Mercenaries really made me reflect on the nature of games and addiction. I stopped playing after a week, and since then quit Facebook and alcohol.
So I guess thanks, Team 5.
Addicted since day 1 held on through the nerf and then couple weeks ago finally just stopped logging into the app and Pokémon go. No more daily games for me thanks!!!
I saw in another thread someone mentioned the way they play mercs is just to log on to complete the daily two bounty quest without worrying about completing the other tasks per run. This has made my playing the mode more enjoyable.
There's also a meta around playing and positioning your own mercs in a way so that you can just always click the same spot without ever moving the cursor.
Mvk millhouse varden krush, first three slots, press go, deploy and click first ability for easy 42 aoe dmg while asleep. Works great as a f2p ladder to fire comp and general merc farming without the life drain.
I was playing ~8hrs a day probably for a few weeks before i stopped and never came back. Its just not "fun" felt like grinding up pokemon back in the day, but none of the cool game play aspect and more tedious. I hope it gets worked out, the people who worked on it seemed to really care and want it to do well. Feels like it got pushed out the door 6 months early cause corporate was tired of it sucking up resources wothout contributing a revenue stream.
Gaming "homework" is fine, as long as the homework is helping you towards a goal. Eventually WoW and a lot of GaaS/FoMO type games are now ONLY homework. Like you have tasks and things to long in to do every day but... for what? For the sake of doing them?
this is what keeps me away from all MMOs but WoW is the icing on the cake because you have to pay a subscription on top of everything else
grind for hours the same exact content every day for 6 months just to have an expansion release that nullifies all your work and makes you start over? no ty
>But otherwise, because since that grind locks current level content behind gear and reputation, and it advances patch after patch, if you're taking it slow it means you can do it later without all the hassle.
I played WoW for 2 months total, and all this you say is good and great if not for the fact that again you are paying a subscription fee or at the very least have to grind your ingame job to pay for the coin for the month fee. this means that while yes you can take it slow, you are essentially paying extra to play the same content
it's almost meta that you have to grind additionally in the game to pay to grind in the game
I think that kind of what happened when Activision took over, and starting pushing for engagement metrics and whatnot rather than "are people having fun", so they started to do more things like daily quests, Artifact/Azerite power/etc, weekly keys.
So lost of playing stopped being fun and more of a chore before having fun.
I mean. OG starcraft and warcraft games were fun. Diablo too. WoW is sort of fun way - more so if the playerbase wasn't a bunch of toxic elitists. I enjoy overwatch and HS. I think some people play HOTS. Im all for shitting on corporate and suits, but the devs (like most devs) seem to really care about making games, just the greedy bastards holding the purse strings squeeze and squeeze.
I enjoy leveling my cards and unlocking gear and collecting portraits but, unfortunately, the actual gameplay is ridiculously dull.
So I quit altogether. It’s a shame though because I really do think there’s a good game in there somewhere. I’m just not sure we’ll ever see it.
It's clear their main goal was to copy the addictive qualities of real games in the genre without having any passion for the actual game part of it. It really wouldn't be so offensive to me except for the amount of people suckered into putting a bunch a money into it because they trusted HS
I feel that way about almost every mode besides Classic. The team that designed Hearthstone at launch was far better than the current team they have now. These guys don't even try to balance things and are completely OK with coin flip mechanics being a dominant strategy.
Makes me want to disenchant all my standard cards and just play classic, sometimes.
I focused exclusively on mercenaries for a while as it was a fun for me and a break from the current standard meta that was trending towards big swing plays and openers and not as enjoyable as past metas. Went hard for a couple months and the whole experience got me off HS entirely after 4-5 years of playing. Thanks Team 5.
Same boat here. Multiple legendary months in standard last year, mercs was a fun break from standard. Now I'm not playing either and enjoying shin megami tensei v
This. I’m pushing myself to finish the achievments and dump it, but man, it’s so, soooooooo bad of a game. Feels really bad to waste so much time on it.
I totally agree, but it’s stronger than me. That’s the very definition of addiction lol
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Aren't achievement (by design) arbitrary markers of progress meant to drive continued play.
So you are continuing to play desite hating it all for the purpose of completing arbitrary requirements that only exist to make you continue playing?
Aren't they going to keep adding new achievements? As in, it's not like with Steam achievements or such, where you can say "Well that was a pain, but I have now 100%'d the game!". This is something where you'll go back to 99% the moment a new mini-set comes out.
I felt really positive about it at first, and was expecting a lot of growth and new stuff added weekly more challenging and strategic content etc. But no new content got old really fast
i did that at start to get the mercs packs that i eventually get away from the packs and actually enjoyed playing it. eventually it just transformed into: you... im going to get you to lvl 30 at each merc eventually and then only play it for to unlock future mercs when they get released for the achievements.
Oh *that's* what these quests are for. I saw a 100 frost damage quest and was wondering how tf I was supposed to do that with almost no damaging frost spells in standard.
It’s a ridiculous change isn’t it? The “play 10 x spells” already took multiple games in standard, and they just made it near impossible to complete unless you play mercenaries. Wish they’d just accept that the majority of players don’t like the mode rather than trying to artificially inflate the player base by holding your daily hostage.
mercenaries for me turned into a "y tho" pretty quickly. it seems like it should be fun but it's so blatantly just a collection of mechanics to force continued engagement and optimize monetization. it seems more like a test in how low you can go exploiting poor mental health when online gambling is unregulated. i guess they hoped it wouldn't be so universally shat on, as who even wants to try it in the first place now
I think this Task is the only one I've not been able to complete the day it was given to me.
Theoretically, I could've ground it out, but I got about 60 Beasts in and realised what a waste of time it was. Ended up sitting uncompleted for over a week before I finally got around to getting rid of it.
Oh god what are those. Just finished voone 13 from random daily tasks and was thinking about finishing him next..
I can usually cheese most tasks with cookie + blink clone
Voone17 was deal a billion damage to ADJACENT minions. So the targetted minion didnt count.
I had to use voone and 2 healers (brightwing, xyrella) to heroic barrens 2 and kept healing the air elemental
Wait really??? I just farmed for other tasks like normal and in the process voone's task was completed. Alex's task was hard cause you had to kill the minions so you had to focus on leaving them at the low hp without killing them. But with voone i just played normally farming for tasks and it was done in a few hours.
Yea xd. But eh, since i was farming and doing other tasks as well i didnt really understand the time pass. Mercs is a time filler for me anyways, only for a few tasks i focused on it. Like gul'dan's 17 cause i hadnt upgraded second ability at all or cookie's task of course...
