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Wowhead Guide with Map & Elemental type Locations

This was the limited time event achievement added for the Cataclysm Pre-Launch Events.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EVENT WENT LIVE NOVEMBER 1st, 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EVENT ENDED NOVEMBER 23rd, 2010 with THE SHATTERING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To get this achievement, you need to have had each of the above mentioned buffs at any time (not required at the same time though). Each buff is obtained by being around an Elemental Rift of that kind when it closes. And you can have all the buffs at the same time. :D Each buff lasts 1 hour.

>>>>> IMPORTANT: You can get your achievement by destroying rifts anywhere, you won't be able to loot Mysterious Objects though unless the zone is level appropriate for you <<<<<

Rifts Details:

Elemental Rifts (Click for locations) will be appearing all over the game world. This includes Northrend AND Outland.
Elemental Rifts lose health when one of their elemental creatures is killed. If the rift has 10 Health, killing 10 of the elementals it spawns will kill/close it.
These Elemental Rifts are level specific in relation to the item they drop. So, for example, all level 80 characters will have to kill rifts in Northrend locations to get the daily quest item that spawns when the rift dies, while level 60 characters can kill rifts in Silithus, Western Plaguelands, or other level appropriate zones that spawn rifts.
Rifts started with a 60 minute respawn timer and a 10 minute despawn timer (i.e. if not killed within this time from appearing, it goes away for an hour). As the event progresses, the time on respawn will decrease (exact decrease amounts depend on the event phase).

Rift Loot:

Each time a rift closes, it leaves behind a loot-able floating item called Mysterious Device (Click for locations). This automatically gives a daily quest called Hammering It Out that rewards some XP and/or gold.

Buff Details

Earth Powered from Rumbling Elemental (Click for locations) - Each melee attack, ranged attack, harmful spell or healing spell has a chance to heal you for 2% of your maximum health.
Fire Powered from Searing Elemental (Click for locations) - Each melee attack, ranged attack or harmful spell has a chance of engulfing the target in flames, dealing X damage over 15 sec (scales with level). Stacks 5 times.
Water Powered from Surging Elemental (Click for locations) - Each melee attack, ranged attack, harmful spell or healing spell has a chance to increase your Energy, Rage, Mana or Runic Power gain by 15%.
Wind Powered from Gusting Elemental (Click for locations) - Each melee attack, ranged attack, harmful spell or healing spell has a chance to increase your haste rating by X for 10 sec. (scales with level)

~~~~~~~~~~ Rift Locations Throughout Northrend (MAP) ~~~~~~~~~~

Wind:

Sholazar Basin, east bank of the river just south of River's Heart
Sholazar Basin, just west of The Makers Overlook
Borean Tundra, Magmar, west end of the Fizzlecrank Airstrip
Sholozar Basin, Savage Thicket, right in the middle
Borean Tundra, Valiance Keep, south west towards Riplash Strand
Sholozar Basin, Frenzyheart Village, east side by wasps
Borean Tundra, Taunka'le Village, just north of the village
Sholazar Basin, The Glimmering Pilar, at the Cultist camp

Fire:

Zul Drak, Voltarus, directly beneath
Zul Drak, Thrym's End, by center of the area
Zul'drak, Reliquary of Pain, east of the teleport platform (in the empty field)
Zul'Drak, Lights Breach, south east towards lake shoreline
Zul'Drak, Zeramas, directly beneath it
Zul'Drak, Zim'Torga, northeast towards the temple

Earth:

Storm Peaks, west of K3, Gnoll camp
Howling Fjord, Gjalerbron, right next to it
Grizzley Hills, Ursoc's Den Area, bottom of the left stair way next to it
Grizzly Hills, Zeb'Halak, directly next to it
Storm Peaks, Brunhildar Village, to the west of the village
Grizzley Hills, Drak'Atal passage, right inside it
Grizzly Hills, Drakil'Jin Ruins, just north of it

Water:

Dragonblight, Agmars Hammer (Horde), spawns in base SW corner
Dragonblight, Obsidian Dragon Shrine, Next to the Ember Drake bones
Dragonblight, Naxxramas, undernearth it and slightly northwest
Icecrown, Ymerheim, slight north of Mordrethar Tower
Icecrown, Sindragosa's Fall, just south of the map text
Icecrown, Argent Tournament Grounds, to the west at end of the cultist area
Dragonblight, Lights Trust, right by camp
Dragonblight, Moonrest Gardens, right inside the area
Dragonblight, Bloodpaw Village (south east peninsula in zone), right in village
Dragonblight, Scarlet Point, southeast from Frostmounre cave
Icecrown, Valkyrion, towards the south eat
Dragonblight, Ruby Dragon Shrine
Dragonblight, New Hearthglen, right in the fortress

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Commento di Alcanarias

Almost certainly a reference to the CGI animated series Tripping the Rift (a science fiction comedy) which I believe aired on the Sci Fi (Syfy nowadays) channel between 2004 and 2007.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##Gryphon##DELIM##

Commento di 133778

EARTH!
FIRE!
WIND!
WATER!
RIFTS!

Go cataclysm!

Your powers combined i am DEATHWING, THE UN-MAKER OF WORLDS.

Commento di 529237

Anyone know when this achievement release?

Commento di Arikara

Trip-attack!

Commento di 28061

Confirmed Alliance/Neutral Northrend Rift Spawn Points

Air: Borean Tundra - Magmar, due north of the west end of the Fizzcrank Airstrip.
Earth: Storm Peaks - Gnoll camp due west of K3, east of the sleeping giant
Fire: Zul'drak - Reliquary of Pain, a bit east of the teleportation platform, in the empty field.
Water: Dragonblight - Wintergarde Keep, on the ramp leading down to the "middle tier" of the village.

Spawn timer seems to be about, or exactly, one hour from the previous spawn-in. There may be a 2-5 minute variance working here.

Despawn, if a rift is left alone, seems to be about 10 minutes, give-or-take.

Commento di iceelf

Found earth rift behind nessigwary in nagrand

Edit:
Found fire near Dart's spawning point
Found water at southwest of umbrafen lake in zangarmarsh
Edit: found another fire rift just after leaving the dark portal in hellfire
edit:
gah.. im still looking for wind..

Ademord Baelgun EU

Commento di Phosh

Some images of a rift in Borean Tundra: (just north of the Airstrip)

http://imgur.com/Ds9s6.jpg
http://imgur.com/KojT0.jpg

Bit more info (just got the Achievement):

Definitely an hour respawn timer.

As posted, you can get the buffs from closing Rifts anywhere, not just zones that are level relevant to you. This may not be the case to get the the daily quest.

Where I got mine:

Storm Peaks (Earth) - Just east of the sleeping Giant in the Gnoll camp West of K2 (36,81).
Dragonblight (Water) - Ruby Dragonshrine (49,50).
Borean Tundra (Wind) - North of the Air Strip (55,15).
Zul'Drak (Fire) - Near the Altar of Har'koa (61,67).

Co-ords might be slightly off. ^^

Commento di 46255

do you need to have all 4 buffs at the same time to get this achievement?

Commento di 436173

Wowhead now has a good set of maps for the specific spawn points here:

http://www.wowhead.com/guide=cataclysm&prelaunch#twilights-cult-elemental-invasion

I can't vouch for the accuracy, but here's the original list I posted (taken from a thread on the official forums):

Fire
1. Westfall
2. The Barrens
3. Dustwallow Marsh
4. The Hinterlands
5. Searing Gorge
6. Blasted Lands
7. Winterspring
8. Hellfire Peninsula
9. Zul'Drak

Water
1. Silverpine Forest
2. Ghostlands
3. Wetlands
4. Thousand Needles
5. Stranglethorn Vale
6. Swamp of Sorrows
7. Un'goro Crater
8. Zangarmarsh
9. Shadowmoon Valley
10. Dragonblight
11. Icecrown

Wind
1. Darkshore
2. Hillsbrad Foothills
3. Duskwood
4. Eastern Plaguelands
5. Terokkar Forest
6. Netherstorm
7. Borean Tundra
8. Sholazar Basin

Earth
1. Loch Modan
2. Redridge Mountains
3. Desolace
4. Western Plaguelands
5. Burning Steppes
6. Silithus
7. Nagrand
8. Blade's Edge Mountains
9. Howling Fjord
10. Grizzly Hills
11. Storm Peaks

Commento di wronnyd

The Elemental Rifts (at least the ones in outland) have 12 Health.
Coords:

Outland:
Netherstorm: 65, 50; 55,22, 30,64 (Wind); "30, 64" is next to Area52, you may check this one first.
Nagrand: 27, 61; 33, 41 (Earth).
Zangarmarsch: 46, 60 (Water)
Hellfire P. : in Falconwatch.

------------------------- What to look for -----
Most of these effects can be seen from a very far distance.

Wind - whirlwinds, like the Druid spell.
Water - a Blizzard effect.
Earth - much dust and a "moonfire" like effect.
Fire - Frie on the ground.

Commento di 310125

Wind Elemental Rift, Sholozar Basin in the Savage Thicket @ 48, 25.5

Also, you have EXACTLY ten minutes to close the rift before they despawn. They are all on an hour long timer and activate simultaneously.

Commento di 695221

There is a Water Elemental Rift in Ymerheim in Icecrown, JUST north of the tower of Mordrethar. I hope that helps.

Also, the Fire Rift east of the Reliquary of Pain in Zul'Drak is confirmed.

Commento di 286452

You can get this achievement at 80, while killing the Outland level 70 rifts. You can't loot the items dropped, but you can still get the buffs needed.

Commento di Yraelcx

No, nothing changes on the map. You have to keep checking known spawn locations to know if there's a rift spawned.

Commento di 243232

No, not randomly. They all spawn at the same exact time, so find out when ONE is open because it means the rest are open for 10 minutes max.

Commento di g34641

Thanks for the lists.

For the achievement it is NOT level specific. You can kill rifts anywhere and obtain the buff! I just got mine and two of my rift kills was in old world zones. The only thing that is level specific is the daily!

Did this on Tanaris US on my druid Aelwen

Commento di 541480

There is an earth one in Zeb'Halak in Grizzly Hills

Commento di Rexworth

Thank you for the edits, the descriptive respawn places help alot more then just telling us the zone they are in.

Commento di mysticalos

They seem to have spawned at same time only first time. after that, they spawn one hour from time they were closed, which based on when they were closed, over time they do become staggered. so no they won't all spawn at once and close at once anymore

EDIT:

More info. The staggering actually doesn't seem random it seems consistent. at least on my server i've now gotten this feat on 3 alts using same path.

Camp in outlands in zangermarsh, north east of Cenarian Refuge. ~~Water spawns here 2 min before the hour every hour.~~
Go east to hellfire to Falcon Watch (horde) or Temple of Telhamat (alliance). If neither are up you can truck it to just east of honor hold or the dark portal itself..
As soon as Fire is down, head into nagrand to immediate area of nessinwary camp. ~~Earth will spawn here 3 min after the hour~~. If the ones at nessinwary aren't up there is another spawn point at Oshglun.
Hearth and from dalaran head east into crystalsong forrest. The big shrine directly east of "the unbound thicket" will spawn wind (74.5,62.2) ~~11 minutes after the hour~~.

Plot your course carefully and you will get all 4 in one run. worst case, you may miss fire and earth both if you arrive a little late to either. To reduce risk, you can skip fire and camp earth after water and then wind after for a guaranteed 3. All 4 is a tight fit when you try to squeeze fire in.

EDIT2: Seems that these events were tuned to happen every 30-45 min now instead of every 60. possibly do to forum qq? it has thrown my initial times off. however not the deviation between locations. IE whatever time it starts in number 1, the rest will follow in this sequence still. but do to a now off hour time, it will now hop around to various parts of the hour.

Edit3: Updated fire to reflect that temple of Telhamat and falcon watch are more efficent for the route. But still include other 2 locations since the town spawns will kill themselves off fighting with town NPCs and may not be up cause of this when you get to them.

Commento di 336775

Found a spawn for the Water Elementals @ Moonrest Gardens in Dragonblight.

Commento di naonao

south-east peninsula of The Forgotten Shore, Dragonblight (89,74)
in the middle of a camp of wolvar
water elementals

Commento di ZeroEdgeir

"For the achievement it is NOT level specific. You can kill rifts anywhere and obtain the buff! I just got mine and two of my rift kills was in old world zones. The only thing that is level specific is the daily!"

