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RenamonFOX's FAQ for Disgaea 2 for the PS2
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version 1.04
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version 1.03
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version 1.02
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00.00 - Introduction
01.00 - Criminal Charges
01.01 - Felony effects on the ending of the game
01.02 - List of Charges
01.03 - Tricky tricks
02.00 - Filling the Bonus Gauge
02.01 - Geo Vandalism
02.02 - Combo City
03.00 - Geo Effects
04.00 - Thief Steal Rate
05.00 - Fun in item world
05.01 - Mystery Rooms
05.02 - Residents
05.03 - Speeding Through Item World
05.04 - Ninjas and Pirates
05.05 - Levelling up your item
05.06 - Specialist hoarding
06.00 - Lovers and their effects
07.00 - Level 9999 monster
08.00 - Unlocking the Dark World
08.01 - The Dark Sun
09.00 - Hospital Rewards
10.00 - Character levelling
10.01 - Cave of Ordeals 1
10.02 - Cave of Ordeals 2
90.00 - Frequently asked questions
90.01 - What is an ally murder?
98.00 - Sites approved for publishing of this guide
99.00 - Credits
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00.00 - Introduction
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This is a general guide that answers the questions I receive most often, plus a
few nifty tricks that aren't very well known about.  Such as moving Baliffs from
their subpoena to an item you're levelling up to put on a character.  Killing
two birds with one stone.
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01.00 - Criminal Charges
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A new aspect in Disgaea 2 is the addition of felonies.  Felonies are given when
a character enters the item world of a subpoena which contains a baliff, then
entering the dark court on the floor corresponding to the number on the baliff.
Felonies have a myriad of useful skills, including reducing the cost of items
sold at shops by up to 33%, increasing the amount of experience gained by the
character with the felony by up to 300%, increasing the approval rate when
proposing bills in the dark senate, or even changing the ending of the game.
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01.01 - Felony effects on the ending of the game
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There's only two different endings obtainable through the amassing of felonies.
One requires that Adell have at least ten felonies and ten ally murders, whereas
the other requires Adell have at least 99 felonies and one hundred ally murders.
For the latter, Rozalin must be murdered at least once.  Both of these endings
are considered 'bad endings'.  No matter how many felonies you have on your
other characters, they will have no effect on the ending of the game.
In order to obtain a felony, a character must go to the post officer and speak
with him to obtain a subpoena.  Subpoenas have pre-subdued residents called
baliffs.  These baliffs state which floor the dark court is on in the item world
in that item.  For example, if a subpoena has "baliff 4" as a resident, the gate
to the dark court will be on the 4th floor of the item.
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01.02 - List of Charges
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*for High stat, too high stat, and way too high stat, that applies to the
non-HP non-SP stats on a character, and once for each such stat.  A character
with 250 attack and 250 hit will be eligible for both "high atk" and "high hit"
felonies.
Charge            Condition        Baliff    Prize        Felonies
High Level        Level at least 20    6-14    50,000 HL    2
High Stat*        Stat at least 200    6-14    50,000 HL    2
High HP            HP at least 500        6-14    50,000 HL    2
High SP            SP at least 250        6-14    50,000 HL    2
Too High Level        Level at least 200    16-24    2,000,000 HL    6
Too High Stat*        Stat at least 2000    16-24    2,000,000 HL    6
Too High HP        HP at least 5000    16-24    2,000,000 HL    6
Too High SP        SP at least 2500    16-24    2,000,000 HL    6
Way Too High Level    Level at least 2000    36-44    500,000,000 HL    10
Way Too High Stat*    Stat at least 20,000    36-44    500,000,000 HL    10
Way Too High HP        HP at least 50,000    36-44    500,000,000 HL    10
Way Too High SP        SP at least 25,000    36-44    500,000,000 HL    10
Reincarnating        Reincarnate ten times    36-44    Red Moon Bow    16
Too Many Murders    Defeat 100 enemies    16-24    Immortal Pill    2
Being a Loser        Get killed 20 times    16-24    Spirit Muscle    2
Friendly Fire        Kill 20 allies        16-24    The Heretic    2
Team Attacking        Be in 100 team attacks    16-24    Gank        6
Comboing        Be in 100 combo attacks    16-24    Demon Smasher    4
Stack Attacking        Be in 100 tower attacks    16-24    Tower Shield    6
Pitching Prinnies    Throw 20 prinnies    16-24    Prinny Staff    3
Geo Vandalism        Destroy 500 Geo Panels    16-24    Astral Orb    2
