Guild Wars 2

Ok, first off I’m a bit late to the show since I took a considerable break and only recently came back. From what I’ve read on Dulfy the very first thing to do is go through a Class 1 rift near Gillscale Pond in Fields of Ruin. I’ve spent the past 45 minutes here waiting for an event, looking around and being bored. There’s no rifts here or anything. And no thing in the water. But I guess that doesn’t show up till after you jump into a rift? So like…. what’s the deal? Did they remove the rifts from this area and you can no longer pick up this mysterious item?

Unopened rifts are marked on the map as a nearby event – you can’t see them if your content guide is pointing somewhere else, like the personal story. They’re still out there, and in other maps, but opening them requires a stabilizer and they only remain for a few minutes.

I just checked, and there’s still people out there doing them (NA).

There has to be rifts that open up spontaneously otherwise the first people to do this event wouldn’t have been able to jump through to get the device. A 45 minute wait sounds excessive, especially one in the designated starting area. Maybe see if a friend or guildie who has one of these devices can go with you to the pond and open up a rift at a event marker.