there a happy medium between basically surrounding a base's collectors with a dressed-up gobarch, and a full-on war/trophy attack to get to storages/etc. Esp. When facing central heroes and xbows?

Any tips for troop loadouts, easy base layouts to look for to get to storages or walled mines/collectors? I never did learn a solid giant/healer/archer or wizard strategy in th6-7. I've seen it a million times but it doesn't transfer from my eyes to my hands. . And most of my th10 clanmates are in silver 1-2. I kind of like gold, for some reason, but Idk. When I get to 1500 I start doing war attacks and/or snipes to go back up. When I get too high, I look for collector raids to "lose".

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Th9, (newer). Currently see-sawing between 1500-1750. 220 troop space. 30 space cc--rarely use for normal raiding. Giants will be lv6 in 2.5 days. Archers lv6. Healers maxed (it was what I could afford at the time). The rest are still th8 max, including dark troops. BK 10, AQ going to 5 (22 hrs and counting down, lol). DE is low because of AQ, and Elix is almost maxed due to boost (yeehaw) so balloons will go up before another dark troop. Rage spell maxed, heal and lightning at 5. New jump, level 1 poison and eq.

At at the moment I check in game off and on most days, with some periods of hours long play (and chat) here and there during the day, especially in wars. Long story. But I play a lot. And talk a lot... a clanmate friend who plays about as much as me attacks twice as often, lol. But that's what I like to do.

While gem boost is on, I am going full attacks with hogs and the odd practice gowipe.

My "cheap" raiding army is: 6 giants, 6 wb if needed, 44 archers, rest evenly divided between barbs and gobs. I look for collector raids and use giants, one or two here and there to distract, place barbs, then archers, then gobs in I guess what some call a "surgical" fashion, at each collector.

Usually works, but sometimes get tired of nexting, wastes time and gold.

Is is there a happy medium between basically surrounding a base's collectors with a dressed-up gobarch, and a full-on war/trophy attack to get to storages/etc. Esp. When facing central heroes and xbows?

Any tips for troop loadouts, easy base layouts to look for to get to storages or walled mines/collectors? I never did learn a solid giant/healer/archer or wizard strategy in th6-7. I've seen it a million times but it doesn't transfer from my eyes to my hands. . And most of my th10 clanmates are in silver 1-2. I kind of like gold, for some reason, but Idk. When I get to 1500 I start doing war attacks and/or snipes to go back up. When I get too high, I look for collector raids to "lose".

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If you want the fastest income of Gold and Elixir, just Barch or BAM collectors in the Gold 2 - Gold 1 range. So instead of 1500-1750, 1600-1900 works really well. That being said, your current range is fine if you're finding good collector raids. Using a big army like full hogs and gowipe that takes forever won't let you get all the Gold and Elixir you could get with barch because you can't attack often. I've just been barching (boosted) and farming 20+ legos a day easily with the collector boosts.

If you want more DE, the go a little higher to Gold 1 - Crystal 3. Gold 1 if you don't have your queen, and Crystal 3 if you do have your queen. A good idea is to get the Crystal League badge at 2000 trophies, then drop and farm in the 1900s to get the best of both worlds (easier-to-crack bases in 1900s and the Crystal DE Loot Bonus).

To get to storages, however, GiBarch is great. It can be used for collectors (whereas you can't attack a collector base with GoWiPe), and it can penetrate deep into bases with centralized royals and high-level xbows if you are skilled enough. But to do this, Giants to Lv6 and barch to lv6 is a necessity. You giants just don't survive at lv5. Another good army for this is "Super-Queen". You use all minions and archers to take out ADs and ATs and anything else that affect air troops. You then put down your queen, and 3-4 healers on it and watch it take all of the resources.

My recommendation is collector raids. Got to go now, good luck!

Town Hall Level:8

Current Trophy Count:around 1000

Current Army Composition:BARCH

Army Camp Space:200

How many hours to you play a day on average?half hour

Do you raid in 2-hour sessions or just come on when your army is ready? If other, tell me what it is you do:Just do 2 raids per day

If you raid in sessions, do you boost? If so, how many barracks:no boost

Availability of Heroes:bk

Your question, along with any additional information you would like to provide:What will be the best farming range for me bcoz I am a early th8

I'm a th9. Close to max. I have 40 skull walls left, all the rest spikes. BK is 15, AQ is 11. One more air sweeper upgrade, some dark spell upgrades and lava hounds to 2. Everything else is maxed. I have 2470 trophies and I have been farming crystal 1 for some time. I use 1 healer, 4 wall breakers, 8 giants and the rest is barch (no spells). I try to run every 45 minutes, because it takes that long for the heroes to reset. I have found the farming REALLY hard ever since that last upgrade a few months ago. I miss the days of sitting in silver 2 looking for fat th7s to plunder. Now I mostly see th10's. I rarely see th8s, though th10s find me just fine I've noticed.

