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?