Dunno about that one, cause I saw 2 fire spots from a distance in Everlook on my 72 Hunter, and when I got close, they all just vanished. From a distance (like 75+ yrds) I could target the elementals, but when I got close, just poof. Gone.

Commento di 355455

Active on live as of November 1st, US as well as EU.

Commento di Morganos

Earth Rift - in Storm Peaks on the slope between K3 and Brunhildar Village

Air Rift - in Sholazar in wasp area to the east of the Frenzyheart Village

Water Rift - in the Bloodpaw village east of the Forgotten Shore

Commento di 352782

The gnoll camp's Earth rift in Storm Peaks is 35,82.

Commento di Hawkzombie

Is there any reason one would NOT get the buff?

I was fighting them of the same level (Northrend).
I was right on top of the rift as it closed.
The Mysterious Device showed up after I killed all the elementals.

I went to two different ones in the same zone (Wind, In the Tundra) and didn't get the buff from either. I DID have the Fire Buff, and I STILL had the device from the Fire Rift...could that be why?

EDIT: Why on earth would someone downrate this? It's a legitimate question and I'm wondering if it's a bug.

Commento di 661032

fire elemental rift @ 26,60 Falcons Watch, Hellfire Peninsula.

Commento di 498514

- In order to get the FEAT OF STRENGTH you just need to have the 4 buffs (not at the same time), which you can get from a rift anywhere. I just got the Feat of Strength having only gotten one rift in Northrend and the rest in Outland. You do not need to do Northrend rifts only to get the feat of strength at 80!

- In order to get the DAILY QUEST item you need to close a rift specific to your level (e.g. 80 needs to be in Northrend, 61 needs to be in Outland etc.)

Commento di InTeNsO87

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8477/tripllingtherift.jpg

did it in 1hour

Commento di 695291

I also found a Rift in Valkyrion. (Earth too )

Image below:

Rift-Valkyrion

Commento di joebal

Also an earth rift that spawns right at Drak'Atal passage, in Grizzly Hills.

Commento di 367417

Confirmed that you can get the achievement at 80 while killing the lower level rifts.

I killed mine in Hinterlands (Fire), Wetlands (Water), Burning Steppes (Earth), and Duskwood (Wind) and got the achievement no problem. So unless you really want the quest items, avoid the Northrend massacres and go for the Azeroth spawns. I had NO competition whatsoever for any of my rifts.

Commento di 582040

The daily quest has no effect on the Feat of Strength.

Even if you die or the buff(s) wear off you will still get the Feat of Strength.

Someone said if you were level 80 you could only get the Feat of Strength for killing the Northrend rifts. That is false. You can get the Feat of Strength by killing the rifts in Azeroth, Outlands, or Northrend.

Commento di nusmesa

All the rifts spawn at the same time with a 1 hour spawn time.
Easiest way is to camp at the site of a rift and wait.
After you killed one run around and spam this macro...
/tar elemental rift
You will find more not specified in the first post.

Found a random air one near Taunka'le Village. Killed the first fire one in Trymn's End. Then 1 hour later: Earth at E3 then ran at Obsidian Dragonshrine for Water then was going for the Airstrip when i found the last Air at Taunka'le.

Commento di joebal

They are tiny little rift dealies surrounded by 12 of their type of elementals. You might miss the rifts, but not the elementals surrounding them.

Commento di Wakako

Can we get a list of rift spots for Outland? Northrend has been killed a bit.

Commento di 695308

specific locations plz :-)

i found air in Netherstorm at 58,88

Commento di Pwuebear

There is a Water Rift at the northern most scarlet camp in Dragonblight, just south-east of the entrance to the cave where Arthas picks up Frostmourne.

Commento di 585478

I'm at the rift in Zul'Drak, and I cannot find a fire elemental anywhere around it ><

Commento di 297771

I found the one in Nagrand at Warmaul Hill. Mobs can attack it by the way, so this makes them even harder to find.

Commento di Avagro

You can find rifts using the npcscan addon, 40651 is the id for rifts that spawn any of the types of elementals.

Commento di Unggoy

Water spawned by Lights Trust in Dragonblight.

Commento di YojiroDJ

Earth Rift - Grizzly Hills at path to Rage Fang Shrine (53.3,55.4)

Commento di 610892

Just killed a fire one in Zuldrak. 22.79 on coordinates.

Commento di specter221

Found Earth Rift at Blade's Edge Mountains.

Commento di Gunk

Found an Air Elemental one just north of Taunka'le Village in Borean Tundra. Between the Gorloc mobs.

Commento di wronnyd

Dunno about that one, cause I saw 2 fire spots from a distance in Everlook on my 72 Hunter, and when I got close, they all just vanished. From a distance (like 75+ yrds) I could target the elementals, but when I got close, just poof. Gone.

My theory about that:
The Rifts despawn after a certain time. But they only check, if their time has expired, if someone is close enough.
So you flying closer is causing this "check up".

The rifts spawn ~ every full hour on my Server (Area 52 EU). The first fire Rifts in Hellfire Penninsula despawned at XX:13:07 (hh:mm:ss).

Commento di Aprune

Found another Earth rift in Grizzly Hills @ 72.5, 23.4.

Commento di 126940

Another Zul'Drak fire rift, northeast of Zim'Torga, you'll see them fighting the bat riding trolls there.

Commento di 695330

Outland Shadowmoon Valley

Saw water spawns here :

Shadowmoon village - at the top of the town
Eclipse Point
Warden's Cage or just past Uvoros
Just across from Black Temple near the tepee shape on the map

Commento di 205691

Here are the spawn points I witnessed myself in Northrend:

Earth:
Valkyrion in Storm Peaks 25.1, 63.3

Fire:
Zeramas in Zul'Drak 21.1, 80.3

Water:
Scarlet Point in Dragonblight 74, 27.1

Wind:
Village with mobs that throw bombs (right side of the Glimmering Pillar) in Sholazar 55.9, 40.7

The exact point in each map may not be correct, but it's pretty much around that area. It'll be hard to miss it. They can be attacked by other mobs.

Commento di 609114

The crowd of elementals surrounding them tend to be more visible than the rifts themselves.

The rifts fluctuate with effects pertaining to their elements, for example the wind rift has lightning and cyclones. You can target the rifts to see how much health they have, but the rifts are not directly attackable. They lose hitpoints when the elementals are killed.

Commento di 92353

I also got a fire rift in the Frostfire Hot Springs in the western part in Winterspring.

Edit: Actually, there are a bunch throughout Winterspring now that I see them. I saw one outside of Everlook and one not from from there to the south as well.

Commento di 474939

dragon blight -Obsid sanctum - lower corner near the cave and trash
borean tundra- near fizzcrank in the elementals
zuldrak -near rel. of pain - was in area not plagued and toward the junk piles.
grizzly hills den of urs- at the right of the left stair case on the map

Commento di Thortok2000

Remember how the Lich King event grew to be more, and more, and more, until it pretty much took over?

I can only imagine the same thing is going to happen here. Soon the rifts will be all over the place. Is what I expect.

Commento di 180547

would be nice if you could include cords as well.

Commento di Twinsteel

A speedy Outland primer, for people trapped there or people who just don't feel like competing in Northrend. (I'll update as I stumble across them.)

Type: Fire
Zone: Hellfire Penninsula
Loc: 12,59 (Ruins of Sha'naar)

Type: Water
Zone: Zangarmarsh
Loc: 80,39 (Dead Mire)
Loc: 80,85 (Umbrafen Village)
Loc: 82,57 (South of Dead Mire)
Loc: 46,60 (Feralfen Village)

Zone: Shadowmoon Valley
Loc: 50,60 (between Eclipse Point and Sanctum of the Stars)
Loc: 61,55 (Netherwing)

Type: Earth
Zone: Blade's Edge
Loc: 41,48 (Bladespire Hold)

Type: Wind
Zone: Netherstorm
Loc: 29,63 (slightly west/northwest of Area 52)

Confirmed: Respawns are approximately 1 hour from last spawn time. (Had to wait at Blade's Edge for the repop.)
Confirmed: Killing Outland rifts at 80 does yield the achievement.
Confirmed: The silly things can de-spawn on you while you're fighting them. There's no way to engage the rift itself in combat, so you may wind up killing a few elementals only to have the whole lot vanish on you before you pop the rift.

Anecdotal: I was assisting my server in Storm Peaks last night by flying around and pointing out rifts, then directing people to it and giving directions / coords to the Mysterious Device so that people could get their daily quest done. I had thought rifts could spawn at any of their locations over the course of an hour (thinking 4-5 rifts, 1 hour timers on each) but they felt far less frequent than that. It was more like one rift at any point in a given hour.

We found a second rift in-zone with 8 minutes left on my buff from the first rift we identified. Respawns are likely 1 hour from when the last rift spawned, not the despawn or kill time.

Commento di Prales

For what it's worth, you don't have to actually take part in killing any elementals from the rifts. You just have to be with in a certain range of the rift when it's closed in order to get the buff required for the Feat of Strength.

So if you AFK in the right spot, but forget to watch the time like I did, you may luck out anyway!

Commento di LittleWhiteDove

Water - Umbrafen lake, Zangermarsh, south east - 80.2, 84.9
Water - Legion Hold, Shadowmoon Valley - 23.6,34.1
Water - East of Shadowmoon Village, Shadowmoon valley - 34.7,30.7

Fire - Sha'naari Wastes, Hellfire Penisula (west side of zone, south of road from Zangermarsh) - 12.7, 54.0

Wind - Cenarion Thicket, Terokar Forrest - 45.6,22.9
Wind - Tuuren, Terokkar Forest - 51.6, 28.9

Commento di Kidja

Wind - Boaren Tundra (36.9, 46.7) Map
Water - Icecrown (72.5 , 41.3) Map
Fire - Zul`Drak (21.1 , 80.3) Map
Earth - The Storm Peak (33.8 , 81,3) Map

Rifts respawn time is every 15min (example : 10:00, 10:15 , 10:30...etc)

Commento di 535850

Fire
blasted lands 46.77 - 19.75

Commento di 115209

fire rift spawned at dark portal at 8:45CST, not every hour.

Commento di Eccentrica

It appears the whole zone pops at once. I got the Fire rift in Westfall (Moonbrook) on an alt, and while riding back to the flightpoint saw 4 other active rifts.

Commento di 244522

Put together a map with the locations in Northrend (from tmptfate´s post, as of 2am+ EST)

http://img811.imageshack.us/i/rifth.jpg/(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##Gryphon##DELIM##

Commento di warhowl

using your locations this is the coordinates i got:

EARTH: Grizzly Hills: Zeb'Halak (16, 36)
FIRE: Zul'Drak: Thrym's End (16, 61)
WATER: Dragonblight: Agmar's Hammer (36, 48)
WIND: Borean Tundra: Magmoth (55, 16)

tnx for the locations

Commento di Jaymacibe

Does anyone know the range of the buffs?

I was alt-tabbed for a small bit, and my friend was only a few feet away from me. She got the buff and got back a sec. too late. All was left was the item.

BTW it wasn't on the hour too. It was like at XX:40

Commento di Altaris

Spawn times very by server, but they are on an hour timer between spawns

Commento di joshychrist

i never killed an earth rift on my 80 shaman i was just in the area i guess and i got the achievement

edit to say i got the earth power buff while in sitilhus so i guess that means something interesting

Commento di 354684

Considering you don't have to be in Northrend to get the achievement from the rifts Outlands is a great spot since a lot of people are camping Northrend instead.
Some of the spawns I found and some all ready listed in other people's comments

You can find rifts using the npcscan addon, 40651 is the id for rifts that spawn any of the types of elementals.

does work as well!

Zangarmarsh 82, 57 North of Swamprat Post; 46, 60 by west hut in Feralfen Village; 80, 84 Umbrafen Lake; 80, 39 Dead Mire
Shadowmoon Valley 61, 55; 50, 60; 23,34 Legion Hold
Blades 77, 77Vekhaar Stand; 41, 48 Bladespire Hold
Nagrand 27, 61 Sunspring Post; 33, 41 South of Forge Camp: Fear
Hellfire 62, 69 in between HH and Zeth'gor; 26, 61 inside Falcon Watch; 45, 59 on the road just south of the Hellfire Citadel; 12, 59 Ruins of Sha'naar
Netherstorm 30, 64 East of Area 52; 65, 50; 55, 22; 29, 63Slightly W/NW of Area52
Terokar Forrest 45, 22 Cenarion Thicket

Commento di 689587

You can find an earth rift inside Valkyrion.

