Ancient Tome of Teleport: Dalaran

This spell allows a mage to teleport to Dalaran Crater-- i.e. Dalaran's old location. It's essentially an out-of-date GPS map.

Or it's a joke. They've already said there won't be any capitols in Pandaria, just minor hubs for each faction.

@Sedirex: There are two similar looking temples in the vale of eternal blossoms, one for each faction. There are several NPC's in there, for example auctioneers and profession trainers. So it is safe to assume that these are the "capital cities" of Pandaria. @Tigronn: No, monks are not supposed to get that teleport. It will only be available to mages as of now.

@Sentro monks get that teleport, right?

if it were a placeholder for a teleport to your faction's temple in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms, the Scarlet Halls would be a very odd place to find it. Remember: for all of Warcraft history, Pandaria was a myth at most. The Scarlet Crusade wouldn't just have shrugged at that Tome for years. An outdated teleport/portal to Dalaran makes much more sense lore-wise than Pandaria. Nevertheless, I want a teleport/portal to Pandaria!

I had not heard about this until today, 12/21/12. I went and got it with my 90 mage and 85 mage in the same party (2 accounts). You can only loot the book off the wall on one mage per run, firstly. Secondly, you CANNOT use the book unless you're level 90, now. Nor can you use the version sold in Dalaran. So, take note. The book isn't bound to my 85, though, so I may be able to sell it to a lazy person on the AH.

Obtained in Scarlet Halls by making sure to have a player stand in front of all book burner casts on the last boss. It's in a tome on the shelves.

Takes you to Dalaran Crater in Hillsbrad.

This book can be got on normal mode. Piece of cake for any lvl 85. Found to the right as you enter the room. It's not actually on one of the bookshelves that he targets to burn. Can't yet learn it, but it is BoE, so be aware of scammers tring to sell it in trade

Yeah, had one of these show up in the Alliance AH on Garrosh for a buyout of 450g. As I am a mage on my main I was interested but thanks to you folks I was able to determine that there was no reason not to wait :)

Also note, you can get this book as early as level 80. Anything before than and you're just running the instance for fun or the achievement. I learned this last night on my 77 gnome mage after trying 4 times. I switched to my level 80 horde mage and got the book on my first run.

These are not unique. I currently have 2 in my inventory. And they can be traded.

You need to be a mage to loot this item from the bookshelf.

it seems that you also have to be level 85 to loot it.

What bookshelf?

I just did it on normal and was able to loot the book.

For some reason, you need to loot Koegler's body so there's no loot remaining on him. Only then does the book on the shelf become clickable.

This item provides a real advantage: Saves a trip from Undercity's inner body to the northwestern part of the continent. It did make the journey 2-4minutes longer.

I could get it only once per character.

Here's a video guide how to obtain it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhBsQqq-PtU&feature=plcp

I was able to run it 2 times in a row and get 2 books, on the same toon. I have looted it about 5 times total (every time we do the run) and throw it in my gbank/

Bless you! I have to admit, I was having so much trouble spotting the actual location of the book... your video did the trick.

You can get it multiple times. I'm guessing you forgot to loot the boss first? You can't loot the tome without first looting the boss.

I was able to loot the tome from normal on my level 82 mage.

I was unable to loot the book off the shelf until I killed the boss and looted the boss first. Then I could click it on the shelf.

Rolling on the boss loot isn't enough, I had to go get the 60c off of him too. THEN book was lootable.

Confirmed, and this needs to be upvoted. If you do it alone you need to loot everything off the boss before you can interact with the object, otherwise the cogwheel cursor won't appear.

Also confirmed, and thank you very much for figuring this out.

Note for everyone: After the boss has been fully looted (Normal lowbie or Heroic high-end), the shelf is indeed to the right as you enter the door, to the left as you face the door from inside the room. There will be 1 short bookcase in front of several tall ones. Go to the tall back-wall bookcase to the left of the short one, and look up above the head of your toon (depending on height; I did this on a human mage). The book rests HORIZONTALLY on the shelf in front of the vertical "painted" books, above head-height (but within arm-reach of my toon), and has a click-wheel. Hope that helps!

Confirmed to be lootable on normal. Just did this on my mage today and I was able to get the book after looting the body.

After learning this, you can buy an [url=http://www.wowhead.com/item=82470]Ancient Tome of Portal: Dalaran[/url] from [url=http://www.wowhead.com/npc=28715]Endora Moorehead[/url] in Dalaran.

This allows you to learn [spell=120145], a teleport to the original location of Dalaran high above in the air much like when you use [spell=49359] when you are phased to the ruined Theramore. In fact, due to the absurd nature of the spell, it can be deduced that there will be a phased area here, quite possibly the original Dalaran being relocated back.

With Jaina ruling Dalaran and saying that she "cannot rule with neutrality", it's possible that this Dalaran will be returned to being an Alliance bastion of glory. Don't forget that Garrosh also killed Rhonin, the husband of alliance-aligned Vereesa Windrunner. Ranger General of the Silver Covenant.

