Activate to consume 20 stacks of Bribe to instantly defeat an uncaptured Mercenary.
Passive: Gain 1 stack of Bribe when a nearby enemy Minion dies, and 5 stacks when hitting an enemy Hero with Arcane Flare’s center. Maximum 80 stacks.
all game long and i only made it to like 8, how am i to get to 20 for 1 merc?
Stick near to someone with wave clear and leech off the dying minions during the lane phase… Or just soak waves dying near the towers if you have to soak a lane solo, this way you don’t expose yourself badly.
As for hitting heroes during team fights or skirmishes just follow up on any slows or CCs that go off, as throwing the ability by itself is unlikely to hit.
If you ended up with only 8 stacks then honestly you were too busy brawling mid since its not particularly difficult to build stacks during lane phase, which is where most of your stacks should come from.
Unless you’re following up on a CC throw your Q where the enemy is going to be instead of where they are. Read their mind. Where will they go next?
I’d like to add to what Chaplin and Phurr said: If you struggle with landing Q and your team doesn’t have reliable CC, then try to take Unstable Anomaly instead of Dream Shot. The extra Slow on W should also mean guaranteed hit with Q’s center.
On another note, I do wish that healing allies would also give bribe stacks and cooldown reductions to Z when picking up Hyper Shift. It’s not about dumbing it down but it’d encourage the player to smarter positioning. Maybe it’s just me missing the old HS before rework. 
i stuck near teammates and didnt even get 1 stack, the minions all died but no stacks poped up
The only thing i can say is: Q build BW, and land’em skill sh00ts plz 
Only got 8… that doesn’t seem possible unless you were AFK for most of the match.
This is a tech support kinda question, like did you check to see if it’s plugged in:
Was 8 an actual number or an approximation? Are you referring to the number above the activate-able bribe ability (1 key) or below your HP/Mana bar?
8 just sounds impossibly low unless you’re always out of range of the minions and miss every Q.
As noted above it depends on how far away from the minions you were at that time. I think the distance would have to be the same as when you soak minions for experience. So if you were too far from the minion the stacks won’t happen.
i was literally on top of minions and no stacks would show up
https://heroesofthestorm.fandom.com/wiki/Pixie_CharmMaybe it’s bugged and they didn’t update it? Stacks should be gained from minions now instead of trait heals. Do you have a replay?
I just played a vs AI and also did trymode as far as I am concerned there was no issues gaining stacks from Pixie Charm talent, I didn’t even do anything I literally just stood there in range for XP gains. So I can’t replicate what you’re talking about with the talent. It is working from what I see, I gained stacks no problem as intended. Unless there is a strange interaction in QM, but unlikely as I am not seeing any reports here on on reddit about any bugs with Brightwing.
that’s just a wiki being outdated, not the game q:
anyway, @ OP, are you talking about the little number next to the bribe icon? or did you mouse over it to see exactly how many stacks you had?
My advice is, pick Hypershift. There’s no reason to ever go anything else.
Depends. If your team has low pve dmg then takeing a talent that can bribe you a camp insteed of wasting 40 sec to take it down first would help you a lot.
Also 3 years later 
Bribe is awesome and usually better than Hypershift. Taking a camp on the other side of the map, then teleport over to the tank at objective is very, very useful.
Bribe also puts the camp on a full cd so being able to take a camp from enemy team and put the camp on a full cd can make sure your enemy cant push that lane with mercs for a while. But Bribe also has a downside.
It puts BW into a dangerous position where she can end up getting ganked if spotted hence why I would rather bribe my own camps then pick enemy camps if I dont have vision of enemy team.
Nova can properly do the camp stealing with Bribe much better then BW becasue she is a stealher and can scout ahead with clone.
One thing you could do is bribe the camp, and then if anyone comes just use emerald wind to push them out of the way and capture, and while that’s going on use Z to teleport out.
Have I tried this? No. Do I know if it will end in success? No. Will I give it as advice anyway? Yes.
Yes that is one thing you can do ofc.
When a BW takes bribe and they are allowed to walk up and get camps, I know this is going to be a hard loss or a hard win lmao.
ps: same with any bribe hero tbh.
Useful and better are two different things.
The question isn’t “Can Pixie charm be useful?” But rather " Are the camps I MIGHT take with Pixie Charm better than the value I get from Hypershift?"
Hypershift does two things:
So as an example, you’d heal an Anubarak (lvl4) for 780hp, or Johanna for 952. Giving someone 1/3 of their health back is a lot. Doing it about every 20 seconds is so good that it remains the most picked talent despite being nerfed. You press Z, you get the value from your talent, no questions asked. And you’re always going to use Phaseshift constantly every game.
Now Pixie charm. You get 1 stack per minion, which means you need a bit over 11 minion waves to bribe a bruiser camp, or a bit over 9 waves for a shaman or sapper camp, which are the most valuable camps in the game. You are never getting a sapper camp in ToD. Only stupid ppl would leave them unclaimed, therefore we can ignore it. So, bruiser and Shaman.
Now here’s the most important thing. Taking pixie charm means you are trading 31% healing and cdr on Phaseshift, for a CHANCE, to get maybe 3 merc camps in a game. You have no guarantee at all that you will be able to take those camps before the enemy does. So you have no way of knowing how much value, if any, you will get from the talent when you pick it.
Now, you said:
I honestly want to know why you feel that the merc camps you might take, are better than the huge healing output you have to give up.
Also,
Right before the objective is exactly when the enemy will be at their camp (Assuming they’ haven’t taken it already). It’s when you’re least likely to steal it.
Losing my ult and my Z for a merc camp doesn’t sound like a great trade to me.