I'd like to! The last time I did a guide though was all the way back for the Samsung promotion and I believe all the emulators have changed quite a bit so it'll take quite a bit of time to test them all out and see which one ends up being the most friendly.
I could write a client patch faster, in the same way that Hearthstone Access works. lol. The only downside is people would be sketched out patching their clients, even temporarily. The odds of Blizzard banning for such a thing, historically speaking, is 0. Though, folks, you should never download and execute code you don't trust the source for. Remember that!
Actually he is worse than the murlocs. He is a gnome, he doesnt use any spell school, he doesnt have any synergy.
Possibly the worst mercenary.
Doesn't have any synergy? His Tactical Strike combos off Xyrella, then starting on turn 2 he always has access to at least one Speed 3 damaging move to combo with Samuro.
It's worth noting for the second bundle that coins are far less valuable than dust once you own all legendaries, even if the two currencies appear similar. Dust will get you a whole new card to play with, while coins, if you have every merc, will get you a piddly few extra stat points. Conversely, if you DON'T own every merc, coins are more valuable than dust! 250 coins is halfway to a legendary merc - this deal offers 2400 dust in 'Hearthstone terms'. A much better deal for 8$ than traditional Hearthstone bundles.
I'm wrong, it looks like it is possible currently if you use an emulator.
You need to change the model number of your emulator to a huawei device id, like "RTE-AL00", which is the recently launched Huawei nova 9 Pro. If you need to enter a manufacturer and brand, then HUAWEI is the correct field for both.
Thanks for the reply, I not quite used to use emulators, can we expect some guide from from Out of Cards team soonTM? at least for the Huawei one
Here are all the Speed 3 (or faster) damaging abilities I can find for combining with Double Strike:
No cooldown, works turn 1: Brightwing's Faerie Breath or Xyrella's Blinding Luminance. Xyrella is particularly strong for negating retaliation damage.
Double Cooldown 1: Scabbs Cutterbutter's Wicked Stab and Shadow Blade. After Turn 1, Scabbs would always have at least one of these two abilities available. It's also worth noting that Scabb's Tactical Strike has strong synergy with the moves on this list, especially Xyrella's and Tirion's.
No cooldown but needs previous turn setup: Malfurion Stormrage's Cenarion Surge into either his Cenarion Surge or Entangling Roots, or any Nature ability of base speed 6 or faster on any other Merc.
Cooldown 1: Saurfang's Whirlwind and Tirion Fordring's Judgment of Humility. Although it cannot be used continuously, Tirion's is particularly strong for negating retaliation damage.
Cooldown 2: Alexstrasza's Dragonqueen's Gambit, with equipment to improve Speed. This can be very strong because the more retaliation damage Samuro would take, the more powerful Gambit is, e.g. against opposing, out of control Samuro, eliminating them faster than any heal can be executed. On the other hand, if you the opponent's team doesn't scale Attack, okay, here's a Double Strike activation.
There are other ways with a less certain chance of success, and the combination of Baron Geddon and Antonidas, but that pretty much covers it, as far as I'm aware.
Yeah, that's what really peeves me up the most - that bosses will sometimes just not give you the specific coin you need. For some reason it'll instead just roll around your merc team. I feel that team5 have set a low drop rate for epic and legendary coins in the boss chest, which is a dick move because its hard enough to grind as it is.
Oh yes, some people sure are determined with all these task completions.
I don't really find the time to hunt the poor stranger guy pretty much at all, but it is indeed a faster route on average. Just because the tasks give you so many coins for your Mercenary of choice (on top of extra random ones, and even packs for the final few). Heroic bosses especially are far more time consuming coin-wise, and not even absolutely guaranteed to give you what you want.
Ive been playing mercs everyday from release, have been grinding up tasks like everyone else, completed the pve, all my mercs except for 3 are level 30, and Im still dumbfounded that there are some even crazier than myself, grinding up the tasks up until #17. I think the highest Ive gathered is #10.
Just curious about those who grinded up the tasks. Is it really faster getting coins for mercs you dont have yet this way? Or will just battling the specific bosses for specific coins be faster? All my effort and Im still at least 100 coins away from an epic, 300 away from a legendary.
Fixed a bug that blocked a small number of players from entering the Mercenaries mode using specific devices.
