MagmaHound's Strategy Guides/Crystal League Farming for TH8s

Why Farm in Crystal League?

 * The loot bonus. Crystal League is the lowest league where you find DE in your loot bonus. Crystal 3 provides 35k each in gold and elixir and 100 DE per win. Snipe a TH, and that's free DE. Compared to it's neighbor Gold 1 (14k each, no DE) that's a big 150% increase in loot bonus, the biggest percentage increase from league to league in the game.
 * There ain't many raids there owing to the fact that people are desperate for your TH. As maintaining trophies is not a very easy thing to do in Crystal League (snipes are rare, but not impossible to find), putting your TH outside, 100% unprotected is the best way to go, which will be explained later. Compared to Gold League where you get farmed by TH9s very often, in Crystal you will get sniped at least 70% of the time, even if you have 6 million in your storages or full DE.
 * To get the collector raids that reside in Gold 1 without getting farmed by the TH9 that lie there. According to this link regarding Clash of Clans matchmaking, you can be attacked by Crystal 2s but people from the 1800s range won't ever see you. Unlike Gold League where you have to mainly rely on storage raiding, Crystal League farming can be done with mostly collector raids.
 * For the Dark Elixir. It is no doubt that with the loot bonus in effect that you'll profit in DE, and for the fact that DE is more abundant in higher leagues.

When Do I Farm in Crystal League?
==== I do not have a general idea because I only started when I was a mid-late TH8. But as TH6 and TH7 get steamrolled there I suggest not going there until you have at least reached mid-TH8, and have maxed your splash defenses. From then on, you can stay as long as you want, I have. ====

Note: Currently unfinished.