Windhorn Canyon shortcut after 6th boss
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2026 1:47 pm
WHC is a really nice dungeon made by the TWOW team, yet I think it lacks a feature that alot of 'long' dungeons have, and that is a shortcut to reach relatively quick the last part of the dungeon (trash after 6th boss; prophet Stormhoof).
Why I choose the trash after this boss, is that the dungeon becomes progressively more difficult from this point onwards; there are some nasty trash pulls and the last boss, Chieftain Chalk Blackwind is notoriously difficult pre level 30, even with a geared group and Cc.
The thing is, is that if you wipe, you end up running around in the dungeon for maybe 10 minutes before you reach your wiping point; and wipe you will. There is no way to circumvent this and it is even more frustrating as the boss is right above you (you basically just need a ladder to get there).
Many dungeons in classic Wow have a shortcut or are non-linear so you can skip a part of the dungeon after clearing it;
- Wailing Caverns; the part to the left can be skipped once cleared
- Maraudon (Scepter of Cerebras; unlocked if you reach a certain stage of the dungeon)
- LBRS, the jump directly to Hordemaar city to bypass the first bosses
- BRD, lava run to skip a large part of the dungeon
- Stratholme; it is a little bit non-linear
- Scholomance; the last part is also non-linear as all bosses are located in the same are in the same area, and you bypass the rattlegore area.
- probably more examples
Wouldn't it be nice to have a 'great lift' to the platform before Prophet Stormhoof?
Make it so, that is activated by some kind of lever once the players reach that point, or for example from an item Stormhoof drops. So that you cannot reach it before you clear the first part of the dungeon.
I dont know if this is possible in the 1.12 client; but otherwise the entrance to the lift may be locked by a door that can be unlocked after reaching the same conditions.
Either way you would like to make it such that you cannot skip the first part of the dungeon, but make corpse runs a little bit more forgiving after killing/reaching Prophet Stormhoof.
A great lift would naturally fit very nice in this setting imo
Why I choose the trash after this boss, is that the dungeon becomes progressively more difficult from this point onwards; there are some nasty trash pulls and the last boss, Chieftain Chalk Blackwind is notoriously difficult pre level 30, even with a geared group and Cc.
The thing is, is that if you wipe, you end up running around in the dungeon for maybe 10 minutes before you reach your wiping point; and wipe you will. There is no way to circumvent this and it is even more frustrating as the boss is right above you (you basically just need a ladder to get there).
Many dungeons in classic Wow have a shortcut or are non-linear so you can skip a part of the dungeon after clearing it;
- Wailing Caverns; the part to the left can be skipped once cleared
- Maraudon (Scepter of Cerebras; unlocked if you reach a certain stage of the dungeon)
- LBRS, the jump directly to Hordemaar city to bypass the first bosses
- BRD, lava run to skip a large part of the dungeon
- Stratholme; it is a little bit non-linear
- Scholomance; the last part is also non-linear as all bosses are located in the same are in the same area, and you bypass the rattlegore area.
- probably more examples
Wouldn't it be nice to have a 'great lift' to the platform before Prophet Stormhoof?
Make it so, that is activated by some kind of lever once the players reach that point, or for example from an item Stormhoof drops. So that you cannot reach it before you clear the first part of the dungeon.
I dont know if this is possible in the 1.12 client; but otherwise the entrance to the lift may be locked by a door that can be unlocked after reaching the same conditions.
Either way you would like to make it such that you cannot skip the first part of the dungeon, but make corpse runs a little bit more forgiving after killing/reaching Prophet Stormhoof.
A great lift would naturally fit very nice in this setting imo