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Comment by Malsherz

It is Dalaran, if I remember correctly Blizz rebuilt and relocated the Mage city to Northrend for WotLK. Could be wrong though.

More information can be found here at http://www.wowwiki.com/Dalaran

Comment by Wintermetal

For those who don't know yet Dalaran will be the new neutral City like Shattrath was in TBC, not sure what the reasoning will be behind it but I'm keen to find out.

I believe it will be floating but will still be accessible without using a Flying mount.

Looking forward to standing around there whilst in guild chat rather than standing outside of the Scryers bank :P

Comment by 167459

correct me if im wrong but the pink bubble that protected this place was because it was being rebuilt cuz i remember in warcraft archimonde destroyed the city also as it seems the city is floating is it possible it can move to northrend like naxxramas is?

Comment by 176454

violet citadel that was in wc 3 where jaina chatted with the archmage, was in ex-cross island, now know as fenris isle. it was capital of Dalaran. interestingly, dalaran has always been alliance city, now it is neutral, but dalarans head mages (Rhonin, Khadgar and Jaina) know that hordies are not armed madmans.

Comment by 154629

I am guessing that Wrath of the Lich King will release somewhere between November and December.

Why? . . .

1. Beta Testing (August - September)
2. Disk Packaging and Shipping (October - December)

Of course, its just a theory, haha.

Comment by 64407

Dalaran is a place related to many famous characters of the Warcraft lore, like Jaina Proudmoore, the leader "of the human survivours of Lordareon" and the current ruler of Theramore, Kael'thas Sunstrider, everyones favourite prince, Krasus or the Red Dragon Korialstrasz, who was the one who gave to Rhonin the missions we heard about in Warcraft books, being also a sworn enemie of Deathwing, the Black Dragon and of the Lich King.
Last but not least, Dalaran is related to Rhonin, the one who seems to be the current leader of Dalaran.
Dalaran was also destroyed by the demon lord Archimonde.
So, after you see, Dalaran is related to many important WoW characters.
While Shattrah remembered me about New York (Pick-Pocketers, "noble people", different factions blickering among themselves, etc...) I hope that Dalaran will be a warcraftian Hollywood: Full with celebrities and storys and a place where things happen.
I personally cannot wait to visit Dalaran, and i hope I won't be dissapointed, just as I wasn't dissapointed with Silvermoon, who was a cooler zone the I suspected.

Comment by Faeore

Dalaran is a flying city now in WotLK, so you can fly directly up to it with flying mounts. However, even without flight, there is a Teleporation Crystal located at 28.46, 39.64 in the Crystalsong Forest. Mages learn the self teleport skill to this area at level 71.

Comment by Zanny

Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff are about as close to legendary horde cities you are going to get.

In WC2, orcs came over through the dark portal and were defeated and forced into servitude to humans. Anything they built on Azeroth was destroyed, and most of it was temporary. After Thrall escaped, he built small outposts until he migrated to Kalimdor and built Orgrimmar. He brought the trolls, who have cities (ZA, ZG) but almost every other troll in WoW is hostile to horde trolls because they think of the orcs as weak (because they were defeated). So horde trolls have no place to call home except the horde.

Tauren were driven out of the Barrens by Centaur, and up until Carine reunited the tribes into a single entity they lived nomad on the plains. They never established a legit city until Thunder Bluff.

In addition, all except the northern reaches of Kalimdor were desolate until the horde came over. Night Elves were the only ones to live there, and they mostly slept and stayed in peace with nature, so expansion was not a top concern considering they were immortal.

Meanwhile, dwarves and humans lived on Azeroth (the continent) for the entire history of warcraft, established numerous kingdoms and didnt have their whole planet destroyed (Draenor). So while the humans and dwarves built cities like Ironforge and Stormwind, Dalaran, Lorderon, the horde were still in Outland before Guldan destroyed it, and even then they were in constant war with Draenei, demons and such.

Humans have so many cities because they went the whole time leading up to Medivh opening the dark portal in complete peace for the most part. (They emerged after the sundering, so they probably had no conflict with elves and had peaceful relations with Silvermoon).

Also, the forsaken only originated in the last 15 years of warcraft history, since Sylvannas broke out of Nerzuls control and raided Lorderon and built UC. Maybe Sylvannas will take over Icecrown when the Lich King ether dies or escapes Azeroth, and turns Northrend into a forsaken empire. Considering they made UC is such a short time.

Comment by 171323

@ Zanny, Ner'zhul's Portals destroyed Draenor (he was searching for cake), not Gul'dans :P

But about Dalaran, Blizzard said there will be 2 dungeons in the city (like RFC/Stock). 1 of them is confirmed, the Violet Hold the dungeon of Dalaran.

Dalaran is controlled by the Kirin Thor, a group of the best mages of the Alliance (Gnomes, Humans and Hgh Elves), besides Dalaran they control smaller strongholds and settlements: Nethergarde Keep, Kirin'Var Village and Ambermill.