Commento di Ryorin86

the 60min respawn timer isnt right, I just got the air one in the savage thicket and less then 10min later my guildy got it by the wasps

so any idea how the spawns actually work?

Commento di 66148

Also found wind rift just north of Skyreach pillar, Sholazar.

Commento di Cutthroat

Additional spawn locations for Water:

Tanaris:
- West and a bit north of Gadgetzan
- Lost Rigger Cove (right outside the main entrance to the pirate camp)
- Waterspring Field x2 (@62/30 and 59/38)

Commento di 115209

confirmed, can get the feat of strength by killing lower level rifts. 80 warlock and 80 druid completed by killing rifts in hellfire, nagrand, terrokar and zangarmarsh.

Commento di 56959

Coordinates for the Zeb'Halak rift are 16,36 in Grizzly Hills.

Commento di wscott81

There is One that Spawns at Hrothgar's Landing in Icecrown Off to the right side of the Tourney Grounds

Commento di 694270

Being on one of the most populated servers, I decided to get my achievement in Outlands rather than Northrend where there are 80s swarming everywhere. Is there any reason to do the daily that you loot from killing a rift of your level range? If the only reward is daily gold I would prefer not to bother with it.

Commento di Efrieum

37, 43 Inventor's library in Storm Peaks

Commento di Exystredofar

There is also a Water Rift in Tanaris in (how predictable) Waterspring Fields, just west of Zalashji's Den.

Commento di 695403

Found an Earth spawn in Griz Hills at (15.6, 35.8).... spawned at 11:30pm

EDIT: right by the altar with blue flames at Zeb'halak

Commento di 695404

Coords for water elementals in "Icecrown, Argent Tournament Grounds, to the west at end of the cultist area," were 60.4, 22.0

Commento di Prototyp3

FIRE: http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/3127/wowscrnshot110210003637.jpg - Zul'Drak (Thyrm's End) 12 / 60.
EARTH: http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/6335/wowscrnshot110210003805.jpg - Storm Peaks (The Inventor's Library) 37 / 43.
WATER: http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/3537/wowscrnshot110210013824.jpg - DragonBlight (Moonrest Gardens) 18 / 59.
WIND: http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1589/wowscrnshot110210013326.jpg - Sholazar Basin (The Savage Thicket) 47 / 25.

Commento di GTMistral

@ Icecrown, Deathspeaker's Watch (West of Argent Tournament Grounds)

Spawned at 5:40AM on Culte de la Rive Noire, EU-FR.

Commento di Daghis

I just found the rift in Un'Goro Crater. It was at 66.6,71.2, in the southeast corner of the zone.

Commento di Feliciamarie

I think I figured out the rift spawning times for you guys:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=27497534030&postId=274909007363&sid=1#0

It's the official blizzard forum, so don't worry.

For those of you that can't view it at work:

For my server anyways, I don't know if it's different on any other server.

Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor: :15
Outland: :35
Northrend: :55

Give or take 2-3 minutes.

How? I've got a bunch of toons and I camped them out on all continents and every single time I was about 5 minutes early just incase. I've now almost got 10 toons done with the rift event.

Once again, I don't know if this is accurate for any other server other than Lightninghoof.

Is this accurate for other servers? Comment and let me know please :)

Commento di GTMistral

@ Zul'Drak, Zeramas (beneath the flying Naxx-thing, southern part of it is your device and elementals)

Spawn at 6:40AM on Culte de la Rive Noire, EU-FR.

Found some Wind Elementals N-N-E of Taunke'le, Horde village in Borean Tundra.

Commento di wye43

Earth Elemental Rift spawn at 6:47am at 35.4, 82.4.
They do NOT spawn at fixed hours(1:00,2:00) as stated on MMO-Champ.

Commento di 140679

the coordinates of my own encounters:

- Fire ----> Zul'Drak ----------- 21.9 79.6 at 7.05am
- Earth --> Grizzly Hills ------- 15.7 36.1 at 7.08am
- Wind --> Sholazar Basin -- 46.7 25.6 at 8.01am
- Water -> Icecrown ----------- 60.4 21.9 at 8.03am

Hope this helps.
At this time of the day, I was alone killing the elementals, but they are very easy to kill, even for a squishy clothie like me.
Couple hours and I got the achievement "Tripping the Rifts" at my first try.
Information in the post above was very usefull.

Commento di 150562

Find one of the areas where the rifts spawn (click the location links people have left in comment sections)
Stay there for 60 min.
It will show up.

Commento di 156062

coordinates for Fire Elementals near Zim'Torga 65.34, 53.64

you may see some trolls dealing with the elementals lol.........

Commento di Lindentree

In Winterspring, there are at least 3 fire spawns:

1 about halfway up the road to Frostsaber rock, to the west;
1 at the top of the road to Frostsaber rock, to the east;
1 just outside of Everlook, to the west.

Commento di 157436

Air Rift: Borean Tundra, east of Amber Ledge at (51.0,36.2)

Commento di cywang86

Given high enough dps and not too many people camping the rifts, this is what I did to complete the feat in one spawn.

Set hearth at The Argent Stand in Zul'drak
Fly to either the wind rift at Borean Tundra or Dragonblight

Wait for the rifts to spawn and kill these 2.

Hearth, and kill the Fire and Earth rifts at Zul'drak and Grizzly Hills

However, since Zul'drak is really the most popular place for rift hunters (cause it's the only zone in Northrend with Fire rifts), you could also set your hearth at Star's rest/Taunka'le Village and achieve in the reversed order.

Commento di Magai

Earth rift outside of Shadowprey in Desolace.

Fire rifts in the Barrens in Camp Turajo and near the silithids south of Camp Turajo.

I got these as a Lvl 80 and finished my achievement.

Commento di 126940

I did the following route for all my 80s (Horde), seemed the easiest and attainable within the same hour:

Cenarion Thicket, Terokkar Forest (right next to the moonwell)
Falcon Watch, Hellfire Peninsula (in front of the inn)
The Dread Mire, Zangarmarsh (near the middle pool)
Thunderlord Stronghold, Blade's Edge Mountain (near Rexxar)

If you can't find the earth rift there, try Bladespire Hold, which is just northwest.

Commento di BGilkison

Confirmed spawns at the following locations:

Wind: Sholazar Basin at 49.7, 74.3
Water: Icecrown at 60.2, 60.0
Fire: Zul'Drak at 21.9, 79.4
Grizzly Hills at 15.7, 36.0

Commento di Bregdark

Drakil'Jin Ruins coordinates are 72,23.

Commento di 353690

I got a earthen kill not listed in the Valkyrion, never saw any water though.

My thoughts
Holydivinity

Commento di 301479

So do they not spawn all at once on the hour every hour? Is it just a chance to spawn? Because I have 2 toons sitting in known locations for the past 15 minutes and nothing has spawned at Sindragosa's Fall or under Voltarus.

Commento di 281327

For those of us lvl 80's that are attempting to close the rifts in both Kalimador and Eastern Kingdoms for less high lvl pvp contact, I have a few tips and a theory as well. If you've been trying to get these, you may have notice that when you run towards a rift out in the open, it will despawn when you get near it. I have noticed this personally as well.

I believe the reason for the despawn of these rifts is directly because of our level. I also believe that if a character of the appropriate lvl first engages the elementals, a level 80 can then proceed to also engage these elementals without risk of despawn. Of the rifts that i have closed on these 2 continents, the elementals were previously engaged in combat with appropriate lvl npc's that are already stationed at a given spawn location. So if you're doing this on the old world continents, try either to stick to the spawn locations with npc's that will engage the elementals, or run around the zone with a lowbie in tow, preferably it'd be nice for the lvl 80 to have a vehicle mount such as the chopper or travelr's tundra mammoth. Just to be safe, once you see the elemental graphic of the rift (aka the blizzard in the air for the water elementals) have your lowbie friend exit the vehicle and approach and engage the elementals before you yourself as a lvl 80 decide to rush in.

Hope this helps, and that a few of you can grant confirmation of this theory.

Commento di Seahawks

An update to Urythemic's post that helps a little bit with the locations. Was found after digging through the WoW forums, posted originally by Tharyl:
Will as Im finding more with my alts and people are updating the forums with more locations. You do not have to be grouped with the people killing the rifts, you just have to be within a reasonable (yet short) range of the rift when it dies to get credit. 80s DO get credit for killing the lowest level rifts for their Feat of Strength. However you can NOT get the daily from a rift that is outside of your level range.

Fire
1. Westfall (Sentinel Hill)
2. The Barrens (Between Razorfen Downs and Razorfen Kraul; Ratchet; Camp Taurajo; North of Bael Modan; Stagnant Oasis, Crossroads)
3. Dustwallow Marsh (Inside Theramore near Armory; North of Witch Hill; Shady Rest Inn)
4. The Hinterlands (North of Raventusk Village near the cliffs)
5. Searing Gorge
6. Blasted Lands (Kargath)
7. Winterspring (Everlook, east and west)
8. Hellfire Peninsula (Dark Portal; Honor Hold; Falcon Watch; Sha'naari Wastes)
9. Zul'Drak (South of Zeramas; East of the Reliquary of Pain; In the middle of Heb'Drakkar; Thrym's End; SE of Altar of Har'koa)

Water
1. Silverpine Forest (East of Shadowfang Keep; South of the fork in the road east of Sepulcher; West of Dead Field towards the shore)
2. Ghostlands
3. 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)
4. Thousand Needles (Darkcloud Pinnacle)
5. 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)
6. Swamp of Sorrows (Stonard)
7. Tanaris (Lost Rigger Cove; Dunemaul Compound)
8. Un'goro Crater (Entrance from Tanaris, Slithering Scar, Fire Plume Ridge)
9. Zangarmarsh (On road leading to Terrokkar; Orebor Harborage; Ango'rosh Grounds; Swamp Rat)
10. Shadowmoon Valley (Legion Hold; Shadowmoon Village; Zabra'jin)
11. Dragonblight (Agmar's Hammer; Wintergarde Keep; Frostmourne Cavern; SE Ruby Dragonshrine; New Hearthglen)
12. Icecrown (Sindragosa's Fall; Deathspeaker's Watch west of Argent Tournament)
13. Hrothgar's Landing (North part)

Wind
1. Darkshore (Aubderine; South of Auberdine on the shore; Grove of the Ancients)
2. Hillsbrad Foothills (Southshore; Tarren Mill)
3. Duskwood (SE of Raven Hill Cemetery; Darkshire)
4. Arathi Highlands (South of Circle of West Binding; Hammerfall)
5. Feralas (Ruins of Solarsal; Front of Dire Maul; West of Feathermoon Stronghold; Forgotten Coast near the dock)
6. Felwood (Shatter Scar Vale, southern craters)
6. Eastern Plaguelands (Northpass Tower; South of Corin's Crossing; Undercroft)
7. Terokkar Forest (Cenarion Thicket; Veil Shienor; Bone Wastes; Tuurem; Firewing Point; Allerian Stronghold; Stonebreaker Hold)
8. Netherstorm (Area 52; Arklon Ruins; South of Manaforge Ultris near bridge)
9. Borean Tundra (Magmoth; Near Taunka'le Village)
10. Sholazar Basin (Mosswalker Village; Kartak's Hold; Death's Hand Encampment, Due South of River's Heart, Savage Thicket, Sapphire Hive )

Earth
1. Loch Modan (Mo'grosh Stronghold; Thelsamar)
2. Redridge Mountains (In Lakeshire)
3. Desolace (Nigel's Point, Sar'Theris Strand)
4. Alterac Mountains (The Uplands; Just southeast of the Growless Cave, Flame of Uzel for Horde players)
5. Western Plaguelands (Felstone Field; The Weeping Cave, north of the new flightmaster)
6. Burning Steppes (West of Dreadmaul Rock)
7. Silithus (Cenarion Hold towards Swarming Pillar)
8. Nagrand (Laughing Skull Ruins; Windyreed Village; Telaar; Northwest of Oshu'gun; Garadar; Burning Blade Ruins)
9. Blade's Edge Mountains (Grishnath; Sylvanaar; Veil Vesk)
10. Howling Fjord (Wyrmskull Village near the hut Alliance players witness the visions of the past, Gjalerbron)
11. Grizzly Hills (Drak'atal Passage; Rage Fang Shrine; Zeb'Halak)
12. Storm Peaks (First Gnoll camp west of K3; Inventory's Library; Valkyrion)
13. Badlands (Uldaman entrance, Angor Fortress)

Zones (seemingly) unaffected:
Elwynn Forest
Tirisfal Glades
Dun Morogh
Teldrassil
Eversong Woods
Mulgore
Azuremyst Isle
Durotar
Moonglade

Note: Observations made from PTR and Live:
- Closing any level rift will count towards Trippin' the Rifts.
