Travel: boats, zeppelins, flight paths and mounts

Patch 1.60Updated Nov 6, 20263 min read

Most travel time is lost at the wrong dock, not on the road. Check where a boat goes before you step on it, learn every flight path you walk past, and set your hearthstone where you hand in quests.

Alliance boats

From	To	Notes
Stormwind harbour	Auberdine, Darkshore	Both directions
Auberdine	Rut’theran Village, Teldrassil	Both directions; Rut’theran has the portal up to Darnassus
Menethil Harbor, Wetlands	Theramore, Dustwallow Marsh	Both directions
Auberdine → Menethil Harbor → Southshore → Auberdine		One loop. From Menethil the boat goes on to Southshore before it returns to Auberdine. Stay on board until your stop
Feathermoon Stronghold, Feralas	The Feralas coast	Short ferry to the island

Between Stormwind and Ironforge take the Deeprun Tram. It is faster and safer than the road through Loch Modan.

Horde zeppelins

Three towers, three routes, all in both directions:

From	To
Orgrimmar (tower outside the gates, Durotar)	Undercity (tower outside the ruins, Tirisfal Glades)
Orgrimmar	Grom’gol Base Camp, Stranglethorn Vale
Undercity	Grom’gol Base Camp

The Orgrimmar and Undercity towers each serve two zeppelins from separate platforms. The zeppelin master on each platform says where it goes.

Neutral routes and the new zones

From	To	Who
Ratchet, the Barrens	Booty Bay, Stranglethorn Vale	Both factions
Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris	Powderfuse Port, the Riverglades	Both factions; the way into the new zone
High Order Dock, Zephras	Dalaran	Alliance Skyborne
Windshapers Dock, Zephras	Skywatcher Plateau, Mulgore	Horde Skyborne

A new Skyborne character should leave Zephras through the last starting quest, not just by taking the boat: the quest chain sets up your capital and its trainers.

Flight paths

Flight masters are the backbone of travel. Talk to every one you pass, even if you do not need it yet; each one you learn is a flight you can take later. The map shows them all with the flight layer:

Alliance

Horde

Both factions

Hearthstone and inns

Your hearthstone takes you back to the inn you bound it to, once per hour. Bind it where you hand in most quests or where your trainer is, not where you happen to be. Logging out in an inn also fills your rested experience; see experience bonuses.

Alliance

Horde

Both factions

Riding

The client has two riding skills: Apprentice Riding for normal ground mounts (riding skill 75) and Journeyman Riding for swift mounts (riding skill 150). They are taught by riding trainers next to the racial mount vendors. Level requirements and prices have not been checked in game yet; this section will be updated once they are.

Until then, the practical rule from the original game holds: start saving gold well before the mount level, keep training your class first, and do not buy expensive vendor items you will replace in a few levels.

Keep going

Leveling routesStep by step from 1 to 60 for both factions, with quest hubs on the map.Class guidesLeveling and level 60 builds for all nine classes.Experience bonusesFood, sleeping bag, tent and rest: everything that levels you faster.Interactive mapQuest givers, vendors, trainers, flight masters, herbs, ore and rares in every zone.