Dalaran is completly destroyed for 2 times. In the Second War the Horde destroyed Dalaran and later between the Second and Third War, when Dalaran was rebuild already it was attacked, but not completly destroyed to steal a magical artifact from them.

In the Third War Archimond one of the lords of the Burning Legion destroyed Dalaran. After the thrid War (in the time of WoW) Dalaran was still destroyed, and only a few buildings remained. In WotLK Dalaran is rebuild and replaced.

Comment by Rycul

The following explains why the horde is being allowed entry into the city and why its a sanctuary, it also explains why its been moved to Northrend

From wowwiki/dalaran:

Since Dalaran has been neutral since Lands of Conflict, Dalaran has been announced as the neutral city for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, as Shattrath City was introduced as the neutral city for the "Burning Crusade" expansion.

One thing to take into consideration is that three of Dalaran's best wizards (Khadgar, Jaina, and Rhonin) have had dealings with the Horde in the past, and Antonidas studied the effects of the Orcs' lethargy extensively enough to know that they could be reasonable in the absence of their demonic bloodlust, explaining possibly why Dalaran could have dealings with the Horde, especially against a common enemy. Another factor to consider is that many Forsaken and Blood Elves were formerly citizens and even rulers of Dalaran.

As of the current phase of beta testing, the city contains areas that are faction-specific in the same manner as Shattrath is divided amongst Aldor and Scryers. Certain parts of the city can only be reached by Alliance players while others are strictly for Horde use. It is difficult to tell what will be in these sections as Dalaran is fairly rough at this time. The majority of the city remains neutral.

Evidently the Blue Dragonflight, led by Malygos, has declared war on all mortal magic-users. In response to this crisis, the city has been moved (likely with the bulk of the Kirin Tor and most available resources) to levitate high in the skies above Northrend, north of the Dragonblight. It was implied that Rhonin may be the leader of the new Dalaran, Jaina being on Theramore Isle and Khadgar now in Shattrath.

It will act as the neutral sanctuary city for the continent, similar to Shattrath City in Outland, and can be accessed by either foot or flying mount. There will be an instance or even two instances in Dalaran, like in Stormwind or Orgrimmar. Like Shattrath, there are no plans to include class trainers or an auction house. Grand Master trainers for each profession will be available in the city. There will be portals in the Alliance and Horde districts of the city, connecting to the faction capital cities and Shattrath. There will also be portal trainers in both districts.

Comment by dahaliana

All this lore is great and all but an important question has been missed:

Is there a freaking Auction House in Dalaran? Inquiring minds want to know.

Comment by Silhac

For you warcraftpets.com fans, the owner of the site, Breanni, got a npc that looks exactly like him (her if you look at the owner as Breanni, not real life identity.) The ingame Breanni sells new pet items to use with your pets, like a leash and toy ball. This npc will be located in Dalaran.

Comment by 74126

heres my question since you know in hillsbrad horde killed alot of dalaran mages so does that effect us or not?

Comment by 65603

Wait, did Dalaran just bubble-hearth?

Comment by fakeh

Currently on the beta you need to wait till you're level 74 and speak to Image of Archmage Aethas Sunreaver at Angmar's Hammer before you can enter Dalaran (though you can get a mage's portal or a warlock's summon there instead). I assume the same applies to the Alliance.

Comment by Nandu

The destruction of dalaran: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=I3BxvHhz4XQ (Warcraft clip)
(this was before Dalaran moved to Northrend of course)

Comment by Toldry

As far as I know, Dalaran is at the near western edge of Northrend, which will probably make going to the Eastern parts of Northrend a pain.

Comment by 176655

I read on wotlkwiki.info that dalaran will be split into 2 sides, the bloodelf side (most likely the half where sunreaver builder thing) and the high elf side ( silver enclade)

I dont know if the guards are either protecting the buildings or entire sides.

It will be similar like aldor rise and scryer tier, seperated by faction and with guards that boot you out if you get close.

Comment by p0p0mann

hey when Wotlk comes out will there be an empty space where darlan used to be?

Comment by khoros

there will be an enormous crater and some foggy remains of the huge shield that was protecting dalaran

Comment by 201290

Currently the only class trainers in Dalaran are Mage Trainers, just behind the teleport crystal.

Comment by 145273

I am willing to bet that Dalaran is not a floating city and will be openly accessible to those with WOTLK from Hillsbrad Foothills, although sadly this would mean that the Allies would spend even more time raiding Tarren Mill which is pathetic right now.

Comment by 201290

Ive played the beta and currently where the bubble was in Hillsbrad there is now a giant crater with pieces of floating rock, and there is a purple mist throughout the area, the teleport to Dalaran is currently located in Crystalsong Forest, it is a blue crystal amongst some Night Elf Ruins, although to use it you must use the crystal on the Dalaran side first.

Comment by 64407

I believe it will be floating but will still be accessible without using a Flying mount.

