Is it just me or does the blacksmith not really change as you upgrade it, it looks like they didn't really put any thought into the design to make it match each Town Hall even slightly

They either need to let you use heros while upgrading or massively reduce upgrade times. Not really because of these issues but literally just QOL

The problem isn't really with the ores and equipment, there was already a problem with upgrading heros, hero's equipment just made that a bit worse

i’m not going to lie, the ores and equipment and all that really killed the game for me. i think one of the biggest issues is that if you miss an equipment from an event, it’ll eventually sold later for 1500 gems. i think it’s really scummy to lock a core gameplay mechanic behind such a large gem wall.

Something I would like to see is when hero’s are being upgraded they can’t be used on defense but they can be used on attack while being upgraded

For me a good way to fix this problem is that for all 5 heroes upgrade you get a good amount of ores so that you can *at least* upgrade 1, 2 equipment so that we still keep the old system of 5 heroes levels = 1 level of capacity

My biggest issue with the ores is besides the limited ways to acquire them, during CWL they don't drop double the amount even though you only get 1 attack. Similarly, during star bonus events only the loot gets the multiplier and not the ores. Seems very short sighted.

honestly the equipment should have still been tied to hero levels since there still is a reason to upgrade them and you still can mess around with different combinations

i also think its a good idea to maybe implement ores into the builder base star bonus so people will play it more. I have no reason to play it anymore because I already got the 6th builder. I only play it when im waiting for troops to train or just bored

It could be simply elixir or dark elixir. It would be way simpler. We really did not need or want any sort of new currency. Those gems are extremely annoying

That update was great. We just get too small amount of ores to upgrade equipment. We should get some from just attacking bases and it would be enought. Also putting ores in raid medals shop is important.

There are a couple changes that I believe would help with this -Reward people with ores for upgrading heroes (Already upgraded heroes would automatically receive the ores) -Make the original equipment only upgradable by heroes levels (how it originally was) That would would make it more likely to upgrade heroes since almost every attack includes one of the original equipment for each hero -Similar to 2 but maybe make every piece be able to reach a certain level depending on hero levels -Not let the hero potion make your heroes max depending on your town hall, maybe instead of 5 levels increase it to 10 levels per hero Other side things that can be done -Make a Star potion for the home base - Be able to purchase ore with raid medals

I think the best way to balance the hero upgrades is to make it reward ore upon completion and maybe like a certain milestones you get more of the rarer ores. Either that or they just have to flat out reduce the time and cost for each upgrade level cuz you don't get anything remotely worth the investment, or they need to make it so you can use the hero at the previous level during war attacks like how you can use the buildings that are upgrading for your war defenses. They have made it so that the hero potion boosts heroes to the town hall max instead of + 5 so they basically buffed rushing heroes since you can get enough hero potions through raid metals to cover three wars a week, and it's not like wars are the biggest way to get ores as the daily bonus gives you more per day but having the extra income from wars is necessary. I definitely think they were trying to boost the popularity of normal wars cuz I bet most clans just do cwl and nothing else so this makes it so that clans are always going to be spinning up wars which will improve the matchmaking but they didn't think about all the consequences it would have on the game economy. If they really wanted to buff the popularity of something they should have added the ores to the builder base considering the battle machine and battle copter will probably get equipment eventually as well, and with builder hall 11 coming out soon maybe they could add either three new collectors or just combine them somehow into like a multi resource collector

The current issue with ores is 2 fold. The first issue is the lack of which you can receive from cwl, clan wars, and attacks. If we look at best case scenario for a month. You're a th16, your in Legends League, you war every day including cwl. If you war every day for 30 days besides the 7 days for cwl then do regular wars on top of doing Legend league 3 star bonuses. You'd get on average if you win all wars. For LL you'd make 30,000 shiny and 1,620 glowy. Cwl will net you 7,532 shiny, 266 Glowy, and 35 stary. Regular wars is basically the same as cwl 2 attacks taking 2 days. Giving a total of 30,128 shiny, 1064 glowy, and 140 stary. For a grand total over a full month you'd get 67,660 Shiny, 2950 glowy, and 175 stary ore on average if we won every war. What does it cost to upgrade 1 equipment from 1 to 18. 27260 shiny ore, & 1920 glowy ore, or 36860 gems ($270) to max a single equipment from 1 to 18. What about epic equipment you might ask. 56060 shiny ore, 3720 glowy ore, and 480 stary ore; or 91460 gems ($660) You will never get enough stary ore to keep up with new epic equipment if it drops even every 3 months for new epic equipment. The bottleneck is the glowly ore really because you will have an abundance of shiny but never enough glowly or stary. In addition you need to be online every day for at the very least 6 months to upgrade the 6 "new" hero equipments not to mention the 8 "old" hero equipments that should already be at lv 15.

