A deep dive into details of new Mercenaries content in Patch 22.4 (131660).
Limited-time event[]
As announced by Blizzard[1], from February 22 to March 8, 2022, a limited-time event consisting of 10 tasks will be available.
Here are what I found of this series of limited-event tasks by looking at the client data of Hearthstone and extracting them as usual. Keep in mind that the orders might not be correct.
| Visitor | Task name | Description | Rewards | Quote | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event Chi-ji | Task 1: The Heat is On | Complete Popsicooler Bounty in less than 30 turns in Alterac Valley. | 50  Mercenaries/Chi-Ji Coins, 25 Mercenaries/Niuzao Coins | ▶️ | Create the destiny you seek. |
| Event Chi-ji | Task 2: A New Dawn | Destroy Ivus without it going dormant in Alterac Valley. | Mercenary: Mercenaries/Chi-Ji (Variation 497) | ▶️ | Push forward. Do not give up on yourself. |
| Event Chi-ji | Task 3: Doves of Peace | Destroy Heroic Mad Bomber without doing any damage in the Barrens. | 50 Mercenaries/Chi-Ji Coins, 30 Mercenaries/Xuen Coins | ▶️ | Learn to look at the world in a different light. |
| Event Chi-ji | Task 4: Invokers of Hope | Complete Heroic The Annointed Blade Bounty with only Casters in Felwood. | 50 Mercenaries/Chi-Ji Coins, 35 Mercenaries/Yu'lon Coins | ▶️ | Become the beacon of hope others so very need. |
| Event Chi-ji | Task 5: Bite of Winter | Complete Heroic Ahune with at least 3 Beasts in Winterspring. | 60 Mercenaries/Chi-Ji Coins, 40 Mercenaries/Xuen Coins | ▶️ | When faced with challenges, what do you hope for? |
| Event Chi-ji | Task 6: Nature of the Beast | Complete Heroic Ivus with at least 3 Beasts in Alterac Valley. | 60 Mercenaries/Chi-Ji Coins, 40 Mercenaries/Niuzao Coins | ▶️ | Without hope, there is no light in the future! |
| Event Chi-ji | Task 7: Fall and Rise Together | Restore 100 health or more in a single turn with Chi-Ji. | Mercenary: Golden Mercenaries/Chi-Ji (Variation 496) | ▶️ | We must never give in to despair. |
| Event Chi-ji | Task 8: Song of Harmony | Complete Heroic Lokholar with only Beasts and Dragons in Alterac Valley. | 70 Mercenaries/Chi-Ji Coins, 50 Mercenaries/Long'xin Coins, 50 Mercenaries/Yu'lon Coins | ▶️ | Seek balance in all things. |
| Event Chi-ji | Task 9: Take Flight | Complete Heroic Balinda Bounty with at least 3 Dragons in Alterac Valley. | 75 Mercenaries/Chi-Ji Coins, 50 Mercenaries/Yu'lon Coins, 50 Mercenaries/Xuen Coins | ▶️ | Another challenge awaits. |
| Event Chi-ji | Task 10: Hope Springs Eternal | Complete Heroic Balinda Bounty with all your Mercs alive in Alterac Valley. | 80 Mercenaries/Chi-Ji Coins, 75 Mercenaries/Long'xin Coins, 75 Mercenaries/Niuzao Coins | ▶️ | Your hope shines brightly. Now go, seek out the others and light their path like I once lit yours. |
A bit breakdown from this table:
- You will get a total of 1015 coins from completing all of this 10 tasks, including:
- 495 Mercenaries/Chi-Ji coins
- 125 Mercenaries/Long'xin coins
- 140 Mercenaries/Niuzao coins
- 120
Mercenaries/Xuen coins - 135 Mercenaries/Yu'lon coins
- 495
At this point, I don't know the exact time period that starts or ends the event yet, since it's implemented by server, not client.
Vanndar and Kazakus bounties[]
- Mercenaries/Vanndar will be a Protector boss with Mercenaries/Long'xin, Mercenaries/Captain Galvangar and Mercenaries/Lokholar the Ice Lord as coin loots.
- Mercenaries/Kazakus will be a Caster boss with Mercenaries/Garrosh Hellscream, Mercenaries/Chi-Ji and Mercenaries/Varden Dawngrasp as coin loots. Mercenaries/Kazakus (Heroic) is also required to be completed to earn an equipment for Chi-Ji.
While I don't have any details about the boss encounters we will get to see after March 8, these new cards I detected in client data might hint at something. Keep in mind that any stats or numbers are cilent-side and not likely to be official numbers to be used in gameplay, since before you start a game, there is heavy modification to apply these kind of stats.
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New unknown abilities[]
Here are the new abilities added in 22.4 that do not belong to any mercenary. They could be possibly treasures or boss abilities. Take a look around!
Card changes[]
Techincally, there are card changes in 22.4. However, they are just about fixing consistency issues in card texts, nothing more. There are no truly notable changes.
This does not include card art changes, which is impossible to detect with tools.
Task changes[]
Truth to Blizzard[1], all Task 7: Defeat 2 Heroic boss are changed into Complete 2 Heroic Bounties. Outside of that, there are no other changes to tasks. There is a bug fix to Story 33 though.
Others[]
- Don't forget to take a look at our new articles for new mercenaries in 22.4!
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- All new tasks are available for querying in Special:RunQuery/Mercs/Task. If you want to look for limited-time event tasks, try filtering name "Event Chi-Ji".
- Audio files for voicelines will be updated later (I can't estimate when to complete this process yet, probably at worst 2-3 days later).
- Fixed cooldown change errors in Card changes section of Mercenaries cards
- Updated outdated Mercenaries/Fel Infernal 1/2/3/4/5, Hulking Overfiend minions card images
- Fixed Mercenaries/Fel Core 2's wrong upgrading cost (it's initial tier, should be 0, not 150 previously).
- Fixed some of Mercenaries cards with bugged How to get section.
- Fixed Mercenaries Mercenaries/Valeera Sanguinar, Mercenaries/Vol'jin and Mercenaries/Lokholar the Ice Lord whose tasks were wrongly orders. (Thanks to lukipr0#3130 (Discord) for informing to me!)
- Fixed Mercenaries Mercenaries/Sky Admiral Rogers, Mercenaries/Trigore the Lasher and Mercenaries/Vanessa VanCleef whose tasks were displayed twice. (Thanks to lukipr0#3130 (Discord) for informing to me!)