if you do not have time rifts unlocked, for example on a alt, you simply cannot do the weekly quest if this week is time rifts. which is quite frankly, stupid. at least the weeklies where you have to do the soup or hunting parties work on alts as those are unlocked right away with no need to reach level 70 and do the questlines again.
you need to unlock time rifts??
im pretty sure all my alts can do time rifts even though they havent even started the first dragonflight campaign
also i don’t remember doing anything to unlock time rifts on my main either…
no sign of time rifts on my alts nor my main. havent seen a single one since the patch came out and i just started the current patch a few days ago. everywhere i looked online suggests you need to unlock them, so i currently have a un-finishable weekly that would otherwise be a big help in catching up on reps (i am nearly a year behind)
wow head says this:
To participate in a Time Rift event, all you need to do is head to the area and once the event begins, talk to Soridormi to start it.
icy-veins says this:
You must be at least level 60 and above to participate in Time Rifts and pick up the weekly quest. However, rewards from the weekly quest that guarantee rewards in your next Time Rift require level 70 for use.
i just checked on my druid, who never did one quest in dragonflight ( i levelled druid completely through tanking random dungeons).
my druid can see the icon on thaldrazsus map that says next time rift is in 11 min and shows the reward for the weekly quest - the contained paracausality.
Umm, there isn’t anything to unlock.
Go to the spot on the map in Thaldrazus at the top of the hour, talk to the NPC (Soridormi), follow the task instructions or just afk until the portal opens for the final boss.
The weekly quest is once per account, not per character, which is a bit odd, but is this perhaps the problem here?
no, OP said they cannot participate in time rifts on any toons… which is odd
Can your alts do world quests?
thats probably the answer.
all your alts can do world quests after your main does the initial dragonflight levelling campaign - waking shores, ohnaran plains, azure span and thaldraszus.
so you gotta do those campaigns first i guess