Ash's Journey to Level 40 Heroes and Dark Elixir Farming Guide

[Eternal625]

I am just wondering in what range do you farm gold / elixir when you are not de farming ? Thanks in advance.

I don't really pick a certain league to farm gold and elixir, I usually just fluctuate around 1800-2000 trophies and do great. If I go too high, I try to drop down to around 1950 with C3 badge.

[N1NJ4smurf]

nice work ash...

i've decided i'm gonna focus on DE farming for a while and just upgrade my collectors so my builders aren't sitting idle. i won't be farming hardcore like you, but i definitely enjoy DE farming more than gold/lix farming! more interesting and challenging

[rkne]

damn that's a lot of lavas

[Eternal625]

nice work ash...

i've decided i'm gonna focus on DE farming for a while and just upgrade my collectors so my builders aren't sitting idle. i won't be farming hardcore like you, but i definitely enjoy DE farming more than gold/lix farming! more interesting and challenging

I'm glad you think so too!

Nice thread. Im a th8 farming all resources with barch, and some wall breakers when Im focusing on dark elixir. Im in low crystal 3, and always carry around 3 lightning spells to zap de storages and drills. I was wondering whether you think bam is worth using over barch at th8, and if it is how do you train minions in the dark barracks (do you always have 8 minions queued up in each barracks when raiding, or do you train 16 at the start, and train more when necessary).

Yea BAM is worth is over Barch. I always queue 8 each. If I use them in a raid, then I queue 8 each again.

[CuteBoboi]

Ash,

From the rate you are farming, your L10 lava walls will be done before both heroes reach L30. What is your plan ? Stay at TH9 or go TH10 ?
What are your considerations for TH10 farming penalty, cost, range, etc. ?

[Eternal625]

Ash,

From the rate you are farming, your L10 lava walls will be done before both heroes reach L30. What is your plan ? Stay at TH9 or go TH10 ?
What are your considerations for TH10 farming penalty, cost, range, etc. ?

Very good question. Here are my considerations for going to TH 10:

- Start TH 10 upgrade when I've reached 200 Lavas. TH 10 requires 14 days to upgrade so enough time to finish the 50 remaining walls.
- If I've all my Lv 10 walls completed, then there's no point in staying in TH 10. The only reason to remain in TH 9 would be if I'm having problems to obtain resource for upgrades. And that obviously isn't and won't be the case because no defense comes close to what Lv 10 walls cost.

What about farming Dark Elixir? Would it be harder to make Dark Elixir at TH 10?

Other than a small loot penalty and with a capacity of 3000 DE available to be stolen (as opposed to 2500 at TH 9), farming for Dark Elixir actually becomes a lot easier.

The benefits of farming Dark Elixir at TH 10 as opposed to TH 9:

- A 3rd DE Drill. 3 Lv 6 DE Drills will allow you to make 7200 DE per day, which is 2400 more than TH 9.
- Better defense for your Dark Elixir. Sure you're giving up 3000 DE available instead of 2500, but at TH 10, you have even better defense. With 2 Infernos and a great base, a farmer with TH outside, you'll probably save more DE at TH 10 than TH 9.
- Bigger Army Camp space. From 220 to 240 camp space, will make farming DE easier.
- Stronger Tier 1 troops. Lv 7 Barch, Lv 6 Minions, Lv 7 Giants. All will make farming DE easier.
- 5th Spell Factory slot. Will make farming DE easier.
- 5 more CC troop space. Better for farming and defending.
- Lv 6 Wall Breaker will 1 shot Lv 6 walls and 2 shot Lv 9 walls.

- Early start on Lv 11 walls.

[runner09]

Very good question. Here are my considerations for going to TH 10:

- Start TH 10 upgrade when I've reached 200 Lavas. TH 10 requires 14 days to upgrade so enough time to finish the 50 remaining walls.
- If I've all my Lv 10 walls completed, then there's no point in staying in TH 10. The only reason to remain in TH 9 would be if I'm having problems to obtain resource for upgrades. And that obviously isn't and won't be the case because no defense comes close to what Lv 10 walls cost.

What about farming Dark Elixir? Would it be harder to make Dark Elixir at TH 10?

Other than a small loot penalty and with a capacity of 3000 DE available to be stolen (as opposed to 2500 at TH 9), farming for Dark Elixir actually becomes a lot easier.

The benefits of farming Dark Elixir at TH 10 as opposed to TH 9:

- A 3rd DE Drill. 3 Lv 6 DE Drills will allow you to make 7200 DE per day, which is 2400 more than TH 9.
- Better defense for your Dark Elixir. Sure you're giving up 3000 DE available instead of 2500, but at TH 10, you have even better defense. With 2 Infernos and a great base, a farmer with TH outside, you'll probably save more DE at TH 10 than TH 9.
- Bigger Army Camp space. From 220 to 240 camp space, will make farming DE easier.
- Stronger Tier 1 troops. Lv 7 Barch, Lv 6 Minions, Lv 7 Giants. All will make farming DE easier.
- 5th Spell Factory slot. Will make farming DE easier.
- 5 more CC troop space. Better for farming and defending.

- Early start on Lv 11 walls.

Dang. I was thinking of going to TH 10 when I was fully upgraded on all defenses and collectors. Starting to second guess myself.

I have 34 lava walls left to go and have gotten a good groove of getting 4 done per day. I won't have nearly as much time to play from the 22nd or so to the 29th. Archer queen 1 day away from level 25 and King 4 days away from level 26. I have about 50 days of total build time left til everything is fully upgraded for TH 9. The only defenses that aren't fully upgraded are my cannons which are at level 9 and one mortar at level 5 so I don't have any worry about getting run over by anyone. The bulk of the other time is collectors which I decided I want to finish now.

The one thing I worry slightly about is the fact that probably around 65% of dead collector bases I find are TH 8, which obviously won't be nearly as profitable being TH 10. I know it won't matter in terms of getting enough resources for buildings, but the overall decrease of income from gold and elixir(probably) will be slightly disheartening.

I'll probably upgrade sometime after the new year. Just voicing my opinion's out loud as another resource I suppose. Ill make my own decision for sure but it is nice to watch the progress of someone going as hardcore as I am.

My goal is to finish level 40 heroes as fast as possible. Defenses and walls are a secondary concern. Given that logic I probably should start upgrading the town hall now to "leisurely" start the wall grind while gaining added benefits of th 10 de farming. I'll have to think about it more later.

Any extra thoughts are appreciated, too.

[Sens]

20 king and 17 queen here. Slow going

[TimGinger]

I still can't wrap my head around how fast hardcore farmers like you go man. Just like, damn. So many lava's, so much DE. Maybe now in the holidays I can raid as much as you, but I will no where get near your gold/elixer stolen, let alone DE

[Akarashi]

Hi ash, I notice you're gemming your barracks now, any reason?