Ah, shit, my bad. Fixed.
Well, I'm a little above 2300 right now, and I can inform anyone who isn't chasing gem payouts from the Master achievement (or others like Inferno tower kills) to stay the fuck away from this bracket. Crystal is a complete piece of shit: just fucking godawful. It's not like I'm slumming, either-- I'm a TH8. I would estimate that maybe 1-2 out of 10 bases has more than a measly 100K of either Gold or Elixir. The DE isn't much better: about as many have 800 or better. The win bonus in Crystal II is like 50K Gold/Elixir, and I'm basically depending on that Gold bonus just to pay for my search to find a base with 150k+ Gold.
The only reason I'm doing this is because I have nothing left to build at TH8 except to upgrade Walls (and the Air Sweeper which is already halfway to Lvl 3). Since I don't want my Elixir/DE capping or getting too swollen to make me a legit target, I just take out war armies every 1-2 hours and go wipe someone. I came up here pre-patch for that upside: more legit war simulation of war target strength. I reached the point where the clan needs me to know more offenses than merely Dragons. The only other advantage is that there are so many snipers I catch a shield within 2 minutes of putting my tablet down after every attack, and it's almost never anything but a snipe.
But, honestly, the only reason I'm staying is because I don't want to spend sniping sessions to get back up here. I just keeping choo-chooing up the ranks hoping loot will get better by the time I reach Master's again. Even before the patch the loot was better from 1400-2000, maybe even 1200-1400, and that was loot I could score with shitty Giant armies full of Barbarians and Archers. When I do find a that rare village with loot up here, I'm depending on the strength of my war army and 3 spells to get it all. I haven't been up here since I sniped my way to the Master achieve as a TH6, and I have been a bit chagrined to learn that Crystal I & II (especially II) are by far the worst looting brackets I've ever been in. Hell, even pre-patch, at least in the sub-1000 bracket, if you were patient enough to spend 50k-70k gold searching through villages, sooner or later you would come across that abandoned leviathan with 250k+/250k+/1.5k+ all in the mines that you could plunder with like 40 archers.