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Well so far i realy like it. Only bought the Welcome Bundle and the rest , at least till now i`m playing it F2P. 

Had to read and learn how the Game Mode works but once you get the hang of it , it is pretty fun - at least to me :).

Hope that this enjoyment will last and that the mode will get even bigger / better.

Same for me. The small bundle for 5€ was okay and currently I'm having fun. Let's see how long this lasts. But if I would have bought one of the preorders and had no fun with it like OP does I would have regret it much.

Actually it was

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Similar designs, so it's a question of preference. Armor gain is usually more expensive and harder to achieve than simply dealing damage with Nature spells, so Zuluhed should cost more than Deathwing Lord Prestor. I personally lean more toward Zuluhed because I want to give a win condition to Dragon Shaman, although the numbers still need tweaking.

If you're curious, "Zuluhed the Whacked" is an actual character, leader of the Dragonmaw clan and even makes an appearance in Gul'dan's Book of Heroes. The weapon is made up, though. Lord Prestor is Deathwing's human form, like Onyxia/Lady Prestor, so I gave them the same statline.

maybe im wrong because im not that good at giving Feedback but shouldnt the first card leave out "the" after equip? 

So it would read "If all minions in your deck are Dragons, equip Mace of the Destroyer" 

Also - here is my first idea:

Edit: Added the (rounded up) text so i do not have the "stats." as an orphan at the end of the sentence.

A little sad that i did not made it to the finals but one day i will see one of my cards in the finalist voting phase :) 

Congratz to the Winners!

Well so far i realy like it. Only bought the Welcome Bundle and the rest , at least till now i`m playing it F2P. 

Had to read and learn how the Game Mode works but once you get the hang of it , it is pretty fun - at least to me :).

Hope that this enjoyment will last and that the mode will get even bigger / better.

That's nice to know. Would be a real bummer if it weren't the case.

Not used to looking at South Africa for my timezone, being from The Netherlands ;)

I think you're approaching this as a whale who has most of the stuff already so there's not much point in playing further because the very essence of replayability in a PvE game is mostly either challenge (some games can really ramp it up, even in something as mundane as zombie army 4 for example) or unlocking new stuff.

I wouldn't call it a really grindy game, because the rewards aren't exactly bad as long as you complete the bounties, which gives out decent stuff. But I can definitely see where you're going with this, because I can't imagine myself being in this mode for too long. Perhaps somewhere around 20 hours or so I'll probably give up on the game, unless team5 have more surprises installed further up the ladder.

One thing I will say though; I was under the impression that the mercs will eventually 'evolve', that is to say that the portraits will eventually get better and better the further their levels go. This would add some progression at least, because I really wanted to grow baby krush into a king, but turns out that this would only be possible by luck via packs because the portraits work like skins - much to my annoyance, because it would certainly have given me motivation to actually grind those mercs up. Oh well. Guess ol' kurtrus would have to be content with a loin cloth until I chance upon a shirt for him.

And one last thing; the games quite unimpressive in terms of aesthetics. A small nitpick to be sure, but it is what it is.

Those were immediately available after Merc launch

I thought, when i clicked on a 200 button for upgrading my tavern, that it was spending my normal HS gold. Glad this isn't the case.

Yeah, once I opened up my packs it turns out that you can get the same merc but different skins (golden, diamond etc.) so its entirely possible to get the 'same' merc twice.

Just curious. When you got your pre-order lich king, etc. Were those immediately playable, or do you actually have to get the merc before you can play as lich king etc.

Interesting, first time I read that they added bots to PVP

I preordered the Mercenary preorders and in packs I got duplicate legendary mercenaries. 

I believe now I understand where is the problem - most likely wrong technical decision by Blizzard, which caused damage to paying customers.

On the preorder bundles Blizzard stated: "The Lich King Mercenaries Bundle includes a Diamond Legendary Lich King Mercenary and 50 Mercenary packs" (and it was the same description with other preorders).

But this was false advertising. The preorders only contained Diamond Portraits, not Diamond mercenaries, thus they were not included in duplicate protection. If they were really Diamond Mercenaries, not Diamond Portraits, I would get a regular legendary mercenary instead of a duplicate one. But for both Lich King and Diablo packs I purchased I opened a Lich King and Diablo mercenary from a pack (not portrait, the basic mercenary) getting a duplicate instead of a new mercenary. I believe, this is unacceptable.

I can't open Mercernaries at all, not even just to get to the tutorial. I've updated, reloaded game, restarted my netbook, etc. Really frustrating.

