I just hit level 123. XP achievements progress is stuck at 95% because the 2 remaining ones are still bugged.
I moved on to complete the other no XP rewarding achievements which are now mostly done as well.
Today, I finally caved and converted 76K arcane dust to complete my entire card collection. Just to cross this off my HS bucket list.
Annoying bugs aside, I am actually starting to lose interest in traditional HS because there are only a few goals left for me to achieve. Considering achievements were not even in the game before the first rewards track got introduced, it is amazing how my perception of the game was changed by them.
I played continuously since 2015 and I am not at all interested in Battlegrounds or Arena by the way. HS fatigue is finally setting in, I guess.
Honestly, they have to do both. Fix the achievements bugs AND introduce balance changes. It should not even be a choice, really.
With every new expansion and new game mode, the number of issues have been increasing exponentially, it seems. Either they hire more people or they postpone releasing new content, but at least spend proper time on improving or at least keep the game at a constant quality level. At this moment, the quality is clearly going downhill if you look at the growing known bugs list of the past few patch notes.
In a previous AMA with Iksar or Celestalon, they already acknowledged that the game is buggy and they would like to spend time on fixing this. Hopefully, it will happen sooner than later.
How the You Are Not Worthy achievement bug eluded their QA department (if there is one at all) is beyond me. Furthermore, how this could not be fixed before 2021 ended is also unfathomable.
By the way, I find comments stating 'do this instead of that' rather amusing. As if everything is done serially. Team5 is capable of doing multiple things simultaneously, right?
Perhaps even a tad negative on my side, but it does not bode well that the number of bugs seem to grow every year and take longer and longer to get addressed. As for the current XP achievements bugs, it baffles me that they were not discovered before the new expansion was released nor got fixed soon after. Of course, it is not the end of the world and there should be plenty of time left to complete the achievements if they get fixed soonish in 2022.
I only bought the welcome bundle ($5) as a sign of support for this new game mode. For the rest I treat Mercenaries as a F2P (and farm XP) game mode.
All initially introduced mercs (except Grommash Hellscream and Gul'dan) are fully upgraded with their abilities plus equipment. Currently, I am only missing a few tiers of upgrades for these two and six other of the later added mercs. I also opened most if not all portraits for the rare and epic mercs from the packs received from completing all their tasks (which are of course also all done). I just receive 1 single daily task at the campfire each midnight now.
As my situation shows, the economy of mercs is truly bad and needs some serious overhaul.
I am kind of playing Mercenaries F2P, so some people might say I have absolutely no valid reason for any complaints. To those I will just say if the game mode improves for me it probably also will improve for them as well.
Good luck Avalon and have fun with the last part of the grind before getting that sweet sweet reward at the very end.
As for my own progression, I have been playing all classes slowly but steadily towards the next checkpoint of 1500 wins. I really tried to get the custom made All classes at 1337 wins achievement set by anchorm4n along the way, but alas I did not realize playing Diablo in Duels counts towards Warrior wins and I accidentally crossed the 1337 wins mark at one point.
Here are the new win counts (+940 wins in total since my last report):
I do not mind the grind, but the excess Merc coins thing is just ridiculous. Especially since I have an overabundance of many and I still have not maxed out all of the Mercs at this moment (still 8 left).
This is my top 3 of Mercs with excess coins:
Rokara -> 11910
Bru'kan -> 11569
Xyrella -> 10891
Also, they should really tone down the flashiness of Mercs entering the battlefield. It got old quickly and hurts my eyes.
I reached level 91 and finally got my hands on that new shiny Faction Pride coin.
Not planned, but last week I hit Legend once again and this time with Freeze Shaman because it is just too good, even after the recent Snowfall Guardian nerf. My XP achievements are 89% done now and I am waiting for Team 5 to patch the broken ones. My collection is still missing 1 single legendary (Bearon Gla'shear) to complete the Fractured in Alterac Valley expansion so I can get the other new shiny Alterac General coin. Hopefully, the missing Shaman legendary will make its appearance in this season's ranked chest reward packs.
The current Standard meta is better than during last expansion and enjoyable again. The Wild meta on the other hand is still shitty, F those United in Stormwind questlines, really.
Anyone else getting more and more annoyed by the increasing amount of bugs in HS which do not get enough attention by Team 5? I mostly play on my mobile phone, so it might not be happening in the HS client that much, I do not know.
Good luck with the grind and most of all have lots of fun! See y'all again in 2022!
Ugh, that is really very annoying I have to say. I mean come on, how difficult can it be to trigger the effect of The Immovable Object. I probably do not even care if it counted perfectly correct, just count something like +1 at the bare minimum would suffice for me.