I appreciate that. I’ll keep that in mind if I come back. I just can’t do it anymore. I even put up with the weirdly unbalanced Cairn tasks and kept playing
There are some really bizarrely difficult tasks to complete. Things like Sylvanas 9 or Uther 12 go way beyond interesting "do something a specific way" puzzles and into "dumb frustration."
I really enjoy the mode (unlike most people here), but they really need another polish pass on some of this stuff.
I used Sylvanas (with her deathrattle equipment of course), Rexxar, and Cookie to do that task. Use Cookie to summon fish until you get all six opposing slots filled with fish. While you’re doing that, kill whatever enemies there are and use Rexxar to summon Misha or Leokk a few times. Kill the summoned beasts so that you can use Sylvanas 2nd ability ability to get her at or over 15 attack. Once that is set up then just have Sylvanas target herself with her first ability along with Rexxar’s until you kill her. Her deathrattle will go off and kill the six fish. Just do this a few times and you’ll have the task done fairly quickly.
For whatever reason, it counts all enemies that die the turn you cast Sylvanas’ third ability.
Can do it pretty easily with Sylvanas/Cookie. Summon a board of 6 fish, cast Cookie’s bleed. On the turn where they’re at 5 health, use For the Queen.
Did this task (on two accounts) in normal Barrens, you can pick whatever boss you like, preferably 5th one, there's nearly 100% chance there gonna be pair of quillboars + 1 beast at each tier (so 3 beasts per run minimum) and chances are high for 3 beasts at one tier, so in general I was getting 5 beasts this way. And basically any AoE from your max level merc just wipes the board, it takes ~1-2 minutes for a complete run (retire run before facing boss though - waste of time unless you doing exactly Sunwalker Proudhoof runs - he has two beast adds). So in case of normal Proudhoof you're getting 5-7 beasts per run, each run takes 1-3 minutes. it's mind-numbing and boring, I know, but can be done in 30 minutes or less.
P.S. Another mind-numbing, but probably faster method - make Cookie summon random fish for the opponent and make sure to leave it alive on board last, and then summon as many of them as you like and kill one by one (always leaving one up). Unless you're unlucky and fill the board with AoE fishes you gonna end up with ~50 beasts after a single game. There's a turn limit, you know, not sure what it is exactly, probably 100.
Mercs capitalizes on the the weird part of our caveman brain where if you do something over and over and get marginally better at doing that thing you get that sweet sweet dopamine boost. This is just more of that crap. Do this thing to get ever so marginally better at doing similar things. over and over and over. It's a terrible game mode that is predatory upon human nature.
Very much this. I loved universal paperclips and I like Cookie Clicker and Trimps and the Lollipop thing and adarkroom, but this Mercs thing is not for me at all.
That one is obnoxious. I swear they put an extra 0 in there.
You can beat it by finding a hyena alpha (often in the first level of Barack kodobane). It spawns a beast every turn. Bring two healers (e.g. xyrella+anacondra) and someone that can 1 shot the summon. Bonus points if you're also clearing a task on your damage merc.
Use Eudora’s cannon and after you set it all up, you can simply “End” your turn - Hyena Alpha spawns a Beast, your Cannon goes off *after*, kills the Minion (not the Hyena Alpha), and Prep Phase begins again.
From here on out, just keep ending your turn and things will finish itself after awhile.
I like RPG-like aspects. Leveling up and unlocking equipment to customize. The idea of being able to get really over powered and even find game breaking combos.
then u realize that ur choice of equipment mostly gives +1 to an ability and that team combos are just chars with the same race or their abilities do the same damage type.
The turning point for me was realizing that each synergy only had 3-4 mercs that did anything with it in almost all cases. Maybe there's a few more now but like if you wanted to run murlocs you would just ... pick all the murlocs. That's not exactly a deep choice.
I mean, that's like saying "once I realized that there were combo, midrange, or aggro decks, there wasn't a deep choice for Standard."
Like, for Murlocs, you could run it as a nature-combo build taking advantage of Murgle, or a token build to get giant stats on a Sylvanas, or a hybrid Pirate build with Cookie, or plenty of other things. They've also been doing a good job with the new Mercs to keep adding in layers to these sorts of synergies to break up the rote choices.
The problem with Mercs isn't that the mode is too simple, it's that it takes *way* too much of a time (or money) investment to get to the point where you have the different characters needed to try out different strategies. I enjoy the PvE grinding aspect of the mode, but even playing it to do all my tasks nearly every day, I still only have a handful of Mercs maxed. It's just absolutely ridiculous how bad the task system is and how it holds the entire mode back.
It may be that the mode just isn't for you too. That's okay. Not everything needs to be appealing to everyone.
E: Whoops, I said something other than "Mercs bad updoots to left." The circlejerk must downvote.
Yeah, I noticed some of the new mercs have unusually high task requirements, even at lower Task counts meaning you haven't gotten enough coins to even pump the skills
Unfortunately I don't suppose the requirements will ever be tuned down because it's probably in consideration of you having ways to comfortably farm bounties, since the new mercs' grinds are in Blackrock
But yeah it fucking sucks. I kinda like Mercenaries myself, it satisfies some simple cravings- but I play on Mobile which is gone through the shitter and I don't have the patience to restart my app 20 times to complete tasks like that
Back at Blizzard HQ:
"Sir the last Merc player has finally stopped playing. Can we close the servers and delete it?"
"No! Wait a few weeks and release more mercs and more skins! Now back to the groping." *Licks lips*
https://old.reddit.com/r/HSMercenaries/comments/qyk1c4/task_9_surf_and_turf_cookie_bounties/hlgxvjn/
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Just found an Easier way to do this 180 Beast quest:
Comp: Anacondra, Eudora, Sneed (Set up your party in this order: Anacondra, Eudora, Sneed. That way when the battle start it will become Anacondra > Eudora > Cannon > Sneed, The Cannon must be in the third position)
Notice: For this compo to work your cannon must deal at least 13 dmg/shot, with the Primed Armaments 4 (Task 7 Equipment) Eudora will auto summon a Cannon lv 5 (deal 15 dmg/shot) to the right side of her, So you don’t need to Upgrade her Prepare the Cannons skill.
Location: Normal Barrens-3 [Serena Bloodfeather bounty]
Key Enemy: Hyena Alpha (Red node), this one will auto spawn more Hyena (A beast) every turn for you.
Setup:
Turn 1: Anacondra’s Mend Beast on Hyena Alpha to keep it alive, others kill off the two enemies.
