If you buy "Traditional Heartstone"(tm) packs for gold you can double-click/double-tap on the "100 gold" button on the left to enter a custom amount. I tested this with Stormwind packs. This seems not to work with Mercenaries packs. 

This is not good for Blizzard because I would've sacrificed some of my gold for this but not if I have to buy the packs one by one. Perhaps I've already lost interest in the mode once this is fixed.

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.

Hello.

I´m an android user, and i can´t play Xyrella properly.

She is on my party, but i can´t drag her to the play zone.

Anyone else with this problem?

Thank you!

Just wanted to know if any other player is having the same problem:

Ever since the new update, I cannot make any progress in any of my quests, I don't get any new "bounties". Tried to refresh my quests, I have even cancelled the Mercenaries special quests, but nothing works. 

Any suggestions?

This is my shadow deck for mercenary

LK

Tamsin

Vol'jin

Mutanus

King Krush

Sylvanas

Is not to bad, what you guys think?

Hi,

Thank you for all the early support on Mercenaries! I love looking at what kind of parties others have thought of. It would be nice if there was some way to either import or manually select which Mercenaries you own, so you can quickly see if you can build a certain party. Thank you in advance!

Can somebody explain in detail the following words?

- Horde

- Deathblow

- Critical Damage

Thanks

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.

Competition Theme: Welcome Back Party

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• You must create a card which is themed around the WoW event, Brewfest
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To start us off, Arkasaur is looking to get festive. Eat, drink and be merry - and make sure your entry does too!

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When browsing cards in the Hearthstone card gallery, if you are on a page with one class icon clicked (so you are only seeing cards from one class), and you perform another search where you deselect the class icon, your new search will still only show you cards from the previous class you selected. Interestingly this only happens when using the Hearthstone card gallery, selecting the equivalent icons for the other card game galleries works normally. Thank you for looking into this!

Despite what I'm about to say, I am still excited for Mercenaries. I think it will be fun and have a fair amount of depth to its Pokemon-esque collecting, leveling, and battling systems. With that in mind...where the fuck is Blizzard?

This is not a normal card reveal-season where one can just disappear for three weeks without a word: it's a brand new game, and there exists a very vocal subset of the player-base which is upset. The reveal stream was a whirlwind of information, and left a bad first impression for some. PC Gamer called it "a masterclass in how not to announce a game." Blizzard needs to do right be these people and provide more details: an AMA, play-time with a streamer, another blog; something to help rebuild the lost hype. I want Mercenaries to be my go-to Hearthstone game in the future, but as the days go by in silence my concern that it will be dead-on-arrival continues to grow.

Don't let me down, Team 5: you and I both need this win, and right now you're blowing it.

This is the composition that might take an edge on the combo and burst damage lineup.

the nature buffed team

for starters I choose : Guff/Thrall/Bru’kan 

Thrall is your carry here and Guff tanks for him while Bru’kan disrupt. This team is very sensitive to fighters but again I don’t think will see many starters including more than one fighter. 

On the bench we have malfurion, Brightwing for nature combos and kingKrush as a finisher 

Samuro or illidan could work as well but KingKrush seems superior andTirion would be my second pick . 

let me know what you think of this lineup and if you have better combos to pull of. 

So they have advertised "over 50" initially available Mercenaries ... well, guess what? They already revealed 52 on the reveal stream this morning.

You've got the ten "Mercenaries" of the Year of the Gryphon ...

The ten "original" heroes of Hearthstone classes ...

Gromm, Ragnaros, Jaraxxus, Samuro, Voone, Blink Fox, Antonidas, Cairne, Sylvanas, Diablo, daddy Roame, Gruul, Mukla, Mannoroth, Mutanus, Arthas/The Lich King, Tirion, Varian, Krush, Tyrande, Millhouse, Geddon, Murk-Eye, Rathorian, Saurfang, Alexstrasza, Brightwing, Anacondra, Morgl, Velen, Natalie Seline, Shadow Hunter Vol'jin.

That's 52. All confirmed in the stream.

Interesting that Rathorian made it; he's the only one I (as a non-WoW-player) am completely unfamiliar with from War2, War3, and HS.

Hi folks, it's clear Murloc's are the underdogs in Mercenaries, but I wondered how you murloc lovers out there were going to make your builds work? I wanted to share my solution which I think can cause absolute chaos in PVP; especially with Mutanus & Murkeye builds being one of the few lineups that can counter the popular BXT starting lineup. Checkout this 'Call in the Finishers' theorycraft which hides Murloc combos behind the safety of Uther & Cairne taunts, reborns and divine shields, while releasing powerful Morgl & Sylvanas damage from the bench 

Visual build reference below, along with description, full hero guide here

Find more merc news & theorycrafts over at @CampfireStone

I’m really excited with Mercenaries and I would like to know peoples opinion.

Which bundle will you buy?  Personally I’m will chose Lich King because i feel good protectors are few ( Lich and Cairne). even if I love Diablo.

for the leveling up, I will concentrate on Lich king, Cairne, Xyrella, Millhouse, blinkfox, breathwing, Tirion, Tyrande, Samuro et Diablo/Sylvanas/Illidan if I have the chance to open them. 

i m still thinking on which team to build for PVP: 

i might start with : Cairne/Tyrion/Xyrella with blinkfox/Millhouse/Lich king on the bench due to there long cool down. 

Impatient to know your opinion guys!!! 

We got some valuable information today about various aspects of Mercenaries, so I'm wondering what new thoughts are swirling out there.