- Rifts range anywhere from 3 to 5 per zone. Not exactly sure on the numbers, but some zones do have more locations.
- You can only receive the DAILY (Once per day) quest 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.

Commento di 533769

A Water Rift just spawned just near the entrance to the Slithering Scar in Un'Goro Crater.

Another spawned west of the Fire Plume Ridge, approx 42 63, and the elementals nailed one of the elite devilsaurs lol.

Commento di Knopperz

"Tripping the Rift" --> The easy Way ;-)

1.) Fly Shadowmoon Valley (Outland) Wildhammer Stronghold (Alliance) or Shadowmoon Village (Horde)

Be there at XX:55
Elementals will start to spawn at XX:00 (Full Hour) or somewhere on a 15 Minute Timer past the full Hour (xx:00 --> xx:15)
They spawn right in the Camp, so keep an Eye open. After you got the Elementals in STV -->

2.) Fly Terokkar Allerian Stronghold (Alliance) or Stonebreaker Hold (Horde)
Elementals should be right up there, kill em all, next -->

3.) Fly Nagrand Telaar (Alliance) or Garadar (Horde)
Again, Elementals are up... kill em, next -->

4.) Fly Hellfire Temple of Telhamat (Alliance) or Falcon Watch (Horde)
Last Elementals should be up here, kill em... and taadaa, done

Shouldnt take long... maybe 10 Minutes to complete all 4. And it DOES work at level 80.

GL ;-)
Xenocow / Kel'thuzad EU

Commento di 75772

You can get the achievement from killing any rifts in the world, not just Northrend ones. You do, however, need to kill a Northrend Rift to loot the daily quest item if you are level 80.

I killed Wind and Water rifts in Northrend, and had issues finding spawn points for Fire and Earth. I decided to try my luck in Westfall for Fire (Moonbrook), and Redridge for Earth (Lakeshire); low and behold, I found both easily and poof, achievement. :)

Commento di Alanray43

Rather disappointing so far. Seems the rifts spawn on the hour but the npcs, in my case, just trashed the spawns and no object appeared. The 10min respawn time should really be a little longer and I would guess 20mins at least. The time frame is just to short.

Commento di VOxPERENOLDE

Wind: Sholazar Basin, (Sapphire Hive 61.8, 77)

NPC Scan ID's

Elemental Rift = 40651
Gusting Elemental = 36964

Commento di Midnightrose

I've also noticed earth elementals spawning in 2 locations in the Badlands, just outside the main entrance to Uldaman and slighty southeast of Angor Fortress. Both locations were active within 5 minutes of each other.

Commento di sTyLnK

I just did some of my rifts in Azeroth. Easier as most were right in the towns.

Fire- Westfall (right in the town Sentinel Hill)
Earth- Redridge (right in the town of Lakeshire)
Water- Tanaris (A little further out. 60,30) Just parked myself right on the rocks near by and waited)
Wind- Did this in Terokker Forest. (To the east. Forget the area. But it was right by that building where all those moths are)

Of course there are many other spawns, but those were mine. Hopefully it helps anyone looking. :)

Commento di 150423

I just completed the achievement on my priest. Links are screen shots with map locations. The locations I found were:

Fire: Zul'Drak, Zeramas - Right over the M in Zeramas on the map. I also found another one when I was on a different character at Thrym's End, about three millimeters under the ym in Thrym's.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6452/firerift1.jpg
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1066/firerift2.jpg

Earth: Grizzly Hills, Zeb'Halak - About three millimeters above the Z in Zeb.
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/679/earthrift1.jpg

Water: Dragonblight, Wintergarde - Over the D in Wintergarde.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/5839/waterrift1.jpg

Air: Sholazar Basin, The Savage Thicket - Right above the V in Savage.
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/7953/airrift1.jpg

The Mysterious Device that spawns when you kill a rift stays up for 60 minutes. If you ever see one disappear, know that the rift of the same kind is about to spawn and will only stay up for about 10 minutes.

ALSO the rifts have 12 health, so it requires you to kill 12 elementals, not 10 as explained above.

I had two friends doing this with me, and we would split locations for each rift (the locations we looked at were the ones listed in the original post on this thread). I would take two locations that were close to each other to look, someone else two and so on. It was pretty effective.

Happy hunting..this one is annoying :)

Commento di 671902

Done it this morning, but I had to login several times to get the buffs.
Yesterday elementals spawned at 9.00 pm, I got to zul drak too late and could only grab the daily quest..at around 9.55 elementals spawned again, took fire at zul drak near the lake (spawns exactly into the rageclaw camp) and earth at grizzly hills (northeast corner of the map, near the stairs so zul drak)

This morning around 9 .10. went to dragonblight at aggramar camp, too late but quest was there (water rift spawns inside the southwest corner of the camp so be careful you're ally like myself), relogged at 10.15, late again, then at 10.55 exactly it spawned
Soon after I got to borean tundra, near the goblin camp (a bit southeast, just where all the crazy machines are) and got my wind buff

Commento di Exystredofar

Just found another water rift in Waterspring Field in Tanaris. This time it's closer to Gadgetzan, but farther south. On the Tanaris map, southeast of Gadgetzan, there are 3 mountain ranges. It is directly to the east of the middle mountain range, right beside one of the pirate tents. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, there's two of them there, but the other could have been the one I already saw, I can't quite remember.

Commento di tariannisa

netherstorm map

http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=3523:650500300640550221414737430207611858

Commento di 695510

Ok, i have completed the achive earlyer today.
wowhead says they spawn xx.00 acctually they spawn kinda random,
i found mine at time from xx40 to xx50. so, but i can confirm they have 1hour cd,

(edit) After each spawn u kill the timer will go -Minus 10min, so if u killed them xx50, they will spawn xx40-50

also there is a map over all spawn points at this site http://img811.imageshack.us/f/rifth.jpg/

Commento di Trolle

I just had a Rift respawn after 45min.

It was the rift in Sholazar Basin at the Cultist camp near The Glimmering Pilar.

Commento di Knightfire

There is also an earth rift located inside Valkyrion in Storm Peaks.

Commento di TheRedBanner

Thank You So Much!

It has been my observation that the rifts do not spawn every hour on the hour, despite what much of the interwebs are saying. Some rifts were spawning at a quarter after or a quarter til. For a while, I was able to go from one to another and get three back to back so they were offset. Most speculated that this was due to the hour starting when the last one ended. If this is the case, the more popular rifts might appear to be spawning close to the XX:00 mark due to the fact that they are taken down so quickly.

Our realm found it helpful to start a chat channel "Rift" to announce rift spawn times and locations. Once you have an idea on the times you can go on about your day and not sit and stare at your screen all day.

Commento di 636230

The Fire elemental buff that states "does X fire damage every 3 seconds stacks five times" is false, after sitting on the target dummy for 15 mins (during my server shutdown announcements) doing nothing but atuo attacking with my feral druid i was able to get the buff constantly refreshed without falling off at a maximum of 3 stacks. it did 240 damage every 3 seconds (don't get me wrong, still pretty nice 80 dps increase for my hardmodes today) but, i wanted to let the community know that the tooltip is indeed wrong.

Commento di oscarucb

Here's a handy macro you can spam while flying around looking for these:

/cleartarget
/tar surging e
/tar searing e
/tar rumbling e
/tar gusting e
/stopmacro
/run PlaySound("RaidWarning")

Commento di Ztalmerna

I can confirm that the ones from lower level areas count towards the achievement, I took the fire one in the barrens and the rest from Northrend and still got the achievement.

Commento di Travy

One of the earth elemental rifts spawn in Nagrand right next to Garrosh.

Commento di 695569

I disagree with the timer being 60 minutes; we saw a spawn in 1 spot at 7:30 pm, and the next one was earlier than 8:30.... so I'd recommend going to the spawn spot EARLY.

Commento di SakuroIkazuki

For the 60s, i found a fire rift on outland, Hellfire Peninsula in Zeth'Gor, on the right side of the Wolfmaster's stable.
Hope to find the other ones before the event finishes.

Commento di synack

Found a Wind rift in Feralas at 70.1, 40.6 just south of the northern Grimtotem camp (there are two of them) found northwest of Camp Mojache.

Commento di kabookiejoe

i have found earth/wind both in hillsbrad. wind a bit north of the hillsbrad fields and earth by dal crater, and no im not talking about the ones known to the area, but the rift itself

p.s these been spawing at 30m after the hr on Burning Blade server

Commento di surgio

Don't worry about rushing out to get this done just yet, looks like it will be fairly easy in the latter stages

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?sid=1&topicId=27509093985&pageNo=2

Commento di schizix

(Fire) Hellsfire Map --> http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=3483:125541264607492712

Hellsfire (Fire Rift) -> 12.57, 54.00
Hellsfire (Fire Rift) -> 26.46, 60,73
Hellsfire (Fire Rift) -> 49.28, 71.28

(Earth) Blade's Edge Map --> http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=3522:409491

Blade's Edge (Earth Rift) -> 40.96, 49.00

(Water) Zangarmarsh Map --> http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=3521:358361185163205256423256629407

Zangarmarsh (Water Rift) -> 18.51, 16.21
Zangarmarsh (Water Rift) -> 35.94, 36.21
Zangarmarsh (Water Rift) -> 20.69, 25.67
Zangarmarsh (Water Rift) -> 42.21, 26.79
Zangarmarsh (Water Rift) -> 62.98, 40.69

(Earth) Nagrand Map --> http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=3518:218421

Nagrand (Earth Rift) -> 21.83, 42.03

(Wind) Terrokar Map --> http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=3519:590254

Terrokar (Wind Rift) -> 59.01, 25.53

(Water) Shadowmoon Valley Map --> http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=3520:235343299522610549

Shadowmoon Valey (Water Rift) -> 23.59, 34.26
Shadowmoon Valey (Water Rift) -> 29.97, 52.16
Shadowmoon Valey (Water Rift) -> 60.98, 55.34

Commento di nightshard

The Hinterlands: Fire north of Revantusk Village, just a little south of the ramp leading up the cliffs.

Commento di 640489

The wind elementals also spawn at Firewing Point in Terokkar Forest.

Commento di 672757

If you don't get the buff move directly on top of the mysterious device or else it won't count.

Commento di 2603

Great help! Coords are off for 10 - 20 yards so you will easily see the rifts at those coords.

Commento di silkfire

The names of the elementals are:

Commento di 281020

TY and confirmed.

And here the maps to make it easier.

Storm Peaks (Earth) - Just east of the sleeping Giant in the Gnoll camp West of K2 (36,81).
http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=67:361803

Dragonblight (Water) - Ruby Dragonshrine (49,50).
http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=65:487502

Borean Tundra (Wind) - North of the Air Strip (55,15).
http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=3537:554149

Zul'Drak (Fire) - Near the Altar of Har'koa (61,67).
http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=66:612673

Commento di Tobii

/\ That guy beat me.. :(

I used this, got them all pretty easy.

And just to add for the people with no coordinates ingame.

Storm Peaks (Earth) - Just east of the sleeping Giant in the Gnoll camp West of K2 (36,81).
http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=67:334815
Dragonblight (Water) - Ruby Dragonshrine (49,50).
http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=65:489502
Borean Tundra (Wind) - North of the Air Strip (55,15).
http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=3537:555151
Zul'Drak (Fire) - Near the Altar of Har'koa (61,67).
http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=66:615673

Thanks again Phosh. :)

Commento di rippk

thanks for the map image!

water at 60 60 Icecrown. in the valk village, near tower.

Commento di rippk

earth 16 36 grizzly hills

Commento di adarel

In case you are farming goblin rep like me and still need Wind, there is a rift right outside the entrance to Dire Maul. When taking the path up from the main road, it is just left of the path before it turns to pavement and ramps up to the ruins. Cheers.

