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Quote from YourPersonalGuru >>

I mean it's good that they try to make the game less about grinding, but where are my coins then?

They are not trying to make the game less about grinding, they are trying to sell you packs where your coins are.

Obviously. You need a task which is not completed yet for a mercenary if you want to receive coins.

Quote from CaptainBlurt >>

Start Hunt. Go to mystery point. get task from stranger. Complete hunt. Start and quit hunt 3 times. Go to mystery point and get task from stranger. Complete hunt and so on. Worked the past 20-30 runs (always got stranger)

 Not working. Got "Sabotage!"

Battletag: Shuriken#21314

Region: EU

Trade only? : yes, you go first

Quote from Strongpoint >>

What is the point of collecting mercenaries if having top tier is unnecessary for high rank? 1) Some (many) players like the collecting aspect itself 2) Beating highest tier bounties in heroic mode.

 Sure, but I mean from Blizzard perspective. Very few players will spend money for beating pve content in this game or for the collecting aspect. They have to convince you to spend a lot of money and they can only do this through pvp side of the mode. And if this will be through pvp, then it will surely be not even-strength matches. They can say you, that, look, your characters have the same levels as opponent's, why isn't this an even-strength match?  But your rare team will compete against legendaries, or their mercenaries will be with fully leveled abilities and equip, and so on. There are a lot of questions about that.

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Quote from Xix19 >>

Conclusion: pre-order packs = PAY FOR FUN! Even if you buy all pre-orders your just getting a large variety of Mercs but not much power. If you want to PAY 2 WIN you need to buy over a 1000 packs!!! I dont think the amount of whales who do this will ruin PVP. But obviously the top spots in the rankings will be reserverd for whales/streamers.

You are ignoring that teams are matched by strength so they will be matched with each other and will have no advantage in gaining top spots in the rankings

 I believe they also mentioned a similar to their other modes MMR-system, which this mode will have. And this is quite opposite of what they say that it should be more or less equal strength teams. I am aware that you will face equal strength teams only in the beginning, and then when your mmr-rating will increase you will face more and more powerful teams. Because otherwise what is the point of collecting mercenaries and spending money if you could be the best and climb ranks with what you have in equal-strength battles?

I realised that this is PVP mode in the end, after these videos.

First, the rewards they were receiving after each bounty were just coins for their own mercenaries plus some coins for some rares they didn't had. That's it. Even from last boss from Barrens. Even from lvl 20 Heroic Bounty. Of course, maybe from high-end bounties you will start receiving some epic coins or even legendary. But from what I saw, it will be so few, like 5 coins for the mercenary you don't have yet. And I believe they will make it, like, you could farm some specific epic mercenaries, but for the legendary ones, it will be rng mercenary coins. I will be glad if I am wrong on this.

Second, the rewards they were receiving for PVP were great, because there were coins for epic and legendary mercenaries. Just for one win. In PVP.

Third, the fact that you couldn't craft a mercenary you want with universal currency like dust is makes it a very grindy mode, that might convince you to buy packs instead.

Fourth, the Diamond skins. You want to show them off versus real people. That's how the whole skins thing works.

So in the end, I think the PVE mode will be so grindy, that you will start getting bored at some point without PVP variety and excitement. Or, if you don't like that, you just quit. Like you quit Dungeon Runs despite their "variety".

Again, I hope I'm wrong.

Quote from Pherosizm >>

 

Furthermore, since basically all of these achievements require you to have the cards from the set to do them... gee, it might actually make people want to spend more money on sets that aren't the most recent. Opportunity wasted?

 The logic is that people spend way more money on the most recent sets. So they are stimulating it even more by making achievements that giving exp exclusive to their expansion. And they gain bigger profit from this, I believe. They do not need to stimulate you to buy packs from the past sets, because there are very few people who would do that. And they will do that anyway, because they want that achievement. The amount of exp is not that high to make you want to buy additional packs from the last expansions.

Man, I am really tired of their shady manipulation with RNG by "adjusting the odds" without any numbers giving. What the heck!?

It used to be more players than in Wild in the first months. Now it's definitely less, according to hsreplay.

As for the decks, Miracle Rogue always was and will be the best deck in good hands. But you really need to know how to play it properly.

-del-

Equipment feels so boring, almost duplicating abilities' text.

Dude, we are living in a capitalism world, not in an altruism world, hello.

Quote from Pherosizm >>

But get ready to reroll all those "do something in mercenaries" weekly quests >_>

 Not a big deal since you can reroll every day.