So, since the release of 23.0 for Mercenaries, I have only seen MAYBE 3 Mysterious Strangers from the Mystery Tokens. I have played countless hours because I have nothing else to do, and I do want to gear/rank up my mercenaries. I have tried hundreds of Barrens heroics of all the levels while leveling my mercenaries, as well as many, many level 30 bounties since I saw online that if your Merc is level 30, there’s no chance for Mysterious Stranger in anything lower. None of this has done me any good besides getting my mercs to level 30 for the basic unlock, but I have no way to rank up their abilities to make them more useful in battle, and this is rather disheartening. I LOVE the new task capability to move onto the next quest in the chain, but it’s pointless if I can’t even get the Stranger so that I can get the tasks I want, and the majority of the coins I get from the bounties are all in minor numbers, or for Mercs that I already have completely maxxed out, such as Cariel. I know that the patch said the rates for which Mysterious Stranger were being reduced, but to get a total of 3 in 2 weeks? Is there a new method for getting the Stranger to show up? Or am I just S.O.L. until they realize the mistake and fix the issue?
I’ve noticed a reduced appearance as indicated would be the case in latest patch notes.
Try running Heroic Banehollow (Felwood’s Final Boss) for Mysterious Strangers. I see it appear at least once in every 4-10 runs. Maybe an average of 7 attempts to acquire it.
Other reports suggest that the further away the node is from the start (the more fights you take to get to it), the higher % chance for it to be a Stranger.
It’s definitely not bugged, just reduced appearances. And terrible streaks of non-appearance certainly will happen.
-Valas
I’ll give it a chance. But I’ve done literally a solid 300 Bounties ranging from lvl 15 to 30, at least, without any since my last Stranger appearance, and I don’t think THIS low of a rate is what they were intending since it completely halts all task completion if you’ve finished the ones from the daily. But thank you, I appreciate it. I’ll give it a shot.
Definitely give Heroic Banehollow at MOST 10 attempts and I’d be willing to bet you’ll find one.
The community consensus seems to be that any bounty lower than this has an extremely reduced chance to find a Mysterious Stranger. Definitely anything level 1 - 26ish is not going to yield any strangers at a worthwhile rate if at all (assuming the mercenaries in your party are level 30).
-Valas
Yeah I just did 10 quick runs to the Mystery on Bane, finally got 1. Thats odd how he gives one but stuff from Alterac Valley and Onyxia’s Lair arent giving any. And yeah, I would assume so, but heroic Apothecary is how I used to farm for my Stranger visits, since it’s easy and I could get 1 in about 3 runs, sad that thats gone and he’s going to be so scarce, but I appreciate the help!
The new spawn rate of the Mysterious Stranger completely killed my motivation to play mercenaries at all.
Even @ Banehollow Heroic it took me 47 runs to get 2x Mysterious Stranger. - And I gave up after 13 more runs for the 3rd mercenary in my team.
Complete waste of time.
Some people have collected data. Stranger shows up on average about 20% of the time now.
Yesterday I played 400 adventures and nothing!! So decide to go to the american forum to see if I can find the solution… sadness!!
I found a strong combo between two characters, and the mercenary I want to maximize is a useless one but the combo is BROKEN!
Sadness for the direction the game is going! I’m fed up with the current ranked being too toxic, so I came to play mercenaries, and I ended up enjoying it!
I WOULD PAY ARCANE RUNES TO CHOOSE THE TASKS FOR THE MERCENARY I WANT. IT’S A WASTE OF TIME LOOKING FOR THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER!
but ive played merc a lot in these 5 months and i got stranger many times!
What you said is right! I was going to try 15 times, I got Mysterious Stranger on the sixth try!
Just recording here what Valas said is correct!
Thank you Valas!!
yeah , but i think with party at 30 on level 1-28 is not extremely reduced chance but MS is totaly disabled and probabily that’s why you did 400 runs for nothing.