Mini-Guide for DE Farming - you want super heroes, don't you?

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Originally Posted by UnitySharp

Yes, very valid point. I did not need too much elixir when I started DE farming, and I figured I could get gold while I focus on DE. So currently I am focusing on 200k gold/whatever amount of elixir/1400 de when I attack. This way I can upgrade my heroes and walls at the same time, in order to avoid sleeping builders in TH9.

I want to increase the awareness of importance of DE to farmers because if they don't do this, they will end up with sleeping builders near the end of TH9. So if they want super heroes, do not want to spend the gems, and want to minimize the idleness of their builders, then they can use my guide :)

My clanmate Abrennan321 just got to TH9 2-3 weeks ago and he has been upgrading heroes non-stop, as well as doing all the other upgrades for TH9. So he would be the perfect test for your argument. If he can manage upgrading heroes as fast as possible while doing all the other things in TH9, then my guide would be feasible for the general farmer population. Only time will tell - go check out his base in my clan, you might be impressed with how far he has gotten with heroes considering he just reached TH9 2-3 weeks ago. Abrennan will join this thread soon, and post his journey here as well :)

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I think it's the sign of a good post when one starts thinking more bout the topic ;)
I did some "calculations" and noticed that in a month or so I will have one "free" builder available for continuous king&queen upgrade. So far managed just fine with the DE drills to keep stuff upgrading. Maybe then will do just this as storing dlix for a month is just asking for lightnings all day long :D

I still think DE isn't that important to big chunk of farmers but perhaps some forumer-farmers will pick up some hints here and there :)

So, Kudos ;)

Keep it up. I love the videos.

Very interesting guide, one question. Are minions worth upgrading? What about golems?

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Originally Posted by OJM

I think it's the sign of a good post when one starts thinking more bout the topic ;)
I did some "calculations" and noticed that in a month or so I will have one "free" builder available for continuous king&queen upgrade. So far managed just fine with the DE drills to keep stuff upgrading. Maybe then will do just this as storing dlix for a month is just asking for lightnings all day long :D

I still think DE isn't that important to big chunk of farmers but perhaps some forumer-farmers will pick up some hints here and there :)

So, Kudos ;)

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Thanks. I see that we are both Th 9 and lv 104, haha. Do you plan to max all the walls and heroes before upgrading to TH 10? I plan to upgrade to TH 10 when both of my heroes are lv 29 ;) Because of the jump spell, I don't care about the walls too much now.

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Originally Posted by Flip

Keep it up. I love the videos.

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Thank you, I will continue to bring some fun videos to this thread :)

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Originally Posted by NNADROJ

Very interesting guide, one question. Are minions worth upgrading? What about golems?

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Minions, definitely. Do not upgrade any other dark troops until you have maxed both of your heroes, in my opinion. Because you won't need to use them in farming. Golem is really only needed in Crystal 1 or above, and Valkyries are awesome but cost too much DE. I used to make 2-3 valks per battle and farm in Crystal 2-3, and my DE profit was only about 1500-2000 per hour, mainly due to their cost.

So yes to max the minions, but no need to prioritize them. Always try to upgrade your heroes first, then do the other DE upgrades. These are my suggestions http://forum.supercell.net/images/smilies/wink.png

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Originally Posted by UnitySharp

Thanks. I see that we are both Th 9 and lv 104, haha. Do you plan to max all the walls and heroes before upgrading to TH 10? I plan to upgrade to TH 10 when both of my heroes are lv 29 ;) Because of the jump spell, I don't care about the walls too much now.

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Minions, definitely. Do not upgrade any other dark troops until you have maxed both of your heroes, in my opinion. Because you won't need to use them in farming. Golem is really only needed in Crystal 1 or above, and Valkyries are awesome but cost too much DE. I used to make 2-3 valks per battle and farm in Crystal 2-3, and my DE profit was only about 1500-2000 per hour, mainly due to their cost.

So yes to max the minions, but no need to prioritize them. Always try to upgrade your heroes first, then do the other DE upgrades.