Thank you Tetsuo for creating the latest iteration of this beloved RT Progress thread.
I am currently at level 64. As always, I bought the Tavern Pass, both pre-order bundles and spent 5000 gold for 50 packs. Amazingly, I only miss 1 single legendary now which took me at least 60 more packs to reach for the last expansion. Next time, I will skip the purchase of the smaller pre-order and save some money in the process. As for XP achievements progress, I am at 71% now and still have 15 of them left to complete. Team5 still needs to patch some of these before I can complete them all though. The current meta is much healthier than the previous one I must say.
The funniest game I had this week was with Rogue playing against a Freeze Shaman. During the match I got a Brilliant Macaw off of a Parrrley. This Shaman card combined with the new Shadowcrafter Scabbs hero card battlecry was really brilliant. I could basically replay the hero card ability onwards every turn with upsides only for me and not for my opponent, such great fun was had.
I basically have the same opinion as what HuntardHuntard said below.
It is really weird that you are pushing back against a very simple Quality of Life feature request which plenty of people want and have asked for since the beginning of HS. Seems like you will not use it even if it gets introduced which is fine, but that does not mean that such a feature has no place inside the game. Your whole argument sounds somewhat self-centred actually.
Yes, squelching is already possible with 2 simple clicks, but that is also a lot of unnecessary clicks over the 40K+ games I have already played since 2014. Also, such a feature could be implemented in very little time and will not take significant "energy" away from spending on other useful features. Since you mentioned your IT experience, you should know that this is true.
Not that it matters for this discussion, but I simply do not want any interaction with my opponent during a game of HS. I do not care if that interaction is positive, neutral or negative. I just want to play the core game and preferrably without distractions like those emotes.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions which do not have to be the same as others. Just leave some room for constructive and open discussion. More importantly, do not get worked up when people do not share your opinions.
I agree, but I am just saying that even if this somehow (though not likely) became a paid for feature I will even consider paying for it (only for a reasonable price of course) which means it is very high on my list of things I really want (need) inside the game 😄
Demitasse*
Goblet*
Best wishes everyone!!
I just hit level 123. XP achievements progress is stuck at 95% because the 2 remaining ones are still bugged.
I moved on to complete the other no XP rewarding achievements which are now mostly done as well.
Today, I finally caved and converted 76K arcane dust to complete my entire card collection. Just to cross this off my HS bucket list.
Annoying bugs aside, I am actually starting to lose interest in traditional HS because there are only a few goals left for me to achieve. Considering achievements were not even in the game before the first rewards track got introduced, it is amazing how my perception of the game was changed by them.
I played continuously since 2015 and I am not at all interested in Battlegrounds or Arena by the way. HS fatigue is finally setting in, I guess.
Grail*
Pitcher*
Jug*
Honestly, they have to do both. Fix the achievements bugs AND introduce balance changes. It should not even be a choice, really.
With every new expansion and new game mode, the number of issues have been increasing exponentially, it seems. Either they hire more people or they postpone releasing new content, but at least spend proper time on improving or at least keep the game at a constant quality level. At this moment, the quality is clearly going downhill if you look at the growing known bugs list of the past few patch notes.
In a previous AMA with Iksar or Celestalon, they already acknowledged that the game is buggy and they would like to spend time on fixing this. Hopefully, it will happen sooner than later.
How the You Are Not Worthy achievement bug eluded their QA department (if there is one at all) is beyond me. Furthermore, how this could not be fixed before 2021 ended is also unfathomable.
By the way, I find comments stating 'do this instead of that' rather amusing. As if everything is done serially. Team5 is capable of doing multiple things simultaneously, right?
Congratulations, Avalon!! Job's done!!
What is going to be the next challenge?
Same overall bad personal experience here.
Perhaps even a tad negative on my side, but it does not bode well that the number of bugs seem to grow every year and take longer and longer to get addressed. As for the current XP achievements bugs, it baffles me that they were not discovered before the new expansion was released nor got fixed soon after. Of course, it is not the end of the world and there should be plenty of time left to complete the achievements if they get fixed soonish in 2022.
Still feels bad man.
You have reached the very end of the Internet, mortal. Please make a U-turn or jump off this precipice and enter purgatory 😂
I only bought the welcome bundle ($5) as a sign of support for this new game mode. For the rest I treat Mercenaries as a F2P (and farm XP) game mode.