As a lover of lore, this amazes me as everything in WoW right now is catered for balance of gameplay.

[b]Or I'm merely overspeculating and the the telport is literally ancient and [u]lists the exact xyz coordinates of where you would land if Dalaran is still there [/u]and you, as a reader, are simply following the information on the book.[/b]

Do not post spoilers please.

Actually arkhi you can't deduce that there will be an area there - it could be a joke from Blizzard side. Besides, mages need more portals!

On and Mondoblasto, its not a spoiler when he is just guessing. A spoiler has to be based on fact.

Sure, it can be a joke considering there's a dead NPC where you land. However, the clues do point to another Dalaran. On another note, this has just been datamined from 5.1 PTR, so this does make more and more sense. http://ptr.wowhead.com/zone=6611

It's true that he's guessing about stuff, but it seems to me that he's basing his guesses from Tides of War? Perhaps he's just spouting off guesses on that too, but I don't appreciate it when people appear to be giving out major plot points, especially when I haven't read the book yet; in any case,to be on the safe side I only very briefly glanced his comment. I haven't even read the Tides of War section in wowpedia yet.

Dont forget to use slowfall you will drop dead after use :)

Best thing today: Using this spell for the first time, with Slow Fall ready (learned my lesson after Theramore). Landed next to someone who obviously did [b]not[/b]. They hadn't even released yet to corpse-run.

Ruhig, it was probably just this guy: http://www.wowhead.com/npc=62622

Even better, use the Portal version, and mount on your flying mount before clicking the portal. Fly right away.

Or use blink :)

Honestly, I don't care how little this spell contributes to travel times. I want it!

In regards to a previous posting, I too am a lore addict. And in the book and even Blizzard, it has been rumored something may happen to Dalaran in the future. For sure? we don't know, but this could be a hint towards something. Or if Blizzard changes its mind, then it is nothing.

For me, I had to complete the quests, [quest=31493] and [quest=31490] (after turning in the quest item) before the tome even became clickable. I did this on normal difficulty. Just make sure you loot EVERYTHING off the boss, and then check the shelves between the two destructible bookshelves, to the right of the entrance to the room.

For those wondering about portals to places that no longer exist such as old Dalaran and Theramore, the answer can be found in one of the filler books in Dalaran for the "Higher Learning" Achievement entitled "Thinking with Portals - A Memorandum on Proper Portal Usage" ([object=192881 domain=www]#comments)

Rule number 1 about portals is below - mages have the ability to create portals to anywhere, but the penalty for doing so to a non Kirin-Tor approved destination is forbidden and punishable with death (through I'd love to get my hands on one of these D-6 Permits). Despite the cities no longer being there the portal designations were already established and thus can still be used without Jaina hunting you down.

"Rule #1: Do not create a portal to anywhere but the designated Kirin Tor portal drop-off zones. The most dangerous aspect of the portal spell is its vast potential. We realize it's easy for a mage to create a door to anywhere, so our only way to combat such potentially deadly acts is to make it punishable by death. Special Issue License D-6 permits open portal usage, but is rarely issued. Speak with your local Portal Trainer about qualifying for this license.".

I just bought this for 10g buyout on Bleeding Hollow. Outstanding price.

Summary of how to get this and the [url=http://www.wowhead.com/item=82470]Ancient Tome of Portal: Dalaran[/url]:

[ul] [li]Fly to [url=http://www.wowhead.com/zone=6052/scarlet-halls]Scarlet Halls[/url] (right hand instance). Normal or Heroic mode.[/li]

[li]Make sure you kill the final boss ([url=http://www.wowhead.com/npc=59150]Flameweaver Koegler[/url]) fast and stand infront of him to block him burning his books.[/li]

[li]Loot book from the shelf just inside on the right. (If you look backwards towards the door, it's just on the left)[/li]

[li]Learn [url=http://www.wowhead.com/item=82469]Ancient Teleport: Dalaran[/url].[/li]

[li]Go to regular Dalaran[/li]

[li]You can now buy one copy of [url=http://www.wowhead.com/item=82470]Ancient Tome of Portal: Dalaran[/url] from [url=http://www.wowhead.com/npc=28715]Endora Moorehead[/url] (in the room to the left of the Violet Citadel steps) - though if someone has bought it recently, you might need to wait up to an hour for her to sell it again.[/li] [/ul]

You don't need to complete the two quests to loot the book, just in case you forgot to pick them up.

thanks for the step about going to regular dalaran, I was thinking I needed to do heroic for the portal version as it gave me just teleport xD

quests are irrelevant, just kill and loot the last boss, normal or heroic

It's been noted a few times below, but as this is the most helpful/detailed post here an important note to add: you cannot loot this item if you are below level 80. It's not even clickable.