the war part isn't a huge issue as there are plenty of clans that don't care about basic wars and don't care whether or not ur heros are upgrading. only time it does if u want to participate is in clan war league. The only thing i don't really like about these new resources is that there are only 2 ways to acquire them for free. On top of that one of the ways heavily depends on winning clan wars and if u lose u get less than half u would of gotten by winning. A lot of time gating and a lot of relying on others to get this resource effectively

I think something to really consider though too is that we know CoC recently expanded their dev team, and as a result they'll likely place some focus on expanding the world and game by trying new things. They have the people that allows the time for experimentation. Maybe we're simply in an early phase of a concept that had initial release oversights and simply needs to be better fleshed out to help everyone's capability for smooth progression. That said, I agree with everything mentioned in this vid but I just wanted to voice that possibility.

I think they should incorporate the upgrades of heros into the blacksmith as well which will allow us to use them even when upgrading. Also getting rid of book of heros is a better idea imo. Also we need more ores. They can just give us more ores from clan wars and star bonus to mitigate the problem of insufficient ores.

I love that you started to make videos longer than 8 mins, i don’t know if you read my comment a few vids ago but it may be a coincidence that I asked that you make them longer since they initially felt like cash grabs feeding off the popularity of the update

For me updating heroes would be great if you got some huge bonus of ores every 5 levels maybe even reduce time or make them completely usable so their update would be like walls, instant with some small bonus for big price but after a while it would add up, i dont know why they didnt keep this mechanism of updating skill/equipment of heroes as you reach new +5 level, especially when lower townhalls dont have any bonus from previous levels of heros skills and even those who has they dont have much ores to update those new equipments to usable form for their townhall

“Epic equipment isn’t out” We do have one out, the giant gauntlet.

I personally really like the new ‘Hero’ update. Yes it could be tweaked a little but…I still think it’s good for the game.

People are complaining about the 1500 gems but gems in coc are way easier to get than many people realize. You will be able to get that amount in 3-4 months easy f2p just through regular game play

Glad to see I'm m not the only one seeing this problem. I was wondering when people were gonna speak up about it. Especially with the starry ore. I play casually, so I'm always opted out of clan wars.

I understand that the upgrading of heroes feels kinda underwhelming now but other than that it’s really good. I think this update is great and that people should be happy about change in such an old game, it’s just so hard for people to be happy now

they should make it so you can use your heros in war even if they are upgrading and leave everything else as it was before

If you start upgrading the equipment at townhall 8 like usual, you'll find yourself maxing your equipment easily. It's just hard because it got added to th8, and people who are way higher now have to catch up multiple townhalls worth of equipment upgrades. It's like if they suddenly released a new hero in the future that you can get access to at th15, but then you start crying about it because you have like 40 levels of catching up because you're a th17. Why can't people just think before complaining? Even if you participate in 0 wars due to hero upgrades, you'll still have a fairly easy time leveling up your equipment, as long as you try to stay at higher leagues than usual for your townhall level.

I think everytime you upgrade your heroes you still level up the originak gears/abilities and only thoes so it allows you to have a reason to upgrade heroes and allows you to usee your ores on the new equipments for the heroes

I leveled my base to TH14 and maxed all heros and troops completely f2p. Working on TH15 now. The game has gotten wayyy better every year for f2p. No army cost was a game changer, because before that, i never used any good armies especially dark elixir troops because I needed resources for upgrading. Raid shop was also great, and it's hard to tell cause all my equipment was given lvl 15, but the new system should be better for f2p because you can now increase the power of all heros partially without putting them down for upgrade. The key as always is, you have to play the game. Clan wars, CWL, raids, multiplayer attacks....

Maybe somewhere in the middle would make all players feel better? Retain the items and the heros being separate, no need to roll back their work. What they can do to pivot is tie the original items to the heros level, leaving those unable to be leveled with ores and every 5th hero level you get the next rank of their ability like it was before. This way you can still have the heros level matter being tied to two items that will keep up with them and if you want to swap then you only need to level half the amount of items.

