Tons of fun so far! Love playing with synergies, really excited for them to add more mercs. A few frustrations are that i wish we could get gold thru the game mode, and i kind of feel like i have outleveled the content? Im only halfway thru felwood but it felt more challenging mid barrens when my party was less upgraded, i bought the 5 buck welcome pack and thats it so im kinda surprised to be out scaling the content. Maybe orc synergy is just that good? (havent tried heroic yet) Its not gonna suck weeks of my life but if theyre adding new stuff each patch i'll be happy to come thru and play around in it again, just needs some small tweaks
I don’t think he was online when I took a look but most of them are. Give it a few days and Kripp will start bg’ing again when his viewers number drops
The lack of variety, and probably how quick and easy everything gets are big issues. I am not sure why the fights are over so quick, because you are left with an empty feeling as a result. There's a point where you figured out a good comp and things went from kind of challenging to you are winning everything. I'd say the mode needs about 4 times the mercs, at least, right now there's so many mercs that no one is using. It's a weird thing that some aspects of hearthstone are present but they are lost in the BOOM BOOM BOOM nature of the fights. The sad part is you are grinding to make the matches even quicker and easier. It's a circular mess.
The lack of variety, and probably how quick and easy everything gets are big issues. I am not sure why the fights are over so quick, because you are left with an empty feeling as a result. There's a point where you figured out a good comp and things went from kind of challenging to you are winning everything. I'd say the mode needs about 4 times the mercs, at least, right now there's so many mercs that no one is using. It's a weird thing that some aspects of hearthstone are present but they are lost in the BOOM BOOM BOOM nature of the fights. The sad part is you are grinding to make the matches even quicker and easier. It's a circular mess.
I am using all my mercs. It's gonna take some time before I max out everything, I certainly don't need more mercs right now. There are nearly endless possibilities within each team of 6.
I feel like some of you guys just did the tutorial and 2 barrens missions before reviewing the game mode.
Love it. I bought 10 pack welcome bundle, paid 1000gp, and with 10 packs free opened 30 packs and got pretty solid starting collection. I am currently lvl 17 and I faced few challenges but overall it went out smoothly. I will not rush my progress.
I love both designs of possibility to choose reasonable location for loot and existence of mysterious visitor.
I am not commited to Mercenaries yet, but from 3 days of playing I realy like the gameplay.
The lack of variety, and probably how quick and easy everything gets are big issues. I am not sure why the fights are over so quick, because you are left with an empty feeling as a result. There's a point where you figured out a good comp and things went from kind of challenging to you are winning everything. I'd say the mode needs about 4 times the mercs, at least, right now there's so many mercs that no one is using. It's a weird thing that some aspects of hearthstone are present but they are lost in the BOOM BOOM BOOM nature of the fights. The sad part is you are grinding to make the matches even quicker and easier. It's a circular mess.
I am using all my mercs. It's gonna take some time before I max out everything, I certainly don't need more mercs right now. There are nearly endless possibilities within each team of 6.
I feel like some of you guys just did the tutorial and 2 barrens missions before reviewing the game mode.
Certain pairings are ridiculously strong, honestly - Xyrellia/Samuro? Both are very pushed heroes compared to some others, they synergize, and, honestly, getting new mercs is pretty nontrivial, so I have a core of most of my teams. Farming one single pretty hard mission for Diablo coins (well, I presume there's others that you can get than just the ones advertised, as I get random ones that aren't in my party or the loot list, but that could well be limited too)? That's a tough one to grind out. And there's no real way in-game to see what cards do before you craft them! That's ridiculous, IMO. I'd be more likely to grind for coins for stuff if the game let me preview their abilities.
There's a lot of mindless grinding after a while. You're going to struggle to get through winterspring if you didn't get any fire spell heroes, for example, and getting above R3 abilities is a grind.
Good ! very good. I like it, enjoy it and appreciate the development.
It is a new mode pepole, new world , new type of HS game. Put some time to learn and experience before comclusions. then you may enjoy it.
Impressions from one day might be wrong. The first levels are easy, as expected, to let players get used.
Then you face surprises... even loose a bounty so you must think, plan, max the abilities and featurs in each different match, even learning how to manage the game options, as me, maybe like many others - just jump unto the game to see what it is, without getting much info and details from guides or streamers.
