As in the base game, packages will be an important part of Hearthstone Mercenaries. Available for purchase in the shop for 100 coins, they will be your main source of mercenaries or coins for them.
What do Hearthstone Mercenaries packs contain?
Each mercenary pack follows a simple recipe, just like a pack in the classic game. They can contain 3 types of objects:
- A Mercenary card. Allows you to play the Mercenary in the game.
- Mercenary parts. They are linked to a mercenary, and are used to unlock or improve them.
- Portraits of mercenaries. They are simply alternate skins.
Each deck has a guaranteed mercenary card. For the rest, the game draws 4 items from the list above.
Mercenaries come in three rarities: Rare, Epic, and Legendary. Their cards are unique, which means that the game will always give you a brand new mercenary until you own all those of that rarity. Once all the mercenaries of a rarity have been obtained, you will obtain portraits of this rarity (see below).
Mercenary rarity and drop rate
Obviously, each rarity has different drop rates. Here are the average drop rates for the different card rarities:
- Rare: Each deck contains at least one rare mercenary
- Epic: On average, one card every 5 decks
- Legendary: On average, one card every 20 decks. But you have a guaranteed Legendary in your first 10 packs.
Mercenary Parts Drop Rate
Each package can contain one or more coin drops, for any mercenary. The drops include between 35 and 45 coins. Here is their drop rate:
- Rare Coins: On average 12 times in 10 packs. You will therefore generally have some each time you open a package.
- Epic Coins: On average 10 times in 10 packs.
- Legendary Pieces: On average 8 times in 10 packs.
And once I have all the mercenaries? The portraits
If you have followed well, there remains a part of the packages which has not yet been approached in this article. Portraits for mercenaries. And there, things get a little more complicated. Let's start with the basics: mercenary portraits are alternative skins for your heroes. Once you have obtained all mercenary cards of a rarity, their drops will be replaced by portraits.
But it does not stop there. Each mercenary has 3 golden portraits, and the legendaries also have a diamond portrait. To get them, you will have to be lucky. Each time you get a portrait from a mercenary, the portrait has a chance to be gold or diamond, depending on the rarity of the mercenary:
- For legendary mercenaries: 30% chance to have one of the golden portraits, 10% to have the diamond one
- For Rare and Epic Mercenaries: 33,3% chance of getting one of the golden portraits.
It is not possible to obtain the same portrait of a mercenary several times until you have all the portraits for this mercenary. Once this point is reached, portrait duplicates become coins. This will give you 50 coins for a Rare Mercenary, 75 coins for an Epic, and 100 for a Legendary.
All stats in this article are from Blizzard Support.
