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Cool. I hope to hear more. 

Slotted Noz in for Deathwing the 3rd in my Wild Big Warrior.  Less stats, less useful, but still big enough to fit the theme.  And it got me my xp!

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I have another problem with mercenary coins and I have contacted Blizzard multiple times for this. It turns out that sometimes I only receive coins in my packs, however this is not stated anywhere on their website that this happens. I dont own every single portrait of the same rarity and therefore a portrait should be included in every pack.

Do you guys have the same problem?

 

PS: The GM's are nice as always, but the solution is horrible (as always). They are blaming me for being confused.

I have gotten many packs that are Coin-only; the chance of this happening increased as my number of missing Mercs decreased. Not as fun as opening a new Merc, but I get it.

I believe the situation is that there's only a percent-chance of opening a portrait: it's not a guarantee to open one just because you're out of Mercs. It needs to flag  "oh, did you obtain a Rare/Epic/Legendary Merc?" then separately rolls to see if "did you obtain a portrait of that rarity?" goes off. If both are Yes, then you get the portrait. If the latter is a No, but the first one is a Yes, then you get a new Merc; if they're both No, because you have all the Rares or whatever, then you just get Coins.

Portraits are like golden Hearthstone cards: just because you have all the Commons, that doesn't mean you'll start only pulling golden Commons. The difference is that instead of getting a regular Common dupe, you're getting random Coins.

Thanks for te explanation. Would be nice if official Blizzard channels explained it that way, it is now stated as I assumed it was

15th October update: Christian's 16k Armour Shudderwock Shaman - 90 minutes of endurance!

16,000 armour. 90 minutes. Condensed into a 12 minute video! Interesting times!

Deck code: AAEBAaoICPoOq+cC7/cCi4oD2p0D4agDi9UD8IUEC7IG0hP5vwKXwQKn9wKVzQObzQPw1AOS5APM+QOsnwQA


https://youtu.be/2MvWA3jg6ms 

Ah yes the carrot god my favorite.

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I'm sure it didn't keep you from buying Hearthstone packs before they added that feature.

It's probably on their to-do list. It's certainly not worth getting huffy.

As far as I'm aware, on PC, being able to be buy multiple packs with gold was always a feature, or at least was added really early on.  Mobile lagged behind on this, until the shop redesign, and that did actually stop me from wanting to buy packs through the mobile client.

However.

With Mercenaries seemingly having so much reused code and assets, why are basic features missing like being able to buy multiple packs or reordering my parties? The menus are almost 100% identical in pretty much every way aside from a different background and mercenaries themselves having their own menu to upgrade them.

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I have another problem with mercenary coins and I have contacted Blizzard multiple times for this. It turns out that sometimes I only receive coins in my packs, however this is not stated anywhere on their website that this happens. I dont own every single portrait of the same rarity and therefore a portrait should be included in every pack.

Do you guys have the same problem?

 

PS: The GM's are nice as always, but the solution is horrible (as always). They are blaming me for being confused.

I have gotten many packs that are Coin-only; the chance of this happening increased as my number of missing Mercs decreased. Not as fun as opening a new Merc, but I get it.

I believe the situation is that there's only a percent-chance of opening a portrait: it's not a guarantee to open one just because you're out of Mercs. It needs to flag  "oh, did you obtain a Rare/Epic/Legendary Merc?" then separately rolls to see if "did you obtain a portrait of that rarity?" goes off. If both are Yes, then you get the portrait. If the latter is a No, but the first one is a Yes, then you get a new Merc; if they're both No, because you have all the Rares or whatever, then you just get Coins.

Portraits are like golden Hearthstone cards: just because you have all the Commons, that doesn't mean you'll start only pulling golden Commons. The difference is that instead of getting a regular Common dupe, you're getting random Coins.

I have another problem with mercenary coins and I have contacted Blizzard multiple times for this. It turns out that sometimes I only receive coins in my packs, however this is not stated anywhere on their website that this happens. I dont own every single portrait of the same rarity and therefore a portrait should be included in every pack.

Do you guys have the same problem?

PS: The GM's are nice as always, but the solution is horrible (as always). They are blaming me for being confused.

That's fair. What I meant to imply was that your external rating does not accurately reflect your skill in the mode. Like Battlegrounds, and like Standard, they're planning to reset your external rating. I hate that 'get back to where you were' grind, because they make it very easy, almost guaranteed. It's boring, tedious busywork designed to keep you coming back to the game. It's not 'meaningful'.

I also wish they'd stick to a ranked system and ignore MMR altogether, but that's another kettle of bridges.

