"Chris Metzen revealed in the Developer Panels that Illidan closed all the Dark Portals of Outland. Nevertheless, MagusRogue, a World of Warcraft RPG Game Designer from White-Wolf revealed the following:







"The portals were shut down by Illidan, actually. However, some of the quests in the Burning Crusade Expansion have you re-opening

these and going to new dimensions, fighting the legion in new worlds. Should be awesome."







Tom Chilton: "[Outland is] going to comprise of several new outdoors zones. In a lot of ways, it'll be like crossing from Azeroth to

Kalimdor. You'll go through the portal, get your load screen and there you are: Outlands. You'll start off on what we call the

Hellfire Peninsula. That's a level 54-60 zone. Everything in Outlands just kind of goes from there. It'll flow like you'd expect

from outdoor world zones in WoW, all the way through to the Level 70 content, dungeons, and so on."