Strategy Board Raid Planner in FFXIV

The Strategy Board was announced leading up to the Dawntrail expansion and will be released in Patch 7.4 on December 16, 2025. It is an in-game feature that allows players to create strategies and positioning diagrams for high-end encounters in FFXIV and share them with other players in-game.

Prior to its release, the most popular way of sharing raid strategies was with third party apps such as Toolbox or Raidplan. Now players can view common raid strategies inside the game without relying on additional tools to progress in fights.

There are four main features of the Strategy Board.

1. Create strategy from scratch;
2. Create strategy from preset;
3. Receive or share strategy with party members;
4. Receive or share strategy with share codes.

Players are able to save up to 50 strategies that can be separated into folders containing a maximum of 10 strategies. You can also share strategies in real time with party members, which is essential for both cutting-edge progression and mechanic explanations for newer party members.

In the image above, the strategy board shows the following mechanics with perfect accuracy:

1. A common light party stack; an example is Eventide Fall in the Voidcast Dais (Extreme);
2. Phantom Flood from Overseer Kanilokka;
3. Fourfold Blight from Dawntrail EX5;
4. Roseblood: 3rd Bloom from Recollection (Extreme).

Presets allow players to quickly create a strategy board for common FFXIV raid mechanics. There are four areas where players can change the preset: shape of arena, boss model, party locations, and waymarks.

Players who are unsatisfied with basic presets and need more in-depth strategies can opt to edit the strategy board itself. Players can add objects to the board that can represent players, mechanics, explanations, text, and more! Each object added has its own layer similar to photo-editing software and have parameters that can be edited, such as size, opacity, and location.

There are three main categories of objects that can be added to a strategy board.

1. Player icons
2. Boss attacks
3. Text and positioning indicators

Players can quickly toggle between DPS-specific icons or general DPS icons, as different regions use different methods of differentiating DPS players.

Each objects has up to five parameters that can be edited.

1. Size
2. Rotation
3. Opacity
4. Hitbox
5. Inner ring size

Each of these parameters can be adjusted to fit the mechanic being described.

As previously mentioned, players can share strategies being edited in real time. This allows for parties progressing in duties to figure out positioning for mechanics with a visual aid. Players can quickly assign spots based on roles and progress much faster compared to previously. This can also be useful when veterans are teaching new raiders mechanics: they are able to explain the mechanic through in-game tools only, allowing for new raiders to pick up mechanics more intuitively.

Share codes can be generated from strategy boards to share strategies both inside and outside the game. This makes it much easier for raid leaders to generate strategies for their group and share them so that all players have easy access.