Lol, this totally made my Twosday morning. 

The NYT crossword puzzle is also celebrating the day, fyi. 

"For the price of completely giving up your chances to win," lol

I really appreciate these articles and the humor within. 

And the warnings as to which achievements take more tracking effort. I still haven't won that "create every type of golem" achievement from the last Kazakus. What is it with that guy and note-taking requirements? 

Feels like the language of the tasks could be much clearer. I end up checking after the first fight to make sure progress is actually happening. 

And in the last patch, I noticed that the Mysterious Stranger now shows the 3 task options when you hover. Maybe that worked the whole time on desktop, but now it works on mobile. So nice! 

Tonight I had enough coins to craft Galvangar, cool cool. 

Then I took him on a couple bounty runs to unlock some abilities, cool cool. 

Then the collection manager showed -268 Galvangar coins. Math, y'all, it is just so hard. 

Daowen, I haven't beaten Heroic Garr either. He does have frost weakness, so that is one avenue to try. 

Killing his firesworn one at a time is going to yield less damage, but that Hunting Party treasure (you can get it with a beast party) might help more. 

Popsicooler is a ton of stats on board, and I barely squeaked out a win with my holy damage (with lots of healing) crew. There's probably a better way to do it. Maybe more immunity? 

"I am actually quite nice!" 

Relatable, relatable. 

Fresh tip: I just completed Heroic Icehowl today, and even after he had turned one of my Mercs into a block of ice, it was still able to cast its abilities. Like they were Rooted instead of Frozen. 

Not sure if that's a bug, or a change from the latest patch, but I don't think non-heroic Icehowl worked that way (weeks ago). 

So make sure your party includes damage from a distance! 

I haven't been tracking my win rate, but I can confirm a very high rate of Concede-when-there-are-3+Void-Hounds. 

Sensible, really. 

Tuesday should bring some shakeups, and certainly some other fun things to try in Duels, Battlegrounds, and Mercenaries. 

Maybe hunt some achievement XP until then? 

Thanks for the ideas, Swizard! I love it when I can chase achievements and wins at the same time. 

Setting aside the mistakes with the heal-up, I'm still baffled over the original issue. I saw the dust popup. So I had somehow recorded too many copies of golden rewards cards? 

Like, did the rewards track show 2 uncraftable cards and then it added 6 to my collection? 

Nailed it! Diablo did nicely as a finisher, and my fire comp held their own and did lots of damage. 

Alexstraza's Gambit ability did much work, plus she picked up a treasure that restored everyone to full health. Coupled with someone else's treasure that did not allow health to be reduced below 1, and boom, two extra turns to zap my enemies. 

Onward! 

A "sense of accomplishment" is not my primary goal! I'd just like to unlock the next thing. 

I don't think I've ever seen those Assassinate treasures. Closest I can recall is Sylvanas stealing 3x3 from everyone. 

The Hunting Party treasure that prevents new things from spawning does not work on Blackhand's gang, so I need these additional ideas! 

Hey fam, I'm creating this thread as a spot for tips, tricks, and comps for tackling a specific PvE bounty. 

If there's a better space for this kind of thing, let me know. 

An example, Lord Banehollow's crew have Holy weakness, so bring your holy damage to finish them off. 

Second example: I'm stuck on Rend Blackhand. What did you do against a boss that can deal 200 damage in one shot? 

How about a Merc that could create a (one turn only) friendly copy of an enemy character? That might be a fun ability. Who could pull off a trick like that? Archmage Vargoth? 

And it seems like there are plenty of tribe gaps to fill in. There are (treasures) buffs for elementals, but only a couple Mercs have that tag. 

Excellent headline, team! I got quite the kick out of it. 

I also like that Blizz is figuring out Battlegrounds cosmetics (like the board) that you can enjoy every game, not just when you happen to roll a particular hero. 

Good moves all around. 

I think the announcement will be about the winner of the Horde/Alliance honor battle, and then the patch will include the diamond card and such. 

Probably later this week? 

I don't have evidence for this, but to me it feels like ladder is easier in the morning. (I don't play all day, but my work schedule varies.)

By 10pm, there are so many good players to get matched against, I will usually go play Tavern Brawl or Mercenaries. 

Might be that my brain is just better at finding lethal before noon Eastern time, and I'm just worn out from work and parenting by then. But it might be that the pool of players is smaller earlier in the day and the MMR range gets bigger. 

Try it out, if your schedule allows. 

I haven't hit Legend since Ungoro times (what a slog that was), though I've hit Diamond 1 quite a few times. 

You're not alone! 

During the rewards unwrap at the start of a new month, the game used to tell us "hey, you reached the rank of XYZ, and that is higher than NN % of Hearthstone players." That percentage made it clear that the vast majority of players never reach Legend, despite how it sometimes feels in the comments of a game-focused website.