Dungeons

Dungeons are instanced areas teeming with enemies and bosses, fought by a party of 4 players (1 tank, 1 healer, and 2 DPS). Each instance of a dungeon is separate from others and is exclusive to a specific party. Dungeons need to be unlocked through quests (many are unlocked as part of the main story). They also have level requirements (and, starting at level 50, item level requirements). Players below the level requirement cannot enter the dungeon. Players above the level requirement are level synced to the maximum level permitted for the dungeon.

For example: Sastasha's level requirements are 15-18. Level 14 players cannot enter the dungeon; and level 19 and above players are level synced down to level 18 upon entering.

Some dungeons may have two difficulties: regular and hard. "Hard" dungeons are remixes of the original dungeon at a higher level with new enemies and pathing through the dungeon, but are generally not significantly more difficult than the original, and can be completed using matched parties. Hard difficulty dungeons are available at Lv. 50, 60, and 70.

Layout

Dungeons contain treasure coffers throughout the map and after defeating each boss. Lower level dungeons may have environmental "puzzles" or branching paths with optional treasure coffers, but all dungeons past Lv. 50 (excluding Variant Dungeons) have a streamlined linear layout.

Dungeons are almost always divided into three sections. Each section contains a few packs of monsters (commonly called "trash mobs"). In post-level 50 dungeons, a tank will typically establish aggro on each group of monsters up to the point where no further progress can be made due to a barrier (called a "wall-to-wall pull") and all party members will defeat the trash mobs with their area-of-effect (AoE) attacks. Once the trash mobs are dead, the barrier will disappear and the next group of trash mobs or the boss of that section can be fought. Lv. 81 and higher dungeons are usually limited to a maximum of two packs of trash mobs per wall-to-wall pull. In lower-level dungeons, wall-to-wall pulls are still possible but can be more dangerous due to having limited healing, defensive, and AoE damage actions at those levels.

Rewards

As of Patch 6.0, regular enemies inside dungeons no longer grant EXP. Instead, the equivalent EXP is granted upon defeating the bosses. Treasure coffers in dungeons contain gear that can be rolled on by the party.

Dungeons below an expansion's level cap reward gear that is useful for characters that are leveling up. Upon completion of a leveling dungeon, all party members will receive a random gear piece that is usable for their current class or job. Dungeons at the current level cap reward gear that has a lower item level than gear from raids or capped tomestones, or the most recent crafted gear. However, dungeon gear is not subject to weekly loot restrictions and is free to acquire, so it is useful as "catch-up" gear for players. Many dungeons drop rare minions or unique furniture for player housing, some of which can be sold on the Market Board for good prices. Level cap dungeons also reward random combat materia from defeating enemies.^[1]

Endgame dungeon armor and accessories have an additional niche use: providing "best-in-slot" gear for previous ultimate raids in the expansion. This is because certain dungeon gear will match the item level sync of the ultimate raid and allow materia melds to be maintained compared to syncing down higher item level gear. Dungeon gear suitable for the ultimate raid is released two patches after the raid itself (e.g. gear from the x.3 dungeon would be used in the x.11 raid, and gear from the x.5 dungeon for the x.31 raid). The gear is 5 item levels higher than the highest-item level armor when the raid was first released, thus providing higher stats. However, depending on the substats of the gear piece, it may be more optimal to still use a lower-level piece from when the raid was new. Once the current endgame item levels are sufficiently high (~2.5 years since release of the ultimate raid), players can freely sync down current endgame gear for ultimate raids instead of needing to farm dungeon gear.

Participation

Dungeons are some of the most common instances to be played using Duty Finder matching with random players. Players can also form pre-made parties in Party Finder or run previous-expansion dungeons with an Unrestricted Party (unsyncing) either solo or in a pre-made party.

Players can use three different systems to complete dungeons with a party of NPCs instead of other players:

Duty Support: All dungeons that are part of the Main Scenario are compatible with Duty Support.
Command Missions: Players can enter certain dungeons up to Lv. 60 with their Adventurer Squadrons.
Trusts: All Main Scenario Quest dungeons from Lv. 71 and onwards are compatible with the Trust system in addition to Duty Support.

Between patch 6.1 and patch 6.5, many main scenario dungeons were overhauled to make them compatible with Duty Support. Starting from patch 7.1, optional dungeons in Duty Roulette: Leveling will also be overhauled and have Duty Support added. These overhauls encompassed reworks of several bosses to remove or rework obscure boss mechanics and introduce common mechanic markers, a visual "language" used for many encounters in the game, at an early level. Lower-level optional dungeons that were not reworked maintain some obscure mechanics that are absent in reworked or higher-level dungeons.

