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{{Duty infobox
{{#ev:youtube|6L5hKXmMXWk|350|right|The Praetorium Guide}}
| name = The Praetorium
{{#ev:youtube|elMzlbyXnsA|350|right|Heavensward All Roles Guide}}
| description = With the magitek field now out of commission, the path to the Ultima Weapon lies open. While the [[Immortal Flames]] sweep [[Castrum Meridianum]] and suppress the remnants of the enemy garrison, you and your comrades must fight your way to the innermost sector of the Praetorium, there to locate and destroy [[the Ultima Weapon]]. [[Cid]]'s airship, the ''Enterprise'', will bear you to the stage of the final confrontation.
{{Quote|With the magitek field now out of commission, the path to the Ultima Weapon lies open. While the Immortal Flames sweep Castrum Meridianum and suppress the remnants of the enemy garrison, you and your comrades must fight your way to the innermost sector of the Praetorium, there to locate and destroy the Ultima Weapon. Cid's airship, the ''Enterprise'', will bear you to the stage of the final confrontation.|Game Description}}
| image = The Praetorium.png
The Praetorium is a level 50 [[dungeons|dungeon]]. It is located in [[Northern Thanalan]] (x15,y16)
| type = dungeon
*The Praetorium is unlocked through the main story quests.
| level = 50
*Players must have completed the quest [[The Ultimate Weapon]].
| level-sync = 50
*Full Party (8 Players) (2 Tanks, 2 Healers, and 4 DPS)
| ilvl = 42
*Time Restriction: 120 minutes
| ilvl-sync = 60
*Rewards: 20 [[Allagan Tomestone of Soldiery]]
| difficulty = normal
==Objectives==
| size = light
# Imperial Identification Key: 0
| time-limit = 120
# Secure the command chamber: 0/1
| duty-finder = Dungeons (A Realm Reborn)
# Make for the Laboratorium Primum: 0/1
| roulette = main scenario
# Power and board magitek armor: 0/1
| tomestones = 150 poetics
# Defeat Nero tol Scaeva: 0/1
| entrance = Northern Thanalan
# Defeat Gaius van Baelsar: 0/1
| entrance-coordinates = 15,16
# Defeat the Ultima Weapon: 0/1
| req-quest = The Ultimate Weapon
# Defeat Lahabrea: 0/1
| modes = duty support, explorer
==Bestiary==
| patch = 2.0
{| width=75%
| release = A Realm Reborn
|width=50%|
}} {{TOC limit|3}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" width=100%
==General Information==
|-
*As of [[patch 6.1]], extensive changes to general progression have been implemented, and certain cutscenes have returned to being skippable. As such, the rewards have been reduced. For the prior version, see [[The Praetorium/Old]].
!Name
 
!Drops
==Duty Support==
|-
{| {{STDT|pve align-left}}
| [[1st Cohort Eques]] ||
!
|-
! Storm Marauder
| [[1st Cohort Hoplomachus]] ||  
! Serpent Conjurer
|-
! Flame Thaumaturge
| [[1st Cohort Laquearius]] ||
! Serpent Lancer
|-
| [[1st Cohort Medicus]] ||
|-
| [[1st Cohort Primi Ordines]] ||
|-
| [[1st Cohort Sagittarius]] ||
|-
| [[1st Cohort Secutor]] ||
|-
|-
| [[1st Cohort Signifer]] ||  
|
| [[File:DS Marauder4.png]]
| [[File:DS Conjurer4.png]]
| [[File:DS Thaumaturge4.png]]
| [[File:DS Lancer4.png]]
|-
|-
| [[Gaius Van Baelsar]] ||  
| '''Class'''
| {{MRD}} [[Marauder]]
| {{CNJ}} [[Conjurer]]
| {{THM}} [[Thaumaturge]]
| {{LNC}} [[Lancer]]
|-
|-
| [[Lahabrea]] ||  
| '''Role'''
| Tank
| Healer
| DPS
| DPS
|}
|}
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" width=100%
|-
!Name
!Drops
|-
| [[Magitek Colossus]] ||
|-
| [[Magitek Death Claw]] ||
|-
| [[Magitek Dreadnaught]] ||
|-
| [[Magitek Reaper]] ||
|-
| [[Magitek Vanguard]] || [[Garlean Steel Joint]], [[Garlean Steel Plate]]
|-
| [[Magitek Vanguard H-1]] || [[Garlean Steel Joint]], [[Garlean Steel Plate]]
|-
| [[Mark II Magitek Colossus]] ||
|-
| [[Nero Tol Scaeva]] ||
|-
| [[Proto-Ultima Arm Unit]] ||
|-
| [[Ultima Weapon]] ||
|}
|}
===Bosses===
====Mark II Magitek Colossus====
All non-tank players should be behind the boss. Players should avoid the Magitek Ray ability. This fight is a simple tank and spank.