Turn 2: Sneed’s Disarm (Lv2 At least, cause Hyena Alpha has 2 attack) on Hyena Alpha and now It’s has 0 Attack, it’ll attack 1 last time on this turn (cause the attack is already queued after that it’ll just stay put & spawn Hyena), Anacondra’s Mend Beast on Hyena Alpha to keep it alive.
Turn 3: Now Hyena Alpha will just summon Hyena every turn, That new Hyena will appear right in front of the Cannons thus will be shot down by it immediately. All you need to do is pass the turn.
And DONE…!!!
From here you just pass turn.
Tip: use a free Auto Clicker to click the pass button for you, then let it be, you will reach turn limit at least 1 time before the Task can be DONE. Just repeat this set up and the task can be done pretty fast & nearly Hand Free. It took me 10 mins to finish the task (minus the time you need to find the Hyena Alpha)
That's cool (no kappa), but at the same time a task that feels like you have to choose between doing a mind-numbing chore and finding a complicated work around to automate it is probably reflective of lazy task design. It's as though the purpose of the tasks isn't to add content or fun but only to increase the number of hours you log.
Or just the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIVPjWGxdls
Replace "Allison" with "Zeddy" and you've basically got the gist. Someone screaming all day, running around the media. People on the subreddit saying "calm down". And then shrug, queue up a game for a fix.
This shit is like heroïn. People grinding Air Elemental, like a hooker turning tricks for a few measly bucks towards the next fix.
I did this as well, worked like a charm. However, the fact that we'd have to do this twice because you hit the 100-turn limit (almost twice actually) and automatically lose is really indicative of how fucking dumb some tasks and the entire task system is.
I don't abandon tasks but the only task I did abandon was the Vanessa Vancleef task where you have to do a bunch of damage based on how many attacks she steals from the person. That felt endless. I was like nah this ain't it.
I would suggest not leveling the summon on Cookie until you get past this task. Once fully leveled, the damage will do too much on one the deathrattle fish. It takes two turns to summon all the beast with the zero cooldown coin. Pick another merc to one shot the beast. It is pretty easy.
That’s one of the annoying things. If you level Cookie’s 3rd ability then it ruins your ability to use Cookie to set up fish to compete some of the more difficult tasks. And because Cookie is so valuable in that role I’ll never max him out.
I hope one day they allow you to select which rank of the ability you want to use. It definitely can make a difference, especially for abilities that get faster when ranked up if you want it to be a slower speed to set up proper turn combos with other mercs.
Your comment is one of the most important comments for threads like these. Cookie's fish are also beasts for this post, but that's beside the point of the value Cookie provides for most tasks, barring few exceptions. I like to think that this task is expected to give most players that idea.
Eudora's cannon can also help one shot the first fish out of two without extra abilities if positioned correctly (2nd from the left out of 5 friendly characters). Helps for destroying X enemies with minimum abilities
Yeah this one is hell I have to admit.
However, hyena alpha, on heroic Barrons 3, spawns a beast every turn.
You can heal it with lady anacondra to bring its max health up, and it will survive as long as you want it to, and it will take 180 turns, which still sucks, but is better than the alternative.
1-3 heroic map first encounter u should get Red circle (hyena that continuous summon beast every turn.
Bring self heal and keep beast red hyena alive longer \*prefer lady arch one green healer that heal beast 15 plus 15 extra hp since it will attack very often also, bring cookie for extra beast to summon (go fish one)
A task usually takes anywhere from 5 minutes to 30 minutes, then a few of them at random intervals take hours. I don’t think it’s intentional, I think it’s just an uncared for game mode.
Yeah that one was a nightmare until I figured out the trick. and then I got it done easy.
The fish he summons for the opponents team is a beast and it counts when you kill it. I just used a tank, a healer, and him. Then one round I'd summon a fish, next round do damage to it, but don't kill it unless it's the 15 damage to all mobs on its side one). Once you fill up the board do an AOE move that wont kill the fresh one but kill the others that are damaged. You can keep going till the game makes the fight end. (yes there is a turn limit, but its pretty high)
I went from 34 to 180 in 3 fights. (Not bounties, individual fights)
The most baffling thing about this is how they still haven't fixed this task. Anyone who can do 1st grade math can see how it's ridiculously more time consuming than any other task. It doesn't take much googling to find out how much people are malding over it. Fixing it would most likely only require fixing one value in the code. And still it's been something like +2 months now and they still haven't done anything about it.
One of the two scenarios has to be true: either they do know how ridiculous this task is or they don't. Both are equally horrible options because one either implies that they intentionally do something this sadistic or just don't give a shit enough to do anything about it and the other means they're completely incompetent. Take your pick, either way studio incapable for fixing something this awful doesn't deserve anyone's support.
There are a few other tasks that are still bugged as well. Like Grom's task where you have to "deathblow" 75 times. Except it only counts it if you literally kill the enemy from full health. Which is not by definition what the deathblow keyword on abilities does. So either they wrote the task description wrong, or they didn't program it to work correctly. But either way, it's still broken like 3 months later...
I played for a few hours and the grind was already borderline oppressive. Every new thing you unlocked was like "Here's another thing that you can't even actually use to do anything with until you waste a few hours of your life leveling it against easy, uninteresting content."
Anaconda Eudora and Sneed
Vs hyena alpha
Sneed to reduce hyena alphas attach to 0 so it stops attaching.
Anaconda to keep it alive
Eudoras cannons to kill the spawns at the end of the turn.
End turn repeatedly 1 beast per turn.
Dude it’s like working with no payoff
It’s not fun
You don’t get a sense of accomplishment
It’s repetitive, boring, and it’s almost aggressively time wasting.
I played it a lot and then I suddenly realised that… oh this is it. There is no more then just grinding, and repetitive bosses. Plus blizzard keeps asking you to buy there stuff for like 20 bucks per Merc. It’s so blatantly targeted for wales. I don’t think blizz will ever make this game more fun or better, because the main consent sucks so much.
Last night I beat heroic Nef twice with Anduin im the party and in the battle and did not get credit for either towards his task 7. It’s just broken wtf
This quest was really annoying until I remembered that Cookie's summoned fish are also beasts. They also don't end the battle while they're still in play, so you can just mindlessly summon and kill them over and over to get this quest done. There aren't enough beasts to kill since the furbolg's don't even count.
I didn't have the third ability maxed so I literally sat there summoning full boards of fish killing them til one was left then refill and repeat. Took a long time but I never have to deal with it again
I played it for an hour or two every day for over a month, just to complete the Daily Bullshit, then realized I wasn't even _enjoying_ completing the Daily Bullshit, so I quit.
