Finally i get enough DE to upgrade my king.
Struggle for almost a month to gain that 22.5k

No king for war then? Should hide in shield finish two attacks in war then only upgrade.
But is okay my AQ also upgrading. If required need to wake her up early to help in my war attacks.

have you max your de drill? max it if havent.

Huh? I thought still can use at war? Ow no! What a bad timing.

Can't upgrade anymore, unless I upgrade my TH to level 9

This post has been edited by enriquelee: Jul 22 2014, 08:45 PM

We push th9. Premature base. Haha

Ya, that's what I want to avoid.
Now I still have wizard tower and hidden tesla haven't max out yet. Very hard to stock pile all the millionsss la.

Upgrade defense then can up th can ignore the walls

Wall not important?

Dun have to be too high....at the end when ntg to upgrade u can take ur sweet time

for war, upgrade core defense first. example you place mortar in core then should upgrade mortar to max first.
like in th9, ppl put x bow in core then should upgrade x bow to max first.

now the trend is to put AD in core as well. our enemy this war did that to avoid full dragons attack. so probably time to upgrade AD to max too.

Our opponent look strong this time. 31 attacks, all won!

Haha actually you can go crazy over Dark Elixir. What I mean is, if you have the determination, you can easily farm 20,000 dark elixir in four days. I wanted to upgrade my Barbarian King from Level 4 to Level 5, cause I was curious about the special skill, rage and spawn Barbarians. And it took me 4 days to farm that 20,000 dark elixir.

Not sure about others strategy, but my strategy is maintain trophy level by losing some games. My base is currently TH8. I maintain my trophy between 1200 and 1400. My troops are giants, healer and lots of Goblins. Normally, I will just aim those base with DE more than 500, was lucky for a few times when I searched base with almost 2000 DE. Normally, people place their Dark Elixir storage in the middle of their village, covered with walls, surrounded by max Wizard Towers and Mortars. Once your whole group of goblins manage to reach the dark elixir, spam your healing spells like crazy. And you confirm get those DE, although high chances to lose the game.

Interesting strategy. Maybe i should try it next time. What is your goblin level and heal level?

Goblin Level 5, Healing Spell Level 4, Giants Level 5. I also use some Archers to take down the Gold and Elixir Collectors located outside the village, just to avoid my goblins being spread out.

Just now, after typing the essay, I went to attack a village using the same strategy

Ohhhhhh! Nice!!!!

nice one, quote for future reference.

Wuah level 5 troops are gooding for farming. Still upgrading my base defenses at th7.

Yup. I agree with you. It depends on your objective. Whether (1) you want to go for DE or gold/elixir OR (2) keep your trophy. If it's the loots, then there's a big probability one may lose their trophy. So if you are going for the loots, level up your trophy to at least 1200 (preferably 1300 range and above) and go all out.

I am TH8 too. My trophy level is usually between min of 1250 - 1300+. But if I were to go offline, I will lower it down to 1300 to avoid getting raided by high levels. About that range, you may find base with min DE 500 as mentioned.

But ar wilson, I need to ask you. How do you break the walls and ensure that your gob reaches the core fast enough to get to the DE before getting killed? I don't see you training WB.

Personally I trained:

1. 12 level 5 giants
2. 50 level 5 archers
3. 49 level 5 barbs
4. 25 level 5 gobs
5. 8 level 5 wb
+
1 level 4 rage and 2 level 5 healing spell

My chances of getting to the DE is about 70-80% (get) 20-30% (no get)

Any comment, suggestion, advice?

This post has been edited by LoveMeNot: Jul 23 2014, 12:40 PM

If you are free the whole day. Can use barchers strategy. Bring a few wallbreakers with you.

Barbs to tank and archers to snipe the buildings (mostly for collector loots at abandon base). If need to go into storage then have to deploy the wallbreakers.
Keep your barracks queue with troops. Able to do continuous raiding.

Objective is loots so possible to lose trophy. So if see base with th outside, just snipe it down for trophy gain.

We are slightly behind in this war.
Good luck to all of us.