The Dead Ends Quick Dungeon Tips and Guide
Welcome to our quick guide to The Dead Ends, the sixth dungeon of Endwalker. This guide aims to be a quick primer for players entering the dungeon for the first time so they will know what to expect.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE
1.
Full Guide for The Dead Ends
This guide serves as a quick primer for players experiencing the dungeon for the first time. It is aimed to be digestible quickly and targeted towards a specific role, so you can read it while in queue or loading in! For detailed explanations on boss mechanics, take a look at our main guide for the dungeon.
2.
General Mechanics
- Caustic Grebuloff
- The AoEs from Miasmata will move north or south depending on which direction the wind is blowing.
- Dodge Cough Up AoEs together and stack for Craven Companionship.
- Dodge the Wave of Nausea after Craven Companionship and again before Miasmata.
- Peacekeeper
- Electromagnetic Repellant makes the middle of the arena off-limits.
- Spread out for all mechanics, as players will need to dodge in a tight space and then spread for a marked AoE.
- Order to Fire shoots line AoEs from the cannons, while No Future creates a ton of ground AoEs.
- Rotate around for Peacefire, and spread out for Order to Fire and AoEs.
- Get knocked back into a safe spot during Eclipsing Exhaust, or use a knockback prevention abilities.
- Ra-la
- This boss will Prance around the room, leaving giant AoEs that explode in order. Move into the first one that explodes.
- Lifesbreath will summon butterflies that do a line AoE which inflicts Doom. They will fire in the direction indicated.
- Loving Embrace is a half-room cleave, indicated by the glowing wing. This will happen with Lifesbreath, so make sure to be on the correct side.
3.
Quick Tips for Tanks
- Go at the pace of what your party can handle.
- Caustic Grebuloff's Pox Flail, Peacekeeper's Elimination, and Ra-la's Pity are the tank busters to watch out for.
- Quickly identify Ra-la's Prance spots to move the boss into the safe spot.
4.
Quick Tips for Healers
- Caustic Grebuloff's Miasmata, Peacekeeper's Decimation, and Ra-la's Warm Glow are the raidwides to watch out for.
- If players are hit with Wave of Nausea on Caustic Grebuloff, they will be inflicted with Necrosis. This must be cleansed or the player will die.
- Top players up during Peacekeeper and save instants in case they get hit by a mechanic with an AoE marker.
- Ra-la's Warm Glow does a surprisingly high amount of damage. This will happen twice in a row, so make sure players are topped.
- Players hit by a Lifesbreath butterfly will be inflicted with Doom. They need to be healed to full health before the debuff expires.
5.
Quick Tips for DPS
- Use AoE during trash pulls!
- Spread out to the sides during Peacekeeper and avoid your healer during Order to Fire and No Future.
- If you haven't already been doing so, start helping your healer mitigate raidwides with abilities like Addle and Feint.
6.
Changelog
- 10 Dec. 2021: Guide added.
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This guide has been written by Lyra an accomplished raider in FFXIV and has written raid guides for the game for the past five years. You can follow him on Twitter and he streams raids on Twitch.
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