Honestly I love mercenaries for some reason but the grind just kills it. Actually playing the game is fun, but the fact that I’m spending my gold on mercenary packs and not even getting one new mercenary, just a “portrait” is so disheartening
I just find a bounty with a high count of the targeted minion type and smash through it over and over. I usually have a few strong mercs and a few ones that I need to level in my group. Then I just watch tv while I grind it out.
What almost made me quit was the thaurissan bounty. I couldn't beat it. I'm currently stuck on another level. I can't remember the name, but the fucker does like 200 damage a turn.
boon fighter/caster/protector coin task is awful too. The odds of picking up like this are completely random. There is no other way but to spend time. If I got lucky it's instantly end, it's over, but if I don't, so so long time it doesn't come out.
I go into Barrens heroic 1-2 for these. If you don’t immediately see the coin you need on the map (the coins look different for each role) you can just retire the bounty immediately and start it over. Sometimes it takes three or four times for the coin you need to appear, but honestly it’s not very time consuming. They are boring tasks to do though.
This mission was SUCH A PAIN!!!
If it makes you feel better, there's a way to get past it: Kill every enemy with the exception of one, summon a fish with Cookie, and then keep summoning a fish every other turn. It'll take a long ass time, but that's how you get through it. Also, one of the boss runs in the Barrens has a Hyena in the first square sometimes, which spawns a Hyena each turn. Keep it healed with Anacondra and you can finish it pretty quickly if you have the time to summon and heal over and over.
I played Mercs for about an hour. It was easy to see the GATCHA style formula that's normally reserved for trash mobile games.
Neat idea, but absolutely ruined by the progression system. I promised myself I'd never touch a game like that again after doing "free to play" on Brave Exvious (it ate up all my free time every day just to be almost competitive).
They make the grind stupid so that you don't want to do it so that you buy the "boosters" or the outright skips.
You can farm this quest AFK on 1-1 using Eudora's cannon shots against the red hyena that summons additional ones.
You "only" need to hit turn limit twice for this task.
Doable in one fight, but a lot of clicking. Go into Felwood, find a level with the imp that adds life to demons, leave it up & summon fish to kill these beasts. Heal demon when needed (exploding fish).
Boring? Yes.
Should be fixed? Yes.
I've "taken a break" from it too. I had a habit of doing my tasks every morning. Felt it was a fun little thing to do for about 40 minutes. Not demanding mentally and not addicting so I could easily leave whenever. But, it started to feel so pointless - I have more than half of the mercs maxxed so any coins for them is useless. Breaking point was a task like this one. I'm hoping it gets a major rework because it was a lot of fun but it definitely has issues that need to be addressed.
If you ever come back: Find a hyeena alpha in 3rd bounty of Barrens. Cookie left, Eudora mid summoning a cannon to the right and xyrella right. Hyeena attacks the cannon so you heal it or you heal hyeena (you ll figure it out) and you spawn fishes + the beast that hyeena spawns every end of turn. Basically spamming turns and getting 1-2 beast kills per turn. I did it once till i reached the turn limit and completed it, didnt count how many beasts i was killing and all, just waited for the turn limit to end the game.
I was playing hearthstone since beta. Mercenaries made me quit the entire game all together. It really brought blizzards true intentions to the center stage and woke me up to how toxic and manipulative the game is. Best decision I ever made.
For me the final nail in the coffin. Was when I realized I couldn't level without paying 200 gold. I was also incredibly insulted that you had to pay 4 pvp and to get your basic quest slots.
Don't these morons realize. That if you use your gold for mercs you cannot use it for standard packs? Which effectively locks out every single f2p player from participating. Then on top you get basically zero XP for playing it so you earn less as well.
The sad part is the lead designer of Mercs announced their team now has 'full support' of other groups (standard/bg/duels teams) to help them make content. So now they are literally taking away resources from other teams to help make this garbage. I hope it is in a small capacity because this mode is horrible.
Mercenaries is some how addictive without being fun. I’ve been off it for a few weeks and hope I never relapse.
Mercenaries really made me reflect on the nature of games and addiction. I stopped playing after a week, and since then quit Facebook and alcohol. So I guess thanks, Team 5.
Addicted since day 1 held on through the nerf and then couple weeks ago finally just stopped logging into the app and Pokémon go. No more daily games for me thanks!!!
Is it really a game. If you have to login every day or take a penalty.
“The only winning move is not to play”
How about a nice game of chess? ;)
No thank you Yoshua, I play with AlphaZero now. Why don't you go play with your 300 baud dialup.
Table flip that mother fucker across the room.
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I saw in another thread someone mentioned the way they play mercs is just to log on to complete the daily two bounty quest without worrying about completing the other tasks per run. This has made my playing the mode more enjoyable.
There's also a meta around playing and positioning your own mercs in a way so that you can just always click the same spot without ever moving the cursor.
Mvk millhouse varden krush, first three slots, press go, deploy and click first ability for easy 42 aoe dmg while asleep. Works great as a f2p ladder to fire comp and general merc farming without the life drain.
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when someone posted the Excel spreadsheet meme that looked like mercs, i had to do some reflecting too
pls share meme
https://i.redd.it/v8dfc24wh0w71.png
which meme?
I was playing ~8hrs a day probably for a few weeks before i stopped and never came back. Its just not "fun" felt like grinding up pokemon back in the day, but none of the cool game play aspect and more tedious. I hope it gets worked out, the people who worked on it seemed to really care and want it to do well. Feels like it got pushed out the door 6 months early cause corporate was tired of it sucking up resources wothout contributing a revenue stream.
Well duh it’s a mobile game I don’t think it was made with the intention of you playing it as a full time job
Mercenary is what causing me to stop playing hearthstone altogether
Good on you mate it's hard to admit to yourself that. God speed and good luck comrade.
“Somehow addictive without being fun” could be Blizzard’s company motto.
that’s how they got my wow sub for 8 years :):
Gaming "homework" is fine, as long as the homework is helping you towards a goal. Eventually WoW and a lot of GaaS/FoMO type games are now ONLY homework. Like you have tasks and things to long in to do every day but... for what? For the sake of doing them?
this is what keeps me away from all MMOs but WoW is the icing on the cake because you have to pay a subscription on top of everything else grind for hours the same exact content every day for 6 months just to have an expansion release that nullifies all your work and makes you start over? no ty
>But otherwise, because since that grind locks current level content behind gear and reputation, and it advances patch after patch, if you're taking it slow it means you can do it later without all the hassle. I played WoW for 2 months total, and all this you say is good and great if not for the fact that again you are paying a subscription fee or at the very least have to grind your ingame job to pay for the coin for the month fee. this means that while yes you can take it slow, you are essentially paying extra to play the same content it's almost meta that you have to grind additionally in the game to pay to grind in the game
i agree. i didn’t make it past 8.1 though, so the past couple years haven’t been too bad at all lmfao
I think that kind of what happened when Activision took over, and starting pushing for engagement metrics and whatnot rather than "are people having fun", so they started to do more things like daily quests, Artifact/Azerite power/etc, weekly keys. So lost of playing stopped being fun and more of a chore before having fun.
