Just discovered this for myself yesterday. Someone had said they were farmable, they are not. I was hoping for an ez way to farm packs. If more than three of your party have finished task 18 mysterious stranger will offer you tasks for other random Mercs you own.
Posted Oct 17, 2021, 3:12 PM UTC
What’s the rush to max out
As I stated. Someone who had gotten there before me said "yes" when I asked if task 18 was farmable. Task 18 reward is a pack and a good chunk of coins. I was hoping to see if this would be a reliable way to get packs by doing task 18 over and over with the same Mercs. Turns out the person just misunderstood my question.
If there is a cap, it can be assumed that all other tasks/coins will be for different heroes, meaning the grow will become exponential as you reach late late game
But PVP scales to you and PVE is progress at your own pace. What’s the point of rushing to max.
The point is that people just want to have their mercenaries with their best possible abilities. Also the last 3 tasks give you packs which means more coins but more important more mercenaries to play. So it's just a cycle. You rush to task 18 with everything you have, then get packs which potentially give you more mercenaries and you farm those to get more. To me it's just like constructed in the sense that I might not even play with all the cards I have in my collection but it sucks when you do want to play something and you can't cause you're lacking some cards.
Yea, I was really hoping to farm packs to fill in my empty mercs. Task 18 is pretty easy, so it would have been faaaar better than crafting legendary and epic mercenaries with coins.
But PVP scales to you
... Until 6.4k, then you can't get free matchups against bots. If you're at 7k and you aren't maxed out you lose tons of games just based on not having your stuff maxed out.
Ah gotcha. Never heard that. So even level 15s go up against level 30s at that rating?
Because people think they need to rush content for an end game that doesn’t exist.
Ya I just keep telling myself. There’s no finish line. Just play it as I enjoy it.
Collection Completion. This is a mode that is 100% farmable for 100% completion. Packs are shortcuts that help, but some people just wanna have the powerful Heroes and be able to make any “wacky” combo they want at a moment’s notice
Soooo, max out a farming team, get their 18 tasks done, put 3 other on team you wish to max out, rinse and repeat
Then quit => uninstall
Don't forget to complain about not having anything to do on reddit!
The goal was to farm for packs to open missing mercenaries. Task 18 is pretty easy, so it probably would've been tolerable. Going through task 1-15 is a huge PITA, some of them are quite annoying to complete. Not really viable as a method to farm for packs if you have to go 1-15 before you see any, just waaaay too much of a grind.
So if you want to farm tokens on a merc thats hard to farm you want to fill your task board and then farm tasks picking the merc that you want tokens for before you get it to task 18. You will get tokens instead of a task since your board is full.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. But I would never waste Mysterious Stranger if your task board is full, you will only get 15 coins, which is basically nothing.
Okay but if you want to farm lich king, you can probably get 3 random drops from task farming in the time you could finish one rangnaros bounty; in which you may or may not get coins at all, plus the random coins from finishing the low level bounty.
Does it still offer you that hero if you compete task 18?
I would assume not.
Cheers. I thought so too. I've been leaving my tasks at 17 so i can farm the coins like you mentioned.
You can also just grind the most basic bounty with that as your only merc, you're guaranteed to get coins for them in the drop after the boss
And from what I understand, tasks 19 and 20 will come out with Legendary.
Is Legendary a game mode?
A new difficulty after Heroic, I think.
Oh god, heroic is already hard enough
If they drop another difficulty mode I expect it to come with some new mechanic that makes existing stuff easier and is something new and shiny to farm. I wouldn't be surprised if they introduced party buffs or something like that.
That way they can introduce harder content for those looking for a challenge while also making current modes (heroic) less daunting for casual players.
...why not call it Mythic?
Thanks mate
How are you getting tasks for mercs? They come randomly everyday and every now and then I see one in the PVE to add a visitor. Is there any other ways or ways to repeat the pve one?
You can farm the level 8 map on heroic where there is a mystery spot. Just battle up to it, if it’s not a mysterious stranger encounter, then forfeit and repeat. Mystery stranger will give you an option of 3 of your mercenaries to pick from. This will give you a task for them.
Does it have to be heroic?
I believe so. I don't think normal is a guaranteed mystery spot. Whereas on heroic it is.
6th mission (the one with the centaur) of first normal area seems to always have a mistery spot. I've been farming tasks like this.
Also to add. You can reroll the map until you only have one fight to get to the mystery token.
You can pick an easy level in The Barrens (Air Elemental on Heroic) to farm, as there is a guaranteed Mystery Node in there.
Spam low level heroic barrens (8 or 10) as they have a mystery slot every time.
Wonder if its better to stay at 17 completed and have a full fire, so you get the coins from the stranger instead of a task. Doing 18 isn’t enough to max obviously so maybe this helps
Following this question
It really depends how you see it and what you want.
If you want a very specific that's super hard to farm maxed out then maybe spamming stranger with a team of 3 characters with maxed out task 18 might be faster than farming a hard level for said character but getting 150 coins would still take the time of getting 10 tasks which also takes a shitload of time. It might be worth for overall progression to just try to get other characters to task 18 for more packs.
stranger only gives 15 coins if all your tasks are full. Farming stranger 15 coins at a time seems like torture to me. Also if you're at task 17 youre close enough to maxxed that you'll probably cross the finish line within the next week or two at most.
to max legendaries (and even epics), that is a reliable method imo, because you don't get their coins so often from packs/bounties. I'm not saying farm 1k coins from that method, but for the last 500 or so that you might need to max the legendary, it's an "okay" chore for an hour or so
Not confirmed but I would suggest not to do task 18 unless it gives you enough coins to Max out. You can farm heroic barrens 2 with a full quest log to just get the coins (15).
I'm not sure if this is still possible if you finish task 18 on that merc.
I see this as massively inefficient, but yall do you
This is important for my strat to farm Legy coins as well - finish task 18 ONLY IF YOU DON'T NEED ANY MORE COINS.
I have a maxed out Samuro with 18 Tasks done, having him in my party is a blessing because he can't get a quest.
So this is al there is 4 every merc.
So each merc has 18 tasks….
Yea, I was kinda wondering too. I don't quite hate myself enough to try to do all 18 for every merc tho.
If the amount of quests is high enough that you'd never try to do all of them, they really don't need to be repeatable. There's over 900 quests at launch, and it's likely they raise the quest cap when Legendary comes out, and it's guaranteed we get a new line of quests for any future characters they add (and they are supposed to be doing monthly content drops).
That one was only mentioned in the leaked survey. Blizzard themselfs never said this as part of a public announcement. Not saying that it won't happen, but that it's not guaranteed
Hence the word "supposed". It was absolutely in their original plans. They haven't directly said that again, but it has been said that they plan on sneaking updates in, with minor updates when other modes get patches and major updates once an expansion cycle. Sort of like the way Battlegrounds does it.
They did officially say it'll have an update cycle similar to BG - and BG pretty much gets monthly content updates, so this checks out