5 minute TH9 Dark Elixer Farming Army (18 mins no boost) w/ VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5CIXY9wnCY
I'm a brand new TH9 and I have fast tracked my Archer Queen Upgrades and this is the method I've been using to continually upgrade her!
18 minute Cook Time w/o Barrack Boost
5 minute Cook Time w/ Barrack Boost
0 down time for Archer Queen
This attack strategy works best on weak to mid level TH8's. The goal of this strategy is to first locate and destroy the two DE collectors and then clear a path to the dark elixir storage for your Archer Queen using Tier 1 troops and whatever's donated to your CC (I prefer Giants).
Once you've cleared a path drop the Archer Queen in a location that she keys onto a storage near the DE and put the 4 healers behind her. If there's a AD that your tier 1 troops was not able to destroy the best practice is to drop your AQ directly in front of the AD so the queen destroys it first (there's normally enough distance between the AD and the healers that the healers do not trigger the AD).
The four healers keep the queen at full health until all of the DE is gather. Once the DE is gathered; best practice is to surrender so that the queen will have no recovery-time and is ready to go into the next raid. However if the queen can pick up star without losing health feel free to let her do so.
This tactic works really well for me and if I choose to boost all four barracks I'm able to get around 25k DE in two hours.
Further, your queue is very important... Always put your heavier troops in the queue first in this case queue order will be
Barrack A: 1 Healer, 1 Wall Breaker, 15 Archers and 15 Barbs
Barrack B: 1 Healer, 1 Wall Breaker, 16 Archers and 16 Barbs
Barrack C: 1 Healer, 1 Wall Breaker, 16 Archers and 16 Barbs
Barrack D: 1 Healer, 1 Wall Breaker, 16 Archers and 16 Barbs
Dark Barrack A: 2 Hogs
Dark Barrack B: 2 Hogs
Army composition: 4 healers, 4 hogs, 4 wall breakers, 63 archers, 63 barbarians and giants in the CC. See video for application of army.
Check out the video for application