The BEST bounty climbing comp - get to the BOSS without losing a Merc! (Hearthstone Mercenaries)

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In this Hearthstone Mercenaries guide video, I take a look at the best bounty climbing comp. If you want to reach the boss fight without losing any Mercenaries, this party is the BEST for the task!
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@rskTempo 2 жыл бұрын

The Peon fight is the bane of Alterac Valley. So true

@Kamikazeray 2 жыл бұрын

Both peon and pre nerf frostsaber are the true final bosses of their areas :v

@samek81 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! I was stuck on Task#8 trash for 2 days, with this comp I completed bounty easily... Keep up the good work Old Guardian!

@KimDeRider 2 жыл бұрын

I've been using this comp since you mentioned it in one of your guide videos. It's awesome! Thanks!

@cossnspacosmin6678 2 жыл бұрын

People(me included) say it's hard to climb with this comp but this applies when you have You'lon and Sinestra skills only at lv 2. Maxed out i's sure it's a breeze:D

@SuctionCat 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's incredibly upgrade dependent. You don't need everything maxxed but if you are missing some key bits you'll struggle. For instance if your Jade Gust isn't high enough level you'll fall behind on Peon fights.

@quwarq 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, was nice to see how it handles some of the really annoying encounters!

@andrewsolovay3707 2 жыл бұрын

FYI, this comp just got even better -- Yu'Lon's "Enveloping Mist" just got retagged as Nature School, which gives added synergy fun (like, if Brightwing gets the "Nature's Bite" treasure, its Serpent's Bite triggers right after Enveloping Mist with that nice big nature damage).

@darksaturn1085 2 жыл бұрын

Because of you I got big into this game my decks nutso but im free to play but love this game!

@konstantinosflo 2 жыл бұрын

I have been using the dragon comp, a lot lately but i personally think that Mukla/Malfurion and either Brukan or Anacondra is always safe aswell .

@heartwormskillcats8357 2 жыл бұрын

That is insane, thank you!

@baconpancakes7869 2 жыл бұрын

i spent some time powering up my yulon and sinestra just to max out the aoe and get the taunt down to work with brightwing, and i will say the comp works a lot better with decent power than just mid power if you get yulons treasure to buff dragons and sinestra steal stats treasure she becomes quite the beefcake :D

@aaaa-ni9hc 2 жыл бұрын

If you level Enveloping Mist to 5, it goes to 2 speed so you can queue it before Mana Barrier. I prefer Long'xin over Brightwing most of the time. You don't get nature ramping damage, but the target swapping is better than Brightwing's team heal.

@kada3381 2 жыл бұрын

Wanted to make the comment about Rank 5 being a gamechanger for Turn 2. Now you get my upvote instead, and I just reply.

@OptimisticRealizer Жыл бұрын

Yu'Lon is one my favorite mercenaries in the game. I was always sing "Puff the magic dragon" when I play her.

@bigbuffguy9589 2 жыл бұрын

I haven't tried this comp, but I really like the Holy comp for climbing. I find Fire and Nature to be a bit fragile at times.

@ser6Ijvolk 2 жыл бұрын

I still think the holy comp (Velen, Cornelius, Anduin) is both more stable and quick. But dragons might be more stable than the nature comp, which can't always outheal focused damage.

@28Dariel 2 жыл бұрын

Subscribed for a few days now. Amazing content, thank you. Question: How does this comp compare to nature comp or holy comp which I find very powerful also ? Does it have more survival and damage or is it more well rounded because of the role distribution ?

@BCGpp 2 жыл бұрын

Both of those comps are also great. They're typically blue/blue/red, though. So they can be weak against lots of blues that focus on your red, for example. More importantly, this dragon comp has even higher survivability than holy or nature, and is very consistent. Apart from a few elite fights, it can outlast any enemy, regardless of their roles.

@OldGuardian 2 жыл бұрын

This comp has by far the best survivability.

@BunnySkinning 2 жыл бұрын

Yup, noticed how op Yu'lon's lazor was when I was craping together the dragon/beast team for the quest. I tried building a team around it with Sinestra and Long'xin, but it was a bit lacking in sustain, or my Long'xin is just too undergeared. Then I saw you mention it in one of your guides and was like, "oh yeah, we have a dragon with aoe heal". Yu'lon is a powerhouse, but it took a while to grind up properly, because you need to -max out the pear to reduce the chance of one of your other dragons getting randomly focused down -max out hyper beam, because you want to one-shot greens to stop them from bullying Brightwing -and max out taunt so it becomes speed 2, so the mana barrier no longer delays it (with proper ordering) I think Rotimer is going to file a restraining order against me with how much I've been knocking on his door these past few days :P

@OldGuardian 2 жыл бұрын

I still have none of those maxed by the way and Yu'lon is already great. Maxed is always better, of course!

