Shortcut from Dun Morogh to Searing Gorge / Badlands

When I was a low level Paladin I wanted to collect as many flight paths as I could, the trickiest was Thorium Point, Searing Gorge. I did this at about level 12. I just re-traced it as I realised it's a bit quicker to get to the Badlands too, than the run to, and then through, Loch Modan. Well, it might be quicker, it might not, but it's certainly more fun!

Start at 78,50, head up the path (1). Follow it up to about 80, 40 then head right (2). You're heading along that ridge you can see stretching right in (3). In (4) you can look down and see some nice buildings. Don't get sidetracked, head kind of up and right to 82,58 (5). There's a little slope here that you should go round to the left of, not right, or you'll slip to the valley floor.

At 81,65, which is kind of straight on and left a bit (6), you can just see Searing Gorge in the distance. Head down veering left a little bit, carefully, as there are some steep falls around. head for 88,0 (7) which is a safe place to drop down from.

There's quite a big area to roam around in here (9), and you can drop down either in the Badlands (anywhere in the north really), Loch Modan (valley of kings), or Searing Gorge.

Don't ride down the spine between Searing Gorge and Badlands without due care and attention, or you'll fall in this hole (10) and have to hearthstone it out!

If you head west as far as you can, you'll find a place to drop down into Searing Gorge. Keep going west and stay as high up as you can to the north. Eventually you'll come across a small flat snowy area with some machines in it. It's deserted, so don't worry. Drop down into it and out the western exit. Follow the path down and you'll reach Thorium Point shortly. I didn't pull any mobs on the way down, but might have been lucky!

Once there, the flight master is kind of through the camp to the left a bit.

Trapped lion in Badlands

I like this - see the lion trapped in the rock? You can stand nearby and she'll growl at you and wave her claws around. If you stand on the top she can actually make you take damage. I couldn't manage to kill her though.

Hidden Dwarf farm, from the airport, Wetlands

After a trip to the Airport (see last article) I decided to try and get to a farm you can see when you're flying from Ironforge to Menethil Harbour, Wetlands, high up in the mountains. I searched for this in vain from the bottom up.

Follow a north-west path towards the harbour from the fligh-path area at the Airport, steadily making your way downwards. You should come to an area with a few bears and a waterfall. The bears are aggressive, but pretty low level.



Now head down the waterfall, following its path. I fell here and survived with 1 heath point! Then I fell again and died as it was just too far. A point here - a death means a very, very long run from Wetlands through Dun Algaz... Takes forver... I think that if you follow the side of the waterfall, and try and remain higher as you descend, there might be a way down without the death.



Okay, once down, there are a load of Dwarves, farmers mostly, wandering about, a few buildings, some cattle, hay bales, a lake, and a signpost that says 'This way' and 'This way'.





There are also some odd targets that some guards are shooting at.

If you follow one of the paths you come to a tunnel which isn't blocked off. It's quite short and ends very abruptly with nothing but sky. You can't see anything beyond the edge, and I didn't have the courage to jump off and see what was there with my main char! Perhaps taking a low level alt there might be worthwhile sometime?



Further west in this pretty large area you come to a lake which is at the top of Dun Algaz. I remember trying to get to this from that side once, and failing, as you can see some grunts on top of the hill there. Well, now you can go and kill them. Lovely.



There isn't anything else to see or do up there yet, but there are some great views!

WoW Airport, easy route?

Bored, I decided to try and get to the Airport, finding my own way. I recently discovered that holding down both mouse buttons and jumping with the space bar at the same time gets me up a lot more tricky hills than moving forward with the w does. So, new thirst for wandering about mountains arose in me.

So, out of Ironforge, I leap from the graveyard along the ledge from the entrance and hug the mountains, heading north as much as I can. There's no path and I eventually fall back to the bottom. A bit further on, about 61,43 is a path leading upwards again. It's pretty simple to just follow this path up, zigzagging as you go, there's only one way up, and you get so far until you come to a big white wall, which seems impossible, like this (see left).

I couldn't get up this, but if you venture slightly to the west, there's an identical, snowy wall that you can get up, if you try really hard. It took me just a minute the first time, and about 5 the next time - running with mouse buttons and jumping - it is possible, really!

Here's me looking back at the slope, once up.



Once up, just head down the slope to the east and you'll end off on a frozen lake-bed where lots of low-level (7) trolls are running about, chased by Dwarves with guns, mainly.



Run on and you'll find some buildings, the planes, plenty of guards, some of whom will talk to you, and some buildings. There's also a flight path area, but no flight master as yet.



There's also an interesting tunnel that's currently blocked off but seems to head towards Ironforge:



I headed down to a hidden farm area after this (see next entry).