Tripping the Rifts

	Tripping the Rifts
	Destroyed one of each type of elemental rift during the Cataclysm launch event.
Criteria: Template:Col-2 Earth Powered Water Powered Template:Col-2 Fire Powered Wind Powered

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.

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.
• You do not need to have all the buffs at the same time
• 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.
• Each rift has 12 life points.
• 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 buffs lasts for an hour.
• The buffs will disappear on death.

Locations

The rift types can be found in the following zones:

Earth

Represented on maps below by .

Zone	Subzone	Coordinates	Level Range	Note
Loch Modan	Mo'grosh Stronghold
	Thelsamar
Redridge Mountains	Alther's Mill
	Lakeshire
Stonetalon Mountains	Charred Vale
	Sun Rock Retreat
Desolace	Kodo Graveyard			Between Mannoroc Coven and Kodo Graveyard.
	Nijel's Point
	Sar'theris Strand
	Shadowprey Village			South of town.
Alterac Mountains	Dalaran Crater			To the southeast.
	Flame of Uzel			For Horde players
	Growless Cave			To the southeast.
	The Uplands
Azshara	Lake Mennar			On the eastern side.
Western Plaguelands	Felstone Field	[35.6, 58.3]
	The Weeping Cave			North of the new flight master.
	Gahrron's Withering	[59.8, 59.8]		To the west.
Burning Steppes	Dreadmaul Rock	[83, 58]		Between Dreadmaul Rock and Morgan's Vigil.
	Pillar of Ash	[46, 52]
Silithus	Cenarion Hold			Towards the Swarming Pillar.
Nagrand	Ancestral Grounds	[26, 61]
	Burning Blade Ruins	[74.6, 69.6]
	Garadar
	Laughing Skull Ruins	[48.2, 23.3]
	Nesingwary Safari	[72.2, 40.8]
	Telaar
	Warmaul Hill	[25.8, 21.1]
	Windyreed Village
Blade's Edge Mountains	Grishnath
	Sylvanaar
	Veil Vekh
Howling Fjord	Ember Clutch	[40.9, 53.9]
	New Agamand	[53.7, 67.8]
	Skorn	[44.7, 31.4]
	Westguard Keep	[31.1, 46.8]
	Wyrmskull Village	[59.2, 51.6]
Grizzly Hills	Drakil'jin Ruins	[72.6, 23.5]	73-80	Northeast corner.
	Drak'atal Passage	[45.5, 27.0]	73-80
	Rage Fang Shrine	[53.1, 55.2]	73-80
	Zeb'Halak	[16, 36]	73-80
Storm Peaks	Inventor's Library
	Brunnhildar Village	[44.6, 73.9]
	Snowblind Hills	[35.4, 82.5]		First Gnoll camp west of K3.
	Valkyrion	[25.8, 62.1]

Fire

Represented on maps below by .

Zone	Subzone	Coordinates	Level Range	Note
Westfall	Gold Coast Quarry	[32, 38]
	Furlbrow's Pumpkin Patch	[53, 19]
	Moonbrook	[45, 68]
	Sentinel Hill	[55, 50]
The Barrens	Bael Modan			North of Bael Modan.
	Camp Taurajo
	Ratchet
	Southern Gold Road			Between Razorfen Downs and Razorfen Kraul.
	Stagnant Oasis
	The Sludge Fen
Dustwallow Marsh	Shady Rest Inn	[29.8, 45.1]
	Theramore			Inside near the armory.
	Witch Hill			To the north.
The Hinterlands	Featherbeard's Hovel
Searing Gorge
Blasted Lands	Dark Portal	[59.1, 43.7]		To the north.
	Dreadmaul Hold	[46.8, 19.8]
	Dreadmaul Post	[46.9, 41.0]
	Nethergarde Keep	[61.4, 20.6]
	Serpent's Coil	[56.3, 30.5]		To the west.
	The Tainted Scar	[46.1, 51.1]		At the entrance.
Winterspring	Everlook	[62, 34]		North.
	Everlook	[61, 41]		Southeast.
	Frostsaber Rock	[50, 14]		To the south.
	Starfall Village	[53, 24]		To the north.
Hellfire Peninsula	Dark Portal
	Falcon Watch
	Honor Hold
	Sha'naari Wastes
	The Path of Glory	[58, 48]
	Thrallmar	[54, 37]
Zul'Drak	Altar of Har'koa			To the southeast.
	Altar of Rhunok	[57, 34]		To the east.
	Heb'Drakkar	[65.3, 53.6]
	Rageclaw Den	[35.8, 80.6]
	Reliquary of Pain	[32.1, 45.9]		To the east.
	Thrym's End	[16.2, 60.6]
	Zeramas	[21, 80]		To the south.

