2 Ways You Can Steal More Dark Elixir in Clash of Clans

Dark elixir is such a hard resource to come by. You need it to upgrade your heros (barbarian king and archer queen) and your dark troops. The dark elixir collectors don't really product much even when they're maxed.

Today I'm going to show you two ways you can get more dark elixir.

1. Get into a higher league

As you can see from the chart below, you win dark elixir at every league above Gold 1 for every victory.

courtesy of http://clashofclans.wikia.com/wiki/Trophy_Leagues

2. Use lighting spell on dark elixir storage

We all hate it when people do it to us, but it's an easy way to steal dark elixir. The only reason I don't do it is because each lighting spell costs 22,000 elixir and I want to make each raid profitable.

Here's an example of someone doing this to me:

 What are some other ways to get more dark elixir?

What Troops Should I Upgrade First In My Lab?

One of my Facebook fans asked this question  so I thought I'd create a post answering it. You might have wondered this too.

My reply to him was, "What troops do you use the most?"

You need to always keep that lab running. The best advice I can give you is to upgrade the troops you use the most. It makes no sense to upgrade healers if you don't use them.

The troops I use the most are: giants, hogs, archers, wbers, gobs, pekkas, barbarians, and wizards.

Right now I'm in the crystal league and it's tough to win raids with my current strategy. I am working on getting better at gowipe and balloonions as these strategies work in this league and the ones higher.