My question is: Should I take my walls to lava before I go to th10? That's 750 million and that is a lot. The spike walls have taken a long time. It would give me time to get my King and Queen higher. I'm afraid the farming at th10 is going to be worse than 9. Your thoughts?

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If you want the fastest income of Gold and Elixir, just Barch or BAM collectors in the Gold 2 - Gold 1 range. So instead of 1500-1750, 1600-1900 works really well. That being said, your current range is fine if you're finding good collector raids. Using a big army like full hogs and gowipe that takes forever won't let you get all the Gold and Elixir you could get with barch because you can't attack often. I've just been barching (boosted) and farming 20+ legos a day easily with the collector boosts.

If you want more DE, the go a little higher to Gold 1 - Crystal 3. Gold 1 if you don't have your queen, and Crystal 3 if you do have your queen. A good idea is to get the Crystal League badge at 2000 trophies, then drop and farm in the 1900s to get the best of both worlds (easier-to-crack bases in 1900s and the Crystal DE Loot Bonus).

To get to storages, however, GiBarch is great. It can be used for collectors (whereas you can't attack a collector base with GoWiPe), and it can penetrate deep into bases with centralized royals and high-level xbows if you are skilled enough. But to do this, Giants to Lv6 and barch to lv6 is a necessity. You giants just don't survive at lv5. Another good army for this is "Super-Queen". You use all minions and archers to take out ADs and ATs and anything else that affect air troops. You then put down your queen, and 3-4 healers on it and watch it take all of the resources.

My recommendation is collector raids. Got to go now, good luck!

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Thanks for all the suggestions, I appreciate the time and thought put into the reply. I will certainly give them a shot when giants are done. One barracks boost a day is about all I can handle, lol. Not sure how you guys do it. Yeah, gowipe and such are just for war practice when I already have all the elix I can use and no builders, like now. :-)

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Originally Posted by shubham42

Town Hall Level:8

Current Trophy Count:around 1000

Current Army Composition:BARCH

Army Camp Space:200

How many hours to you play a day on average?half hour

Do you raid in 2-hour sessions or just come on when your army is ready? If other, tell me what it is you do:Just do 2 raids per day

If you raid in sessions, do you boost? If so, how many barracks:no boost

Availability of Heroes:bk

Your question, along with any additional information you would like to provide:What will be the best farming range for me bcoz I am a early th8

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I suggest Gold III through Crystal I. The exact one I would say is Gold II. Gold II has many loot opportunities if you barch, gibarch, or bam. I think barch and bam would be the most helpful in Gold II. I would suggest farming as an early town hall 8, but if you don't like farming, at least do 1 farming attack out of 3 attacks. Hope this helped.

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Originally Posted by MorgueRat

I'm a th9. Close to max. I have 40 skull walls left, all the rest spikes. BK is 15, AQ is 11. One more air sweeper upgrade, some dark spell upgrades and lava hounds to 2. Everything else is maxed. I have 2470 trophies and I have been farming crystal 1 for some time. I use 1 healer, 4 wall breakers, 8 giants and the rest is barch (no spells). I try to run every 45 minutes, because it takes that long for the heroes to reset. I have found the farming REALLY hard ever since that last upgrade a few months ago. I miss the days of sitting in silver 2 looking for fat th7s to plunder. Now I mostly see th10's. I rarely see th8s, though th10s find me just fine I've noticed.

My question is: Should I take my walls to lava before I go to th10? That's 750 million and that is a lot. The spike walls have taken a long time. It would give me time to get my King and Queen higher. I'm afraid the farming at th10 is going to be worse than 9. Your thoughts?

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If you think farming in Crystal is too hard, move down to Gold II or Gold I. I would upgrade your town hall about a month later. I do not believe you need to max walls, but you need to max most of them. So just do whatever you can in a month, then upgrade your town hall.

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Originally Posted by Frosticewolf

If you think farming in Crystal is too hard, move down to Gold II or Gold I. I would upgrade your town hall about a month later. I do not believe you need to max walls, but you need to max most of them. So just do whatever you can in a month, then upgrade your town hall.