It will be. There will be 2 twin crystals, 1 in Dalaran, near the Portal Trainer, and 1 in the ruins under Dalaran. The crystals port you each in the others location, much like Undercity/Silvermoon porters.

The crystal porting you to Dalaran can be found under the great city, in the ruins, as I said, but if you don't know the thingy I am about to say, it can be quite tricky to be found. The location of the crystal in the ruins is surrounded by a small old-Dalaran like shield. The shield is small compared to the old-Dalaran one, of course.

As a side note, you should know that you have first to use the Dalaran Crystal first in order to be able to use the Ruins Crystal. I don't know how do you get into Dalaran for the first time without the help of those tricky crystals. I personally got there with the help of a friendly mage.

Anyway, it is a great city, in which it is really much funnier to chat, LFG or skill up professions then in Shattrah. Worth begging for a portal/summon when the game will release ;).

Comment by 170249

does anyone know who will lead dalaran?

Comment by 149600

What's going to happen with the Bubble Dalaran from Alterac?

Comment by crusader666

so...The Dalaran we know in alterac, moves up from the ground and floats up to northrend? xD sounds a bit weird though...

Comment by Haxan

Hmm, looks like Silvermoon City but painted purple instead of red...

Comment by 208367

what zone will Dalaran be in?

what i mean is since they have got Shattrah in terrokar forest what zone is it going to be in?

Comment by arco

Kind of lame that characters can't really get into Dalaran until 74, when NPCs in the towns around Dragonblight port you there. With Shattrath you could just ride in.

Comment by Humbaba

Getting to Dalaran as Horde is very easy once you've hit 74. Go to Agmar's Hammer and you will have a quest available from Image of Archmage Aethas Sunreaver in the main hold. He will then teleport you directly to Dalaran.

Comment by 53873

Now with the patch 3.0.2 is Dalaran accesable?

Comment by 159004

Is it just me, or is the architecture of Dalaran City vaguely High/Blood Elf-ish?

EDIT: Also, for those who participated in the beta, how many NPCs occupy the City? Enough to possibly create some framerate issues for those with lesser computers?

Comment by 195915

You cannot use the Dalaran Crystal at (15,43) until you have used the crystal in Dalaran, i have confirmed this on a lvl 37 taking a very long time to get there to find out.

Comment by Adross

In case you guys are wondering of an easy way to get in before level 74 (and you aren't a Mage) all you need to do is know a Mage or any person that can get in there.

Have a person that is in Dalaran Queue you up for any battleground and then once you get into that battleground you can leave it and viola! You are now in Dalaran.

Comment by 162030

say, if dalaran is in the air now, how will we get up there without our flyers?

Comment by qhiiyr

To get to Dalaran:

Mages can learn to teleport to Dalaran after completing the short Dragonblight quest Attunement to Dalaran (Alliance / Horde) available at level 71.
Mages can learn to open a portal to Dalaran at level 74. Warlocks can also summon players to Dalaran.
Anyone who has reached level 74 can pick up the quest The Magical Kingdom of Dalaran (Alliance / Horde / Neutral) from any of several members of the Kirin Tor. This quest will offer a one-time teleport to Dalaran.
Once a player has arrived in Dalaran, they can complete the quest Learning to Leave and Return: the Magical Way to allow them future access to Dalaran by using the teleport crystal below the city. The quest requires level 68.
Several level 80 rings that teleport the player to Dalaran are available for 8500g each.
Any player who has learned Cold Weather Flying may fly themselves to Dalaran. Cold Weather Flying requires level 68 and costs 500g.

Comment by JungleJunkie

I just got a warlock summon an hour ago, I wasn't even level 71! This is a spooky looking, Alice-in-wonderland kind of city!

Comment by 191200

does anyone know the flight paths needed to be known to get there? so far i have the 3 alliance ones in the fjord, and the dalaran fp, but they are not connected. which flight paths are needed to get there

Comment by 226179

Do you have to be lvl74 to get a port from a mage to dalaran.

Comment by 172877

so in the NEXT xpansion(plz god let there be 1) is Lordaeron going to be the neutral city?

Comment by 141352

Money Guide for Warlocks in Dalaran

1.Ask one mage to portal you in Dalaran
2. Many peoples will ask you for summon but first find 2 players to help you, and get many Soul Shards
3.Summon them for 10gold :))
4.You will get alot of money like me. I get 180g and I'm 42lvl :)
But you have to be fast before the players make Heartstone in Dalaran.
That's all I hope you enjoy :) Have a nice day in The adventures of World of Warcraft :)
]:8) Muuuu!

Comment by 202648

How do you get down?