@BunnySkinning 2 жыл бұрын

@@OldGuardian oh yeah, same, I just got the last upgrade for the taunt skill today and was like, "'hey, this being at speed 2 is actually pretty useful" :D I wonder if there's a comp build around Long'xin in a similar fashion though her lazor deals less single target damage, but boy does it cleave through reds when it overkills :D it just seems like there's a lot more math involved, so maybe not for climbing, but instead just against certain boss fights, where we can take advantage of the domino effect to nuke boss for a 3 digit number

@dpskane 2 жыл бұрын

In general I think the hardest trash team is rather the troll team. the one where they grow when you use an ability with a descriptor (unlike what their text says, you don't have to deal damage to buff the enemy). I find that much harder than the peon trio or any other trash team.

@quwarq 2 жыл бұрын

Trogg you mean. I found them super easy with both Holy and Fire comp, just need to burn down the dangerous ones and not have a Fighter on the field because the protector gains so much health before you can finally clear it last.

@anastasioschatzimanolis3265 2 жыл бұрын

@Old Guardian At 11:42 you encountered the only problem i have found while climbing with this comp for the past 2 days. Yu'Lons Taunt does not work well with Sinestra's Mana Barrier as it makes the taunt way too slow to have an effect at the round it is played. It is only worth casting Taunt and Mana Barrier on Yu'Lon if you want to have the Nature Damage Buff for the next Round or in the rare case Sinestra is slowed to the point Mana Barrier will take effect after Yu'Lon's Taunt. I believe the proper play at 11:40 would be to either play it out as you did but instead of Taunt use Jade Gust on the red enemy merc to kill it that round or set up a kill for next round by using Taunt on Yu'Lon / Twillight Extinction on Sinestra / Pixie Dust on Brightwing

@aaaa-ni9hc 2 жыл бұрын

That issue goes away as you level Yu'lon. Enveloping Mist 5 is 2 speed.

@anastasioschatzimanolis3265 2 жыл бұрын

@@aaaa-ni9hc yes totally agree the skill becomes faster at level 4 and 5. However it gets up to speed 2 same as sinestra's which means RNG will determine which one will hit first

@aaaa-ni9hc 2 жыл бұрын

@@anastasioschatzimanolis3265 It's not RNG. Among your abilities with the same speed, the one you queue first will go first.

@anastasioschatzimanolis3265 2 жыл бұрын

@@aaaa-ni9hc Are you sure it works like that ? I used to play a lot of pvp in mercs ( being of the first 100 on 14k points ) and I remember times where my Valeera would attack before Balinda ending up with no stealth... Or my Lok before Varden etc I always thought of it having something to do with how the mercs were positioned since the left most one would usually attack first but it wasn't working always based on position so your interpretation could explain how the abilities are being casted out. ( Left most usually gets his ability casted first and thus it acts first ) In the official HS mercs page as well as the fandom hearthstone wiki however it is stated that "WHEN 2 OR MORE ABILITIES HAVE THE SAME SPEED VALUE THEY WILL BE CASTED IN RANDOM ORDER " So even though what you say seems logical there is still a big questionmark on what actually happens

@aaaa-ni9hc 2 жыл бұрын

@@anastasioschatzimanolis3265 I am sure. It is random when controlled by opposite players. But when controlled by the same player, they go in the order you click them. This can get confusing if you queue an ability and then change it, but they go in the order you finally lock them in.

@tubber2081 2 жыл бұрын

Is this the best comp for progressing in pve? I need a good team to go with my guff/malf/bruk squad for heroic progression.

@robertc2235 2 жыл бұрын

For earning coins to fill up my roster of Max characters, is the coin gain from heroic more worth it than normal for non-legendary characters? Or should I stick to normal to get through them quicker? I have no trouble getting through Heroic bounties, I'm just wondering if you know which is more time efficient. Thank you!