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I tried moving down all the way to Silver 3. I was getting KILLED by th10s. My son in law did the same thing with the same results. It was worse than the Crystal League. Ever since they changed the match making the farming has been terrible and it doesn't seem to matter what league your in. They seem to always pit you against bases way out of your league or bases that don't have anything worth taking. At least in Crystal 1 the win bonus is enough to make up for it. I'm worried that when I get to th10 it's going to take so long to get up to speed with upgraded troops. Holding out for th8s to farm will be less effective with the penalty.

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Originally Posted by MorgueRat

I tried moving down all the way to Silver 3. I was getting KILLED by th10s. My son in law did the same thing with the same results. It was worse than the Crystal League. Ever since they changed the match making the farming has been terrible and it doesn't seem to matter what league your in. They seem to always pit you against bases way out of your league or bases that don't have anything worth taking. At least in Crystal 1 the win bonus is enough to make up for it. I'm worried that when I get to th10 it's going to take so long to get up to speed with upgraded troops. Holding out for th8s to farm will be less effective with the penalty.

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Im in Gold II right now, and I see no town hall 10's and very few town hall 9's.

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Originally Posted by MorgueRat

I'm a th9. Close to max. I have 40 skull walls left, all the rest spikes. BK is 15, AQ is 11. One more air sweeper upgrade, some dark spell upgrades and lava hounds to 2. Everything else is maxed. I have 2470 trophies and I have been farming crystal 1 for some time. I use 1 healer, 4 wall breakers, 8 giants and the rest is barch (no spells). I try to run every 45 minutes, because it takes that long for the heroes to reset. I have found the farming REALLY hard ever since that last upgrade a few months ago. I miss the days of sitting in silver 2 looking for fat th7s to plunder. Now I mostly see th10's. I rarely see th8s, though th10s find me just fine I've noticed.

My question is: Should I take my walls to lava before I go to th10? That's 750 million and that is a lot. The spike walls have taken a long time. It would give me time to get my King and Queen higher. I'm afraid the farming at th10 is going to be worse than 9. Your thoughts?

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STAY AT TH9. Get your heroes up to at least 20/20, preferably 30/30. Also, if possible finish your lavas. Gold 2 and Gold 1 and Crystal 3 is best for all three resources. The lower you go in that range, more G/E you get, sacrificing DE. So higher (ie. Crystal 3 or high Gold 1) will give more DE, sacrificing some G/E.

My information...

Current Town Hall Level:
9

Current Trophy Count:
1500-1800

Army Camp Space:
220

Army Composition:
GiBarch
12 Level 5 Giants
80 Level 6 Barbarians
80 Level 6 Archers

Spells:
2 Level 6 Heal Spells
1 Level 5 Rage Spell
1 Level 2 Jump Spell
1 Level 1 Poison Spell

How do I play?:
I play about 2 hours each day in a session.

Boosting?:
I only boost once in awhile however I may boost my spell factory often during my sessions if necessary.

Heroes: I have my heroes available most of time.

I'm a quite a good but casual farmer my self...anyways...

My Question:
I currently have 250/250 skulls,Soon I'm going to start grinding Legos , I just want to know HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE ME TO FARM ALL MY LEGOS?, by using the data I listed above like how long I play and what trophy range I'm in to answer this question. Also with the same data can you determine how long will it take me to farm all my lavas after my Legos are finished.

Just for reference

How long... I'm meaning how many DAYS
Skulls...Level 8 Walls
Legos...Level 9 Walls
Lavas...Level 10 Walls.

Thank You for taking the time to read this, I hope I can get an answer soon 😀.

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Originally Posted by KAD7

My information...

Current Town Hall Level:
9

Current Trophy Count:
1500-1800

Army Camp Space:
220

Army Composition:
GiBarch
12 Level 5 Giants
80 Level 6 Barbarians
80 Level 6 Archers

Spells:
2 Level 6 Heal Spells
1 Level 5 Rage Spell
1 Level 2 Jump Spell
1 Level 1 Poison Spell

How do I play?:
I play about 2 hours each day in a session.

Boosting?:
I only boost once in awhile however I may boost my spell factory often during my sessions if necessary.

Heroes: I have my heroes available most of time.

I'm a quite a good but casual farmer my self...anyways...

My Question:
I currently have 250/250 skulls,Soon I'm going to start grinding Legos , I just want to know HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE ME TO FARM ALL MY LEGOS?, by using the data I listed above like how long I play and what trophy range I'm in to answer this question. Also with the same data can you determine how long will it take me to farm all my lavas after my Legos are finished.

Just for reference

How long... I'm meaning how many DAYS
Skulls...Level 8 Walls
Legos...Level 9 Walls
Lavas...Level 10 Walls.