Commento di 695600

First time poster, long time lurker.

Here is what I found while doing these.

Killing the rifts anywhere else did not count for the achievement for me. I did them in Outland and never got it. I moved to Northrend and it all counted once I did the last one. Below is the map locations and the times they first appeared.

All times are server time.

Editing for second time around

Fire - Zul'drak
11:13 AM 11-2-10 (XX:52)

Earth - Grizzly Hills
12:02 PM 11-2-10 (XX:40)

Water - Dragonblight
1:04 PM 11-2-10 (XX:48)

Wind - Sholazar
1:52 PM 11-2-10 (XX:49

I know people have said they have found them on half hour marks, but I was actively looking and did not find any others during those times. I would be prepared to wait a good 30 minutes at each of these locations, 15 minutes either side of the top of the hour. (From XX:45 to XX:15)

Commento di psxchelly

Was herbing and found, Water surging elemental - Stranglethorn Vale
32-16
33-21
33-14
31-71

Fire Rift - Rachet
62-37

Fire Rift - Dustwallow Marsh
46-50
41-65
48-75

Fire Rift - The Hinterlands
67-59
26-63

Water Rift - Wetlands
right inside Menthil Harbor 9-55
24-35
16-28
42-29

Commento di 137407

Just found a wind rift at Grangol'var Village in Terokkar Forest, which I hadn't seen on any previous location list.

Commento di 695702

Fire rift in The Barrens Field of Giants
Cords: 46,70

Commento di ChibiBespin

Found a Wind in Eastern Plaguelands today @ 71.1, 43.6

Also an Earth in Western Plaguelands @ 59.8, 59.8 by Gahrron's Withering and 35.4, 55.9 by Felstone Field

Commento di 137407

Looking for the Earth rift in Nagrand I came across what looks like a sacrificial altar with skeletons at the cords listed... wondering, since I've never seen this thing before, if it's related?

Commento di 695731

Tripping the Rifts Guide - Northrend

**Warning: You may be sitting at coordinates awhile before the rift spawns.**

Get buff from killing the mobs, and acquire quest from the rift for gold/xp. Quest is a daily apparently.
These are the spots I visited:(thanks Phosh for wind and water)

Dragonblight (Water) - Ruby Dragonshrine (49,50). Not many players come to this one. Spawns maybe every 45mins.

Borean Tundra (Wind) - North of the Air Strip (55,15).

Zul'Drak (Fire) - Amongst the spider mobs (53, 67). Not many players come to this one.

Storm Peaks (Earth) - beside the Gnoll camp (35, 82). Loaded with players. Spawns every 1hr exactly.

Commento di Googla

A tip is to go to a spawn spot and then you can go afk, i went to the shower and when i came back i had the buff

Commento di Darktikiman

Just saw a wind rift right outside of Durnholde Keep in Hillsbrad Foothills

Commento di prohan

I just got my achievement today, and here's where I found the rifts:
Water Rift in Stranglethorn Vale, near the Wild Shore (Where the pirates are).
Air Rift in Sholazar Basin, right in the centre of the Cultist camp near the Glimmering pillar.
Fire Rift at the crossroads, Barrens.
and Earth Rift at Nessingwary's camp in Nagrand.

The biggest mistake I find anyone can make is to camp at spawn places in Northrend, because you can still get the achievement from rifts much lower than your level.

Commento di Warpaladin

Found Wind in Sholazar Basin

47, 25 coordinates not exact, but they do spawn in that area

Commento di Ghulag

haven't sen a single rift so far for frostmourne, been to all of the icecrown locations, as well as all bar one of the zul'drak locations.

Commento di Siirenias

More than one rift of the same element can spawn at once. Confirmed.

Commento di drpibb

Anyone know, roughly, the spawn time of the rifts?

Commento di Semarri

Burning Steppes is confirmed to have Earth, and Duskwood is confirmed Wind.

Commento di HolyShield

Is it only me who missing the meta parts of this Achievements?
There is no info what types of Elementals already done.

Commento di clpo13

Not sure if it's been posted, but there's an Earth rift just a bit west of Amberpine Lodge in Grizzly Hills. Coordinates: (25, 55)

Commento di 84439

Earth in the south of Ember Clutch in Howling Fjord, 41.54

Commento di 25632

IF you kill one elemental near the end of 10 minutes, will it keep it from despawning ?

Commento di Cutthroat

More Wind Rifts in Terokkar Forest

at Firewing Point (roughly 71, 36)
at Stonebreaker Hold (roughly 50.6, 43.2)

Another Water Rift in Zangarmarsch

East of The Spawning Glen (roughly 22.6, 65.6)

Commento di 25632

If the rift is partially damaged and constantly tag will it stay for more than 10 minutes ?

Commento di jefair2

In response to your edit, I did see the blue post on the speed of spawn times posted by Zarhym:

Waiting around for 4 hours isn't exactly my idea of a "world event". It seems that making way more spawn points or have them respawn much faster would solve a lot of problems. Currently you're just forcing us to stare at various patches of ground for hours on end to get the achievement. Is it going to ramp up or will the invasions start becoming more frequent in time? Because right now it's just annoying.

There are four stages of the event. We're on the first.

This is only the beginning. Source

I think the OP wants a lower spawn timer, not more time to do the event itself.

I know. And I'm saying the elementals are merely leaking out at this point. It's but a small sign of a larger, more malevolent presence threatening to tear apart the land.

If you don't want to camp elementals for one achievement, wait until they're camping you. Source

Basically as time goes on they are going to up the spawn times and increase the numbers, probably very much like how the pre-wrath events escalated up until it was utter chaos.

Commento di 490723

I was leveling on my mage and I found a few locations that could be useful for anyone who doesn't want to go to Outland or Northrend.

Fire
(Westfall):
Sentinel Hill (near flight path)
Moonbrook (east side near where messenger spawns)
(Blasted Lands):
Nethergarde Keep (right outside the walls to the left)
(Dustwallow Marsh):
Theramore (in front of the citadel)
Witch Hill (right behind Jarl's Hut)

Earth
(Redridge Mountains):
Lakeshire (north side of bridge)
Render's Camp (this is the northernmost orc camp)
Alther's mill

Wind:
(Duskwood):
Darkshire (center of town)
Raven Hill cemetery (near Abercrombie's Shack)
Raven Hill cemetery (near Sven's Camp)
(Hillsbrad foothills):
Southshore (in front of inn)
Western Strand (midway between southshore and azurelode on the coast near murloc camp)

Water
(STV):
Bloodsail area (go directly right after exiting booty bay through shark mouth)
Gurubashi arena (ruins where you find zanza naga, zombies, etc. )
Venture Company Base Camp (slighltly SE of the main compound)
Tkashi Ruins (this is the one directly SW of nesingwary's camp)
Bal'lal Ruins (north/ northwest of grom'gol)
(Swamp of Sorrows):
The Harborage (just south of the small log bridge)
Misty Reed Strand (on the map its just about west of the Fallow Sanctuary)
The Pool of Tears (nearly midway between the temple and stonard on the map)

Hope this helps someone. Also I've found the reset timer to be SLIGHTLY less than an hour. The time between the spawns at Darkshire was about 57 minutes. Was on my character and the buff got refreshed b4 it fell off. I did not log off during this time.

Commento di 560035

We need to start gathering and posting the Original WoW locations.
Stranglethorn Vale - Kurzen Camp
Wow, ok....apparently people have and I just needed to refresh.... :-)

Commento di sinatr

my 5 cents: air, water1, water2, earth, fire.

Commento di atkrei

can some one explain at 1 time they spawn, most of the rifts spawn 35-40min after the hour, some times they dont and i dont see them, even on the hour. loch modan for example, i was waiting for the rifts to show up for 45 min and nothing

Commento di 695864

There is an air rift in Eastern Plaguelands near Bowman Mill - 71, 43. Don't know what the spawn timer is on it. But if you're looking for Argent Rep you can whack trash while waiting for the rift.

Fezziwigg of Suramar

Commento di 509952

Is there a level requirement/restriction to pick these up? I just finished closing the rift at the Ruby Dragonshrine (I'm level 80) and it won't let me "loot" the device.

Commento di StaticLgtBrngr

Is this event malfunctioning in some way?

As I've noticed invasions taking place from a distance away then the invaders suddenly vanish when I get in close, this has happened to me 3 times in a row now.

Has anyone else noticed this happening?

Commento di Hadrian77x7

Valkyrion is in the Storm Peaks*

Commento di 695864

Another air rift is out near Darrowshire about 36, 80

Commento di APhenox

Here are the locations I got the 4

Fire - Zul'Drak - 57, 34
Wind - Sholazar - 61, 77
Earth - Storm Peaks - 35, 83
Water - Icecrown - 59,21

Flight points / flavor locations
Fire - Zim'Torga, then fly to Altar of Rhunok.
Wind - River Heart, then fly SE of Frenzyheart Hill to the wasp hive.
Earth - K3, then fly west to the gnoll village.
Water - Argent Tournament, then west PAST the cultists.

I managed to get Earth, then take quick flight points / hearthstone to Water in one night.
Next night I got Wind, then take quick fight points / hearthstone to Fire.

So, apparently, the rifts spawn continent/zone wide at the same time, ~~on a roughly 50 - 60 minute timer~~. they seem to respawn 50-60 minutes after they last died/de-spawned. (all other vital info about despawning, duration of the quest giving item etc. apply)

NOTE: The local mobs attack the elementals, and given enough time will mow several of them down. BE in the area before the rifts spawn, having someone tell you "they are up, come now" will likely not end well.

Commento di 695887

For those that have slightly better graphics, this could be rather easy.

If you set view distance and environment detail to max, if your card is good, you can see things at 1,000 yards out. (if you want to test this to see if you can, go to hell pen, and see if you can find a Fel Reaver. Then use a map addon to see the distance from where you are, to where the Fel Reaver is.

If you can, you can see the aoe that the rift does from close to 1,000 yards out, if you have los. Using this, in combination with a 310% mount, I have been able to get 3 rifts in less than 15 mins, multiple times. Though, atm I am 7 out of 12 on getting them. They seem to like to despawn just as I'm landing, but at least then you have an idea on the time and exact location, so you can return when it's respawning.

Also, I'm finding that the spawn points usually are around some sort of village, camp, or town, for any faction or group. Which would fit the lore, Deathwing wanting to kill the living, and retake everything for himself. Best bets are in outlands, lots of faction "camps" in a zone, not too hilly of terrain, and you can use flying mounts.

Hope that helps!

Edit: of course, you could always cheat and use your easy button.

Commento di shineyamanda

water in tanaris by the pirates.inside and outside the cove.

Commento di 298886

Wind Rift:

Borean Tundra - The Flood Plains (just southwest of Kaskala) at the southern-most Gorloc pool.

Commento di mritchey

Water, Icecrown, Deathspeaker's Watch right below Kul's cage.

Commento di 690501

I ran across an Earth one near Dalaran Crater in Alterac and a Water rift in Stranglethorn Vale in the Ziata'jal Ruins.

Commento di vheilbronn

Water Elemental Reft: Thousand Needles on top of Darkcloud Pinnacle (32,27)

Commento di Saithan

Water:
1. Dragonblight, Agmars Hammer (Horde), spawns in base SW corner
Coord: 35,9 / 47,5

Commento di Znuff

Also, as a simple fact, you don't have to actually kill elementals to get the buff, you just have to be in range when the rifts closes.

I AFK-ed a bit while waiting for a rift to spawn and returned after other people killed the rifts only to find that I got the buff.

Commento di Saithan

Water
1. Dragonblight, Agmars Hammer (Horde), spawns in base SW corner
Coord: 35.9 , 47.5
10. Dragonblight, Scarlet Point, southeast from Frostmounre cave
Coord: 75.2 , 28.0

Commento di 568175

It was much easier for me to get the rifts in Outlands as opposed to Northrend. There was just too much competition between Horde and Alliance on my server. Also, I did discover a water rift in Swamp of Sorrows. The coordinates are 28.4, 39.4. Best of luck!

Edit: I found another water rift in Swamp of Sorrows. Noticed it a couple of minutes after I killed the other and posted the above. The coordinates are 18.8, 46.0

Commento di Zacban

Is there any zonewide indication that a rift have spawned or is it silent?