I've been saying since I started playing a year ago, the heor upgrade time should max out at 1.5-2 days or just let you use the heros while they are upgrading but double their recovery time (same as upgrading barracks) basically not being able to use my archer queen at all since I've gotten her over 6 months ago is ridiculous.

I think removing the inability to use heroes in attacks while they’re being upgraded and maybe reduce their costs by at least 25% but preferably over 50% would solve some of the big issues this update brought along. ATM I can basically only upgrade my heroes for 2 and a half outta the 4 weeks of every month (for CWL). If I do upgrade them then I earn even less ores from regular clan wars because we’re more likely to lose. I do like the idea of ores being obtained from builder base bonuses and I personally think even the raid capital should be included in this. You get a certain amount of ores based on how many attacks you do each weekend + the league your clan is in or the amount of damage your clan does. Or even just adding them to the raid medal shop. (I just want more people to do raid weekend 😭)

the only problem here is that the trophy economy is broken. When I pushed back to champion on my th9 most of the bases I found would give 3 trophies per 3 star. Especially townhalls at equal level or th10. Mostly I had to attack th11's which are ofc impossible to 3 star, and really hard to 1 star (for a th9). Hoping that I could find a base where 1-2 stars would give me 10-20 trophies (often just getting 5-7 trophies). Okay, all fine and dandy right? NO! When I got attacked I would lose 40-50 trophies, so I had to attack 5-10 attacks just to BREAK EVEN... And I have a lot more time to spend than most people. Let's not even talk about losing like 30+ trophies if I fail to get a star on a th11. Because of this, I only had time to push trophies during the halloween event, with broken troops, and I had to play during classes. This needs to be fixed, because attacking cassually. It's genuinely hard for a th9 to break out of gold/crystal... that's AWEFUL. And because of this, the ores I can get are sooo limmited unless I nolife the game to an unreal extent, and that's unacceptable for a mobile game.

They should reduce the cost of hero upgrade (dark elixir) and have more ways to obtain ores such as raid weekend, normal attacks, or even special events

Actually it is a problem that can be easily solved. As BDLegend rightly said, with the heroes potions now raise them to the maximum of your TH, so you go to clan war all the time until you have a large amount to have all the common and epic ones at level 18. Once you have done that, start improving the heroes, because even if you have them low level, with a potion you can raise them to lvl 80-95 in case you are TH14-16, and with the medals of the capital you can buy potions for the 7 days of CWL, saving the whole month that you are raising the heroes.

the best way to fix this issue is lowering the upgrade times for heroes and allowing them to be used while upgrading (just like troops) and boost the ammount of ores you get

I don’t think that the amount of ores you get is too limited since I could already upgrade the new epic equipment to lvl 12 by just doing a few attacks every couple days, so changing that would just lead to everyone having every hero ability maxed out in like a month but I do agree, that hero upgrade have been made much worse

Ores would be completely fine in my opinion if they reduced the time for upgrading heroes. No reason to keep the original upgrade times if they’re going to lock most of the stats away in something else

once again great topic to cover! keep up the great work!

The problem that always was is that heros are unusable for a week when you upgrade them. Ores just make this issue much worse. I have lvl 90 hero’s and I’m treating them as walls now and saving them for last as the gear is just more op

They will probably have to balance it by nerfing Hero Equipment Upgrading, aside from being limited by the level of the blacksmith to upgrade an equipment it also needs a requirement for specific level of heroes, example for a level 8 Eternal tome, Warden must be at level 40, something like that.

I love that you switched the clash a rama content with content that you are talking about

i think they should now compress the hero level... like from 95 reduce it to 20... that way we will have 1 or 2 new levels of heros for each townhall and it will help the players use the heroes easily... yeah they can increase the hero prices and time and also the hero book price (1500 gems)

the problem with clash of clans is that the more quality of life changes and things they add to make the game easier, the more people expect for coc developers to make it even easier than it already gets. the point of the game is to grind and wait patiently for upgrades, and even with the new equipment and pet that was added to make attacking far far easier, people still find something to complain about or ask to be made easier. dude, if ur leaving because of the th16 update, that's actually the worst time to have left 😂 ofc people are gonna see 1500 gems as p2w, but what do you expect? the point of events for epic gear is so that it feels rare and important for you to be active when the events occur. for new players, obviously itll take time to get the gems to afford gears, but u literally don't unlock equipment till th7, u have plenty of time to buy epics. just dislike how part of the community wants the game to be braindead easy. learn to have more patience and grind 😭

All of this is mitigated when Hero Potions are accounted for. They now max your heros for you townhall Level and you can ALWAYS get enough of them from raid weekends to participate in every war and CWL attack and have max Heros. So this update actually made progression much much friendlier, because hero levels now don't really matter, so you can always have them up and use them + still upgrade the equipment via the ores you get.

