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[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.
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 .
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
Locations in Eastern Kingdoms
Locations in Outland
Locations in Northrend
[3]
Patch changes
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.
Event activated on 11/1/10.
Video
References
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