Reborn: World PvP & High-Risk

World PvP and High-Risk

Choose Your Open World Ruleset

Warcraft Reborn takes place entirely on a single server and in a single phase so that the whole population can play and thrive together. 

To account for this, players can toggle between PvE or PvP modes at any time in a rested zone, changing between PvE, PvP, and High-Risk PvP modes. This allows strictly PvE heroes to never worry about fighting or being ganked by other players, while providing the flexibility to shift and play around at any time. By the same token, it allows PvP focused adventurers to play their way while gaining the benefits of more potential allies while questing and for PvE activities like Dungeons, Raids, and even Battlegrounds. 

You can toggle between any risk style you like in Rested Areas.

  • Choose between 3 modes all in a shared phase: 
    • PvE Mode - No PvP AT ALL. You will NEVER be attacked by another player
    • War Mode - World PvP with no loss on death, 10% increased experience, and the ability to obtain new crafting materials.
    • High-Risk - World PvP with item loss on death, 15% increased experience, and the ability to obtain Bloodforged Gear–powerful PvP versions of classic loot–while leveling and end-game. Also gain Marks of War.
      • Note: High Risk PvP players can be attacked by anyone in High Risk or in War Mode.

A Focus on World PvP

The focus is being put on fun world PvP with meaningful rewards. High-Risk’s focus is shifting to the personal risk you choose to incur. End-game crafting materials once exclusive to High-Risk are now also obtainable in War Mode, allowing world PvP to thrive without requiring High-Risk. All players across all PvE and PvP modes now share a single phase, ensuring you experience an active and engaging open world throughout leveling and at end-game.

The goal is for fun and rewarding World PvP to become available to everyone, not just those willing to take on the extremes of High-Risk mode. You can opt into greater danger of High-Risk for greater rewards, or avoid PvP entirely with PvE mode. Each choice defines how you experience the game, while ensuring meaningful world content is not locked behind High-Risk play.

Whether you’re in War Mode or High Risk, you can do battle with other players. High Risk players get more bonus EXP and can find powerful loot while leveling, but if they die–to a player, to a mob, to fall damage, AT ALL–they’ll drop a chest of their gear as spoils. This means High Risk PvPers take on additional risk for powerful significant rewards.

 

  • This creates a great World PvP where High-Risk PvP can exist inside of World PvP.
    • Whether you want to risk your gear or not, you can enjoy PvP
    • All world PvP happens in the same phase
  • Bloodforged and Heroic Bloodforged PvP gear remain an exclusive reward of High-Risk.
  • Mercenary Mode can be activated in both War Mode and High-Risk to enable FFA PvP.
  • Group cross faction across all 3 modes:
    • PvE Players cannot assist PvP Mode Players.
    • War Mode and High-Risk players can only assist their own faction.
    • Mercenaries can only assist other Mercenaries.
    • This allows you to group with your friends, regardless of preferred PvP mode or faction, while maintaining fair PvP.

PvP Mode Grouping Rules

  • Players can group with anyone, regardless of faction or PvP Mode.
  • PvE players cannot heal, buff, or dispel War Mode or High-Risk players.
    • Ensures friends can play together even if they prefer different rulesets while maintaining fair PvP encounters.
    • PvE players can assist other PvE players cross faction.
  • War Mode and High-Risk players can assist each other if they are the same faction.
    • PvP players cannot assist the opposite faction or Mercenaries.
    • Mercenaries can assist other Mercenaries regardless of faction or PvP Mode.
    • A same faction War Mode player can assist a same faction High-Risk player.

You can group with any other player regardless of each other's faction or PvP preference. This ensures you can always play with friends and make new ones! The distinction lies in assistance: PvE players cannot aid PvP players, while War Mode and High-Risk players can only support same-faction allies. Mercenaries stand apart, able to help other mercenaries regardless of faction. Grouping remains open, but direct assistance like healing, buffing, or dispelling respects PvP mode choices.

Mercenary Mode Enables FFA PvP and Cross Faction PvP Grouping

  • Mercenary for Hire
    • Activates FFA PvP. Allows you to attack and be attacked by your own faction and other mercenaries.
    • This allows grouping with the opposite faction in PvP and assisting them if you are both Mercenaries.
  • Available to both War Mode and High-Risk players
  • Automatically learned at level 15 when World PvP becomes available
  • Can be casted anywhere, even out in the open world, with a 10 second cast time.
  • You can remove your Mercenary status while in a rested area by casting For the Horde or For the Alliance.

Fel Commutation for High-Risk

Fel Commutation allows you to insure your gear so that it doesn’t drop in High Risk if you die. You can turn it on to drop gold instead of your gear.

  • Felcom averages your currently equipped items and costs a flat amount of gold when you die to protect your gear from dropping. You will always drop the exact amount of gold that you’ll drop on death.

