LEAGUE FARMING - How to overcome the loot drought

[karn]

Thanks Harrisman, just switched to this and it's working out great. In Crystal I and loot has been really dry, this helps a lot!

[DaBoss987]

Nice thread man! Will be sure to try this out in the future!

[LordAmbreon]

Sounds nice, I'm heading to c1 to farm there.
do you recommend barbarians or just archers?

(and yes I know I'm bumping a bit but it has excellent ideas.)

[qvert]

with the new league loot bonus this becomes even better

[Harrisman24]

Sounds nice, I'm heading to c1 to farm there.
do you recommend barbarians or just archers?

(and yes I know I'm bumping a bit but it has excellent ideas.)

Hey! Really sorry for the super late reply.. I have been rather busy lately.

Personally I use archers. All archers. I can be extra precise with them, meaning I use minimal troops per battle, which lowers my overall payout maximising profit

i would say though, use whichever is more comfortable to you. Barch is slightly more profitable statistically, but as I mentioned above, I can get away with using less troops anyway.

Good luck!!

[squishy23456]

Hey! Really sorry for the super late reply.. I have been rather busy lately.

Personally I use archers. All archers. I can be extra precise with them, meaning I use minimal troops per battle, which lowers my overall payout maximising profit

i would say though, use whichever is more comfortable to you. Barch is slightly more profitable statistically, but as I mentioned above, I can get away with using less troops anyway.

Good luck!!

How are you profitting elixir? I play casually now so don't do too many attacks (got about 40 in 2 weeks). I'm using barbs and arch and winning ~95% of battles. Don't use any spells. Put down heroes and cc if needed but only seem to profit gold and dark elixir. Elixir stays the same or goes up VERY SLOWLY. I trap my town hall slightly with teslas and a xbow so each enemy attack costs me 15k elixir in xbow ammo. But it helps maintain trophies.

[Harrisman24]

How are you profitting elixir? I play casually now so don't do too many attacks (got about 40 in 2 weeks). I'm using barbs and arch and winning ~95% of battles. Don't use any spells. Put down heroes and cc if needed but only seem to profit gold and dark elixir. Elixir stays the same or goes up VERY SLOWLY. I trap my town hall slightly with teslas and a xbow so each enemy attack costs me 15k elixir in xbow ammo. But it helps maintain trophies.

If you can't profit elixir using barch, your doing something wrong. The league bonus itself pays for the majority of the army, so whatever else you get is sweet.

Try moving up a bit to a higher league, more loot bonus = more profit.

[Doc519]

Since i see you replied 6 hours ago (no stalker) how is this working out now after the AT/building HP buff/change? I've been playing around with loons down lower with the boost to try and re-acclimate myself to try and head up to masters to farm DE for heroes or maybe use a giant army or something different than BAM in C3, M3 bonus would really help with walls and other def upgrades. I pushed up there for the gems and tried barching shortly after the loot bonus change and I couldn't get a win to save my life without heroes. I'm th9 btw. I noticed that my loons didn't seem to get nearly as far as they did against more advanced bases now, but it could be the time difference from when I last tried. Trying to not use spells to get rid of the crutch. I keep hearing about people using only 20 loons up in M3 and it blows my mind, I guess I should just go for half of the base, I think I go for the 3 star too often when its impossible.

[amith1101]

Before you read through, I just need to note;

- This is mainly for TH9-10. TH8 or lower will find themselves being attacked too often if you need to log off a lot.

- This strategy works better the longer you can stay online. If you do not have the time, then this may/may not benefit you.

I have been using all archers in C1 since the update. Balloons are quite costly, and take a bit of time to make. Here are a few reasons why archers are effective for league farming.

- Quick to build
- Cheap to build
- Can shoot over walls
- Frequent donation troop

Only need to make lightning spells. Use them for taking out mortars/wizard towers/enemy cc troops.

Most of the time though you won't need to use spells. Heroes will barely be used, just for picking off the last 1-10% if lets say, you find yourself in a sticky situation.

What you will be looking for
Ok so lets get into it. In crystal 1, the loot bonus is over half the cost of an all archer army ( (archers)240 x (cost)300 = 72k )

Take into account the loot bonus

65k gold
65k elixir
300 de

So, I start my search. I'll be looking out for several things;

- Ghost bases - Bases with clogged up mines and/or collectors/empty IT's and/or xbows ( preferably )

- Snipes - If I find a snipe within, lets say 50 skips ( still make 5k gold hehe ), the 55k elixir each time helps to pay off your army only using 5 archers/Hero(es)

- TH7/8's - 50% for the loot bonus + whatever else they have - Only if you know you won't need to use a whole army.

- Easy storages - Storages with enough loot that is easy to get. Try to get 50% for the bonus if there is not many ressies to take ( >200k )

- Anything else - If I think I can 50% a base and hit storages inside using heroes, I'll go for it whether I win or lose. Snipes always bring me back up ( I'll talk a little more about that soon ).

- If I find a snipe with good loot, go for the loot after sniping.

Snipes - I was getting 2-5 snipes in between finding loot. This amounted to quite a lot. You'd be surprised how many you find dropping to 2300+ staying in the C1 league.
I'll put up some quick sums to show how much it can amount to:

The bonus build!
Loot bonus ( look above ) x how many snipes =

65k Gold
65k Elixir
300 DE

130k Gold
130k Elixir
600 DE

195k Gold
195k Elixir
900 DE

260k Gold
260k Elixir
1200 DE

325k Gold
325k Elixir
1500 DE

You can see how they start to add up...

If you feel comfortable, move up a little!

Conclusion
This in between finding juicy raids.. We all know what a max resource innactive base brings in As I had quite a few options on ways to gain loot, I was never long on nexting, loot went up quick. Especially gold and de, but elix wasn't too bad. With all archers yours costs are not high, and the new heroes regen time makes them more effective in farming, for picking of mines/collectos/drills, or drilling into the base to hit a storage, or 4

Even hitting lower TH's ( I know, a bit mean but times are hard ) I was either breaking even ( if I had been searching longer than usual ), or profiting.

Anyway, that's the basics of what I have been doing. Not too tricky, and has been doing me well. Even dark elixir comes in fast. Put both heroes down ( 210k combined ) King finished in 5 hours, Queen in a day and a half, and already have 100k saved up.

Finished all my AT's now. Started last one 2 days ago, back on to walls walls walls!



Also, just because I am proud



The experience gained from taking down town halls ( sniping in this case ) does add up.

So stick your town halls out! Grab some loot, and get upgrading!

Hi, I've been promoted to crystal league and I have a town hall of level 9. I've all level 5 troops with barb king level 5, and level 2 dark troops. I just want a perfect combination of troops in this league to get some good loot. :-)

[LiamLG]

Can I do this in crystal 2?