Anduin Wrynn - Mercenary

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  HolyWater HearthStationeer 380 156 Posts Joined 03/15/2019
  Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

  this is so sad that only one bounty gives anduin coins, and i have to collect 500 coint to craft him...

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  Poghy 70 56 Posts Joined 10/06/2021
  Posted 3 years, 2 months ago

  Anduin is a very good "protector" even if he is a caster. Strong human synergy, and there are a lot of human mercs, but right now there is a lot more synergy between orcs.

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  FortyDust Pumpkin 1205 1912 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
  Posted 3 years, 2 months ago

  The more I think about it, the less I like these tribal synergies, especially when the overall merc pool is so tiny.

  It's too much like the packages they put into Hearthstone to take all the guesswork out of deckbuilding.

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  Aldrius 60 13 Posts Joined 10/04/2021
  Posted 3 years, 2 months ago

  Anduin just seems REALLY dependent on role synergy. Even more so than a lot of other characters who have spell school or tribal synergies. (i.e. Voone can summon his own dragons, Jaina can freeze targets with her Water Elemental)
  
  I think MAYBE you just run him because Holy Nova and Penance are so good, and don't necessarily rely on the human synergy (Penance can just heal Anduin) but I think one of his biggest strengths is Holy Word: Salvation, so I dunno.

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  FortyDust Pumpkin 1205 1912 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
  Posted 3 years, 2 months ago

  Yeah, I don't think he's a weak merc. I was just saying I'm not fond of the design decision at this point in the game's life cycle. I will be less annoyed by it when there are more mercs and building a team feels less "paint by numbers."

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  Aldrius 60 13 Posts Joined 10/04/2021
  Posted 3 years, 2 months ago

  I think most of the time mixed comps will be the name of the game. There's a lot of mercs the bridge gaps between say, Orc and Fel, or Human and Shadow or Shadow and Fel, or whatever which lets you kind of mix and match what you want.
  
  I look at it as more of a like... Pokemon or MOBA situation. Where you have supports and you have your carries. So for example your opening might be Anduin, Jaina, and Varden let's say. Varden and Anduin are there to support Jaina, who's your opening carry. Jaina helps deal with the team's fighter weakness because the water elementals block attacks and provide strong crowd control to freeze enemies. Anduin deals good damage while healing himself and Jaina (or damage protection when you're anticipating some burst). Then your backline can either be strong finishers to deal with what your opponent has left, or something like Tirion who has good synergy with Jaina or with Anduin so he can kind of sub for either.
  
  Or you just have Jaina as a guardian killer because your team is really weak to guardians and she handles them extremely well and you don't capitalize on her human or frost synergies at all. That was more my point, that you can do that with Jaina, you can't really do that very well with Anduin.
  
  I think it's sort of deceptive to think that because say, you're running fire magic users, your whole team has to be fire magic users, when maybe you only need 2 fire magic users. (Depending on which fire users those are, some are more dependent on the synergy than others)

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  linkblade91 Senior Writer Serra Angel 1720 2909 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
  Posted 3 years, 2 months ago

  There are nine Human characters at present, which is roughly a fifth of the total pool. However, they're not spread out evenly among the Roles, with only 1 Fighter and 3 Protectors. This could lead to a problem for Anduin: either he doesn't go full-Human comp (which makes Penance easier to land on who you want, but hits the effectiveness of his Holy Word by a lot), or you're going to end up with limited Role coverage (because you have to run more Casters than anything else).

  All-in-all, I'm not sold on him.

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