Guide to beating the Dark Nature Dungeon bosses.

First off, save before you fight them. SAVE GERDANGIT.
Now, here are the supplies you BETTER have, (And I hope you bought it before entering the Underworld, or ye be doomed.)
Lots of HP/MP/P. Downs or a Level 99 Healer (...Well, it works. Shut up.)
If you have the original party and the ult. weaps, don't bother using their SR on these guys: Much like the others, they absorb Ulta SR's. Brilliant.
Scrambled Eggs and Tuna Soup are heaven in a bottle. Keep 'em with you for this battle. Fried F. Fishes are so-so; they can be used to fuel your transformations.
In v0.22, there are potions called "Barbarian Potion and Magician Elixir." You should've stocked up on these before going to the underworld. If you didn't, kick yourself.
Now, the actual bosses. I'm horrid with names, so I'll just name what I know about them:
They like to fight with their eyes closed.
They are a Buccanneer, a Dark Knight, and a Bishop.
Starting off, not much is difficult.
The buccanneer might use wind strike for a couple hundred damage. The bishop might use some damage reducing barrier (Or is that the second part? IDK.) and poison you. The Dark Knight might use her dragon spear crushers n' stuff.
NOTE: There is an invisible enemy (You'll know this if you fought Tz in the original FS) who, presumably, is a buffer-upper. I got rid of it, pronto.
Then, a flash of light, and the music takes a sharp allegro. Their attacks get slightly stronger, but nothing really changes.

Then, oh dear.

After phase two, they will open their eyes. Sounds not scary? Well it is. This is all the changes:
They get fully healed.
Their defense goes down.
The background changes. ("What the hell was that? The background changed...")
Their attacks become much deadlier.
The music turns into a full-rock blast of U.N. Owen was Her?

Their attacks? The bucc can hit for about 1k, mobbing. Both the DrK and the Bishop can heal; Bishop has party heal for 8k, DrK has oneperson heal for 13k. DrK has her spear crushers for 400~900, medium or omega. Bishop has Magic Claw for 1.2k.


Now, to counter it.

First,
OPEN THE BATTLE WITH BUFFS. Haste, Magic wall, Mystic Wall, whatever.
1.5: I don't know if the Spirit of Agony is a real problem or not. I got rid of it first anyways, because I don't like invisible stuff. EDIT4: They decrease your SR and heals all bosses for 3k. Thanks again, myfantasy.
Second, DO NOT USE MOBBING MOVES. I've found out that sometimes, only one will transform if you push them to their limit. EDIT: No, wait. They'll all transform if you gang up on Drena. If you read my below thing, you'll see she wasn't a problem for me anyways. So yay goody happy rainbow. (Thank you, myfantasy.)
Unless you're a no-life like me and trained the original characters to Level 99 and can mow down anything in your path....Don't. Just don't. Going back to the healer thing, I tried fighting them with the three originals and Lenna. I summoned all three final forms at once.
Big mistake. I lost. I needed Serene for buffs and healing.
2.5: For me, the DrK was the least of my problems, THE DANG BUCC WITH THE 1K MOB WAS THE WORST.
3. Rinse and repeat-- Just force them to transform one-by-one.

Tips:
USE THEIR LOW DEFENSE/HP TO YOUR ADVANTAGE. In their first form, Zeru's nuclear sword thingy could only do 7k. During their final forms, it did 11k. So DO THAT.
Healers are wonderful. Their buffs are required to make your life easier.
EDIT2: Off Topic: I just realized there was a potion seller in the Victoria Base. God, I've been surviving the Dark World with only 99 of each potion. With no guides to help me to boot. Some guy also sells escape 4. I feel so stupid now, spamming Zeru's escape 2 on IoE's. So, with relation to my above messages, GET ELIXIRS TOO. RAAAAAAAWR. They're one-man Tuna Soups.
Good luck! Sorry if I wasn't much help.
EDIT3: Adding on to the low def/hp thingy, if you REALLY WANT HUGE DAMAGE FAST and can take a risk, do this>
A Pure Str Zeru + Bezerker Vow + Charge + Nuclear Sword (...Fine, it's called Blade Impact. I'll acknowledge that.)
I tested it two seconds ago on a Monk of Regrets. It did 38k. =3

1. The backround only changes when you get drena under half hp (the middle one) and it also makes it so all 3 of them trans.
2. You can freeze the invisible spirit LIKE A BOSS
3. Good defense = magic wall, bless, aegis guard

I just killed them this guide is good and im glad you put not to mob them made it easier, also if i may add i killed them in this order, Kishop, brawler person, Drena. It made the fight easier since kishop cant heal them and the brawler couldnt kill us in mob and i saved drena for last so we could just kill her faster.


-edit- WOOT 100TH POST;D

congrats, I killed the brawler first because of her mob attack. If you can't kill her when shes transed you should probably train more and you will waste less time knowing that. Since kishop is easy and just uses poison it isnt that bad.

myfantasy wrote:

congrats, I killed the brawler first because of her mob attack. Since kishop is easy and just uses poison it isnt that bad.

Yeah, I did too. That stupid mob killed me the first time when I didn't bring Serene. But Kishop wasn't so nice to me. His Magic Claw could hit a good 1.2k without Serene's buffs.

O.o also did anyone else get hit by omega dragon the blue one mob from drena and get 0 dmg for zeika and serene o.o

o_o Funny, I always got some damage for it. Did you have tons of defense buffs? I didn't have Zeika with me; I used the original party because I was nolife enough to grind them to level 99 via the Dark Order Member Rematch Crystal. e_e

EDIT:

myfantasy wrote:

2. You can freeze the invisible spirit LIKE A BOSS

Can you tell me what the spirit does? Zeru's Nuclear Sword plus Royke's Arrow madness was more than adequate for shooting it down really fast.

No the only Defense buff i had was well Darkness resistance which cant be it because zeru and Zure still got dmg hit. Also zeika's just level 58 o.o

Perhaps it's the stats. I did a pure int build for both my casters. Luk might increase their magic defense. Oh, what armor did you have for Serene?

spirit decreases your sr and heals every boss by about 3000

errm... idk wat are you ppl talking about :D F3

fs2, this does not concern you.. yet