"Mercenaries Packs contain 5 Mercenaries items, which can include Mercenary Cards, Mercenary Portraits, or Mercenary Coins. Each Mercenaries Pack contains at least one Rare or better Mercenary Card until all Mercenary Cards are collected from that rarity tier."
Um... I mean it turns it into a stack of coins, but you still pulled a merc.
..then the only other explanation is the lack of, or a functionally different pity timer for mercs
It took me nearly 70 packs since my last legendary to get Belinda
There is no pity timer at all.
Like Merc packs suck, and the content got too frustrating to farm, so I kinda gave up on the mode personally. It was fine when I could reasonably finish bounties.
I should be clear, I haven't given up on it FOREVER, but I wanna see improvements before I reinvest time/resources into the mode.
Um... I mean it turns it into a stack of coins, but you still pulled a merc.
There is no pity timer at all.
Like Merc packs suck, and the content got too frustrating to farm, so I kinda gave up on the mode personally. It was fine when I could reasonably finish bounties.
You have a guaranteed merc per pack, but then you have four flex spots which can be *ANYTHING*.
But no matter what your odds are of getting a portrait, your odds of getting a merc in those flex spots is unchanged.
Technically you can, but it's in place of coins, not in place of a merc.
The portraits did not stop you from getting a legendary merc.