Commento di Azilee

Thanks so much for the coords. Even if a little off they are very helpful.

Commento di 85389

I was able to pick up the daily quest from the mysterious device on 3 chars who had not helped kill the elementals from the rift that spawned to make this device.

The device despawned exactly 5 mins after the rift was closed.

so put all your chars in 1 place log out and check back every so often then swap alts until all have done the daily once a device/rift is present to do daily on all.

Commento di 495478

Important side note: You do NOT need to have all four buffs simultaneously.

(Don't ask how many times I started over when the first buffs faded....)

Commento di Geekgirl101

The most common misconception is that these rifts spawn every hour on the hour. They don't, they spawn every hour after they were last destroyed/despawned. That is why there's been reports of them spawning at odd hours.

Commento di 696048

A rift also appears right outside the inn @ Honor Hold for the Alliance

Commento di Aveliia

Good job on the cord guys almost spot on.

Commento di Kragtiki

They all spawned for me at 12:24 PM eastern time.

I was able to get Water from Dragonblight, moved to Crystalsong to get Wind and then moved east to Zul'Drak to get Fire.

I previously got my earth in Storm peaks so I got my Feat of strength :)

So it is proven, they do not spawn exactly at **:00

They all spawned everywhere at **:25 for me!

Hope this helps !

Commento di shutupnrok

Water: (Map w/ Coords - Dragonblight / Icecrown)

8. Dragonblight, Moonrest Gardens, right inside the area
Confirmed at (17.99, 59.60)

Commento di Yogart

Has anyone else had trouble getting the achievement to register? I tried it twice last night and killed all 4 elemental groups during the same spawn (had all 4 buffs), but I didn't get the achievement.

I went from Shadowmoon Valley -> Terokkar -> Hellfire -> Zangarmarsh

Am I alone in this problem?

(Lvl 80 Rogue)

Commento di 649088

Okay, for those of you who still haven't run into any rifts, here are some of my tips that helped me out:

1. Just starting out? Ride around.
If you're just starting out, just ride from zone to zone, keeping an eye out for the rifts and elementals. The rifts will open on the hour, every hour. (You can sometimes find the rifts a little before or a little after when they're "supposed" to be open.)

2. Points of interest.
Head to important places on the map. Usually these places are marked and are named on your map. Usually the rifts, accompanied by the elementals, are usually in the generally vicinity.

3. Camp one location, but set your Hearthstone to another.
Since you only have 10 minutes to find these little buggers before they despawn, what I did was I set my Hearthstone to Wetlands and camped the Ghostlands when I needed the Water Elementals.

FACTS
#1 The rifts and elementals spawn every hour on the hour.
#2 The rifts will despawn after 10 minutes. If it is 12:15 and you are approaching a rift, don't be surprised if it disappears.
#3 In order to get this achievement, you Do Not have to be level appropriate. (I am level 80 and did all of mine in Azeroth.)
You only need to be level appropriate if you're trying to pick up the item for the daily, Hammering It Out.

Locations of where to go to find the rifts can be found on Wikipedia.
http://www.wowwiki.com/Tripping_the_Rifts?cb=1396

WHERE & WHEN I FOUND MINE:
Wind - Duskwood - Raven Hill @ 12:00
Fire - Westfall - Sentinel Hill @ 12:10
Earth - Redridge (near the inn.) @ 1:00
Water - The Ghostlands (just south of the Flight Point) @ 1-ish

Just keep these three things in mind, and you should have it. Good luck!

Commento di Iemanja

Easy to get in one go at 80 in Northrend, assuming medium server population.

Can't find the post of the creator now, but using this map, and knowing the last mass despawn was at about :37 server time, we hovered around Dragonblight's Moonrest Gardens and waited for the water rift using NPCScan. Killed them quickly as soon as they spawned, flew to the air rift a little northeast of Borean Tundra's Taunka'le Village, hearthed to Dalaran and flew to the gnoll camp west of Storm Peak's K3 for the air rift, then quickly jumped the border to Zul'Drak and killed the fire rift.

This all got done in a little under 5 minutes thanks to crusader aura, lots of AoE, and brooms. d-(o_o )z

Commento di mizzamanda

It would be really nice if the lower levels could get coords for at least 1 of each of the rifts. I've been galloping around everywhere looking for a rift no higher than 40 and can't find the one where some people have been mentioning, because there are no coords. So you're just kind of sitting around staring aimlessly.

You guys are mentioning all the level 60-80 zone rifts, but almost none of the 1-59 rifts sightings.

Commento di 343516

am i the only one who cant find any rifts on the hour?
on the other hand i can find plenty of open rifts on various times, kill them and get the buff.

so maybe they dont spawn on the hour (**:00) but 1 hour after the last kill (or 1 hour after the rift closes if no one is there to kill it) as someone told me in the server. that makes some sense since you can close a rift at 14:07 and the next will spawn at 15:07. then this could close at 15:17, so the next spawn will be at 16:17 and so on...

if that is the case, they are random

Commento di Leven

Tip: The ground rumbles twice before the spawn, it seems to be about 15 and then 5 minutes before the rift spawns. Finding this out helped me as I was going from zone to zone.

Commento di Unloco

Azshara Earth: 60,23
Azshara Earth: 77,21
Azshara Earth: 40,32
Silithus Earht: 28,46
Silithus Earht: 31,61

The Barrens Fire: 65,4
The Barrens Fire: 61,36
The Barrens Fire: 50,30 (X-road)
The Barrens Fire: 44,47

Un'Goro Water: 51,39
Un'Goro Water: 46,21

I found all to spawn at top of the hour. Like 20.00 or 21.00 server time

Commento di HauntedFeather

Found a Wind rift in Eastern Plaguelands at 24,76.

Commento di LuxyQTeu

Been flying around for 2 days now, have not seen 1 elemental yet :< anyone know specific timers for any area ?

Commento di 130453

Is there a good way to find where these rifts are? Or does one just run around the zone and hope for some luck?

Commento di ClasscMalcontent

If I may humbly offer a few preliminary map links. Please note: These are by no means complete or comprehensive.

Please consider the links above a rough draft for the meantime.

Commento di 526954

Fire - Zul'Drak - 57, 34
Wind - Sholazar - 61, 77
Earth - Storm Peaks - 35, 83
Water - Icecrown - 59,21

Got all mine here too.... However the on the hr timer isn't working. To me its random, as I just got my last one & its 6:25pm server time

Commento di PhilthyWan

I managed to accomplish this in about 7 minutes with a non-porting class. Here's the process.

Prep: Set your hearthstone to Loch Modan and fly to Sentinel Hill in Westfall.

Run:

Fire: Right near the flight path. (55, 49)
Air: Ride directly East into Duskwood. Ride through the southern part of Raven Hill Cemetary and look to your right as you approach the central path. (20, 50)
Earth: Hearth to Loch Modan. The rift spawns right in town. (37, 46)
Water: Take the flight path to Menethil Harbor in the Wetlands. The rift spawns just on the other side of the Keep by the stables. (9, 55)

Note: You can take the ship on the right side dock back to Northrend from here to reset your hearth to Dalaran.

After doing 6 toons, I found the rifts to be spawning as early as 2 minutes before the top of the hour and as much as 4 minutes after.

Commento di 696374

The Earth Rift in Storm Peak (west of K3) there are two camps. The camp the rift spawns at is left of the giant (so the camp that is closer to k3)

Commento di 256299

Let's see, nothing in game about these events, not one iota of in-game info. Rifts spawn and despawn on some sort of a timer, with no indication of their location, despite the fact thet they MAY spawn at the same spots on whatever cycle time they are on, once again no in-game info about this. And there's a daily of some sort, but apparently based on completing tasks that are not referenced in-game anywhere.

Have I missed something?

I was a big fan of pre-WOTLK events, had tons of fun battling the scourge at their spawn points all over old Azeroth. But this is pathetic. At least in the pre-WOTLK events the presence of scourge was announced zone wide (as I recall) and there were fixed markers that indicated spawn locations.

God I hope Blizz does better than this for Cata, because this is frustrating and pointless. Just goes to show that even smart people with lots of financial resources are still more than capable of screwing the pooch.

Edit: I actually did miss something: after finding three different Fire Rifts/elemental groups i landed to kill them but instantly they all faded away, despawned.

Well done Blizz.

Hours flying time now, several hours, with only water buff to show for it

Commento di Iliana

Some of these locations are duplicates. For example, since Valkyrion is in Storm Peaks, not Icecrown, I assume that the Water Rift location listed is actually Ymirheim, which is already mentioned in the same list.

Likewise, "Drak'Atal passage" is the stairway to the left of Ursoc's Den, so that's another duplicate.

Incidentally, I'm confused by the description of the location as being "next to" something. I'm never sure if that means to the east or to the west, or how far.

Aside from these problems, I do appreciate this list.

A few edits:

1. Just after posting the above, I found the Ymirheim water rift. The exact location is 60.2, 60.0.
2. "Storm Peaks, Brunhildar Village, to the west of the village": Does this mean Foot Steppes or Sifreldar Village?
3. The Drakil'Jin Ruins rift is at 72.6,23.5.
4. Found a wind rift among the Beryls in Borean Tundra at 51.1, 36.2.

Commento di 537630

Cenarius server;

Can confirm, not all spawns on the hour.

In Northrend,
Rift in Zul'Drak near area SE of Light's Breach @8:34pm server
Rift in Grizzly Hills near stairs to Zul'drak W of Ursoc's den @8:38pm server

HALF HOUR LATER

In Outland,
Rift in Hellfire near Zeth'gor @9:04pm server
Rift in Terrokar near Allerian Stronghold @9:08 pm server
Rift in Zangarmarsh near Cenarian Refuge @9:11pm server.

Hope that helps.

Commento di Traynwreck

I made myself a couple of maps while I was getting this, hope they help ^_^

Zul'drak (Fire)

Sholazar Basin (Wind)

Borean Tundra (Wind)

Commento di 434395

I wouldn't worry too much about getting this Feat. If the pre-Wrath event is any indication, over the next week or two the respawn times for each rift will get shorter and the durations longer (perhaps more severe, even). Add to that the part of the invasion in which the elementals actually attack the cities and we should all have plenty of time to nab this (on the PTR the city rifts also gave the corresponding buffs required for this Feat. Subject to change, but I doubt it will).

Don't let that stop you from hunting them down now, though! New things are always fun.

Commento di SpiderFairy

Hey Guys,

Thanks a lot for the posts. They really helped.
Here is where I found them:

Fire: Zul'Drak - South of Zeramas - Coords 22.80
Earth: Storm Peaks - Gnoll Camp west of K3 - Coords 35.82
Wind: Scholozar Basin - Sapphire Hive - Coords 62.79
Water: Dragonblight - New Hearthglen - Coords 72.72

Also please note that besides the fact that they have an 1 hour spawn timer that starts after the previous rift was closed and the fact that they despawn after 10 minutes if not killed (thanks mackie2040 for this Info), the npc's around will also attack them so you have to be quick.

Commento di 522508

Badlands confirmed for EARTH elemental rift, it spawns inside Kargath just up and bit right when you exit the inn.

Commento di Raiking

I've found out that at least on Trollbane and Shattered Hand EU, the elemental rifts seem to spawn massively around xx.40 every hour (e.g. 11.40, 12.40, 13.40).

I don't know if this can be generalized to other EU realms or even US realms, but I hope this information will be useful for your hunting purposes nonetheless.

Commento di 520143

Nice reference: Tripping the Rift

Commento di doesntknofail

WTB cords T.T

Commento di 49034

Taken from all above comments plus one I found myself (water in bloodmyst Isle)

For my low level alliance characters (lvl below 15) here are the "safe" places where I found my rift for them :

Fire : Sentinel Hill in Westfall
Earth : Just outside of Theramore in Loch Modan. It's close to where there is a broken Catapult next to the road
Air : Auberdine in Darkshore, just stand next to the mailbox and you can't miss it.
Water : Bloodmyst Isle, at around 55,70. When you walk from Azuremyst to Bood Watch on the main road this is shortly after the 2nd bridge (so not the one between Azuremyst Isle and Bloodmyst but the one after) on your left.

Commento di 696607

Old world Wind..
