Going to old Arathi through Zidormi doesn’t change the map terrain, rending the zone unusable because it does load the old NPC’s and enemies but they are either stuck in terrain or floating/jittering in the air, due to being spawned on the wrong map.
I have reported this ingame, just thought to make some noise as well. This might be related to me not having done the warfronts intro on said character so I’m gonna try that as I can
Edit: Just to note on the main body I did the Darkshore warfronts intro, nothing changed and I couldn’t continue anything apparently Warfront related.
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I cant even get the explore achievment
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Did you ever get this fixed? I am also having this issue and am locked out of completing to some quests because the enemies spawn under the current map.
Nah it’s not fixed and I couldn’t find or figure a workaround.
Same problem here. After speaking with Zidormi zone is missing old buildings, NPC’s and enemies under ground or floating in the air.
https://imgur.com/a/f3zpsb
On the side note. You should move the thread to Customer Support. We report all the bugs there.
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Oh damn I could just do that, thanks.
Running into this problem as well. 
Most of the zone is unplayable due to NPC’s stuck in terrain or flying.
Would be great to get a fix. 
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Can confirm that the zone is entirely unusable at the moment at the moment. Just phase in on a high level character and you’ll see floating mobs, NPCs in the ground or entirely missing and other weird glitches.
On top of the obvious immersion breaking bugs this basically bricks the game for several things:
- Questing (Loremaster achievement, completionism)
- DK order hall campaign is impossible to progress
- Unique NPCs (e.g. Arathi Basin vendor with exclusive rewards) are unavailable
- Simply exploring the zone seems to not work properly either
I am extremely curious about how this bug materialized in the first place. I found a hotfix not long ago that changed the behaviour of buildings in the zone for the TWW Trollbane questline; my guess is that it either caused this situation or share the same root cause as the initial bug.
Please Blizzard, fix this asap 
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Hello there,
Thanks for the reports, we do have a bug in for this, though it sounds like the underlying cause won’t be trivial to fix and so it might take some time to address.
Appreciate your patience in the meantime, and thanks again for letting us know!
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Hello there Blizzard.
We seem to have a problem, something has broken, or you need to hit the restart button BADLY. Arathi Highlands is almost completely broken. The majority of the Quest NPCs are either underground, or missing. Structures missing, NPCs aren’t hooked to the terrain, so they fall through the ground, others, hooked to a point in the air, in constant drop.
Zidormi doesn’t seem to know how to phase you other, so old, and new Arathi Highlands is overlapping in places.
https://x.com/TheHearthwoods/status/2047958070160990283?s=20
(Since I’m not permitted to link it)
There are so many more issues here.
Here is to hoping it will be fixed anytime soon.. the amount of time this is taking is insane
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Yep, it seems like a high priority issue.
Currently stuck on completing:
- Loremaster
- Exploration
- Multiple Questlines from different expacs
At least it’s nice knowing it’s on the to-do list.
I may have found the secret work around.
I levelled this character from the old Belf start and when I travelled to Orgrimmar put on chromie time, cataclysm.
I then hearthstoned back to old Silvermoon to hand the final quest in and took the portal crystal to Tirisfal, expecting it to be the wrong phase. However, it was the correct phase. I have just stuck my nose into Arathi Highlands and it is in the old phase there as well.
Edit: Double checked, the NPCs are not floating or anything either.
Oh that is cool! however I am not quite sure how Chromie time works for my main for example. Can i go back to Chromie on my main and set the timeline to Cataclysm and follow your steps?
Because for me its not about getting the achievement or anything, i want every quest in de the game to be completed on my main character. I obviously have completed the Arathi highlands quests back in the days.
No, it only goes up to 81 now, so in that case you’ll have to wait until they fix it
i tried every workaround, nothing works… sadge
Only area that is left in order to complete The Loremaster for me :<
Been in Arathi to check this out. Zone is still broken.
It’s due to be fixed in the next patch
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