clash-of-clans
Sometimes I find gems when clearing obstacles and sometimes I don't. Is this truly random? Has anyone seen a pattern? For instance, I seem to never find gems in the second, third, or fourth obstacle, but if I wait a few hours and spread them out, my gem-finding rate goes up.
Am I imagining this or is there some pattern we can all make use of?
All builds are different but in my opinion you should not be working on your walls at all at this time. If you face any enemy that is strong enough to blow past your defenses (cannons, archer towers, etc), they will get past your walls.
At this TH level, You should try and focus on farming & building. I do not recommend going for trophies or otherwise known as cupping. The more trophies you have, [99% of the time] the harder the opponent you are trying to farm from.
Try to max out your camps, barracks, and Clan Castle (which you also have to be in a clan) first so you can have the max number of troops to attack / farm with. At TH level 5, these are the max building levels:
At townhall level 5, max level barracks is level 7, max level Army Camp is 5 and max level Clan Castle is 2.
Note the unlocked units at Barracks level 7. The strongest unit you have is the Wizard, although you should factor in cost of elixir per attack.
As the picture above shows, you can have a max of 3 level 5 army camps which will hold a total of 135 troops. Take the 135 troops + 15 troops from a full clan Castle (which again you must request from clan members) = 150 Total attacking troops.
The last factor you have to put into perspective is what league you are in. My recommendation from average opponent strength would be these builds:
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If elixir and time is not a factor when farming, then a good tank & heavy DPS build should do the trick.
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Have your Giants be your tanks. They will go for defenses first. While the defenses are distracted by your tanks, try to attack their resources.
As I mentioned above, I do not recommend going for trophies. Once you have the majority of your opponents resources, quit the attack by tapping the Surrender button.
The more gold you have, the more you should focus on protecting your resources for when you are not playing. Therefore, I would advise putting your gold back into upgrading your defenses such as cannons, archer towers, etc. Try not to upgrade your walls past level 5 as you should put those resources elsewhere.
For me, I got to about 2300 trophies just by town hall sniping!
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It's random, but different obstacles may offer a better shot at more gems. Specifically, I think there's a "gem chest" obstacle that may show up occasionally...?
The Sims Social (on Facebook) had a very similar mechanic, including the reward chests. Some players never destroyed their obstacles on purpose to keep them around because they looked cool!