Feralas 45.2 49.2

Commento di 490383

killed the water rift at 4:47pm (41.37) in Stranglethorn Vale. got earth rift at about 8:42 am in The Storm Peaks (33.80 just NW of k3).got to the Sholazar spawn point just east of the Glimmering Pillar (56.40) at 8:55am got the wind rift. logged on at about 9:44 am at Everlook and the got the fire rift. seems there are on 40mins to 1 hour timer

hope this helps

Commento di queenypants

Fire rift in Westfall in the middle of Alexston Farmstead
( 38 , 52 ) - near the scarecrow

Earth rifts in Badlands
( 4.5 , 49.5 ) - south of Kargath
( 24 , 52 ) - east / southeast of Kargath
( 30.7 , 66.8 ) - south of above location

Water rifts in Tanaris
( 63.1 , 30.5 ) - northern area of Waterspring Field
( 59 , 39 ) - southern area of Waterspring Field

Commento di Tequima

Tote,

after finding three different Fire Rifts/elemental groups i landed to kill them but instantly they all faded away, despawned.

The elementals are on a strict 10 minute de-spawn timer and it may be unfortunate that you were unlucky to arrive just as they were de-spawning. There is a theory that they also de-spawn if not already engaged by a player or NPC of the appropriate level. Details are sketchy ... which, for me at least, is what makes it a little more exciting as there are puzzles to be uncovered, rather than handed to you on a plate. There was a similar series of quests for the scourge event. I never even found out about the Kara one, for instance (until someone shared the quest in Wintergrasp about a year after it was possible to complete it!).

Certainly over at http://www.wowpedia.org/Tripping_the_Rifts there is a summary of a lot of what is posted here. Hope it helps!

Commento di 695600

try using

/target Mysterious Device
/target Elemental Rift

(note, there are a few places where there are elemental rifts that are not the same as the ones you are looking for.)
if you find a mysterious device, you know a rift will spawn there in the next 45-70 minutes, give or take.

Commento di 496391

Found Wind Rift at coords: 29.3, 21.5 In Coldarra, Borean Tundra just outside the north-east side of The Nexus..

Commento di Haxan

Fire Elementals in Eastern Kingdoms: Searing Gorge (55.6 45.2) and (39.0 39.7).

Fire Elementals in Kalimdor: Winterspring (60.0 35.5) and (59.6 39.1) just outside Everlook.

Commento di jippie

I read on MMO. Zarhym said:

...I know. And I'm saying the elementals are merely leaking out at this point. It's but a small sign of a larger, more malevolent presence threatening to tear apart the land.

If you don't want to camp elementals for one achievement, wait until they're camping you.

Means elementals will get more and more, so I think I don't need to hurry for this achievement~

Commento di 696714

OK i just got this acheivement and here is where

wind in sholazar basin @ 48, 25.2
earth in storm peaks @ 33.4, 81.5
fire in zul' drak @ 16, 60 this is close there is a stairway here and it appears in front of it about 5 yards away
water in ice crown @ 60.2, 60

Commento di BloodyIron

From a Lore standpoint I don't understand why Outland is involved. Can anyone point me to why this happens in the Outlands?

Commento di zariem

Yes! I am so glad someone else got the reference. It's the funniest freaking show ever. And here's a link to the official site. Not shut down, just a new address, I believe.

http://www.trippingtherift.tv/cgi-bin/

Commento di 245717

Could someone confirm if it's possible for the server to be "late" with spawning the rifts or if the locations might not always spawn the rifts?

It's 23:20, I've been flying around the specified spots in Zul'Drak since 23:00, and nothing. Not a single fire rift. There are no devices floating in the air, so it means no one has killed one either...

To put it plainly: what the hell?

EDIT: I can confirm that something is weird with the time. I just saw the rifts spawn at 23:45...

EDIT 2:
Why the hell down-vote? I just confirmed that there might be issues with the time (server time, I might add), and this is the kind of thanks? Niiice...

Commento di drummermessiah

the easiest ones for me to find were:

Crystalsong Forest (wind) coords: 74.42, 63.03
Dragonblight (water) coords: 79.15, 48.93 (at wintergarde keep)
Zul'Drak (fire) coords: 21.75, 79.58 (at Zeramas)
Grizzly Hills (earth) coords: 45.51, 26.93 (at the Drak'atal Passage stairs)

I first hit up the earth rift, and once getting that i went over to the fire rift and immediately got that one within 3 minutes of getting earth. After fire, I flew over to the water rift and got that just 2 minutes after getting fire. I was then headed up to Crystalsong Forest for the wind rift, and would have had the Tripping the Rifts achievement done in less then 10minutes, but the wind one despawned about a minute after getting there. Basically, my flight order was earth, fire, water, wind.

I have also seen rifts spawn in

Zul'drak @ about 32,47 just east of the reliquary of pain (fire rift)
Dragonblight @ about 35,46, at the SW entrance to Agmar's Hammer (water)
Sholazar Basin @ about 49,68, just south of River's Heart along the bank of the river (wind)

Commento di joezu

Found a new location,
Icecrown, Hrotgar's landing, near 57.30, 20.00

And never camp one location.... that does not worth it... fly around, you'll get the achievement faster... :)

Commento di t2teddy

It would be really nice if the lower levels could get coords for at least 1 of each of the rifts. I've been galloping around everywhere looking for a rift no higher than 40.

You guys are mentioning tons of level 60-80 rifts, but almost none of the 1-59 rifts sightings.

Those of us between levels 27-34 would like to get he dailies done like all you higher levels can, but there is no info in this entire thread on spawns appropriate to that level range for both Alliance AND Horde.
Especially for Earth.
Horde has no problem with the level 20 level spawns for toons 20 and under, but level 30 spawn won't allow anyone higher than level 30 to get the daily.

Can somebody please post spawns points that are level 35 or so? If there is such a beastie?
We little 'uns can get the Tripping achievement, but want to do the dailies too.
Gold is always nice ;)

Commento di Luxurypriest

1. Water rift - there's one outside the entrance to Booty Bay and another along the south-eastern shoreline of STV.
2. Air rift - one spawns in the middle of the field at Dabyrie's Farmstead in Arathi Highlands.
3. Earth - a rift spawns in the Uplands just north of Strahnbrad, and another one south east of Dalaran Crater in the Alterac Mountains.

Commento di Ottius

Water: Tanaris. Right outside of Gadgetzan. South of it.

5. Stranglethorn Vale

South side of the main Venture Co. camp.

Commento di 362770

Finished this just now, only looked in Outlands. Found all within one hour (even though that's not a requirement.) Also did WG in that time.

Earth - found in BEM @ Vekhaar Stand
Air - Near Area 52 in Netherstorm
Fire - Hellfire near Hellfire Citadel. Bonus: Killed a rare mob for another step down for Bloody Rare.
Water - Zangarmarsh near the big hut in Feralfen Village.

Thanks to all who posted, it really helped out :)

Commento di nelsoncs

If you are using an addon to track mobs like npcscan heres the npc IDs of the elementals that spawn from the rifts

Air - Gusting Elemental 36964
Earth - Rumbling Elemental 36963
Fire - Searing Elemental 36949
Water - Surging Elemental 37703

Commento di palidinsatan

I just turned in each of the rifts. Icecrown, Crystalsong, Dragonblight, and Zuldrak. I didn not get the feat of str, can anyone else confirm same issue. I'm guessing it is a phase 4 achi for beating each boss.

Commento di Gaffa

I have the perfect path I have used to get this achieve on all my toons. Each time it takes me just one pass, so I end up with all 4 buffs. When the attack spawns all the rifts open everywhere, so you have 10 mins to down all 4.

1\ From Dalaran head out and over to Storm Peaks (35, 82), you need to have an idea when the next attack begins or your up for a wait on this first one. It's Earth btw.
2\ Once that is dealt with it's fly straight over to Zul'Drak (16, 60) for the Fire.
3\ Now head for Crystalsong (74, 63) and clean up the Air rift there.
4\ Finally, as fast as you can it's Dragonblight (75,27) for the water rift.

Commento di 284419

Theres a wind rift in Tarren Mill that spawns elementals at 28 minutes past the hour.

Came across it on my lowbie mage when handing in a quest xD

Commento di 694068

An air elemental spawned in shadowmoon village 29,27

Commento di evilkawaii

Found multiple groups of Water Elementals in SilverPine Forrest (As level 80)
All of which despawned when i got anywhere near them, As if i was phasing into another zone.

Commento di 513113

Ashenvale - found beside Mystral Lake 48,66

Commento di 349490

Outland is the place to do this; got all buffs in <10 minutes.

Commento di 192050

FYI...you need the buff to get credit for the ach (verified by myself), meaning, you have to wipe out the spawn and complete the event. Don't do like I did and only kill 1 elemental to be a nice guy and let someone else kill a few...that did not get me any credit. And, more than 1 can spawn at a time (I killed a spawn in Zul drak and someone spammed that another spawn was active in general).

Commento di 513113

JUST incase anyone had the same prob as me before i worked it out - its not that you kill an element, its that you stay until the void is destroyed is how you get the buff which applies towards the acheivement. I found this out after killing many rifts, you dont need to be there till the end but just until the void is killed.

And they have a 1 hour spawn timer but they do not spawn "on the hour" which many on my realm believe, as i have just killed a Fire rift in Zul Drak at 25past the hour.
It is a 1 hour spawn timer from the time they are killed and they last for 10 minutes until they are killed or fade out.

I have had problems with I.E. Shoulin Basin (Sapphire Hive) where i see a void and by the time i fly down it phases, apparently this is a bug but if you are there at the time it appears it will be fine.

Commento di 617911

Ok, I did all four and nothing happened.... like literally nothing. There was no achievement completion so not only do I question people's sanity of this achievement, but I'm wondering if this is a hoax or if my toon is bugged? I can't find anything about it and no one is giving a straight answer.

Commento di Bazzmann

Hey There,

I found a really nice way to do this and Get the Tripping the Rifts achievement done in One Go. I did it on my Rogue and Druid this morning

Rift Tripping is the screenie with the path I took to get it done :) (pending approval) you can see all 4 buffs in the top right hand corner.

I did this on my Druid first , and when she had 10-15 mins left on her buffs I logged over to my Rogue and flew from Dalaran to the first one in Crystalsong Forest, then Zul'drak, then Grizzly Hills, and lastly the spawn in Dragonblight.

I was on my own with no one else around so even doing it solo is possible. the only thing I did have in my favour on my Rogue is that I had 310% speed Flying mount.

Cheers.

EDIT:

My locations were:

Zul'Drak - Zeramas
Grizzly Hills - Zeb'Halak
Crystalsong - Ruins of Shandaral
Dragonblight - Scarlet Point

Hope some find this useful :)

Thanks

Commento di 549001

58.20, 24.43 in the Barrens, a Fire rift.

Commento di TheSpillmonkey

Heres a pro tip for all you people in wowland!
Get all 4 rifts in one run!

For Alliance..
Set your hearthstone in Westfall.
Travel to Southshore and wait in the middle of the town's main road.
A wind rift will spawn. Quickly kill this rift.
Now quickly head straight for the Dalaran Crater in the north west of the zone.
Along the south western edge of the crater, about 50 yards out from the bubble itself there will be an earth rift. Quickly Close it.
Now run all along the Dalaran bubble following it clockwise from the bottom till it brings you through a small valley. You will see murlocs fighting water elementals. Quickly Close the rift.
Now hearth!
Just at sentinel hill, next tot he tower itself will be fire elementals if you have been quick and no one has killed them yet.
BAM! Feat of Strength in 1 run!
There is also a rift in Westfall down right outside Moonbrook if you missed the one by the tower.

For horde, you will be doing the same ones at dalaran crater and the Murlocs, but replace southshore with the west side of Tarren Mill, and replace Westfall with the Crossroads. If you miss the invasion in the crossroads itself, go due north and there is a second fire rift spawn near the quillboar.
BAM! Horde Feat of Strength in 1 run!

Enjoy :)

Commento di 697819

Do we have to have the quest? Cause i completed the quests can i still do the achivement?

Commento di Popper

Hunters can also use Track Elementals to see these mobs. There usually aren't other elementals nearby, so the rift elementals stand out well.

Commento di Gatekus

For those players on multiple low level alts like me, doing it in Eastern Kingdoms.