Thank You for taking the time to read this, I hope I can get an answer soon ��.

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If you farm 2 hours a day and get 1 million an hour, I'm pretty sure it would take you 125 days. As extra information that you might not need, I suggest farming in gold III through crystal III. The extract league I would say is gold II. in gold II, you can easily get 1 million in an hour. As for the lava question, I am not sure......only one way to find out!

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Originally Posted by KAD7

My information...

Current Town Hall Level:
9

Current Trophy Count:
1500-1800

Army Camp Space:
220

Army Composition:
GiBarch
12 Level 5 Giants
80 Level 6 Barbarians
80 Level 6 Archers

Spells:
2 Level 6 Heal Spells
1 Level 5 Rage Spell
1 Level 2 Jump Spell
1 Level 1 Poison Spell

How do I play?:
I play about 2 hours each day in a session.

Boosting?:
I only boost once in awhile however I may boost my spell factory often during my sessions if necessary.

Heroes: I have my heroes available most of time.

I'm a quite a good but casual farmer my self...anyways...

My Question:
I currently have 250/250 skulls,Soon I'm going to start grinding Legos , I just want to know HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE ME TO FARM ALL MY LEGOS?, by using the data I listed above like how long I play and what trophy range I'm in to answer this question. Also with the same data can you determine how long will it take me to farm all my lavas after my Legos are finished.

Just for reference

How long... I'm meaning how many DAYS
Skulls...Level 8 Walls
Legos...Level 9 Walls
Lavas...Level 10 Walls.

Thank You for taking the time to read this, I hope I can get an answer soon 😀.

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OK, assuming you boost 2 barracks every time you do your 2-hour sessions, and you have one of those a day, and you raid 4 million of each in each raiding session (let's say 6 walls upgraded, factoring in your army costs and stuff), it will take about a month and 11 days. 2-4 million of each raided in an hour is pretty easy, and you should be getting at least that in your boosting sessions, if boosting at the right time in the right place with the right army. Here's what I recommend:

Army Camp: Use BAM with 2+ boosted barracks:

1st Barrack (Boosted): Always fill with barbarians.
2nd Barrack (Boosted): Always fill with archers.
3rd Barrack (NOT Boosted): Always fill with barbarians.
4th Barrack (NOT Boosted): Always fill with archers.
1st Dark Barrack (NOT Boosted): Always fill with minions.
2nd Dark Barrack (NOT Boosted): Always fill with minions.

Go ahead and boost your 3rd and 4th barrack too for an even faster army, but keep in mind that it'll burn your gems twice as fast. If you don't want to boost, fine, but you won't be getting the same results. Use the same army but just don't boost if you need to conserve gems.


Trophy Range: Farm in the Gold 2 to Gold 1 range. Try to keep your barbs in front of your AQ. You want to be able to use her almost every raid. Only kill her if you're going to get a ton of resources in exchange.


When to raid (VERY IMPORTANT): Raid at the following times:

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00)
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00)
3:00 AM - 5:00 AM (GMT -5:00) *BEST*

If at all possible, raid at the last one that says *BEST*. The loot at that time is absolutely insane, and you can even make 10 million gold in a boosting session if lucky.

Do NOT time your raiding session at 7:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00). Loot at this that time is horrible. Especially since you only have one session per day, you can't afford to raid at a bad time.



So I told you at 6 walls per day, it'll take you about 40 days. If you do boost a lot and raid at the right times of day and use BAM, you'll see more that 6 walls per day getting done guaranteed.

As for lavas, 3 times as long as legos took. Maybe more because you have to have 3 million to upgrade a wall, so you may logoff with 2.5 million and get some taken from you.

All in all, since you only raid 2 hours a day, I can't stress how important it is to boost if you want a lot of walls done quickly.

Town Hall Level:
8

Current Trophy Count:
1200-1300

Current Army Composition:
Barch (lv5 Barbs, lv4 Archs)

Army Camp Space:
200

How many hours to you play a day on average?
One or two hours a day

Do you raid in 2-hour sessions or just come on when your army is ready? If other, tell me what it is you do:
I farm in one or two hours session never logging out

If you raid in sessions, do you boost? If so, how many barracks:
I never boosted any barracks, but since since i recently put down the 5th builder i'll sporadically do it after farming troops (Giants and BAM) will be maxed for th8

Availability of Heroes:
BK lv5

Your question, along with any additional information you would like to provide:
What i would like to know is which league is best for a newbie th8. Actually, in Silver I i'm doing really well with just collectors raids and th sniping (i'm able to find abandoned bases for 350k - 500k each twice in a hour, the rest being 150k - 200k each raids).
I'm quite thirsty of DE though, cause i still have to upgrade my hogs and minions.