''Abilities''
==Objectives==
:'''Grand Sword''' is an instant frontal attack that deals a moderate amount of damage.
#Secure the command chamber: 0/1
:'''Exhaust''' is an instant frontal attack that deals a small amount of damage and knocks its target back.
#Make for the Laboratorium Primum: 0/1
:'''Magitek Ray''' is a circular AoE attack that targets a random player. All players caught in the AoE will take moderate amount of damage and become inflicted with the debuff [[Burn]].
#Power and board magitek armor: 0/1
:'''Overheat''' is a buff that increases Mark II Magitek Colossus' damage.
#Defeat [[Nero tol Scaeva (boss)|Nero tol Scaeva]]: 0/1
#Defeat [[Gaius van Baelsar (boss)|Gaius van Baelsar]]: 0/1
 
==Bosses==
===[[File:Aggressive difficulty r5.png|link=]] [[Mark II Magitek Colossus]]===
*'''Ceruleum Vent''': Unavoidable raidwide damage that must be healed through.
*'''Prototype Laser Alpha''': Four circle AoEs will appear from the center and move toward the outside of the arena.
*'''Prototype Laser Beta''': Circle AoEs will be placed on every player, requiring them to spread out.
*'''Grand Sword''': A cone AoE targeting a random player.
 
===[[File:Aggressive difficulty r6.png|link=]] [[Nero tol Scaeva (boss)|Nero tol Scaeva]]===
There is an electrical field on the outside of the arena, giving people the debuff [[Electrocution]] that deals damage over time until they leave.
*'''Spine Shatter''': Tankbuster.
*'''Iron Uprising''': A frontal cone AoE that knocks players back.
*'''Activate''': Summons a Magitek Death Claw that tethers to one player and slowly moves towards them, knocking player back when it gets to them. The players not tethered should kill it.
*'''Augmented Shatter''': A stack on a random player, followed by Wheel of Suffering centered on the targeted player.
**'''Wheel of Suffering''': A circle AoE that deals damage to all players near the boss. Players should stack together then move out of the following AoE.
*'''Augmented Uprising''': Nero will hop to one side of the arena and attack a large potion of the arena with a cone AoE that should be avoided.
*'''Augmented Suffering''': Nero will jump to the center and cast a knockback attack. Players should get into the center to avoid being flung into the electrical field.
 
===[[File:Aggressive difficulty r6.png|link=]] [[Gaius van Baelsar (boss)|Gaius van Baelsar]]===
*'''Innocence''': Tankbuster.
*'''Horrida Bella''': Unavoidable raidwide damage that must be healed through.
*'''Terminus Est''': Gaius will fire several blue, flaming Xs. After a few seconds, a line AoE blast comes from the X dealing heavy damage to any players in its path.
*'''Phantasmata''': Copies of Gaius will appear on the long side of the arena and each cast Terminus Est, marked by flaming Xs. Players should move out of the way of their path by moving in between two of them.
*'''Festina Lente''': A stack marker on a random player.
*'''Ductus''': Three circular AoEs appear on the short side of the arena and move along the length of the platform.
*'''Hand of the Empire''': Each player will be marked by an unavoidable circle AoE. Players should spread out to avoid excess damage.
 
