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agreed. It used to be like when I rechieve frend requests, people were mostly friendly. Nowadays its not only different, but because of that people started to rarely accept friend requests too. I wanna ask a person their deckcode, and because of the incread toxicity, most people just dont accept my requests. I guess it because the game is "dying", active player numbers decrease each month. the OG people left and there are few, sincere players remain...

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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

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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)

duels is actually pretty good and a fun mode. you should give it a try. there is no "fixed" meta decks like regular HS, you can even climb with some experimental, fun decks yourself. even the wins counts toward the 500/1000 milestones, so you dont feel like you are getting nothing while playing many games here, unlike tavern brawls.

also I completely agree, they should separate BG's from the regular HS at this point, not only the filesize, but the games are pretty different, playerbase is pretty different.

Mercs on the other hand, is the biggest failure of HS I think, I play it actually but only the PvE stuff. never paid for the PvP, never played it. and I will play it time to time, but that gamemode definately does not have more lifespan than a butterfly. it will get boring pretty quckly. the grind to get max'ed mercs is crazy. there is still no dupe protection (minimal kind exists, but that doesnt help in the long run). there are beautiful looking diamond portraits, but there is no way of getting them without spending a fortune in the game. and its really sad because all the hype is dead and I've never seen any of the diamond portraits besides the pre order ones. they really should implement a crafting system for portraits, and some DE mechanics for excess coins. otherwise, the gamemode will be nothing but a empty shell.

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

blizz employee: "oh shieet... we gotta make that card diamond as promised, right? eh, we'll start tomorrow."

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yea but prolly wont be available for gold tho since it was a pre-order skin

 Is that a hard rule they've been using? I thought all the old skins have come back for either gold or real money.

 it kinda is. only the non-pre-order skins were available for gold as an option. I've seen deathwing, jaraxxus (maybe rastakhan, elise and lazul too, not sure about these) were only available for real money, you couldnt buy them with gold.

Sadge... RIP the would-have-been-a-beautiful-diamond-Drek'Thar

yea but prolly wont be available for gold tho since it was a pre-order skin

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I find it problematic that game is based on "rushing". I can't see why we have 90 s time limit if you have more cards to play. Its just plain stupid.

Time limit is good to avoid  annoy idling but getting  few seconds more IF you have little time and play card would be great. More chances to messy comboes instead that only reason why it is not possible is that time runs out, That being said it would be even more stupid if turn swapped when time runs out and animations in chain would stop and cards returned to hand.

So give us timer that adds a tad for each card / effect. Chess is quite good example where they use such to cut slowness but promote playing. 90 sec limit could be even shorter to cut non doing over playing. Net would be faster turns in the end

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 thank you! completely agree, could not have said better myself

you should DE your regular faction legendary ASAP, the refunds are about to end. you should be able to complete the honor questline eventually, you have time until the next expansion, which should be in April. then you should have both legendaries in golden regardless of the diamond version.

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The dust refund is still live, and will be for the remainder of the expansion as people will continue to be able to open the opposing factions leader until they have completed the honor quest.

 well this might not be true now that I seen this article:

https://outof.cards/hearthstone/4074-reminder-full-dust-refunds-for-alterac-valleys-drekthar-and-vanndar-stormpike-cards-end-on-january-10

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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.

 yea I also mentioned that one before :D also I think swordfishes are a problem to you (I guess) because you upgraded cookie's that ability? I heard that one before so I havent upgraded cookies 3rd ability at all. after I'm done with all tasks I think I can finally upgrade that one :D

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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

 Wait till you reach (I believe it was...) task 13 for Sylvanas.
Destroy 15 enemies using her deathrattle (equipment). the For the Queen task wasn't as annoying as this one.
How I did it? I luckily already got that equipment upgraded to rank 2, but it still only killed 2 random enemies. So I used Sylvanas+Cariel+Mrgl on lvl 28 Felwood. (Where they keep summoning extra adds) I kept buffing sylvanas' attack with cariel, and mrgl+sylvanas kept shooting sylvanas. Mrgl was there cus the npc's tend to hit a blue (low hp) target all the time and he doesn't hit back for much. You gotta find tricks to complete most later tasks cus normal team runs won't always go fast enough.

Altough Jaina's task 'Destroy X enemies with Water Elemental' sucked too.

 jeez, that really sounds like the worst.

but here's mine:

Antonidas task 12: destroy 3 enemies at once with Fireball storm, 15 times

ability randomly fires fireballs at enemies for each fire ability you cast that turn.

omg that was so frustrating... you need 3 other consistent fire ability mercs, and therefore you cannot put healers to protect your antonidas, also the ability is at cooldown, so you either have to carefully choose what to do on turn 1 or just skip it and hope antonidas survives until next turn's speed 7

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NO! The information you were given is NOT correct! 

Everyone will get a diamond copy of the winning faction's legendary. From the 21.8 patch notes:

At the end of the event, all Honor will be tallied and the winning faction’s accomplishment will be forever enshrined in Hearthstone, because every player will receive a Diamond copy of the winning faction’s leader card

The dust refund is still live, and will be for the remainder of the expansion as people will continue to be able to open the opposing factions leader until they have completed the honor quest. I know, because I too was unlucky and opened the opposing factions legendary the other day, and I was able to disenchant at full value despite the fact that the recent nerf refunds had expired. 

It is correct that you have until the next expansion launches to complete the honor quest, so not reason to fret - you have several months left.

So basically, only good news!

 oh alright, I thought refunds were ended with the other nerfs, thats my bad. I checked, they are still live, so yeah, StreeteRz you are in fact lucky then, since you opened the other faction's legendary! you can DE it without hesitation, since you can craft any legendary with that dust, you can even craft it back with no loss :)

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they never bothered turning Vol'jin back on via Stranger, but you can still get his tasks by daily random 

 oh really? thats partially good news then, thx for the info