坠入火焰

Locate and confront Balthazar. Enter the gate to Makali Outpost. Meet Agent Kito. Exit Makali Outpost. Search the Salt Flats for Balthazar and Vlast. (Optional: Clear out the Forged Elite Forces around the Salt Flats.) Optional: Clear the patrolling Forged Elite Forces: x/3 (Optional: Destroy the catapults attacking Makali Outpost.) Optional: Forged catapults destroyed: x/4 (Optional: Help nomad stragglers return to Makali Outpost.) Optional: Nomads Rescued: x/10 Investigate the scorch marks. Investigate the impact crater. Ascend the plateau to look for Vlast. (Defeat the Herald of Balthazar.) Herald of Balthazar Confront Balthazar. Choose to speak with Rytlock or Canach and Kasmeer. (Order of the follow up objectives depends on the choice) Speak with Kasmeer and Canach. Examine the crystal shard. Speak with Rytlock. Confer with your team and determine what to do next. Complete! Find the remaining crystals of Vlast's body. Contact Taimi about Vlast. Gather Vlast's crystals. Purchase a springer saddle from Unja after helping out at Highjump Ranch. Optional: Recover all Vlast crystals. Use your springer mount to gain access to Glint's lair. Complete!

The mission starts in an instance as soon as you enter the Desert Highlands. Talk to Shadows Agent Kito and after some conversation leave the outpost, jumping over the wall since they won't open the gate for you. In the marked area, there are three optional objectives; destroy Forged catapults, kill three elite Forged groups, and (a hidden objective) help ten Nomads escape. Your main goal, though, is to reach the plateau to the northwest(basically intersection of straight down from the 'F' and straight across from the Godfall tower POI, outside of the green marked area - if you have more than one person in your party all must be on that plateau to get the map to open up). Ascend it with your mounts and face the Herald of Balthazar once more. Get in her face and engage. Her attacks are, initially, a slowly rotating wall of flame and an AoE smash that are both easily avoided by getting behind her. As the fight progresses, the Herald will summon flame cages to imprison you and flaming explosions will appear all over the place. Dodge through or avoid the various hazards and you will eventually bring her down. Ascend Godfall Tower (by climing the stairs to the plateau, do not fly up using a mount or the final fight will not trigger) and confront Balthazar himself. Whether or not you attack him, after a short time he overpowers you - but just as he's about to finish you off, you are saved by an unlikely ally. Talk to your friends, in either order, to finish the instance. Back in the open world, start collecting the 12 crystal shards indicated on the map. To collect them all, you need to get the Springer mount, and in order to get to that, you need to unlock the third Raptor mount mastery, Canyon Jumping, to cross Highjump Gap or visit Lieutenant Zhao in End of Dragons. Then get to a spot where you can contact Taimi. After talking to her, if you've collected enough crystal shards, you will get the prompt to head for Glint's lair. Go east from Makali Outpost Waypoint and hop over the flaming gate with your Springer to complete the mission.