At 5% HP, Gaius will summon 4 '''Phantom Gaius''' adds that must be taken out while he charges up Blade Energy for his ultimate attack, '''Veni Vidi Vici''', which will instantly kill the party if energy reaches 100%.
*'''Heirsbane''': Each Phantom Gaius will target a random player, dealing moderate damage to them.
*'''Ductus''': The party will continue to be bombarded with this and '''Phantasmata''' as they battle each Phantom Gaius.
*'''Horrida Bella''': After '''Veni Vidi Vici''' is withstood, Gaius will spam a higher damage version of this until he is defeated.
 
==Loot==
*{{tomestone|Poetics|150}} [[Allagan Tomestone of Poetics]]
*{{Item icon|Gaius van Baelsar Card}} (Drops at a fixed rate)


====Nero tol Scaeva====
==Achievements==
The boss room is surrounded by an electrical field. While in the electrical field, players will take damage over time. All non-tank players should not be in front of Nero tol Scaeva. Ranged damage dealers and healers should stay out of the melee range. Occasionally, Magitek Death Claw add will spawn. A purple line connects the claw to a random player. The targeted player should move away from the Death Claw while rest of the players should kill the claw as soon as possible. If the claw reaches the targeted player, the player will be knocked into the electrical field.
This duty is associated with the following achievements:
''Abilities''
:'''Spine Shatter''' is an instant melee attack that deals a small amount of damage.
:'''Sideswing''' is an instant frontal attack that deals damage to all players in front of the Nero tol Scaeva.
:'''Wheel of Suffering''' is an instant attack that deals damage to all players near the boss.
:'''Iron Uprising''' is an instant frontal attack that deals a moderate amount of damage to all players in front of Nero tol Scaeva and knocks them back.
:'''Augmented Shatter''' is an instant attack that deals a moderate amount of damage to one random player. When performing this attack, Nero tol Scaeva leaps into air and strikes the ground with its hammer.
:'''Augmented Uprising''' is a frontal AoE attack that deals a moderate amount of damage and inflicts the debuff [[Heavy]] to all players hit. Additionally, this ability knocks all players backward.
:'''Augmented Suffering''' is an circular AoE attack that deals moderate amount of damage, inflicts the debuff Heavy and knocks back all players around the boss.


''Adds''
{| {{STDT| mech1 sortable align-left}}
:'''Magitek Death Claw''' targets one player with a purple line. If the claw reaches the targeted player, that player will be knocked into the electrical field.
{{achievement table header}}
{{achievement table row|Mapping the Realm: Praetorium}}
|}


*Targeted player should run away from the claw while rest of the players should kill it.
==Images==


====Gaius van Baelsar====
==Lore==
Players should spread out to avoid Gaius' Hand of the Empire. Non-tank players should not be in front of the boss. At 3/4, 1/2 and 1/4 [[HP]], flaming blue circles will appear on the ground. Players should move and stay out of the circles because they do damage to anyone in them. Players should also avoid his Blue X ability called Terminus Est. When the flaming blue X appears, move out of its way.  
===The Hour Of Reckoning===
A fortress within a fortress rising at the heart of Castrum Meridianum, the Praetorium houses the XIVth Imperial Legion’s command center, wherefrom Gaius van Baelsar directed his army’s operations realm wide.


''Abilities''
Occupying the underground levels is a magitek research facility headed by Tribunus Nero tol Scaeva, a brilliant engineer responsible for the development of myriad machina of war. Of the many projects to his name, none was more groundbreaking than the revival of the Ultima Weapon. Created to suppress eikons, it was the Black Wolf's key to his conquest of Eorzea—and the Alliance's primary target in Operation Archon.
:'''Innocence''' is an instant frontal cleave attack that deals a moderate amount of damage to all players hit.
:'''Sentence''' is an instant attack that knocks back a random player.
:'''Heirsbane''' is an instant attack that deals a moderate amount of damage to a random player.
:'''Hand of the Empire''' is an instant attack that unleashes a blue ball of flame at a random player. That player and all players around will take small amount of damage.
:'''Terminus Est''' is a blue, flaming X that appears. After a few seconds, a blast comes from the X dealing heavy amount of damage to all players in its path.
:'''Judgment''' stuns a random player and spawns a circular AoE ground indicator around him or her. After a few seconds all players within the ground indicator will take moderate amount of damage.