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Planning on getting the two inner layers lvl9 and as much on the outer wall as I manage. Heroes I wasn't planning on upgrading that much before, but after getting them bit higher up, they do appear to be quite awesome :D Jumping to TH10 when my defences are good enough (almost max) as I'm almost out of researches anyway. Dlix troops I went on minions max before the K&Q and the rest are not yet even unlocked :) Long way to go anyway and am taking it nice and slow.

So far I've used my dlix container as a bait and I think I keep doing it anyway. It's so much fun to see people trying to get there only to first *beeeeep*, followed by some *beeep beep* wasting huge hordes and maybe get some dlix :D What bit puzzles me is, why start with lightning on dlix if you go only for dlix anyway. First attack and then lightning if fail. Dlix far away from other pots=less collateral damage on other resources. Also a good idea to not put mortars and wizzies just next to container as they get lightninged so easily. Xbow is good cloisterbuddy for dlix pot, methinks :)

UnitySharp,

Love the videos! Please keep up the great work!

supermessi

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Originally Posted by OJM

Planning on getting the two inner layers lvl9 and as much on the outer wall as I manage. Heroes I wasn't planning on upgrading that much before, but after getting them bit higher up, they do appear to be quite awesome :D Jumping to TH10 when my defences are good enough (almost max) as I'm almost out of researches anyway. Dlix troops I went on minions max before the K&Q and the rest are not yet even unlocked :) Long way to go anyway and am taking it nice and slow.

So far I've used my dlix container as a bait and I think I keep doing it anyway. It's so much fun to see people trying to get there only to first *beeeeep*, followed by some *beeep beep* wasting huge hordes and maybe get some dlix :D What bit puzzles me is, why start with lightning on dlix if you go only for dlix anyway. First attack and then lightning if fail. Dlix far away from other pots=less collateral damage on other resources. Also a good idea to not put mortars and wizzies just next to container as they get lightninged so easily. Xbow is good cloisterbuddy for dlix pot, methinks :)

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Haha, that's cool. Some of my clanmates do the same thing for fun. Us poor DE farmers :( When we see DE is like a mouse smells the cheese, hahaha.

Because there are so many levels to heroes, I would suggest for you to upgrade 2 heroes constantly, this way you can stay in TH 9 longer to farm DE and gold (less loot penalty, no sleeping builder).

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Originally Posted by supermessi

UnitySharp,

Love the videos! Please keep up the great work!

supermessi

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Thank you very much! :)

So I suddenly sped up my queen to lv 13, and immediately started upgrade for lv 14 (70k de spent)
DE remaining in the tank: 45k

Reasons for the gem usage:
- Epically failed an attack vs. BarakHav's base in Exploitations clan due to misplacement of jump spell and his awesome defense. I figured an imminent revenge was coming (lots dragons on his camp) :confused:
- BarakHav came to my clan and repeatedly asked me to log off :rolleyes:
- I was gonna max out my DE in about 2 days anyways, with both heroes still upgrading, so I was going to speed up the upgrade anyways.

So to minimize the DE loss, I decided to speed up the upgrade now :p My DE is my baby :p
And the lesson learned is to not rely on the Jump spell for attacks, but to keep one only for emergency situations. I am going back to use rage spells mainly :cool:

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Originally Posted by UnitySharp

Haha, that's cool. Some of my clanmates do the same thing for fun. Us poor DE farmers :( When we see DE is like a mouse smells the cheese, hahaha.

Because there are so many levels to heroes, I would suggest for you to upgrade 2 heroes constantly, this way you can stay in TH 9 longer to farm DE and gold (less loot penalty, no sleeping builder).

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I would have to farm dlix much more for that... And I like using the heroes, not just napping there but in action ;)

I think I have said it too often on the forums that my dlix is highly trapped as haven't seen any attacks on it lately :) If you only knew :cool: Psychological warfare :cool:

But yea, might have to aim more for dlix but would to ramp up my army again :) Most high DE bases do know how to defend from air attacks so my favorite army-bloons-doesn't shine there :(

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Originally Posted by pinser

Plan your upgrade schedule wisely.
Attack to farm de.
Have a good base in order to protect the DE.


The thread in three sentences.

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Plan Attack Protect

The thread in three words