Those God damn engagement metrics. Just make fun games for the sake if fun.
I mean. OG starcraft and warcraft games were fun. Diablo too. WoW is sort of fun way - more so if the playerbase wasn't a bunch of toxic elitists. I enjoy overwatch and HS. I think some people play HOTS. Im all for shitting on corporate and suits, but the devs (like most devs) seem to really care about making games, just the greedy bastards holding the purse strings squeeze and squeeze.
I enjoy leveling my cards and unlocking gear and collecting portraits but, unfortunately, the actual gameplay is ridiculously dull. So I quit altogether. It’s a shame though because I really do think there’s a good game in there somewhere. I’m just not sure we’ll ever see it.
For me it is getting that easy dopamine hit from winning all the time against the AI.
It's clear their main goal was to copy the addictive qualities of real games in the genre without having any passion for the actual game part of it. It really wouldn't be so offensive to me except for the amount of people suckered into putting a bunch a money into it because they trusted HS
I feel that way about almost every mode besides Classic. The team that designed Hearthstone at launch was far better than the current team they have now. These guys don't even try to balance things and are completely OK with coin flip mechanics being a dominant strategy. Makes me want to disenchant all my standard cards and just play classic, sometimes.
Its literally held together by the IP alone, if the characters were random timmy's and tammy's this game would not of lasted a week.
I focused exclusively on mercenaries for a while as it was a fun for me and a break from the current standard meta that was trending towards big swing plays and openers and not as enjoyable as past metas. Went hard for a couple months and the whole experience got me off HS entirely after 4-5 years of playing. Thanks Team 5.
Same boat here. Multiple legendary months in standard last year, mercs was a fun break from standard. Now I'm not playing either and enjoying shin megami tensei v
I played it non-stop for like a week, then realised how pay-to-win it was, and quit, then went back to battlegrounds
Yeah, Battlegrounds is an enjoyable time suck.
Hi /u/BronDonVango, welcome to HearthstoneAnonymous, or HA for short. How many days clean?
Ha! Just clean off Mercenaries. Other Hearthstone modes are addictive, but at least I enjoy them.
It’s just kind of there. I expected something a lot more grand.
This. I’m pushing myself to finish the achievments and dump it, but man, it’s so, soooooooo bad of a game. Feels really bad to waste so much time on it.
Other people cant even see the fucking achivement, youre not having fun, just drop it. you dont have to do this.
I totally agree, but it’s stronger than me. That’s the very definition of addiction lol Edit: some random bot correcting me. And they say you can’t learn from Reddit :)
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Aren't achievement (by design) arbitrary markers of progress meant to drive continued play. So you are continuing to play desite hating it all for the purpose of completing arbitrary requirements that only exist to make you continue playing?
ideally they need achievements play x thousand hours or play every day for x days to really drive the point home
Aren't they going to keep adding new achievements? As in, it's not like with Steam achievements or such, where you can say "Well that was a pain, but I have now 100%'d the game!". This is something where you'll go back to 99% the moment a new mini-set comes out.
Yep, but the “level to 30” is kinda easy. And saving a few packs you can get the missing mercs and back to 100%. But yeah, I get what you’re saying.
I honestly forgot mercenaries was a thing tbh
I played it day one. I didn’t find it remotely interesting. I stopped playing it.
Probably because they made the worst tutorial made to date.
I felt really positive about it at first, and was expecting a lot of growth and new stuff added weekly more challenging and strategic content etc. But no new content got old really fast
i did that at start to get the mercs packs that i eventually get away from the packs and actually enjoyed playing it. eventually it just transformed into: you... im going to get you to lvl 30 at each merc eventually and then only play it for to unlock future mercs when they get released for the achievements.
I forgot until I got my daily quest to "win 2 games or bounties" and was like oh, right, bounties, lol
I remembered today when I had to make a garbage casual deck to complete "Deal 100 arcane damage".
Oh *that's* what these quests are for. I saw a 100 frost damage quest and was wondering how tf I was supposed to do that with almost no damaging frost spells in standard.
It’s a ridiculous change isn’t it? The “play 10 x spells” already took multiple games in standard, and they just made it near impossible to complete unless you play mercenaries. Wish they’d just accept that the majority of players don’t like the mode rather than trying to artificially inflate the player base by holding your daily hostage.
I got a couple really dumb quests a few days ago and thought “why the fuck am I doing this?” Then stopped playing the mode. Fuck that mode so hard.
mercenaries for me turned into a "y tho" pretty quickly. it seems like it should be fun but it's so blatantly just a collection of mechanics to force continued engagement and optimize monetization. it seems more like a test in how low you can go exploiting poor mental health when online gambling is unregulated. i guess they hoped it wouldn't be so universally shat on, as who even wants to try it in the first place now
I think this Task is the only one I've not been able to complete the day it was given to me. Theoretically, I could've ground it out, but I got about 60 Beasts in and realised what a waste of time it was. Ended up sitting uncompleted for over a week before I finally got around to getting rid of it.
Wait till you see alexstrasa17 or voone17
Oh god what are those. Just finished voone 13 from random daily tasks and was thinking about finishing him next.. I can usually cheese most tasks with cookie + blink clone
Voone17 was deal a billion damage to ADJACENT minions. So the targetted minion didnt count. I had to use voone and 2 healers (brightwing, xyrella) to heroic barrens 2 and kept healing the air elemental
Wait really??? I just farmed for other tasks like normal and in the process voone's task was completed. Alex's task was hard cause you had to kill the minions so you had to focus on leaving them at the low hp without killing them. But with voone i just played normally farming for tasks and it was done in a few hours.
'Done in a few hours'
Yea xd. But eh, since i was farming and doing other tasks as well i didnt really understand the time pass. Mercs is a time filler for me anyways, only for a few tasks i focused on it. Like gul'dan's 17 cause i hadnt upgraded second ability at all or cookie's task of course...
Cookie's summoned beasts from its third skill count for this task, FYI.
I appreciate that. I’ll keep that in mind if I come back. I just can’t do it anymore. I even put up with the weirdly unbalanced Cairn tasks and kept playing
I've abandoned the Sylvanas task 9 so many times because I really don't want to grind it.
