Without Lightning Spell ability, Dark Elixir is too hard to obtain for TH7

[George1971]

TH7, level 2 dragons, with balloons and minions, in crystal III there are lots of beatable TH7-8 with lots of DE.

Getting DE at TH7 is no trouble at all!

Maxing TH7 happens real quick. Can't spend the gold on anything.

[awesomness2016]

What people don't understand is that zapping is a type of strategy. It helps people obtain resources easier, while still having some negative sides to it.

Think about it, you spend lots of elixir, wait a long time, and (most likely) lose trophies, and in return, you get some dark elixir back. Some people may view it as a cheap way to get resources, but it helps players progress, and it definitely isn't che atinging. As mentioned before, it's a strategy.

I never minded it, because if you keep at least like 1900 trophies and put your TH out you'll basically never get zapped, which is what I used to tell the complainers before. That and like you say, it may be viewed as "cheap" because it requires no skill, but if you know how to attack, it's actually more cost effective to make armies and raid for the DE.

[Woosomeness]

Op does realize that zapping storages does not give you a shield ,right? Yeah, I think the "lower DE upgrades" would make more sense.

[JJ48]

Dude! You have a dark drill... When I was in th7 i had to collect for the king all by myself ( raids)

...and we had to walk FIFTEEN MILES through SIX FEET OF SNOW to get to the raid, and it was UPHILL BOTH WAYS! And then we'd get to the raid only to find out that we'd left all our archers back at base, so we'd trudge the fifteen miles back, pick them up, and walk fifteen miles AGAIN to return! And when we did make it back, we'd find that the TH8 we were going to raid had been replaced by a TH4 without a drop of DE to his name, so we'd have to traverse those FIFTEEN MILES one more time to go hit the "Next" button again!

...AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!

(Just kidding. I didn't hit TH7 until after the drill was added, but I'd take the drill over zapping any day.)

[TimGinger]

Dark elixir is the most precious currency ingame (well, apart from gems, but they don't count ) so it should be hard to obtain. Th7s dwell so much on their dragons that they forget about other strategies. You don't have to 3star a base to get to the dark, you just need to reach the core.

Giant healer is still a very good farming strategy at th7, which can reach every core of any design. Take rage with you, which you probably don't even need all spells of. It's far cheaper and faster to train than mass drags. Target only bases with over 500 de and snipe every full drill you can find.

Boost one or two barracks every once in a while and you'll see your de slowly piling up.

[Barcher007]

How about give th4 a DE storage and Gopher that can dig right to the middle of a th10 and take all their DE? Cause right now its way to hard for a th4 to get anything from a th10.

[ArunDavid]

I need zapping for my lvl 2 bk!

Upgraded my King to lvl 5 ( max for TH7 ) without even a single zap....

[reddy4u2]

I snipe town halls in crystal 3 and hit th7s with 500 de on my th7 account and I can make 5k per day easily

[Red40]

DE is definitely too hard at TH7. I stopped playing and came back to lightning changes and I personally don't like them. Might as well go to TH8 for the extra pump when your left with only DE upgrades.

Recently I have found success with surgical minions taking DE storage; however minions seem to attack the stupidest targets half the time.

I think that storage should not be protected and they should implement some kind of lightning rod.

[Antdroid]

Zap the drills.