Indeed, the three most exciting times of the year are the new expansion launch days. Once there is finally a table free at the tavern, you can really start relishing each and every pack opening even though it usually lasts for well over an hour for me.
And the most issue I encountered using mobile was the site always often open the wrong article when I clicked one open. I am pretty sure what I clicked, yet it opened an article below it, as if the site detect me clicking far below my original click.
Same experience. This issue is pretty annoying because you have to go back and chances are that it happens again. I usually do not wait for the entire page to load completely and just jump to a specific article or forum thread. I hope this will be fixed soon.
I am totally ready for the new expansion; the daily quest log is fully stocked with three 1800 XP quests plus a full set of weeklies. I just need to refrain myself from clicking on the reroll icon which my finger seem to always gravitate towards.
Don't you kinda feel that they should've just let players go infinite level instead being stingy with Lv.400? I mean why would they limit that in the first place? We all know that there's a bunch of different player that may or may not reach 400. But for those reaching 400, it's such a downer to have to see our own XP wasted just like that.
What's with that logic of stop giving player some more gold? And to be honest, those players reaching 400 I can even bet spending some real cash too, to some extend, so, gold is not a commodity they really need unlike F2P players.
@h0lysatan, I agree with you. The limit is kind of unnecessary. Though, I am not at all bothered by it that much, really.
In fact, having an artificial finish line and by reaching it I get to experience a form of accomplishment. Also, I enjoy the relieved pressure of needing to play HS during the last few weeks actually.
I am currently sitting nicely on 40K gold. I honestly do not know what would be meaningful to me to spend that gold on besides packs of the latest expansion until completion which for me happens at a modest average of 220 packs.
I am totally ready for the new expansion; the daily quest log is fully stocked with three 1800 XP quests plus a full set of weeklies. I just need to refrain myself from clicking on the reroll icon which my finger seem to always gravitate towards.
Not really feeling the hype just yet after having seen the revealed cards so far. Just glad that new achievements will be added for us to complete. I only have three mercenaries left to max out (six upgrades total). Also, C'Thun will be the next Old God to get introduced, w00t!
Good luck with the final stretch of the current Rewards Track and see you soon™ at CSI: Castle Nathria! 🕵️♂️🏰☠️
The Hunter deck should be the fastest to clear the achievement and even had a decent winrate a few months ago. The Priest deck is slower and takes a bit more setup, but once the key pieces are in hand you can go off and sometimes get double digits worth of achievement progression per game. The Shaman deck is just queuing up and trying to rush multiple minions alongside Flametongue Totem mindlessly per turn. Opponents will always take out the totem first, so conceding afterwards is faster than looking for the second copy.
Rinse and repeat until the achievements are all completed. Doing this at a rank floor is preferred. Good luck and try to have some fun, remember winning is not important whilst doing hardcore achievement hunting!
I have completed each and every gameplay achievement out there. These indeed require a lot of (mindless) grinding. Prepare to lose a lot of games (like really an enormous amount) since the objective is just to finish the achievements, winning is merely optional. Those 3 are relatively simple to build a dedicated deck around though:
Yeah, I left the stream open before going to sleep yesterday and this morning I was greeted by 2 fresh Voyage to the Sunken City packs. I only got 80 arcane dust from them and the 2 wrappers are now at the bottom of the recycle bin.
Guys, I'm so salty right now. I am only missing 3 Mercenaries (all legendaries, of course), so I decided to open up my 53 saved packs. Want to know what I got? TWO portraits for legendaries I already had (I do NOT care about cosmetics), a bunch of portraits for rares and epics, TONS of coins I cannot use for maxxed out Mercs, and yes, quite a few coins for Mercs I am still upgrading. I was hoping to net at LEAST one of the missing Mercs, hopefully two. I've clearly reached the point where my collection is so complete that packs are nearly worthless. This feels SO bad, man. I am eagerly awaiting news on what I will be able to use excess coins for. It better be good!
I know the feeling although my personal experience was less intense. After opening all 39 of my previously saved up free packs from doing old tasks, I only missed Reno Jackson as my last mercenary, so I opened another 18 free packs from doing new tasks and I only got a Leeroy Jenkins portrait instead. I just assumed there has to be some kind of duplicate protection built into Mercenaries pack openings, but that did not happen for us. Not sure if we both encountered a bug or the Mercenaries economy is actually much worse than I expected. Was my assumption wrong, does anyone know?