Westfall, Sentinel Hill, Fire - you can camp in the inn and look toward the tower. This enables you to log out without the 20 second delay. The rift spawns halfway between the Inn and the Sentinel Tower.

Redridge Mountains, Lakeshire, Earth - The rift spawns at the first dock in Lakeshire. Again, you can camp at the Inn, so you can logout without delay if no rift is present.

It may be possible to hit 3 in a row (Westfall, Fire; Darkshire, Wind; Redridge Mtns, Earth), but spawn times vary. I was able to catch Fire and Earth in one go tonight by immediately flying to Redridge Mtns immediately after finishing Westfall. I would've hit Darkshire on the way, but I didnt know there was a wind spawn point until just now. Thank God for Wowhead!

Commento di Arrannin

Many people think, that rifts spawn every hour at xx:00 minutes and last until xx:10 minutes.
It might be true, but it is not always true.
I have killed one rift at 09:24 and another at 10:35.

Commento di 181947

Earth rifts spawn in Azshara (currently a level 45ish-60 zone).

One rift was in Ursolan (Timbermaw Hold).
Another was at Forlorn Ridge (near the Alliance flags).

Edit: Earth rift spawned at the path into Haldaar Encampment (1st satyr camp when you enter the zone)

Commento di morgasaurus

Easy mode Tripping the Rifts for alliance:

Part 1: Camp the bottom level of Winterfall village, Winterspring inside the fence area. A Fire Rift spawns right in the middle of the poor Furbolgs that folks are trying to grind for Wintersaber Trainers. Once you do everyone a favor and close that rift, quickly head to Everlook and fly to Talonbranch Glade, Felwood. Once there ride north to Felpaw Village where a Wind Rift will spawn at the Southeast Corner of the village once again slaughtering the unfortunate Furbolgs who were just minding their own business.

Part 2: Camp the Northeastern area of Menethil Harbor, Wetlands inside the wall where a Water Rift will spawn and annoy the guards. Once you close it quickly hop a flight path to Thelsamar, Loch Modan where you should see an Earth Rift right in the middle of town once again aggravating the guards.

Both of those parts are commutative in the sense that you could do the reverse of what I said (Camp Felpaw village FIRST or Thelsamar FIRST respectively). The Rifts do seem to spawn simultaneously in those areas. You may get unlucky if a player closes the second rift before you get there.

After flying around in Northrend zones for a couple of days and never seeing a rift, I started grinding Wintersaber Trainers and noticed rifts all over the place in Winterspring. Maybe it's related to the progression of the event or the absence of people camping them, but it seems much easier to find them in classic zones.

Note that you will not get the daily associated with closing these Rifts unless you are the appropriate level, but you will still get the FoS.

Commento di Xirobe

I found an Earth rift on Isle of Spears in Howling Fjord, south of Kamagua. It spawns on the highest snowy plateau.

Commento di 224299

There are wind rifts in northern and southern Felwood, in the Deadwood furbolg camps.

Commento di 10425

For those of you trying to get your lowbie alts the achievement before the expansion - another Water spawn point:
Bloodmyst Isle, Ruins of Loreth Aran, Coords 62.8, 43.2 (no need to go all the way out to Wyrmscar to get it.)

Commento di Yume

Hilarious: on Runetotem EU there is a fire elemental rift just in front of the pit lord leading the assault on the Dark Portal in Hellfire. I wonder if someone is so brave to kill it....

Commento di Zaku41k

Darkspear 11.8.2010

Not sure if the FoS is still achievable, but rifts are still around.

Saturn

Commento di 379221

Regarding the spawning of the rifts.. the spawn time is 60 min from when it was last closed. Which accounts for the different spawntimes.. i would imagin however that it resets at servermaintainance to be on the hour.

Hope this helps

Commento di StrykerMikado

I can confirm 100% that you can still get the achievement. I've got it just 5 mins ago.

Ocius on Twisting Nether-Us

Commento di SopieMunky

In case anyone was wondering (I know I was), you can still get this achievement. Just because the second phase has started doesn't mean you can't back-track.

Also, it is entirely possible to get them all in one sitting, if you know how to travel fast.

Commento di progshine

Air In Duskwood:

Brightwood Groove, they're fighting with the worgens!

And in the middle of the city, in Darkshire!

Earth in Loch Modan:

At the entrance to Badlands, left.

Commento di Frosciak

U can get ths achivment even on Phase 4 invasion, when elementals will attack capital cities (Stormwind and Inforge / Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff)

"If you succeed at closing at least one of the rifts, all players who participated in the defense will gain a buff appropriate to the type of elementals you just repelled. Also, every city will be attacked only by two types of elementals, so if you want to earn your Tripping the Rifts by defending your cities, you will need to defend each one at least twice." (Source)

Commento di fireball777

I have been flying around Icecrown to the various locations where there have been reported spawns. It's been an hour and a half now and I've seen nothing, so considering how stupid this stage of the events are I think I'm just going to wait until they start attacking the cities.

Commento di 385764

Hi guys, I just start it and make a BE Paladin, when I get closer to any rifts, they disappear. Could you tell me what should I do?

Commento di 666140

Ok so either this map isnt acurate or there is only 1 rift per hour. Like 1 rift in the whole northrend map and 1 in EK etc.

Because for 3 hours straight, as soon as it hits **:00 I start searching in Scholazar Bazin at all the locations. Managed to take 2 runs to check. Even if I were to be late and the elementals are allready dead it would still be a device on the ground.

Anyone that can confirm what I am saying is true?

Commento di 289750

WHAT the hell is wrong with nowadays wowplayers ? - I see TONS of Location Descriptions - tons comments here - and kinda ZERO Location Description comes with coordinates.

Seriously, are all wow players now addon-immune ? In the old days nearly any location came with a proper coordinateblock, and there are alot of addons that provide coordinates (mapaddons, location addons, waypointaddons like : tomtom, mapster, broker_location).
Use coordinates pls to get rid of misunderstanding descriptions, whats "short" for one palyer may be alrd too long for another. Coordinates are one of the best addon inventions on wow, making finding stuff fast + easy for others.

At least http://www.wowhead.com/guide=cataclysm&prelaunch#. should come with coordinates IF ppl had alrd the time to find and post a location.

thx to all those who provided coords!

Commento di ChairmanKaga

As of now (Nov 10) the respawn timers on the rifts has been shortened to 45 minutes. ~~I don't know what to exactly, but it's definitely less than an hour now.~~

I took down one at 11:15 tonight, came back on another character at 12:15 hoping to down it again, and was greeted by the mirage glitch (the elementals appeared and immediately despawned), indicating that the rift had already spawned and despawned on its own well before I got there.

It would seem that Zarhym's warning is starting to come to pass (in Soviet Russia, rift camps you).

Update: The timer is now 45 minutes. I predicted that the rift would reappear at 12:55 (downed at 11:15, 45 minute respawn, 10 minute uptime, despawn, 45 minute respawn) and I was dead on -- it reappeared at 12:55 exactly.

Commento di konidk

ltb coordinates!

Commento di army1237

Earth!
Fire!
Water!
Wind!
CAPTIN PLANET!

Commento di 490743

shadowmoon valley, water rift in wardens cage.
fire in XRoads
wind in hillsbrad by FP
earth on hill by k3
thats where i got mine.
also saw fire by east wall voltarus and wind by giant hornets in sholazar, wind by camp forge hate in nagrand
seems to be one hour respawn. can despawn and wont get cheiv if you dont kill fast enough

Commento di 305125

Earth
Badlands
56, 75

Fire
Blasted Lands
53, 30
58, 54
46, 52

Commento di 700274

Earth invastion in Howling Fjord at Skorn

Commento di drpsyco99

WATER
FIRE
AIR
DIRT
&*!@ING MAGNETS
HOW DO THEY WORK?

Commento di masoli78

2 things:

1.) Does the level of elemental killed have any relation to the feat of strength? (I know it matters when speaking in terms of the offered daily quest from the mysterious device)

2.) Is there any chance after killing these things that one couldn't get the feat? I'm an 80, hunted up and down ZD for fire and was SOL each time, so I found them at the portal in Hellfire Pen. and got the buff (of course the daily wasn't offered there). I only ask because I had counted that I'd killed 2 Earth (1 in Storm Peaks, 1 in Grizzly), 1 Wind (Sholazar) and 2 Water (Dragonblight) and then finally killed this fire in Hellfire, fully expecting the feat of strength to ding and it didn't.

Commento di 696479

As horde I've gotten mine from;

Water; Ghostlands, night elf island camp to the far west.
Wind; Tarren Mill, Hillsbrad Foothills.
Fire; The Barrens, below Camp Taurajo east of the road by Silithids.
Earth; Desolace, below Shadowprey Village, around the south west of Gelkis Clan Centaur area.

Commento di Iliana

I just found a rift I haven't seen on any map before:

Howling Fjord, in Westguard Keep, at 31.1, 42.8.

Commento di 693694

Just so you guys know, they are not set to spawn at the top of the hour. I found this out the hard way. The one at Reliquary of Agony is ~10 minutes before the hour. I was there on my DK, logged got my Rogue there and had them all killed but the last one which equals no buff. The rift despawned at 9:01 pm server time.

Commento di Tomkin

I'd like to add that this is still obtainable in the later phases of the pre-launch event.

Commento di malberg

Are they gone now?

Commento di Wearloga

On Scarshield Legion I encountered rifts at any time past an hour in Outland on my 64 Druid. Like **:45 and be able to kill it and get the quest.
On my 80 Pally I camped lots of sites but never encountered one in Northrend. I even spend like 90 minutes flying between three portals in Zul'Drak.
I know this is not supposed to be the cycle, but I thought I share it anyway.

Commento di 268767

It's possible to do all 4 in one spawn timer if you can fly in Outland (280 or 310 speed helps alot).

Spawns seem to appear just before the top of the hour.
You have until 10min after the hour before they despawn.
Each spawn has 12 health that ticks down per elemental killed.
Each elemental has under 3k health.

Start at Falcon Watch in Hellfire 5-10 minutes before the top of the hour.
The fire spawn is in front of the Inn.
Fly to Veil Shienor - Terokkar - 59,25 (air)
Fly to Umbrafen Village - Zangarmarsh - 80,85 (water)
Fly to Windyreed Village - Nagrand - 71, 52 (earth)

If those spawn points listed are empty, then someone's already been by and killed it so you'll need to use the map to find the next closest.

All spawn points will typically be where there are NPCs or beasts to "fight" it.

If you're 80, these rifts won't allow you to loot the device, you'll have to find a rift in Northrend to turn in for the daily.

Good luck!

Commento di 702049

Found some exploring:
Fire- Westfall 59,29
Earth- Burning Steppes 19, 45
Wind- Eastern Plaguelands 71,43

..should help a little.

NOTE: Even if your just standing there, and someone else defeats the elemental rift, you still get the buff, and it still counts for the achievement.
Found this out by going afk for a minute and coming back a little late for the rift and had the achievement. LOL.

Commento di 39346

The rifts and the achievement is still available (14 Nov), though Air rifts seem to be bugging often (elementals not spawning or spawning in different phase).

Commento di Baeltaz

Destroying the rifts inside cities for the final phase of this event also counts towards this achievement.

Commento di Obolon

I have a question, so please forgive me if I sound ignorant. I didn't notice any of these rifts over the past week or so, because I haven't been out and about. When I saw the Elementals invading Stormwind and Ironforge was my first clue that I should look this up and see what was going on, so I just discovered that this achievement exists and I want to get it.

What I want to know is if this achievement can be obtained from closing rifts anywhere in the world, or at least anywhere in Northrend for a level 80, or do I have to close rifts in Stormwind and Ironforge now that they are opening there? I would prefer to catch them in open pastures, because the second this event starts in the cities I get disconnected from enormous latency and can't get back on until all the rifts are closed.

Thanks!

Commento di GibbleFenwick

I have been unable to get the buffs in IF during the invasion.
Once the barricades are up the city seems to transition straight into "free citizens mode" with all rifts already closed.

By contrast, in SW some time is spent running around the city and closing rifts. It is quite easy to get the buffs there, but alas only Wind and Water (the two I had already previously obtained).

Commento di 402725

is it still possible to get?

Commento di Blizzo

As of patch 4.0.3a, this achievement is no longer available.

Commento di 847882

I didn't find out that you got an FOS for this until after the event was over
/sigh

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