Did some more exploring last night on the way to that final, glorious ding sound. Ended up wandering into a place called Mazthoril in Winterspring, guarded by level 55+ elite dragonkin. Being an underpowered group of 4 (hunter, hunter, paladin, sorc) we immediately decided to try it. So we ventured into a cave at the bottom of the gorge.
Inside we found mostly single pulls of dragonkin, and packs of 3 whelps that can be kinda fun. The occasional patroller. The funnest part was that the cave must have been on a 5 minute repop timer. No soon had we cleared the ones ahead and moved forward than the ones behind spawned. My wife had to take a call so we held our ground and killed the same mob for 4 successive respawns from a small, secluded corner.
Eventually we killed our way downwards to the bottom of the cave. Found a big open area with two huge patrolling dragons.. level 58 gold elite and 60 gold elite. Both immune to hunter's mark, which is always a bad sign.
Suddenly, a gnome mage goes barreling past, cuts a line along the wall, runs between the dragons, pauses for breath at a far side of the chamber, dodges some whelps and.. dissapears.
I send him a tell: "What the heck are you doing down here?!"
He responds: "Seeing Haleh."
The obvious question: "What does she give?"
Answer: "The key to Onyxia."
Wooohoo!! So we repeated the move, dodging between dragons, and after crowding up against the wall of a dead end with a level 60 dragon staring at us (that eventually turned away).. we found a blue arcane sigil on the floor that if you stand on, teleports you...
... somewhere! A high wintery peak overlooking winterspring, and there is Haleh. But since we haven't rescued the guy from BRD yet, she wouldn't talk to us. (It turns out you need to see somebody in BRS first, after Windsor's March, THEN come to Haleh.)
I went back through the sigil. The cave is otherwise a dead end, but I discovered that while standing against the very back wall in a corner, I was able to "phase" slightly into the cave wall.. into Hyjal. Minimap changed slightly. I couldn't bring up a map of the area though. I screenshotted it and ran back to the sigil.
Gosh I love exploring. Now we know where to go. Before busting up for the night, we did all the prerequisites for Windsor's rescue from BRD.
Inside we found mostly single pulls of dragonkin, and packs of 3 whelps that can be kinda fun. The occasional patroller. The funnest part was that the cave must have been on a 5 minute repop timer. No soon had we cleared the ones ahead and moved forward than the ones behind spawned. My wife had to take a call so we held our ground and killed the same mob for 4 successive respawns from a small, secluded corner.
Eventually we killed our way downwards to the bottom of the cave. Found a big open area with two huge patrolling dragons.. level 58 gold elite and 60 gold elite. Both immune to hunter's mark, which is always a bad sign.
Suddenly, a gnome mage goes barreling past, cuts a line along the wall, runs between the dragons, pauses for breath at a far side of the chamber, dodges some whelps and.. dissapears.
I send him a tell: "What the heck are you doing down here?!"
He responds: "Seeing Haleh."
The obvious question: "What does she give?"
Answer: "The key to Onyxia."
Wooohoo!! So we repeated the move, dodging between dragons, and after crowding up against the wall of a dead end with a level 60 dragon staring at us (that eventually turned away).. we found a blue arcane sigil on the floor that if you stand on, teleports you...
... somewhere! A high wintery peak overlooking winterspring, and there is Haleh. But since we haven't rescued the guy from BRD yet, she wouldn't talk to us. (It turns out you need to see somebody in BRS first, after Windsor's March, THEN come to Haleh.)
I went back through the sigil. The cave is otherwise a dead end, but I discovered that while standing against the very back wall in a corner, I was able to "phase" slightly into the cave wall.. into Hyjal. Minimap changed slightly. I couldn't bring up a map of the area though. I screenshotted it and ran back to the sigil.
Gosh I love exploring. Now we know where to go. Before busting up for the night, we did all the prerequisites for Windsor's rescue from BRD.