All dungeons may be freely revisited in their completed state with Explorer Mode enabled.

As an anti-RMT measure, players are restricted to a maximum of 100 dungeon entries per day. In practice, this limit is rarely encountered except in cases where players are quickly finishing dungeons using the Unrestricted Parties feature. (Such as when doing the Nexus Zodiac Weapons series^[2]) For context, 100 dungeons a day, assuming 8 hours of sleep, would be one dungeon every 9 minutes 36 seconds.

A Realm Reborn

Dungeon	Level	IL Req	IL Sync	Roulette	Loot IL	Tomestones	Unlock	Duty Support available	Command Mission available
Sastasha	15	-	-	Leveling	17	-	It's Probably Pirates	1	0
The Tam-Tara Deepcroft	16	-	-	Leveling	17	-	Fire in the Gloom	1	0
Copperbell Mines	17	-	-	Leveling	17	-	Into a Copper Hell	1	0
Halatali	20	-	-	Leveling	22	-	Hallo Halatali	1	1
The Thousand Maws of Toto-Rak	24	-	-	Leveling	26	-	Into the Beast's Maw	1	1
Haukke Manor	28	-	-	Leveling	30	-	Skeletons in Her Closet	1	0
Brayflox's Longstop	32	-	-	Leveling	34	-	The Things We Do for Cheese	1	1
The Sunken Temple of Qarn	35	-	-	Leveling	37	-	Braving New Depths	1	0
Cutter's Cry	38	-	-	Leveling	40	-	Dishonor Before Death	1	0
The Stone Vigil	41	-	-	Leveling	43	-	In Pursuit of the Past	1	1
Dzemael Darkhold	44	-	-	Leveling	46	-	Fort of Fear	0 (future patch)	1
The Aurum Vale	47	-	-	Leveling	49	-	Going for Gold	0 (future patch)	1
Castrum Meridianum	50	42	60	Main Scenario	-	100	Rock the Castrum	1	0
The Praetorium	50	42	60	Main Scenario	-	150	The Ultimate Weapon	1	0
The Wanderer's Palace	50	45	110	High-level Dungeons	55	20	Trauma Queen	0	1
Amdapor Keep	50	45	110	High-level Dungeons	55	20	Ghosts of Amdapor	0	0
Pharos Sirius	50	48	110	High-level Dungeons	60	30	Sirius Business	0	1
Copperbell Mines (Hard)	50	48	110	High-level Dungeons	60	30	Out of Sight, Out of Mine	0	1
Haukke Manor (Hard)	50	48	110	High-level Dungeons	60	30	Maniac Manor	0	0
The Lost City of Amdapor	50	55	110	High-level Dungeons	70	40	One Night in Amdapor	0	0
Halatali (Hard)	50	55	110	High-level Dungeons	70	40	This Time's for Fun	0	0
Brayflox's Longstop (Hard)	50	55	110	High-level Dungeons	70	40	Curds and Slay	0	1
Hullbreaker Isle	50	70	110	High-level Dungeons	80	50	King of the Hull	0	0
The Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard)	50	70	110	High-level Dungeons	80	50	Corpse Groom	0	0
The Stone Vigil (Hard)	50	70	110	High-level Dungeons	80	50	Blood for Stone	0	0
Snowcloak	50	80	-	High-level Dungeons	90	70	The Path of the Righteous	1	0
Sastasha (Hard)	50	80	-	High-level Dungeons	90	70	It's Definitely Pirates	0	0
The Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard)	50	80	-	High-level Dungeons	90	70	The Wrath of Qarn	0	0
The Keeper of the Lake	50	90	-	High-level Dungeons	100	100	The Rising Chorus	1	0
The Wanderer's Palace (Hard)	50	90	-	High-level Dungeons	100	100	Not Easy Being Green	0	1
Amdapor Keep (Hard)	50	90	-	High-level Dungeons	100	100	For Keep's Sake	0	0