I live in GMT +01:00, so according to you, would 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM be the best time for me?

thanks

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Originally Posted by Genbu

Town Hall Level:
8

Current Trophy Count:
1200-1300

Current Army Composition:
Barch (lv5 Barbs, lv4 Archs)

Army Camp Space:
200

How many hours to you play a day on average?
One or two hours a day

Do you raid in 2-hour sessions or just come on when your army is ready? If other, tell me what it is you do:
I farm in one or two hours session never logging out

If you raid in sessions, do you boost? If so, how many barracks:
I never boosted any barracks, but since since i recently put down the 5th builder i'll sporadically do it after farming troops (Giants and BAM) will be maxed for th8

Availability of Heroes:
BK lv5

Your question, along with any additional information you would like to provide:
What i would like to know is which league is best for a newbie th8. Actually, in Silver I i'm doing really well with just collectors raids and th sniping (i'm able to find abandoned bases for 350k - 500k each twice in a hour, the rest being 150k - 200k each raids).
I'm quite thirsty of DE though, cause i still have to upgrade my hogs and minions.

I live in GMT +01:00, so according to you, would 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM be the best time for me?

thanks

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First of all, get your Archers up ASAP. They get drastically better at lv5. Also, get your BK to lv10. Then you won't have to worry about upgrading him for the rest of TH8, and he gets a lot better at lv10 (at least it feels like it, which is good).

League: You're getting good G/E currently, but since you said you want some DE too, so I recommend Gold 3 to Gold 2. You'll still get around the same G/E, or maybe even more up there. Keep going for collector raids like you are now. You might not see as many 500k each raids, but you'll get stable 200k+ each raids often, with a good deal more DE than you can get in Silver.

Army: BAM. Run two barracks barbarians, two barracks archers, and 2 dark barracks minions. Always keep them full (especially right before you go to a raid and right after you come back. Your troops start training when you are looking for a match and when you're in a battle, even if you have full camps. So do NOT come back to your village until you have found your base and have attacked. This saves a lot of time). If you boost, if you don't regularly by gems, boost 2 barracks (one barbarian barrack and one archer barrack). If you regularly by gems, boost all four elixir barracks. You'll get more resources at the cost of using twice the gems. Also, when boosting, carry a couple wallbreakers with you. They really help but take too long when not boosting, so not worth it when unboosted.

BAM is better than Barch because it trains faster. It uses very little DE, and you'll more than make up for that by raiding quicker than you would with any other effective army. Also, minions are great to use when cannons and mortars are the only defenses in range of a collector; they can't touch minions!

Time: Absolutely correct. Raid from 9-11AM and you'll make tons of loot from dead bases.

Good luck!

I bet you can't see this! If you can, you're a genius :)

Town Hall Level:
TH8

Current Trophy Count:
1500 range

Current Army Composition:
Barch
BAM

Army Camp Space:
200

How many hours to you play a day on average?
4+ hours (scattered within the day, breaks in between)

Do you raid in 2-hour sessions or just come on when your army is ready? If other, tell me what it is you do:
Yes 2 main sessions per day during weekdays (small raiding during lunch or break time), no sessions on weekends, I can play anytime, if I do not have any itineraries or other things to do, I mostly fit my playing to my schedule and activities

If you raid in sessions, do you boost? If so, how many barracks:
No

Availability of Heroes:
Level 10 King

Your question, along with any additional information you would like to provide:
How do these other guys find all those great loot? How many nexts did they do? I can only find 500k for each reasource (either in collectors or in storages) but of course they are very very rare...more commonly is those rushed bases without any loot or just bases without loot

Is it true that there are certain time of day that loot is great are loot is bad?

What army comp do you suggest other than Barch/BAM that can cook just as fast, without boosting? I want to raid more frequently

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Originally Posted by MysteriousR

Town Hall Level:
TH8

Current Trophy Count:
1500 range

Current Army Composition:
Barch
BAM

Army Camp Space:
200

How many hours to you play a day on average?
4+ hours (scattered within the day, breaks in between)

Do you raid in 2-hour sessions or just come on when your army is ready? If other, tell me what it is you do:
Yes 2 main sessions per day during weekdays (small raiding during lunch or break time), no sessions on weekends, I can play anytime, if I do not have any itineraries or other things to do, I mostly fit my playing to my schedule and activities

If you raid in sessions, do you boost? If so, how many barracks:
No

Availability of Heroes:
Level 10 King

Your question, along with any additional information you would like to provide:
How do these other guys find all those great loot? How many nexts did they do? I can only find 500k for each reasource (either in collectors or in storages) but of course they are very very rare...more commonly is those rushed bases without any loot or just bases without loot

Is it true that there are certain time of day that loot is great are loot is bad?

