Sleep (Final Fantasy XIV)

Sleep
(スリプル, Suripuru?, lit. Sleeper)
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Availability
Required	Thaumaturge 10 Black Mage 10 Arcanist 10 Summoner 10 Red Mage 10 Pictomancer 10 Blue Mage 10
Classification
Type	Spell
Skillset	Role action
Effect	Puts target and all nearby enemies to sleep
Status	Sleep
Specifications
MP cost	800
Cast time	2.5 seconds
Recast time	2.5 seconds (GCD)
Range	30 yalms
Area of effect	5-yalm radius
Duration	30 seconds
Related pages
Recurring appearance	Sleep (ability)

Sleep is a role action from Final Fantasy XIV that puts the target and all nearby enemies to Sleep.

Mechanics

Mechanics	Inflicts Sleep on target and nearby enemies for 30 seconds or until they take damage, preventing use of any actions or movement Cancels auto-attack upon execution Activates the global cooldown
Interactions	Triplecast reduces the cast time of the next three spells to instant for 15 seconds Swiftcast reduces the next spell's cast time to instant for 10 seconds Surecast allows spells to be cast without interruption for 6 seconds
Cast/recast time formula: $Cast = \lfloor ( 100 - Haste ) * \lfloor ( 2 - f(Spell Speed) ) * 2500 \rfloor / 1000 \rfloor / 100$

Use

Sleep is a potent crowd control option capable of disabling multiple enemies in a single cast. When soloing content in can allow players to more safely engage multiple enemies, which can be life saving when attempting to solo content like The Palace of the Dead.

In party content Sleep is less useful, as crowd control is rarely if ever needed as players generally prefer to just burn down groups of enemies with area of effect damage. Furthermore, above level 50, enemies in content accessed via Duty Finder are typically immune to Sleep, leaving the spell mostly used in the open world, Deep Dungeons and Exploratory Missions.

Sleep can potentially be used to interrupt casting if the target is vulnerable to the status, though its own cast time prevents it from being used reflexively barring Swiftcast or Triplecast. If the opposing action has a long cast time, Sleep can be more safely used in this manner.

Enemies afflicted with Sleep will wake up upon taking any damage; the Sleep spell will cancel auto-attacks upon use in order to prevent the user from accidently waking the enemy up automatically.

Patch history

Version	Changes
A Realm Reborn	Added as a single-target spell with a base 10% MP cost. Level 36 Thaumaturge trait Deep Sleep gave it a 5y radius area of effect.
Patch 2.3	PvP duration reduced to 15s.
Patch 3.26	PvP duration reduced to 12s.
Patch 3.4	PvP duration reduced to 8s. Deep Sleep trait no longer works in PvP areas.
Stormblood	No longer available in PvP. New PvP exclusive version added. See below for its patch history.
Shadowbringers	Deep Sleep trait removed. Sleep now has a 5y radius by default. MP cost set to 800 with MP system overhaul.
Endwalker	Now a role action available to all magic ranged DPS.

PvP version

Version	Changes
Stormblood	Added as a single-target Black Mage spell with 1500 MP cost, and a 2.3s cast and recast time. Inflicted Sleep for 3s.
Patch 4.2	MP cost reduced to 1000.
Patch 4.3	Removed.

Gallery

PvP icon.