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5F - The Guardian of the Woods
Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth

5F - The Guardian of the Woods

A detailed walkthrough for 5F - The Guardian of the Woods in Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth, including enemy stats, item locations, and strategies.

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A detailed walkthrough for 5F - The Guardian of the Woods in Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth, including enemy stats, item locations, and strategies.

Once you set foot here, it's better to go back to the town and accept the requests unlocked by reaching 5F. Therefore, you can clear them while exploring this area. As mentioned in the previous floor, you need a Celestrian who has learned Detect Mana in order to clear an event which leads to another event.

Remember, the difficulty can be changed anytime when you're in town.

Enemies

Charging Boar

  • EXP: 220
  • Loot: Forked Tusk
  • Skills: Headlong Rush (legs), Ally Devour (head)
  • Weakness: Fire, Stun, Panic, Blind, Arm Bind, Leg Bind

Colossal Roper

  • EXP: 460
  • Loot: Thick Vine, Bound Vine (defeat while its head/arms/legs are bound)
  • Skills: Throw (arms), Slash Sweep (arms), Great Bind (arms)
  • Weakness: Cut, Fire, Paralysis
  • Resist: Stab

Forest Aye-Aye

  • EXP: 135
  • Loot: Curved Claw
  • Skills: Copycat (innate)
  • Weakness: Sleep

Forest Turtle

  • EXP: 110
  • Loot: Shattered Shell, Tempered Shell (defeat with fire attack)
  • Skills: Shell Guard (legs)
  • Weakness: All elements, Curse, Poison
  • Resist: Cut, Stab

Man-eating Hare

  • EXP: 240
  • Loot: Steely Bucktooth
  • Skills: Bite Off (head)
  • Weakness: Stab, Sleep, Paralysis

Rabid Acorn

  • EXP: 35
  • Loot: Hard Cupule, Cracked Nut (defeat with physical attack)
  • Weakness: Bash, Sleep

Venomous Leech

  • EXP: 125
  • Loot: Spongy Epidermis
  • Skills: Leech Poison (head)
  • Weakness: Fire, Petrification, Head Bind
  • Resist: Poison

Wild Dog

  • EXP: 140
  • Loot: Conical Canine
  • Skills: Threaten (head)
  • Weakness: Ice, Curse, Panic

FOE: Iron Crustacean

  • EXP: 1,470
  • Loot: Scarlet Carapace, Cut-off Claw (defeat with cut attack)
  • Skills: Ice Slicer (legs)
  • Weakness: Volt, Curse, Poison
  • Resist: Cut, Stab, Ice, Instant Death

FOE: Owl Beast

  • EXP: 1,940
  • Loot: Bear Feather
  • Skills: Owl Eyes (head), Bear Hug (arms)
  • Weakness: Ice, Blind, Arm Bind
  • Resist: Instant Death

FOE: Toxipede

  • EXP: 1,200
  • Loot: Metal Pincer
  • Skills: Poison Fang (head)
  • Weakness: Fire, Petrification, Panic, Head Bind
  • Resist: Instant Death, Poison

Walkthrough

There is a campfire directly one square south of your position. If your chicken has laid some Eggs, you can start to make Egg-in-the-Basket here. Once you're done with the cooking, approach the switch statue in the southeast corner and touch it, then make your way to the west and touch the second switch in the north side. Go back south and continue to the west until you meet two Iron Crustaceans circling on one travel path. Your objective is going east, and by careful movement you can pass them safely. Continue northeast to retouch the second switch from the other side and now you can continue west where a Toxipede goes back and forth.

Approach the southwest dead end to meet your friend / NPC Conrad again. Select any option to reply him, then he proposes to trade some of the provisions they have.

  • The first option trades 1 Egg with 5 Olives.
  • The second option trades 1 Moon Apple with 3 Meats.
  • The third option trades 1 Forest Honey with 5 Forest Berries.

Your friend / Conrad disappears after the trading process. All of the offers are not too useful, but personally I traded each item once at this place. Head 4 squares north and 4 squares east to find another switch. Rotate it to let Toxipede head south to D1. Keep going east and eventually you'll find a gathering point where you can harvest a random amount of Moon Apples. Enter the nearby crevice to arrive at a small area where you can find a chopping point with Spiraling Vine, Ivied Bark and Crooked Tree.

Go back through the shortcut and now move back and forth until the Toxipede arrives at D1, then touch the switch to trap it on the south side. Now head north and then southeast to find a treasure chest with Kotegiri, a unique katana that can inflict Arm Bind for each normal attack, but only Masurao can equip this. Continue your progress to the north, and at the dead end you'll find a place that seems like a safe place to rest. Select the second option Rest here to restore your party members' HP and TP by 20 points.

Adventurer's Log

Under the Giant Tree

While you were at an impasse, you decided to take a brief break beneath a large tree. It was pretty nice.

Adventure Result (EXP)300

Open a nearby door, then head north to touch another switch. Since the path has been opened, an Owl Beast is now in the alert state. Move two steps east to move closer, then move clockwise / counterclockwise using the stone wall in the south as barrier to be able to continue east. After reaching the east part just go south to exit through a door.

Move a few steps ahead to find a taking point with Brown Tuber, Lotus Fruit and Skunk Cabbage, then make your way south through the zig-zag path to find a shortcut in C3 which leads to a small area with a chopping point before. Now take three steps east and one step south to trigger another event immediately upon reaching.

You hear a heavy breathing of a beast that feels quite close to you. Upon c

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