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also, some of my tasks are repeating themselves multiple times

right now I am completing task 5 of onyxia, yet I got the task 2 first and it is repeating every time I finish the task

I got this also with the other tasks I got with the daily, but only once was it repeated, onyxia is still ongoing :D

I love this change to task farming. I picked up a Nefarian task and I am now through tasks 7-15 for him already. And though less frequent, mysterious stranger still shows up from time to time, I've seen him twice in 11-12 runs of a level 29 or level 30 bounty so far...

Hi, I just got back to HS after 3 years and started playing that mercenary mode.

apparently that "battle pass" thing will reset tomorrow, so will there be any other way to get the Vanessa Vancleef skins in the futur? I'm at lvl 20 atm so getting up to lvl 75 sounds pretty doomed lol.

Don't know if you can already, but I would be surprised if you couldn't get them in packs later on.
There are rumors that you can craft portraits at some point in the future too, nothing more than rumors right now though.

You should be able to get Vanessa from packs once the track changes.

Also, I just NOW realized all of Xuen's tasks are 'Eye of the Tiger' lyrics.

Hmm. Any suggestions for speeding up the 'kill 40 enemies with dragonqueen's gambit' Q? You can't realistically use cookie, and most weak minions are weak in attack too. Maybe some of the felwood trash - the satyrs that summon imps, or the imps that copy? Don't really want to have to rely on softening up the enemies just for them to suicide before I can cast it!

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Hmm. Any suggestions for speeding up the 'kill 40 enemies with dragonqueen's gambit' Q? You can't realistically use cookie, and most weak minions are weak in attack too. Maybe some of the felwood trash - the satyrs that summon imps, or the imps that copy? Don't really want to have to rely on softening up the enemies just for them to suicide before I can cast it!

 I just did this following a very instructive video from Old Guardian (and using a comp that I have used in the past for similar ridiculously grindy tasks). Get Alex, Blink Fox (with the 3rd treasure) and Anacondra (with the treasure where she also heals herself) and go to one of the last 3 Felwood bounties. Restart until you face a comp with Doubling Imp. turn 1 focus on killing the other 2 guys. Turn 2 use Doubling Imp's attack with Blink Fox to get a 2nd Fox (while also finishing off the other 2 guys). At this stage you should have Alex, 2xFox and Lady and the 'enemy' should have 2 injured Doubling Imps. Kill 1 of them with the Gambit, heal the 2nd one with Lady and refresh your abilities with one of the 2 foxes. The fully healed Imp should be 10/26 and will attack Lady Anacondra, ending up with 2 copies of 10/18. Now every turn you do the following:

1. Deal 10 dmg to one of the 2 imps with 1 blink fox (the one that cannot cast the ability to refresh your abilities)
2. Finish it off with Alex's gambit (careful with the order as they will both be speed 0 thx to fox)
3. Heal the 2nd imp back to full with Lady (also healing Lady herself)
4. Refresh your other mercs abilities with the 2nd fox

Repeat this 40 times...

Quote from fusilli >>

Hmm. Any suggestions for speeding up the 'kill 40 enemies with dragonqueen's gambit' Q? You can't realistically use cookie, and most weak minions are weak in attack too. Maybe some of the felwood trash - the satyrs that summon imps, or the imps that copy? Don't really want to have to rely on softening up the enemies just for them to suicide before I can cast it!

 Pair Alex with Balinda (fire elemental) and Ragnaros (Blazing Rune). Aim for +fire treasures if you can get them, try to soften enemies up with Frost Dart and fire ele to stack fire weakness. 

The enemy's attack only counts as the -base- damage for Gambit.. the rest of damage follows weakness/+/crit rules.

Also damn, ever since I realized that about Xuen, that song's been stuck in my head every task I clear with him.

I also got Alex today and I'm realizing so many of her tasks are just.. awful. The requirements are absurd on so many of them.

Wait you can get special portraits from packs?

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Quote from fusilli >>

Hmm. Any suggestions for speeding up the 'kill 40 enemies with dragonqueen's gambit' Q? You can't realistically use cookie, and most weak minions are weak in attack too. Maybe some of the felwood trash - the satyrs that summon imps, or the imps that copy? Don't really want to have to rely on softening up the enemies just for them to suicide before I can cast it!