What army comp do you suggest other than Barch/BAM that can cook just as fast, without boosting? I want to raid more frequently

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Trophies/League: Anywhere in Silver and Gold should be fine for your playing style. The best IMO would be Gold 2 and Gold 3.

Army: BAM is the best for you. There's nothing effective that trains faster than BAM (the one army that trains faster, barbarian minion, doesn't work at all). More than anything, you need to be raiding very often. Keep in mind that boosting will get you a lot more resources. If you decide to boost, boost a barbarian barrack and an archer barrack, or boost all four elixir barracks. Boosting your dark barracks is unnecessary.

On to your main questions. The key to getting good loot is patience when nexting. Sometimes, you're gonna get great loot in less than 5 nexts. If that's happening frequently, great! You're very lucky and getting great loot. However, in reality, you have to be prepared to next a lot. A week or two ago, I recorded number of nexts for 107 raids. My average was somewhere around 29 nexts. Some raids were found on the first village that came up. Others took 100+ (though that was rare). I even got one after 130 nexts. In general, if you're nexting too much to find every raid, you need to change your trophy range slightly, by maybe 100-200 trophies. After some practice doing this, it becomes natural and you'll get pretty good at judging the loot situation and deciding what to do.

When looking for a raid, when I was at TH8, and also right now at TH9, I only attack bases that have 200k+ Gold and 200k+ elixir that I can get. If a village has 500k of each but you can't get to it, no point in raiding. For this, you need to be able to tell where the loot is--collectors or storages. It's fairly easy to tell: just look at either the village's elixir collectors. If it looks half full or more, there's a good deal in them. If they're completely full, you've hit a jackpot! I usually only go for "collector raids", where all or most of the loot is in collectors. Storage raids take more deployment skill, and I don't claim to be a pro at that :). Like before, you will get good at telling where the loot is and deciding whether to attack or not as you practice and get more experience.

Time of day is one of the most important things to pay attention to when farming. It's almost as important as your army and trophy range. Here are the best times to farm:

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00)
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00)
3:00 AM - 5:00 AM (GMT -5:00) *BEST*

Those are the best times (the last one is the bestest :D), but that's not to say you won't find loot at other times. The only time you should specifically try not to raid at or have a raiding session during is 7:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00). Since you said you can raid anytime, try the 3AM-5AM (GMT -5:00) and you'll get great loot.

Good luck, and as I've said multiple times throughout this post, you'll get better as you go along. It'll be a grind at first, trying to figure everything out, but a month from now, you'll be a pro and you can help me out on this thread :)

Town Hall level: 10

Current Trophy Count: 1800

Current Army Composition: barch, BAM, GiBAM

Army Camp Space: 225

How many hours to you play a day on average?
just come on when my army is ready.

Availability of Heroes: all 2 avaible my heroes are both lvl 10.

I am a fresh th 10, barch and Giants 6.

This is my farm plan, pls say some tips:

Trophy range: cristal2- masters3.

From 4 pm to 7 pm i can attack every time my BAM is ready, with BAM i search for dead bases. when i need dark, i attack at least 1500 DE with GiBarch. Before i gone sleep i train loonion for break in storage bases.

I take every possible th snipe. Is this a good plan?

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Originally Posted by Slayer213

Town Hall level: 10

Current Trophy Count: 1800

Current Army Composition: barch, BAM, GiBAM

Army Camp Space: 225

How many hours to you play a day on average?
just come on when my army is ready.

Availability of Heroes: all 2 avaible my heroes are both lvl 10.

I am a fresh th 10, barch and Giants 6.

This is my farm plan, pls say some tips:

Trophy range: cristal2- masters3.

From 4 pm to 7 pm i can attack every time my BAM is ready, with BAM i search for dead bases. when i need dark, i attack at least 1500 DE with GiBarch. Before i gone sleep i train loonion for break in storage bases.

I take every possible th snipe. Is this a good plan?

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This is the best time to raid:


3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00)
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00)
3:00 AM - 5:00 AM (GMT -5:00) *BEST*


I don't know your time zone, so I can't convert but make sure you don't attack at 7:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00).

Good luck and farm on :)

Town Hall Level:
9

Current Trophy Count:
Gold I (1760-1800), hanging out there for 3-4 weeks for wall farming.

Current Army Composition:
82 Barbarians.
66 Arhcers.
36 Minions.

