You'll get the later J5 Merc Quest unlocked with Call of the Forsaken, same as everyone else. The Korascian Warrens version was plenty easy enough even in era.
It won't be that easy on day one with hundreds or thousands of people trying to do it at the same time! Good times...
I'd definitely like to see clarification on if those will be in or not. Heroic characters themselves don't release until CotF, yet Miragul is launching with those, so I feel like it would make sense to include the merc quests (as well as the aug rewards from HoT quests).
As all heroic chars spawn in House of Thule and automatically get given the Merc quests I would assume it will be unlocked.....information soon......I hope.
Depends if the zone is /pick enabled I guess, triggered by a fairly low threshold, which on this server would be a very smart choice by the devs (if it isn't already enabled) even if only for a month or two, but they have a solid history of not looking ahead to consider issues like these on TLP servers & putting in changes to help only after it is a problem for players & they complain en-masse about it. EDIT: As Yinla says above me though, J5 may possibly be unlocked given all start in HoT & J5 Mercs are a pre-HoT quest, that would be a better solution.
will be interesting to see if the heroic augs are live with this server launch, there still are not live on phinny in VoA. It will mean a lot of back camping to fill out slots if they are not.
There's a short quest you do right after making the toon to unlock it. Those quests are technically CotF content despite taking place in the Feerrott.
I would say by the server FAQ it will get the live version of the J5 merc quest as it states that all zones will be *exactly* the same as a live server.