4 Days is all it took me to get over Mercenaries

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I got into mercenaries F2P as it seemed like a gatcha mobile game and it mostly is.
Just like a gatcha game, the fast paced progress in the first 2 days was satisfying, unlocking new mercs, leveling, going through the campaing. This was fun.
Around day 3 the grind started, farming minuscule ammounts of coins to unlock new mercs, slowly going through the tasks, endlessly killing the Air Elemental for new quests but there was still some hope of fun with the leftover doppamine hit of the first 2 days.
Day 4 I grinded all day to unlock Malfurion, leveled him to 30 and got the mandatory Task 7 to try some PvP. I got absolutly destroyed by people running fully upgraded mercs and a bunch of slows. Cairne, Vardas, Lichking, etc. I think I lost around 10 games in a row. The “oh, try pvp, it’s fun, you’ll get matched to people your skill level” is complete BS. I’d honestly wait 3 minutes to play a bot if given the choice than getting stomped again and again by fully upgraded meta teams.
Put on that the fact that a lot of the meta mercs are close to impossible to farm like Diablo, Cairne, Jaina, Sylvanas, Litch King all of them in Blackrock, you only get their coins if you beat the final boss after a long run and you are not garanteed to get the coins you want.
So, this is the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. A frustrating PvP experience and don’t see the point of the unsatisfying endless grind. 4 days is what it took me to get over this mode.
I’m sure many went throung the same experience, maybe some enjoy the freeze and slow everything PvP.
After day 1 I was considering putting money into this mode but now I don’t see why I would do that. There is nothing to do beside the grind and PvP that’s not fun.

EDIT: RegisKillbin just posted a youtube video sharing prety much the same experience better articulated.

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Range 6000 or lower can duel vs IA if your mercanaries are low level or no full abilitys

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task 7 is doing 2 heroic bounty.
this apply to every character, how do you even get different task ?

max level 30 team still can match against AI, not sure how they made it works.
but i still see it at 6600 and i didn’t see it any more above that rating.

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[quote=“LittleSky-1793, post:3, topic:73337”]task 7 is doing 2 heroic bounty.
this apply to every character, how do you even get different task ?[/quote]

I believe he’s saying Malfurion’s equipment from Task 7 is mandatory if you want him to be competitive in PvP.

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okay, i seen his point now.
and understand what he meant by it.

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Todays little Ninja Dumpster Fire patch really was the icing on the cake.

They make a disastrously bad mode, people find a way to play it that they like and Blizzard immediately makes the mode worse. Rather than letting us play the way we like, they want to force us to play the way they want us to.

I was already barely touching the game because of the monotony of it all. Now, I’ve uninstalled the game and just don’t care.

Blizzard cares more about profits than product. They also follow a “Profits > People” philosophy that becomes quite obvious the more you delve into their products.

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I believe OP meant “mandatory task 7 in order to go into pvp”. IIRC it’s aoe heal amulet proc’ed on nature casts. That’s really only valid choice for Malf.

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I played only two tutorial games and had already given up because I knew it was a CATCH game! I still have the 4 sealed packages that this CATCH game offers you!