Army Camp Space:
220.

How many hours to you play a day on average?
7-8 hours on holiday, 3-4 hours on work day.

Do you raid in 2-hour sessions or just come on when your army is ready?:
In session, no leaving.

If you raid in sessions, do you boost? If so, how many barracks:
Don't boost normally but when I see a lot of loot I boost 2 normal barrack (barbarians and archers)

Availability of Heroes:
Archer Queen lvl5

Your question, along with any additional information you would like to provide:
Can't find good loot anymore, one week ago I farmed 30 legos per day but this week it's hard to reach even 20.
I am at GMT +6.00

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Originally Posted by TheShadow23

Trophies/League: Anywhere in Silver and Gold should be fine for your playing style. The best IMO would be Gold 2 and Gold 3.

Army: BAM is the best for you. There's nothing effective that trains faster than BAM (the one army that trains faster, barbarian minion, doesn't work at all). More than anything, you need to be raiding very often. Keep in mind that boosting will get you a lot more resources. If you decide to boost, boost a barbarian barrack and an archer barrack, or boost all four elixir barracks. Boosting your dark barracks is unnecessary.

On to your main questions. The key to getting good loot is patience when nexting. Sometimes, you're gonna get great loot in less than 5 nexts. If that's happening frequently, great! You're very lucky and getting great loot. However, in reality, you have to be prepared to next a lot. A week or two ago, I recorded number of nexts for 107 raids. My average was somewhere around 29 nexts. Some raids were found on the first village that came up. Others took 100+ (though that was rare). I even got one after 130 nexts. In general, if you're nexting too much to find every raid, you need to change your trophy range slightly, by maybe 100-200 trophies. After some practice doing this, it becomes natural and you'll get pretty good at judging the loot situation and deciding what to do.

When looking for a raid, when I was at TH8, and also right now at TH9, I only attack bases that have 200k+ Gold and 200k+ elixir that I can get. If a village has 500k of each but you can't get to it, no point in raiding. For this, you need to be able to tell where the loot is--collectors or storages. It's fairly easy to tell: just look at either the village's elixir collectors. If it looks half full or more, there's a good deal in them. If they're completely full, you've hit a jackpot! I usually only go for "collector raids", where all or most of the loot is in collectors. Storage raids take more deployment skill, and I don't claim to be a pro at that :). Like before, you will get good at telling where the loot is and deciding whether to attack or not as you practice and get more experience.

Time of day is one of the most important things to pay attention to when farming. It's almost as important as your army and trophy range. Here are the best times to farm:

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00)
8:00 PM - 11:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00)
3:00 AM - 5:00 AM (GMT -5:00) *BEST*

Those are the best times (the last one is the bestest :D), but that's not to say you won't find loot at other times. The only time you should specifically try not to raid at or have a raiding session during is 7:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST (GMT -5:00). Since you said you can raid anytime, try the 3AM-5AM (GMT -5:00) and you'll get great loot.

Good luck, and as I've said multiple times throughout this post, you'll get better as you go along. It'll be a grind at first, trying to figure everything out, but a month from now, you'll be a pro and you can help me out on this thread :)

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Thanks for answering I also have two follow up Qs:

- At TH8 to TH9, what is the most time efficient (quickest cooking) DE Farming strategies or will get you the most DE per Hour? I may have upgraded my King to level 10 but that is mostly from wars, and I am struggling to level up my Hogs to level 4, Valks to level 2, Golems to level 2. I have seen some people recommend to train 10 Giants, around 8 Wall Breakers, Archers, Barbs, and Goblins....but I don't know

- Have any tips in using GiBarch? I can't seem to make profit with that army as opposed to simple Barch and BAM.
I use, 8 Giants, 0 to 4 wall breakers, rest barch...

Town Hall Level: Lvl 7

Current Trophy Count:947

Current Army Composition: GiBarch

Army Camp Space:195

How many hours to you play a day on average? 4 right now

Do you raid in 2-hour sessions or just come on when your army is ready? If other, tell me what it is you do: Usually when my troops are ready

Availability of Heroes: No heros

Your question, along with any additional information you would like to provide:
I'm at my first week of th7 and I really want to get my Barbarian King. I was wondering if there was a good farming strategy to use for getting dark elixir that takes little time but is effective. Also what trophy range should I be in. Amy input is helpful. Thanks

I find it odd that a townhall 9 with poor farming stats is giving others farming advice. Idk

Town Hall Level:

Current Trophy Count: 2002

Current Army Composition: Balloonion

Army Camp Space: 195

How many hours to you play a day on average? 5

Do you raid in 2-hour sessions or just come on when your army is ready? If other, tell me what it is you do: When army is ready.

