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We broke down Blizzard’s new FAQ to bring you the latest Mercenaries news, including the wave of leaks.
The notes for Patch 21.3 released on Monday and areloadedwith changes to Standard, Wild and Battlegrounds. Moments later Blizzard dropped the first real Mercenaries news we’ve had since the announcement:an updated FAQ. We went through and compiled some of the most important new Mercenaries information in these latest answers.
Breaking down the Mercenaries news FAQ
Blizzard tackled eleven questions for this FAQ, separated into two categories: “Cost to Play” and “Balance”.
The former category of questions addresses the fears and hopes about how much time, money and Packs the players will need to invest. The community is tossing the term “gacha game” around a little too willy-nilly lately, implying that Mercenaries is Pay-to-Win, purely random, or unforgiving. Yet we barely know the numbers and this is what Blizzard hoped to assuage in this very FAQ.
The latter answers, regarding Balance, raised some intriguing points that perhaps only beg more questions. Let’s take a look at what Blizzard delivered.
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Summarizing the “Balance” Responses
This Mercenaries news gave less information about Balance and matchmaking, but Blizzard still offered some insights:
Altogether, these announcements were good but not wholly satisfying– then again, I don’t think anything could be. And that’s okay! We simply can’t answer so many of the questions until we have the game in our hands. The new mode is releasing October 12th and we still know very little about all of our Mercenaries.
Well– we weresupposedto have known very little. The deep Mercenaries news began a bit earlier than expected.
The Mercenaries Were Leaked!
Late last week the Hearthstone news site “Out Of Cards” leaked a wave of datamined information. Inside: every number and color for every ability and item and level of every Merc. We had nothing and now, suddenly, we have everything.
The leaks contained all of theCasters, theFightersand a weirdly high number of LegendaryProtectors, but everything seemed to be there. Some numbers and “colors”– which “type” the Mercenary was, whether Red, Blue or Green– seemed shifty. But for the most part, almost everything looked like it made sense. These numbers have been public and the collective gears have been churning, hungry to chew on just about anything. For still– there’s so much we don’t know.
Until we’re in the Fighting Pits ourselves or get another chance to gnaw on the next scrap of information– good luck and remember to check back here atEsports.ggfor more Mercenaries news!
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I don’t know anything about Mercenaries and neither do you– let’s get to work! By the end of this article, we will have become wiser together.
