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I thought when they originally rolled out Mercs, that you would "upgrade" your portrait as you leveled. They showed Krush and Mukla like that. I think Edwin and Lokholar are the worse though. 

I hope that the Leeroy Quest is less bugged then the last one. 

Also, want to bet that all of Cookies fish get a card?

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have you guys seen the new mercs?

man fck this sht they keep making the joke skins as default ones in mercs. Lokholar's default skin was also like that but thank god he is a rare so his portraits are common. but oh no Deathwing? look how they massacred my boy. I do not want these "alternative" skins as defaults.

bet they are doing this intentionally to sell portrait bundles.

after so much of negligence, the excess coins, protectionless packs, no pity timer, shitty grind system,... thats it. I hope this negligent and careless company finally go bankrupt so that game makers creates the quality stuff again.

 actually, it sorta fits the portrait progression theme they've done all along. The "young" or "before they were famous" portraits tend to be the default, with them getting more "epic" as you go right to left. This would probably make more sense, however, if gaining portraits were an actual progression and not completely random.

This just feeds into my theory that when Mercenaries was being developed, it must've had a much more player-friendly design at first, but then some accountant came in and said "no no no, you can't do that".

The tasks, for instance.. many of them feel like they weren't meant to be completed in one sitting or by concocting some bullshit scenario with your party (like Cookie abuse), but rather naturally and over time in the background, like achievements. I can easily imagine they had similar plans for portraits.. maybe when you maxed a merc out, you progressively earned your way through the portraits.. but then the accountant came in and said "I don't understand, how is that supposed to sell packs and bundles?".

Huh. Are the new bounties time-gated, or just bugged to not count HC clears of the previous unlocknig the next (I'm assuming the latter, but bleh!)? Certainly did not require normal clears to unlock the next bounty previously, but smolderwing HC done and no golem one available. If deliberate it's annoying gating. 

hm, I did Smolderwing normal, then H golem, (then went back to do H smolderwing for gear), then SI normal.. 

also, it looks like they fixed Chi-ji's Firestorm double dipping from +heal (but the damage component still benefits from both +heal and +fire)

Smolderwing N opened Golem H, so here's hoping that I don't need to do them all on N!

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and btw, after being done with Chi-Ji too, now I have completed every single task there is for every single merc. that means 18*70 = 1260... oh of course, and minus 3, for the damn bugged Voljin tasks. so uh, I have completed 1257 tasks. wow that sounds crazy when I see what I did from a perspective. and only 6 mercs left to be max'ed: Niuzao, Yu'lon this dicc, Galvangar, Xuen, Chi-Ji and Long'xin. just wanted to share ^^

 WELP. This last patch almost ruined mercs for me. Since I am done with all of the tasks, I used to select and get 15 coins for one of my 3 randomly picked mercs everytime I encounter a Stranger.

however, as of right now, after the patch, everytime I select an stranger boon, my bounty softlocks and I have no other option than to retire my run. such a shame. well done blizzard. all I asked for was that stranger giving me coins for only my non-maxed mercs.

basically, if you complete your tasks 100%, you unlock a new boon: "Retire boon" instead of stranger ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

this appears to be part of a wider UI issue introduced this patch

Last patch introduced mouseover info for what tasks were available with Stranger. This patch, the mouseover shows "Task 1" for all three mercs regardless of which task it actually is. It wouldn't surprise me if it's related.

Ahaahah.

Expensive shit is done with feet. I am happy to not be part of this madness anymore. 

Amazing. They still didn't fix the Positive Equilibrium treasure.