Comment by SirBrigit

There are several ways to get to Dalaran:

Dalaran Specific Methods:

1. Mages can talk to NPCs in Dragonblight and learn to teleport to Dalaran after completing Neutral Attunement to Dalaran available at level 71
2. Mages can learn a portal to Dalaran at 74 from the portal trainer. This allows anyone to get to Dalaran
3. Anyone who is at least level 74 can complete Neutral The Magical Kingdom of Dalaran from any of several members of the Kirin Tor, which will portal them to Dalaran once
4. A set of crystals (Teleport to Violet Stand Crystal and Teleport to Dalaran Crystal) can be used, but the Teleport to Violet Stand Crystal must be used first, meaning that you have to have arrived in Dalaran previously (via the quest at 74 or via a Mage portal or a Warlock summon), the quest Neutral Learning to Leave and Return: the Magical Way provides XP and monetary reward for using both crystals (but requires level 70)
5. 2 rings are available at 80 (Band of the Kirin Tor, Signet of the Kirin Tor) which teleport the player to Dalaran
6. Learn Cold Weather Flying, and fly there with a flying mount

Non-dalaran specific methods of getting to Dalaran:

1. Once in Dalaran, players can set a Dalaran inn as their home, which enables them to teleport there with their Hearthstone
2. A Warlock in Dalaran can summon players to Dalaran, with 2 others in Dalaran in the same group
3. Dalaran has a summoning stone available for players who are eligible to enter the dungeons there
4. Someone already in Dalaran can group-invite you for PvP at the city's Battlemasters. After you leave the battleground you will spawn in the floating city. However, the inviting player has to be of the same level range for the specific battleground pool as you, or you won't get to join the battleground
5. After meeting the Dalaran Flight master (in Krasus' Landing), players can pay to fly there from nearby flight masters, via a Flight Path previously found that links to the city.

Comment by 233407

What region is Dalaran located in?

Comment by EightBitBus

Getting to Dalaran before level 74 with no help from a mage/warlock:

There is a quest in Dragonblight called Blightbeasts be Damned! that you can get at 72. This quest provides you with a flying mount to kill a few mobs. The area you kill them in (Icemist Village) is close enough to fly into Wintergrasp (or log out while on the flying mount and it will put you at a Wintergrasp graveyard). If your faction controls Wintergrasp Fortress you can run to it and use the portal to The Violet Hold.

Tada, Dalaran at 72 with no help from anyone.

Comment by 248312

Some practical questions:
1) Are there any portals in Dalaran like you have in Shatt?
2) Is there an auction house?
3) I had quite a lot of lag in shatt, would that be the same in Dalaran? (directed mostly to players with the same issues, seriously need to enlarge my RAM)
4) Are there also 2 factions to choose from?

Comment by LeoN16

By god,this city is damn beautiful

Comment by 36214

Fishing in Dalaran requires at least 430 Fishing, 525 to avoid losing catches.

Comment by Factsfountain

The music that plays sometimes here in Dalaran is quite possibly some of the best in the game.

Comment by Mylan

Is it just me, or is the Scribes' Sacellum larger on the inside than the outside?

Comment by Xsear

Go down into the sewers. Find the middle of the system, where the duel rings are.
At the middle of a wall, theres 3 pipes. Look closly around the mid one. You should find "Dalaran Sewer Rat" - lvl 80, surrounded by 4 "Dalaran Sewer Turtle"s - lvl 1. <3 <3 <3

Also note that these are not considered critters, so you cant kill them :D

Since the Dalaran sewers is basically described as the place where the wizards pour all their failed potions and concoctions, its a pretty neat reference in my opinion!

Comment by 241910

Dalaran is the new Shattrath

ohh Yea !

Comment by 218620

The easiest and best way to get to Dalaran for the first time is possible at level 74. Go to your respective Faction city in Dragonblight (Agmar's Hammer for Horde) and there is a quest giver there with a quest Magical Kingdom of Dalaran or something like that accept the quest then talk to him again...he will then port you to Dalaran.

Comment by 122868

This city has a ton of LAG

Comment by lagmoose

Dalaran reminds me of and looks alot like Vane (the magical floating city from the Lunar series). Which is pretty cool imho and it would be even cooler if somewhere down along the line we get some kind of "Dragonmaster" title for a future achievement.

Comment by mattarot

If A'Dal was the kind of leader of shatt, who is the "leader" of Dalaran?

Comment by 195274

Personally i dont like Dalaran. I have an O.K computer and when i go there i get a minimun of 4fps and max of 10fps. It isnt the FPS but the amount of people communicating that makes the place ridiculously choppy. Also I cannot find the AH because when you ask a gaurd where to go it is not specified like other capitals it just says to go one part of Dalaran and search for yourself.

Comment by 235468

When I first came to this city via Warlock summon, I was in front of the Violet Hold. I walked out into the main square, then the "intro" music played. I was just absolutely flattened by the music. I was expecting a dull, boring theme like Shattrath has, but this is... amazing!

Also, things I've found to note:
There is an inn in the sewers, so if you have a less than stellar computer and don't want a massive amount of problems when it comes to FPS, set your hearthstone here. As of patch 3.0.3, there isn't a mailbox here, but they're adding one when 3.0.8 comes, which should be soon.

