Welcome!
Thank you for participating in our beta.
You can direct questions about the server to the Community Manager or any Developer
that happens to be on at the time. Please be patient if they do not get back to you
instantly.
A quick start guide has been posted below page 2 and will act as a basic guide for the
new starting area. Major features of the server are listed below and provide a better
scope of the server.
Features of this server are as follows:
Classless: There are no restrictions on using any type of armor, spell or weapon. No
Faction: The traditional Alliance and Horde factions do not limit game play in any way.
This allows everyone on the server to play together! Crafting: Most of the traditional
crafting professions have been made into a single profession allowing everyone to be
able to craft anything and all gathering professions are unlocked on creation,
additionally you are able to track minerals and herbs at the same time. PVP: after
choosing a starting area you will be given 2 scrolls in your keyring that allow you to
disable pvp or enable pvp. Enabling pvp grants 300% honor and 50% increased
experience gain. Flex: All dungeons and raid difficulties scale with how many people are
in the raid and now allow for a maximum player count of 40, however, dungeons are
balanced for 5 man groups and raids are balanced for 10 man groups.
Ghostly Skull: After choosing your starting location you are given the Ghostly Skull mini
pet, this mini pet is extremely useful for the player. A full list of what it provides the player
will be listed below.
• Hearthstone: Allows players to set the hearth to almost any location.
• Trainer: Allows players to train all spells in the game at any location.
• Mercenary Store: Allows players access to a special Mercenary Coin store that that
sells special items associated with donating to the server.
Donations: Donations are never forced! We appreciate every dollar that you give to
support our project. When you donate you will receive Mercenary Coins, a premium
currency, at 100 coins per 1USD. There are lots of things you can use these coins on
directly in the game, so there is no reason to log out to claim rewards! No Pay to Win: We
will not sell anything that provides a significant advantage to gameplay from the
donation shop.
A big part of our philosophy is the ability to play your character the way you want to.
Switching specs, buying new spells, and utilizing new combat tactics is part of the player
experience. These things that make up the game will not cost you a single dollar of your
money, so please experiment with as many builds and play-styles you can imagine!
We are still working on the server and value constructive feedback and engagement.
Social media: Coming Soon!
Discord: https://discord.gg/EYvmKvr
When you first create a character, you will be greeted by the Mercenary Camp. Each
character starts with a one-handed weapon, two-handed weapon, shield, bow, and 100
Arrows. You also start with a totem that can move between your keyring and bags.
There are several new skills you have gained
from your journey across Azeroth. You are
proficient in all types of combat and the new
abilities you possess reflect that. You also have
knowledge of all the professions you found
across your journey, so your efforts have
rewarded you with a single “Crafting” skill,
allowing you to make use of several
professions at a given time. Please take a
moment upon character creation to check your
spellbook for these new changes.
Around the camp there are Class Trainers willing
to teach you the basics of what they know. You can
redeem you Class Token to any trainer one time to get a
set of starter spells to help you on your journey. Do not
worry, since you can learn every spell in the game at a
later time! Our custom UI isn't implemented quite yet,
but your spells and abilities will be sorted by classes.
Each Class Trainer has three
specializations to pick, with the only
exception being Druid with four. Each of
these trainers will show you what baseline
spells come with each spec. Every
character that is created only gets a single
class token and can only complete a single
quest in the Mercenary Camp.
A big part of our classless experience is
that everything utilizes Energy as a resource.
A lot of abilities have new costs balanced
around months of internal testing, but this is
still a beta and values can change if they are
under or over performing. Old abilities might
have new uses like creating combo points or
even becoming combo point finishers!
Now that you have completed the quest your next objective comes with deciding
where to level. Head on over to Chromie and prepare for your next journey. There is a
banker, Barber, and Mailbox around our favorite little time traveler for you to use before
you go.
After choosing a starting area you will be given 2 scrolls in your keyring that allow
you to disable pvp or enable pvp. Enabling pvp grants 300% honor and 50% increased
experience gain. Using either scroll will not prevent you from making parties with other
players with PVP or PVE enabled.
We have enabled a unique dynamic questing system. When completing quests in
an area, you might find that you out level the mobs and have to go to a new area. That is
not the case here, since you still gain sizable rewards in areas that are slightly lower level.
This allows you to complete a zone and experience the story that the world has to offer
you.
Riding skill is also available at all levels with
the max riding available from the start. You can send
mounts to your alts or alternatively you can buy one
in the donation shop. If you want to buy spells and
abilities early on you can use Refreshments to
temporarily gain a movement speed buff out of
combat! The movement speed buff granted by the
drinks diminish the higher your level becomes. Be
sure to stock up on water that is around your current
level for the best results. It is important to note that
all pets and mounts purchased in beta will be
awarded to you when the server launches!
At level 5, and every 5 levels there
after, you gain access to Talents. The
Talent spell in your spell book can allow
you to search and add a talent to your
build. Using the Build spell in your spell
book will allow you to remove that talent
any time you are out of combat. Every
talent in the game is being made to fit
within our system. Any talent you pick is
given to you at the highest rank you can
obtain for that talent. This gives you a
total of 12, max rank, talents to play
around with at level 60.
Your Ghostly Skull, while eerie, is a faithful
companion willing to help you with a variety of
things. It can train you new spells, allow you to
set your hearth nearly anywhere, and also acts
as the donation shop! When you accumulate
enough coins on your travels you can spend
them with your Ghostly Skull to buy items that
are on the shop that week. During the beta only,
you can purchase the Founder's Chest which will
award you with a Freelancer Mount, Freelancer
Pet, Riding Turtle mount, and four 10 slot bags
which you can use at level 1!
The Freelancer Mount and Pets are
unique in the way they summon a wide
variety of different pets for you to use
without having to purchase individual
items. These mounts aren't permanent,
but you will not have to update your
patch whenever they change. Mount
speed has been altered slightly. You start
with a base amount, and pick up momentum as you ride. This momentum breaks when-
ever you take damage.
Since everyone has learned to
ride, the flight masters got put out of a
job and the flight paths are no longer
available. They remain in the world and
silently judge you whenever you ride by.
Installing the Patch
Extract the file after you download the patch files. Place the Patch-O file in your World of
Warcraft "Data" folder.
( ...\Wrath of the Lich King\Data ). Then, replace your WoW.exe file in your World of
Warcraft folder.
( ...\Wrath of the Lich King ). If this was not a fresh install you would need to delete your
cache folder from your World of Warcraft “Data” folder. This custom launcher is required
to properly launch the game. The game will tell you that your login files are corrupt if you
attempt to launch the game without the proper launcher.
That's it! A vast majority of the classes have been merged into Mercenary, so you can still
do class quests starting at level 10. Being a beta, some tooltips might not be displaying
proper values at a given time or you might run into some unexpected bugs along the
way. Feel free to hop into our discord at https://discord.gg/EYvmKvr to discuss the game!
