巨龙巢穴

Travel to the site of Glint's Lair and find the weapon that Vlast spoke of. Travel to the site of Glint's Lair. Defeat the Forged. (Examine evidence of Forged activity.) Investigate the Forged presence in the area. Discuss the findings with your group. Find a way inside Glint's lair. Kill the Branded creatures. Investigate the strange glowing lights. Find and restore memory crystals to get inside Glint's Lair. (Collect crystal essence to revive memory crystals.) Crystal essences collected: Optional: Find and collect all crystal essences. Find and power a damaged memory crystal. Find and power a damaged memory crystal. Find and power a damaged memory crystal. Enter Glint's lair. Explore the inside of Glint's Lair and search for the weapon mentioned by Vlast. Explore the inside of Glint's Lair. Fight the Facet of Glint. Explore the inside of Glint's Lair. Destroy the Dragonsblood Spear. Speak with Rytlock. Discuss the next steps.

The instance start point is behind the flaming gate on the west border of Prophet's Fall (where the previous story step The Sacrifice ended), northeast of Makali Outpost Waypoint. Defeat the Forged standing in your way, then go to where your companions are and examine the Forged artifacts. You can even safely turn on the Branded cannon without blowing yourself up. Talk to your group and move in the indicated direction. Defeat the Branded that appear in the canyon, and a number of purple lights appear. Pick up these crystal essences to hear some of Glint's memories. Move east, collecting more crystal essences, and talk to Rytlock for some lore. Kasmeer and Canach will move to the northeast and southwest corner around the crater respectively, and point out the location of other crystals. Then get on your mounts and collect the essences on the ledges above you (most will need the springer to reach, some will need the raptor), fighting or evading the Branded that appear. After you've gathered 5 essences, you'll be glowing and will have the effect; return to Rytlock (or any of the crystals pointed to by the team) to hear more of Glint's memories. Tour the edge of the crater counterclockwise to pick up more crystal essences, using your mounts (and glider, if you have it) to get to them. Each time you collect 5 you can go to one of the memory crystals to hear more from Glint. After activating the third crystal, a portal will open at the bottom of the crater. Enter it. Now inside Glint's lair, examine the big spear to make a Facet Guardian appear. The guardian will use lots of AoE attacks and has two special mechanics you must overcome. At the beginning it will use Crystalline Drain, an enormous AoE attack. To defend against this attack, defeat the smaller Facets of Light that spawn during this time. They will drop bright orbs that you can collect to gain that will protect you from the drain AoE, allowing you to continue to attack the boss. From 75% health it will switch to putting a large dark shield on itself, that will reduce damage to almost nothing. Around the edge of the arena will be several smaller Facets of Darkness. Defeat these to get dark orbs which will give you and a special action skill. This skill will stun the boss and disrupt the shield, allowing you to continue damaging it. From 25% health the boss will use both of these together. Gather both facets of light and darkness. Then go toward the boss without getting hurt, avoiding all the AOE spam. When you get near it, activate the special skill and it will deal major damage to the Guardian. Repeat as necessary. Once the guardian is defeated, go to the Intact Memory Crystal to hear more from Glint, then destroy the Dragonblood Spear and talk to your friends to complete the mission.