Quest "Thinly Veiled Threats" has insane path

[peshyy]

When doing the quest, it asks me to hearth back to Shal'Aran and then walk back to near where I'm located right now. This needs to be looked at.

Screenshot: https://puu.sh/xpl5e/c2c5e19207.jpg

[ZG Support 1]

Have you tested with all other addons disabled? Where does the mini map say you are standing? Have you tried right clicking on the arrow and select re-check route to see if it changes?

[Cartman]

This is due to the pathing waypoints. The first one is directly next to the portal in the southwest of Suramar City, that's why the guide tells you to hearth back and use the portal.
As long as you can't fly this would be the better option to get there.
I haven't checked the guide files but I think it's possible to make routing information conditional wether the character can fly or not. If that is the case maybe the Zygor team missed doing this for this and some other steps in the Suramar guide (I think there are more steps like this).

[peshyy]

Have you tested with all other addons disabled? Where does the mini map say you are standing? Have you tried right clicking on the arrow and select re-check route to see if it changes?

No, I haven't. The arrow is set to non-interactive. But the comment below explains it properly, I understood why it did that.

This is due to the pathing waypoints. The first one is directly next to the portal in the southwest of Suramar City, that's why the guide tells you to hearth back and use the portal.
As long as you can't fly this would be the better option to get there.
I haven't checked the guide files but I think it's possible to make routing information conditional wether the character can fly or not. If that is the case maybe the Zygor team missed doing this for this and some other steps in the Suramar guide (I think there are more steps like this).

I don't have flying yet, so that may be the case, yes. But it was less than a minute to walk to the spot, so I don't know.. I understand the path system tends to show the fastest way possible. Thanks for clarifying what the "issue" is!