Significance of maxing dark elixir drills

[Echo006]

I'll be honest, on this account, I became TH9 on the 1st of July, but I didn't max my dark elixir drills until after the One Week Anniversary Boost. Of course, this was a stupid mistake. But I just couldn't farm all the elixir at the time, but now I realise how easy it was. Just boost your barracks and search for elixir and upgrade them ASAP. 30K a week is like a free queen. So worth it.

[Carsonel]

Yes I find that upgrading DE Drills is extremely beneficial and should be done fairly soon.......

However Elixir should first be used on: Army Camps, Dark Spell Factory (lvl1 is fine), and Lab Upgrades using Elixir (Giants6,Loons6,Arch6, Jump2,Barb6)

If you have 220 troop cap, atleast poison spell, and Lab is working on an upgrade then I would say:

DE DRILLS!!!!!!

Assuming you maxed both Drills@ lvl3 at th8, each drill makes 45/hour. Which means both Drills will get you 2,160 Daily.

Level 4 = Almost 3,000

Level 5 = 3,840

Level 6= 4,800.

If you want to unlock Witches and EQ and Haste Spells, get your Drills to level 4 very minimum, 5 hopefully.

5 Minimum before you Unlock Lava Hounds.
Atm My Drills are both l5, which gets me 1,680 more DE every day vs if I would have kept at l3. Which is close to 12k more a week.

Remember 75% of uncollected DE can be looted, and you thought losing a max of 405DE per full drill at lvl3 was bad?

lvl4 you can lose 630/drill 1,260 total
lvl5 960/Drill 1,920 total
lvl6 1,350/Drill or 2700 total

So unless you are super super active DE Drills should be protected more the higher level they are.......

I always kept my l3 Drills inside the walls but here's my plan......

l4: 2 Rows Back Protected by Wizard Tower especially

l5: Just outside the core on opposite sides

l6: Idk Yet, prob near the core but not next to DE Storage, Giant Bombs Spring Traps and stuff protecting.

Also compared to some other upgrades esp the l4 upgrade, it doesn't tie up a ton of builder time.





I have gone off track and upgraded DE Storage to l5, and my Dark Barracks #2 to level 5.

I think I can save 5mil, maybe even 10mil to finish my DE Drills this next 8days, we will see, I will be happy with upgrading 1, then upgrading a Dark Barracks for Lava Hounds, then finally finishing the Drills.


Was always a big priority for me even before I was th9

[Wizard80]

I am only a TH8, but yes, you should upgrade them early on. As I have seen with TH9s in my clan, it helps A LOT.

[CuteBoboi]

How significant ? Except I'm riding on DE win loot bonus from Crystal all the way to Champ 1 ... I have been on DE drill since TH10 for 10 months. (Let's not count the time I'm TH9 with 2x L6 drills for 3-4 months)

10 months x 30 days x 7200 DE
= 2.16B

My HH is 3.94B only. (Which means I earn another 1B-2B via loot bonus)

AQ40 / BK36.7
DE storage 175k now. No gem DE or time.

By CoC global-chat standard, I'll be labelled a gemmer