I like those nerfs, some encounters in Mercenaries are very unfair for no reason. It's not challenging just plain annoying.

The task 7 change is very good. I haven't played Mercenaries in a few weeks as I'm sure a lot of people also hasn't. Happy to see some updates.

"some of the heroic bosses aren't easy to grind"

=> that's the point of the change, making you spend more time playing the game in the hopes of getting some legendary coins. It's Blizzard we're talking about here

They didn't change this, I just played a match against AI

Make sure you're under 7000 rating AND use low level mercs/low level abilities/unequip any gear.

Nice change, better late than never. Hope they keep doing changes like this one.

I've been waiting for auto-squelch to be included in the game basically since it came out, hope they put it in soon.

An whole whopping x50 coins and x1 pack for being top 17 in Europe.

Nice rewards LOL.

Yep 25 turns would be way too low for certain bosses with certain comps.

PvP limit goes from 45 to 25 but PvE limit is untouched (90 turns)

I love to see so many bugfixes to Mercenaries and the buffs to some previously arguably useless mercs.

Also like that there's a new book adventure (I recently completed all of the Heroes and Mercenaries adventures).

I can confirm no packs yet, restarted the game, got bombarded with "store offers" but no free packs on sight. This is embarrassing for Blizzard at this point.

I was wondering when the free packs were arriving, as we're already past the usual time of day for updates.

Thanks for the info!

I'm only missing Edwin Vancleef so I hope to get him in these 5 packs and if not I will get a few more with gold ;D

EDIT: Just got the 5 packs, I think it was on the daily reset (00:00 CET in my case). Got portraits for Sneed, Rathorian, Cookie and Cornelius and then x41 Edwin coins (among others of course).

I love these articles, very comprehensive and well written and fun to read. Keep up the good job.

Yep, looks like good 'ol "nagware" tactics. Blizzard can't fall any lower.

Quote From Author

"There are people who are so fond of facing only their A.I. buddies they might concede on the spot against any actual human opponents."

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"The ultimate irony, come to think about it. Many of us wanted to hit level 30 as fast as possible at first, on as many mercenaries as possible. Now there are people who would rather just… not, so they could keep amassing coins while fighting against their artificial buddies. That is one strange relation.  "

The 5€/$5 pack was pretty good, it's the only money I've spent in Hearthstone in the last few years.

I'm only doing up to the 4 victories chest daily, and it gives around 115 coins. A level 30 normal bounty gives around 80 coins.

So PvE is by miles more coins per hour, problem being, the bounty rewards are not 100% for random mercs as they are in PvP reward chests, so it depends on your goals.

If you lose 2 mercs very early you already lost so conceding is basically not wasting time. This fix will not sit well with a lot of people and result in legitimate players unfairly losing out on rewards.

Yeah it's constant spam with red exclamation marks everywhere for no reason and also pop ups when you log in. These guys nag you to death, it's like a beggar on the street asking for spare change.

Still not fixed as of October 27th, I was like "what the heck is Gift of Ner'zhul???"

I think they should work on adding new "AI" difficulties and add a mode to the Fight Pit where you ALWAYS play against AI opponents.

I enjoy AI matches WAY MORE than "real player" matches, because real players always use boring "meta" combos and the AI uses all the characters.

I also can't stand people that take a year "thinking" before they make their moves.