Strayborough Deadwalk Dungeon Guide - FFXIV Dawntrail 

That first boss was made by a psychopath

Wow! A dungeon guide from Happs again! This is nostalgic! I feel like we have not gotten a dungeon guide from you forever! I loved this dungeon a lot. That first boss has been something every single time.

Today I learned the importance of just using my ranged attack in the new expert dungeons as a melee.

Fuck that first boss man, its so insane how you have to dodge all the bosses mechanics AND the minions who have insane grab range and just disable your everything for 10 seconds

First dungeon made me realize damn im gonna dread this dungeon everytime i see it now

I think the cups could benefit from a tell like steam rising from the possessed cups. My first run was a guaranteed vuln stack unless I got lucky with placement

thanks for this!! i loved going in blind and we had some much needed spooky fun but some mechs are tricky indeed so a refreshes definitely helps. Probably one of the best expert roulettes to start with, i hope they keep the fresh takes on known mechanics moving on!

you don't need to be a ghost for the line stack. in fact, the ghost debuff says it makes you take more damage from some attacks. as a rule of thumb on the third boss, i'm only a ghost for mechanics that necessitate it, otherwise i go right back to living form.

I think the biggest difference here is that the bosses are setting the pace of the fight more than we are used too. Reminds me of some Elden Ring bosses where you cant just big dick disrespect them. You have to focus on survival first over dps. I would love to see more of this, as it makes it harder to meta game the fight for parsing (as easily). You HAVE to account for more random variables, or needing to disengage entirely and focus on a mechanic since its not super clear.

Pro tip: The big stray dolls can be stunned for some breathing room

This entire dungeon is giving me Alice: Madness Returns vibes

So today I learned that MrHappy doesn't know the difference between a teapot and a teacup.

Its a neat arrangement, but I miss that bangin keyboard segment in the original version of Jesters of the Moon.

My group did this a couple times today and we're pretty sure the area the little guys in the first boss can grab you in is a cone. Sometimes it seems like you're not even near them, but we paid attention and it seems that you can be close behind them without getting caught, yet not that close to them in front and get caught. So it may be better to navigate behind them as much as possible. I also wish the little running mobs were a bit differently colored or something as sometimes I've thought I was in danger but it was just another party member on the field (and I do have names turned on, it's not as helpful at a fast glance trying to react as quickly as possible). As a healer main, the dolls in the last w2w are really wild. I both like it because it asks me to actually do work yet kinda hate it because the continuous slamming sound is kinda freaky, haha. I really like the third boss, though. Busy but feels good and rewarding to execute well.

The First boss is not a snapshotting or hitbox issue, they leap at you if you are in front of them so the range is bigger than from the back of side. They never turn until they get to the very end, so as long as you dont walk in front of them when they are 3 steps away you're good.

I just cannot track the cups when two get possessed at the same time. Is it true that when the ghosts possess the cups, they are either 90 or 180 degrees apart so you can then follow one of the cups and apply that distance when they stop? There's no way they expect you to track two separate cups right?

appreciate the guides. A lot of these mechanics in XIV dungeons are not painfully obvious to me even after doing the instance a few times. it sucks dying over and over and not knowing what you could've done different😅. frustrating actually

yeah i'm just... not going to ever do this dungeon unless they patch the first boss. If you're a healer it's literally insufferable and i'd rather do anything else but sit there and watch my party die

that first boss is a pain on melee, but the other 2 are actually pretty fun for an expert dungeon.

for the first boss, if every players stands in clock positions and avoid the little adds clockwise, wouldnt that make it easier to deal with ? if it's based on player position.

Can confirm you don’t actually need to spread for the ghostduster

Did this one blind as healer. Let's just say those giant Stray Dolls and their enrage were ... something else.

Ghostduster and Livingbuster are great references

This looks impossible to beat for us old people!!!!

First boss is literal cancer as a healer. You mess up you die and probably wipe

The spinning teacups is actually a bit annoying for tanks, it's just a bit tricky to keep track of the ghosts.

interesting people are having trouble for the first boss than the second boss tracking the teapot location is VERY HARD if you are are melee dps especially i'm using viper keep tracking my rotations while looking at the teapot spinning hurts my brain so much XD

second boss is awful if you have motion sickness wtf

Im really surprised the trust system cant be used on 2 out of the 3 level 100 dungeons, not mad just confused, with the exception of some from ARR i thought they were allowing use of trusts in all dungeons from now on. Again just confused not upset.

I love this dungeon and the themes. It's all insanity. Lmao

I should mention that the teapot movement is exactly the movement on one of those scrambler rides at amusement parks, if you can track the movement of that, you should be fine with that mechanic.

I got 8 stack of vuln debuff on the first boss. fun time.

I call him the “Snuggie” boss and everyone knows exactly who I’m talking about.

That first boss looks absolutely crazy on Phys Ranged, and I'm here for it.

first boss as ranged, easy, first boss as melee, hell, at least if you try to keep uptime.

First boss minions hitboxes are such bs lol, 2nd boss teacups I'll just accept the vul, and head banging barbie dolls lol. Struggle for me qs healer but its really fun. I hope for more challenging content.

So the second boss is basically that ghost teapot pokemon? 😂😂

I was scared that the content wouldn't get more challenging and i'm happy (you're happy) that it did, even by this margin.

I went in blind in to this dungeon as a BLM. That first boss made me regret all my life choices leading up to that point in my life.

I literally can't track those teapots and play the game at the same time. I don't understand why they didn't color the dangerous ones differently.

Thanks Mr Happy! The teacups still confuse me but this helped a lot. I was looking for a specific marker on the cups, not trying to manually follow them 😵‍💫😵‍💫🫨

The first boss alone makes this my least favorite dungeon this expansion thus far

Made sure to run it first before I watched the video. 7.5/10. It's just fun.

This dungeon makes me want to leave every time I see it.

I queued up as a healer and got 3 first timers... needless to say, we never got past the first boss. I can't believe they designed something like that. I would much rather have something like the first boss in troia over this ANY day. Honestly it kills the experience for this dungeon for me

Last boss was fun, second boss sucks, and first boss is annoying.

As a melee DPS, I dont like the idea being forced to spin my camera to track spinning teacups while fighting the boss so that I dont die. This is a poorly designed janky mechanic.

The aids dungeon :D

Shittiest dungeon I've ever seen in XIV, which is a shame

first boss is hot garbage so unfair and not fun if your melee

I don't mind failing to a mechanic, I absolutely hate failing to latency and multiple decade old netcode.

AURUM VALE 2.0

How many people even know this dungeon exists? Do we need guides this early?

i thought you weren't posting names in guides until later this week >.< i guess i should unsub until i finish DT