@anastasioschatzimanolis3265 2 жыл бұрын

There is a video with a guy claiming he was the first to max out all of the mercs and he explains how he did it. He didn't farm the specific merc bounties at all he was farming tasks at fellwood heroic 5 over and over again so maybe that's the most efficient way. Of the two you mention the most efficient depends on how many turns/time you need to clear normal on average vs how many turns/time you need to clear heroic on average. For example let's say from heroic you get double the number of coins in comparison to normal. Then nornal would only be more efficient if you could do it in less than half the time you need for heroic. Nobody can tell you which is more efficient because it is comp and upgrades dependant so it is unique for your team. I think you get the point ,

@bigbuffguy9589 2 жыл бұрын

@@anastasioschatzimanolis3265 Fellwood Heroic 5 is very fast for gaining experience. I think Barrens Heroic 1 is faster overall to get coins. You never have to do more than two fights to get to the boss, as there is always a spirit healer. And the boss is easy enough that you can usually kill it in one turn. At most, it will take two turns to beat it.

@marilynbrinker3049 2 жыл бұрын

Do you have any information on the PVP in mercenaries, I am just starting to play, I dont see anything posted in the last few months.

@OldGuardian 2 жыл бұрын

I don't play PvP anymore. Too much grinding with every new Merc drop, it's not for me.

@Anthaliel 2 жыл бұрын

It's an interesting composition, but... maybe it's because I haven't finished leveling them - Sinestra almost there, Yulon's skills 3-5) - but, though powerful, I see huge, HUGE, damage spikes to them. Sure, Sinestra can heal a lot, but sometimes they get deleted :/ I'll go on working on Yulon, but I still like the holy comp better: Anduin, Cornelius, Velen to climb up, anywhere O.o

@Anthaliel 2 жыл бұрын

Btw, I see a lot of potential in Niuzao + Xuen. I'd add Chi-Ji but she doens't synergize well, except for the treasures,;she's a good healer but I feel she requires too many turns to get to a point she can properly use her healing skills on her own :(

@bogdanmo85 2 жыл бұрын

Is this better than Samuro\Xyrella\Cariel for bounty climb? And then are they more viable on boss fights?

@OldGuardian 2 жыл бұрын

This is the best climbing comp. Samuro/Xyrella/Cariel is a budget comp. The boss fight depends on the boss.

@bobmool4894 2 жыл бұрын

I'm having trouble with this comp cuz I haven't got Pearl of Yu'lon, unstable without it

@anastasioschatzimanolis3265 2 жыл бұрын

It is not unstable , although it is a lot weaker. You can still climb harmless in most cases if you try to eliminate one enemy on round 1 to have a number advantage on round 2. You can almost always pinpoint and kill a target on round 1 , because you have very strong abilities against green and blue targets as they take crit damage from Yu'Lon/Sinestra and red targets most of the time attack on round 1 so they take crit damage from Brightwing and bonus damage from Yu'Lon's 1st Ability. This will allow you to heal your mercs before any dies on round 2, even without the pearl of Yu'Lon equipment.

@Exifar1337 2 жыл бұрын

that task 8 is even harder now in the peon fight im getting 8 tower not 6 and also most fights to climb have been buff but 2 days ago it was not that hard to climb to the boss maybe a stealth update ?

@aposteljoe 2 жыл бұрын

If you have this comp at (skill/skill/skill/item/item/itm = 555444) Than its okay. I have only Cariel, Samuro, Xyrella maxed, so this is a better comp for me. I'd lke to play this comp, but how do I get 1000 coins per Merc if I play only 2 hours/day?

@OldGuardian 2 жыл бұрын

You grind Merc tasks for coins. I still don't have the newer Dragons maxed and it's fine.

@steve9007 2 жыл бұрын

the dragons are great except alterac valley. i have a 25ish percent success there

@PasDeMD 2 жыл бұрын

Just saying, cutting it off at the boss makes me wonder if that did not end up going very well.

@OldGuardian 2 жыл бұрын

That was not the point of the video. The point was to show the climb. There are already tens of videos on this channel that show the boss fights with these. The fight was super easy.

@ShinRyuuk 2 жыл бұрын

I loathe that first encounter so much.

@deweyboie 2 жыл бұрын

These videos are frustrating. It's not easy to comprehend what he is even saying for starters. Then the dialogue goes as, "oh this is so easy for starters", yet the video has everything maxed. SMH. The definition of tone deaf.

@gamingwithdan6371 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, people actually play mercenaries?

@Pesslus 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, it's a fun little mode.

@glaxb17 2 жыл бұрын

@@Pesslus So much fun that I rather prefer forced labor ... (let's be serious, it's a total failure, it only conveys boredom ...) This game seems to have ended up in the hands of total incompetents (they can't even create balance in the ladder, but delight in creating new useless junk mode ....) already they are slow to enough for support the game (expanding it with useless content will make things worse)

@bigbuffguy9589 2 жыл бұрын

@@glaxb17 You're entitled to your wrong opinion. Mercenaries is _way_ more fun than Battlegrounds.