Getting to the sewers is possible in multiple ways. There's an open tunnel into it, but you can also drop down through the well somewhere in Runeweaver Square.

The Arena battlemasters are located in the sewers as well. I remember watching a beta video showing training dummies down here, but they appear to be gone. Or I'm blind as a bat.

There's a toy shop on one of the corners of the Square; From there, one can purchase a Train Set, which when you use makes everyone around do a /train emote. Also, single use "pod racers" and paper airplanes are for sale here.

All you need to do is try it and you'll learn that Alliance can't enter Sunreaver's Sanctuary, and Horde can't enter The Silver Enclave. This type of segregation is a god send to my crappy computer, cause I can hang out in the less crowded Alliance only area.

There are some epic trinkets, sigils, idols, etc for sale in one of the corner shops. "Peculiar" something is what the shop is called. These trinkets / etc can be bought with Emblems of Heroism and require level 80 to equip.

Since I only have high level Alliance characters, I'm not sure about the Horde side, but some of the upstairs rooms in the inn house some vendors who sell level 80 epic gear, such as belts, as well as bind to account items. These cost Emblems of Heroism to purchase as well. I would imagine that vendors are in rooms of the inn in Sunreaver's Sanctuary as well.

I've seen several people ask where the flight path is in this place. It's in the north east corner of the city at Krasus landing, just past Francis Mei and her mounts. You have to go into the building at the corner and up the stairs, not down into the sewers which I've seen people do, then wonder why they're lost.

Also of note are the leaders of Dalaran. Rhonin, the head honcho, and his wife, Vereesa Windrunner, are standing in the Violet Citadel (which also has a port to the Caverns of Time, up in the back). Unfortunately, they don't have unique models or unique voice sets. In fact, Rhonin is silent, but I don't remember about Vereesa. As for that portal to the Caverns of Time, you don't need to be revered to use it, like previous portals.

Comment by shadowspa

if your pc isnt top notch beware...this place is shattrath x100
i have 2 fps max and for some reason if i take a portal to dalaran i dc and cant log in cuz my addons are too much...

i guess the reason the blues havent destroyed dalaran yet isnt the magic but the lag xD

Comment by 126608

I thought this was rather strange, but has anybody noticed the light that you can interact with in Dalaran? It doesn't seem to serve any purpose aside from flickering on, then flickering off. It's in the horseshoe-like loop of the Magus Commerce Exchange right before the store "First to Your Aid".

Comment by Coldblooded

I dunno if this was posted yet, but the sewer entrance/exit to the city is at 21,47 for the Crystalsong Forest map and 10,87 for the Dalaran map. Big hole in the side of it, always fun to fly out through there.

Comment by Kuuskutonen

Nice bug:

1. Go to Violet Citadel and take port to purple palor
2. Once you come out, walk left until end.
3. Jump and hug the wall
4. If you jump right, you will fall through the ground until you end up in Crystalsong Forest, under Dalaran (And you won't take fall damage!)
5. If you jump a little bit different, you will end up normally on Dalaran ground, but still no fall damage ;)

Comment by 224239

New Shattrath. BEWARE OF LAG!

Comment by 64664

At some point when you fly up to Dalaran. Inside the city you will get a raid warning message that tells you that you will be dismounted with a certain amount of time as shown in the upper corner.

Sometimes when standing near the flightpath guy you can mount up on your flying mount and take off. While other times it won't allow you to use your flying mount. Probably some bug that sometimes allows and sometimes prevents you from taking off on a flying mount.

There's a well in Dalaran, jumping in it will get you to the sewer system of Dalaran (as well).

Comment by 13389

Fishing Skill of 430 required to fish in Dalaran.

Comment by 158088

has anyone else had a bug where when u log out in dalaran when u log back on you get disconnected from the server?

Comment by 82411

As alliance/horde, you can run into the opposite faction's spots with bubble. I assume any other immune-making spells will allow you to. There's also spots where you can stay after the spells wear off. Tables seem to be a safe spot that don't get you thrown out ;)

Comment by 290763

Just think of Dalaran like a pally that bubble-hearthed with a 3 year casting time.

Comment by Thander

Most people reporting lag are suffering from low FPS, which can be fixed by upgrading the computer. Here are some suggestions.

Processor: Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz
RAM: 2GB of RAM for XP, 3-4GB of RAM for Vista.
Video Card: Geforce 8800 GT

This is enough for about 30fps in Dalaran with all settings maxed except shadows. (Shadows at 4th notch)

It will not be the best for other games but definitely enough for WoW. On a side note, Starcraft 2 and Diablo III should both run on it pretty well. Blizzard is not pushing graphics in either of those games.

My old machine had these specs and ran WoW pretty well. Just built a new one for the future demanding games though.

