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I recently checked back into this long dead mode to get the hero gear for the last batch of mercenaries, and I came across some videos of a couple of cheese comps for anyone who might ever be curious. One of these is a frost build with rogers. It uses Khadgar with bitter chill, Lokholar with icy focus, and Rogers with scout's spyglass. The idea is that it kind of plods along until you get "For the Alliance!" Then you just blitz through the rest of the map. The other one was a cheese fire comp using Nemsy with bog moss, Khadgar with bitter chill, and Baron Geddon with mark of conflagration. It used "can't touch this," which was removed. It still worked well enough without that, and this is what I used to blast through Whatley.

Thank you OG for the amount of work and passion you bring into Mercenaries

I just started playing Mercenaries two days ago and found your content to be the most valuable encyclopedia on the net. Simply thank you.

This video is so appreciated! Your content has helped me through many road blocks in mercs. Thank you! :) I hope you continue to make mercs videos

Love the mercenary content, got me back into the game mode! Beasts and Fire have been working the best for me, and they actually combine fairly well - Mukla for caster protection, and Rexxar even has a fire ability.

Thank you for the hard work OG. in regards to Dragon comp, I personally found Long'xin with bottle of infinite stars to be more versatile than Brightwing and helped save my mercs easily from getting destroyed by opposite colors during the climb. The only down side for me is how most of Long'xin's treasures are plain not good. Now we just need to make Arcane have a comp

thx for the update ! the change to holy is exactly what I was thinking of already before the buff to Yrel, that she would be a great help against casters, as otherwise with Anduin/Velen it's often a stand against casters but somewhen still losing a hero during the fight :( something was missing, didn't think of Cornelius yet, I tried Cariel before in order to get some tank for the holy-heroes - unfortunately, casters quickly cut her down....

I half expected a “and now let’s see allthese comps in action” at the end there 😂! Thanks OG, you are a legend!

Thank you for all the valuable information you got me into mercenaries and I like it more than the actual game

just started trying mercs after getting back into hearthstone and playing standard needed this video because I was clueless now I know where to start and can figure it out thank you

Great video! I think the fire team is really toxic for the game though. It's just so powerful, that it makes it less appealing to try any other team that requires thought or planning and has cool interactions.

An alternative way to use #2 Frost I've found is Balinda (Water Elemental), Varden (Equip that gives Frost Damage when enemy is frozen), Lokolar (Equip that increases his Hailstorm count to 9). So you have Balinda give Frost Weakness, attack with water elemental at speed 5, and use Varden and Lokolar ability at speed 5. You don't get the super high Frost Damage this way, I've noticed that at speed 5 for Varden and Lokolar main damage abilities, you usually outspeed many of the encounters anyway, so the Frost Damage you would have gotten doesn't help too much plus if you don't one turn kill they are all all slower next turn thanks to Varden.

Thanks for this, it'll be helpful in team building for pve.

Thanks a lot for this video and for you recent renewed effort in presenting alternative comps! I know you've said that keeping up with youtub comments is a lot of trouble but I at least greatly apreciate you dedication to you viewers.

Would you consider making a BEST PVP teams comps list ? Awesome video btw really usefull !

Murlocs have a much easier time staying alive if you include mutanus with iridescent necklace. I find mutanus+murky+murk-eye can beat most things with relative ease, even protectors, despite being an all green team, due to mutanus being immune to crits.

Thanks, great guide!

I love this video! I hope you do the same for the newer mercenaries that just came out.

For PvE i've been using a nature comp that is working wonderful for me: Main: Malfurion - Liferoot Staff; Elise - Talon Trinket; Guff - Earthen Bracers. Bench: Baine - Chieftain's Feather; Anacondra - Toxic Venom; Bru'kan - Crackling Band. All of the mercs benefits from the "Tauren, Night Elves get +x/x stats and y Nature Damage" treasure, you can get insane healing from Malfurion's item, Baine stacking the Mulgore Might and Chain Heal and either Elise's Guiding Path or Anacondra's Mend Beast. You have infinite BH and BD scaling (depending on the mercs in play), with Elise being extremely versatile and capable of dealing insane damage with enough Starseeker scaling, since it benefits from the Nature Damage if you combo it. I usually start with Elise's [3] to buff up a bit, Malf [1] for speed and Guff [2] for damage, and decide on turn 2 either I want more damage, some tankiness and damage or just going straight survival. It's a bit slow, but pretty much unkillable if you play it correctly. Usually my go-to comp together with dragons (Yu'Lon, Nefarian, Brightwing with Alexstraza, Sinestra, Onyxia as bench). Might not be "optimal", but I love full themed builds with treasures where all mercs can benefits and synergize.

Your guides have been a huge help getting me into Mercenaries, thanks so much! I stumbled into building up Rexxar and Trigore so i built Beast comp first, but due to how early it is for me i didn't have access or pull Xuen. I found that King Krush was available where i was at and slotted him in as an alternative, only to find he makes farming SO easy.

Great stuff!

Why isn’t Malfurion Brightwing Yulon considered? It ramps up super fast, it’s very durable (especially with Bite treasure).

Thanks for the help.

Does the addition of Ysera make a difference in your Dragon team? My main dragons (plus Cookie) are maxed out, still working on Long'xin and DeathWing. And also which EQ do you use for Nefarian and Sinestra , CD and Mana Brooch?

Hey OG, if i was going to raise one of these teams to get through as many heroics as possible, which one would you suggest at this point?

Is there a reason you don't run Morgl in big anaconda comps or nature comps for the health gain?

