I can't post a picture of the base, but i found that the only time i was losing DE was when i was getting zapped.
i was at all sorts of different trophy ranges :-
- 1800 - Mainly farming off of the inactives around that area, wasn't the best source of dark elixir but i could easily upgrade my defences, and walls whilst also doing heroes. I used my own troop composition, i would fill 3 barracks up with archers and 1 with goblins remember to que them up before raids so you can almost raid back to back.
- 2400 - I moved here after i maxed my defences because there isn't much gold around and it is about the highest up i could farm with barch whilst actually getting dark elixir. Personally i used barch here but if you have difficulty then you can try giants, barb arc, maybe even a few wiz in there. I preferred barch though because it was simpler to make.
- 2600+ - Here i farmed off of loot bonus mostly, but everyones bases were also full of dark elixir. The highest i went to was 3200 for the gems and to try the loot, i would suggest going to champ only if you can play for long periods, it required a lot of work to get there and to maintain the trophies but whilst pushing up i was getting raids worth up to 7000 dark elixir.
Hope all of this helps you farm your heroes