I am getting bored already. I see the potential and like the concept but I need something more varied than the very same bounties again and again. Not sure I'll even do free tasks every day when I login in HS
I hope, in the future, they'll add something like survival mode - pick a team of mercs and get stronger and stronger opponents until they kill them off. This kind of grinding, even if it will give 1\4th of stuff comparing to bounties, is something I'll enjoy.
It is way more fun than I originally expected to be honest, playing around with treasures and figuring out strong and fun teams of 6 feels great, but I hope expansions bring in a lot of content because it gets very repetitive very quickly if you play for more than 2 hours a day, you will likely have all rare mercs on the first day, complete all normal bounties and craft every epic on the second day, have all your mercs at level 30 on the third day, have all you abilities and items at rank 3 or more on the fourth day, craft a legendary and opening another one in packs on the fifth day, and complete all heroic bounties after a week. That's if you're F2P, I imagine the people who got the pre-order already completed all content by the third day.
What is left for you at this point is PVP, which is not great for a game mode focused on PVE, and new expansions.
It is wayyyyy too repetitive. The general idea might be good but it is not developed at all. It is always and always the same.
For me, it is a big fail, even people that like this mode now will get bored in less than 2 weeks. It is toooo repetitive.
Equip farm? Please no, kill me. Task 7? really? Thank you no.
Anyway, the general idea as I said is not bad but Blizz has to implement a lot of things if want this mode playable.
Problem is that such games usually give players a choice - do fun things and get some stuff or find some optimal grinding strategy and get more stuff.
Mercs, as released, have problems with fun things. Bounties are too repetitive, especially early, non-elite encounters. I hope they'll add something like random bounties or survival mode or something and I don't care if those options will give 10 times less stuff than efficient grinding methods.
It definitely needs more dragons. I have Alexstrasza which requires lots of dragons for her second ability, but after checking I realized there’s only one other dragon in the mode (Brightwing, plus Voone if you count his tokens he generates). Meanwhile there is tons of synergy for Orcs, Demons, and Humans. Just makes me sad cuz I think an all dragon deck would be awesome.
Tons of fun so far! Love playing with synergies, really excited for them to add more mercs. A few frustrations are that i wish we could get gold thru the game mode, and i kind of feel like i have outleveled the content? Im only halfway thru felwood but it felt more challenging mid barrens when my party was less upgraded, i bought the 5 buck welcome pack and thats it so im kinda surprised to be out scaling the content. Maybe orc synergy is just that good? (havent tried heroic yet) Its not gonna suck weeks of my life but if theyre adding new stuff each patch i'll be happy to come thru and play around in it again, just needs some small tweaks
Waiting for gnome synergy and some new gnomes :P
The only thing I’m going to say is that all streamers are playing battlegrounds 1 day post release!
That says a lot about the new mode….
Junk mode
What all streamers? Even Kripp was playing mercs half an hour ago...
I don’t think he was online when I took a look but most of them are. Give it a few days and Kripp will start bg’ing again when his viewers number drops
The lack of variety, and probably how quick and easy everything gets are big issues. I am not sure why the fights are over so quick, because you are left with an empty feeling as a result. There's a point where you figured out a good comp and things went from kind of challenging to you are winning everything. I'd say the mode needs about 4 times the mercs, at least, right now there's so many mercs that no one is using. It's a weird thing that some aspects of hearthstone are present but they are lost in the BOOM BOOM BOOM nature of the fights. The sad part is you are grinding to make the matches even quicker and easier. It's a circular mess.
The mode has some interesting new aspects around deck building and combat strategies.
I do not like the grind; you have to play a lot to level up your mercs.
I think the novelness is gone after a few days of playing Mercenaries.
I like it! I've had a few crazy moments in PVE when I've gotten the perfect combination of treasures.
Guff giving +10/+20 to all characters every turn with no cooldown.
I had a Brightwing with Ancient Reflections, then used Phase Shift on my reflections to get all my mercs out at once with 3 reflections on the bench.
PvP seems to be fun, a lot more mindgames involved compared with regular Hearthstone.
I finally played a bit. Seemed very boring. Felt like same strategy for every battle.
-shrug-
But, if you enjoy it, great! And if you want to dump a lot of cash into it, I'm even more happy.
