Navigate the Dark Thicket in Etrian Odyssey Nexus. Find items, battle monsters like Cutters and Fanged Vines, and complete quests with this detailed walkthrough.
Before coming here you may want to check the wooden box in B1F. If you put Nectar / Ariadne Thread and one day has passed, you'll obtain either Amrita, Theriaca A or Medica II as reward. You can put another item and this can be repeated infinitely if you want. If you have accepted Monkey Trouble request, something will happen here and you'll clear it afterwards.
Enemies:
- Angry Baboon — EXP: 80, Loot: Ape Bone, Skills: Swing, Throw, Baboon Dunk. Weaknesses: Sleep, Paralysis, Blind, Arm Bind.
- Fanged Vine — EXP: 75, Loot: Thorny Vine, Skills: Rising Bile. Weaknesses: Cut, Fire.
- Grasseater — EXP: 32, Loot: Grasseater Jaw, Grasseater Leg, Skills: Jump Kick. Weaknesses: Paralysis, Blind, Leg Bind.
- Roller — EXP: 50, Loot: Elastic Skin, Skills: Shell Guard. Weaknesses: All elements, Stun, Poison, Arm Bind, Leg Bind. Resist: Cut, Stab.
- Tree Rat — EXP: 35, Loot: Small Tooth. Weaknesses: Flame, Curse, Panic, Arm Bind.
- Woodfly — EXP: 29, Loot: Thin Wing, Shocked Bug Eye (defeat with volt attack), Skills: Harsh Buzz. Weaknesses: Stab, Volt, Poison, Head Bind.
FOE: Cutter — EXP: 430, Loot: Bear Claw, Sliced Bear Fang (defeat with cut attack), Skills: Ruinous Strike, Double Slash, Terrible Roar, Power Save. Weaknesses: Petrification, Sleep. Resist: Stun, Instant Death.
Open the nearest door to enter a zone where two Cutter FOEs are present. Your objective is to reach a door directly 10 squares forward, but if you don't want to fight the FOE, you need to take longer way by turning left. Once you've reached the next area, you'll find a mining point with Slate, Granite and Cyanite. Remember to have someone who can learn _Mine_ skill in order to have a chance to obtain its rarest material.
Continue your way until you meet another adventurers under the Blades Guild. Kincaid, the guild's captain, then gives Medica as well as her Guild Card. However, if you already exchanged cards with your friends, their guild captain will appear here instead. Later you'll meet one of your friends / NPC Kincald again throughout the game.
Adventurer's Log
Tips of the Trade
Listen to the other guilds you meet in the labyrinth. Someday, their advice may very well save your life.
Adventure Result (EXP): 500
Ignore the Cutter FOE a few squares in front of you and go north to find a door. Go straight in the next area and you'll find a water source again which will recover your party members' TP by 15. This is the place where you'll clear Water, Water, Somewhere? request, so make sure to put a mark on it.
Backtrack and head east this time to come across an injured soldier who are on their way to retreat due to taking heavy blow on fighting Cutters. Continue two doors east and keep going east to open up a shortcut in D6. Return and go north this time to bump into yet another soldier who is mortally wounded and can't even move. You have the option to give Medica / Ariadne Thread, or heal him if there is a Medic on your party. Any of these options will give you Bear Claw otherwise you'll get nothing. If you don't have a plan to fight Cutter FOE in the near time, make sure to keep this as it's required to clear a future request. He also gives a tip about not touching a yellow fruit. It's useful for clearing another event later.
Go west this time, open the door, and keep going north to the dead end to trigger an event. You'll spot a flower bed while also sniffing a relaxing scent coming from flowers nearby. Select the first option Rest but as soon as you let your guard down, those flowers are actually monsters in disguise. You'll be forced to battle three Fanged Vines in ambushed mode. Defeat them to clear the event.
Adventurer's Log
An Aromatic Ambush
What looked to be a peaceful flower bed turned out to be monsters in disguise. You quickly vacated the area after the battle.
Adventure Result (EXP): 225
Backtrack south and go west to find a door to the north. Go straight to find another door which leads to a small zone. You are amazed that there are many abandoned stuff forming a large pile on the ground. By checking thoroughly there are probably some useful items that can be picked up. In this 3-by-3 room there are several items you can obtain. In the northwest floor you'll obtain Theriaca A, in the center floor you'll obtain Copper Ingot, and in the southeast floor you'll get Medica x2. You can check the other floors although nothing valuable is present there. However, once you got those three items, you'll need to fight 2 Rollers and 3 Grasseaters. Defeat them to clear the event.
Adventurer's Log
An Adventurer's Landfill
You found a number of useful items in a clearing that was littered with unwanted leftovers of adventurers past.
Adventure Result (EXP): 500
Return to previous area and you'll notice a trunk barricade on your left side. This is your next destination but you need to lure a Cutter FOE to let him destroy it. Move clockwise until he breaks it, but go through the path where Cutter FOE was before. Quickly go west and open the door to the north where a chest with Soma presents. Get out from the room and now go straight south until you find another
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