Max level character. Wanting to enter SOLO as a “walk in”. These days this is possible. I just did Mount Hyjal and the Sunwell, for example.
In Shadowmoon Valley (TBC, not that other one) the entrance is “blocked” with some wooden plank textures. I see lots of other players just fly in. But I don’t get the “cog wheel” mouse pointer when I mouse around the area I should be allowed to click.
I am locked out. Puzzling.
Sounds like you aren’t at the entrance at all.
I don’t remember a cogwheel, just the raid swirly behind the crack in the wall. You should be able to just walk between the vertical planks into the swirly.
I just walk straight in without clicking anything (literally did that earlier too). You should be able to do that too.
There was a quest line for attunement, but I thought they took all those out a long time ago.
There are planks over the entrance hole, yes, but you just walk through/under them and enter. There’s no cog wheel or clicky, you just walk in.