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Hello :D,  this is an idea for a Shaman card.

I wanted to  make it a dual class card, i wanted it to be dual from the beggining, but only mage with 3-4 cards  and very few neutral cards can transform minions, so i decided to use a custom class i was starting to think of, but the card generator was bugged and showed it as half shaman half neutral card.

What do you think? :D

I know, very original "Sea Witch"

Almost a week has passed since the patch and I still cannot login into my account, anyone else has the same problem here?

Did the workaround on reddit worked for you? Idk I don't even feel like using a workaround anyway cause it's not my fault the game is unplayable for so long..

As part of Eternal's next set in early November, Dire Wolf is giving 150 Expedition-legal cards to all accounts, old and new. So this may help bring in new players or for veteran players it may fill in some gaps they have in their collections. The cards cannot be dusted into shiftstone, even if duplicate.

Competition Theme: Spirits of Competition

We've got a special competition to celebrate Oozefest 2. You can choose any (or multiple) of these three prompts for your card to follow.

• Run Away!
  
  • Design a card that returns a minion to its owner's hand or deck.
• Over My Dead Body
  
  • Design a card that interacts with Deathrattles.
    • While your card (if it's a minion or weapon) does not need to have a Deathrattle, just merely being a Deathrattle will not count. We want something more directly synergistic.
• Trick or Treat?
  
  • Design a card that gives your opponent something harmful.
    • For example, Curse of Rafaam or any of the "Bomb" cards.

Does anyone have what it takes to pull off the ultimate trick and meet all three prompts?

Oozefest! As part of our Hallowe'en celebrations, we bring you a new spooky competition to celebrate the season.

We have some special prizing available for this one-off event. All rewards will be given out after the competition concludes.

• Participating without disqualification rewards you with 10 Gold and 10 Candy.
• Finalists earn 25 Gold and 25 Candy.
• Winner receives 100 Gold and 100 Candy.

As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Sun, Oct 24 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Fri, Oct 29 12:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Fri, Oct 29 12:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Oct 30 11:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sat, Oct 30 12:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Oct 31 12:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

Please note: This is a special competition and not in a normal season.

"choose an enemy to take CRITICAL DAMAGE for all Roles this turn. Deal 4 damage to them"

Can somebody translate this in plain English :) ? tks

So, Mysterious Stranger on Air Elemental was gutted. While it is sad, and while you can argue about the priorities Blizzard have (let's face it, we all know what they are, Bobby "Goblinlord" Kotick needs a new 150M$ bonus check), it doesn't change the fact the Random Event Tile (RET for short) is still very shallow in terms of gameplay. Getting one of 4 options (Potato, Portal, Sabotage and Stranger) is boring and feels cheap. So what can we do about it? Here's my suggestions:

1. Remove Stranger altogether (I have a different approach for task collecting);
2. Add a lot of events (both good and bad), allowing for more variety of gameplay throughout the map and, more importantly, allowing for more than one RET on the map.

So, what are the events I'm suggesting?

1. Keep the Hot Potato. It's a genuinely interesting gimmick, it only falls into sore eyes because we want the Stranger;
2. Keep the Portal, but add the option to walk into it or not;
3. Keep the Sabotage, even if it's boring and has almost no gameplay impact [it remains mostly as a placeholder for more interesting detrimental effects, with a smaller chance than other events];
4. Boons become RETs. You won't know where they are on the map anymore;
5. Spirit Healer can be found on RETs;
6. AMBUSH!!! -> You face a team of 6 Mercs all at once who were payed to stop you on your tracks. But it turns out, those mercs were payed partly in advance, and they were payed with up to 25 coins for a random epic/legendary merc (rarity and number of coins depending on the bounty you're in);
7. Bananas! -> King Mukla passed by here and forgot some bananas. Your team picks them up and eats them, granting a +X/+X buff (again, depending on the bounty);
8. Sidequest! -> Send one of your mercs alone on a sidequest, removing him temporarily from your team. He promises he'll come back to you before the final boss and he returns with a special treasure (like the ones you gain when you face elite battles), or he finds a new task for him (if you didn't finish all his tasks. If you did, he returns with a couple of merc coins, with a higher chance of those coins being for him) [both the task and the amount of coins he finds also depend on the bounty and you find less coins than the AMBUSH!!! event];
9. Mud Pit! -> Oh great, now you're all muddy. And look at the dirt on our treasures! We have to clean them up. You won't be able to use your treasures next battle;
10. Bob! -> "Hey there, friend, glad to see you. Here's a treasure to make sure your travels are safe". You gain a random treasure for a random merc (you don't even choose 1 of 3);
11. Wrong turn! -> You can only find this in the middle of the map. It changes your pathing, nothing too special [it's also mostly a placeholder, low chance to get it on the event pool].

These are just some ideas, there could easily be more of them, both beneficial and detrimental. These ideas also represent pathings with more than just 1 RET (for example, I could easily see bounties from Heroic Blackrock Mountain with 5 RETs, especially when you consider that Boons would stop showing up as Boons themselves [some tiles would still be Spirit Healers, you just also have a chance of finding them in a RET]).