Excessive Force        Deal 1000+ in one hit    16-24    Spirit Belt    4
Liking Guys        Have 10 male pupils    16-24    500 Mana    2
Liking Girls        Have 10 female pupils    16-24    500 Mana    2
Being a Breeder        Have 10 monster pupils    16-24    500 Mana    2
Raised too many pupils    Human pupil at lv 100    16-24    5,000 Mana    4
Being the top breeder    Monster pupil at lv 100    16-24    5,000 Mana    6
Mastering Fists        Level 15 Fist Mastery    56-64    Scroll: Fist    12
Mastering Swords    Level 15 Sword Mastery    56-64    Scroll: Sword    12
Mastering Spears    Level 15 Spear Mastery  56-64    Scroll: Spear    12
Mastering Bows        Level 15 Bow Mastery    56-64    Scroll: Bow    12
Mastering Guns        Level 15 Gun Mastery    56-64    Scroll: Gun    12
Mastering Axes        Level 15 Axe Mastery    56-64    Scroll: Axe    12
Mastering Staves    Level 15 Staff Mastery    56-64    Scroll: Staff    12
Mastering Fire Magic    |Level 15 mastery as  | 56-64    Exodus        12
Mastering Wind Magic    |the sum of all levels|    56-64    Exodus        12
Mastering Ice Magic    |of spells, normal    |    56-64    Exodus        12
Mastering Star Magic    |Mega, Giga, Omega,   |    56-64    Exodus        12
Mastering Healing Magic    |and Tera          | 56-64    Universal Orb    12
Everybody crimes!
Second round of playing    Beat the game        36-44    Noble Rose    10
Playing too much    Game clock at 100 hours    12-18    Sundae        10
Being too Rich        have over 100,000,000HL    12-18    10,000 Mana    10
Mastering Classes    Unlock all first level    12-18    Twilight    10
classes (Knight, Prinny, etc.  Force knight not req.)
Political Unrest    Pass 20 bills by force    12-18    Veggie Burger    10
Kidnapping        Capture 15 monsters    12-18    The Demon    10
Tele Fraud        Use 30 Defender of    12-18    Laser Blade    10
Earth cell phones
Tele Fraud        Use 30 Prism Ranger    12-18    Prism Cannon    10
cell phones
Tele Fraud        Use 30 Dark Hero    12-18    Macho Fist    10
cell phones
Murdering Baal        Defeat Baal        12-18    Arcadia        10
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01.03 - Tricky tricks
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When amassig felonies, there are a few tricks that can be utilized in order to
make the process less painful.
1) Tower it up!  If you make a big tower of characters and throw them all in
there, they will all receive the full felony count for the crime.  This is very
useful in reducing the amount of necessary trips through item world to get your
characters up to speed.
2) Move the baliffs.  What's the point of levelling up your subpoena?  To heck
with that!  Move that baliff into a fist to be levelled up for Adell, or a gun
for Rozalin.  This way, all the levels you're blowing through are actually going
towards something.  Levelling up an item and amassing felonies with one trip is
key in saving time.
3) Gency abuse.  If you have lots of Mr. Gency Exits, you can make felony
gaining quicker still by putting any baliff into an item, for this example we'll
say it's baliff 58.  On floor 58, enter the dark assembly, get your felonies,
use a gency to escape, move a baliff 62 into the item, go back, get more
felonies, come back out ad nauseum.
on floor 62, so you only have two floors to travel to get to floor 64.  Throw
a baliff 64 in there now!
NOTE: In a previous version I mentioned that you could make a baliff 58, get the
dark world, then escape, place another 58 in there and do it again.  This is
INCORRECT.  You must pass at least one floor for a dark court gate to appear.
(Thanks to NeccoWafers for this information)
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02.00 - Filling the bonus gauge
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Every once in a while, you'll see a shiney on rank 9 of the bonus gauge, but
there won't be an easily accessible solution to getting to rank 9.  This section
is here to help!  In order to get to rank 1, you need 100 bonus gauge points.
For rank 2 you need 200 points, and so on, up to 900 points for the max gauge.
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02.01 - Geo Vandalism
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The easiest way to fill up the bonus gauge, if not always accessible, is to
create a ridiculously large geo explosion effect that damages all the enemies on
the map.  There are plenty of available geo panel explosion techniques on the
Disgaea 1 faq board, and the techniques still apply here, so if you don't know
how to set up a wide area explosion, refer back there for help.
The amount of points received from a geo reaction is as follows:
Points = Color + (X*Chain*18)
Color - This is the big number in your combo.  Every time a panel changes color
or disappears, you get one point.  After a second geo symbol explodes, a panel
changing color or disappearing is now worth an additional point.  Every time the
panels change to a new color in a single chain it adds an additional point per
geo panel change/disappear.
