Mercenary for Hire 

Mercenary for Hire replaces the Criminal Outlaw system in High-Risk. Removing the convolution and Making it easier to play with your friends at World Bosses, Crow’s Cache and High-Risk overall.

Mercenaries can freely attack Horde, Alliance and other Mercenary players at will. While Mercenary for Hire is active, you can only group with other Mercenaries in High-Risk. With the ability to attack and kill anyone, Mercenaries will drop extra bag loot when slain in High-Risk. The Mercenary system acts as a toggleable outlaw buff, much like For the Horde and For the Alliance.

You can freely swap between Mercenary for Hire and For the Horde/Alliance while in a Main City or Shattrath. The long cooldowns attached to For the Horde/Alliance have been removed, and with it, the restrictions preventing you from playing with your cross faction friends in High-Risk.

Now you can quickly swap to Mercenary for Hire to join in on Crow’s Cache, High-risk events, or a World Boss and then swap back to For the Horde/Alliance in Capital Cities afterwards with no penalty.

This system removes the mechanics surrounding The Law entirely and Criminal Intent. Killing your own faction while you are a Mercenary will not cause you to become a permanent Outlaw or Mercenary. As long as you are in a Capital City, Nothing will prevent you from swapping to and from Mercenary for Hire

The Shared Party Loot Bonus previously reserved for For the Horde/Alliance is now available to everyone. This means grouping with your cross faction friends as a Mercenary or just wanting to be hostile to everyone, does not lessen your ability to effectively farm High-Risk Materials. 

Overview

Mercenary for Hire: 

• Mercenary for Hire makes you forced hostile to both factions similar to how Outlaw worked.
• As a result of being able to kill and loot anyone, mercenaries will drop extra loot the same way Outlaw worked.
• The Law reputation no longer has any bearing on your hostility towards other players.
• No rep loss for becoming a mercenary.
• Swap to and from Mercenary for Hire anytime. No more need for Pardons or waiting for cooldowns.
• Killing your same faction will still incur a temporary Criminal aura that will make guards aggressive towards you.

HIGHRISK Grouping with Mercenary for Hire:

• For the Alliance can only group with other For the Alliance.
• For the Horde can only group with other For the Horde.
• Mercenary for Hire only can group with other Mercenary for Hire.
• You can switch freely in main cities at any time to group with your friends with no penalty.

Bonus Shared Party Loot:

• Bonus Shared Party Loot previously exclusive to For the Horde and For the Alliance is now also available to Mercenary for Hire.
• Available to everyone baseline. This means you can group with your cross faction friends without missing out on shared party loot.