Tripping the Rifts is only obtainable during the Cataclysm launch event. To receive this achievement, you must kill each of the 4 elemental types and receive their buffs.
Elemental camps can be found in every quest zone in Azeroth, Outland and Northrend. A listing of the Outland camps can be seen at A Gathering in Outland.
Overview
The rifts are on a random spawn timer of approximately 50-56 minutes. It seems all rifts are on the same timer and occur about the same time.
- Closing any level rift will count towards Tripping the Rifts[1].
- You do not need to have all the buffs at the same time [2]
- Rifts range anywhere from 3 to 5 per zone. Some zones do have more locations.
- They de-spawn if not closed within 10 minutes.
- You can only receive the DAILY (Once per day) quest Hammering It Out from a rift that is within your level range.
- Destroying an elemental drains the rift of one life point.
- Bring the rift to 0 life to kill it and spawn the elemental container.
- The buff lasts for an hour.
Locations
The rift types can be found in the following zones:
Earth
Earth | Locations | Level Range |
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Loch Modan | Mo'grosh Stronghold; Thelsamar | |
Redridge Mountains | In Lakeshire; Alther's Mill | |
Stonetalon Mountains | Sun Rock Retreat;Charred Vale | |
Desolace | Nigel's Point Sar'theris Strand, south of Shadowprey Village |
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Alterac Mountains | The Uplands; Just southeast of the Growless Cave, Flame of Uzel for Horde players | |
Western Plaguelands | Felstone Field [35.6, 58.3] The Weeping Cave, north of the new flightmaster |
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Burning Steppes | West of Dreadmaul Rock | |
Silithus | Cenarion Hold towards Swarming Pillar | |
Nagrand | Laughing Skull Ruins Windyreed Village Telaar Northwest of Oshu'gun Garadar Burning Blade Ruins Warmaul Hill |
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Blade's Edge Mountains | Grishnath; Sylvanaar; Veil Vesk | |
Howling Fjord | Wyrmskull Village near the hut Alliance players witness the visions of the past | |
Grizzly Hills | NW corner of Drakil'jin Ruins[73, 24] Drak'atal Passage Rage Fang Shrine[53, 55] Zeb'Halak[16, 36] |
73-80 |
Storm Peaks | First Gnoll camp west of K3 Inventor's Library Valkyrion[25.8, 62.1] |
Fire
Fire | Locations | Level Range | |
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Westfall | Sentinel Hill Moonbrook (near messenger patrol path) |
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The Barrens | Between Razorfen Downs and Razorfen Kraul; Ratchet; Camp Taurajo; North of Bael Modan; Stagnant Oasis; The Sludge Fen | ||
Dustwallow Marsh | Inside Theramore near Armory North of Witch Hill |
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The Hinterlands | |||
Searing Gorge | |||
Blasted Lands | Nethergarde Keep[61.4, 20.6] West of Serpents Coil[56.3, 30.5] |
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Winterspring | Everlook north[62, 34] Everlook south-east[61, 41] North of Starfall Village[53, 24] South of Frostsaber Rock[50, 14] |
55-60 | |
Hellfire Peninsula | Dark Portal; Honor Hold; Falcon Watch; Sha'naari Wastes | ||
Zul'Drak | South of Zeramas[21, 80] East of Altar of Rhunok[57, 34] East of the Reliquary of Pain In the middle of Heb'Drakkar Thrym's End SE of Altar of Har'koa Rageclaw Den |
74-80 |
Water
Water | Locations | Level Range |
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Silverpine Forest | East of Shadowfang Keep; South of the fork in the road east of Sepulcher; West of Dead Field towards the shore |
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Ghostlands | ||
Wetlands | On the shore near the Bluegill Murlocs and the two ruined ships; Between the Greenwarden and Dark Iron Dwarf Camps; Menethil Harbor inside near front entrance | |
Thousand Needles | Darkcloud Pinnacle |
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Stranglethorn Vale | Kurzen's Compound; Wild Shore; West of Nesingwary camp; Grom'gol Base Camp; Between the entrance of Booty Bay and the Wild Shore |
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Swamp of Sorrows | Stonard South of The Harborage[28, 38.4] |
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Tanaris | Lost Rigger Cove; Dunemaul Compound; West of Gadgetzan; North-east of Gadgetzan Waterspring Field[59.0, 39.0] |
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Un'goro Crater | Entrance from Tanaris |
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Zangarmarsh | On road leading to Terrokkar; Orebor Harborage; Ango'rosh Grounds; Swamp Rat |
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Shadowmoon Valley | Legion Hold; Shadowmoon Village; Zabra'jin Ruins of Baa'ri[56, 35] |
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Dragonblight | Agmar's Hammer; Wintergarde Keep; Frostmourne Cavern; SE Ruby Dragonshrine; New Hearthglen |
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Icecrown | Icecrown Sindragosa's Fall; Deathspeaker's Watch west of Argent Tournament |
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Hrothgar's Landing | North part |
Wind
Wind | Locations | Level Range |
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Darkshore |
Aubderine; West of Bashal Aran; South of Auberdine on the shore; Grove of the Ancients |
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Hillsbrad Foothills |
Southshore; Tarren Mill |
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Duskwood |
SE of Raven Hill Cemetery; Darkshire |
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Arathi Highlands |
South of Circle of West Binding; Hammerfall |
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Feralas |
Ruins of Solarsal ("Flame of Samha") Front of Dire Maul West of Feathermoon Stronghold Forgotten Coast near the dock |
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Felwood |
Shatter Scar Vale, southern craters |
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Eastern Plaguelands |
Northpass Tower; South of Corin's Crossing; Undercroft; Browman Mill |
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Terokkar Forest |
Cenarion Thicket; Veil Shienor; Bone Wastes; Tuurem Firewing Point[72.1, 36.1] |
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Netherstorm |
Area 52; Arklon Ruins; South of Manaforge Ultris near bridge |
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Borean Tundra |
Magmoth, west end of the Fizzlecrank Airstrip North of Taunka'le Village Valiance Keep, south west towards Riplash Strand Coldrock Quarry, southern edge of cliff overlooking it[51, 36] |
68-80 |
Sholazar Basin | Mosswalker Village Kartak's Hold The Glimmering Pillar, Death's Hand Encampment Sapphire Hive South of Frenzy Heart village[61, 77] River's Heart, east bank of the river just to south The Makers Overlook, west of Savage Thicket, right in the middle |
Locations in Kalimdor
Locations in Eastern Kingdoms
Locations in Northrend
Patch changes
- Template:Patched
- Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added
Video
References
- ^ NA Forums, Tharyl of < Dream Team >, Nesingwary realm, http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=27508583776&sid=1&pageNo=1
- ^ Wowhead, Tripping the Rifts, http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=4887
- ^ Comment by user tmptfate at cata.wowhead.com
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