Gee thanks. If they had been transparent about the problem i could have been playing on launch day. I had to find out from another Chromebook user what the exact issue was so I could work around it. Also re: "small number", Pretty sure Chromebooks are popular. I use mine for websurfing and mobile games because I hate playing on a tiny screen.
I'm wrong, it looks like it is possible currently if you use an emulator.
You need to change the model number of your emulator to a huawei device id, like "RTE-AL00", which is the recently launched Huawei nova 9 Pro. If you need to enter a manufacturer and brand, then HUAWEI is the correct field for both.
Outside of Korea it won't be possible to obtain the pre-reg card back as it'll require a Korean ID and a sign-up on the One Store site. I think you have to make a purchase too.
Huawei doesn't appear to be active yet even though its in the client. Unless this ends up being a China only card back.
My expectation is that if they aren't obtainable outside of those countries, given some time, they'll be available for gold.
For what it's worth, this is not just an issue with the pre-order. I just opened this pack and was disappointed to find that all of the mercs were duplicates.
Yrel
One of the best.
Scabbs Cutterbutter
Couldn't have said it better myself.
New card backs available
I'd like to! The last time I did a guide though was all the way back for the Samsung promotion and I believe all the emulators have changed quite a bit so it'll take quite a bit of time to test them all out and see which one ends up being the most friendly.
I could write a client patch faster, in the same way that Hearthstone Access works. lol. The only downside is people would be sketched out patching their clients, even temporarily. The odds of Blizzard banning for such a thing, historically speaking, is 0. Though, folks, you should never download and execute code you don't trust the source for. Remember that!
Scabbs Cutterbutter
Doesn't have any synergy? His Tactical Strike combos off Xyrella, then starting on turn 2 he always has access to at least one Speed 3 damaging move to combo with Samuro.
Hearthstone Mercenaries Gets its First Round of Post-Launch Bundles and They Feature Legendaries - Are They Worth Buying?
It's worth noting for the second bundle that coins are far less valuable than dust once you own all legendaries, even if the two currencies appear similar. Dust will get you a whole new card to play with, while coins, if you have every merc, will get you a piddly few extra stat points. Conversely, if you DON'T own every merc, coins are more valuable than dust! 250 coins is halfway to a legendary merc - this deal offers 2400 dust in 'Hearthstone terms'. A much better deal for 8$ than traditional Hearthstone bundles.
Oozefest 2
Hope we get a word search at some point or me worried about riot :P
Hearthstone Hotfix - Legend Ratings Adjustments, Mercenary Tasks Fixes, Casual Mode Quest Completion, and More
Doh, that sucks. I certainly wasn't even aware of such problems.
New card backs available
Thanks for the reply, I not quite used to use emulators, can we expect some guide from from Out of Cards team soonTM? at least for the Huawei one
Hearthstone's Hallow's End Begins Today - Fairy Tale Bundle, Free Garrosh Hero Skin, Free Guff Battlegrounds Skin, Diablo in Duels
Free skin - nice.
Note to self - play to 2 losses in your current arena run soon.
Hearthstone Hotfix - Legend Ratings Adjustments, Mercenary Tasks Fixes, Casual Mode Quest Completion, and More
Casual mode quest completion!!!!! I've missed you.
Blademaster Samuro
Here are all the Speed 3 (or faster) damaging abilities I can find for combining with Double Strike:
No cooldown, works turn 1: Brightwing's Faerie Breath or Xyrella's Blinding Luminance. Xyrella is particularly strong for negating retaliation damage.
Double Cooldown 1: Scabbs Cutterbutter's Wicked Stab and Shadow Blade. After Turn 1, Scabbs would always have at least one of these two abilities available. It's also worth noting that Scabb's Tactical Strike has strong synergy with the moves on this list, especially Xyrella's and Tirion's.
No cooldown but needs previous turn setup: Malfurion Stormrage's Cenarion Surge into either his Cenarion Surge or Entangling Roots, or any Nature ability of base speed 6 or faster on any other Merc.
Cooldown 1: Saurfang's Whirlwind and Tirion Fordring's Judgment of Humility. Although it cannot be used continuously, Tirion's is particularly strong for negating retaliation damage.