I think it’s really stupid that upgrading my hero’s is basically pointless besides the hp boosts. The fact that no matter how much I upgrade my hero’s, it won’t ever matter to their abilities again. This update was a cool idea, but the game suffered because of it.

LOVE the new update. That said, the suggestion of some ore included with each new hero level would assist casual players.

"Epic equipement isn't out yet" Giant gauntlet : *Am I a joke to you ?*

The thing is quite simple: F2P or average player cannot depend on heroes and power potions for ever because raid medals are more useful for builder and lab potions due to massive time and costs reduction(same for CWL medals except in few cases where buying hammers is a better choice) . Even if you use potions to have a max offence, your skill cannot be boosted by a potion so if you are not able to attack and score high destruction you are doing worse than stay at you current level without rushing. You need to have high level heroes otherwise high level defenses knock them down in seconds. So to short things up if you have pretty strong heroes you can do as much wars as possible to gain ores and max out few strategic equipments. (Eternal tome at 1st place) otherwise I think it's better to upgrade heroes and doing only CWL once a month to balance out between heroes level and equipment one and if you are used to buy gold pass or you buy it often it's even better due to books, bigger banks and even more reductions. Right now ores are a concept like in royale so totally pay to win also time wise is better to upgrade heroes at hight levels.

yeah currently hero levels are trash, they cost so much for little value and one thing people judge your progressions is hero levels so having them low restricts you from cwl. they need to change the cost and especially the time and currently it's very much very needed to make sure everyone will upgrade their heroes. if changes not made it's actually cheaper to buy hero potions in the shop for war

I really do hate the fact that it's kinda a must now to play in clan wars I've not been very active the last few months but its kinda like a daily routine to empty my collectors, do maybe one attack and upgrade when i got the ressources Now it sucks even more since upgrading my heroes is worth nothing and i don't have the resources to upgrade my equipment

Ores farming in boulder base? Greatest clash of clans idea I've ever heard since the latest update!

There’s nothing wrong with the ores. I love that no one can just max them all out overnight. I think it will also have ppl think twice about rushing. Forces ppl to go into war more too. I remember being in clans where our like #1 would attack their #20. I think there will be less of that too, given that the amount of ores you get depends on the strength of the base. It’s the hero upgrade mess that needs to be fixed, ores are fine.

I am in titan 1 I get most of my shiny and glowy ore from normal attacks but I get starry ores only from clan war which is not a big problem because I am leader of lvl 12 clan so I think those who are at high leagues and high level clans this update is beneficial to them (also I am a free to play player) my tip to succes in clash of clans is just stay in a clan for high time then start a new clan with low requirements then you can be successful after few months my clan was a success after starting 7 clans so I think its a bit risky also

I agree with a lot of others here. There needs to be some correlation between hero level and equipment. A multiplier onto the gears effects based on the previous hero +5 lvl system could be a good compromise that keeps a similar feel while allowing you to use any equipment.

I really like the new equipment system but they really need to do something about the ores, it feels like they put no thought into it

the beauty of coc was when you didnt play for like some years you could come back and just start grinding again and still eventually unlock every new thing….. but with the equipments now not anymore once miss the event and then the offer for gems you cant get it anymore🤮

Could be pretty easy to fix, make ores in the raid/league medal shops and to the Builder Base Starbonus. And to fix the Heros they should remove the Hero upgrading time or make them usable while upgrading, but that would make hero books useless so they should remove the upgrade time completely.

They should make it so ALL ores can get obtained from clan games as well,it’s only once a month for a week but the very first level of the blacksmith can already hold 10000 shiny ore so it shouldn’t be a problem to make a tier 5 reward like 3000 shiny ore,600-800 glowy ore, or 20-25 (maybe more) stary ore,it wouldn’t be huge but it would be a good first step to making it more achievable to free 2 play players along with encouraging higher participation with clan games since in my experience some clans still struggle with getting higher participation in them especially when we have the rewards up to 75000

I agree, i was excited with new abilities of the heroes but i really hated the addition of 3 new currencies. I have really continued upgrading my heroes because im around maxing them in th14, and i thought that upgrading the heroes would also improve the abilities. I havent really payed that much of attention to the new abilities, but between them and unlocking the epic equipment only by a specific period or event is really shitty. I have a feeling those abilities are gonna be OP and the full idea of equipment should be variety on strategies, but it seem they are trying to make it more pay to win. I love the idea of variety but make it accesible. We dont need to duplicate the currencies just for them.

there a few issues that needs to be addressed firstly atleast the base abilities of the should have been attached to the hero upgrades and additional equipments withe the blacksmith atleast that gives a purpose to upgrade the heroes and secondly the cwl i have recently seen rushed players with decent defenses rushing to 16 with hero potion giving them max heroes so no way to stop them with def as u had mentioned in the rushig video up th level use potion and up the equipment.

