Smileton Quick Dungeon Tips and Guide
Welcome to our quick guide to Smileton, a capstone dungeon in 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 Smileton
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 of Smileton
- Face
- There will be red and blue faces at the east and west of the arena. They will do red or blue line AoEs with Lines of Fire.
- Getting hit by the same color of AoE twice in a row will stun you for a short duration and deal heavy damage.
- Get knocked back into the correct row or spread out to the correct row. Make sure you check the face, as Upside Down will swap them.
- Frameworker
- Leap Forward will cause the Frameworker to jump and do an AoE in the direction indicated.
- Print Workers will copy Leap Forward. Avoid the AoEs.
- The Big Cheese
- The explosives spawned by Explosives Distribution will explode on the side. They will move close or far depending on the arrows - one arrow is close, three arrows is far.
- Dispense Explosives will create mines that players have to avoid while dodging explosives.
- Right Disassembler and Left Disassembler shoots a line AoE from the boss's right or left arm, so dodge on the side the mechanic indicates.
- You will have to avoid explosives and disassembler at the same time.
3.
Quick Tips for Tanks
- Face's Heart on Fire IV, the Frameworker's Steel Beam, and The Big Cheese's Piercing Missile are the tank busters to watch out for.
- Drag the Frameworker to the safe spots from the worker's AoEs.
- Stun the Smiley Dynamite's Burst if it happens during a point-blank AoE.
- If your group is having trouble avoiding the mines, you use a cooldown and pop them to create a safe space.
4.
Quick Tips for Healers
- Face's Temper's Flare, the Frameworker's Circular Saw, and The Big Cheese's Violent Discharge are the raidwides to watch out for.
5.
Quick Tips for DPS
- Use AoE during trash pulls!
- Face has no positional indicators.
- There is a tiny safe spot on the area with the mine to dodge explosives during Explosives Distribution, meaning melee can stay in melee range.
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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