Alliance players reach Ratchet in about 10 minutes from Stormwind. Horde players reach Crossroads in about 2 minutes from Orgrimmar. The steps below start at your capital's flight master and use the fastest mix of flights, boats and zeppelins in Forever's travel data.

Alliance: from Stormwind

  1. Fly from Stormwind to Booty Bay, about 4 minutes.
  2. Walk from the Booty Bay flight master to the Booty Bay dock (229 yards, under a minute on foot).
  3. Take the boat from Booty Bay to Ratchet. The ride takes about 2 minutes, and one leaves about every 6 minutes.
  4. Walk from the Ratchet dock to the Ratchet flight master (130 yards, under a minute on foot).

About 10 minutes in all, counting the average wait for the boat.

Horde: from Orgrimmar

  1. Fly from Orgrimmar to Crossroads, about 2 minutes.

About 2 minutes in all.

Flight points in The Barrens

  • Crossroads: Horde
  • Camp Taurajo: Horde
  • Ratchet: both factions

Pick up the flight point the first time you arrive, so the next trip is a single flight.

Good to know

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

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.