Stuff that matters to me personally:

• 153 free packs plus 76,500 additional coins from Campfire quests
• Crafting costs for mercs!
  • 100 for rare
  • 300 for epic
  • 500 for legendary
• Certain coins drop more frequently from certain Bounties, so you can farm that legendary you're dying to have
• Less than 10 hours played time to get your party to level 30
  • Assumes you stick with the same party roster
  • Can power-level new Mercs by letting them watch from the bench
  • 50% more Merc XP for Heroic Bounties
• Mercenaries updates should be as frequent as Battlegrounds updates
• No nerfs for PvE reasons, minimal for PvP unless something totally breaks the game

As someone who enjoys unlocking and collecting things, it seems like the game will be a lot of fun if I never buy a single pack with cash. The packs from quests will be more than enough to collect a ton of Mercs, and every Merc you pull from a pack will unlock more quests. This cycle breaks down once you've got all the rares and epics, so maybe you end up grinding coins for some legendaries at the end, but that doesn't seem so bad to me.

EDIT: Corrected price of legendary crafting

This is the line up I would go with to punish Arcane/Freeze/Orc compositions 

The goal is to nuke the enemy fighters like Tyrande/diablo(combo break)  Samuro, Rokara, and illidan. No mention this will destroy Thrall comp’ as he will die turn 2. 

For this we start with Antonidas/Geddon/diablo and we go turn two for AoE flame strike boosted by Diablo. With this set up their protector(s) will die and the character of your choice preferably a fighter who deal double damage to your casters. The casting time reduction of Geddon is the key. Otherwise either antonidas or Diablo will die first. 

On the bench we have Cairne for CD and taunt Ragnaros for the equipment giving 20Pvp if it works on all party. And alextrasza who can be replace by any high speed and damage output fighter as you team burst mainly protectors. 

This team might struggle against nature builds, super healing builds and fighters builds very unlikely. 

Let me know what you think, if you have a better combo to pull of. 

Thanks

• Fixed a bug where Maestra of the Masquerade would sometimes have you start the game as a Rogue (not her best disguise).

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/news/23724327/21-3-patch-notes

My game today:

Which one do you think is better? I need to make a decision pronto. I have an idea of how the mode works from Trump's videos. (Gameplay looks amazing BTW though I'm bummed that there doesn't seem to be any RPG aspect to it.)

Lich King - https://outof.cards/hearthstone/mercenaries/heroes/52-lich-king/

The Lich King looks better to me...maybe? His Frost Shield seems amazing. Taunt and freeze. Whoever hits him has to skip a round (of attacking). That could be their whole team! But you have to wait till turn 3 to use it. Death Coil has great flexibility: damage or heal. Frostbite makes an ability permanently slower (though its speed is 9).

Diablo - https://outof.cards/hearthstone/mercenaries/heroes/54-diablo/

Diablo's abilities are faster on average (all 6 speed which is cute) but maybe weaker? Apocalypse could be really, really good but hard to tell right now. Taking critical damage from all types could add up to a lot. Doom Charge also slows enemy abilities but only for one round, but it's 3 faster than Frostbite. Fire Stomp is AOE so kinda strong, especially against slow enemies since it will repeat for each enemy that hasn't acted. Only 2 damage though.

As for treasures Frostmourne looks very, very good. Looks better than anything Diablo has.

Art-wise....the diamond ones are both great but Diablo's is a bit better. And his two other skins are much better than Lich King's.

I don't know. It's hard to decide not having played the game before. What do you guys think?

I’m just not having fun playing standard at the moment. The game is just an aggro fest and every deck’s only goal is face.

How do you guys have fun? Should I just switch to Wild which (shockingly) looks more healthy?

Scroll below to see my sig and, well, finally there is an example of it. Half & Half is a game where you and opponents select 15 cards and play the same deck of the 30 combined. It's unlimited fun because you never know what's coming.

Especially if you get crazy with it.

I suggest before it ends everyone tries out my crazy Rogue deck:

Bazaar Burglary, 2 Hallucinations, 2 Dragon Hoards, 2 Wand Thief's, 2 Togwaggle Schemes, 2 Hench Clan Burglars, 1 Academic Espionage/Polkelt (AE makes games longer, Polkelt quicker) Tess Greymane... And both Yoggs.

It's ridiculously fun because you literally are playing a deck of possibly every card in Hearthstone history and you don't have to worry about clunky cards in your hand because the opponent has to deal with them too.

Treat yourself to the biggest clown fiesta you have ever seen as you and your opponent laugh yourselves to death ; D

Also so far in 8 games or so I have a 100% Winrate bc opponents don't know what to do and rogue cards that they receive tend to suck.

Scroll below to see my sig and, well, finally there is an example of it. Half & Half is a game where you and opponents select 15 cards and play the same deck of the 30 combined. It's unlimited fun because you never know what's coming.

Especially if you get crazy with it.

I suggest before it ends everyone tries out my crazy Rogue deck:

Bazaar Burglary, 2 Hallucinations, 2 Dragon Hoards, 2 Wand Thief's, 2 Togwaggle Schemes, 2 Hench Clan Burglars, Tess Greymane...

And both Yoggs.

It's ridiculously fun because you literally playing a deck of possibly every card in Hearthstone history and you don't have to worry about clunky cards in your hand because the opponent has to deal with them too.

Treat yourself to the biggest clown fiesta you have ever seen as you and your opponent laugh yourselves to death ; D

Since Hearthstone is seen as multi game mode platform now, would it be a good idea for the articles to have subcategory labels for each of the game modes on the HS frontpage? Should be helpful for easier filtering out of content especially for users who are not interested in all of the game modes.

WiscHahshuo#1753.