They are active now. At the top of the chat window you can find your progress.

I see there's more than one Merc with that kind of problem: Jaina's Task 2 required me to use Heating Up, which is a Baron Geddon ability lel

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Not bad, this time: 2 Noz opponents in 8 games on Wild ladder!

Also, "You may want to pick the Casual mode to not only prevent any potential Ranked losses [...]": Rubbish! Straight to Play Mode!!!

 

I want to do it in casual but i cant, cause now casual for me wont progress ANY quests

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The drops haven't started yet though.

That was my question mark :) tks

Gave the deck another try. This time with a bit better results: 

Heads up if you are working on Gul'dan:

His second task says you need to deal damage with Gift of Ner'zhul. There's no such ability. You actually need to deal damage with Rain of Destruction.

I'm sure it didn't keep you from buying Hearthstone packs before they added that feature.

It's probably on their to-do list. It's certainly not worth getting huffy.

Usually if no time zone is mentioned, it's Pacific (PST/PDT), since that's where Blizzard is located.

If I recall correctly, clicking the "drops enabled" link takes you to a page that shows progress. There is such a page in any case.

The drops haven't started yet though.

how do you know how much time is still missing to get the drop?

There was a way, but I do not remember - tks

What's the time zone?

I am too. But it's a bit too bare bones for PVE. You play to get coins so you canget to the highest level missions so you can...get coins. They got too greedy with skins and there's nothing else besides skins and coins to work towards. 

Are you sad that two days into Mercenaries and your Rank 2 Xyrella can't compete with those filthy whales Rank 5 max item one? Well, say no more, because Air Elemental is here to do some fast grinding for you.

How, you ask? Well, let's just use my example. I am fully f2p right now (didn't even buy the 5€ welcome bundle), but I was pretty lucky that my first pack gave me Anduin Wrynn, a pretty good legendary that was one of the cornerstones of my story mode team.

So, naturally, I thought of ways to get more Anduin Wrynn coins to make sure he stays in top shape and the only place that has a "guaranteed" chance of dropping those coins is in Lord Banehollow (and LB Heroic). Now, the quotation marks are there for a reason, I grinded the LB bounty 8 times and in only 3 of them did I get Anduin Wrynn coins (on the other hand, I got like 300 coins for Bru'kan and he became beefy now). Naturally, I was pretty disappointed at how things turned out, I spent a lot of time grinding and I barely got enough scraps for a rank 3 Holy Nova. 

But how does Heroic Air Elemental help? Simple. He's the first bounty that guarantees a random event tile (I'm not sure the normal version also has one but just a lvl 30 merc should be enough to beat Heroic). And those random events can get you those sweet tasks that always nail you those sweet Anduin Wrynn coins.

So, let's talk optimization:

1. You need the Merc you want to grind (in my case, Anduin Wrynn). Make a party with him and 2 (only 2, no more than those) lvl 1 Mercs you want to pump some levels in.
2. Go to the random event tile. You got Mysterious Stranger? Good! That's why there's only 2 other Mercs on the party, to guarantee you'll get the Anduin Wrynn task.
   • If you didn't get the Mysterious Stranger, just retire, you're wasting your time finishing the bounty unless you're planning to grind Cariel Roame coins (they're one of the rewards to finish the bounty and Cariel Roame is also top tier).
3. Now this is the tricky part. If you believe you can finish the Task before you get the chance to get another Mysterious Stranger, then just do it. If you can't (for example, Anduin Wrynn has a task that involves visiting 4 Spirit Healers; naturally, you can't do that in just one run), then add a 4th member to your party, this one being someone that you want to also grind Merc coins on (in my case, Blademaster Samuro and Xyrella; I added Blademaster Samuro first since he's lagging behind a bit in the coin department).
4. Don't forget to swap those underleveled Mercs once they reach level 30.

In case you're wondering, this is a terrible grind and, quite frankly, a boring experience. But since the game decided to hide your tasks behind the Mysterious Stranger tile, this is the fastest way to find them. 

PS: Mercenary Whales, you're not filthy. You're adorable too.

Xyrella would need some sort of tuning at some point. She basically just invalidates most attackers, and that ability is enormously fast, faster than most. Not surprising that most at the top end tend to be mercs that shoots rather than attack.

Which brings me to another question, why are there even attacks when shooters do just about as much damage, dont take counter damage, and cannot be stopped by taunt or roots? Murloc and beast builds just dont work simply because of taunts, and Xyrella's blinding luminescence just cancels it.

Oh that's nice. Would be funny if the streamers are playing every other game mode except mercenaries 😅