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, Between Mannoroc Coven and Kodo Graveyard |
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Alterac Mountains | The Uplands Just southeast of the Growless Cave, Flame of Uzel for Horde players Southeast of Dalaran Crater |
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Western Plaguelands | Felstone Field [35.6, 58.3] The Weeping Cave, north of the new flightmaster |
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Burning Steppes | South of Dreadmaul Rock [83, 58] [46, 52] |
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Silithus | Cenarion Hold towards Swarming Pillar | |
Nagrand | Laughing Skull Ruins[48.2, 23.3] Windyreed Village Telaar Ancestral Ruins[26, 61] (approximate) Garadar Burning Blade Ruins[74.6, 69.6] Warmaul Hill[25.8, 21.1] Nesingwary Safari[72.2, 40.8] |
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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[35.4, 82.5] Inventor's Library Brunnhildar Village[44.6, 73.9] Valkyrion[25.8, 62.1] |
Fire
Fire | Locations | Level Range | |
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Westfall | Sentinel Hill[55, 50] Moonbrook[45, 68] Gold Coast Quarry [32, 38] Furlbrow's Pumpkin Farm [53, 19] |
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The Barrens | Between Razorfen Downs and Razorfen Kraul Ratchet Camp Taurajo North of Bael Modan Stagnant Oasis The Sludge Fen |
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Dustwallow Marsh | Inside Theramore near Armory North of Witch Hill |
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The Hinterlands | Featherbeard's Hovel | ||
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 |
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Zul'Drak | South of Zeramas[21, 80] East of Altar of Rhunok[57, 34] East of the Reliquary of Pain[32.1, 45.9] In the middle of Heb'Drakkar[65.3, 53.6] Thrym's End[16.2, 60.6] SE of Altar of Har'koa Rageclaw Den[35.8, 80.6] |
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 North of Ambermill |
10-20 |
Ghostlands | 10-20 | |
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 |
20-30 |
Thousand Needles | Darkcloud Pinnacle |
25-35 |
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 |
30-45 |
Swamp of Sorrows | Stonard South of The Harborage [28, 38.4] [15, 49] |
35-45 |
Tanaris | Lost Rigger Cove Dunemaul Compound West of Gadgetzan North-east of Gadgetzan Waterspring Field[59.0, 39.0] |
40-50 |
Un'goro Crater | Entrance from Tanaris |
48-59 |
Zangarmarsh | On road leading to Terrokkar Orebor Harborage Ango'rosh Grounds Swamp Rat Feralfen Village |
60-66 |
Shadowmoon Valley | Legion Hold Shadowmoon Village Zabra'jin Ruins of Baa'ri[56, 35] |
67-70 |
Dragonblight | Agmar's Hammer Wintergarde Keep Frostmourne Cavern SE Ruby Dragonshrine New Hearthglen |
71-80 |
Icecrown | Icecrown Sindragosa's Fall Deathspeaker's Watch[60.4, 21.9] |
77-80 |
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 |
10-20 |
Hillsbrad Foothills |
Southshore Tarren Mill |
20-30 |
Duskwood |
SE of Raven Hill Cemetery Addle's Stead[25, 68] Darkshire[75, 47] |
18-30 |
Arathi Highlands |
South of Circle of West Binding Hammerfall |
30-40 |
Feralas |
Ruins of Solarsal ("Flame of Samha") Front of Dire Maul Southwest of Feathermoon Stronghold Forgotten Coast near the dock |
45-50 |
Felwood |
Shatter Scar Vale, southern craters |
48-55 |
Eastern Plaguelands |
Northpass Tower South of Corin's Crossing Undercroft Browman Mill |
53-60 |
Terokkar Forest |
Cenarion Thicket Veil Shienor Bone Wastes Tuurem Firewing Point[72.1, 36.1] |
62-65 |
Netherstorm |
Area 52 Arklon Ruins South of Manaforge Ultris near bridge |
67-70 |
Borean Tundra |
Magmoth, west end of the Fizzlecrank Airstrip North of Taunka'le Village[78, 28] Valiance Keep, south west towards Riplash Strand Coldrock Quarry, southern edge of cliff overlooking it[51, 36] |
68-80 |
Sholazar Basin | Mosswalker Village (around [77, 52]), west of Makers' Overlook Kartak's Hold (around [25, 82]) Glimmering Pillar, Death's Hand Encampment (around [56, 39]) Sapphire Hive South of Frenzy Heart village[61, 77] [River's Heart], east bank of the river just to south (around [45, 64]) Savage Thicket, right in the middle [48.1, 25.4] |
76-80 |
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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