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Nethov Swamp is one of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth's early dungeons, and it has lots of fantastic treasure to find, and ferocious enemies to take on - including an undead dragon boss! You'll only face this dungeon in Normal and Hard mode, so Easy mode players need not apply.
If you're looking for a complete guide to the treasure here, or a strategy for taking on the bulky boss, you've come to the right place. Let us guide you through the murkiness of Nethov Swamp.
Nethov Swamp Overview
Nethov Swamp is quite a large dungeon for this part of the game, and it's a bit of a maze if you decide against using an Eye of Heaven to reveal the map. It also has quite 🃏a lot of really g✨reat treasures to find, including some deviously hidden chests.
If you want a very easy time with the dungeon's boss, make sure you visit Artolia and enter Arngrim's house - you'll get the Dragon Slayer sword. Don't use this in normal battles, it has a chance to break and it's too precious to let go.
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Enemy |
HP |
Weakness |
Experience |
Notes |
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Figment |
650 |
None |
224 |
These enemies are incredibly resistant to magic, so don't rely on them. They deal lots of damage with their fire attacks, so try to get rid of them as soon as possible. |
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Mantrap Plant |
1,800 |
Fire, Dark |
371 |
Tough plants that are really good at blocking attacks, and will de💖al damage to multiple allies with Rhizome Spear. Be ready to counter with multiple attackers in the case that you get lucky. Target these with your spells first. |
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Pongo Robustus |
2,300 |
Dark |
280 |
These enemies are very bulky but don't pose too much of a threat. They're mostly distractions from the true threats of the swamp - the Mantrap Plants and the Figments. |
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Vermin |
530 |
None |
455 |
As a flying enemy, you'll want to make sure you're using characters who can actually reach them to start the combo. Once they've been struck once, they'll fall to the ground. Characters to avoid using to start the combo are Jun and Lawfer. Using a sorceress's Wait Reaction attack is a good idea. |
Nethov Swamp Upper Half Treasure
From the entrance of the dungeon, walk a little to the left and then head to the rear. On this next screen, head all the way to the right, walking through the mud - don't worry, it just slows you down and stops you from jumping high. It'll be hard to avoid the Vermin here, but they're easily beaten. The chest at the far right of the screen is trapped with a very large explosion and contains a book of Shadow Servant, a neat dark spell.
Head one screen to the left. There is a series of hills here that leads to an exit to the rear - climb the hill and open the chest just to the right of the exit. It's another chest with a large explosion, and it has a second Shadow Servant spell book.
It would be a good idea to teach Shadow Servant to your sorcerer and equip it in this dungeon - two of the bulkier enemies are weak to Dark.
Head to the rear to get to a small area with a single chest. It's another large explosion chest, and it contains a Holy Crystal. This is a very powerful item that casts a holy spell in battle - don't use it just yet, it'll be very useful a little later on.
Walk forwards back to the screen with the hills. You can explore the areas to the left, but there aren't any items there to collect, only enemies to fight. Instead, head back to the first screen of the dungeon by walking forwards again.
Nethov Swamp Lower Half Treasure
From the first screen of the dungeon, head left. The floating skull enemies can be frozen with your crystal, but you'll have to time your crystal mid-jump to hit them. Move all the way to the left, fighting or avoiding the enemies, and then walk to the front to the next screen.
From here, move one screen to the left and then two screens to the front, saving at the Memory Stone along the way. You should come to a screen with a sack just to the right - it contains a Short Spear, which is a nice weapon for Lawfer if you haven't got him a spear to use yet.
There are two puddles of mud on this screen to the left - both puddles have two hidden chests in them. All four of them are opened from the right, so make sure you're facing left as you try to open them - just walk a few pixels forward in the mud and then crouch to see if there's a chest. The items here are incredibly useful - be on your guard, though, two of the chests are trapped with explosions.
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Quartz Gem |
Can be transmutated into a ꧑Malice Search or, with an accessory from later in the game, a very powerful weapon. |
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Cure Condition |
൩Teaches the Cure Condition skill. Can be transmutated into the Auto Item skill, which is very useful and what we recomme🐓nd doing. |
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Flare Baselard |
A very powerful fire-aligned sword with one hit and a chance ꧋of breaking every round. |
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Daemon Slayer |
A sword that will instantly k𓆉ill demons, but has a cha𒁏nce of breaking. |
Finding The Boss
Move one screen backward and then head all the way to the right until you reach a tree - Valkyrie will comment that it looks rotted. Strike it with your sword to topple it, and then use it to cross the swamp. After jumping up to dry land, head to the right and open the 🍃sack to get a Charge skill book. This is useful for hard hitters, su💙ch as Lawfer.
Take the nearby exit to the rear and head to the left - you'll be able to walk through the massive tree on this screen to reach four chests. Be wary, there's a second enemy inside the tree. The chests contain an Eye of Heaven, an Element Scepter, another Holy Crystal, and the Wait Reaction skill book, which you should use immediately if you haven't already got the skill.
Head back to the front, and then go another screen to the front. Save at the Memory Stone to the right, and then run up the hill on the left until you reach an exit to the front, which places you at the top of a drop. Dropping down here will lead to the boss of the dungeon.
How To Beat The Dragon Zombie
Valkyrie will comment that the Dragon Zombie seems weakened by battle, but this is still a very threatening fight. Your attacks will do next to no damage, and the boss has such a large HP pool that you'll need a specific strategy to take it down.
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Enemy |
HP |
Weakness |
Experience |
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Dragon Zombie |
13,400 |
Fire, Lightning, Holy |
4,200 |
There are two ways to deal with the Dragon Z﷽ombie easily.
- The first is to strike the Dragon Zombie with any character equipped with the Dragon Slayer. Valkyrie can equip it and is likely to break its guard if it tries to defend itself.
- Alternatively, you can use one of the Holy Crystals that you picked up in this dungeon. These cast Mystic Cross on all enemies and deal a ton of damage, though, so you should use the Dragon Slayer if you can, and save the Holy Crystals for tougher fights down the line.
Remember, to get the Dragon Slayer, simply visit Arngrim's house in Artolia and enter his bedroom.
Nethov Swamp Artifacts
After the fight with the Dragon Zombie, move a screen to the right to find this dungeon's artifacts.
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Bark of the Dryad |
Once you getඣ upgraded transmutation, you can turn this into the very useful Dimension S🍌lip. |
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Inscribed Fragment |
This can be transmutated into a Trap Search, which lets you see which chests have ♔traps. |