Is there any way to find out for which mercs I own a alternate (eg. golden) Portrait? I opened some golden ones but didn't pay attention. So I had to click on each card to see if I can choose another portrait. There doesn't seem to be a quick way or search keyword. I searched for "golden" but that only showed me the mercs for which I already set the golden portrait.

I mostly agree with the comments. The gameplay is a grind. Once you will level up your party to max, the only thing keeping you alive will be PVE battles, with  meta builds. 

I see this game as an extreme grind, with bounties rewarding 10-25 coins of a particular mercenary and you needing shitton of coins to level the abilities. 

I will play it ocasionally but definitely not as a main game. I hope there will not be Merc only daily or weekly quests

The aim of this bundle is introduce the payment to players. Who pays once, even a small amouňt, is more inclined pay again

I bought all the bundles and bought the intro bundles after launch also. I’ve opened 170 + packs and have all the toons except 4. I could craft them with coins but what for?

I didn’t watch any of the pre-launch stuff and just dove right in.  After leveling 15 toons to 10 and going through most of the barrens content before I got bored I think the mode is pretty simplistic to play and doesn’t require much thought for a whale. You just outlevel the content and steamroll it

This mode will be bot fodder for f2p players because it’s very repetitive. 

Blizzard just took the coding from existing modes and tossed it together and voila! You have an addictive gacha with power level walls.

The higher level stuff does ramp up and you pretty much need level 2 abilities or the right toons to defeat the runs.

I average about 550-600 coins for every merc toon I have so upgrading isn’t an issue. The grind for an f2p would make me rather hit myself in the head with a hammer..

There is very little thinking when you outlevel the content and even if you didn’t there still isn’t much . 

I’ve spent the gold and upgraded the starting areas as far as I’ve gotten. The quests were a breeze to do and went quick. You do get a bit of rewards track xp so that’s a bonus. 

The best thing about the mode are the voice acting ,animations and interactions.  You get random treasures and bonuses that buff your party and the enemies as well to mix things up a bit.

I won’t bother to spend another dime on it and will just run through the quests and that’s about it. 

The mode is a welcome break to the boring state of the main game right now so that’s the biggest plus. The only way I foresee anyone really caring about this mode is if they introduce cross mode rewards that force players to engage the content. 

I foresee this getting old very quick and the rating rewards look abysmal.  

it’s pretty easy to power level new toons as they all get xp just for being in the party even if you don’t use them.

pretty much all of the battles so far have just been focus fire one enemy and burn it down, rinse  and repeat.  The mode will have to eventually support bigger parties and multiple phase matches to really have any thinking involved imo.

A welcome distraction that has potential but the gacha coins monster this is will have the community raging no doubt. This is exactly why I see it ultimately failing. The grind will be insanely boring which will just kill motivation to play, I think. The mode will end up being a whale fest mixed with tons of bots. 

We should see some time extrapolations soon based on re-running the same level content for the rewards I’d love to see just how much time 40 pack bundles save you from grinding.

Enjoy the new mode for what it’s worth. It has potential but as of right now I’d give it a 4 out of 10.

I seem to have hit a much worse bug: it won’t let me build the merchant cart that Valera wants to progress the tutorial (not available in the workshop). As a result I’m stuck with only the campfire, the tavern, and the travel point. I don’t have the last two mercenaries, don’t have ability to open packs, and now after playing a while with the 6 mercenaries I have Valera wants me to build a fight pit, which of course I also can’t build due to the middle part of the tutorial having disappeared :(

And the tooltip bug on mobilemaking it impossible to see what ability the center enemy is going to use makes battles significantly harder until you learn what they tend to do. 

This is helpful to know the upgrade costs, thank you. 

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Also, how do I replace 'Show Spoiler'? I've been wondering for a while now.

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I really appreciate how fast this came out; I didn't expect myself to enjoy the game mode so much that I would want to theorycraft. 

I don’t know a lot about the psychology behind F2P games, but my guess is that they found that $5 deals are counterproductive. If you buy it, then a week later when a $20 sale appears you’ll decide you can pass because you just bought something. Not EVERYONE will think that way, of course, but if just 25% of $5 deals keep someone from buying a $20 deal, then it’s not worth it.

It looks like Hearthstone reserves the $5 price point for introductory deals only. New players also get (got?) a $5 deal on normal card packs. The thinking behind this is apparently that it gets the player used to spending money. 

Actually better deals than the pre-orders. I think pre-order people have a legitimate complaint here if they want to press Blizzard on it.

That's right, FortyDust said that.