The fastest way from Ironforge to Darnassus in WoW Forever is a flight to Menethil Harbor, the boat to Auberdine, a short flight to Rut'theran Village and the portal up to Darnassus. It takes about 9 minutes, counting the average wait for the boat. This is an Alliance route.

Step by step

  1. Fly from Ironforge to Menethil Harbor, about 2 minutes.
  2. Walk from the Menethil Harbor flight master to the Menethil Harbor dock (224 yards, under a minute on foot).
  3. Take the boat from Menethil Harbor to Auberdine. The ride takes about 2 minutes, and one leaves about every 5 minutes.
  4. Walk from the Auberdine dock to the Auberdine flight master (273 yards, under a minute on foot).
  5. Fly from Auberdine to Rut'theran Village, about 1 minute.
  6. Take the portal in Rut'theran Village up to Darnassus.

Faster ways

  • Your hearthstone, if it's set to an inn in Darnassus.
  • A mage in your group can open a portal to a capital city.
  • From Stormwind instead, the Stormwind Harbor boat to Auberdine is quicker. See Stormwind to Darnassus.

Good to know

  • You can only fly to flight points you've already found. Talk to each flight master on the way once, and the next trip gets shorter.
  • Boats and zeppelins went missing for long stretches in launch week. Blizzard put temporary portals near most docks and in the zeppelin towers. See boat or zeppelin not coming.
  • The times are estimates. Flight times were measured in Classic and the boat timings are modelled, so allow a minute or two either way.
  • The Shortest Path Forever add-on plans this route for you in game and counts down to the next departure.

See every boat, zeppelin and flight route for the whole network.

Route data: Shortest Path Forever (GPL-3.0), built from the WoW Forever 1.60.1 client files. We work out the fastest path from its flight, boat and zeppelin data.