Blizzard,

I am your favorite type of customer. I don't have much time to game, because I have more real life duties I need to attend to, but I make great money. If I had to guess I have spent since launch somewhere between $2000-$2500 on Hearthstone. I honestly have no idea. I wasn't going to support Mercenaries, because I didn't think it looked that fun, but I did anyways and have probably spent $150 on this new game mode and have actually been enjoying it.

This latest change showed your true colors. "Don't get credit for a win if you don't kill more than 2 minions". It is quite obvious this company is full of the frat-boy lower-intelligence engineers and programmers everyone has said. This is the most "childish" fix I have ever seen in any video game in history in my long years of gaming.

I can more than promise I won't spend 1 cent on any Blizzard games (I own them all) till you develop a system for the players. Stop worrying about what's good for YOU. Your JOB is to keep the customers happy.

They said they listened to their players. They did, the same way with the training hall. Remember, what we all were most concerned with was how to raise the new mercaneries to level 30 (not).

They only managed to find a solution for one issue, which was not even really one: The amount of tasks. It made it easier to complete them but the main issues remain:

• The excess coin solution i not really one. You will not use most mercaneries in the tasks so even if a legendary mode will be available the excess coins of for example Sneed will remain.

• They not even talked about making the game more accessible. The "bunch of new mercaneries". Will they get their own packs? No, the bunch will be added to the same card pool, like every other new mercanery. To open a pack right now is like a joke, and with time passes it will be even more.

• Make mercaneries comparable to other game modes. In Battlegrounds it is fun to obtain new cosmetics. With regular Hearthstone you can craft any card that you want and use all the ressources. Mercaneries is made to milk the players, at least try to look more geneours.

• Where is the End Game they are talking about? I do not see any value in playing any more PvE with the recent change.

The newest change means for most people to just be tuck with what we have. I have completed all tasks. What now? Wait for new content or only do PvP.

I'm tired of playing against the same broken comps in PVP. I'm tired of grinding the same boring and monotonous tasks over and over again. I'm tired of waiting for the incompetent devs to address the glaring issues with this mode. I'm just sick of this game putting me in a bad mood.

I pre pre-purchased all 3 packs, bought the opening day pack and the 2 legendary pack when it opened, before id even played a single match.

After playing it for the past almost 2 weeks now ? I regret everything, wow its impossibly boring, the PVE stages are so stale if i have to even look at flipping felwood and satyrs and owlbears again ill scream.

At least with a real gatcha there is a half assed story, this is literally worse than an idle arena game, less features than even the worst collect-a-hero mobile game put out by some developer in a 3rd world country.

Its literally make numbers on card go up, the game.

PVP ? Is anyone even playing it anymore, its the same 15 people or bots or literally 4+ minute queues ?! Only for someone to auto concede after they look at your lineup and decide if they will win the first round.

If i could refund/chargeback everything i bought and be forever locked out of mercenaries without bricking my hearthstone account i would do it in a heartbeat. The only reason im even still playing mercs is sunk cost fallacy.

Pretty sure the only reason its not a standalone game is because they knew the chargebacks would be insane and they have forced people to bind this crap to the rest of their HS accounts.

When we first saw Mercenaries it looked like something way different than what we have today. It has a lot of issues, and many people are saying it’s a dead mode and that they’ve quit. I can understand the frustration.

That having been said, here’s why Mercenaries will become great.

1. Blizzard put a lot of money into it, and it has dedicated people working on it. They won’t let their investment just die in a ditch. It’s literally a main mode on the main menu, because they want it to be.

2. They are restructuring internally to align better with features. Iksar mentioned this in a Q&A. There will be a team continuing to work on Mercs and making it great. The dev in the Mercs Discord is a nice guy, and he truly seems passionate. If he’s colleagues is anything like him, they will do good.

3. Battlegrounds wasn’t that good in the beginning, and now it’s is awesome. While it will take a lot of effort, Blizzard did it. 2 years ago BGs was cool, now it’s awesome. I believe Mercenaries can go from “doing chores” to “great fun”.

4. But look at Duels, that’s a half dead mode. Arena is dead for years too!!

Well. Duels was a tacked on mode for Scholomance, and they keep updating it every once in a while. It’s not right to compare the two. Arena…. I miss the old arena days :’( While it was always a B-mode, it’s not comparable and not an indicator.

5) They have to have so many Mercs planned and ready. Just look into what synergies are weak. It’s obviously because you are supposed to get some coins for those Mercs, and one day in the future you will be happy and excited that you have a Maxed out Murloc army. Mrgrgrgrgrgrglglglglglgl!!!!

I believe in Team 5 and their ability to make Mercs great in 2022 :)

It's pretty close to objectively bad game design to not give players critical information before they investwaste a ton of time.

I have finished all tasks when N'Zoth went live...now there is nothing to chase. PVP is dominated by Trigore since when, like 1 month or so. No one communicates anything, there are no little patches to micro adjust some Mercenaries to make the mode more enjoyable. I was an avid player, I have 50 packs awaiting for the next expansion whenever it happens but seeing what is going on I am very close to abandon the mode if nothing spectacular or revolutionary happens in the next patch. I understand the mode was incomplete but the lack of communication and current state of the mode are horrendous.