Comment by 133414

In The Arsonal Absolute, there is a wooden hand in a jar on the counter. This is an easter egg reference to The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, ( Cap'n K'nuckles wooden hands, episode Hand It Over )

=nerd

Comment by 104695

To shine some more light on the leadership of Dalaran, or more, the Kirin Tor for which the city belongs to:

Rhonin is listed as the leader of the Kirin Tor, making him the head leader of the Council of Six, the ruling council of the Kirin Tor Along with him he has Modera (being the one who has been in the council longest) and Aethas Sunreaver(persumably, his name has given name to the Sunreavers Sunctuary, the Hordepart of Dalaran, there are some minor speculations if he is Kael'thas in disguise... The allaround joke about Kael'thas being constantly ressurected).
Ansirem Runeweaver, the former leader whom preceded Antonidas after Arthas killed him during the Seige of Dalaran and whom Rhonin succeeded. He can be found by the Crater of Dalaran in the Alterac Mountains.

Former members include but is not limited to; Antonidas, Kel'Thuzad, Drenden, Ansirem Runeweaver, Kael'thas Sunstrider and Korialstrasz in his humanform Krasus. It is unclear if Krasus still holds a place of power within the Kirin Tor, him being friend with Rhonin causes him to atleast have an official part in the ruling, especially concerning the Blue Dragonflight and Malygos.

Noteable members and former members of the Kirin Tor (who has not been mentioned yet) are Jaina Proudmoore, Nielas Aran, Vargoth, Khadgar and Arugal.

Comment by 199270

Anyone else noticed the giant corcolisk in the sewers?
I just noticed it, and if you want to find him he is under the grates outside the black market.

Comment by 279936

In my opinion Shattrath is wayyyyyyy better

Comment by 240993

Is it just me, or is the Scribes' Sacellum larger on the inside than the outside?

You are aware that this is a city made by Mages, Laws of Physics are out of a job in a place like that:D

was implied that Rhonin may be the leader of the new Dalaran, Jaina being on Theramore Isle and Khadgar now in Shattrath.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but Jaina, (like Athras and Sunstrider), was merely sent to Old Dalaran to train as a mage under the Kirin Tor, and allthough one of, (if not the most), gifted students they ever produced, she was never in any way a part of the leadership of the Kirin Tor and thus would not logicly be involved in New Dalaran's rulership.

Comment by 96000

440 Fishing required!

Comment by 292923

Does anyone know where I can find a gem Vendor in Northrend?

Comment by 176622

Where is the daily hc quest giver?

Comment by Wanky

On my 74 Rogue, I just accepted the quest to take the port into Dalaran. After the load-screen, the game froze for nearly a minute and I was disconnected. I tried logging in again, but once again the game froze and I was D/C'd.

Now, my computer isn't the best (Intel Pentium IV, 64 MB Intel Extreme Graphics Card, 512MB of RAM), but I get an average of 20FPS in all areas in WoW. In Shattrath back in TBC days, It dropped to a miserable 5 FPS. But now it seems that Dalaran is even more crowded since the expansion hit just recently and all the level 80's are sitting around here, lagging the place up. I played the WOTLK Beta and I got perfect FPS when nobody was around Dalaran.

People may say "upgrade ur pc nub, gtfo", but I don't use my PC for a lot of the high-requirement games. WoW is something that my crappy computer can handle decently, and I know that there are a lot of WoW players that are like me. It's unfortunate that Blizzard didn't learn that adding one sanctuary city in the new continent would be a huge inconvenience for players with low-spec computers, and I was really expecting they'd just have two faction-separated cities or zone out the area.

Comment by RedwoodElf

I just paid a mage 5G to teleport me to Dalaran, and got the flightpath, then I took the zeppelin to Howling Fjord and rode across the zones towards Dalaran, grabbing flightpaths, until Dalaran became available as an attached flightpath. I did this as a level 34 mage.

Comment by 300478

For the longest time I was searching for what Horde FPs you needed to connect from Borean Tundra to Dalaran.

To do this, you need the Kor'kron Vanguard FP (northwestern Dragonblight) and the Agmar's Hammer FP (just east of Azjol-Nerub). These will connect you to Dalaran.

Comment by Iamnatman

I didn't see any posts about this already, but, if you plan on going to dalaran, and you don't have a pretty decent computer, you're going to get much lower framerate along with lag issues.

From what I've read elsewhere, it's because so many people are in such a small area, and your computer has to process more which eats up framerate.

My comp has a 3.06 ghz processor, 256 mb video card, and I avg. 10-17 fps there.
>_<

Those of you who have really slow computers may want to turn down your video settings before you go here...

Comment by Jurre

I have seen quite a few players in Dalaran on a flying mount, though this is only allowed on Krasus Landing, anyone has an idea on how they do that?

Comment by 329177

The reason for not having flying mounts in Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimandor, is because all the capital cities are roof-less. That means every 15 mins the opposing faction is going to come in, fly straight to the leader and kill them. The hard parts are getting in Undercity and Ironforge.