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and btw, after being done with Chi-Ji too, now I have completed every single task there is for every single merc. that means 18*70 = 1260... oh of course, and minus 3, for the damn bugged Voljin tasks. so uh, I have completed 1257 tasks. wow that sounds crazy when I see what I did from a perspective. and only 6 mercs left to be max'ed: Niuzao, Yu'lon this dicc, Galvangar, Xuen, Chi-Ji and Long'xin. just wanted to share ^^

 WELP. This last patch almost ruined mercs for me. Since I am done with all of the tasks, I used to select and get 15 coins for one of my 3 randomly picked mercs everytime I encounter a Stranger.

however, as of right now, after the patch, everytime I select an stranger boon, my bounty softlocks and I have no other option than to retire my run. such a shame. well done blizzard. all I asked for was that stranger giving me coins for only my non-maxed mercs.

basically, if you complete your tasks 100%, you unlock a new boon: "Retire boon" instead of stranger ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 Update:

I just unlocked Vanndar. and got to a stranger. it showed me vanndar and 2 other empty slots. picked vanndar obviously but then the game froze. didnt say "not responding" but had to close the game. when I log back in my run still continued as if I picked vanndar normally.

so yeah, I guess if you have any mercs available for tasks, game still freezes but no longer softlocks. at least appearantly.

since I haven't seen you mention anything since patch, I assume Vol'jin is still bugged?

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since I haven't seen you mention anything since patch, I assume Vol'jin is still bugged?

 yes, I did his 15th task about 3 months ago, and still not recieved his next tasks. I think I just accepted it at this point. they will never care about such bugs unless there happens to be a massive rage and complaints for them.

Mysterious Stranger softlock was bad, but oh god I encountered a game breaking bug.

I did something, I dunno what, but I cant edit my comps anymore. when I click on a party, nothing happens at first, then when you mouse over the party, it flashes like crazy. if you click again, you might start editing the name without the party menu opens. if you try to click on the picture and try to avoid clicking at the name, the game freezes except for the friends menu and the options menu. At that point, you have no option other than to restart the game. But nothing will change. game will run normal, but you cant edit the comps anymore. nice bug blizzard. I can see how hard you are working to make this game better.

Great game testing, Blizz! I've not encountered any major bugs - just the misnumbering of tasks, which is minor. Bugs don't get quickly fixed, though, in mercs. Wonder if your bug is related to being unable to change equip mid-run or something?

I'm enjoying the difficulty of some of the bosses - smuggler was a pain (though really nerfed by using a decktracker, since that tells you where the boss is post-swaps) even with a ST nature comp (and threw me off with stuff like orcs because they swapped before the attacks!), and Ony feels like a nightmare (though Deathwing could be ridiculously strong there when farmed up - his equip from smoulderwing is narrow, but crazy strong in the right situation). Punishing melee attacks, plus a huge chunk of spell resistance is an interesting pair!

they have released an update to fix various bugs!

mercenaries mode got really bad and unstable for me after the previous update. softlocks, permanent game-breaking bug that prevents me from editing my comps. but oh another update? They must have fixed all the huge bugs present.

and guess what?

Nothing changed. Everything that I have mentioned stays. Stranger = Softlock, cant edit comps, Voljin no tasks,...

update: the "cant edit comps" bug somehow fixed itself yesterday. I think I did something and caused it. maybe "Wonder if your bug is related to being unable to change equip mid-run or something?" so I agree. I hope it never happens again especially since there is an event going on and I will need to edit comps to pass them.

Edwin's task 10 - deal 200 combo damage. How can I do this? Other, non-Edwin combo abilities don't count. Edwin's only combo ability - if it even has combo due to equips - doesn't *actually* deal damage. Is it just badly worded and wants 200 assisted strike damage?

Ah yeah that is very poorly worded, ignore any mercs that have an ability with the 'Combo' keyword, what you have to do if I recall correctly is deal 200 damage with his 2nd ability (the combo one)

Thanks - though I'm seeing that the *first* ability is counting, not the second, now I'm home again and trying things? Some of these quests are abysmal (I'm also somehow doing 300 fire damage with Chiji. without chiji and without any fire damage :P).

I am currently stuck with galvangar task

task 8: Defend the Village(Use the Boon: Fighter coin 4 times)

It doesn't seem to make any progress even tho i got Boon Fighter multiple times

before I didn't even have the merc in the team and it would increment the counter for the merc, but now it is still stuck at 0/4 after 3 Boons...

edit:
galvangar was already resolved here:
https://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-game-modes/mercenaries/252422-mercanaries-task-discussion-guide-thread?comment=16
sorry for first asking and then searching :D