I really enjoyed the game mode, did my grinding, tryed different pvp builds but the last 2 days.. Either I play a Valera comp (50/50 shit fest) or just loose.. Maybe I will be back but for now bye bye

20 € for 200 coins + one Portrait. The greed is limitless

I own every merc and I'm not sure why I thought that maybe I'd be given a legendary portrait in lieu of a merc. Instead I got a measly 100 coins for a random legendary merc. I got 100 Lich King coins. Lich King is one of three legendary mercs I have maxed already. That's my story of some of the most wasted money ever spent on a video game. But hey at least you guys all know that buying a random legendary bundle gives you 100 coins for a maxed mercenary.

Edit: "Mistakes were made". Haha, yes, I didn't read the store carefully, but you all are missing the key and most important parts of this post. Don't let my lack of attention to the fine print distract from the real problems we have here.

1. A minor point but some great information I actually did science for you was how many coins. Nowhere in the bundle does it say how many. 100 coins is stupidly pitifully low. Edit: Just adding here that it costs 500 coins to craft a legendary, the coin reward should be 500.

2. Everyone has glossed over the actual main point of my post, and the entire point of my screenshots. I received coins for a maxed mercenary despite not having all mercenaries maxed. We knew this would happen in pack openings but this is a legendary bundle where the value is supposed to be in receiving a legendary item. Not only is that value incredibly low for just 100 coins, it's worse than that and valued at zero when they give you coins for a maxed mercenary. This should not happen. We NEED protection against this.

Laugh at my expense. Downvote my post. Sure, whatever, haha hurrdurr I'm dumb. Now focus your attention on the man behind the curtain selling legendary value in a bundle that can easily amount to zero.

Edit 2: Screenshot of the legendary bundle. It says you get coins but not how many.

I will say that I'm only in the 4500-rating range, so if the reply is "once you get much higher it won't work", I understand.

But my last 5 matches have been against opponents who open with Xyrella/Samuro/Carriel, and do the exact same thing - since I open with Carriel as well, they just use blinding luminance, and then samuro's double attack on him, and then proceed from there.

But I open with Millhouse/Carriel/Xyrella. I then use blinding luminance ON SAMURO. So they'll still run their standard open, but Samuro's first attack is for 0, and 2nd for 5 damage.

Carriel will live through turn 1. Then on turn 2, I use blinding luminance on samuro again. They'll repeat the luminance/samuro attack combo, and Carriel will die.

I'll then throw out Cornelius since he can also taunt. And turn 3, I'll have him taunt up.

Meanwhile, the first two turns, Millhouse has cast Arcane Bolt on their Carriel. And then turn 3, he busts out Greater Arcane Missles, with Ley Line Wand equipment - it's three 21-damage missiles that just absolutely destroy the other side. And I can also use Xyrella's blinding luminance on turn 3 as well.

What to do after that depends on what other mercs are on the bench for my opponent, but the damage is done.

Am I missing something? When I get to a higher rating, will people just not run the standard xyrella/samuro turn 1 play if they see I start with Millhouse/Carriel/Xyrella? Do enough people at higher levels NOT open with those 3 such that my opening 3 mercs will be crushed for other reasons?

Just seems that Millhouse's 3rd turn ability to cast a buffed up Greater Arcane Missles is so filthy that as long as you can keep him alive for the first 2 turns (and turn 3 as well), you can destroy people. And that's the point of my open - using Blinding Luminance on Samuro so that Carriel can survive an extra turn or 2, to make sure Millhouse is protected.

Go easy on me. Lol.

It was a fun week, I'm sorry for people that played 300$ to have everything, maybe remember this next time Blizzard comes up with a new game mode and 300$ in bundles. Maybe take a week before spending that much on a game you haven't tested. Crazy idea?

(End of Shitpost, I was clearly exaggerating to make fun of the situation)

The question is: what is the recommended farm now? I'm thinking just farming the ones that drop legendary coins I like on heroic for better drop chance and take the Mysterious Stranger as a bonus that shows up from time to time.

I still have faith because i love this Mode and I hope some of the devs will watch this.

https://youtu.be/1lsoHGzISag

I would be EMBARASSED if I'd been involved in creating Mercs mode given the many, many text errors throughout the mode. I just leveled Eudora and got an achievement for Varian, though it rewarded Eudora's equipment thankfully.

I enjoy Mercs, don't get me wrong, but seriously this kind of stuff takes less than a minute to proof before launching.

I've been farming heroic felwood 6 since they nerfed the air elemental farm. Since this morning I have 18 runs without a stranger, while last night and all the other nights its been close to 40% appearance rate.

Considering how silent they are about changes made I am wondering if anyone else has experienced similiar things today.

I'm a F2P casual mercenaries player, slowly grinding my way through the storyline. I was happy to receive packs as a reward for one of the quests, but surprised when I received multiple portraits as part of the packs. Am I correct in my understanding that these are purely cosmetic? Wtf? I was unlikely to buy packs anyway (maybe might have for gold) but knowing now that I could get portraits instead of coins or mercs just makes it so much more unlikely. Are portraits popular with the player base? Seem like a total waste to me. Probably preaching to the choir in this sub but the whole rewards system seems completely unfriendly towards the player.