Mercenary Mode

Hearthstone takes the greatest heroes of Azeroth and Draenor and turns them into cards, for a game that is supposed to be played at inns.

In the new Mercenaries game play mode in Hearthstone, you can gear up your Mercenaries with equipment to improve their abilities.

Is it cool or weird that there's a Hearthstone mode that doesn't have anything to do with playing cards?

I’m as surprised as you guys! I mean, I literally didn’t want to play it, I just did it because our beloved EiC Liz Harper made the point that I should probably give it a shot if we were going to talk about it during the podcast. And then I did play it, and… I kind of liked it? I mean, it didn’t become an obsession or anything, but I enjoyed the experience and I felt like this is what the Garrison mission table should have been — not just selecting characters and sending them off to fight, but actually controlling them, choosing how they attack and what tactics they use.

I mean, it’s not particularly deep, but I’m not even past level 7 yet, so we’ll see how it feels once I get better at it. Regardless, I actually had fun playing it and I’m not adverse to continuing to play it.

Oh, and I’m listening to L7’s Pretend We’re Dead as part of my I’m awake at 4 am and I need music to function playlist. It’s also got Wolves Without Teeth by Of Monsters and Men on there, which is pretty dang good, you should try that out.

A brand new Hearthstone mode means lots of new art to enjoy.

Back in Warlords we saw Mercenary Mode introduced so that Alliance or Horde players could PvP as members of the opposite faction.

Buried in Blizzard's BlizzCon Q&A panel poll (which is worthwhile on its own) is a single question that had me jump to my feet and say yes.

The big news with WoW patch 6.2.2 is of course the introduction of flying in Draenor.

World of Warcraft patch 6.2.2 has been announced for September 1 after weeks of player anticipation.

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