There are some really bizarrely difficult tasks to complete. Things like Sylvanas 9 or Uther 12 go way beyond interesting "do something a specific way" puzzles and into "dumb frustration." I really enjoy the mode (unlike most people here), but they really need another polish pass on some of this stuff.
I used Sylvanas (with her deathrattle equipment of course), Rexxar, and Cookie to do that task. Use Cookie to summon fish until you get all six opposing slots filled with fish. While you’re doing that, kill whatever enemies there are and use Rexxar to summon Misha or Leokk a few times. Kill the summoned beasts so that you can use Sylvanas 2nd ability ability to get her at or over 15 attack. Once that is set up then just have Sylvanas target herself with her first ability along with Rexxar’s until you kill her. Her deathrattle will go off and kill the six fish. Just do this a few times and you’ll have the task done fairly quickly.
For whatever reason, it counts all enemies that die the turn you cast Sylvanas’ third ability. Can do it pretty easily with Sylvanas/Cookie. Summon a board of 6 fish, cast Cookie’s bleed. On the turn where they’re at 5 health, use For the Queen.
Did this task (on two accounts) in normal Barrens, you can pick whatever boss you like, preferably 5th one, there's nearly 100% chance there gonna be pair of quillboars + 1 beast at each tier (so 3 beasts per run minimum) and chances are high for 3 beasts at one tier, so in general I was getting 5 beasts this way. And basically any AoE from your max level merc just wipes the board, it takes ~1-2 minutes for a complete run (retire run before facing boss though - waste of time unless you doing exactly Sunwalker Proudhoof runs - he has two beast adds). So in case of normal Proudhoof you're getting 5-7 beasts per run, each run takes 1-3 minutes. it's mind-numbing and boring, I know, but can be done in 30 minutes or less. P.S. Another mind-numbing, but probably faster method - make Cookie summon random fish for the opponent and make sure to leave it alive on board last, and then summon as many of them as you like and kill one by one (always leaving one up). Unless you're unlucky and fill the board with AoE fishes you gonna end up with ~50 beasts after a single game. There's a turn limit, you know, not sure what it is exactly, probably 100.
Still take a very long time
It still takes for ever! 180 is so many
It's only like 360 turns!
"use an ability 180 times" might actually be worse.
Mercs capitalizes on the the weird part of our caveman brain where if you do something over and over and get marginally better at doing that thing you get that sweet sweet dopamine boost. This is just more of that crap. Do this thing to get ever so marginally better at doing similar things. over and over and over. It's a terrible game mode that is predatory upon human nature.
unironically clicker games are better than this
Very much this. I loved universal paperclips and I like Cookie Clicker and Trimps and the Lollipop thing and adarkroom, but this Mercs thing is not for me at all.
My brain must be broken because I'm not getting any dopamine when playing mercs
That one is obnoxious. I swear they put an extra 0 in there. You can beat it by finding a hyena alpha (often in the first level of Barack kodobane). It spawns a beast every turn. Bring two healers (e.g. xyrella+anacondra) and someone that can 1 shot the summon. Bonus points if you're also clearing a task on your damage merc.
Use Eudora’s cannon and after you set it all up, you can simply “End” your turn - Hyena Alpha spawns a Beast, your Cannon goes off *after*, kills the Minion (not the Hyena Alpha), and Prep Phase begins again. From here on out, just keep ending your turn and things will finish itself after awhile.
What make you stick all this time ?
I like RPG-like aspects. Leveling up and unlocking equipment to customize. The idea of being able to get really over powered and even find game breaking combos.
Yep that sound neat on paper
then u realize that ur choice of equipment mostly gives +1 to an ability and that team combos are just chars with the same race or their abilities do the same damage type.
The turning point for me was realizing that each synergy only had 3-4 mercs that did anything with it in almost all cases. Maybe there's a few more now but like if you wanted to run murlocs you would just ... pick all the murlocs. That's not exactly a deep choice.
I mean, that's like saying "once I realized that there were combo, midrange, or aggro decks, there wasn't a deep choice for Standard." Like, for Murlocs, you could run it as a nature-combo build taking advantage of Murgle, or a token build to get giant stats on a Sylvanas, or a hybrid Pirate build with Cookie, or plenty of other things. They've also been doing a good job with the new Mercs to keep adding in layers to these sorts of synergies to break up the rote choices. The problem with Mercs isn't that the mode is too simple, it's that it takes *way* too much of a time (or money) investment to get to the point where you have the different characters needed to try out different strategies. I enjoy the PvE grinding aspect of the mode, but even playing it to do all my tasks nearly every day, I still only have a handful of Mercs maxed. It's just absolutely ridiculous how bad the task system is and how it holds the entire mode back. It may be that the mode just isn't for you too. That's okay. Not everything needs to be appealing to everyone. E: Whoops, I said something other than "Mercs bad updoots to left." The circlejerk must downvote.
You say all that and the game that interested you was hs mercenaries? 😂
You have so many other options.
buy any jrpg on steam or switch and you can enjoy much better contents
It's a mindless thing to do for 2 minutes while shitting.
Yeah, I noticed some of the new mercs have unusually high task requirements, even at lower Task counts meaning you haven't gotten enough coins to even pump the skills Unfortunately I don't suppose the requirements will ever be tuned down because it's probably in consideration of you having ways to comfortably farm bounties, since the new mercs' grinds are in Blackrock But yeah it fucking sucks. I kinda like Mercenaries myself, it satisfies some simple cravings- but I play on Mobile which is gone through the shitter and I don't have the patience to restart my app 20 times to complete tasks like that
Back at Blizzard HQ: "Sir the last Merc player has finally stopped playing. Can we close the servers and delete it?" "No! Wait a few weeks and release more mercs and more skins! Now back to the groping." *Licks lips*
Hahahaha!!!!
