
Rage Against the War Machine
Read the letter from Braham. Infiltrate the Molten Alliance base. Head to the Molten Alliance weapon facility. Strategize with Rox and Braham. Fend off the ambush. Follow the drill with Rox and Braham. Push forward into the base. Proceed through the Molten Alliance base. Survive the weapons-testing barrage and put a stop to the experiment. Travel deeper into the Molten Alliance base. Head deeper into the weapons-testing facility. Free the prisoners. Find an escape route. Find an escape route from the base. Investigate the facility's core. Rodion the Vile Gigarg the Cruel Set up charges on the furnace's core. Speak to Braham and let him know the explosives are set. Escape the facility!
The entrance to the facility is in Arcovian Foothills, west of Oldgate Waypoint in southwest Diessa Plateau. Warmaster Uma Threshgrowl is standing outside the entrance. Following the drill Initially, ignore the drill and clear out the small group of creatures that attempt to ambush you. You can optionally mine the ore to progress the Ready Ore Not achievement. Then follow Rox's drill as it reveals side-rooms with Ooze, Bats, and Earth Elementals. At the far end of the tunnel, there are a group of Flame Elementals. If you then follow the right-hand wall around, you can backtrack along the northern side of the tunnel to two further ore nodes - this tunnel features spiders. Returning to the main path, curtains of hot steam periodically appear to block the corridor. Wait for them to disappear before stepping across each of them. You will then find yourself in a large cavern looking down onto a caged arena. Cross the cavern and enter the arena. Weapons test The core in the middle of the room needs to be destroyed. It will become vulnerable at certain phases during the fight, at which point reducing its health to the next 25% threshold will remove all enemies from the arena. Some of the phases will have Veteran Molten Dredge appear around the arena; prioritise Molten Protectors as they can prevent the core from taking damage. The phases are: Phase 1 (100-75%): Fireball Barrage - ranged attacks, marked with circles on the ground. Walk and dodge to an area of the arena without fireballs. Phase 2 (75-50%): Ground Pound Shockwaves - big blocks thump down in each corner of the arena, creating a shockwave that can be jumped over. Jump over the shockwaves. Phase 3 (50-25%): Fire Tornadoes - initially small flames appear along one wall of the arena, and then they speed up out of the wall in a straight line across the arena. Either step between the tornadoes, or position yourself behind the core in the middle of the room with respect to the direction the tornadoes are travelling from. Phase 4 (25-0%): All three effects at once - do your best to avoid them. At 0%, Kostya appears within the arena for a short time; he's level 1 and instantly dies when attacked. Coolant corridor Destroy the coolant pumps throughout the corridor. At the end of the corridor is a Veteran Molten Effigy, which is reinforced by the appearance of a Veteran Molten Gunner and Veteran Molten Brawler during the fight. Breaking the last of the coolant pumps opens the gate. The page "Rodion's Blood Transfusion Results" is on the ground nearby to the veteran. Prisoners Emerging from the coolant pump area, you find yourself on a platform high above a large open area. To your left there are some Molten Dredge guarding a prisoner. Kill the dredge and free the prisoner. You can optionally collect the first Molten Memorial item in the hanging cage. Head south through the now-open gates (which opened when you freed the prisoner), optionally collecting the "Bloodied Journal Entry" tucked away on the right. Follow the path downwards, clearing the Molten groups on the way to release further prisoners. In the final prisoner room there are a series of rock crushers at the back. The bridge leading to this room has a body beneath the end of it, with the "Crude Drawing". After freeing all of the prisoners, the gate opens at the far end. There will be a big green arrow on the mini-map pointing up a small ramp. To the west of the small ramp, backtrack to find a "Torn Letter". The journal entry "Gigarg's Armor" is on a workbench after rounding the corner after the gate. Pass through the next corridor with vertical steam jets - the next little room has three optional objects that can be interacted with to turn off the steam pipes. Approaching the eastern end of the platform triggers dialogue from Rox, then the next gate opens. Follow the ramp down to the circular arena. Molten Duo Stepping into the circular arena triggers a cinematic featuring two champions Gigarg the Cruel (the firestorm) and Rodion the Vile (the berserker). They both attack. Killing Rodion spawns a whirlwind at the edge of the arena which will try to drag players off the edge, so it's best to kill Gigarg first if possible. Explosives After defeating the two champions, head up the ramp east of the arena, and pick up some of the marked explosives. Carry them to the three marked points, and plant them with the interaction dialogue. Return to Braham and Rox (who has opened the exit door). A 30 second timer starts and appears in red text on the screen. The last Mithril Ore node is within this corridor, grab it on the way past (it is not possible to mine when set on fire by the pipes, which can delay this). Reaching the end triggers the Rage Against the War Machine achievement, and also the Molten Furnace achievement after accepting the mission rewards.
This mission overlaps with 2 Fractals: the "Infiltrate the Molten Alliance base." and "Proceed through the Molten Alliance base." sections appear in the Molten Furnace Fractal, and the "Travel deeper into the Molten Alliance base." (except for the ice tunnel part) and "Find an escape route from the base." (except for the excape part) sections appears in the Molten Boss Fractal. es:Fragua Fundida