I can't find a link to your de farming guide :\
I can't find a link to your de farming guide :\
Originally Posted by PropJoe
http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...are-to-join-me
There's really not a single place because it changes from day to day. I hit TH9 in late December and farmed heavily in the 1500-1600 range at first and it gradually got worse and worse there so I moved up to 1700-1800 for probably the longest period. After CW came out 1700-1800 went to pot and I finished out all my lego walls in the 1800-1900 range.
So, the best advice I can give is to experiment around by moving up and down between 1700-1900 trophy's to see what works best for you. Remember, it changes from day to day so if it's been rocking at 1800 and then gets bad move up and down to see how it's doing in other zones.
In my opinion TH9 is the best place in the game to farm from a gold per hour standpoint. Once you get lvl 6 troops it opens up a whole new world and the 220 is perfect for BAM. Sure, it stinks to see that TH7 that's worth 125k gold knowing it could be 250 if you were TH8, but it is what it is.
Just to clarify on the 4M per hour it's not really something you "work up to" it's more about optimizing your farming efficiency to take it when it's there and recognize when it's not. You can do everything perfect and still only get 2M an hour boosted if that's all that's there.
Three months into TH10 I've only had maybe 2 nights where I hit 4M an hour and I had a lot of nice collector raids those nights. My average is definitely closer to the 2.5M - 3M per hour boosted at TH10.
As a TH9 I would say I averaged in the 3.5ish range most night with a fair number of nights in the 4M+ club. I had one night that was absolutely crazy about two weeks before CW came out. For some reason the dead base floodgates opened up and it was non stop 400k collector raids all night. It was so good I was passing 300k collector raids because I knew there would be another 400k+ one.
I don't remember exactly how long I played, but with regular attacks and a pair of two hour boost sessions I upgraded 18 lava walls in one afternoon/evening. I'd guestimate I was in the 6M gph zone. Now that will likely never happen again, but I maximized my gold per hour in that situation and took advantage of it the best way possible.
Yeah, I think my biggest problem is my patience. I get to stressing over loot when it seems bad and I attack the first decent base I find. Need to learn to hit the next button a few more times so I might find the mother load. Trying to use your two minute rule, but it's hard sometimes! lol Especially when you know the clock is ticking. And I must say, I work 6 days a week and the boost farming is much easier for me to do. I like raiding two hours a day and being done. Cost gems, but a lot less stressful for me.
If it helps you any I suffer from the same thing.
The whole reason I have the "2 minute rule" in the first place is because I'll never wait for a better base if I don't have a timer.
2 quick questions
-Say you are nexting and with your army fully built and barracks fully queued, if you return to base and re-start the process, the initial nexting time does not go into army training time once you actually attack, correct?
-You've mentioned saturday mornings being nice on loot, have you had a chance to try any other day during the morning?
That is my understanding on the nexting. I always take this into account when I see a TH snipe. If i've been nexting for 2 minutes and see an exposed TH I am more inclined to just skip it because I essentially waste the 2 minutes of "build time" that I've got banked.
I've played on most other mornings, but for whatever reason Saturdays seemed to be the best for me. It's not always the case, but it's the only morning that "seems" to be better. It could be the placebo effect though too. ;-)
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Something else I have often wondered. It would be awesome to know what the regional demographics are. For example if 80% of the players in the world are in the US then logic would tell us that early AM on any day would have more collector raids due to the majority of players being logged off all night. If it's more evenly distributed throughout the world then there probably wouldn't be any huge difference based on time of day.
Last edited by Coldfury; June 24th, 2014 at 07:57 PM.
Thanks for the response. Believe me I've theorized a lot about loot times. I also asked you this question assuming we are both somewhere in america (at least I am). Anyhow, I can do fine in terms of GPH and your guide has helped me improve that very much, but I don't have much time to farm because I am busy with work/life/etc. So I'd like for my clash quality time to be spend on hours where loot is better than most.
I've noticed that loot is bad during active american hours, and then it gets better closer and past midnight. It also sucks during most weekends. I'll try and give mornings a try.
I've never had luck with BAM. It just wastes too much DE for my tastes when I am working on heroes feverishly. I've always been able to find plenty of gold/elixir with BARCH. Have I turned it into nerd science? No. I just go raid and have fun. I was able to fully max my TH8 walls, spells, troops, defenses and go to TH9 with full storages including DE with BARCH. That's playing a couple hours of hours a day. I also upgraded to TH8 right after the CW patch, and found the loot to be decent, if you moved up and down gold. Anyhow, I will direct some of my BAM'er friends to this thread. On a side not, how do you not find massive amounts of gold and elixir while farming for DE? I mean, it's all over. Reading Brandon's guide, you can see that he was pretty successful farming gold and elix while farming his DE. I find it constantly while DE farming. I am not seeing the magic of BAM when you can basically farm for all 3 resources with one army. Why limit yourself to gold/elix only?
I do feel that loot is tied very much to how many players are online. Even on the good saturday mornings it's almost like a switch gets turned off between 9:00 and 10:00 central US time. It can go from awesome to horrible in a matter of 30 minutes.
On the flipside I have found that loot is consistently very bad right after and for several days following a big update. So, when there's a new update I just turn off gold farming for a few days or longer until things get back to normal.
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