What's the most effective way to get Dark Elixir?

I am sorry for myself not being clear last time, the fact is that when you are going to score dark elixir and save it u should do following things

  1. firstly, (an easy one) make a base that protects de at the centre with a lot of splash damages around
  2. normally peole use barchers but i recommend(if u have a capacity of 200) using 60 barbarian, 60 archers, 4 giants, 8 wallbreakers, and 44 goblins, and use three lightning spells

Strategy: take the lightning spells to damages at least on or( if near) more of the splash damage objects (like, wiz tower, mortars) and the clear up the others by distracting the defenses with giants and handling them with barchers, after all the splash damage defenses has been taken out, now u dont need to fear so, leave all of the troops at once, and they will sure get all the loot

remember: Never set out all the barchers or goblin troops when there are still splash damage objects around and especially goblins

relation to dark elixir: the relation od=f this strategy with dark elixir is that, even if u come across a very strong base but u can still use the lightning spell to grab some dark elixir from the storage and use few of the barchers to take something from the pump, i did the same until i had taken my heroes to lvl 5


Barching and skipping all bases with empty collectors/drills on the outside and raiding all the abandoned bases where the layout sux and the collectors are all full.