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Exploring Old Azeroth Areas - Darkwhisper Gorge

   Posted by: WoWGrrl   in General, My Hunter, Warcraft Tips and Tricks, World of Warcraft

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As a level 70, one day I decided to go and explore areas I had never visited before, and I started with Winterspring.

Figuring everything was going to be frost-resistant in that frosty area, I brought my Hunter instead of my Frost Mage, and I ventured south from Everlook as it was the only direction I hadn’t fully explored in that zone yet.

What’s In Darkwhisper Gorge?

Darkwhisper Gorge, just south of where the elite 60 big fel demons roam around, there’s a series of tunnels and a series of open areas all connected to one another and sparsely populated by demons of various types (succubi, fel hunters, etc), and with a few spawns of Rich Thorium.

Earthcaller Franzahi in Darkwhisper Gorge

But, other than that, there doesn’t seem to be a lot going on down there. I certainly didn’t see anyone on my journey once I left Everlook, which was itself very sparsely populated, being a 50-60 zone (a zone popular at being sparsely populated as everyone tries to get into Outland and leave Azeroth behind)…

There were TWO things that I found down there in my journey - other than the Rich Thorium veins which could in themselves be lucrative (but not really worth it for the length of the journey, except that those pop spots haven’t been touched for ages and thus should reset rather quickly afterwards for another harvesting).

I found a friendly NPC by the name of Earthcaller Franzahi who doesn’t offer much entertainment, and I found a portal door, blocked by a locked door that didn’t give me any clue as to what key it may need, if any, to open.

So, I ask for all those who might know - What’s in Darkwhisper Gorge?

What’s In Darkwhisper Gorge

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7 comments so far

Haalfdane
 1 

It is the entrance to Mount Hyjal.

January 20th, 2008 at 9:56 am
mike
 2 

for what it’s worth, wow wiki says the portal is unused.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Darkwhisper_Gorge

January 20th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Matticus
 3 

Dark Whisper Gorge in Winterspring served 2 purposes during Pre-BC.

For Priests, there was this awesome staff called Benediction. In order to create it, you needed something called the Eye of Shadow. The Eye only dropped from demons in the Gorge. So an MC Guild would have had to spend some time in the Gorge killing demons until it dropped (it was a fairly rare drop). It sold for about 500+G on the auction house since all Priests wanted to have one.

Second, it’s also a placeholder for another instance. Whether or not it’s going to be in the game, that’s all Blizzard there. Legends have it that it’s a portal to the current state in Mount Hyjal as opposed to the instanced version in Caverns of Time. Guess we’ll find out later.

January 20th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Madmantwo
 4 

Darkwhisper Gorge lies on the backdoor of Mount Hyjal. Back when we were all 60 a mage friend of mine and I would go up there and leap frog into the zone. There was basically a way to climb up the mountains and duel at the top… As a sheep wandering you can cross the invisible barrier that restricts your player model. If you pop out from the sheep on the correct side you can continue into an empty early version of Hyjal.

This is nothing like the Mount Hyjal that exists today. However alot of the area mapping is the same. Its neat to be able to get in there and see what it looks like. You can pretty much follow a road all the way to the top where the World Tree is and you can find the remains of what i can only guess is Archimonde. Since its in the same place that the battle with the rogue Eredar takes place during the instance.

[img]http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/389/446/217608.jpg[/img]

January 21st, 2008 at 10:20 am
WoWGrrl
 5 

Wow, awesome! Thanks for the great information!

I’m so glad I asked!

Valdesta

January 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Madmantwo
 6 

On a side note… being a priest with the mage friend I mentioned earlier and a large supply of feathers. We jumped off the current mount Hyjal and hit slow fall / levitate immediately on the way down. For the longest time we couldn’t see anything below us. Cruised over Felwood, over Darkshore/Auberdine. Eventually made our way over the ocean. Before we landed we started to take the fatigue effects of deep water, even though we were still flying in the air. Was quite a bit of fun and interesting.

January 21st, 2008 at 4:13 pm
WoWGrrl
 7 

LOL!

Sounds like you and your friend had some fun times exploring those out-of-the way places :) I’d love to hear about more of them!

Valdesta

January 22nd, 2008 at 10:38 am

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