A couple of people have asked how it’s possible to acquire lots of elixir so here’s a quick guide. The most important thing is to know how much you are spending to do a raid. Let’s take as an example my day to day raiding army :

Now I need to know how much this army costs and the easiest way is to get it calculated for you is by using the Clash of Clans Army Planner. Inputting my regular army shows the cost is 125,250.

Now assuming I win an attack I also get a league loot bonus of 50,000 elixir for Crystal 2 so my net cost is 125,250 – 50,000 = 75,250. So I must get at least 75,250 elixir for each raid for my elixir not to go down, and more than that for it to go up. Now this is assuming I don’t use spells, but let’s say I use one heal and one lightning in my raid, and that adds 44,000 elixir (22,000 for each lightning 5 and heal 5) to my cost, so now I need to raid at least 75,250 + 44,000 = 119,250 elixir to break even.

Just knowing the cost of your army will really help you choose the right bases to attack if you are trying to farm elixir, in particular for those huge totals needed for things like level 6 giants (6,000,000).

I also use the same system for calculating the win bonus required in wars, though quite frankly I never get close to the amount of dark elixir I spend.