As soon as I heard you could freely respec your main with no penalty once every 7 days, I immediately changed my strat hero to some useless alt. I can proudly say I haven't participated in one strategus battle or moved my character at all this entire season. If you're interested in knowing, my character has over 84,000 gold just from sitting afk and accumulating that 1 (or 10?) gold every hour. Maybe I'll donate it to a clan that can use it, but I highly doubt 84k is even a drop in the pond for most of these armies.
