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Quote from ArcyroX >>

completely agree with you, could not have said better myself.

absolutely "in future" and "maybe" does not cut it. I dont want useless rewards for couple of months at least. They should've made it better and provided some kind of a dupe protection for coins.

 The thing is if you read what is under the chest ie "Earn some coins for the Mercenaries in your party plus a random one of the following:" there should be duplication protection.  

Say you run a team containing only King Mukla and King Krush in Ferocious Quilboar (which rewards Millhouse Manastorm, Xyrella or Rokara) you should get Millhouse Manastorm, Xyrella or Rokara and coins for King Mukla and King Krush.  

But that is not what you get.  You get coins for King Mukla or King Krush with the remainding two set of coins in the chest.

We can't trust what is written in Hearthstone itself so why should be trust what is written/said outside hearthstone?

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Quote from kriszbacsi >>

You are missing one important rule:

"Each Mercenaries Pack contains at least one Rare or better Mercenary Card until all Mercenary Cards are collected from that rarity tier."

https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/hearthstone-mercenaries-packs

 It does not say that in the in-game shop, nor when clicking the info button, nor in any follow-up screen during the purchase. That is where I purchased, not in some other shop location. I would not have bought packs had I known that.

 

Absolutely false. The in-game shop has an info button (which you mentioned, so you clearly saw it), and that info button leads to a pop-up telling you to click MORE for full information. Clicking MORE takes you to the webpage mentioned above, with everything you need to know about how the system works.

There is nothing illegal about this. You were simply too lazy to research the terms of your purchase before buying. Get over it.

The way it is explained is certainly poor as I showed previously. 

"Each Mercenaries Pack contains at least one Rare or better Mercenary Card until all Mercenary Cards are collected from that rarity tier."

But portraits are depicted as cards before you turn them over and so if things were working as promised you should get at least get rare portrait cards until those are maxed and then get all coins.

Blizzard Watch in “Are you only getting coins in your Hearthstone Mercenaries packs? This is why.” explains the problem:

"For example, let’s say you have all of the Rare Mercenaries unlocked, but not all of the Epic Mercenaries, and barely any of the Legendaries. You open a pack, the card rarity is determined to be Rare, and the roulette lands on Scabbs Cutterbutter. You have all three portraits for Scabs, but not for other Rares, like Xyrella. You get five sets of coins."

But as explained before portraits are cards so if it was working as promised then Scabbs Cutterbutter would have been removed from the card pool but was not.  So this 'you didn't research the terms of your purchase before buying' excuse isn't going to fly because we were told it would work one way but it works another.

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Quote from Moxxos >>

Cookie's 180 beasts ... that grind within the grind was just silly.

 It is annoyingly slow but I did it with no problems during my regular (looong) mercenary session with almost normal gameplay. Natural beasts in Winterbloom + Cookie in the team who sometimes got his start of the game treasure + whenever I got a caster boon that allows fish on 1 I brought him in.

I hate stuff like Antonidas's task that is impossible to achieve in normal gameplay.

 Some of this requires you to play your mercs suboptimal which of course means they're more inlined to die.  The tasks of the same rank are so all over the place in terms of difficulty  I can't tell if some of this was intentional to pad out game play, the designers didn't think things through, one of them was a total sadist, one or more subscribed to the 'you can't spell "frustration" without fun' school of game design, or some mixture of the previous.

Quote from kriszbacsi >>

You are missing one important rule:

"Each Mercenaries Pack contains at least one Rare or better Mercenary Card until all Mercenary Cards are collected from that rarity tier."

https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/hearthstone-mercenaries-packs

The problem there is portraits are depicted as cards before you turn them over and so if things were working as promised you should get at least get rare portrait cards until those are maxed and then get all coins.

Blizzard Watch in “Are you only getting coins in your Hearthstone Mercenaries packs? This is why.” explains the problem:

"For example, let’s say you have all of the Rare Mercenaries unlocked, but not all of the Epic Mercenaries, and barely any of the Legendaries. You open a pack, the card rarity is determined to be Rare, and the roulette lands on Scabbs Cutterbutter. You have all three portraits for Scabs, but not for other Rares, like Xyrella. You get five sets of coins."

But as explained before portraits are cards so if it was working as promised then Scabbs Cutterbutter would have been removed from the card pool but was not.

Quote from RaduGL >>

People joke that you can run this on a toaster but actually the game is quite demanding and very poorly optimized.

 They said it would run...not that it would run well.  Yahtzee has complained many time about having to downgrade his settings so a game doesn't animate in powerpoint presentation mode.

Quote from ChrisRex >>

Believe it or not, the free game mode is supposed to be fun. Some people enjoy playing games. If people find it to be a chore, then why play at all? I'm so confused as to why people feel they need to be constantly rewarded for... Playing a game...

"No mom, I'll ONLY play 'hide and go seek' if you buy me an ice cream cone"!! ... Is that how kids are being raised now)?

But the free game mode seems to come from the 'you can't spell frustration without fun' school of thought.  I use to do the expert mode but they are so frustrating any and the reward so minimal that it is not worth my time.  More over sometimes I like to go back to the old adventures and see what the new decks will do.  With this locked into standard in about 10 months three of the card sets that were part of what it was designed around will be gone. That is just bad (and dumb) game design.

Right.  I De my golden cards to get cards I need. I care more about usability then how pretty it is.

Khadgar can make this so much easier to pull off.

Quote from KickMachine >>

The whole classic set should be HOF'ed instead of nerfing individual cards, which have been in the game since the start. That would make the game feel fresh again. I don't understand what's the point of HOF if they are just going to nerf basic and classic cards.

 This is a bad idea as new players need something other then the basic set that does not rotate out after about 2 years.  Lets face it as demonstrated by the total FUBAR that was Warsong Commander there have been issues with the Classic set from day 1.

Especially with priest which allows you to keep bring them back.

I'd replace Bares with Ysera so it makes Shadow Essence more reliable and generates more cards for you.

Totally useless as many of the cards are even cost.

Quote from Manuelo46 >>

I haven't counted the non witchwood packs but atm i've got 4 witchwood packs. I started with 3 quests when the even began.

Quote from FTPhack >>

So, on another thread, someone made the potential observation that the whole WW packs on Days 3, 7, 10, and 16, might actually be packs instead of days... since the max amount of packs one can have in a 14 day period(which is as long as this event runs) is 16 and day 16 (of a 14 day event) makes no sense. This would mean packs 3, 7, 10, and 16 will be WW packs while the others will be random "mammoth" packs. IDK?

Actually you could go wrong...if one of those quests is the Play a Friend quest.  If I am reading this right if you have that quest you can't complete it during the promotion.