These Dungeons offer explorable adventures with branching paths and tons of new stories and secrets to discover.

Plus, they can be explored solo, perfect for farming up the newest Allagan Tomestone on your own.

What Are Variant Dungeons?

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Variant Dungeons are level 90 explorable Dungeons that can be played byone to four players.

As mentioned above,Variant Dungeons have three branching paths to explore.

There are also severalhidden pathsthat you might discover through various means.

Three doors representing different paths in the Sil’Dihn Subterrane Variant Dungeon.

There are currently two Variant Dungeons available to explore.

Variant Action

Available Jobs

Description

Variant Cure

Tank

DPS

Restores target’s HP.

Variant Ultimatum

Healer

Places yourself at the top of nearby enemies' enmity list and increases enmity generation.

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Variant Raise

Resurrects target to a weakened state.

Variant Spirit Dart

Deals damage over time to target and all enemies nearby it.

Variant Rampart

Reduces damage taken by 20%.

Final Fantasy 14 players attacking a boss in the criterion dungeon Another Mount Rokkon (Savage).

What Are Criterion Dungeons?

Criterion Dungeons differ quite a bit from their Variant Dungeon counterparts.

You alsocan’t choose Variant Actions; instead, every player can castVariant Raise IIbut onlyonce each.

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Essentially, Criterion Dungeons areharder versions of Variant Dungeonswith a few more restrictions.

The bosses will be the same, but they will useadded attacksand havedifferent mechanics.

Criterion Dungeon Rewards

Of course, this increased difficulty isn’t without its benefits.

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Here you’ll earn anexclusive currencythat can be used to buy Materia, Framer’s Kits, and specialMounts.

The Mounts also have achance to drop during the Dungeonfrom Treasure Coffers.

First of all, all revive abilities, including Variant Raise II and Healer-specific revives, arenot available.

The individual boss mechanics are thesame as in normal Criterion Dungeons, but each boss hashigher healthanddeals more damage.

When you engage the first enemy in the Dungeon, ahidden timer will start ticking.

As you might expect, this makes the Dungeon nearly impossible to complete without wiping.

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