HELP! Can't unlock the final part of Ultima Weapon Quest!

[Geo]

So the first time I went through the Ultima Weapon Quest, I got all the way to the third part where you die and you get ressurrected. I ran out of potions so I figured there's no way I was going to beat it. My entire NPC party kept wiping so I gave up and left the instance.

So I restarted the dungeeon (The Praetorium Dungeon) instance again tonight, and went through the entire thing... only, after I fought Gaius until he had no more HP and he put his sword away, it all ended, I got XP, and only caught a glimpse of him and the ultima weapon. The only thing I could do was to exit duty as there was nowhere else to go. So I thought maybe I'm crazy and clicked the wrong thing. I went into Duty Finder, this time, and I chose The Porta Decumana (guess it's using the Duty Roulette System) and I got to continue...with a real party of players. We beat it...but it ended after that( got XP and everything). So i went back to the Passage To The Praetorium Dungeon and started all over again... and again, I got to the part where I beat Gaius...he puts his sword away and the whole thing ends again. I get tons of XP, and the only option I have is to exit duty.

What gives? How do I continue this bloody, long quest??? I want to get it over with! Help!!!

Update:

Thanx for your reply, guys. I found my answer in another forum. Apparently, this is its own instance, which I overlooked because it's a small glowing light next to the dungeon entrance, but I kept going into the trial entrance and repeating the whole dungeon which I had previously beat. Just bad design on their part.

[Komarimaru]

Ultima is it's own instance now, like the trial before it.

[Cryptics]

Look at your quest journal, it tells you what to do.

[Slaanesh]

Първоначално публикувано от Cryptics:

Look at your quest journal, it tells you what to do.

For some people reading really is too hard

[jean_3600]

Thank you for that update! I had that exact problem and I was getting very frustrated.

[Geo]

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Thank you for that update! I had that exact problem and I was getting very frustrated.

Yer very welcome! I can totally understand the frustration. It's such a small detail that I totally overlooked.

[King David]

Appreciate I'm very late to this thread, but two years on and this still hasn't been fixed. So I post this here to help anyone with the same problem.

I think the comments by Cryptic and Slaanesh above are not very helpful at all. It isn't obvious from the Journal and Duty Finder what you need to do AT ALL. For two key reasons:

Firstly, the reason people get stuck in a loop is because when you click on the portal for the Porta Decumana, it doesn't actually take you to the Porta Decumana. It takes you to the Duty Finder, which has a very annoying feature that it automatically defaults to the last dungeon you did. So it defaults to taking you back to the Praetorium again, which is the dungeon you literally just did! Which is colossally stupid, and very shoddily designed by the devs...

Secondly, it isn't immediately obvious where the duty for the Porta Decumana actually is. Because instead of putting Porta Decumana immediately below the Praetorium in the Duty Finder, under the same "Realm Reborn" Dungeons drop down menu (where any sane gaming coder should have put it) - it instead puts it in a completely separate menu, under Trials rather than Dungeons!

So to clarify, what you need to do to complete this atrociously designed quest:

1) Click on the portal for the Praetorium Dungeon and complete this duty as normal. The portal is next to Cid (after you chat to him) and select the Praetorium from the duty finder.

2) After finishing the Praetorium and watching all the cutscenes, a new portal will appear. Click the new portal, but be VERY CAREFUL. It will default to taking you back to the same menu. Make sure that you uncheck the Praetorium (which you literally just did) and instead find the Trials menu for Realm Reborn - which is a red square with like an angry firey face, and has the number 1 under it. In THAT menu, you will find the Porta Decumana duty. THAT is the one you want to click. Otherwise you end up in a loop, as I did, and the OP on this message board did, and MANY other players on other message boards did. Because it was designed by a monkey with no common sense...

[Alternity]

Първоначално публикувано от King David:

Appreciate I'm very late to this thread, but two years on and this still hasn't been fixed. So I post this here to help anyone with the same problem.

I think the comments by Cryptic and Slaanesh above are not very helpful at all. It isn't obvious from the Journal and Duty Finder what you need to do AT ALL. For two key reasons:

Firstly, the reason people get stuck in a loop is because when you click on the portal for the Porta Decumana, it doesn't actually take you to the Porta Decumana. It takes you to the Duty Finder, which has a very annoying feature that it automatically defaults to the last dungeon you did. So it defaults to taking you back to the Praetorium again, which is the dungeon you literally just did! Which is colossally stupid, and very shoddily designed by the devs...

Secondly, it isn't immediately obvious where the duty for the Porta Decumana actually is. Because instead of putting Porta Decumana immediately below the Praetorium in the Duty Finder, under the same "Realm Reborn" Dungeons drop down menu (where any sane gaming coder should have put it) - it instead puts it in a completely separate menu, under Trials rather than Dungeons!

So to clarify, what you need to do to complete this atrociously designed quest:

1) Click on the portal for the Praetorium Dungeon and complete this duty as normal. The portal is next to Cid (after you chat to him) and select the Praetorium from the duty finder.

2) After finishing the Praetorium and watching all the cutscenes, a new portal will appear. Click the new portal, but be VERY CAREFUL. It will default to taking you back to the same menu. Make sure that you uncheck the Praetorium (which you literally just did) and instead find the Trials menu for Realm Reborn - which is a red square with like an angry firey face, and has the number 1 under it. In THAT menu, you will find the Porta Decumana duty. THAT is the one you want to click. Otherwise you end up in a loop, as I did, and the OP on this message board did, and MANY other players on other message boards did. Because it was designed by a monkey with no common sense...

I do think they should automatically select the dungeon if you open the DF using an entrance node.

Entrance nodes exists because the DF didn'T used to exist back in the early days of the game, and I guess they still need to exist due to some old code in there, because to be quite honest these entrances are obsolete now.