I like my clan because theyre pretty chill about wars, you can join a regular war even with all heroes down, as long as you get both attacks in they dont care, in CWL though you must have your heroes up which has led to some mistakes in timing making me buy a hero book for 500 gems, but they let you grind ores without your heroes so its not so bad for me to upgrade heroes before cwl

Things that must be added to make ores ab it more accessible: 1) If there is a X2 or X4 star bonus event, give the multiplier to the ores as well not just the loot. 2) Add a new clan perk to give 20% more ores in wars. 3) Add ores to the free rewards in the season challenges

I m a casual rushed th 14 player in legend 4900 didnt sign up for the league , i get 2000 shiny ore every 2 days from bonus and around 1500 shiny ore from 1 war , Which gives me a total of 10500 shiny ores in 6 days ( 3 wars +6 bonus) as only doing 2 to 4 attacks daily thats it . With these many ores i can get any equipment about 5 levels , you can calculate glowy ores yourself as it requires about 50% more time to acquire for the level upgrades Tip: Day 1 Do only 4 stars in bonus Day 2: get 1200 raid medals Buy 3 hero potion and 3 power potion and 3 training potion. Every 2nd day do attack in war with max level heroes and troops and , the use the training potion to get your army fast and get 6 stars for 2 bonus(after your 2nd bonus has become active) with max level army as it will be boosted within that 1 hour., so a total of only 4 attacks on 2nd day with max level and only 2 attacks with 2 stars on the first day . This will give you an efficient use of the potions

You should be able to use upgrading heroes in clan wars. Not in normal attacks yes but alteast in wars i rly dont understand why this isnt a thing yet

only a matter of time before they cave into the popular idea to add a potion that allows temporary use of heros when upgrading

Make the OG equipment get upgraded w the heroes and it solves the issue! F2P players can just use default equipment and ores will be for all other equipment

Getting put into wars and winning wars is not an issue with rushed bases,especially now days. You can pop a hero/power potion to get almost the full benefits of a maxed players offence while being matched against someone who’s just as rushed as you or simply a lower townhall. You are actually encouraged to rush in clash of clans now days. It’s a myth you will lose more wars,in fact if most of your clan strategic rushes they can go on crazy winning streaks due to being matched against less optimal rushed bases. 90%+ wars are won simply based on activity,especially in rushed clan wars.

The 2 best ways i can think of to fix this issue is to cap out the equipment level depending on the hero level, and add ores to the raid medal shop.

my problem is if an equipment gets nerfed or a better one is introduced, all your progress leveling the old equipment is gone. Your hard earned ores can be gone in a patch notice.

For the ores i dont really see an issue ive been able to upgrade the abiliys fairly quick, but i also am permawaring just without heros bcs im in a smaller clan where noone really has all his heros up all the time

They should decrease upgrade timers for heros. Im doing good because my clan is chill about upgrading heros during war with the exception of cwl because more is on the line there. But right now there's little reason to upgrade the warden when his main use is the eternal tome and now thats separate. Im going to upgrade my royal champion and king normally but try to use books and hammers of heros specifically for the queen and warden

this is true, very bad for the loop with upgrading heroes, people just use the newly buffed hero boost potion for every clan war instead, and just not upgrading the heroes

$ on top of that the hero potion gives anyone any hero from lvl 1 to max which is unfair to those of us who were grinding from the beginning to lvl up heroes

Upgrading heros should give enough ores to upgrade an equipment at least at pace with the heroes level. Not just the original equipment but enough if not more to maybe pass some extra stuff to another base.

1. Allow hero to be used while upgrading 2. Compress the time upgrade if hero is lower than townhall level.. So if you're TH 13 and still have lvl 15 BK(th8 lvl), you can just do 1 upgrade and skip a few level.. (1 upgrade for 5 lvl for example)

The ores are so hard to get, especially starry ores. For some upgrades you need 100 starry ores which takes too long to get. I messaged supercell and all i got was "thanks for your feedback" reply.

