Lvl 16 and No Homestead / End of Time Portals activated..

[tAG^_K|mch| [GUNNER]]

So I feel like an idiot for not noticing this before, but I haven't visited the end of time much since the first time I got there. I have 7-8 inert stones and 2 blood stones in my inventory. I got the Hall of Heroes portal a while ago, but no other portals were activated since.

I'm not sure what I did wrong exactly, but whenever I found a Starstone it would just turn inert? And I would just move on with the next quest. I don't remember any prompts for opening portals, and I didn't use the rift tp to travel to the End of Time. I just visited the End of Time with my inert/bloodstones, but Zigx won't say anything or activate any portals. Does it work only with Starstones? Did I need them in my inventory when I tp to End of Time, or do I have to do something else once I find one? So confused. Am i forever screwed in opening these portals?

[Ism]

Same here, I can't figure out the problem.

[Jynxii]

if you've got fireballs raining down on your homestead right now (considering your level, you might be at that point) then you have to take care of that before you can open any additional areas in your homestead.

Normally, if you've collected multiple bloodstones without revisiting inbetween, it will activate one portal on your next return, then you need to leave and return and it will activate the next until you run out of consumed bloodstones.

All you need to do is use the bloodstone (anywhere) to open a new portal. The imp should talk to you each time and then run to the newly activated portal. If that's not happening and there's no fireballs raining down, sounds like a bug.

[tAG^_K|mch| [GUNNER]]

Thanks for that! You're right, I came back when the fireballs started raining down. I'll try again on an earlier save just to make sure I'm doing it right :)

[tAG^_K|mch| [GUNNER]]

Wow, I feel like I missed out on a huge part of the story up until now... Works just as you said. Time to catch up on them portals...

[Jackmoved]

You can still progress. The fiery attack on the end of time is part of the story. To stop it, you need to sneak to the top of Lucella Forest map and kill the blood stone with a Tenebrium weapon. Once you do that, you can keep warping in and out of the end of times to open the portals you missed.

[tAG^_K|mch| [GUNNER]]

Originally posted by Jackmoved:

You can still progress. The fiery attack on the end of time is part of the story. To stop it, you need to sneak to the top of Lucella Forest map and kill the blood stone with a Tenebrium weapon. Once you do that, you can keep warping in and out of the end of times to open the portals you missed.

Thanks, I ended up doing that :)

[Keth]

Originally posted by Jackmoved:

You can still progress. The fiery attack on the end of time is part of the story. To stop it, you need to sneak to the top of Lucella Forest map and kill the blood stone with a Tenebrium weapon. Once you do that, you can keep warping in and out of the end of times to open the portals you missed.

where exactly is this stone? can't find it :(

[feralgal]

Originally posted by Keth:

where exactly is this stone? can't find it :(

The cave is in the far northern corner of the Luculla Forest map. It's east of the Immaculate's Temple. When you get to the cave, sneak past the void demons and go down some stairs to a big baddie and some other demons. Sneak past them and IIRC go down some more stairs. The blood stone should be there. You don't need to explore any of the paths off of the main area there, just keep going down (maybe up) the stairs until you get to the bloodstone.

[RestarttGaming]

As a note, there are about 99 threads on how portals open and everything that needs to be done to open them, and how the stones work, so the search function should bring some help if you get stuck again.

[hairyscotsman]

At one point, for me, he'd spoken to me and gone off to a portal but I'd forgotten to follow him to go through it as I was going to speak to the seller of secrets. So I had to keep leaving and coming back once I'd done the portal I'd left him at.

[easytarget]

Oddly I had one portal that never activated no matter what I did. It wasn't necesary to complete the game however.

[Censuur]

That one portal never opens, it does not even have a destination asociated with it (yet?)

I should also clarify that you do not need to leave the homestead between opening portals at all, zixzax will move to each unlocked room after you've visited the previous one.

[easytarget]

So there's not one that I missed then? I wasted a bit of time tracking down more stones and leaving and coming back in the hopes of triggering it, never happened.