Gauntlet Season Six- Win Battles in the Gauntlet to earn Mercenary Fragments!

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Earn Mercenary Soul Fragments and other Rare Rewards in the Gauntlet.

Our sixth Gauntlet season starts now and will run until April 12th at 5pm PT. Battle through 11 Grades of Gauntlet, each presenting unique challenges and rewards to earn a place on our Ranked Leaderboard. The Ranked Rewards for Season 6 will feature Mercenary Fragments, in addition to other rewards.

You will have 10 weeks (until the end of Season 6) to earn enough Mercenary Fragments from the Gauntlet to summon him, after that he will be much more difficult to obtain, as he won’t be featured in any other soul.

The Mercenary is a 5 star Warrior hero-class ally with extremely potent skills. Armed with his combat knife, The Mercenary strikes from the shadows and dispatches foes with ruthless efficiency. His passive ability, Nowhere to Hide, ensures all his attacks land Perfectly, gives him Immunity to all Silence and Skill Disabling effects and grants his allies Perfect Vanish and Golden Trap for 2 turns at the start of battle. It will also ensure he gains Perfect Vanish for 2 turns after every action.

Beware the Mark of Diablo! The Mercenary is able to place this unique Mark on a random enemy at the start of his turn. The Mark of Diablo prevents the target from reviving, gaining beneficial effects, and causes them to take additional random damage equal to 10% of their MAX HP when they take damage.

Players who make it to Grade A and above will also be awarded Final Frontier Eddie Fragments!

Final Frontier Eddie Fragments can be collected over several Gauntlet seasons. Once you have 1,000 Fragments, you will earn a Guaranteed Final Frontier Eddie.

Final Frontier Eddie is a 5★ Sentinel that is only available by collecting Fragments in the Gauntlet. Check out more on Final Frontier Eddie in his Character Discussions forum post.

Interesting character! Like what you've done with the event artwork too, teasing it with the Feb Event Calendar before the character reveal here.

Diablo? Now I know the reason for all these bugs: Blizzard is inside the Frogs! :-D

Certainly reads as OP... always vanished... always perfect hit.... new Diablo mark (a la Permadeath + Perfect corruption in one but won't be removed by things which remove either of those specifically [should have called it "Perfect Screwed" :) )

Single target attacker...meh!

Echo makes single target hitters more viable. I've had eternity Champ Ed wipe out entire teams himself via extra turns.

Can we see a Compendium Entry for The Mercenary?

How shall I say this politely....

The knife the Merc is holding is about as far away from reality as a knife can get. And if anyone tells me that he is wearing spiked knuckles I am going to laugh at them. Considering those spikes are on the top of his hand it has to be part of the knife. And if that is a hand piece where is goes all the way around the hand I am going to ask you how in the heck is he holding onto the knife? Because that would be a lot of crap to wrap your hand around and it would make being able to even use the knife so awkward as to be useless. But the knife.... yeah its bad. Redeeming qualities include I didn't draw it. Please start watching Forged In Fire so you have a better reference to how a knife actually functions.

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Certainly reads as OP... always vanished... always perfect hit.... new Diablo mark (a la Permadeath + Perfect corruption in one but won't be removed by things which remove either of those specifically [should have called it "Perfect Screwed" :) )

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Meh, the standard moonchild should make short work of him still. Im guessing Mark of Diablo can be cleansed too...

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How shall I say this politely....

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You must be the most fun person at parties! Do you also find magma eddies lava too unrealistic too?

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How shall I say this politely....

The knife the Merc is holding is about as far away from reality as a knife can get. ...

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Of course, THIS is how you draw a knife, or.. knives:
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Ah yes the knife is unrealistic, unlike his ability to completely vanish and have the powers of Diablo on his side

As much as I enjoy Forged in Fire...since when were Iron Maiden characters supposed to look super realistic? Mercenary looks great if you ask me. I'm really digging the Predator inspired design.

Я не получил 10 талисманов за рукавицу, меня уронили в арене до 3500. Что происходит?
YA ne poluchil 10 talismanov za rukavitsu, menya uronili v arene do 3500. Chto proiskhodit?

I did not receive 10 talismans for a mitten, they dropped me in the arena until 3500. What is happening

So first round of SSS on the first turn the enemy moonchild doomed both my Alex eddie and Charlotte even though none of my team was perfect or passive disabled. It’s tough to win when the enemy does not have to follow the rules.

You have to collect a lot of cartoons to demand something.
Play more

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Of course, THIS is how you draw a knife, or.. knives:
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works for me. those are functional.

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Meh, the standard moonchild should make short work of him still. Im guessing Mark of Diablo can be cleansed too...


You must be the most fun person at parties! Do you also find magma eddies lava too unrealistic too?

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hmm.. yeah not worth a response.

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As much as I enjoy Forged in Fire...since when were Iron Maiden characters supposed to look super realistic? Mercenary looks great if you ask me. I'm really digging the Predator inspired design.

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It's not so much the super realistic aspect or anything along those lines. Don't care about that at all. But when it's over done to the point of being useless it becomes a bit incongruous.

You can have a close look to the knife and the char itself, for me it looks really nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ctOlQ6lwvA and the predator effect is just perfect!

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How shall I say this politely....

The knife the Merc is holding is about as far away from reality as a knife can get. And if anyone tells me that he is wearing spiked knuckles I am going to laugh at them. Considering those spikes are on the top of his hand it has to be part of the knife. And if that is a hand piece where is goes all the way around the hand I am going to ask you how in the heck is he holding onto the knife? Because that would be a lot of crap to wrap your hand around and it would make being able to even use the knife so awkward as to be useless. But the knife.... yeah its bad. Redeeming qualities include I didn't draw it. Please start watching Forged In Fire so you have a better reference to how a knife actually functions.