Cooldown 2: Alexstrasza's Dragonqueen's Gambit, with equipment to improve Speed. This can be very strong because the more retaliation damage Samuro would take, the more powerful Gambit is, e.g. against opposing, out of control Samuro, eliminating them faster than any heal can be executed. On the other hand, if you the opponent's team doesn't scale Attack, okay, here's a Double Strike activation.
There are other ways with a less certain chance of success, and the combination of Baron Geddon and Antonidas, but that pretty much covers it, as far as I'm aware.
Hearthstone Hotfix - Legend Ratings Adjustments, Mercenary Tasks Fixes, Casual Mode Quest Completion, and More
Yeah, that's what really peeves me up the most - that bosses will sometimes just not give you the specific coin you need. For some reason it'll instead just roll around your merc team. I feel that team5 have set a low drop rate for epic and legendary coins in the boss chest, which is a dick move because its hard enough to grind as it is.
Hearthstone Hotfix - Legend Ratings Adjustments, Mercenary Tasks Fixes, Casual Mode Quest Completion, and More
Oh yes, some people sure are determined with all these task completions.
I don't really find the time to hunt the poor stranger guy pretty much at all, but it is indeed a faster route on average. Just because the tasks give you so many coins for your Mercenary of choice (on top of extra random ones, and even packs for the final few). Heroic bosses especially are far more time consuming coin-wise, and not even absolutely guaranteed to give you what you want.
Hearthstone Hotfix - Legend Ratings Adjustments, Mercenary Tasks Fixes, Casual Mode Quest Completion, and More
Ive been playing mercs everyday from release, have been grinding up tasks like everyone else, completed the pve, all my mercs except for 3 are level 30, and Im still dumbfounded that there are some even crazier than myself, grinding up the tasks up until #17. I think the highest Ive gathered is #10.
Just curious about those who grinded up the tasks. Is it really faster getting coins for mercs you dont have yet this way? Or will just battling the specific bosses for specific coins be faster? All my effort and Im still at least 100 coins away from an epic, 300 away from a legendary.
Hearthstone Hotfix - Legend Ratings Adjustments, Mercenary Tasks Fixes, Casual Mode Quest Completion, and More
Gee thanks. If they had been transparent about the problem i could have been playing on launch day. I had to find out from another Chromebook user what the exact issue was so I could work around it. Also re: "small number", Pretty sure Chromebooks are popular. I use mine for websurfing and mobile games because I hate playing on a tiny screen.
Scabbs Cutterbutter
Because I didn't see it mentioned above: the three speeds for Wicked Stab are 3, 6, and 9.
Hearthstone Mercenaries Gets its First Round of Post-Launch Bundles and They Feature Legendaries - Are They Worth Buying?
I can only assume that it'll make a reappearance after they better showcase how it works since their original description was bad.
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Feedback: Feedback is further down the page.
Rigged Sigil: Usually, secrets have effects that are all upside, aside from an unlucky Oh My Yogg!.
Edit: Whoops, I started making feedback but I forgot to finish. I'll come back to it tonight, my apologies.
New card backs available
I'm wrong, it looks like it is possible currently if you use an emulator.
You need to change the model number of your emulator to a huawei device id, like "RTE-AL00", which is the recently launched Huawei nova 9 Pro. If you need to enter a manufacturer and brand, then HUAWEI is the correct field for both.
Oozefest 2
Awesome event - just completed the egg hunt - feel free to message me if you need a hint :)
Hearthstone Mercenaries Gets its First Round of Post-Launch Bundles and They Feature Legendaries - Are They Worth Buying?
Also can't see it...
Hearthstone Mercenaries Gets its First Round of Post-Launch Bundles and They Feature Legendaries - Are They Worth Buying?
I am see the 8 bucks deal on my store, it appears the 5 dollar offer for a legendary was removed.
Oozefest 2
I had to go to Google for that first one because there's no way to search flavor text on the site, and it wasn't anything I thought it might be.
New card backs available
Outside of Korea it won't be possible to obtain the pre-reg card back as it'll require a Korean ID and a sign-up on the One Store site. I think you have to make a purchase too.
Huawei doesn't appear to be active yet even though its in the client. Unless this ends up being a China only card back.
My expectation is that if they aren't obtainable outside of those countries, given some time, they'll be available for gold.
Problem with pre-order duplicate protection
For what it's worth, this is not just an issue with the pre-order. I just opened this pack and was disappointed to find that all of the mercs were duplicates.