Siege of Orgrimmar's Westfal: Invisible Underwater Mountain Range?

[MistaKatz]

Quite the title, I know.

I was exploring the outskirts of the heroic Garrosh Stormwind area, which encompasses a lot of surrounding land, with some friends and we stumbled across an odd minimap abnormality.

This is the real, current Westfall minimap at the same location I was in the instance, and as you can see there are some ridges underneath the water, but it eventually drops off into fatigued, open water:


Now, this is the minimap within Siege of Orgrimmar's version of Westfall (I don't have it shown, but as far as I could see above or below the water, there was nothing there):


This could all just be in my head, thinking it is something more than a glitch with my minimap or something of the sort (or it's really obvious and I'm just too stupid to see it, in which case sorry for the title overkill), but I just wanted to share it with everyone to hear other inputs. Perhaps it is what the sea floor is structured as, or used to be. I just find it weird because I actually can't think of something off the top of my head. As soon as I saw it I hadn't the slightest idea why it would even be there. Thoughts, anyone?

[zaeBOOST]

Did anybody find a way to access Stormwind from Garrosh's room?

[akspa420]

What we need is some tools to analyze the heightmap data. It is known and proven time and time again that the minimap files are not to be trusted - they are edited and areas that are not shown can still exist in the map data - that said, there's the possibility of a developer test area in any area that has not been fully discovered yet. We don't have the necessary tools to fully analyze MoP maps yet (simply a map viewer would suffice, which we don't have).

[WizardTrokair]

How far down did you go in the SoO water? What's at the bottom?
Interesting find. +4 for bringing it to the community's attention.

[MistaKatz]

How far down did you go in the SoO water? What's at the bottom?

I didn't have much time to attempt to reach the bottom, but I went down pretty far and nothing seemed visible, it was all just abyss. There may be something deep below that I did not reach.