Shatterspear Village
In a glade between Darkshore and Moonglade, reachable only by a long and careful walk over the mountains, lived a tribe of trolls who never stopped dancing. Players called it the Dancing Troll Village, and for six years it was one of the best-known hidden spots in Kalimdor.
The Dancing Troll Village
There was no road in. Explorers reached the glade from Felwood with a lot of careful slope walking and a slow-fall potion for the final drop. Inside, around a lake, fifteen or so Shatterspear trolls danced around a fire. Four of them had names, Jory Zaga, Krah'ranik, Una Ji'ro and Voriya, and none of the named ones could be killed. There was no reputation and no quest. Attack one dancer and the whole party came for you, which made the village a quiet, if dangerous, spot for farming runecloth.
Vanilla WoW Secrets #1: Shatterspear Village · SoupaSoka
Cataclysm: Shatterspear Vale
Cataclysm gave the trolls a story. Shatterspear Vale became an open part of Darkshore, reached through the Shatterspear Pass. The tribe joined the Horde, and Horde enforcers helped it build the Shatterspear War Camp outside the vale. The night elves answered with force: the vale is now an Alliance quest hub, where Huntress Sandrya Moonfall's Sentinels set out to destroy the tribe and kill its chieftain, Jor'kil.
In WoW Classic the old village and its dance party are back, and the walk in is as fiddly as ever.
From the archive
Just keep away from the dance party by the lake: hit one of those trolls and all fifteen or so will come after you. Getting there is honestly more trouble than it's worth. It takes a lot of careful slope walking, and I'd bring a stack of Nogginfoggers for the slow fall.
Alsatia, Allakhazam forums
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