Talk:Dark Elixir Drill/@comment-24492829-20140212013754/@comment-2170536-20140926221331

You get a DE storage at TH7 because you absolutely have to have a storage in order to use it. Without a storage you can't put it anywhere, so even if you did obtain some in a raid it would be wasted.

I think a big reason the drill doesn't come until TH8 is because they probably foresaw a firestorm of complaints by new TH7s that immediately built the drill before they built the storage, and then realized they couldn't collect any of it. Opening only the storage up at TH7 definitely enforces the "build the storage first and then the collector" concept.