I hope SC does change their minds on this issue as it is a black cloud dragging the game down and it is just depressing. If there is a way to balance upgrading heroes and being able to war effectively with a hero down without causing the process to upgrade heroes to drag on for extra months and months I am not smart enough to figure it out. I am not even in a serious war clan and even they say "just gem it then" when venting frustration of not being able to use upgrading heroes to war. If I had not found the hunt for big loot to be fun and satisfying in ways I probably would have been done with the game after TH 8. As it is, I am pretty much done with war since TH 9.

