We've got a brand new event in Hearthstone's Mercenaries game mode and it's here only for a limited-time! This time, we'll venture into many dangerous Bounty zones with the aid of Yogg-Saron, fan favorite for its Constructed shenanigans and the third Old God that has come to pay us a visit.
Our journey won't be in search of just fame and success, but you'll be able to complete a set of 10 event Tasks, which will reward you coins for Yogg-Saron and many other goodies.
Here are all the tasks that are available during the Yogg-Saron Mercenaries event. Click any of the links below to visit our guide for the task.
- No Halftime
- Requirement: Complete Plaguemaw the Rotting Bounty with only 3 mercs.
- Reward: 75 Yogg-Saron coins.
- Camping
- Requirement: Complete Yeti Hunter Ranel Bounty with at least 2 Night Elves In Winterspring.
- Reward: 50 Yogg-Saron coins, 25 Elise Starseeker coins.
- Sacred Groove
- Requirement: Destroy Snowclaw in Winterspring without destroying any Frostbite Totems.
- Reward: Yogg-Saron Mercenary.
- Stay Cool
- Requirement: Complete Ahune the Frostlord Bounty without using any Fire abilities in Winterspring.
- Reward: 50 Yogg-Saron coins, 50 Lord Slitherspear coins.
- Shallow Waters
- Requirement: Complete Heroic Siren of the Deep Bounty with at least 2 Naga in Darkshore.
- Reward: 75 Fathom-Lord Karathress, 50 Zar'jira, the Sea Witch coins.
- Absolutely Smashed
- Requirement: Complete Heroic Coren Direbrew Bounty with only Casters in Blackrock Mountain.
- Reward: 50 Yogg-Saron coins, 50 random coins.
- Perfectly Calculated
- Requirement: Use Yogg-Saron's Oh My Yogg ability and win a fight.
- Reward: Golden Yogg-Saron portrait (random).
- Mountain Rescue
- Requirement: Complete Heroic Avalanchan battle with all your Mercs alive in Winterspring.
- Reward: 100 Yogg-Saron coins.
- Scuba Diving
- Requirement: Complete Heroic Coral Elemental Bounty with at least 3 Naga in The Sunken City.
- Reward: 75 Yogg-Saron coins, 50 Queen Azshara coins.
- One To Rule All
- Requirement: Heal and Deal 50 damage in one battle using Yogg-Saron.
- Reward: Diamond Yogg-Saron portrait.
As you can see, these tasks are quite the mixed bag: while some are fairly simple to complete, others require more than a bit of thinking (and luck: that one's always welcome) and planning ahead.
Moreover, certain tasks clearly state that you need Comps consisting of Mercenaries belonging to specific races in order for your progresses to count: while the Y'Shaarj event was about Humans and Pirates, this time you'll need the help of Naga and Night Elves!
Not all challenges might be as difficult as they seem at a glance: there are usually tips and tricks to be found to make everyone's lives easier. In this series of guides we'll take a look at how to complete each event Task, so that you'll be able to get your hands on all the rewards available. As of now, we'll focus our attention on the current task.
In case you missed them, if you click the banner below you'll have access to each of our task guides for this event.
Table of Contents
How to Complete the "Perfectly Calculated" Task from the Yogg-Saron Event
- Requirement: Use Yogg-Saron's Oh My Yogg ability and win a fight.
- Game Mode: Not specified - Normal will suffice.
- Rewards: Golden Yogg-Saron portrait (random).
- Difficulty: 1/5
Perfectly Calculated is the first task of this event that asks you to actually make use of Yogg-Saron. In particular, you'll have to win a fight thanks Oh My Yogg 1's shenanigans.
There are a few preliminary information you should be aware of. First of all, Oh My Yogg 1 chooses random abilities and casts them at random targets: if you increase this ability's level you will be able to trigger multiple abilities, therefore increasing your chances to complete Perfectly Calculated. However, such thing is not strictly required: for example, Avalon was able to get the job done on the first try with just a level 2 skill.
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Secondly, there's the cooldown. As you might already know, Oh My Yogg 1 has a whopping total of 15-turns cooldown, making it the slowest ability in the entire game mode so far. You can neutralize such disadvantage in two ways:
- Gain total control of the match's pace - Cookie, the Cook's Go Fish! 1 is once again the absolute MVP.
- Refresh your abilities - Blink Fox's Mana Blink 1, N'Zoth's Gift of N'Zoth 1 and Y'Shaarj's Strength of Y'Shaarj 1 are what you are looking for.
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On a final note, Perfectly Calculated does not say that it has to be completed in PvE: if you're gutsy enough, you can even bring Yogg-Saron in PvP and see how it goes!
Out of Cards Recommendation - Cookie Comp
No need to make things harder than needed: play Yogg-Saron together with Cookie, the Cook in order to gain as much time as you need for Oh My Yogg 1 to be available; the third unit in the comp is kind of a flex spot:
- You can include either Blink Fox, Y'Shaarj or N'Zoth in order to make Oh My Yogg 1 available faster.
- Given that Oh My Yogg 1 will be available eventually, you can pick a unit with 3 damaging abilities to maximize the chances to win the game with a random ability being cast.
We decided to go for the second path, including Scabbs Cutterbutter - cheap and full of damage abilities.
To prove this comp of being fit for this task, we actually recorded a video showing you that you can pull this off with ease.
- Set up the board so that the enemy side of the board will consist of just one fish from Cookie, the Cook's Go Fish! 1.
- Wait for Oh My Yogg 1 to be available.
- Cast it.
- Hope for the best.
Other Resources
Our clever community members set up a forum thread to share your Mercenaries progression journey, and we have added an #mercenaries channel on our Discord server if you want to talk with others in real-time. If you need an assist, you can also respond to this guide and we'll do our best to help you out; the comments are also a great way to share your own comps that you've used to complete the task above.
Good luck taking on any of these Bounties for those sweet sweet coins or just for the sake of satisfying completion!
Comments
I meant to have fish. And I meant to test whether I could cast the ability without winning and see if it met the task requirements.
But Yogg had other ideas. The fish kept gaining a bit of attack and then smashing their cute little faces into Yshaarj's taunted terror.
So when Oh My Yogg came online I just went for it...and all the enemies died, so now I have a lovely portrait but no less uncertainty.
I suspect it's just what the old gods would want.
Truly in Yogg's spirit!