End-Game War Mode Crafting Materials 

  • Some unique and powerful Crafting Materials can ONLY be obtained in War Mode or High-Risk
  • Thematic materials exist across all end-game zones for you to discover
    • Yeti Hides have a chance to drop from Yetis in Winterspring, and can be cured at refiners found by the Hot Springs.
    • Abomination Hooks can drop from Abominations in Eastern and Western Plaguelands. Rumors point to the Scarlet Crusade having ways to purify this tainted metal.
  • War Mode Crafting Materials can only be refined at refining stations found in the open world
    • Must be in War Mode or High-Risk to refine these materials.
  • Crafting Recipes that make use of these new War Mode Materials drop from all open world creatures for all modes, including PvE mode.

These new War Mode crafting materials are used to create new item enchantments and consumables highly desired by raiders. 

You gain the ability to find these materials by enabling PvP–either War Mode or High Risk. 

High Risk players can travel to end-game zones to find these powerful materials, ensuring that high-level zones are hotspots for World PvP.

EVERYONE can enjoy meaningful World PvP rewards, even if you’re not in High Risk.

Rewards proportional to your risk

  • War Mode
    • 10% increased experience
    • Access to War Mode crafting materials
  • High-Risk
    • 15% increased experience
    • Bloodforged gear drops from creatures in the open world while leveling
    • End-game Bloodforged gear drops from creatures in end-game zones
      • The gear that can drop is based on the currently released raid tier and your equipped gear.
      • Risking higher-item level gear grants you access to the best available Bloodforged Gear
    • Heroic Bloodforged Gear can only be obtained exclusively through High-Risk.
      • Found in Hidden Caches, Rare Spawns, and Beast Nests
      • These high value items are tradable
      • Unlike Normal Bloodforged Gear, these cannot be created by dropping equipped soulbound gear or through the Bloody Jar
    • End-game creatures can drop Hidden Cache Keys
    • Marks of War drop from creatures in end-game zones
      • Valuable tradable items that grant Runes of Ascension when used.

Hidden Caches

Hidden Caches are treasure chests in the Open World that you can find and loot.

To open them, you’ll need a Key, which can only be found while in High Risk.

  • Find Uncommon Ephemeral Keys from creatures in max level zones while in High-Risk.
    • All Ephemeral Keys reveal Hidden Caches on your mini-map while in your inventory.
    • All Ephemeral Keys vanish after a timer, meaning you use it or lose it when one drops.
  • Uncommon Hidden Caches
    • These are randomly spawned around roads, between monster camps, and in the wilderness.
    • Unlocked with Uncommon Ephemeral Keys.
    • Contains Bloodforged gear and has a chance to drop Heroic Bloodforged gear.
    • Has a chance to drop a Rare Ephemeral Key.
  • Rare Hidden Caches
    • Static spawn locations with a fast respawn found in the bottom of caves, the middle of monster camps, and other dangerous areas.
    • Unlocked with Rare Ephemeral Keys.
    • Contains Bloodforged gear and a high chance of Heroic Bloodforged gear.
    • Has a chance to drop an Epic Ephemeral Key
  • Epic Hidden Caches
    • Each zone has 1 to 2 high-risk static spawn locations with a fast respawn. Found in places like the center of the Ruins of Andorhal or the top of Fire Plume Ridge.
    • Unlocked with Epic Ephemeral Keys.
    • Contains multiple pieces of the current Raid Tier Heroic Bloodforged gear

Hidden Caches are a High-Risk only feature. You can find Uncommon Ephemeral Cache Keys as creature loot in the open world. These keys grant you the ability to track Hidden Caches on your mini-map while they remain in your inventory and have a limited duration. Find a key while slaying creatures and track down a Hidden Cache to claim your spoils. 

Uncommon Hidden Caches are generously spread throughout end-game zones and can be found in the wilderness, by roads, and between monster camps. These caches have many random spawn points and can be quickly found by roaming around the zone. But beware, the Key grants you a buff visible by other players, making you a prime target for the opposing faction and Mercenaries.

Opening an Uncommon Hidden Cache has a chance to grant you a Rare Key that opens a Rare Hidden Cache, which are found at the bottom of caves and the middle of monster camps. Rare Hidden Caches have static spawn locations. These keys also have a limited duration. Will you risk the spoils already collected to fight your way into a dangerous area to claim the spoils from a Rare Hidden Cache?

Opening a Rare hidden Cache has a chance to grant you an Epic Key that opens an Epic Hidden Cache! Each zone only has 1 or 2 static Epic Hidden Cache locations. They are found in locations like the top of Fire Plume Ridge, or the center of the Ruins of Andorhal, making claiming them the ultimate risk. Not only are you risking your Felcom, but you are risking the spoils gained from the Uncommon and Rare Cache you just opened. Epic Hidden Caches have a bounty of Heroic Bloodforged gear for those determined enough to claim one.

Beast Nests

Beast Nests are dangerous objects that you can rustle to summon powerful rare creatures. By destroying the eggs in the nest, a powerful elite creature will spawn. Take it down to get Bloodforged PvP items and materials!

These rare objects spawn in high-level zones.