Water

Represented on maps below by .

Zone	Subzone	Coordinates	Level Range	Note
Silverpine Forest	Ambermill		10-20	To the north.
	Dead Field		10-20	West towards the shore.
	Sepulcher		10-20	South of the fork in the road east of town.
	Shadowfang Keep		10-20	To the east.
Ghostlands
Wetlands	Direforge Hill		20-30	Between the Green Belt and Direforge Hill.
	Menethil Harbor		20-30	Near the front gate.
	Sundown Marsh		20-30	On the shore near the Lost Fleet.
Thousand Needles	Darkcloud Pinnacle		25-35
Stranglethorn Vale	Booty Bay		30-45	Between the entrance and the Wild Shore.
	Grom'gol Base Camp		30-45
	Kurzen's Compound		30-45
	Nesingwary's Expedition		30-45	West of the camp.
Swamp of Sorrows	Harborage	[28.4, 39.3]	35-45	To the south.
	Splinterspear Junction	[15, 49]	35-45
	Stonard	[45.1, 53.5]	35-45
	Stagalbog Cave	[68, 76]	35-45
	Stagalbog	[77, 68]	35-45
Tanaris	Dunemaul Compound		40-50
	Gaping Chasm		40-50
	Gadgetzan		40-50	Northeast.
	Gadgetzan		40-50	West
	Lost Rigger Cove		40-50
	Thistleshrub Valley		40-50
	Waterspring Field	[59.0, 39.0]	40-50
Un'goro Crater	Lakkari Tar Pits		48-59	To the north.
	Marshlands		48-59	Southeast.
Zangarmarsh	Ango'rosh Grounds		60-66
	Feralfen Village		60-66
	Funggor Cavern		60-66	On road leading to Terokkar Forest.
	Orebor Harborage		60-66
	Swamprat Post		60-66
	Zabra'jin		60-66
Shadowmoon Valley	Legion Hold		67-70
	Ruins of Baa'ri	[56, 35]	67-70
	Shadowmoon Village		67-70
Dragonblight	Agmar's Hammer		71-80
	New Hearthglen		71-80
	Ruby Dragonshrine		71-80	Southeast.
	Scarlet Point	[75.2, 27.9]	71-80	Near Frostmourne Cavern.
	Wintergarde Keep	[79.3, 49.3]	71-80
Icecrown	Deathspeaker's Watch	[60.4, 21.9]	77-80
	Sindragosa's Fall		77-80
Hrothgar's Landing	Northern Section		77-80

Wind

Wind	Locations	Level Range
Darkshore	Auberdine West of Bashal'Aran South of Auberdine on the shore Grove of the Ancients	10-20
Hillsbrad Foothills	Southshore Tarren Mill	20-30
Duskwood	Raven Hill [20.0, 52.7] Addle's Stead[25, 68] The Yorgen Farmstead [49.2, 74.2] The Rotting Orchard [62.8, 69.6] Darkshire[74.7, 47.1]	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 The area below Rage Scar Hold (50, 31)	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] Allerian Stronghold Stonebreaker Hold	62-65
Netherstorm	Area 52 Arklon Ruins South of Manaforge Ultris near bridge	67-70
Borean Tundra	Magmoth, west end of the Fizzcrank 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
Crystalsong Forest	Ruins of Shandaral [73, 62]	77-80

Continent maps

Note that the coordinates displayed on the maps are for the continent, not for the zone in which the spawn locations can be found.

Locations in Kalimdor

Kalimdor

Locations in Eastern Kingdoms

Eastern Kingdoms

Locations in Outland

Outland

Locations in Northrend

Northrend

Patch changes

• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.

  Event activated on 11/1/10.
  

External links

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