Just not for me.
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I am using all my mercs. It's gonna take some time before I max out everything, I certainly don't need more mercs right now. There are nearly endless possibilities within each team of 6.
I feel like some of you guys just did the tutorial and 2 barrens missions before reviewing the game mode.
Love it.
I bought 10 pack welcome bundle, paid 1000gp, and with 10 packs free opened 30 packs and got pretty solid starting collection.
I am currently lvl 17 and I faced few challenges but overall it went out smoothly. I will not rush my progress.
I love both designs of possibility to choose reasonable location for loot and existence of mysterious visitor.
I am not commited to Mercenaries yet, but from 3 days of playing I realy like the gameplay.
Certain pairings are ridiculously strong, honestly - Xyrellia/Samuro? Both are very pushed heroes compared to some others, they synergize, and, honestly, getting new mercs is pretty nontrivial, so I have a core of most of my teams. Farming one single pretty hard mission for Diablo coins (well, I presume there's others that you can get than just the ones advertised, as I get random ones that aren't in my party or the loot list, but that could well be limited too)? That's a tough one to grind out. And there's no real way in-game to see what cards do before you craft them! That's ridiculous, IMO. I'd be more likely to grind for coins for stuff if the game let me preview their abilities.
There's a lot of mindless grinding after a while. You're going to struggle to get through winterspring if you didn't get any fire spell heroes, for example, and getting above R3 abilities is a grind.
Good ! very good. I like it, enjoy it and appreciate the development.
It is a new mode pepole, new world , new type of HS game. Put some time to learn and experience before comclusions. then you may enjoy it.
Impressions from one day might be wrong. The first levels are easy, as expected, to let players get used.
Then you face surprises... even loose a bounty so you must think, plan, max the abilities and featurs in each different match, even learning how to manage the game options, as me, maybe like many others - just jump unto the game to see what it is, without getting much info and details from guides or streamers.
Thanks Blizzard ! Good work.
I am getting bored already. I see the potential and like the concept but I need something more varied than the very same bounties again and again. Not sure I'll even do free tasks every day when I login in HS
I hope, in the future, they'll add something like survival mode - pick a team of mercs and get stronger and stronger opponents until they kill them off. This kind of grinding, even if it will give 1\4th of stuff comparing to bounties, is something I'll enjoy.
It is way more fun than I originally expected to be honest, playing around with treasures and figuring out strong and fun teams of 6 feels great, but I hope expansions bring in a lot of content because it gets very repetitive very quickly if you play for more than 2 hours a day, you will likely have all rare mercs on the first day, complete all normal bounties and craft every epic on the second day, have all your mercs at level 30 on the third day, have all you abilities and items at rank 3 or more on the fourth day, craft a legendary and opening another one in packs on the fifth day, and complete all heroic bounties after a week. That's if you're F2P, I imagine the people who got the pre-order already completed all content by the third day.
What is left for you at this point is PVP, which is not great for a game mode focused on PVE, and new expansions.
It's a crap from Small Indie Company...
It is wayyyyy too repetitive. The general idea might be good but it is not developed at all. It is always and always the same.
For me, it is a big fail, even people that like this mode now will get bored in less than 2 weeks. It is toooo repetitive.
Equip farm? Please no, kill me. Task 7? really? Thank you no.
Anyway, the general idea as I said is not bad but Blizz has to implement a lot of things if want this mode playable.
Problem is that such games usually give players a choice - do fun things and get some stuff or find some optimal grinding strategy and get more stuff.
Mercs, as released, have problems with fun things. Bounties are too repetitive, especially early, non-elite encounters. I hope they'll add something like random bounties or survival mode or something and I don't care if those options will give 10 times less stuff than efficient grinding methods.
It definitely needs more dragons. I have Alexstrasza which requires lots of dragons for her second ability, but after checking I realized there’s only one other dragon in the mode (Brightwing, plus Voone if you count his tokens he generates). Meanwhile there is tons of synergy for Orcs, Demons, and Humans. Just makes me sad cuz I think an all dragon deck would be awesome.
My only complaint is that they should have released a much bigger set. Too many synergies are gutted by lack of support.
The gameplay itself is a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to more Mercs and more bounties.
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