Now, regarding the Mysterious Stranger, my answer is actually simple. You ALWAYS find one after completing a bounty. However, to avoid abusing early level bounties, the level of your task depends on your bounty.

• Barrens -> Up to Task 2 (the first 3 bounties), Task 3 (the next 3 bounties), Task 4 (the last 3 bounties);
• Barrens Heroic -> Up to Task 3 (the first 3 bounties), Task 4 (the next 3 bounties), Task 5 (the last 3 bounties);
• Felwood -> Up to Task 8 (the first 3 bounties), Task 9 (the last 3 bounties);
• Felwood Heroic -> Up to Task 9 (the first 3 bounties), Task 10 (the last 3 bounties);
• Winterspring -> Up to Task 14 (the first 3 bounties), Task 15 (the last 3 bounties);
• Winterspring Heroic -> Up to Task 15 (the first 3 bounties), Task 16 (the last 3 bounties);
• Blackrock Mountain -> Up to Task 17 (the first 3 bounties), Task 18 (the last 3 bounties);
• Blackrock Mountain Heroic -> Up to Task 18 (all bounties).

These are my suggestions for events to spice up bounty runs. What do you guys think of them? Guaranteeing Mysterious Stranger as an extra reward severely diminishes frustration with grinding and the increased amount of events makes each bounty more unique and engaging. EDIT: Also, throw in more ideas if you have them, maybe we could actually see some of them in-game.

PS: Turns out it's hard to think of detrimental effects without simply gutting your team. I feel only Mud Pit! really worked as a one and done detrimental effect (Sabotage and Wrong Turn! feel very meh), with the more extreme ones (AMBUSH!!! putting you in a 6vs3 fight and Sidequest! temporarily disabling a merc [maybe you can choose which one, maybe not]) compensating the detrimental effect with a reward. I feel that is a way detrimental effects can be more engaging.

Today I broke and purchased the Mercenaries Welcome Bundle. One pack contained an alternate portrait for Brightwing (who I already had) instead of one of the many epic Mercs I do not have. WTF? Aren't you only supposed to get alternate portraits if you already own all the Mercs of that specific rarity? I'm feeling pretty cheesed off here.

Bladmaster Samuro Task 8 is

Use the Boon: Fighter coin 2 times

What does that mean? Tks

When an ability such as Anduin's Holy Word: Salvation has wording that says "Your humans take two less damage this turn" it help mitigate critical damage?

What I mean is this: Say an ability does 10 damage and 20 critical damage.

Does Anduin's damage reduction apply this like:

(Ability Damage * Critical Damage) - Damage Reduction = Total Damage

(10 * 2) - 2 = 18 damage

or like this:

(Ability Damage - Damage Reduction) * Critical Damage = Total Damage

(10 - 2) * 2 = 16 damage

I just tried it and it didnt work.  Even though I trick or Treat my actual house every Halloween!

If I purchase (7.99€) the Legendary Coin Purse will I get 3x250 coins of Legendary I don't own (and in this case it can be reasonable) or are they random coins? Tks

Hey,

I just notice two new card backs available one from log in a Huawei device and another for pre register in somewhere...

Any guide expected from out of cards team how to obtain those card backs, I remember doing the trick for the samsung card back but I dont remember how...

Thanks.

Got the Halloween graphics set up and everything. Can Arena players have duel class, it's um Oct 19th? Nope. Not only does standard wild battlegrounds and this new excuse for a mode suck but for the only game mode you can play now we are not going to even give you that.

Wow.

I have the quest to defeat 12 Furbolgs (yes, I'm still not through PvE). But where are they? I'm currently at 1/12 which was the boss from Stage 1. In all other stages there are only Owlbeasts but no Furbolgs (which I googled should be bears). Am I supposed to to the first boss 12 times? Or are they all in the last stage?

Btw: any tipps for Icehowl? Just tried it once but failed.

Competition Theme: Top Three-cret

Third time's the charm, so buckle up for another Secret competition!

• You must create three (3) Secrets for a non-Secret class
  • Just like Rogue, we need to see a few Secrets at a time to get a feel for how they're going to work in a new class!

MathU and Neoguli are asking us to be extra secretive this week - and to teach the remaining classes how to do it too!

As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Oct 18 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Oct 23 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Oct 23 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Oct 24 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Oct 24 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Oct 25 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

No thread rules were added to this season. Please populate and manually edit this thread with them.

I have tried with various level 30 parties, but with no success? Any hint ? Tks

Where do I load a Hearthstone deck in mercenary mode from? I searched all over the site, but found nothing.

It worked on Oct. 15th since I completed 1 of 3 of the Noz quest. Now it doesn't work. No progress to Nozdormu, no progress to "take x turns"

Hey guys,

Anybody know the range of possible coins one gets for each bounty? I'm wondering if there's one that's quickest yet gives good coins for farming.

Thanks,

~Bub

Hello everyone.

I notice a bug where at step 3 of antonidas that require to deal 95 dmg with his fireball storm ability that doesn’t count. Anyone have the same problem? Thank you in advance

A full guide to help you max out your mercs fast. Enjoy :)

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.

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?