June has been quite the month for the Mercenaries game mode:
- We received a total of 18 new Mercenaries - the largest content release since the mode launched!
- That's not all: for the first time, we got some Naga Mercenaries.
- Claim your free Tyrael Legendary Mercenary in the shop - expires on July 14th.
- More Bounties for Darkshore and the addition of Sunken City zone (with 10 new bounties!).
- Balance Changes for some underperforming Mercenaries.
- New Mercenaries Event: Y'Shaarj - starting on June 7th and ending on June 21st.
As you've just read, the Y'Shaarj Event, the fourth one in the story of the game mode, is about to expire, and with it all the rewards tied to its task-line, including lots of coins and the very Y'Shaarj Mercenary.
Just like last time, the event timers haven't been fully synced across various timezones: while the glorious Europe server only seems to have less than 24 hours left on the clock, Americas region still got more than a day for last-minute completion. However, this time there's a valid reason: as you might remember, the Y'Shaarj event started a bit earlier on EU, only for AMER to follow up later.
In any case, it's all coming to an end very soon. If you still have any special tasks remaining and last minute motivation is your thing, better get going! We've done our part to provide assistance with a number of detailed guides, which you can find by clicking any of the links below:
- Mountain Hikers
- Requirement: Complete Baron Geddon Bounty with at least 2 Pirates in Blackrock Mountain.
- Reward: 50 Y'Shaarj coins, 25 Patches the Pirate coins.
- Sustained No More
- Requirement: Land a killing blow on Azshara, Tidemistress and Loyal Myrmidon in one turn in Queen Azshara Bounty.
- Reward: Y'Shaarj Mercenary.
- Beach Day
- Requirement: Complete Acolyte of N'zoth Bounty with 6 Humans in Darkshore.
- Reward: 50 Y'Shaarj coins, 25 Reno Jackson coins.
- Fight Fire with Fire
- No Shivers
- Requirement: Complete Heroic Captain Shivers Bounty with at least 3 Pirates in Darkshore.
- Reward: 75 Patches the Pirate coins, 50 Captain Hooktusk coins.
- Root of the Problem
- Requirement: Complete Ursula Windfury Bounty without Ursula attacking once in Winterspring.
- Reward: 50 Y'Shaarj coins, 50 random coins, 25 Reno Jackson coins.
- Rage Unfound
- Requirement: Kill at least 4 friendly characters using Y'Shaarj's Rage Unbound in a single turn.
- Reward: Random Y'Shaarj Golden Portrait.
- You're a Kid Now
- Requirement: Complete Heroic N'Zoth Bounty with all your Mercs alive in Sunken City.
- Reward: 100 Y'Shaarj coins.
- Tag Team
- Requirement: Complete Heroic Taran Zhu Bounty with at least 5 Pirates in Darkshore.
- Reward: 75 Y'Shaarj coins, 50 Captain Hooktusk coins.
- Visions of Conquest
- Requirement: Deal at least 150 damage in a single turn using Y'Shaarj's Defiled Attack.
- Reward: Diamond Y'Shaarj portrait.
What's more, within each respective task description you can also find valuable comments from our community members, providing various alternatives and useful observations. That's about as extensive as it gets. Best of luck if you are still trying to rush against the clock to complete at least a part of the event, if not its entirety!
P.S. In case you don't want to grind all the tasks with so little time left, we advise you to complete at least the first two tasks, Mountain Hikers and Sustained No More, as in this way you'll be able to get the Y'Shaarj Mercenary for free.
Did you manage to get through the event all the way, or maybe just settled on the first few tasks? How did it compare to the other three in terms of overall difficulty? Already looking forward to the next or could use a longer break? The Mercenaries mode clearly does not want us resting.
Comments
Also finished up to task 9 this time. Sad bc Diamond yshaarj is supacool but my pirates are so bad... And got Diamond leeroy from the guides to so really happy to have them so thanks a lot avalon. You have helped me alot.
Thanks to you for checking out the guides!
Although there's no guarantee that what I am saying will be true, I suggest you to start leveling up some of your Naga: the next event is very likely to have something to do with them.
Is this confirmed? Because at the moment, I think naga builds aren't all that attractive.
The passives they gain seem to be bugged, without which they are just bang on average, maybe even worst than murlocs or pirates.
It's just a hunch of mine. Moreover, we're destined to receive more Naga.
Thanks to both: knowing that there are people out there appreciating this kind of content makes me want to keep creating it!
Those guides take a remarkable amount of time and effort to write, especially since they all need to be published is such a short window of time, but I am okay with pushing them since the feedback I am receiving is very positive!
I completed the last task this weekend. Thanks for the guides, they were a great help on some of the tougher challenges.
I didn't complete the first two events. For the first I was too much behind on completing the storyline missions to even start on it. The Leeroy event I did play about halfway, but got stuck on a difficult task and either ran out of time or motivation (can't remember which).
Compared to the N'Zoth event, the difficulty on this one felt a bit more even: fewer very easy ones but also no overly hard tasks. Task 5 auto-completed itself for me though, not sure if that was a bug or some kind of deliberate hotfix. I didn't run into problems with my collection being too narrow, but I can imagine that people who haven't been playing Mercenaries consistently since launch would have problems with the very specific requirements of some of the tasks.
Thanks for all your work on these guides. These events are the most enjoyable part of the game mode! Very rewarding to work towards a guaranteed legendary then a diamond portrait.
I finished the set of tasks this morning, thanks in no small part to Avalon's guides - thanks!
These events are fun, more fun with teamwork and commentary.