But when you bring each mercenary’s stats and skills into the equation, it’s thankfully not quite that simple. If you’ve ever played Pokémon, you’ll get the idea – fire beats grass, grass beats water, water beats fire. It’s easy enough to remember – Protectors (red) do double damage to Fighters (green), Fighters do double damage to Casters (blue), while Casters do double damage to Protectors. It’s a simple premise made even simpler with the “weakness triangle” – a simple rule that tells you which kind of mercenaries are strongest against which others. “You collect heroes, you level them up, you put them on an awesome team of your favourite characters and then you go complete bounties and beat up bad guys!” “It’s a hero-builder RPG within Hearthstone,” said associate game designer Ates Bayraktaroglu in an interview with NME. Or you can smush the faces of your friends and foes in the Fighting Pits – Mercenaries’ very own PvP setting. Instead, you build a team of six mercenaries to take on epic new challenges, such as the expansive PvE campaign. Your favourite deck is no use to you here. I thought I knew what to expect – surely it was more of the same, right? I couldn’t have been more wrong.īlizzard has created a whole new kind of game in Hearthstone Mercenaries – more akin to a particularly complicated Tavern Brawl than the usual Hearthstone gameplay. But one of the big upcoming changes I couldn’t wait to try out was the Mercenaries game mode – a new RPG-like mode pitting teams of mercs against each other in simulated, number-crunching combat. There was a new expansion, a crazy new meta and a lot of very broken quests.
I’ve played Hearthstone on and off since it first launched in 2014, so when I picked it up again recently, a lot had changed. READ MORE: ‘Battlefield 2042’ preview: cracking fun, but oversimplified.The good news? It’s a hell of a lot of fun, too. Simple, right? But when you throw in a bunch of unique spells, skills, equipment and synergies, Hearthstone Mercenaries becomes a lot more complex than it looks.
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