- Author: Luxrah
- Date: March 30, 2023
- Updated: August 6, 2024
- Expansion: World of Warcraft
The Burning Crusade was World of Warcraft’s first expansion, and it added the lands of Outland to the game. Outland is a shattered version of Draenor, a world that is completely separate from Azeroth and which can only be reached by portal. Most content from the Burning Crusade expansion will require heading to Outland first. We’ll start this guide with the introductory quests that lead to Outland. If you’d like to just jump through a portal and start exploring on your own, you can skip to the last section, “Portals to Outland.”
Starting the Burning Crusade Story
The first step in getting to Outland is to start the Burning Crusade storyline. If you haven’t reached level 50 on any character yet, you may need to complete the Dragonflight introduction before these options become available. We have a separate guide for that here. Once you have completed the introduction, you should be able to start the Burning Crusade expansion. Your character must be at least level 10 to start these quests.
This introductory quest chain will take you through a quest or two in your capital city before sending you off to Outland.
You have three options to start the Burning Crusade introductory quests:
Option 1: Chromie Time
Find Chromie near the Stormwind Embassy. Speak with her to select a timeline. Select “Portal to Outland” to start the quest Burning Crusade: To Outland! You must be below level 60 to access Chromie Time.
This quest will direct you to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands. The Honor Hold Mage outside the Stormwind Portal Room can send you there.
Option 2: Hero’s Call Board
Head to the Hero’s Call Board in the center of the Trade District in Stormwind. Clicking on the board, you may see an option for “Hellfire Peninsula.” If you don’t see this option, you can select other options until it appears, and then abandon the others.
Selecting this option will give you the quest Hero’s Call: Outland!, which will direct you to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands. The Honor Hold Mage outside the Stormwind Portal Room can send you there.
Option 3: Take a Portal
You can also opt to head straight to Hellfire Peninsula and just start the quests there! There is an Honor Hold Mage right outside the Stormwind Portal Room who can teleport you there.
Depending on your current timeline, this mage may send you to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands. This Dark Portal leads to Draenor, the alternate universe version of Outland. To get to Outland, you’ll need to change your timeline. See “The Dark Portal” under “Portals to Outland” for how to do this.
You have three options to start the Burning Crusade introductory quests:
Option 1: Chromie Time
Find Chromie near the Orgrimmar Embassy. Speak with her to select a timeline. Select “Portal to Outland” to start the quest Burning Crusade: To Outland! You must be below level 60 to access Chromie Time.
This quest will direct you to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands. The Thrallmar Mage in the lower part of the Orgrimmar Portal Room can send you there.
Option 2: Warchief’s Command Board
Head to the Warchief’s Command Board next to Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar. Clicking on the board, you may see an option for “Hellfire Peninsula.” If you don’t see this option, you can select other options until it appears, and then abandon the others.
Selecting this option will give you the quest Warchief’s Command: Outland!, which will direct you to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands. The Thrallmar Mage in the lower part of the Orgrimmar Portal Room can send you there.
Option 3: Take a Portal
You can also opt to head straight to Hellfire Peninsula and just start the quests there! There is a Thrallmar Mage in the lower part of the Orgrimmar Portal Room who can teleport you there.
Depending on your current timeline, this mage may send you to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands. This Dark Portal leads to Draenor, the alternate universe version of Outland. To get to Outland, you’ll need to change your timeline. See “The Dark Portal” under “Portals to Outland” for how to do this.
How to Get to Shattrath
Shattrath is the main city of Outland. Getting to Shattrath for the first time used to be a bit of a journey, but now you can simply hop on a flight path from the Dark Portal (or any other connected point in Outland). You have the Shattrath flight point unlocked by default.
You can also take a portal to Shattrath from Stormwind or Orgimmar, or ask a mage to port you to the city.
Inside Shattrath you’ll find a return portal to your capital city (Stormwind or Orgrimmar) to make getting back and forth easy.
Portals to Outland
There are several different ways to get back and forth to Outland.
Mages can create a portal for their party members with Portal: Shattrath.
For personal use, they also have Teleport: Shattrath.
There is a portal to Shattrath in the Stormwind Portal Room.
There is also an Honor Hold Mage right outside the Stormwind Portal Room who can teleport you to The Dark Portal. There is a separate section about The Dark Portal below.
There is a portal to Shattrath in the Orgrimmar Portal Room.
There is also a Thrallmar Mage in the lower part of the Orgrimmar Portal Room who can teleport you to The Dark Portal. There is a separate section about The Dark Portal below.
There is a portal to Hellfire Peninsula inside the Temple of the Moon in Darnassus.
You can reach Darnassus through the portal on the southernmost dock of Stormwind Harbor. If the portal places you in Darkshore, you will need to change your timeline by speaking with Zidormi, who should be close by. Then you can reach the city by taking a flight from the nearby town.
There is a portal to Hellfire Peninsula in the Mage Quarter of the Undercity.
You can reach Undercity through the portal atop the western zeppelin tower in Orgrimmar. If the portal places you outside Undercity, you will need to change your timeline by speaking with Zidormi, who should be close by. Then you can enter the city.
The Dark Portal in Blasted lands was the original route to Outland. It’s located in the Blasted Lands zone of Eastern Kingdoms.
Depending on your current timeline, The Dark Portal may be red instead of green. This version of The Dark Portal leads to Draenor, the alternate universe version of Outland. To get to Outland, you’ll need to change your timeline.
Head to the far north of the Blasted Lands zone, to where the road crosses into Swamp of Sorrows. There you’ll find an NPC named Zidormi who can change the current timeline for the zone. She is marked on the map with a little chat icon.
When The Dark Portal is glowing green, it leads to Hellfire Peninsula in Outland.
The Blessed Medallion of Karabor can teleport you to the Black Temple in Shadowmoon Valley once every 15 minutes. This necklace is a reward from the quest The Fall of the Betrayer, which is the last in a series of quests in and around the Black Temple raid.
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