[CoT Instance] Dragonblight zone INSIDE Old Hillsbrad Foothills

[kaustos]

I searched around for Wintergarde, everything related to Dragonblight or Hillsbrad and it seems noone else has found this O.o


While poking around exploring Old Hillsbrad Foothills, I found a simple spot to break out of the invisible wall. From there you can go to Hillsbrad Fields, Purgation Isle and what SHOULD be Azurelode Mine quite easily.

There exists a very intriguing glitch with the Azurelode Mine...:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZuyrewrPxM"]YouTube- Wintergarde Mine, Dragonblight @ CoT: Old Hillsbrad Foothills[/ame]
(Sorry about the crazy border around the video. Premiere did some weird things when it encoded it. Didnt look like that in the preview render ^.^)

It seems that a lazy developer wanted to copy/paste it for use in Northrend's Dragonblight Wintergarde Keep area for Wintergarde Mine..but did his editing before making the copy/paste

While touching the surface area of "Wintergarde Mine" in OHB, you are put into General and Local Defense chat for Dragonblight and appear on the /who list. You can talk freely in the chat just like normal. You also appear on the map south of Lake Indule to people you group with (I tried intensely to locate myself dualboxing from another character, but of course being instanced you cannot be found). I assume the coordinates it's trying to display you at line up for Dragonblight & Old Hillsbrad Foothills maps.

This also would seem to confirm beyond doubt it is impossible to carry the Human Illusion buff outside of a zone with this name.

Some screenshots, just for laughs at how lazy Blizzard devs are. As much money as they get dumped into their pockets and we're still getting pre-bc mines to explore?! OUTRAGE!


The video I've included shows how easy it is to get there and test for yourself. The waterwalking I used is not needed at all. There's also quite a bit of exploration to be had here (though I'm pretty sure most of this place has been poked around before pre-bc). I was limited without rocketboots, but an engy looks to have a big advantage here.


Map- Start, path, unstuck point and some of the walls roughly plotted out.


Map view of where you appear from a grouped members view:



Where I was standing:



And some comparison pictures, the instanced mine vs true Wintergarde Mine.
Also, is it just me..or...do ALL mines look exactly the same? IIRC the AV mines look like this as well and maybe the deathknight starting area quest one. Are they all the same model rip? lol. It's not just the facade outside, the entire inner path layout is the same.





Old Hillsbrad vs Wintergarde vs Modern Hillsbrad



Other places worth exploring while you're here:

[Pillefinger]

Good exploring, thorough explanation, + rep from me ^^

[lolwutque]

Excellent find , +2 rape

EDIT : Gotta spread..
EDIT2 : Gotta wait 24 hours.. fck.

[3rror_89]

Excellent find , +2 rape

there is nothing more to say

[mange55555]

So because the mine looks like the mine in Dragonblight its a Dragonblight zone in COT? No.
All mines look the same.

[agni]

I wonder was this also in 3.0 when wotlk talent patch came? :O

Because there was a thread about when someone was in SFK, he received some northrend zonebuff which increased xp for 5%, maybe DB buff or WG

[kaustos]

So because the mine looks like the mine in Dragonblight its a Dragonblight zone in COT? No.
All mines look the same.

The mines actual in-game zone IS Dragonblight INSIDE CoT. Please at least read before posting or watch the video I took the time to make.
I don't think I could have made my post any more thorough :eh:

I wonder was this also in 3.0 when wotlk talent patch came? :O

Because there was a thread about when someone was in SFK, he received some northrend zonebuff which increased xp for 5%, maybe DB buff or WG

This is a good point. Youll notice as soon as my zone changes to Dragonblight that I get the Essence of Wintergrasp, this is the buff that the person was getting inside of Shadowfang Keep. He got the buff because he was Alliance and WG was default controlled by Alli when it came out, he must have somehow been triggerering a Northrend zone while in SFK in the same manner I am doing here. Also interesting is SFK is not far away from this mine in Kalimdors Hillsbrad. In the Old Hillsbrad instance I dont think SFK is viewable though. I think as far as it goes west is Ambermill before the map ends. Strange that both zoning errors are in similar areas.

[noob-cake]

So because the mine looks like the mine in Dragonblight its a Dragonblight zone in COT? No.
All mines look the same.

You sir, are a rep farming failer.

On topic: nice find! +rep

[Andros]

Very nice :P .. Gj
However, there's another way out, where you can see other parts, Ol' Dal, a lake with no watah, instanced ruins and crap .. I'll link it:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjyfWnDQZM4]YouTube - WoW Exploit: Instanced Alterac Mountains 3.2[/ame]
I'll +rep you, because i didn't knew that the mines was zoned in Dragonblight D: .. Gj :P

[Origano]

Excellent exploring! It's great to see some newfound places in these dark times!

2 x Reputation, you deserve it.

[Zantas]

Nice find. There seem to be plenty of these things similar to Ortell's hideout

[daniel643]

Blizzard are lazy, using same mines and houses everywhere.

[agni]

This place most probably existed in 3.0... :O

So in the talent patch, if this would've been found by then, you could have zoned to Dragonblight and ppl would've been like "WTF!"

[enliten]

so can you mount your flying mount in "dragonblight"?