I feel they should add a new district to the clan capital in which there will be an ore mine as clan capital does not provide any help with getting ores.

Too bad the entire premise of this video falls apart because of one simple fact. The new hero gear is exceptionally easy to get to a high level. and once you do easily get to that high level you can resume the former gameplay loop of upgrading heroes constantly except during certain events (like CWL), where you can now use heroes who would have had an otherwise similar hero level (because you resumed the normal loop of upgrading) but with INCREASED power as compared to the previous gameplay loop before the update because their hero gear is maxed out, making them very strong..

Two simple solutions for these problems: Make heros available during attacks while upgrading (they can still be disabled for defense while upgrading) and make the ores available for purchase with raid medals as an easier way to obtain them for free to play players, as well as make them a part of the win attack bonus that players get for winning an attack.

Upgrading the heroes was already quite flustrating above th 12 because they are really the most op troops for attacking, even with 1 hero down it's basically impossible now to score 3 stars against a th 15. Equipment is a really refreshing and cool feature making attacking a bit easier but the accumulation of ores are definitely a problem that need to be solved. Hero upgrade time is also getting a bit out of hand when the max level is almost 100. I think it's good punishing rushed th-s because it's ruining the gameplay for both ends. Limiting the th upgrades to a certain average levels of defensive towers would be a great solution.

I just want my green bars back, helps motivation and to see if upgrading a piece of equipment is worth it.

I don't mind the upgrading time for heroes, but I think they should make the heroes available to use even when they are still upgraded.

Despise this system was the dumbest thing they could've done.

"First ressource that is limited and blocks progression for free to play players" Are you actually crazy? TIME. TIME IS THE BIGGEST WALL IN THIS GAME. If they didn't limit the ressources you could earn per day, the upgrading would just take time and people would hate that too like come on. Also just use Hero Potions for clan wars instead of upgrading Heros, you can easily get enough of them per week via raid medals.

They should treat Hero upgrade like troop upgrade, or the revamped barrack and spell factory upgrade. 1. Either war would have a different system that would allow Heroes be always available, just like how war base has everything always available. I mean it was unfair to begin with, for the offence side. 2. Can use hero while in upgrade with a greater healing time, though I think the previous idea is much better.

I still participate in clan wars when I don’t have a hero or two available I’m not sure what’s the big deal with upgrading a hero just attack lower than you usually would. You make it seem like you can’t still attack.

i think that instead of unlocking hero equipment level from blacksmith lvl you should unlock the next level of equipment if ur hero is high enough level

hoping that they add ore mines in builder base or something (clan capital maybe??) so that people can still get equipment resources while upgrading heroes

The hero equipment should not be upgradable, it should get better along with the hero upgrades.

You and your channel is really unique 😊

I would agree since heroes from th 14+ take way to long to upgrade and many resources.

I feel like a good solution would be to just let you use the heros while upgrading. They've done this to several buildings already. The training barracks, the reserch lab, the spell factories, even the pet house and blacksmith can all be used while upgrading... so why not heros. Defenses are one thing, and theres probably a discussion if those should even be turned off while upgrading, but all the buildings in the game that don't turn off so far when upgading are offensive based buildings for your armies. Heros are part of that offense... so just let us use them

Remove hero upgrade time all together so that it allows players to continue to participate in war especially since the hero upgrades are less valuable now or alternatively allow players to buy hero books with raid medals

maybe they can give some ores if you upgrade a hero maybe if you do 5 upgrades on your hero you can upgrade the abilties to the equivalent level

Imo the original or default abilities should be tied to heroes level, and you can upgrade the others from the blacksmith. These would make sense to upgrade heroes and wont disturb the ores system either.

Yes they should incorporate the ores with the builder base it would be cool and give players a reason to attack in builder base

Imo they should make a mine for the ores like the gem mine For example if u reach a townhall in builder hall then u unlock a mine that the more it gets upgraded the more ores it produces while unlocking other ones

They gonna need to add collectors for the ores but even then there’s still a lot of problems a maybe good way to deal with the hero lv’s they can try to compress the lv’s

Making equipment levels depend on the hero levels would help give those upgrades their value back. Still, hero upgrades should become faster or cheaper now given that their abilities have been pulled out

I don’t even do clan wars but i’m fine with ores coz you get so much from star bonus and collection events