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Went through the whole process of the rescue Wulbren quest, got into the prison, saved him and the tieflings by breaking the wall after assasinating all the guards one by one, took the boat with them, they got searched for parasites and then went to sit at the table in the inn, now the problem is that the quest is stuck at "Talk to Wulbren" and whenever i talk to him i just get his crappy "Every moment Kethric lives is another i am away from Baldur's Gate - I need to return. Soon." AND ITS STARTING TO PISS ME OFF, LIKE A LOT
i talked to every single person involved in that quest, every ironhand gnome, both the tieflings (that quest actually completed) but Wulbren still wont talk to me, i also know that Barcus has some involvement in this quest but i flung him from the windmill over 35 hours of playtime ago, can i really just not complete this because hes dead?? (and also cause Wulbren and his buddies are too lazy to actually talk) or am i missing some step???

So you probably aren’t getting more dialogue with him because Barcus is dead. If I recall correctly, they have a conversation at this point. Since typically it’s Barcus who asks you to rescue Wulbren, the game may not be accounting for the fact that he can be dead in this scenario. I wouldn’t call it a bug so much as the game overlooking a possibility. You may have more problems in the future, on the Wulbren questline, if Barcus isn’t there.

Did you learn anything about this? I have the same problem. In the discord I was told it is a bug in patch 6

I have the same bug and Barcus is alive...

Same problem here. Barcus is in my camp. Hotfix 21 is installed.

Actually, I just noticed that I can't find Barcus in my camp anymore. Does he normally leave after act 1 ?

Barcus leaves your camp in act 2, but you can find him at the Inn. (At least he did: I’ve not got to act 2 since patch 6 myself.)

Ok, these postings got me thinking and I figured out what 's wrong. You musnt't talk to Wulbren to end the quest but to Barcus. He's also in the inn. (No idea how he got there without us knowing about it)
That Wulbren is really an insufferable pr*ck.

Barcus is dead for some of us though

It looks like the quest is flawed. But if it is any consolation... When it unwraps, that Wulbren behaves like such an a*hole to both Barcus and us, that next PT I will probably just save the Tieflings and let him rot in his cell.
(I mean, I 've killed goblins that were nicer to us than him.)

He gets captured in the underdark and is in the grymforge after act 1. You have to rescue him again down there before he shows up at last light inn. I just ran into this on my current playthrough.

I skipped the underdark at first and rescued moonrise prisoners. Barcus wasn't at the inn and wulbren was doing the same thing mentioned above and not talking to me. I went to the underdark and rescued barcus again. There's no option to tell any of the gnomes that I already saved wulbren from moonrise in those conversations.

When I play again I'll have to check the inn to see if I can continue the quest.

Yeah, that one's a bit weird. You have to go up to Barcus, tell him that you rescued Wulbren, so he comes out, is surprised to see Wulbren, and then asks who rescued him.

But then you can also see Alfira and Lakrissa sitting next to each other, before the cutscene of Lakrissa walking in and Alfira being shocked ;-)

Sorry for the necro, but hopefully this helps someone.

I had this exact same issue -> Wulbren was hanging out at a table with the other two deep gnomes and was only spouting that same line at me. Barcus was standing 10 feet away and the only thing he'd say to me was something along the lines of "Not now, Wulbren is here!" The quest said to talk to Barcus, but that wouldn't advance anything.

THE ISSUE: Barcus HAS to speak with Wulbren before anything can advance and the game bugged out, not allowing either of them to get close enough to talk to each other.

THE SOLUTION: Have Karlach chuck Barcus at Wulbren or vice versa.

I found someone mention this on the bg3 subreddit and it totally works. Throwing them close together initiated a conversation between them and then allowed me to talk to Barcus to complete the quest and get the next part from Wulbren.
You will have to deal with some attitude for "harming" someone in front of the Harpers (and property damage if you accidentally break a chair or a table), but Karlach is more than adequate to talk her way out of it using an intimidation roll.

In that case, you can probably also move him with dimension door.

Though, I had the same bug, and just picked up the next part of the quest after the battle at moonrise towers. Wulbren was happy enough to talk there.