Heavensward

Dungeon	Level	IL Req	IL Sync	Roulette	Loot IL	Tomestones	Unlock	Duty Support available	Command Mission available
The Dusk Vigil	51	100	-	Leveling	120	-	For All the Nights to Come	0 (future patch)	0
Sohm Al	53	105	-	Leveling	130	-	Mourn in Passing	1	1
The Aery	55	110	-	Leveling	136	-	Into the Aery	1	0
The Vault	57	115	-	Leveling	142	-	A Knight's Calling	1	1
The Great Gubal Library	59	120	150	Leveling	148	-	Forbidden Knowledge	1	0
The Aetherochemical Research Facility	60	142	180	High-level Dungeons	-	150	Heavensward	1	0
Neverreap	60	145	210	High-level Dungeons	160	20	Reap What You Sow	0	0
The Fractal Continuum	60	145	210	High-level Dungeons	160	20	Do It for Gilly	0	1
Saint Mocianne's Arboretum	60	170	240	High-level Dungeons	185	30	An Overgrown Ambition	0	0
Pharos Sirius (Hard)	60	170	240	High-level Dungeons	185	30	Things Are Getting Sirius	0	1
The Antitower	60	180	-	High-level Dungeons	195	40	The Word of the Mother	1	0
The Lost City of Amdapor (Hard)	60	180	-	High-level Dungeons	195	40	One More Night in Amdapor	0	0
Sohr Khai	60	200	-	High-level Dungeons	215	50	Winning Over the Wyrm	1	0
Hullbreaker Isle (Hard)	60	200	-	High-level Dungeons	215	50	Storming the Hull	0	0
Xelphatol	60	210	-	High-level Dungeons	225	70	Shadows of the First	1	0
The Great Gubal Library (Hard)	60	210	-	High-level Dungeons	225	70	Let Me Gubal That for You	0	0
Baelsar's Wall	60	230	-	High-level Dungeons	245	100	Griffin, Griffin on the Wall	1	0
Sohm Al (Hard)	60	230	-	High-level Dungeons	245	100	The Fires of Sohm Al	0	0

Stormblood

Dungeon	Level	IL Req	IL Sync	Roulette	Loot IL	Tomestones	Unlock	Duty Support available
The Sirensong Sea	61	240	-	Leveling	260	-	Not without Incident	1
Shisui of the Violet Tides	63	245	-	Leveling	270	-	The Palace of Lost Souls	0 (future patch)
Bardam's Mettle	65	250	-	Leveling	276	-	In the Footsteps of Bardam the Brave	1
Doma Castle	67	255	-	Leveling	282	-	The Die Is Cast	1
Castrum Abania	69	260	290	Leveling	288	-	The Price of Freedom	1
Ala Mhigo	70	280	310	High-level Dungeons	300	20	Stormblood	1
Kugane Castle	70	280	340	High-level Dungeons	300	20	King of the Castle	0
The Temple of the Fist	70	280	340	High-level Dungeons	300	20	To Kill a Coeurl	0
The Drowned City of Skalla	70	300	370	High-level Dungeons	315	30	The Mad King's Trove	1
Hells' Lid	70	310	-	High-level Dungeons	325	40	An Auspicious Encounter	0
The Fractal Continuum (Hard)	70	310	-	High-level Dungeons	325	40	An Unwanted Truth	0
The Swallow's Compass	70	330	-	High-level Dungeons	345	50	Tortoise in Time	0
The Burn	70	340	-	High-level Dungeons	355	70	Feel the Burn	1
Saint Mocianne's Arboretum (Hard)	70	340	-	High-level Dungeons	355	70	Secret of the Ooze	0
The Ghimlyt Dark	70	360	-	High-level Dungeons	375	100	The Face of War	1

Shadowbringers

Dungeon	Level	IL Req	IL Sync	Roulette	Loot IL	Tomestones	Unlock	Duty Support available
Holminster Switch	71	370	-	Leveling	390	-	The Lightwardens	1
Dohn Mheg	73	375	-	Leveling	400	-	The Key to the Castle	1
The Qitana Ravel	75	380	-	Leveling	406	-	The Burden of Knowledge	1
Malikah's Well	77	385	-	Leveling	412	-	A Fresh Start	1
Mt. Gulg	79	390	420	Leveling	418	-	Extinguishing the Last Light	1
Amaurot	80	410	440	High-level Dungeons	430	20	Shadowbringers	1
The Twinning	80	410	470	High-level Dungeons	430	20	By the Time You Hear This	0
Akadaemia Anyder	80	410	470	High-level Dungeons	430	20	Akadaemia Anyder	0
The Grand Cosmos	80	430	470	High-level Dungeons	445	30	A Grand Adventure	1
Anamnesis Anyder	80	440	500	High-level Dungeons	455	40	Beneath the Surface	1
The Heroes' Gauntlet	80	460	500	High-level Dungeons	475	50	The Converging Light	1
Matoya's Relict	80	470	-	High-level Dungeons	485	70	Like Master, Like Pupil	1
Paglth'an	80	490	-	High-level Dungeons	505	100	The Flames of War	1

