Do You Believe in Magic? ... or Silly Travel Hints?

I am lazy. No ifs, ands or buts about it. Especially when it comes to travelling around Azeroth. It would probably say something nice about me if I enjoyed traipsing around, gawking at all the scenery that the Blizz-Devs creasted for us, alas, that isn't the case. I want to get from point A to point B ASAP.

Which is why I always wear my Runed Ring of the Kirin Tor, and my Argent Crusader's Tabard: I like love the free teleports they provide.

So, it is with this travelling time frugality in mind, that I gve you a hint (mainly for Alliance) to easily and fairly quickly get to southern Kalimdor. And all thanks to the Children's Week quests!

Let's say I want to get to Un'Goro (I was making the Skeleton key and needed to do the Fire Plume Forged quest at the Volcano) the from any oddball place. My travel route would normally look like:

1 - Hearth to Dal (1 minute)
2 - Portal to Ironforge (1 minute)
3 - Fly to Menethil Harbor, Wetlands (3 minutes)
4 - Boat to Theramore (1 minute)
5 - Fly to Un'Goro (5-6 minutes)

It's nearly a 10-12 minute routine.

For your edification, I propose this:


1 - Hearth to Dal (1 minute)
2 - Fly to Sholazar Basin (flight path - 3 minutes)
3 - Mount & Fly to Waygate, at 40,83, Southeast of The Mosslight Pillar. ( 1 minute)
4 - Mount up and ride down to the flight path at Marshal's refuge, and yer done! (1 minute)

(this is the waygate)

EDIT: Thanks to a kind anonymous commenter, there's an even BETTRE way:

1 - Hearth to Dal (1 minute)
2 - Portal to Caverns Of Time (1 minute)
3 - Ride to Gadgetzan, Tanaris (2 minutes)
4 - Fly to Un'Goro (1 minute)

THANKS!

Who Can it Be, Now?

It was late at night, and things weren't going normally. I don't know, the whole place looked normal, but was just different.

OK, I was on Azuremist Isle. There's the crashed ship, all the half dead refugees, there's the dude tha tlets me fly with totems and whatnot.

Yeah, there's some idiot Nelf with Mohawk Grenades, but... that's "normal.

"G'day..."

Whu?

I wander around... and other little things... like the sun moving the wrong way across the sky.... toilets flushing backwards, and the clock being 19 hours off...

WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!!!!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I"M LEVEL 8?!?!?

WHERE'S MY COOL PHAT LEWTZ?!?!

Then it dawns on me... I'm not in Kansas anymore (or California for that matter, but hey...)

This is some strange world of "Aman'Thul"... and WHAT is that little Gnome doing dancing over there?

Then it hits me; "Aman'Thul Oceanic" is some weird Azerothian dialect for the word "Australia"

Who'd a thunk it?

Gnomeaggedon, thanks for the hospitalilty, the kickass Tabard and everything else... (great company, btw) and I'll pester you every now & again, so long as your willing.

I don't plan to level "Down Under Balth", since that would take months, but I *did* roll a Gnome DK, just to skip the first 50-odd levels. (and since I've never played/rolled a DK, the lore should be interesting)

Cheer!

(and no Gnome or Drae panties were left asunder by this post or any of the fiddling around done prior to posting this)