If you raid in sessions, do you boost? If so, how many barracks: N/A

Availability of Heroes: BK-lv3

Your question, along with any additional information you would like to provide: I'm currently farming DE for my barb king (works like a charm with balloonion). After this, I want to max my walls (a few lv7 and all others lv6). My question is which league will be the best? I'm considering either Silver 1/Gold 3, Gold 2 or around 1000 trophies.

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Originally Posted by CCRockz

Town Hall Level: Lvl 7

Current Trophy Count:947

Current Army Composition: GiBarch

Army Camp Space:195

How many hours to you play a day on average? 4 right now

Do you raid in 2-hour sessions or just come on when your army is ready? If other, tell me what it is you do: Usually when my troops are ready

Availability of Heroes: No heros

Your question, along with any additional information you would like to provide:
I'm at my first week of th7 and I really want to get my Barbarian King. I was wondering if there was a good farming strategy to use for getting dark elixir that takes little time but is effective. Also what trophy range should I be in. Amy input is helpful. Thanks

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I did it this way:
Stayed around 1000 trophies
Used Barch for collector raids to get BK lv1
Pushed to Crystal League (2000 trophies)
I've been sniping and using balloonion here for a week, and my BK is now lv3, and I need just 3000 more to get him to level 4.

Finally got my Barb King.. Best way to get to Crystal League?

We're you in a clan with HypzZ

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Originally Posted by Bym

We're you in a clan with HypzZ

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No I wasn't

When looking for a match for looting, it seems that I am always matched with the same group of villages - is there a way around that?

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Originally Posted by TheShadow23

This is, so to speak, a remake of this awesome thread I saw. However, that thread died in September 2014, so I decided to make a new one.

Another thread that's the same as this also exists in the Base Design, Tactics, and Strategy forum. I have it in both places so that I can attract a larger audience and help out more people :) That thread is here

This thread is a place to ask your questions about loot and get them answered without creating endless, unnecessary threads everywhere. You'll get your questions answered by experienced farmers who are very familiar with the game. I am by no means an expert or a pro, but I consider myself decently knowledgeable in the area of farming (from experience and from browsing the forum).

If you want help with your loot problems, include the following in your reply:


If you don't include all of that in your reply, I will not be able to answer your question as fully as a question that includes all the above information.

I would also love to have other volunteers who would like to help out and answer questions here. To be a volunteer, you must:

• Have at least 200 posts on the forum
• Have a good knowledge base of farming and raiding
• Have a decent reputation on the Forums
• I may make exceptions to the above

Current List of Volunteers:

• OnyxClan
• Aphrodi
• Lootenant
• Danny11ezko (a.k.a Kaze)
• Eternal625 (a.k.a Ash) (See his DE Farming Guide here!)
• Koof
• ChiefStorm
• Frosticewolf

Thank you very much, volunteers, for helping out!

If you aren't a volunteer, don't hesitate to answer some questions and provide feedback here and there; additional help is always awesome!

Let's keep the thread alive so people can come and get the help they need :)

Happy farming guys!

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Originally Posted by TheShadow23

I guess you guys didn't read the OP. I'll answer your questions anyway.



Gold 2 and Gold 1 are the best. Where you're at, in my experience over the last week, is the best place to farm G/E for TH9. If you need DE, go to masters with a Giant-based or Loonion-based army.



Lavas are Gold and Elixir, and I'm farming 10-20 legos a day in the Gold 2/Gold 1 area. Gold 1 is better I believe. You'll be finding a good amount of collector raids (sometimes it feels like I'm a TH8 again. That's how good it is sometimes :)). If you have a giant-based army that can hit hard, you can take out some rich TH8s for some more loot. Have fun farming those lavas!

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Originally Posted by lnception

I find it odd that a townhall 9 with poor farming stats is giving others farming advice. Idk

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who is it?

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Originally Posted by CCRockz

Finally got my Barb King.. Best way to get to Crystal League?

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Unfortunately the best way (and most boring) is to just snipe exposed townhalls.

Im th9 (but very new). 1600 trophies. Doing a gibarch+gobs strat (14 giants, 4 wbs, 44 arch, 44 barb, 54 gob), 220 total space, about 2-3 hours on and off (school started :mad:). I come back when army is ready, heroes are available when not ug. I would like to know where to hit dead bases but still find some de. I had been in G3 for a long time and found a variance of 400k+ dead bases sometimes and 1300-1900 de at other times. Now that league has dried up. Where do I go?