
Hammer and Tongs
Depart for the Crystal Desert. Board the airship. Optional: Check in with First Mate Fidus. Make your way to Crystal Oasis in the Crystal Desert. Wait for the airship to dock. Lead the Lionguard toward the pyramid. Investigate the commotion. Defeat the Forged attackers: Defeat the Herald of Balthazar. Pursue the Herald of Balthazar. (Save the village from the Forged.) Defeat Balthazar's forces. Defeat the Forged Warhounds. Forged Warhounds killed: x/2 Speak with Tasa and Aksim. Use a raptor to rescue the villagers. Extinguish the fire at the raptor pen. Mount the raptor. Return to Aksim and receive a raptor saddle. Use the mount hotkey to summon your mount. Enter the mine. Traverse the mine. Eliminate the cave spiders. Cave spiders eliminated: Optional: Use your mount's skill to damage one of the cave spiders. Exit the mine into the Crystal Desert. Approach the northern gate of Amnoon. Complete!
The airship is docked next to the Phoenix Roost lighthouse in Lion's Arch. You can speak to the first mate before boarding for some extra dialogue. Once the airship has landed, make your way down, reaching the entrance of a nearby tomb. Once you've entered the tomb, you will have to defeat the Forged inside; after they've been defeated, the Herald of Balthazar will appear. During this boss fight, she will often disengage in order to attack nearby civilians. After reaching around 80% HP, she will flee. Start following her. The Herald will lead you to a nearby village that's also being attacked by Forged forces. Dispatch them and confront the Herald again. This time she will disappear, summoning two Forged Warhounds. Try to pull them one by one, dodge their flame projectiles and AoE or hide behind a small column near Aksim and Tasa. After you've defeated them, talk to Tasa and Aksim back at the start of the village. Aksim will task you with a renown heart: Use a raptor to save Seeker's Village. Use the Water Buckets and the Lionguard Fire Extinguisher to extinguish the nearby flames and use the newly-acquired raptor mount in order to reach and revive defeated Villagers. Once you've completed the renown heart, talk to Aksim again. This will unlock the raptor mount for use anytime, as well as unlock the Path of Fire masteries. Head north into the mine and use your raptor to jump across gaps. Dispatch of the spiders infesting the mine in order to continue. Head further north until you reach the exit of the mine, talk to the nearby Miner and head south, towards the Free City of Amnoon. Once there, the nearby Cavalier will talk to you, finishing this story step. If you stay in the instance after receiving the reward, you can talk to Kasmeer and Rytlock.
This story section was first made available to players during the Path of Fire preview weekend (August 11-13, 2017). The preview story began with the airship landing in the tomb and did not include complete rewards. No Deductible is most likely a reference to the numerous times the Commander has crashed airships, from Arah's story mode to the near crash during Out of the Shadows. de:Entzünden der Flamme es:Encender la llama fr:Allumer la flamme