Endwalker

Dungeon	Level	IL Req	IL Sync	Roulette	Loot IL	Tomestones	Unlock	Duty Support available
The Tower of Zot	81	500	-	Leveling	520	-	In the Dark of the Tower	1
The Tower of Babil	83	505	-	Leveling	530	-	Gateway of the Gods	1
Vanaspati	85	510	-	Leveling	536	-	Skies Aflame	1
Ktisis Hyperboreia	87	515	-	Leveling	542	-	Caging the Messenger	1
The Aitiascope	89	520	550	Leveling	548	-	Her Children, One and All	1
The Dead Ends	90	540	570	High-level Dungeons	560	20	Endwalker	1
Smileton	90	540	600	High-level Dungeons	560	20	Cutting the Cheese	0
The Stigma Dreamscape	90	540	600	High-level Dungeons	560	20	Where No Loporrit Has Gone Before	0
Alzadaal's Legacy	90	560	600	High-level Dungeons	575	30	Alzadaal's Legacy	1
The Fell Court of Troia	90	575	630	High-level Dungeons	595	40	In Search of Azdaja	1
Lapis Manalis	90	590	630	High-level Dungeons	605	50	King of the Mountain	1
The Aetherfont	90	605	-	High-level Dungeons	625	70	Going Haam	1
The Lunar Subterrane	90	620	-	High-level Dungeons	635	100	Down in the Dark	1

Dawntrail

Dungeon	Level	IL Req	IL Sync	Roulette	Loot IL	Tomestones	Unlock	Duty Support available
Ihuykatumu	91	630	-	Leveling	650	-	For All Turali	1
Worqor Zormor	93	635	-	Leveling	660	-	The High Luminary	1
The Skydeep Cenote	95	640	-	Leveling	666	-	Road to the Golden City	1
Vanguard	97	645	-	Leveling	672	-	All Aboard	1
Origenics	99	650	680	Leveling	678	-	The Resilient Son	1
Alexandria	100	670	700	Level Cap Dungeons	690	50 20	Dawntrail	1
Tender Valley	100	670	730	Level Cap Dungeons	690	50 20	It Belongs in a Museum	0
The Strayborough Deadwalk	100	670	730	Level Cap Dungeons	690	50 20	Something Stray in the Neighborhood	0
Yuweyawata Field Station	100	690	730	Level Cap Dungeons	705	60 30	In Search of the Past	1
The Underkeep	100	705	-	Expert	725	80 50	Descent to the Foundation	1
The Meso Terminal	100	720	-	Expert	735	80 50	A Terminal Invitation	1

Other Dungeon Types

There are other dungeon types available, although these are not required for main scenario quest progression.

Deep Dungeons

Deep Dungeons are procedurally generated, 100-200 floor dungeons with a self-contained progression system and "rogue-like" mechanics. They can be completed solo or with a party of up to four players with no role restrictions.

Variant and Criterion Dungeons

Variant Dungeons are non-linear dungeons with multiple branching paths that are decided based on player choice. Boss mechanics will differ based on the path taken and random events. The player will accompany an NPC during the dungeon, who will not participate in combat. They can be completed solo or with a party of up to four players with no role restrictions.

Criterion Dungeons are high-difficulty linear dungeons comparable to extreme trials or savage raids and are aesthetically similar to variant dungeons. These require a four-player light party with 1 tank, 1 healer, and 2 DPS. They are available in two difficulties: Normal and Savage.

Achievements

Dungeon completion is associated generally with the following achievements:

Name	Points	Task	Reward	Patch
To the Dungeons I	5	Successfully complete 5 unique instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	2.1
To the Dungeons II	10	Successfully complete 10 unique instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	2.1
To the Dungeons III	20	Successfully complete 20 unique instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	2.1
To the Dungeons IV	20	Successfully complete 30 unique instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	3.0
To the Dungeons V	20	Successfully complete 40 unique instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	3.0
To the Dungeons VI	20	Successfully complete 50 unique instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	3.0
Dungeon Siege I	5	Complete 10 instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	2.1
Dungeon Siege II	5	Complete 30 instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	2.1
Dungeon Siege III	5	Complete 100 instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	2.1
Dungeon Siege IV	10	Complete 300 instanced dungeon raids or trials.	Dungeon Master	2.1
Dungeon Master	20	Complete 1,000 instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	2.1
Lifer I	20	Successfully complete 2,000 instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	3.0
Lifer II	20	Successfully complete 5,000 instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	3.0
Lifer III	20	Successfully complete 10,000 instanced dungeon raids or trials.	-	3.0