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How to get the While We Were Sleeping achievement in WoW Dragonflight

Just a couple items to loot.

World of Warcraft players are hunting for Dragonflight’s meta achievement to get the Taivan mount, and one of the requirements is While We Were Sleeping.

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While We Were Sleeping is an achievement in the Forbidden Reach. The only way to complete it is to find Sending Stones and Journals and return them to Scalecommanders. While you may find some of these items in the open world, others are locked deep in Zskera Vaults. Here’s how to get the While We Were Sleeping achievement in Dragonflight

How to get the While We Were Sleeping achievement in WoW Dragonflight – Answered

To get the While We Were Sleeping achievement in Dragonflight, you must get Sending Stones and Journals. While you can find five of them on the Forbidden Reach, three are hiding in the Zskera Vaults. First, unlock the vaults with the starting questline, and then you can enter it using the keys

Here are the locations of all items you need on the Forbidden Reach:

Map of the Forbidden Reach, showing where to find items for While we were sleeping.
Locations of items in the Forbidden Reach. Screenshot by Dot Esports. Remix by Izabela Tomakic
ZoneCoordinates
Sending Stone: Protest58.43, 70.56
Receiving Stone: Final Warning58.93, 72.34
Sending Stone: Initial Report55.37, 35.87
Journal Entry: Experiments59.63, 64.91
Journal Entry: Relics50.85, 43.46

The remaining three items are in the Zskera Vaults:

Journal Entry: The Creches28.50, 55.66
Journal Entry: Silence29.04, 58.25
Sending Stone: The Prisoner28.46, 57.71

Remember, the layout of the vault changes from week to week, and items can appear in different rooms altogether. 

Locations of NPCs where you turn in the items.
Locations of Scalecommanders. Screenshot by Dot Esports. Remix by Izabela Tomakic

When you get the items, return to Scalecommander Azurathel (Alliance) in the Forbidden Reach to turn them in. This NPC is in the southeast part of the Forbidden Reach at coordinates 70.2, 64.4. Horde players turn in these items to Scalecommander Cindrethresh in the Forbidden Reach at coordinates 35.2, 59.4.


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Izabela Tomakic
Staff Writer & World of Warcraft lead. Izabela has a long history with writing and games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Fortnite, and The Sims. Before finding her home at Dot Esports in 2021, Izabela was an English teacher and a freelancer at Hotspawn, GGRecon, and Gameranx. In her free time, you’ll find her writing novels, wandering Azeroth, or inting on Summoner’s Rift.