Pushing to Masters III as a Mid-Late TH8! Wish Me Luck...

[Firestar493]

I'm not saying barch for 50%, you can 3 star TH7s with barch quite easily with 1 heal spell per raid, it's ridiculous how many TH7 snipers there are in crystal 3, I have more TH7 & TH8 than TH9s and TH10s, I'm at 2180 cups at the moment (I think? maybe a few up or a few down) and I actually find more strong bases in gold 1 on my TH9 account, I think it's because all the noob TH7s and TH8s think they are cool if they snipe to crystal league and get killed on defense, you really should find easy people to barch up untill c2, from there on up it takes longer so bring the loons out or hogs, when I push I try not to use comps that need all 3 spells to win, eg. at c2-c1 I used like +-20 hogs and 1 or 2 heal spells per raid just to cleanup enough defenses for my infantry troops to pickup 1 or 2 stars, never raid cup offers for lower than 20, unless they have good loot

Thanks for the tips. Yeah, I see a lot of TH7s and TH8s. Barch is essentially guaranteed for three stars against TH7s as long as I bring my BK (I'm using Lightning > Healing atm). I have not tried Healing yet because Lightning seems to be a very practical spell for clutch percentage, CC troops, mortars, etc. I'm not saying Healing's bad; I just haven't tried it out.

So I did actually hit 2000 trophies on the mark about an hour ago, thus reaching my quota for today. I barched a bit more to 2011, then I got kicked off the game . I came back to +23 and a shield from a kind DE farmer who intentionally kept the battle going until 40% before leaving. Granted, it cost me 1800 DE, but I earned a lot more than that raiding today anyway. Ended at 2034 trophies.

Question: So my lab upgrade will be complete soon, and now I'm skeptical about upgrading anything at all, because the high DE count will potentially let me gain cups from farmers. But at a farming perspective, I'll be losing a lot of DE and have an idle lab. Should I upgrade something in the lab?

[Jason5267]

Thanks for the tips. Yeah, I see a lot of TH7s and TH8s. Barch is essentially guaranteed for three stars against TH7s as long as I bring my BK (I'm using Lightning > Healing atm). I have not tried Healing yet because Lightning seems to be a very practical spell for clutch percentage, CC troops, mortars, etc. I'm not saying Healing's bad; I just haven't tried it out.

So I did actually hit 2000 trophies on the mark about an hour ago, thus reaching my quota for today. I barched a bit more to 2011, then I got kicked off the game . I came back to +23 and a shield from a kind DE farmer who intentionally kept the battle going until 40% before leaving. Granted, it cost me 1800 DE, but I earned a lot more than that raiding today anyway. Ended at 2034 trophies.

Question: So my lab upgrade will be complete soon, and now I'm skeptical about upgrading anything at all, because the high DE count will potentially let me gain cups from farmers. But at a farming perspective, I'll be losing a lot of DE and have an idle lab. Should I upgrade something in the lab?

just make sure you have 20k DE before you need to start using big DE heavy armies, I'll also have to recommend farming up your elixir and gold while still in low farming leagues, because I once ran out of elixir at 2590 cups, and I couldn't train an army to raid, it was the worst, having full storages before pushes are important so while you push you can only go for trophies and basically not be hindered by loot, if all your used troops are upgraded already then you should just leave lab idle though, you might need the DE later on, but if you can farm it all back there's no reason not to up a dark troop in the lab

[Firestar493]

Screenshot from earlier this morning, before one attack and one defense. Currently at 2497.

Quick update: I've been using 28/30 loonion with 0.1.2 spells. It's been going pretty well. There's actually 750K elixir in my CC, so I'm pretty sure that with the loot bonus, as long as I don't screw up my attacks too badly, I'm set on my resources. I probably can't attack much over the weekend, but I'm trying to attack before my shield expires so I can at least maintain my cups. I also put the gold and DE storages on the outside alongside my TH and it's been working for the most part; most people just snipe my loot and TH and leave. I actually got sniped by a TH7 once as well as a very premmie TH8 who's actually upgrading to TH9...

So for attacking, with these sweet 1 gem boosts I can use only 2-3 gems for 2 hours of Balloonion, giving me 3-4 attacks. I boost one rax with loons as well as 3 rax unboosted with 4 loons, making 28 loons in 32 minutes. The spells take 30 min under boost, so if use an all-out attack, the army finishes at a bit more than half an hour. I sometimes boost my BK as well. It currently costs 198K elixir (my Healing is level 4) and 240 DE (Mins aren't level 4 yet), so with my current loot, assuming I collect my war loot, 11 more attacks, BEFORE I even consider my boosted collectors, the league win bonus of 65K, and loot I get from raiding bases. But it also doesn't consider potential raiders getting my elixir (I don't think that will happen often anyway because of all the snipable gold and DE next to my TH).

Does anyone have any suggestions for armies/raiding, or even the base? The reason I'm using my current loonion spread is because of the boost enabling the loons to finish at the same time as the spells anyway, and it's not crazy expensive or long to train. It's strong enough to let me two-star and even occasionally three-star premmie bases that I search for and find. I'd love to hear suggestions though. I'm anticipating hitting 2600 cups on Monday (EST).

[Firestar493]

Screenie of the +19 that got me here


Attack Log (including first attack in Masters III)


Builder #5!