All initially introduced mercs (except Grommash Hellscream and Gul'dan) are fully upgraded with their abilities plus equipment. Currently, I am only missing a few tiers of upgrades for these two and six other of the later added mercs. I also opened most if not all portraits for the rare and epic mercs from the packs received from completing all their tasks (which are of course also all done). I just receive 1 single daily task at the campfire each midnight now.
As my situation shows, the economy of mercs is truly bad and needs some serious overhaul.
I am kind of playing Mercenaries F2P, so some people might say I have absolutely no valid reason for any complaints. To those I will just say if the game mode improves for me it probably also will improve for them as well.
Good luck Avalon and have fun with the last part of the grind before getting that sweet sweet reward at the very end.
As for my own progression, I have been playing all classes slowly but steadily towards the next checkpoint of 1500 wins. I really tried to get the custom made All classes at 1337 wins achievement set by anchorm4n along the way, but alas I did not realize playing Diablo in Duels counts towards Warrior wins and I accidentally crossed the 1337 wins mark at one point.
Here are the new win counts (+940 wins in total since my last report):
I do not mind the grind, but the excess Merc coins thing is just ridiculous. Especially since I have an overabundance of many and I still have not maxed out all of the Mercs at this moment (still 8 left).
This is my top 3 of Mercs with excess coins:
Also, they should really tone down the flashiness of Mercs entering the battlefield. It got old quickly and hurts my eyes.
I reached level 91 and finally got my hands on that new shiny Faction Pride coin.
Not planned, but last week I hit Legend once again and this time with Freeze Shaman because it is just too good, even after the recent Snowfall Guardian nerf. My XP achievements are 89% done now and I am waiting for Team 5 to patch the broken ones. My collection is still missing 1 single legendary (Bearon Gla'shear) to complete the Fractured in Alterac Valley expansion so I can get the other new shiny Alterac General coin. Hopefully, the missing Shaman legendary will make its appearance in this season's ranked chest reward packs.
The current Standard meta is better than during last expansion and enjoyable again. The Wild meta on the other hand is still shitty, F those United in Stormwind questlines, really.
Anyone else getting more and more annoyed by the increasing amount of bugs in HS which do not get enough attention by Team 5? I mostly play on my mobile phone, so it might not be happening in the HS client that much, I do not know.
Good luck with the grind and most of all have lots of fun! See y'all again in 2022!
You are NOT prepared!!
Merry X-Mas everyone!! 🎄
Ugh, that is really very annoying I have to say. I mean come on, how difficult can it be to trigger the effect of The Immovable Object. I probably do not even care if it counted perfectly correct, just count something like +1 at the bare minimum would suffice for me.
Thank you Tetsuo for creating the latest iteration of this beloved RT Progress thread.
I am currently at level 64. As always, I bought the Tavern Pass, both pre-order bundles and spent 5000 gold for 50 packs. Amazingly, I only miss 1 single legendary now which took me at least 60 more packs to reach for the last expansion. Next time, I will skip the purchase of the smaller pre-order and save some money in the process. As for XP achievements progress, I am at 71% now and still have 15 of them left to complete. Team5 still needs to patch some of these before I can complete them all though. The current meta is much healthier than the previous one I must say.
The funniest game I had this week was with Rogue playing against a Freeze Shaman. During the match I got a Brilliant Macaw off of a Parrrley. This Shaman card combined with the new Shadowcrafter Scabbs hero card battlecry was really brilliant. I could basically replay the hero card ability onwards every turn with upsides only for me and not for my opponent, such great fun was had.
I basically have the same opinion as what HuntardHuntard said below.
It is really weird that you are pushing back against a very simple Quality of Life feature request which plenty of people want and have asked for since the beginning of HS. Seems like you will not use it even if it gets introduced which is fine, but that does not mean that such a feature has no place inside the game. Your whole argument sounds somewhat self-centred actually.
Yes, squelching is already possible with 2 simple clicks, but that is also a lot of unnecessary clicks over the 40K+ games I have already played since 2014. Also, such a feature could be implemented in very little time and will not take significant "energy" away from spending on other useful features. Since you mentioned your IT experience, you should know that this is true.
Not that it matters for this discussion, but I simply do not want any interaction with my opponent during a game of HS. I do not care if that interaction is positive, neutral or negative. I just want to play the core game and preferrably without distractions like those emotes.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions which do not have to be the same as others. Just leave some room for constructive and open discussion. More importantly, do not get worked up when people do not share your opinions.
I agree, but I am just saying that even if this somehow (though not likely) became a paid for feature I will even consider paying for it (only for a reasonable price of course) which means it is very high on my list of things I really want (need) inside the game 😄