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not so much about the topic but discovered another bug I think:

Mannoroth's 11th task seems different than other merc's regular 11th task: "deal 450 damage"

Mannoroth's 11th says: "grant your demons 270 health using terror charge"

however, I think the task is still 'deal 450 damage' in the code, because I didnt even use that ability and somehow completed the achievement in 3 fights

just wanted to share this idk maybe it will help someone who would try to farm the "wrong" task

I actually got Mannoroth's 11th earlier this week and had to complete it normally.

HOWEVER.. there was another task, I can't remember whose, but it was one of those "destroy 40 minions" ones.. that I somehow completed in a single PVP match (I usually get my 1 pvp win out of the way first before moving onto the task board), so I suspect there's something else going on that occasionally causes tasks to mysteriously complete

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I actually got Mannoroth's 11th earlier this week and had to complete it normally.

HOWEVER.. there was another task, I can't remember whose, but it was one of those "destroy 40 minions" ones.. that I somehow completed in a single PVP match (I usually get my 1 pvp win out of the way first before moving onto the task board), so I suspect there's something else going on that occasionally causes tasks to mysteriously complete

 hmm that sounds interesting... I actually dont know about my task progress for the first 2 fights. maybe the same thing happened and the task got completed instantly on that last fight.

(I also want to add that there was another task with very similar objective, giving health to demons with the same ability for Mannaroth. but this 11th task was after that and I was actually surprised to see 2 very similar tasks on the same merc's task list. however, as I said, the 2nd give health task got completed instantly somehow)

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I actually got Mannoroth's 11th earlier this week and had to complete it normally.

HOWEVER.. there was another task, I can't remember whose, but it was one of those "destroy 40 minions" ones.. that I somehow completed in a single PVP match (I usually get my 1 pvp win out of the way first before moving onto the task board), so I suspect there's something else going on that occasionally causes tasks to mysteriously complete

 It happened to me a couple of days ago with Tamsin's kill 40 minions task. It was completed after only killing 3 on the first floor of a heroic bounty

ok, so plot twist.. I actually just got Mannoroth's 11th as one of my 4 daily randoms, but I could've SWORN I did this earlier this week..

..and I completed it in one pvp battle without even having Mannoroth in the party

Ok, I looked something up.. Mannoroth's 9th has the same description as the 11th (270 health with Terror Charge), and Task 11s are usually the "deal 450 damage" ones, so it's very likely as ArcyroX says, and its REALLY a 450 dmg one, but they just flat out have the wrong description on it.

Small indie company.

..this also sorta makes me wonder just how random the daily campfire is. I pretty much never use Mannoroth for anything, yet I've gotten his 9th, 10th and 11th as a campfire random this week, yet I still have a ton of mercs that aren't even on their 7th yet and a handful that aren't even on 2nd, and lately I've been getting nothing but high tasks (much to my chagrin when its a task for a maxed merc.. more wasted coins). It's how I've jumped from 14 unopened packs from when I first complained in the "16k excess coins" (28k now, btw) thread a month ago to now 24. I'm starting to strongly believe that the campfire is weighted towards assigning high tasks and not true random.

edit: currently tearing my hair out with Uther's 12 (kill 3 enemies at once with Avenging Wrath 8 times). I seriously want to punch whomever came up with these "kill 3 enemies at once with combo ability on cd" tasks in the face. What makes this worse is that it used to be if you triggered a deathrattle that killed using the ability you have to use for the task, it would count as a kill towards that task.. and that if you killed, say 4 at the same time, that would count as 2 towards your progress, but someone decided to "fix" both of these in the Alterac patch.

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What is the worst, most mind-numbing task requirement you've come across?

 

I hereby nominate Sylvannas' 9th: Destroy 30 enemies using For the Queen

 It took me a week to complete this task

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..this also sorta makes me wonder just how random the daily campfire is. I pretty much never use Mannoroth for anything, yet I've gotten his 9th, 10th and 11th as a campfire random this week, yet I still have a ton of mercs that aren't even on their 7th yet and a handful that aren't even on 2nd, and lately I've been getting nothing but high tasks (much to my chagrin when its a task for a maxed merc.. more wasted coins). It's how I've jumped from 14 unopened packs from when I first complained in the "16k excess coins" (28k now, btw) thread a month ago to now 24. I'm starting to strongly believe that the campfire is weighted towards assigning high tasks and not true random.