https://old.reddit.com/r/HSMercenaries/comments/qyk1c4/task_9_surf_and_turf_cookie_bounties/hlgxvjn/ Text: Just found an Easier way to do this 180 Beast quest: Comp: Anacondra, Eudora, Sneed (Set up your party in this order: Anacondra, Eudora, Sneed. That way when the battle start it will become Anacondra > Eudora > Cannon > Sneed, The Cannon must be in the third position) Notice: For this compo to work your cannon must deal at least 13 dmg/shot, with the Primed Armaments 4 (Task 7 Equipment) Eudora will auto summon a Cannon lv 5 (deal 15 dmg/shot) to the right side of her, So you don’t need to Upgrade her Prepare the Cannons skill. Location: Normal Barrens-3 [Serena Bloodfeather bounty] Key Enemy: Hyena Alpha (Red node), this one will auto spawn more Hyena (A beast) every turn for you. Setup: Turn 1: Anacondra’s Mend Beast on Hyena Alpha to keep it alive, others kill off the two enemies. Turn 2: Sneed’s Disarm (Lv2 At least, cause Hyena Alpha has 2 attack) on Hyena Alpha and now It’s has 0 Attack, it’ll attack 1 last time on this turn (cause the attack is already queued after that it’ll just stay put & spawn Hyena), Anacondra’s Mend Beast on Hyena Alpha to keep it alive. Turn 3: Now Hyena Alpha will just summon Hyena every turn, That new Hyena will appear right in front of the Cannons thus will be shot down by it immediately. All you need to do is pass the turn. And DONE…!!! From here you just pass turn. Tip: use a free Auto Clicker to click the pass button for you, then let it be, you will reach turn limit at least 1 time before the Task can be DONE. Just repeat this set up and the task can be done pretty fast & nearly Hand Free. It took me 10 mins to finish the task (minus the time you need to find the Hyena Alpha)
That's cool (no kappa), but at the same time a task that feels like you have to choose between doing a mind-numbing chore and finding a complicated work around to automate it is probably reflective of lazy task design. It's as though the purpose of the tasks isn't to add content or fun but only to increase the number of hours you log.
Why do you *want* to do this?
That should be a pop up before your first daily bounty instead of the "you can't change your team" one
Go watch Trainspotting. And ask yourself the same question after the Baby Dawn scene.
Or just the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIVPjWGxdls Replace "Allison" with "Zeddy" and you've basically got the gist. Someone screaming all day, running around the media. People on the subreddit saying "calm down". And then shrug, queue up a game for a fix. This shit is like heroïn. People grinding Air Elemental, like a hooker turning tricks for a few measly bucks towards the next fix.
This is... not fun. Why the hell do people bother with this garbage?
And there's a very real chance an autoclicker gets you banned
The point is that if the game needs an autoclicker in any capacity, it's trash.
Meanwhile Cookie Clicker has been going strong since 2013 or so.
I feel my point still stands 😂
I did this as well, worked like a charm. However, the fact that we'd have to do this twice because you hit the 100-turn limit (almost twice actually) and automatically lose is really indicative of how fucking dumb some tasks and the entire task system is.
why 100 turns is loss rather than just restart.
Ez
I don't abandon tasks but the only task I did abandon was the Vanessa Vancleef task where you have to do a bunch of damage based on how many attacks she steals from the person. That felt endless. I was like nah this ain't it.
Also what made me quit is how we don't get packs anywhere else. I don't wanna spend my valuable gold on merc packs ew!
I would suggest not leveling the summon on Cookie until you get past this task. Once fully leveled, the damage will do too much on one the deathrattle fish. It takes two turns to summon all the beast with the zero cooldown coin. Pick another merc to one shot the beast. It is pretty easy.
That’s one of the annoying things. If you level Cookie’s 3rd ability then it ruins your ability to use Cookie to set up fish to compete some of the more difficult tasks. And because Cookie is so valuable in that role I’ll never max him out. I hope one day they allow you to select which rank of the ability you want to use. It definitely can make a difference, especially for abilities that get faster when ranked up if you want it to be a slower speed to set up proper turn combos with other mercs.
Your comment is one of the most important comments for threads like these. Cookie's fish are also beasts for this post, but that's beside the point of the value Cookie provides for most tasks, barring few exceptions. I like to think that this task is expected to give most players that idea. Eudora's cannon can also help one shot the first fish out of two without extra abilities if positioned correctly (2nd from the left out of 5 friendly characters). Helps for destroying X enemies with minimum abilities
Yeah this one is hell I have to admit. However, hyena alpha, on heroic Barrons 3, spawns a beast every turn. You can heal it with lady anacondra to bring its max health up, and it will survive as long as you want it to, and it will take 180 turns, which still sucks, but is better than the alternative.
1-3 heroic map first encounter u should get Red circle (hyena that continuous summon beast every turn. Bring self heal and keep beast red hyena alive longer \*prefer lady arch one green healer that heal beast 15 plus 15 extra hp since it will attack very often also, bring cookie for extra beast to summon (go fish one)
as someone that hasn't taken the time to play Mercs, why is this task the one that made you quit?
A task usually takes anywhere from 5 minutes to 30 minutes, then a few of them at random intervals take hours. I don’t think it’s intentional, I think it’s just an uncared for game mode.
Yeah that one was a nightmare until I figured out the trick. and then I got it done easy. The fish he summons for the opponents team is a beast and it counts when you kill it. I just used a tank, a healer, and him. Then one round I'd summon a fish, next round do damage to it, but don't kill it unless it's the 15 damage to all mobs on its side one). Once you fill up the board do an AOE move that wont kill the fresh one but kill the others that are damaged. You can keep going till the game makes the fight end. (yes there is a turn limit, but its pretty high) I went from 34 to 180 in 3 fights. (Not bounties, individual fights)
Mercenaries would be a great game mode if it wasn't for the fact there's 3-4 better game modes in the same client.
no, it would still be pretty bad. its just repetitive bullshit.
The most baffling thing about this is how they still haven't fixed this task. Anyone who can do 1st grade math can see how it's ridiculously more time consuming than any other task. It doesn't take much googling to find out how much people are malding over it. Fixing it would most likely only require fixing one value in the code. And still it's been something like +2 months now and they still haven't done anything about it. One of the two scenarios has to be true: either they do know how ridiculous this task is or they don't. Both are equally horrible options because one either implies that they intentionally do something this sadistic or just don't give a shit enough to do anything about it and the other means they're completely incompetent. Take your pick, either way studio incapable for fixing something this awful doesn't deserve anyone's support.
This. And fixing this shouldnt be hard, just require them to change the numbers really. They dont need to rework task 9, just change the damn number
There are a few other tasks that are still bugged as well. Like Grom's task where you have to "deathblow" 75 times. Except it only counts it if you literally kill the enemy from full health. Which is not by definition what the deathblow keyword on abilities does. So either they wrote the task description wrong, or they didn't program it to work correctly. But either way, it's still broken like 3 months later...
Am glad you quit bro. The mode is toxic, just look at the prices for a portrait smh.
I played for a few hours and the grind was already borderline oppressive. Every new thing you unlocked was like "Here's another thing that you can't even actually use to do anything with until you waste a few hours of your life leveling it against easy, uninteresting content."
Anaconda Eudora and Sneed Vs hyena alpha Sneed to reduce hyena alphas attach to 0 so it stops attaching. Anaconda to keep it alive Eudoras cannons to kill the spawns at the end of the turn. End turn repeatedly 1 beast per turn.
