The fastest way from Stormwind to Ashenvale in WoW Forever is the boat from Stormwind Harbor to Auberdine and a flight to Astranaar in Ashenvale. It takes about 9 minutes, counting the average wait for the boat. This is an Alliance route. Astranaar is the Alliance flight point in Ashenvale.

Ashenvale map from the game files
Ashenvale map from the game filesImage © Blizzard Entertainment

Step by step

  1. Walk from the Stormwind flight master to Stormwind Harbor (884 yards, about 2 minutes on foot).
  2. Take the boat from Stormwind Harbor to Auberdine. The ride takes about 1 minute, and one leaves about every 4 minutes.
  3. Walk from the Auberdine dock to the Auberdine flight master (437 yards, about 1 minute on foot).
  4. Fly from Auberdine to Astranaar, about 3 minutes.

Faster ways

  • If you're already in the Wetlands, take the Menethil Harbor boat to Auberdine instead.
  • Your hearthstone, if it's set to an inn in Astranaar.

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.