How to get dark elixir with th7

[Davoneillo]

I cannot raid much dark elixir from looting and I need some tips and help, thanks

[sheeptag]

I cannot raid much dark elixir from looting and I need some tips and help, thanks

army: 8 giant/8 wb/30 gob/40 barb/74 archer/1 rage spell (only when they offer >800 DE)
training time: ~21 min without boosting
trophy range: 1500
Targets: mainly TH8, occasionally TH7/9

Firstly, you need to go up in trophy, preferably even higher than 1500. With this army composition, this shouldn't be a problem cuz you can easily 2 star TH7 and 1 star TH8.

Secondly, you should only raid someone that offers at least 400 DE. Anything less than that is not worth your efforts. I found that DE drill raids are not as efficient because I always get very little and at the same time lose trophies. So I only raid storages.

Attack strategy:
1. Clear cc if possible.
2. Ignore or kill king if possible.
3. Choose a side that is closest to their DE storage. Then, check for bombs/traps
4. Deploy ~15 barbarians and some archers to clear the outside structures, providing a clear passway to their storages. Immediately follow this by one giant (in case of spring traps), two wbs, then the rest 7 giants. Once the giants attract the defenses attention, start spamming archers and barbs. Use your wb wisely because you only have 8 of them. A rage spell will be very helpful, but it takes 45 min to cook. I normally would avoid it unless they offer tons of DE.
5. Deploy your goblins when their storages are exposed! And do NOT drop them all at once.
6. Take all their DE/gold/elixir

Last notes:
- When you are in possession of > 10,000 DE, lots of experienced TH8 will find you. To circumvent this, I would boost all barracks and get >6000 DE in 2 hour (raid every 5 mins).

- Some people avoid TH8 cuz they are afraid of revenge attacks. Well... don't! TH8 are my most favorite targets. If they don't revenge you, somebody else will raid you. So who cares right?

[gallantblade]

When I was TH7, I found two options.

Cook mass dragon armies, that way you can steal DE off most bases with off centre storages.

Or increase trophies to 1700+ and keep nexting until you find exposed drills. A lot of players up there do not put drills behind walls so you can easily pick them off for 500 odd per raid.

[maruf62783]

Do you have a cheap de farming army

[CashKen]

You can also get dark elixer from war. If your leader allows it, you can use your second attack on th8 to get some dark