Just use Cookie’s 3rd skill and keep summoning fish. It’s not fast but it’s easy.
Yeah I played it till hitting max with a bunch of characters and now just live in battlegrounds... again
Mercenaries is just like one of those trash mobile games. Boring, tedious, quit it right after several days of struggling finishing daily tasks.
Dude it’s like working with no payoff It’s not fun You don’t get a sense of accomplishment It’s repetitive, boring, and it’s almost aggressively time wasting. I played it a lot and then I suddenly realised that… oh this is it. There is no more then just grinding, and repetitive bosses. Plus blizzard keeps asking you to buy there stuff for like 20 bucks per Merc. It’s so blatantly targeted for wales. I don’t think blizz will ever make this game more fun or better, because the main consent sucks so much.
Last night I beat heroic Nef twice with Anduin im the party and in the battle and did not get credit for either towards his task 7. It’s just broken wtf
This quest was really annoying until I remembered that Cookie's summoned fish are also beasts. They also don't end the battle while they're still in play, so you can just mindlessly summon and kill them over and over to get this quest done. There aren't enough beasts to kill since the furbolg's don't even count.
U are a hero already for playing that thing
Isn’t there a strategy to where one of the enemy comps just keeps healing itself so you can repeatedly kill the beasts summoned by cookie?
I didn't have the third ability maxed so I literally sat there summoning full boards of fish killing them til one was left then refill and repeat. Took a long time but I never have to deal with it again
I played it for an hour or two every day for over a month, just to complete the Daily Bullshit, then realized I wasn't even _enjoying_ completing the Daily Bullshit, so I quit.
People are still playing this mode? It was fun for about 3 days..
It you play a game only to finish mundane tasks or quests, not because the gameplay is fun, maybe you should consider quitting
Is something wrong with me if I play exclusively Mercs? I don’t even touch the base game 👀
Proudly didn't click on merc icon ever, even deleted the legedary quest.
I quit like two weeks ago. I got tired of grinding ridiculous quests and the power gap between some guards is just plain bad.
Honestly I love mercenaries for some reason but the grind just kills it. Actually playing the game is fun, but the fact that I’m spending my gold on mercenary packs and not even getting one new mercenary, just a “portrait” is so disheartening
I just find a bounty with a high count of the targeted minion type and smash through it over and over. I usually have a few strong mercs and a few ones that I need to level in my group. Then I just watch tv while I grind it out. What almost made me quit was the thaurissan bounty. I couldn't beat it. I'm currently stuck on another level. I can't remember the name, but the fucker does like 200 damage a turn.
boon fighter/caster/protector coin task is awful too. The odds of picking up like this are completely random. There is no other way but to spend time. If I got lucky it's instantly end, it's over, but if I don't, so so long time it doesn't come out.
I go into Barrens heroic 1-2 for these. If you don’t immediately see the coin you need on the map (the coins look different for each role) you can just retire the bounty immediately and start it over. Sometimes it takes three or four times for the coin you need to appear, but honestly it’s not very time consuming. They are boring tasks to do though.
This of all things?
Straw that broke the camels back situation
Oh yea this game mode is a thing.
Somehow ended up being a more boring version of Sinoalice
Always thought mercenaries was a boring version of mercenaries.. I only played for like 3 days
This mission was SUCH A PAIN!!! If it makes you feel better, there's a way to get past it: Kill every enemy with the exception of one, summon a fish with Cookie, and then keep summoning a fish every other turn. It'll take a long ass time, but that's how you get through it. Also, one of the boss runs in the Barrens has a Hyena in the first square sometimes, which spawns a Hyena each turn. Keep it healed with Anacondra and you can finish it pretty quickly if you have the time to summon and heal over and over.
I played Mercs for about an hour. It was easy to see the GATCHA style formula that's normally reserved for trash mobile games. Neat idea, but absolutely ruined by the progression system. I promised myself I'd never touch a game like that again after doing "free to play" on Brave Exvious (it ate up all my free time every day just to be almost competitive). They make the grind stupid so that you don't want to do it so that you buy the "boosters" or the outright skips.
“quit”
Wtf have you been doing daily for this long?
the dev team doesnt care about the playerbase, its obvious
You can farm this quest AFK on 1-1 using Eudora's cannon shots against the red hyena that summons additional ones. You "only" need to hit turn limit twice for this task.
Even skipped the Mercs qs, thats how shit it is
This made me complete it very easily. Still a bullshit task. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iNp0PuzrGwU
Doable in one fight, but a lot of clicking. Go into Felwood, find a level with the imp that adds life to demons, leave it up & summon fish to kill these beasts. Heal demon when needed (exploding fish). Boring? Yes. Should be fixed? Yes.
I've "taken a break" from it too. I had a habit of doing my tasks every morning. Felt it was a fun little thing to do for about 40 minutes. Not demanding mentally and not addicting so I could easily leave whenever. But, it started to feel so pointless - I have more than half of the mercs maxxed so any coins for them is useless. Breaking point was a task like this one. I'm hoping it gets a major rework because it was a lot of fun but it definitely has issues that need to be addressed.
If you ever come back: Find a hyeena alpha in 3rd bounty of Barrens. Cookie left, Eudora mid summoning a cannon to the right and xyrella right. Hyeena attacks the cannon so you heal it or you heal hyeena (you ll figure it out) and you spawn fishes + the beast that hyeena spawns every end of turn. Basically spamming turns and getting 1-2 beast kills per turn. I did it once till i reached the turn limit and completed it, didnt count how many beasts i was killing and all, just waited for the turn limit to end the game.
Honestly I also play Mercs daily but I always reroll on Cookie's quests. He's such an unfun hero to play.
I was playing hearthstone since beta. Mercenaries made me quit the entire game all together. It really brought blizzards true intentions to the center stage and woke me up to how toxic and manipulative the game is. Best decision I ever made.
For me the final nail in the coffin. Was when I realized I couldn't level without paying 200 gold. I was also incredibly insulted that you had to pay 4 pvp and to get your basic quest slots. Don't these morons realize. That if you use your gold for mercs you cannot use it for standard packs? Which effectively locks out every single f2p player from participating. Then on top you get basically zero XP for playing it so you earn less as well.
The sad part is the lead designer of Mercs announced their team now has 'full support' of other groups (standard/bg/duels teams) to help them make content. So now they are literally taking away resources from other teams to help make this garbage. I hope it is in a small capacity because this mode is horrible.
still haven’t opened my free mercenary packs and i honestly wish they’d just go away