New Idea on Attacking Others

Someone attacked me last night leading with their Paladin (94) followed by their Druid (87).  They quickly destroyed one of my army base camps since the Paladin attracted all the attack while the Druid wiped them out and healed the Paladin.  Then, with that opening in the base camp they released the other 3 heroes and eventually his troops.  In the end, I got 100%ed barely with the Druid and some the army being the sole survivors on the attackers side.

I spend most of my time distance farming with the Druid, Angel and Serpent Queen without ever really attacking troops, but this lead with the Paladin idea is interesting enough to try out a bit.  I long ago relegated my Paladin to a watchtower, but I randomly got a second one yesterday on a gem roll.  Once he hits 50, I'll stick him in the tower instead and put the other one on a base.  Not sure who I'll take off, probably Serpent Queen.

No Honor Badges? No Consequences!

I just levelled up the Druid to the positive side of 80.  It cost me 200k gold and 20,000 honor badges.  I had to work for the honor badges this morning to achieve that, and when I was done I was basically left with no honor badges left.

This created a unique opportunity since I've been farming a lot of other camps lately using the strategy I mentioned in my last post.  Every time it costs me some honor badges.  However, now that I already had 0 honor badges and since the game won't let you go into negative honor badges, I could essentially raid with abandon for an hour before my next round of arena badges came in.  It was short-lived but fun.  I will be sure to look for the chance again.  You should too!

Farming Gold Strategy

In terms of raiding other players, I've found it to be laborious and unnecessary to carry out full raids on other players.  Frequently I lose all 52 of my Griffins in these attacks and some of my heroes get killed as well just for 50-150k gold.  Totally not worth it when there is a viable alternative.

My latest answer is to use my Druid, Serpent Queen, and Angel on raids.  All of them attack from a distance which is the key here.  I cycle through lots of player's setups looking for instances where buildings are positioned in a way that I can attack them without being attacked by anything but towers and where gold/mana is nearby too.  It's about 1 in 20 setups at this point.

I send in the Serpent Queen first so she can start getting charged because her toxic mist is critical to the process.  Once it is activated you start reaping solid amounts of gold/mana from the nearby buildings even while you attack a different spot.  Meanwhile the Angel and Druid keep the Serpent Queen healthy.  Just make sure you quit the battle before one of your heroes gets close enough to initiate with a hero or troops since you want to repeat this again and again and won't want to wait around to heal.

If there is only one isolated gold/mana, I just send the Angel.  She's invulnerable to the cannon tower which is good and can attack from the greatest distance.

All of this costs a few honor badges, but can help you reap a large amount of gold in a relatively short time.

I've found I can get about 100k in gold in about 10 minutes on average doing this.

More Levelling Druid

Well my Druid is up to level 77 now.  I principally am upgrading it through the dungeons.  I know I mentioned Dungeon 1 Skull 2 last time.  Since then I've moved on to Dungeon 2 Skull 1 which is worth 495 as a solo.  However, as I searched and played around I found it could solo the rooms that are 3150 mana and 3300 mana.  These pay out 517 and 540 respectively.  So, doing that has made the process pretty mindless as it accumulates over 500 exp each time.  I don't really care about the shard differences in not doing skull rooms.

I'm not using any troops in these battles.  Actually I do sometimes, but it's only to speed the battle not because of any fear of losing the Druid.  To be honest the Druid accumulates almost no real damage in these assaults.

I only have about 15,000 honor badges right now so there will be some delay in getting it past 80.  My Serpent Queen is already sitting at 80 waiting to be levelled, but I will certainly hold off and level the Druid first.