Why is there four level 83 elite guards at the entrance to Gnomergan?

[Moofits-area-52]

I went to do the pet battle in Gnomergan and they one shot me before I could even get in the entrance. Why put pet battling behind such an obstacle?

[Keymah-moon-guard]

Do it on an Alliance toon.

[Moofits-area-52]

I don’t have any alliance toons and am not making one just to do a pet battle, but thanks

[Kimlyn-sargeras]

Kill the guards.

[Kiyoko-ravenholdt]

Starting zones in the open world have elite guards 3 levels above max (was 5 prior to the level squish, which made them higher level than raid bosses), which protect the new players.

I believe you can get past them, it’s possible to run gnomergan dungeon on Horde but I don’t honestly recall how. You might need to just beeline it with flying, or maybe the booty bay teleporter still works?

[Vixinara-wyrmrest-accord (Vixinara)]

There is a portal in Grom’gol, in Stranglethorn.

Edit: Though I realize this may take you directly in the dungeon, which might be different to the pet battle one. My b.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

The internets are telling me this:

To get to Gnomeregan as a Horde player in World of Warcraft, you can complete a quest chain that unlocks the ability to teleport from Booty Bay:

1. Go to the Engineering shop in Orgrimmar and speak to Sovik. He’ll give you the quest “Chief Engineer Scooty” at level 20.
2. Accept the quest “Rig Wars”.
3. Fly to Ratchet and take the ship to Booty Bay.
4. Find Scooty along the docks, on the lower floor close to the inn.
5. Speak to Scooty and complete the quest “Gnomer-gooooone!”.
6. You’ll receive a Goblin Transponder.
7. Step onto the teleport pad in Booty Bay to be transported to Gnomeregan.

Once you’ve completed the quest, you can teleport to Gnomeregan as often as you want as long as you have the Goblin Transponder in your inventory. You can destroy the transponder and Scooty will give you a new one each time you talk to him.

[Malgorok-zuljin]

Stay outa my town

[Keymah-moon-guard]

@Moofits-area-52

I don’t have any alliance toons and am not making one just to do a pet battle, but thanks

You’re welcome. Kill the guards then or use stealth.

[Breadisfunny-turalyon (Breadisfunny)]

its the pvp part of the secret.

[Rankin-shandris (Rankin)]

I don’t know if they changed it, but it used to take you just outside the dungeon.

[Kennie-malganis]

@Moofits-area-52

I don’t have any alliance toons and am not making one just to do a pet battle

Gonna have a pretty brutal time with pets then considering some require specific races.

[Analise-area-52]

A true comrade.

[Megabreakcog-proudmoore]

Why not make a fresh gnome then run over to the pet fight?

[Locke-echo-isles]

Because pet battling is the true end-game.

I guess.

The level of guards are also from the bigone era of PvP servers being a thing. I could see them upping the levels of everything if Warmode were turned on, but…

[Kiyoko-ravenholdt]

Seems like the principle of the matter at this point tbh

[Tiresias-moon-guard (Tiresias)]

It has been awhile since I did that dungeon but can’t you just talk to someone at the pet area in Dalaran to get a port there?

[Kiyoko-ravenholdt]

Only if you already did it once. The teleport is the quest reward for clearing normal mode.

[Dracarian-medivh]

Manapoof

This NPC can send you straight in from Legion Dalaran. Just have to do a few quests to unlock him.

[Moofits-area-52]

As someone suggested, I flew over their heads but they still managed to take half my health and I had to feign death real quick. Now that I cleared the pet battle I do have a teleport from the Dalaran pet store. Thanks for all the responses.