====Ultima Weapon====
===The Ultima Weapon===
A counter-primal weapon of unparalleled might, the Ultima Weapon is a relic of ancient Allag discovered deep beneath Gyr Abania in a nigh-forgotten, ruin-sized site. Through the ingenuity of Nero tol Scaeva, it was restored to working order and made battle-ready, but dark rumors surround its source of power, the Heart of Sabik, which some claim was gifted from the Ascians.


====Lahabrea====
===Gaius van Baelsar===
Lahabrea is a straight forward fight. Players should avoid the dark pools spawned by Sea of Pitch if possible. He will also cast Shadow Flare, which players can interrupt.
A general and governor both, his many accomplishments include the conquest and political assimilation of five enemy cities. Fearsome in battle, he personally rose to challenge those adventurers who stormed Castrum Meridianum, wielding his gunblade Heirsbane with deadly effect.


''Abilities''
===More===
:'''Dark Orb''' is an instant spell that deals a small amount of damage to a random player.
The ancient magick sealed within the Ultima Weapon wreaked untold havoc, tearing open a crater of charred steel. Defeated, Gaius van Baelsar is said to have been consumed by ravenous flames.
:'''Grip of Night''' is an instant ability that deals a small amount of damage to all players near Lahabrea.
:'''Sea of Pitch''' is an ability that spawns 4 dark circles in the boss room. Moving over the circles will cause an explosion that deals a moderate amount of damage to all players caught.
:'''Shadow Flare''' is an ability that deals a moderate amount of damage to all players.


==Loot==
There is no loot in this dungeon.


{{dungeons}}
{{Duties nav|dungeon}}

Latest revision as of 16:56, 12 September 2023

Dungeon.png

The Praetorium

The Praetorium.png
Level
50 (Sync: 50)
Item Level
42 (Sync: 60)
Difficulty
Normal
Party size
Light Party
4 man • 1 Tank role.png 1 Healer role.png 2 DPS role.png
Unsyncing
Allowed
Time limit
120 minutes
Duty Finder
Dungeons (A Realm Reborn)
Roulette
Main Scenario
Tomestones
Allagan Tomestone of Poetics 150 
Req. quest
Main Scenario quest The Ultimate Weapon
Entrance
Northern Thanalan (X:15, Y:16)
Modes
Duty Support, Explorer
Patch
2.0
“

With the magitek field now out of commission, the path to the Ultima Weapon lies open. While the Immortal Flames sweep Castrum Meridianum and suppress the remnants of the enemy garrison, you and your comrades must fight your way to the innermost sector of the Praetorium, there to locate and destroy the Ultima Weapon. Cid's airship, the Enterprise, will bear you to the stage of the final confrontation.

— In-game description

The Praetorium is a level 50 dungeon introduced in patch 2.0.

General Information

  • As of patch 6.1, extensive changes to general progression have been implemented, and certain cutscenes have returned to being skippable. As such, the rewards have been reduced. For the prior version, see The Praetorium/Old.

Duty Support

Storm Marauder Serpent Conjurer Flame Thaumaturge Serpent Lancer
DS Marauder4.png DS Conjurer4.png DS Thaumaturge4.png DS Lancer4.png
Class Marauder frame icon.png Marauder Conjurer frame icon.png Conjurer Thaumaturge frame icon.png Thaumaturge Lancer frame icon.png Lancer
Role Tank Healer DPS DPS

Objectives

  1. Secure the command chamber: 0/1
  2. Make for the Laboratorium Primum: 0/1
  3. Power and board magitek armor: 0/1
  4. Defeat Nero tol Scaeva: 0/1
  5. Defeat Gaius van Baelsar: 0/1

Bosses

Aggressive difficulty r5.png Mark II Magitek Colossus

  • Ceruleum Vent: Unavoidable raidwide damage that must be healed through.
  • Prototype Laser Alpha: Four circle AoEs will appear from the center and move toward the outside of the arena.
  • Prototype Laser Beta: Circle AoEs will be placed on every player, requiring them to spread out.
  • Grand Sword: A cone AoE targeting a random player.

