Brand New Th11-Where’s the Loot?

[Muscularity]

The loot as a th10 around 1800-2200 trophies was amazing. Would never hit anything less than 600k/600k/3k and it only took several searches to find these dead bases. I even completed 40 lvl 11 walls in a few boosts the other day. I’ve recently moved to th11 and now I cannot find any good loot. I’ve experimented from 1700-2400 trophies and its taking forever to find any base worth attacking. There are also hardly any dead bases. This is quite demotivating having found such amazing loot as a th10 just a couple days ago.

What league do you th11 guys use to farm? I use mass miners and barch, mostly.

[Bigdome757]

I farmed in champs 1-2 as th11 with no problem. Dead bases are nice to find but are they will start to become less now that you are th11. I would no rely on finding them to progress but would rather get excited on the rare occasion that I find one. I’d climb as high as I felt comfortable, maybe high champs low Titans, and farm away. The star bonus is great and the loot bonus covers the cost of most farming armies.

[MrPoo]

It's always difficult to farm when you just move up a TH, cause your armies haven't been upgraded.
I have 3 TH11 bases, the easiest base to farm is usually the one with lowest troophy level. That been said, my farming style is using queen walk and archers and wall breakers and as little rage spell as possible to keep queen alive. Partial army attacks, never full army. It takes too long to train a full army, event with boost.
get as many attacks in as possible in one hour and try not to let your queen die between attacks. End attack if queen might be facing strong defense and little chance of more resources. Remember, you are looting, not punishing other bases by destroying it all.
Also, Avoiding bases with single target inferno towers - often means queen dying.
most cases, if you can get 50% of the base destroyed, you already get 75% of the available resources.
Time of day also play a huge role in finding dead bases, for me, it's weekday early evening in Eastern standard time.
if your attack style is attacking a couple times throughout the day, then training a full army and stay at higher league to get win bonus and less dependent on time of the day for dead bases. This might be a harder strategy as your armies haven't been upgraded.

[Muscularity]

Thank you guys for the replies! The day I posted this I spent the entire day (7-8 boosts) finding hardly any loot and no dead bases. I climbed from 2k-3k trophies. Still nothing. Was extremely demotivating. Dropped back down to 2600 and started finding good loot on dead bases. Now I’m at 2300 and finding nice loot. I guess that day was just a dud!

[AFRO]

The loot as a th10 around 1800-2200 trophies was amazing. Would never hit anything less than 600k/600k/3k and it only took several searches to find these dead bases. I even completed 40 lvl 11 walls in a few boosts the other day. I’ve recently moved to th11 and now I cannot find any good loot. I’ve experimented from 1700-2400 trophies and its taking forever to find any base worth attacking. There are also hardly any dead bases. This is quite demotivating having found such amazing loot as a th10 just a couple days ago.

What league do you th11 guys use to farm? I use mass miners and barch, mostly.

This IME is the true Loot Penalty. it is felt in the onset of the freshly upgraded TH. (10s 11s 12s feel this much more than any subsequent level IMO)

you have camps finished yet? and primary farming troops/army maxed out? if not then this is why. but it tends to go away once you max your camps and farming armies and can handle (adjust to) the new diet of bases. Your new diet is TH10 AND TH11 (and maybe some weakling TH12 rush jobs) no more pushing TH9 around for loots.

~to be fair, TH9s are good trophy hits though, and loot bonus if you farm above Champs and find any~

Now, you will be facing up Eagles and higher tier ITs and 4th X-Bows, more and higher leveled walls and defenses in general.. higher defending Royalty.. and the like. a tall task for TH10s ceiling.

Miners can farm any league below Titans IME, and same for Barch n Gobs TBH (slightly lower basement in Silver/Gold)..once you max out Miners they should be pretty decent at L4-5 which ever it is for TH11, either way its good for Miners to be in L4-5 for TH11 max. Loonion was good for my stay at TH11 as well.

If you don't mind, drop down to Silver and slurp collectors for a few weeks and get camps and Warden to L5+ and maybe put a troop, or two in the Lab. once you max camps you can climb a bit and settle in a zone where league bonuses are fitting for your efforts and your schedule. or keep plugging away at the mundane collector farming.

I believe Masters 2 was a good spot for finding loot ops for an advancing TH11.

Good Luck

[Practical]

If you really want to farm hard than go in bronze league, you may not get dark elixir but you will surely find gold and elixir in plenty.

[Muscularity]

This IME is the true Loot Penalty. it is felt in the onset of the freshly upgraded TH. (10s 11s 12s feel this much more than any subsequent level IMO)

you have camps finished yet? and primary farming troops/army maxed out? if not then this is why. but it tends to go away once you max your camps and farming armies and can handle (adjust to) the new diet of bases. Your new diet is TH10 AND TH11 (and maybe some weakling TH12 rush jobs) no more pushing TH9 around for loots.

~to be fair, TH9s are good trophy hits though, and loot bonus if you farm above Champs and find any~

Now, you will be facing up Eagles and higher tier ITs and 4th X-Bows, more and higher leveled walls and defenses in general.. higher defending Royalty.. and the like. a tall task for TH10s ceiling.

Miners can farm any league below Titans IME, and same for Barch n Gobs TBH (slightly lower basement in Silver/Gold)..once you max out Miners they should be pretty decent at L4-5 which ever it is for TH11, either way its good for Miners to be in L4-5 for TH11 max. Loonion was good for my stay at TH11 as well.

If you don't mind, drop down to Silver and slurp collectors for a few weeks and get camps and Warden to L5+ and maybe put a troop, or two in the Lab. once you max camps you can climb a bit and settle in a zone where league bonuses are fitting for your efforts and your schedule. or keep plugging away at the mundane collector farming.

I believe Masters 2 was a good spot for finding loot ops for an advancing TH11.

Good Luck

Thanks for your reply! On the day I posted this I just could not find any loot at all worth attacking! Hardly anything at all was over 300k unless it was a maxed th11 or high th12. Essentially zero dead bases. Im now finding an abundance of loot, currently hanging out in crystal 2 but still experimenting. Only hitting bases with 500k gold/elix and 4k dark. Not taking many searches at all. But for that entire day the loot was just awful. Maybe it had to do with clan games starting-not sure.

[Muscularity]

If you really want to farm hard than go in bronze league, you may not get dark elixir but you will surely find gold and elixir in plenty.

Thanks! I’ll try this once I get my queen to 50!

[SantyPants]

When I went th11 (just a few weeks ago), I dropped to M2/M3 and farmed with 5 healers, 10 wallies, the rest as gobs. Had great results. Was just looking for dead bases, but also getting stars for the daily bonus and loot bonus. If I was getting to high M2 or M1, I sniped some collectors with queen to drop trophies. Worked great!

edit: I should clarify that for about a week, until a couple days ago, it was hard to find dead bases, probably due to SC removing them. They seem to be back now.