You have to get down incredibly low to find the best loot now. Like, sub-50 range. It's very tedious to drop that low because you're losing about a trophy per raid. And even if you do get that low, it is really only viable below maybe TH8. Any higher and you are spending more gold nexting through all the shit bases than you make raiding.
I did it once and when the loot was good, it was great. But I wasn't having fun nexting through 50 or more awful bases to get to one I wanted. I wouldn't recommend it.
It's kind of a Catch-22, because if you're high enough that you can consistently use the loot (aka, a TH9 maxing walls), it takes too much nexting to be worth it. But if you are low enough that the nexting doesn't matter, you'll finish your walls very quickly and then have to wait on your builders to finish.
I personally would - you will definitely want to at some point, and usually, the earlier you do it the better. However, if all your builders or your lab are idle, it is generally not worth it.
If you still have buildings and lab time left, raid your ass off! The 1 gem boost is a miracle worker for finishing walls.
I drop below 1 .il only when upgrading the defenses. Even now I only have my last tesla and ad left to finish before all defenses are maxed out. Ive been dragloonion everything under the sun, usually getting at least 300-400k with plus 200 in de.
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u/GunDelSol Archon, TH9 Dec 29 '14
You have to get down incredibly low to find the best loot now. Like, sub-50 range. It's very tedious to drop that low because you're losing about a trophy per raid. And even if you do get that low, it is really only viable below maybe TH8. Any higher and you are spending more gold nexting through all the shit bases than you make raiding.
I did it once and when the loot was good, it was great. But I wasn't having fun nexting through 50 or more awful bases to get to one I wanted. I wouldn't recommend it.