Originally Posted by
C8XYR
As you progress in this game, the penalties mean you have to change it up.
My experience (pre-update):
I completely maxed TH9 in gold leagues by destroying TH8s. I would hit anyone who had loads of loot. It was fun and not that hard. Grinded out walls before elix upgrades were possible! War was easy too, 3 stars no problem. Happy days.
Then I went to TH10. No loot. Seriously couldn't find the sort of loot I was used to. So I went up to masters and learned to barch. 2 barracks on archers, 2 on barbs and lightning spells for those last few % points.
I barched loot bonus for months. Maxed out all the important defenses pretty quickly.
Then I dropped to crystal as I heard dead bases were plentiful. They were and I spent the rest of my time barching dead bases and sniping bonus.
Caveat 1: barch was a combo of 50% 1 stars, dead bases and snipes.
Post update:
It's all changed again. So no more snipes and a lot less dead bases. So I dropped to silver (wake up in gold, drop to silver, repeat) and I'm milking bases with barch. Little and often. And it's working. I keep quake spells and occasionally take out a complete side of a base and hit it with everything, I've had a few 1mil raids this way.
Caveat 2: I have level 40 heros.
When I go to TH11, I'll be in a better position than you admittedly, but it sounds like you're experiencing what I found when I went to TH10. So learn to barch, without spells and you'll be fine. You'll get to know the bases that are easy 1 stars, you get to a point you hardly need to concerntrate. A new TH is hard work, if you're not prepared to put some time in I can't see you getting out of your rut.
Hope you figure things out.