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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

 didnt know, thx for the info

Quote from kwikill >>

what absolute jackass thought this would be fun and compelling gameplay?

 my advice: chi-ji cookie and onyxia, air elemental heroic.

spawn fish, buld up heal power with chi-ji, hit onyxia, gain +36 ish fire damage next turn and hit all minions.

the boss battle especially is great, you can deal 25&25 or with 1 fish 17-17-17 damage, you can deal 50 damage like 3 times in 1 turn in that battle.

the grind for doing that 40 times really dumb tho and I agree.

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.

Quote from kwikill >>

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

Quote from xskarma >>

"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..

Quote from kwikill >>

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)

Quote from JollyCroquet >>

My guess is that it's Blizzards attempt to make more players see diamond cards as high value and be willing to spend money on them if we see it cheaper. Like if they released a bundle for of 10 packs and a diamond legendary for 28.99 in a few months they think people will be like "less than 20 euros for a diamond! That's a good deal!" But in reality it ain't gonna be like that for 99.9% of players...

 yep, the anchoring method of marketing

it was not the greatest, sure, but its still a negative :(

dude... I'm not talking about task farming. I'm done with tasks.

what I'm saying is hitting the stranger boon would always give me +15 coins for a selected merc. now we are losing that additional resource...

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currently, I'm frozen out of Mercenaries because of a bug, so I'm about to post a warning about it

 great... well done blizzard. I cant even fathom the fact that they can make this gamemode even more buggy. there was already numerous game breaking bugs but somehow they can still make it worse.

dont open packs, they are a terrible deal, if you have a great collection and maxed mercs, you should realize that most packs contain "nothing" now. they eventually gonna have to do someting for that.

oh man, the mercenaries mode is such a trap...

we are reducing The Mysterious Stranger appearance rate.

they back this up by saying now you get constant tasks insted. however, as a player who has done every single task before, this can be a massive nerf to getting coins.
The Stranger would give you 15 coins for your picked mercenary if you have no more space or completed all the tasks for a merc.
the stranger was such a boost that I collect additional 15 coins from him almost every run. However, since we will be a rare appearance now, this resource has been basically destroyed...

Throughout this year, the team has plans for a way to spend excess coins

yea we now what this "ThROuGhOUt thIs yEaR" means. we gonna get a shitty and greedy system at 2023

SO... since there is no craft system is present in the mercenaries mode, they cant refund OP cards.

To work around not having to give refunds somehow, they buffed all the weaker mercs insted, since the buff does not involve any refunds.

 guys where you see the new core set cards? when I go and look for the core cards in the playhearthstone website, it shows me the old core set :(

Quote from onceupop >>

I am hoping for Year of the Sea Elephants

Quote from Shipmen >>

Yes. This is more or less the experience for everyone. But as the experiment of today suggests, the matchmaking system is not rigged. However, human psychology tends to remember the unlucky moments compared to the lucky ones and this in general true. That's human nature that works in this way. 

If instead the game is rigged in the card draw, this is another topic and it is very difficult to test. So here, we can keep the benefit of the doubt. Anyway, the human being tends to remember the times he loses with the top deck and not those he wins on the top deck.

 agreed. thats why I didnt want to come to a conclusion.