You don't actually need to build legitimate armies to farm. The easiest way is to just do all archer attacks, or 1/2 archer 1/2 barb attacks, and hit bases with full collectors or storages on the outer edges of the base. You can tell the collectors are full by looking at the elixir collectors and seeing if there is purple at least halfway up. Gold 2 is the sweet spot I've found. You can steal a ton of resources off of fully upgraded TH10 bases with this method. Also make sure that you're fully maxed out at your current TH level, or it will take forever to upgrade if you move up early.I played for a few weeks between November/December but it lost its charm after I hit rank 7 or 8 town hall. The cost/benefit of attacking another village became too high. You had to get lucky and find people that had left the game with minimal defenses in order to justify spending your army on attacking.
I might check it out again one day, but it's a pass from me for now.
Because it sounds like you're barching down in gold where the filthy casuals and TH7s hang out. Use Loonion (24 loons, 40 minions) to get up to Masters 3 (about 40 minutes between raids using this army comp), and you'll power through those walls at a much quicker pace. Yes, you spend 4x as much elixer per attack (minion cost offset by the loot bonus), but you'll also earn 200-300k gold every single attack and not just spamming next for hours either. You can boost your barracks through crystal 1 once or twice if you want to spend 80 gems, I'll often use 1-2 heal spells also if the target is particularly lucrative and I want to wipe out more of it.I have a very near max TH8 that just has air defense and walls to do but I just can't stomach to put in the time to farm the rest and go up to TH9. I've just been farming gold at a very very casual pace to finish off the walls(FU you supercell for the elixir nerf to TH8 walls). It's basically when I've collected enough gold through my collectors is how I'm finishing up my wallks and if I log on and my shield is up I'll do an attack with PEKKA's and wizards. I've been at max elixir for months with nothing to spend it on.
I appreciate the insight, but I haven't had the game installed for over a couple years. I'd hope things have changed quite a bit since then (you quoted an April 2013 postYou don't actually need to build legitimate armies to farm. The easiest way is to just do all archer attacks, or 1/2 archer 1/2 barb attacks, and hit bases with full collectors or storages on the outer edges of the base. You can tell the collectors are full by looking at the elixir collectors and seeing if there is purple at least halfway up. Gold 2 is the sweet spot I've found. You can steal a ton of resources off of fully upgraded TH10 bases with this method. Also make sure that you're fully maxed out at your current TH level, or it will take forever to upgrade if you move up early.
Don't try to use the lightning spell on storages. It no longer works on them.
I still did this at TH9 but I got bored with wars and don't play any longer.
I'd recommend you either do Barbs and Archers first... or Balloons and Minions. Both are good at TH8 for farming.I'm still at the early th8 stage where my guys aren't upgraded enough to really push into maxed out th8s since all those defenses get 2 upgrades this level. I think my early upgrade priority will be Giants, Wizards, balloons for the easy pickings. 36 hours and giants will be done.
3 days and I'll have all the DE troops unlocked for this section and that will give me some variety once this method gets tedious. Minions were the only thing I didn't max out before opening th8.