EDIT: Though not official, this is what RidiculousHat figured out by opening a lot of packs:
I just hit level 300 today. All the new XP achievements have been completed in the meantime. I have collected all the 18 new Mercenaries and finished their tasks plus the special Y'Shaarj event. I am not really sure what to focus on now though. Perhaps reach 1500 wins with all 10 classes in anticipation of the next possible tier of collectible hero portraits.
EDIT: @Daowen, I can sleep again after completing the entire Rewards Track 😂
I am on task 2 of the Y'shaarj event and I as wondering if I have been misunderstanding the task's wording or if its just THAT hard, cause i am led to believe its asking me to oneshot all three 160+ health enemies in one turn which, sounds a bit much.
You have to deal the lethal blow to all 3 bosses in the same turn, which means you have to bring down their health gradually in the turns before and not kill them. I managed to complete this task using Old Guardian's Holy strategy.
Pesky complete all heroic achievements, fine for now, could get hard in the future with their "late game focus".
Some stuff to "farm", like summon x murlocs, what even is that...
But the worst, the utterly worst they could do to mercenaries achievements : PvP achievements... and some are even tricky.
1000 wins REALLY, without losing a single merc REALLY, what is even golden monkey!!
What Blizzard giveth blizzar taketh... of course zeddy and that guy on outofcard going to farm that in 2 weeks, but the rest of us? The casuals in quest of ez pz glory from my comfy couchy... nothing for us.
@cavestuck: Not sure if you were referring to me or not 😅. Anyways, I am not at all interested in those silly PvP achievements which are indeed ridiculous. The rest of those new achievements are just similar to the already existing ones and we should be able to complete those using the Old Guardian YT videos. Good luck!
I just arrived at level 200. This marks the halfway point which means there is another six more weeks to go before crossing the Rewards Track finish line.
This season I reached legend with my Even Warlock which consistently beats Pirate Rogue on the wild ranked ladder. More than half of all the ranked games I played were against aggro decks and thus the penultimate climb from D5 to (dumpster) legend was relatively easy.
In hindsight, I should have spent that 3000 spare gold to get the free diamond Drek'Thar. Oh well, better luck next time.
Hopefully, the announcement for the upcoming mini-set or next Mercenaries special event will be announced soon™ because IMO Hearthstone is already getting pretty kind of stale once again.
What has your Rewards Track journey been like so far? Very positive, I hope.
I reached legend this season using this highly teched Even Warlock, mostly farming all the Pirate Rogue decks infesting the Wild ranked ladder right now. Unless you draw the worst hand, it is impossible to lose against them and it does really well when running into other aggro decks.
As mentioned in the past, try out the great video guides of Old Guardian. I always use them with lots of success. This N'Zoth special event task #9 was no difference, though it did take me a total of two attempts to complete it.
That task involving Corrupted Viscera looks tough. Anyone manage that trick yet?
I will try it out later, but I guess we can let Cookie fill the opponent's board with harmless fish while we buff up minions big enough to do 100+ damage at once.
That is exactly how I completed this task and is I think the easiest way to tackle these kind of recurring tasks in the future and beyond.
I do not think there is a more efficient way. I grind the toughest (or latest) heroic bounty out there using the most efficient fire comp (Balinda Stonehearth + Baron Geddon + Ragnaros) and leave the new mercs sitting on the bench. N'Zoth was level 30 within just a few hours and after completing all his 18 tasks and 6 special event bounties, he is now only 8 upgrades away from max level.
Indeed, the three most exciting times of the year are the new expansion launch days. Once there is finally a table free at the tavern, you can really start relishing each and every pack opening even though it usually lasts for well over an hour for me.
"Woah, Golden Legendary!!!" 🍻
This somehow will break the game (again). When will they learn to stop making these recurring (0) cost abilities?
Same experience. This issue is pretty annoying because you have to go back and chances are that it happens again. I usually do not wait for the entire page to load completely and just jump to a specific article or forum thread. I hope this will be fixed soon.
@h0lysatan, I agree with you. The limit is kind of unnecessary. Though, I am not at all bothered by it that much, really.
In fact, having an artificial finish line and by reaching it I get to experience a form of accomplishment. Also, I enjoy the relieved pressure of needing to play HS during the last few weeks actually.
I am currently sitting nicely on 40K gold. I honestly do not know what would be meaningful to me to spend that gold on besides packs of the latest expansion until completion which for me happens at a modest average of 220 packs.
I am totally ready for the new expansion; the daily quest log is fully stocked with three 1800 XP quests plus a full set of weeklies. I just need to refrain myself from clicking on the reroll icon which my finger seem to always gravitate towards.
Not really feeling the hype just yet after having seen the revealed cards so far. Just glad that new achievements will be added for us to complete. I only have three mercenaries left to max out (six upgrades total). Also, C'Thun will be the next Old God to get introduced, w00t!