 I just did this following a very instructive video from Old Guardian (and using a comp that I have used in the past for similar ridiculously grindy tasks). Get Alex, Blink Fox (with the 3rd treasure) and Anacondra (with the treasure where she also heals herself) and go to one of the last 3 Felwood bounties. Restart until you face a comp with Doubling Imp. turn 1 focus on killing the other 2 guys. Turn 2 use Doubling Imp's attack with Blink Fox to get a 2nd Fox (while also finishing off the other 2 guys). At this stage you should have Alex, 2xFox and Lady and the 'enemy' should have 2 injured Doubling Imps. Kill 1 of them with the Gambit, heal the 2nd one with Lady and refresh your abilities with one of the 2 foxes. The fully healed Imp should be 10/26 and will attack Lady Anacondra, ending up with 2 copies of 10/18. Now every turn you do the following:

1. Deal 10 dmg to one of the 2 imps with 1 blink fox (the one that cannot cast the ability to refresh your abilities)
2. Finish it off with Alex's gambit (careful with the order as they will both be speed 0 thx to fox)
3. Heal the 2nd imp back to full with Lady (also healing Lady herself)
4. Refresh your other mercs abilities with the 2nd fox

Repeat this 40 times...

 Hmm, thanks.  Not an option, unfortunately, so just loading up on fire and grinding...

The special merc packs, yes. If you don't have that specific merc yet, getting any portrait of them will make them playable for you.

heads up: Galvanger's Task 8 "Defend the Village" says (and should be) "4 fighter coins", but it's really 4 protector coins

another heads up.. Mi'da does NOT count towards "damage against bosses" tasks

We need someone who has not yet completed Vol'jin's Task 15 to tell us if the new system gives them his 16th or not. 

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"Fixed a bug where the game would crash if you got a Mysterious Stranger encounter after already completing all Tasks for all Mercenaries you own. Now, if there are not enough visitors with available Tasks to fill the three options, it will select random Mercenaries to fill those slots. You will then be able to select a Mercenary as normal and, if that Mercenary does not have any Tasks to offer, you will get Coins for that Mercenary."

https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/9161-patch-23-0-1-patch-notes-balance-changes-bg-duels

 this is great news, however, since there is still no way of using the excess coins, this change could have been much better. why not make it select one of your non-maxed mercs to give +15 coins instead? you knooowww, if a merc is maxed out you just cant do anyting with extra coins so why now make stanger only show non-maxed mercs? Oh ho hoho, I know this and blizz knows it too, those cheeky bastards..

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We need someone who has not yet completed Vol'jin's Task 15 to tell us if the new system gives them his 16th or not. 

 well I'm not a great fit in that regard but still no 16th task.. (did his 15th months, months ago)

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Also, I just NOW realized all of Xuen's tasks are 'Eye of the Tiger' lyrics.

apperantly, they made the merc task 18 so that you dont need the merc in the team for the game to count towards task progression anymore.

(deal 450 damage to the heroic bosses)

I think they made this change so that if a task is not specifying "with this merc in the team", you can do it freely now, I guess.

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apperantly, they made the merc task 18 so that you dont need the merc in the team for the game to count towards task progression anymore.

(deal 450 damage to the heroic bosses)

I think they made this change so that if a task is not specifying "with this merc in the team", you can do it freely now, I guess.

 It's been that way for months now

https://hearthstone.fandom.com/wiki/Mercenaries/Task has a decent list of which tasks do and don't require the merc in the party

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Quote from ArcyroX >>

apperantly, they made the merc task 18 so that you dont need the merc in the team for the game to count towards task progression anymore.

(deal 450 damage to the heroic bosses)

I think they made this change so that if a task is not specifying "with this merc in the team", you can do it freely now, I guess.

 It's been that way for months now

https://hearthstone.fandom.com/wiki/Mercenaries/Task has a decent list of which tasks do and don't require the merc in the party

 didnt know, thx for the info

It seems for whatever reason, Murky is exempt from the "automatically get next task" thing.