Mercenaries - game over

All 79 mercs maxed out. It’s done. No screenshots on this forum as far as I know so just take my word for it. Plus it’d take 13 pages of screenshots anyway to show every single char with the glorious Maxed! text below them. I even permanently ruined my Garrosh by upgrading his Mak’Gora to rank 5 (rank 4 is far better), just to be completely complete.

It was not an enjoyable journey, because let’s face it, farming the 2700+ tokens per merc stops being fun at the latest when you run out of the 18 missions each one of them has. And getting the very last ones of them is even slower, as nearly every token you get from any source is useless. No money spent either, it’s all grind, so I’m the bad customer playing a free game for free. I still have 113 unopened packs of Merc cards (from completing missions), in case more Mercs get added, but I’m not sure if I can stomach this anymore.

Big thanks to also Blizzard for basically stopping all new Mercs content after March (ok, we got Murky and N’Zoth, but that’s 1 char per month instead of usual 5-7).

This feat was performed by a mindless professional. Don’t try this at home.

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:smiley: well said, many thanks for the post - compliments for invested time and effort!

It’s a great summary of why Mercenaries will never be a competitive part of HS. The concept is too limited. 3v3 in PVP with only 79 heroes and a limited skill set for each hero makes for too few competitive combinations to keep the game challenging for serious players.

And the grinding is… mind numbing… No wonder popular streamers (like Thijs, who really tried) have stopped streaming MERCS.

Either Bliz comes up with a really solid makeover for the game (more fun PVE ways to collect tokens; MANY more competitive heroes with more interesting synergies; new mechanics; more subtle matchups than the ‘rock paper scissor’-style ones we get atm), or MERCS has no future.