I don't like people sneaking out of bounds into undeveloped territory. My preferred approach is that if you want to do that, you should come work for us. Then you can see undeveloped territory to your heart's content!
I've been admonished . My normal procedure for exploring new zones is to see where the boundaries are so I circumnavigate the zone as best as possible and then go back to the starting point and follow the quest flow. I didn't intend on escaping the bounds of Mirkwood, I was just exploring the little strip of land along the little east-west running waterway at the southern edge and happened to jump up onto a portion of the southern bank which was intended to be out-of-bounds. Once I was out I couldn't help but to explore. I think the escape point was fixed but that's moot since you get auto-ported back to your starter zone now when you escape the boundaries.
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