 

 hmm thats another interesting topic. Because, I am stuck on Vol'Jin's 15 th task (I mean I completed his 15th, but never managed to get his 16th task) since November 3rd. It's been longer than 2 months, and I can say that Vol'Jin was one of my first mercs that reached that high in tasks. And I never got his next tasks. In another thread, kwikill said "it's possible to get Vol'Jin's tasks via daily campfire refreshes" and I can say, I never missed a daily task. That's like 75x4=300 tasks. So that's my counter argument against your theory. Either my Vol'Jin is really stuck with his tasks, or daily campfire tasks are strangely "random".

I'm almost done with all my merc's tasks. I have 12 mercs left across my 49 mercs. I am not opening packs until I see what happens when I complete all my mercs all tasks :D

Well, we've pretty much concluded that Vol'jin currently cannot get tasks via Stranger, but on the same token he is still showing up as a daily.. HOWEVER.. that also may only be up to a certain Task (I don't think I'm anywhere near his 15th but I'm at least past his 7th; I haven't been keeping track otherwise). The next time I get Vol'jin as a daily, I'll post here.

I've been tracking my merc tasks since  around 2 months and next to Vol'jin I still have a '?' because I simply don't know where I am as in the last 2 months I haven't had a task for him neither via the 60x4 dailies nor via the ~200 Strangers....

I've got Vol'jin tasks both as a daily and via the stranger lately. Though, I'm at task 11 or 12 now, maybe the tasks will stop appearing once I reach 15.

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ok, Antonidas' 12th is absolute torture. "Kill three enemies in one turn with Fireball Swarm 15 times"

Even with Cookie and a Ragnaros with a maxed out third treasure (+3 fire damage), you still have to pray with Cookie that a swordfish doesn't spawn/get hit.

 edit: I'm on 13/15, having only gotten credit for ONE in the past hour because I keep losing Swordfish Roulette. The issue is that the game is resolving deathrattles before it resolves combos, so if any of Antonidas' random fireballs hits a swordfish, it clears the board and doesn't let the combo continue. This may not be the most time consuming task, but it is by far the most frustrating one I've run into yet. The devs who play Mercs should probably have played their own game at some point.

 Late reply now, but the secret to Antonidas Fireball Swarm tasks is that Living Bomb kills count, if Fireball Swarm triggers the bomb.  Use Rag's speed 5 on Geddon, Geddon drops LB on something, and Fireball Swarm.  It just works.

Voone's 12th: kill 2 enemies with Axe Throw 15 times.

Since there's no possible way of making Axe Throw hit any harder than 8 damage on a non-critical target...

Have Cookie summon three fishes, they have 15 health so it will take you two turns to destroy them, but there's a cooldown on Cookie's skill anyway, so on the second turn you can summon another fish by Cookie - rinse and repeat.

Just watch out when Cookie summons a Swordfish - that could break or delay the process depending on how high level the Swordfish (Cookie's skill) is.

Doing Gruul's 14th now.. apparently it's really just "kill 40 dragons".. Gruul doesn't even have to be in your party.

..who knows if this gets "fixed" tomorrow, though...

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Doing Gruul's 14th now.. apparently it's really just "kill 40 dragons".. Gruul doesn't even have to be in your party.

..who knows if this gets "fixed" tomorrow, though...

 yea I think it also says "...using dragonslayer shot" but that ability is not needed. even the dragons attacking and dying counts towards the task if I remember correctly.

(also, I tried to kill dragons summoned by voone but they dont count :/ they have to be enemy dragons FYI)

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the funny thing? -I- replied to that very post explaining how/why it happens, and forgot about it before posting again.

 

I blame holiday stress.

 yea it happens (:

lemme add another thing then :D gruul's 14th task I think, was "kill 40 dragons with dragonslayer shot" which sounds like a hard grind too. however, the game counted every single dragon kill by any means, I dunno why :D I had gruul in my team that's all I can say. even them attacking and killing themselves counted. so thats that, no need to worry when you get to that task.

 also appearantly I have already talked about this one too :D

yes, I searched for a post like yours before I began to avoid potential hair-pulling and deliberately tested it

may I also add the "easiest task ever"? :D

Eudora's task 15: "deal 40 damage in one turn"

thats it. there is no restrictions for it. Eudora does not even have to be in your party. Instant completion. wow :D

just got Vol'jin's 12th as a daily random

Got Vol'jin's 14th (combo Shadow Surge 30 times) and Velen's 17th (deal 50 damage with Splitting Light 20 times) today as randoms..

I cannot stress strongly enough how "use combo ability on cd an absurd amount of times" tasks piss me off, lol