The “Fill the Hour Glass” even which asks you to “Catch he sand the fill the hourglass!” didn’t do anything for me today beside show an hourglass and some floating sand motes. Clicking on the motes did nothing, clicking on the hourglass did nothing, and there was no way to exit this mini game UI.
The lack of any available action is a bug.
The lack of any indication of what was supposed to happen, and no “exit” button, is an oversight.
Mine had a red button in the middle of the game that you had to click on to move the hourglass back and forth under the sand motes to “catch” them.
Thanks for the comment, I didnt have that button for some reason. Maybe it was hidden under my abilities, since I have moved them around a bit (using the UI options, not any addons).
I did this once and I had the red button, no problem. Doing it now and there is NO red button and no way to move the hourglass. And trying to find a way to get out of it so maybe I can restart the activity. I enjoyed it the first time, frustrated that it’s not working now.
I got this again today. I finally saw that I could click on the bits of sand & was able to finish it.
Specifically you have to right-click the sand when you get this version; left-click doesn’t work (except perhaps if you have “Interact On Left Click” enabled).
I had to right-click the red button, clicking left or right anywhere else didn’t do jack-all.
I had this happen yesterday, where there was no red button, or if so it was under my Default UI buttons. No UI manipulating addons were being used, only the built-in move functions. I had to exit the game to get out of the hourglass window, and log back in to continue the rift. There was no way to move the hourglass, no way to exit the activity.
OMG thank you so much! I did see today, that the cursor changed. Wish it was a bit more self-explanatory.
You can get out by clicking the hourglass icon in your buff window.
Yes, this was an entirely frustrating task:
The lack of clarity whether it’s click or right click (because there IS a hand icon when I hover it over a sand spot, and usually my interact button is left click), the missing red button sometimes but present other times (have had it happen with a red button before that worked fine, and others there is no button), the inability to exit the minigame window (unless you know to click off the buff, as Anthro discovered). I tried using the /run VehicleExit() macro even to try and get out. I wasted the entire time rift trying to figure out what to do and then having to exit game in order to get out of the task and get a new one.
Use your mouse clicker to click on the pieces of sand flying around to fill it. 