Comments on: Exploring Old Azeroth Areas - Darkwhisper Gorge

By: WoWGrrl

WoWGrrl — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:38:37 +0000

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

By: Madmantwo

Madmantwo — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:13:35 +0000

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.

By: WoWGrrl

WoWGrrl — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:23:23 +0000

Wow, awesome! Thanks for the great information!

I’m so glad I asked!

Valdesta

By: Madmantwo

Madmantwo — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:20:44 +0000

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]

By: Matticus

Matticus — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:11:49 +0000

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.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:31:06 +0000

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

By: Haalfdane

Haalfdane — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:56:02 +0000

It is the entrance to Mount Hyjal.