Where Silvermoon and Outland meet

[abrobutt]

So, I've enjoyed finding stuff on this site, but haven't contributed much myself cos I figure most of the stuff in the game's already been found. But last night I was playing my shaman, water walking and far sighting (aka the lazy man's exploration), and found something possibly interesting. We know Silvermoon (and its accompanying zones) are on the Outland server, but the water around Eversong is covered in invisible walls, and so is the space around Outland itself, so we're not likely to ever cross between the 2. But, I seem to have found that they aren't as far apart as you might think.


While sitting here, facing southwest, and far sighting, I found where the zone ends.


For some reason when I took these screenshots, the sky changed to Eversong, but last night when I was doing this it was still the Ghostlands sky.
So here, you see the back of the Ghostlands, which has a chunk of EPL there for the portal scenery (just like the chunk of EPL in Naxxramas or Acherus). You see the weird stuff that you usually see at the edge of maps; fatigue water turning into land criss-crossing with regular water, dead space and multiplying land. But what happens if I turn the camera around?


For a while it's just more dead space, but if I angle the camera just right, some landmasses start to load in the distance.





I assume it's Netherstorm, as I've heard Silvermoon is located in the Northeast of Outland. Presumably, you could do the same thing with the Draenei island if you knew what direction to face/which corner to look out for. There isn't a whole lot you can do with this info, as the invisible walls prevent you from crossing between, but it's still neat to see where they are.

[Leonim]

Awesome find! +4 rep

[Thelovefool]

common knowledge

[n8114tw]

not rly new, that bc stuff is in the same instance. the zones have the same loading screen too.

[abrobutt]

not rly new, that bc stuff is in the same instance. the zones have the same loading screen too.

Yes, I know that Silvermoon and the Exodar are on the same server as Outland. I said that in the post. But how often do you actually see them within distance of each other? That's the point of this, I could actually see the outline of Outland from Ghostlands.

[[the Sills]]

love finds like this, gj +rep

[kongost]

well if you've ever used mapviewer you would know this.

[euanc]

Think it would be possible to XYZ from silvermoon to outland?

[jljarrar]

Hey! that land mass far out is Called "Isles if quel'danas"

[TheCircle]

Hey! that land mass far out is Called "Isles if quel'danas"

No, that's outlands. Can tell by bugging out a flight path to fly from Shattrath <-> Ghostlands/Exodar

[kaustos]

The invisible walls won't stop you from rocket-jumping to Outland or the Exodar. With xtreme boots you can make it all the way under Nagrand before dying (pointless though).

Set your hearth to Silvermoon, take a flight anywhere across outland and join a BG while on the FP. Auto-unstuck from the BG and enjoy the ride across the twisting nether.

Heres the actual layout (big image):
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[abrobutt]

well if you've ever used mapviewer you would know this.

Does that count as real exploration?

Hey! that land mass far out is Called "Isles if quel'danas"

Quel'danas is North of Silvermoon. I am looking Southwest of Ghostlands.

Think it would be possible to XYZ from silvermoon to outland?

The invisible walls won't stop you from rocket-jumping to Outland or the Exodar. With xtreme boots you can make it all the way under Nagrand before dying (pointless though).

Set your hearth to Silvermoon, take a flight anywhere across outland and join a BG while on the FP. Auto-unstuck from the BG and enjoy the ride across the twisting nether.

I am something of an amateur at exploration, I can't even wall-jump worth a shit. To a guy like me, getting into the Deadmines Secret is about the best I can do. So, I don't really understand what stuff like XYZ is or how to do flightpath bugging. Still, it all sounds really interesting. That map is useful to see.

[Feroid]

Sorry to request stuff, but can somebody provide a link to WoW mapviewer? None of the links I find work for Win 7 =(