Explore Cataclysm

Explore Cataclysm is a meta-achievement requiring completion of the various Exploration achievements for the zones that were exposed all over Azeroth by the Shattering. Explore Cataclysm is itself part of the greater meta-achievement.

Deepholm, home to Therazane the Stonemother and all of her elemental children, was the first place to witness the Shattering, as Deathwing broke through the ceiling of the Elemental Plane itself and crushed the World Pillar. Now mortal heroes battle against time in a quest to restore the pillar, before the entire of Azeroth will be torn asunder. The ancient complex of Uldum, south of Tanaris, was hidden away for thousands of years, until recently when the tidal waves caused a malfunction of the titanic cloaking device, but there are also other forces than just titans' constructs in Uldum. Mount Hyjal, devastated during the Third War, will once again be endangered by many foes. Unseen for 10,000 years by any surface dwellers, the ruins of a Highborne city, known as Vashj'ir, will witness great battles between mighty forces of the depths and the master of oceans himself, armies of both the Alliance and the Horde, and even neutral allies of nature itself. Finally, Twilight Highlands, where the majority of Deathwing’s forces are stationed, will become a battlefield where all the world's hatred will coalesce.