Aggressive difficulty r6.png Nero tol Scaeva

There is an electrical field on the outside of the arena, giving people the debuff Electrocution that deals damage over time until they leave.

  • Spine Shatter: Tankbuster.
  • Iron Uprising: A frontal cone AoE that knocks players back.
  • Activate: Summons a Magitek Death Claw that tethers to one player and slowly moves towards them, knocking player back when it gets to them. The players not tethered should kill it.
  • Augmented Shatter: A stack on a random player, followed by Wheel of Suffering centered on the targeted player.
    • Wheel of Suffering: A circle AoE that deals damage to all players near the boss. Players should stack together then move out of the following AoE.
  • Augmented Uprising: Nero will hop to one side of the arena and attack a large potion of the arena with a cone AoE that should be avoided.
  • Augmented Suffering: Nero will jump to the center and cast a knockback attack. Players should get into the center to avoid being flung into the electrical field.

Aggressive difficulty r6.png Gaius van Baelsar

  • Innocence: Tankbuster.
  • Horrida Bella: Unavoidable raidwide damage that must be healed through.
  • Terminus Est: Gaius will fire several blue, flaming Xs. After a few seconds, a line AoE blast comes from the X dealing heavy damage to any players in its path.
  • Phantasmata: Copies of Gaius will appear on the long side of the arena and each cast Terminus Est, marked by flaming Xs. Players should move out of the way of their path by moving in between two of them.
  • Festina Lente: A stack marker on a random player.
  • Ductus: Three circular AoEs appear on the short side of the arena and move along the length of the platform.
  • Hand of the Empire: Each player will be marked by an unavoidable circle AoE. Players should spread out to avoid excess damage.

At 5% HP, Gaius will summon 4 Phantom Gaius adds that must be taken out while he charges up Blade Energy for his ultimate attack, Veni Vidi Vici, which will instantly kill the party if energy reaches 100%.

  • Heirsbane: Each Phantom Gaius will target a random player, dealing moderate damage to them.
  • Ductus: The party will continue to be bombarded with this and Phantasmata as they battle each Phantom Gaius.
  • Horrida Bella: After Veni Vidi Vici is withstood, Gaius will spam a higher damage version of this until he is defeated.

Loot

Achievements

This duty is associated with the following achievements:

Name Points Task Reward Patch
Mapping the realm praetorium icon1.png  Mapping the Realm: Praetorium 10 Discover every location within the Praetorium. - 2.0

Images

Lore

The Hour Of Reckoning

A fortress within a fortress rising at the heart of Castrum Meridianum, the Praetorium houses the XIVth Imperial Legion’s command center, wherefrom Gaius van Baelsar directed his army’s operations realm wide.

Occupying the underground levels is a magitek research facility headed by Tribunus Nero tol Scaeva, a brilliant engineer responsible for the development of myriad machina of war. Of the many projects to his name, none was more groundbreaking than the revival of the Ultima Weapon. Created to suppress eikons, it was the Black Wolf's key to his conquest of Eorzea—and the Alliance's primary target in Operation Archon.

The Ultima Weapon

A counter-primal weapon of unparalleled might, the Ultima Weapon is a relic of ancient Allag discovered deep beneath Gyr Abania in a nigh-forgotten, ruin-sized site. Through the ingenuity of Nero tol Scaeva, it was restored to working order and made battle-ready, but dark rumors surround its source of power, the Heart of Sabik, which some claim was gifted from the Ascians.

Gaius van Baelsar

A general and governor both, his many accomplishments include the conquest and political assimilation of five enemy cities. Fearsome in battle, he personally rose to challenge those adventurers who stormed Castrum Meridianum, wielding his gunblade Heirsbane with deadly effect.

More

The ancient magick sealed within the Ultima Weapon wreaked untold havoc, tearing open a crater of charred steel. Defeated, Gaius van Baelsar is said to have been consumed by ravenous flames.


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