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Yeah so that spike is on his arm and not on the knife (see the preview video they made for him, no spike on the knife)

"They drew first blood" "Don't push it or you'll get a war you won't believe." Look out, once I get this character I'll win in arena. Attachment 7640

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Meh, the standard moonchild should make short work of him still. Im guessing Mark of Diablo can be cleansed too...

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Yeah... so Vanish can work against Moonchild in my experience. If I can get Demon Prince Beelz one-on-one with him (or two-on-one, as the case may be), it's an almost surefire win or draw. The problem is, Merc doesn't get vanish. He gets the golden version... which is ironically more susceptible to Moonchild.

Perhaps being Warrior-type he will also be able to equip Orbits, limiting Moonchild's upside and making this a fair fight. But who knows. Moonchild doesn't fight fair, and with just a single glance at Merc's passive I would probably have to agree with your assessment.

Hey devs yor gauntlet is shit,specialy SSS onem moonchild against another in unlimited battle,you will never see any $ from me!

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"They drew first blood" "Don't push it or you'll get a war you won't believe." Look out, once I get this character I'll win in arena.

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That's EXACTLY what I thought when I saw this new character..... RAMBO!
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“You’re Not Hunting Him...He’s Hunting You.”

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How shall I say this politely....

The knife the Merc is holding is about as far away from reality as a knife can get. And if anyone tells me that he is wearing spiked knuckles I am going to laugh at them. Considering those spikes are on the top of his hand it has to be part of the knife. And if that is a hand piece where is goes all the way around the hand I am going to ask you how in the heck is he holding onto the knife? Because that would be a lot of crap to wrap your hand around and it would make being able to even use the knife so awkward as to be useless. But the knife.... yeah its bad. Redeeming qualities include I didn't draw it. Please start watching Forged In Fire so you have a better reference to how a knife actually functions.

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These screenshots are from the FB video.
Looks to just be a spiked covering.
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I like the "Predator" effect!
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The problem here is that vanish is actually perfect vanish (golden version I assume) and as such can be easily removed with Moonchild, so he won't become much of a counter to him. Artistically it's a great toon but he will be slightly more useful than Necropolis and Mariner.

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The problem here is that vanish is actually perfect vanish (golden version I assume) and as such can be easily removed with Moonchild, so he won't become much of a counter to him. Artistically it's a great toon but he will be slightly more useful than Necropolis and Mariner.

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I wrote something similar ^^. It occurs that if you are already RUNNING maxed awakened Moonchild, he could tip the balance of the fight (cause opposing Child couldn't use his power ability, anyway), but he falls short as a stand-alone counter (probs) due to the golden aspect of his vanish.

We all know Moonchildren don't really kill each other.

The most annoying vanish ability is on Magus LOL--where he gets immunity and vanish every turn. But it is an imperfect vanish, and Moonchild cannot remove it. This is where perfect vanish is a disadvantage.

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The most annoying vanish ability is on Magus LOL--where he gets immunity and vanish every turn. But it is an imperfect vanish, and Moonchild cannot remove it. This is where perfect vanish is a disadvantage.

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Cyborg/BHE remove his PI and Vanish and damage him with their basic attack, often killing him with 1 hit, unless there are Celestials active first turn.

Congratulations to fellow JomsViking: Olevipoeg ...Gauntlet/Mercenary Winner!!!


He let me use this new Trooper, the Mercenary looks really cool.
His special has him do a heat/infrared kinda look "ala Predator."
His passive grants the whole team Perf. Invisibilty.

Thanks Olevipoeg. Way to go, bro! 🍻 🏆

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Congratulations to fellow JomsViking: Olevipoeg ...Gauntlet/Mercenary Winner!!!


He let me use this new Trooper, the Mercenary looks really cool.
His special has him do a heat/infrared kinda look "ala Predator."
His passive grants the whole team Perf. Invisibilty.

Thanks Olevipoeg. Way to go, bro! �� ��

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Three cheers for Olevipoeg

Nice way to promote guild...

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Nice way to promote guild...

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Some clans win Arena, some clans win Gauntlet.
LOL

Thanks Olevipoeg for "representing."

On a side note, doesn’t the Mercenary’s idol animation look like Virtual XI Eddie?

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On a side note, doesn’t the Mercenary’s idol animation look like Virtual XI Eddie?

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Now that you mention it, yes.

I always like to look at new characters, especially Eddies, and try to pick out the original they modeled it after.

Same toons just different skins, like Samurai & Eternity Ed, just to name a couple.

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Three cheers for Olevipoeg

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Well done! Enjoy your new exclusive character :D

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I always like to look at new characters, especially Eddies, and try to pick out the original they modeled it after.
Same toons just different skins, like Samurai & Eternity Ed, just to name a couple.

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Yeah, it can be fun trying to recognise the animation rig they've used. Scrooge is based on Angel/Gambler I think? And took me a while to notice the ghosts are similar to Beast Eddie (as I've only ever used him as a trooper!)

Congratulations Olev! It will be next to last week or last week of season 6 when I will have enough fragments for him. I dunno but the Thor Mac awakened pretty much kills my teams. Had a game hang and had to reset game, shows as a loss and list a good team when I had great signal and the battle stopped about mid fight. Has anyone else had that problem with the gauntlet??

Thanks everybody!