Beastiary does have better plunder... But why does a higher plunder matter you aren't winning an attack? Lets say your only building is one 1 beast. You hit TFO and you succeed first hit, get 30K, then fail all the others. Now let's say you have one forge, you hit TFO and only get 15K first hit, but you succeed 10x. See how you earn more plunder?
the stat difference isn't that large, especially at lower tiers. use pots if you are losing more than the minimum number of troops per hit. no mater what your build is, you will have trouble hitting when you are low on troops. use pots to correct that.
Here's how to LCBC in a day (which I have done). Hit the item phase for haunting over and over. Within 24hrs I grew an alt to 1m CS
I want to be a spy build. Time to change my guilds to attacks because I'm still in the low lands. Then when I get into the high lands, I should convert them to the guilds. Thanks for this info.
The fact that you only make 8mil per hit makes me wonder what eb you're doing that you can be that bad. 4/10 since your stats, income and examples combined make no sense. Oh also, check your news feed OP.