Mercenary Mode

[Allybeboba]

Has anyone gotten on the PTR and checked to see if we can utilize the Mercenary Mode?
In Development: PvP Mercenary Mode - World of Warcraft

 

[Hamcake]

it wasn't on the ptr yet last I heard, did they turn it on?

 

[artonkn]

PTR binds fuck you

 

[BACKPEDDLE]

Do you have to get summoned to Warspear?

 

[artonkn]

Do you have to get summoned to Warspear?

Mage portal

 

[Zehj]

looks pretty crap

was hoping you could effectively queue for both sides at the same time and the game would squeeze you in where necessary to get pops

 

[Conq]

I'll be giving free mage portals to all horde twonks that desire to be mercs in BH

 

[Purj]

I'll be giving free mage portals to all horde twonks that desire to be mercs in BH

Could be fun to have people meet around there as well.

 

[Leek]

Easy to have a mercenary mode now just make a horde toon and sabotage them

 

[artonkn]

https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/636286482785808384

 

[Conq]

https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/636286482785808384

This sounds like the old "lore" argument. Honestly, its sad they are still fighting that battle. This isn't PvE.

 

[Xquisitez]

So I just entered WSG on my human priest as an undead priest and recieved a lvl 100 freedom trinket that I could not use obviously. I was not able to create an alliance one from heirloom tab. It may be due to me having one already in my bank idk. Anyways it looks like if you are Human, you are screwed at this lvl and will sit full saps QQ

 

[Pizza]

• Mercenary Mode is now only available to level-100 characters.

Patch 6.2.2 Hotfixes: September 1 - September 2 - World of Warcraft

 

[artonkn]

• Mercenary Mode is now only available to level-100 characters.

Patch 6.2.2 Hotfixes: September 1 - September 2 - World of Warcraft

Rip

 

[Hamcake]

being uncharacteristically optimistic, maybe it's a temporary measure while they iron out the bugs with their crappy design and implementation?

 

[artonkn]

[US+EU] My vision of 39's has taken a hit

 

[Srs]

being uncharacteristically optimistic, maybe it's a temporary measure while they iron out the bugs with their crappy design and implementation?

Yeah, I figure this is probably the case. I figure that the reason they disabled it for non-100s, is that the NPC in the mask would show up for your faction based on the number of 100s currently queueing. I'm not exactly sure how the whole thing works, but it seems like this would just trow off the numbers for all the other brackets. They probably just turned it off because they can't fix it without a client side patch, or something. Putting the NPC in Ashran was dumb anyway. Hopefully we get it back.

 

[Allybeboba]

It really was not all that much trouble to get a port to Ashran and set your hearth there. No more trouble than in Pandaria or Dalaran or Shat. Your twink's hearth should always be where the portals are located.
I am able to see the NPC and interact with NPC on my 19's. They just do not give the chat option to join the merc mode.
Apparently it is mostly the Horde side that requires players. On my Alliance 100, I have seen it there every time. (The BG one) I tried a BG without it and a couple with it. Without it, estimated wait time was over 14 min. With merc mode engaged, estimated wait time was less than 45 sec each time. The negative impact at endgame will be Horde will get longer queues. But Alliance will have to come out of their Garrison.
Maybe some future patch will allow us to use the merc mode.

/cheers