Good luck with the final stretch of the current Rewards Track and see you soon™ at CSI: Castle Nathria! 🕵️♂️🏰☠️
As promised, here are a few achievement dedicated decks to help you out:
The Hunter deck should be the fastest to clear the achievement and even had a decent winrate a few months ago. The Priest deck is slower and takes a bit more setup, but once the key pieces are in hand you can go off and sometimes get double digits worth of achievement progression per game. The Shaman deck is just queuing up and trying to rush multiple minions alongside Flametongue Totem mindlessly per turn. Opponents will always take out the totem first, so conceding afterwards is faster than looking for the second copy.
Rinse and repeat until the achievements are all completed. Doing this at a rank floor is preferred. Good luck and try to have some fun, remember winning is not important whilst doing hardcore achievement hunting!
I have completed each and every gameplay achievement out there. These indeed require a lot of (mindless) grinding. Prepare to lose a lot of games (like really an enormous amount) since the objective is just to finish the achievements, winning is merely optional. Those 3 are relatively simple to build a dedicated deck around though:
If nobody else already did so before me in a few days, I can provide a few useful decks later this weekend. Good luck!
Yeah, I left the stream open before going to sleep yesterday and this morning I was greeted by 2 fresh Voyage to the Sunken City packs. I only got 80 arcane dust from them and the 2 wrappers are now at the bottom of the recycle bin.
Druid herald also works and fits perfectly in a token Druid deck which even has a decent enough winrate.
I know the feeling although my personal experience was less intense. After opening all 39 of my previously saved up free packs from doing old tasks, I only missed Reno Jackson as my last mercenary, so I opened another 18 free packs from doing new tasks and I only got a Leeroy Jenkins portrait instead. I just assumed there has to be some kind of duplicate protection built into Mercenaries pack openings, but that did not happen for us. Not sure if we both encountered a bug or the Mercenaries economy is actually much worse than I expected. Was my assumption wrong, does anyone know?
EDIT: Though not official, this is what RidiculousHat figured out by opening a lot of packs:
I just hit level 300 today. All the new XP achievements have been completed in the meantime. I have collected all the 18 new Mercenaries and finished their tasks plus the special Y'Shaarj event. I am not really sure what to focus on now though. Perhaps reach 1500 wins with all 10 classes in anticipation of the next possible tier of collectible hero portraits.
EDIT: @Daowen, I can sleep again after completing the entire Rewards Track 😂
You have to deal the lethal blow to all 3 bosses in the same turn, which means you have to bring down their health gradually in the turns before and not kill them. I managed to complete this task using Old Guardian's Holy strategy.
@cavestuck: Not sure if you were referring to me or not 😅. Anyways, I am not at all interested in those silly PvP achievements which are indeed ridiculous. The rest of those new achievements are just similar to the already existing ones and we should be able to complete those using the Old Guardian YT videos. Good luck!
Happy Birthday!! 🎉🎂🎊
Keep up the good work! Here is to another three years at least 🍺
I just arrived at level 200. This marks the halfway point which means there is another six more weeks to go before crossing the Rewards Track finish line.
This season I reached legend with my Even Warlock which consistently beats Pirate Rogue on the wild ranked ladder. More than half of all the ranked games I played were against aggro decks and thus the penultimate climb from D5 to (dumpster) legend was relatively easy.
In hindsight, I should have spent that 3000 spare gold to get the free diamond Drek'Thar. Oh well, better luck next time.
Hopefully, the announcement for the upcoming mini-set or next Mercenaries special event will be announced soon™ because IMO Hearthstone is already getting pretty kind of stale once again.
What has your Rewards Track journey been like so far? Very positive, I hope.
I reached legend this season using this highly teched Even Warlock, mostly farming all the Pirate Rogue decks infesting the Wild ranked ladder right now. Unless you draw the worst hand, it is impossible to lose against them and it does really well when running into other aggro decks.
As mentioned in the past, try out the great video guides of Old Guardian. I always use them with lots of success. This N'Zoth special event task #9 was no difference, though it did take me a total of two attempts to complete it.
That is exactly how I completed this task and is I think the easiest way to tackle these kind of recurring tasks in the future and beyond.
I do not think there is a more efficient way. I grind the toughest (or latest) heroic bounty out there using the most efficient fire comp (Balinda Stonehearth + Baron Geddon + Ragnaros) and leave the new mercs sitting on the bench. N'Zoth was level 30 within just a few hours and after completing all his 18 tasks and 6 special event bounties, he is now only 8 upgrades away from max level.