Originally Posted by
Rahle
I used that strat in crystal 1 to masters 3 when this update first came out. Was only way to make loot. If you only use one or 2 spells you can very slowly grow elixir, but is very slow. The bonus does not cover your balloons let alone the rest of the cost. Is a very specific base you can use on unless your lucky and loons go where you want.
I have since dropped to silver and gold and make a lot more loot by using gibarch and Gihealbarch. Less cost and I general take about half the th 9 bases and rarely miss a th 8 full loot. Much more economical. I would rather be up in masters but with the high cost of troops in both time and elixir it isn't cost effective. I have all my elixir troops and upgrades done but I need walls and not want to waste good loot on killing off troops.