I am only using the old gods for pve now is so fun

They are good but if we talking about PVE there is Treasure factor too because we are taking a lot of treasure so we should talk about too.For instance Cookie'e two fish spawn its so good combining with any Aoe Team. So we should add the lists "Bench treasure reward" too.

My absolute strongest Pve comp is not reflected here: Baine (with totem), Cho (with scrolls), Kazakus (with wildwine) and cookie for the hp. Put the first 3 down in the same order written here - have Cho spamming patience. Kaza easily gets big already in turn 2/3. I have cleared almost all heroic events easily with this and you have 2 free spaces for coin farms or added “security”. Valeera e.g. can get assasinate on reg bounties - and so can kaza. And tyriel is great as he often get the bench treasure to save a friend

With pirates I just use vanessa instead of smite and triggore instead of kazakus due to sinergy with patches. With orcs I just give windfury to thrall and I prefer drekthar cuz he freezes while buffs attack.

Can anyone tell me if Alex is any decent in dragon comps? Just pulled her and wondering if its worth some investment

I hope I can get these mercs one day

Thanks for all content on mercenaries, can you do a guide for PVP too?

What mercenary is chees to nature comp ?

I find that Yu'lon, Ragnaros, and Geddon make the best fire comp at the moment. Yu'lons Jadeflame Buffet only has 1 speed, and being teamed up with Jadefire Spear, it can keep the team healed up and make them a lot more tanky while also always giving a Fire Combo for Ragnaros and Geddon. Yu'lon also has great treasures that give additional fire damage buffs for the team. I feel like Balinda lacks a lot and doesn't provide big support or damage for the team in my experience so far. Maybe something worth looking into if you haven't already.

Could you prepare something similar for Battlegrounds (comps)? Or you don't play that mode:)?

Beasts comp be like: And then there's Mukla He attac he protec but most importantly he gives bananas

Is this List still uptoodate :) ?

Any updated PVE comps aside from just mythic ones as I feel lots of us are still quiet not there yet

Hey old guardian, was wondering is there any reason you only have 5 in each list? What happens to the 6th?

It's so sad how I have collected 42 mercs at this point but none of them except for cookie are in the fire comp :(

I don't understand why you said 'C'Thun makes Old Gods Comp viable'? Because it has been viable before C'Thun, albeit arguably a bit weaker. If you max the Yogg treasure, you get 4 reduction from the battlecry. Yshaars taunt gives another 3. Since you spawn a Spawn of Nzoth before using Mind Joggle, you get another 2 (at least) from Yoggle. That totals to 9, meaning next turn all 10 CD skills are avaible - which are the Yshaar Rage and the Eviiscerate. Now, yes, you do need to account for two things: - the Spawn can sometimes die due to bad luck / matchups. Rarely, but still happens - Yshaar can be slowed and thus acts after the Nzoth AoE. But these things are pretty rare, and while the first point is not important when CThun replaces NZoth, the slow can still happen. I do agree that Cthun IS superior to Nzoth for climbing, but that doesn't mean that the comp wasn't viable before. I farmed quite a few bounties with it prior due to the relative fast speed (T2 ends all encounters except about 1% and bosses) and being quite resilient (thanks to 2 speed). Things can always happen (especially when taking the damn bomb), but in general ... ? I don't think that Cthun made a qualitative difference, albeit it does become a tad stronger.

I noticed your murloc comp doesn't include Old Murkeye, have you tried him with Finley and Morgl? I think that comp is amazing, and loads of fun

I'm trying out mercenaries again, is there some reason why some of these comps have only 5 mercs? Do you just throw in a random sixth or keep playing with 5

I don't know if it has been arleady asked, i searched in comments without finding it: Why almost every comp has Cookie? Could you please explain how to use it, why it is so versatile? his treasure are all almost related to murlocs, except +3 natural damage and make X damages to enemies

Would this still be relevant? I started hearthstone and I love mercenaries! I know the mode isn't popular but I want to know if these decks are still good

Is Mutanus not good enough for the Murloc comp?

Why is cookie considered so good in pve? He seems like he's only okay unless he's paired with something he can heal

Hey i have a question my malfurion healing equipment is not working, is that a known bug?

Why is Kazakus good with Sneed?

Why do you have Cookie in every comp?

Why is Cookie in basically every comp?

why only 5 mercenaries ? (sry if he explain in the video my english is bad ^^)

Why does some of your comp only use 5 mercenaries ?

I don't fancy the holy Yrel team at all. Sure, Yrel has received a big boost, but the comp still has no means of healing Cornelius, who is supposed to take most of the heat. Also, Tyrael doesn't contribute a whole lot. He does melee damage. Okay! But that's it. The freeze is situationally good at best and the taunt is ... well just a taunt. Uther has a lot more utility. The same goes for Xyrella even though she only indirectly profits from the +6/+6. And here comes the ultimate problem: Tyrael is ... nothing. He is neither Horde nor Alliance. And also not a human. His treasures suck. There is just no synergy, other than him beeing a holy user. And that alone just doesn't cut it for me.

Why is Cookie in every single build despite not having synergy with any of them (except murlocs)?

Murlocs are much better because of treasures and Mutanus, which OG haven't noticed. Trio Adwin+Trigor+Mutanus will kill everything but elite blue or fast (less than 5 speed) opponents. Can switch Edwin or Mutanus for Mr.Smite for a fun bloodbath on turn 2. Actually Old Murk-eye+Trigor+Mutanus work even better.

you. can have six people why are all your builds only 5?