Go Get The Map Viewer,Then..For A Test,Try Looking At The Old Town(In SW) From Above At A Far Distance.See?That's Not All,Try Looking At The Second Stockade Like Building There.Enter It,Then Go To Where Instance Door Must Be.Then Enter The Dungeon,Go Through That White Hole And..YES!You Are Under Stormwind.

SEE?

Blizzard Is Not A Wizard.It Can't Create Everything.If It Would,I Assure You,WoW Wouldn't Even Be Released Yet.So It Had 2 Options:Create Some Masks,Unreachable Places That People Think Have Something Inside,Roofs That Do Not Really Exist And Damn,RELEASE THE #$%^ING BEST GAVE IN THE WORLD!YEAH EVERQUEST SUX! OR Work 8 Year Longer On This &*!@ING BEST GAME IN THE WORLD!YEAH RUNESCAPE SUX AS WELL!
Now You See Why Can't You Put Your Fat Ass On Your Mount When You're Not In Outland/Northrend?(JUST KIDDING!)

Comment by 107930

Any player who is already in Dalaran can transport their party members there by joining a battleground as a group. Upon leaving the battleground, all group members will appear in Dalaran. This requires that the group members be in the same PvP bracket as the party leader.

This will change in patch 3.1 according to the current patch notes:
"Players will now be able to queue for battlegrounds from any location. Leaving a battleground will return you to the location from which you entered."

On a side note they are also removing the ability to "ghetto" hearth out of instances. :(

Comment by 310260

I'm curious as to how/where I can view the city map since it's nowhere on the Northerend map (or at least I can't find it).

Comment by uthalin2190

Kinda wierd but any1 know whats up with the lamp u can turn on in the commerce exchange?

Comment by exowizard

Dalaran was telaported away from Alterac Mountins during the third war when archimonde attempted to destory Dalaran.I've also heard the scourge attacked Dalaran.But i do not know wich time Dalaran was sent to northrend.

Comment by exowizard

It does a emote like 'The crocidile (can't spell the WoW version) looks hungrily at <name>' or something like that. It can't attack or anything.

Comment by Beastana

Can't use your flying mount in Dalaran except in the Sanctuary where the Flight Master and Cold-Weather flying trainer is.

Comment by 222832

I noticed for a fact, that clouds viewed from dalaran kinda looks like the ones from the disney series "Hercules" up near the Olympic Then i thought...Dalaran kinda looks like the olympic...so...possiple a reference? ;P

Comment by 124192

i had an interesting time in dalaran...i went to jump into the sewers and i didnt go through the portal and i got stuck. at the time im posting this im still stuck...

Comment by 73830

dalaran; hey guys, lets do the same thing we did with shattrah but make the city twice as small and with alot more effects. not only that but lets make it so u have to do your dailies here and other things so everyone is here at once.

Comment by 361199

Any easy way to get to Dalaran at lvl67 is to get yourself killed in Icecrown, fly to a Wintergrasp graveyard where you will be automatically resed, you can then use the portal to Dalaran and grab the Wintergrasp flight path at the same time.

Comment by 173016

This city reminds me of the large flying city of Laputa in Gulliver's Travels, written by Jonathan Swift the year 1726. Laputa was inhabitated by various educated people and scientists who failed to use their intellect for practical purposes, and therefore the protagonist Lemuel Gulliver mocked them for their stupidity. Jonathan swift was a master of the art of satire, and this story was most likely aimed at the scientists at his time, who he believed, did nothing of use.
I believe the main difference between these two cities is that Laputa is having the ability to fly through magnetic levitation while Dalaran is simply magic. And we are in luck there, what would happen if the pilots of Exodar would get their hands on the steering mechanism which would drive Laputa?

Comment by ziraija

As for the Well enterance to the sewers its propaply an referance to Mario Bros games, down to the pipe yo!

Comment by 296147

In 3.2 you can now fly over Dalaran along with Wintergrasp unless you are too low to the ground I guess.

Comment by 288482

The reason Dalaran first was in a bubble was that Archimonde destroyed most of its city and they wanted to protect it while they were fixing it....or the other explaination is that a paladin tried bubbling inside the city and the magical energies all around him increased the size of the bubble and then it completely encircled the city. He then hearthed which brought it to Northrend.

Comment by Slayers

Dalaran, a nice city. Very laggy, because everyone is there.

Comment by 171097

Keep hearing alot of gripes about bad lag while in Dalaran, went there yesterday for the first time on my current server and didnt have any issues with lag, everything was as smooth as everywhere else. So not sure what the issue is with people who have bad lag, and I was there durring peek time it was very crowded.

Comment by 253465

This might be new for the latest patch. I was outside Violet Hold when a "Pool of Blood" spawned in the water. It looked like a fishing node but I didn't have a pole with me.

Lasted for a few minutes then vanished.

Comment by 171491

The sewers are next to the Exotic mounts i guess

Comment by atheos96

Fun Facht:in warcraft3's video dalaran is TOTALLY DESTROYED by archimonde :D

why this city has been regrowed in northland? wath make this? or who? and wath is the result of 108342631321863281317351735317351537153175 x 132132132313314123412341 ?
we'll NEVER know the answer of this enigmatic question... XD

Comment by 462130

it is the Night Elves fault (ahhh the blame game) for bringing the Burning Legion to Azeroth, as their playing with magic got too far out of hand, they were the original power and "magick" crazed beings on Azeroth

Finally, some peeps have realized that Nelfs + space goats ruined almost everything in Draenor AND in Azeroth! 1st off, as he said, the Nelfs brought the BL to our planet through haphazard magic use. And 2nd, Draenei had Kil' Jaeden hot on their heels when they settled on Draenor, so he arrived, corrupted the orcs, turned Ner'Zhul into the Lich King, yada yada yada, you know what happens. So, in conclusion, even though i hate blaming, those two races made complete donkeys of themselves by causing a chain reaction of events that utterly ruinated two perfectly fine worlds.

I rant a little too much. :P

Comment by 462130

Oh, I was a little late to the lore party.

Comment by 411422

Sorry, this may sound stupid, But is there a LvL requirement for the portals to the major cities?

Comment by Sylvandas

Missing from the list of Dalaran NPCs: Jones.

Comment by 44207

With the new patch and the new LFG system, theres a new way of entering Dalaran.

- queu for violet hold
- start it
- die
- spiritres

Costs a couple of bucks and possibly a few &*!@ed teammates, but gets you right in the center of Dalaran!

Enjoy :)

Comment by 422967

Not sure if anyone noticed this, but in the Dalaran sewers there is a place with 4 small turtles, and a rat, and some spillage... Guess the reference :-)

(Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Comment by 588530

This is a place Arthas ruined and later Archimonde. The city was enormous and had lots of citizens. This is also a spawning pool for scourge leaders. In wrath more than half of undead leaders were once Kirin Tor mages. And now the city is tiny. Its like as big as the auction house area in orggrimar. Its smaller than the Dreanei ruins city Shattrath. Unbelievable. It makes lots of people angry because of lag from there being such small space to move. The city is nothing compared to warcraft 3.

Comment by 456153

It is SO much fun running off the Purple Parlor with levitate! try it sometime.

Comment by Maks31

Here is the one button mount macro for wotlk. works in Dalaran and Wintergrasp !

/use FLYING MOUNT; GROUND MOUNT
/use GROUND MOUNT
/use GROUND MOUNT
/dismount

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Dalaran

DalaranAlterac MountainsCrystalsong ForestThe Violet HoldAreas of Interest:

The Violet Citadel: Center of the Kirin Tor, led by Rhonin. Portals to the Purple Parlor, a luxurious balcony bar, Archmage Vargoth's Retreat, and to Caverns of Time.

Silver Enclave: Alliance-only area. Portals, class trainers, battleground portals, Justice Point vendors, the Inn "A Hero's Welcome," beer garden, cooking trainer.

The Eventide: South Bank, fishing trainer, Dalaran fountain for Titanium Seal of Dalaran.

The Violet Hold: Dalaran prison.

Krasus' Landing: flight master and flight trainer.

Sunreaver's Sanctuary: Horde-only area. Portals, class trainers, battleground portals, Justice Point vendors, the Inn "The Filthy Animal," cooking trainer.

Antonidas Memorial: Memorial to Archmage Antonidas, the previous leader of the Kirin Tor who was killed by Arthas.

Magus Commercial Exchange: location for many profession trainers.

Runeweaver Square: Violet Gate (neutral portal destination), memorial appears in center when the Lich King is first killed.

The Underbelly: Underground sewers. PvP vendors, vendors for Rogues/Warlocks, Underbelly inn, Underbelly Elixir scattered on the ground.

History and BackgroundShattrath CityThe Burning CrusadeThe AldorThe ScryersThe Silver CovenantThe SunreaversStormwind CityOrgrimmarThe StockadeRagefire ChasmThe Violet HoldKael'thas SunstriderLady VashjOrgrimmarStormwind CityGrand Master Trainersbattleground portalsBattlemastersGetting to Dalaran

Mages can learn to teleport to Dalaran after completing the short Dragonblight quest Attunement to Dalaran (Alliance / Horde) available at level 71.

Mages can learn to open a portal to Dalaran at level 74 from the portal trainer located in Dalaran. Warlocks can also summon players to Dalaran.

Anyone who has reached level 74 can pick up the quest The Magical Kingdom of Dalaran (Alliance / Horde / Neutral) from any of several members of the Kirin Tor. This quest will offer a one-time teleport to Dalaran.

Once a player has arrived in Dalaran, they can complete the quest Learning to Leave and Return: the Magical Way to allow them future access to Dalaran by using the teleport crystal below the city. The quest requires level 68.

Several level 80 rings that teleport the player to Dalaran are available for 8500g each. They can be inscribed for an additional 1250g.

Dalaran

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