X - This value equals 1 if all the geo panels on the map are cleared as a result
of this chain, and 0 if colored geo panels remain after the chain.
Chain - the smaller number in a geo explosion.  Every time the panels change
color or disappear in a chain, this number goes up by 1.
In action...
Cave of Ordeals 1 gives you a map with 14 purple panels, four colored geo
symbols, and two null symbols.  If you place the lower right null symbol on one
of the geo panels, and then destroy the upper left one, you'll have a geo
explosion that clears the whole map.
The first one you hit will give you Color +14 and chain +1, but it will hit the
other four geo symbols, which will cause a chain reaction as follows.
first symbol -         color+14    chain+1
second symbol -     color+28    chain+1
third symbol -         color+42    chain+1
fourth symbol -     color+56    chain+1
fifth symbol -        color+70    chain+1
This gives you color = 210 and chain = 5
And since you've cleared the map, for the equation above, you've got
Points = 210 + (1*6*18) = 318.  That's three full bars for a single map with
only 14 panels on it.
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02.02 - Combo City
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If there are no geo symbols for one reason or another, you can also build the
bonus gauge by unleashing lengthy combos on the enemy.  A combo is a series of
attacks that are all carried out with a single push of the "execute" button, and
all such attacks are directed at a single enemy.  Whenever you attack an enemy,
you gain 4 points on the bonus gauge.  For each addition to the combo, the
number jumps up much higher, and if you kill the enemy, the number jumps up
higher still.  The following is a list of points that will be obtained through
unleashing a combo of certain length on an enemy.
Combo Length    Survives    Dies
Single attack    4        24
Combo count 1    12        44
Combo count 2    24        76
Combo count 3    32        108
Combo count 4    60        156
Combo count 5    84        204
Combo count 6    112        264
Combo count 7    140        332
Combo count 8    180        412
Combo count 9    210        492
*Remember, for every 100 points, the bonus gauge goes up one bar
**Also, if a thief is included in this combo, these point values are doubled
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03.00 - Geo Effects
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Disgaea 2 is a host to a multitude of new geo effects.  Some of which are
easily guessed (Such as Game Over), others not so much (Fusion).
Damage 20%: Anyone on a panel with this effect at the beginning of the player's
turn will lose 20% of their maximum HP.  Meaning in five turns, they'll die.
Ally Damage 20%: Like Damage 20%, except enemies are unaffected.
Heal 20%: Anyone on a panel with this effect at the beginning of the player's
turn will gain 20% of their maximum HP.
Exp +50%: Any monster standing on a square with this effect will yield 50% more
experience.  Yes this stacks with HL +50%, Mana +50% and even other Exp +50%
HL +50%: Any monster standing on a square with this effect will yield 50% more
HL.  This stacks like Exp +50%
Mana +50%: Any monster standing on a square with this effect will yield 50% more
Mana.  This stacks like Exp +50%
ATK +/-50%: Anybody on this a square with this effect will have their attack
raised or decreased by the amount stated.
DEF +/-50%: Same as ATK +/-50%
Fire/Water/Wind Element +/-50%: Anyone on this square will have their
corresponding resistance raised (or decreased) by the given amount.
Move +/-1: The character standing on this tile will have their movement altered
by the amount stated.
Attack +1: When a character on this panel executes a normal or special attack,
they repeat the attack immediately, before counterattacks are assigned.  SP
consuming attacks will repeat the SP cost when the attack is repeated.
EX: Red mage casts fire on an attack +1 square.  She will cast fire twice, and
pay twice the SP cost
Evade: The hit stat of anybody targeting a unit on an evade panel is halved for
that attack.  All attacks targeting units on evade panels have a maximum of 50%
chance to hit.
Invincible: HP reducing attacks reduce 0 HP instead.  HP raising spells function
normally.
Deathblow: Any unit on a deathblow panel will take damage equal to their max
HP when struck.  In the american release, the Deathbow panel may also be called
"critical"
Warp: A character on a warp panel at the beginning of the player's turn will be
transported to a randomly chosen warp tile of the same color.
Silence: Any attack executed from the "special" menu cannot be used while
standing on this tile.
No close Attack: Units on this panel cannot attack anything less than two panels
away.
No ranged attack: units on this panel cannot attack anything more than one panel
away.
No tower attack: characters stacked in a tower cannot use tower attack while
standing on thsi panel.
No Entry: This panel cannot be entered, passed, or thrown over.
No Lifting: Units on a No Lifting panel cannot be lifted.  Units on a no lifting
panel can lift adjacent units if they are not on no lifting panels.
No Color Change: The color of the geo panels cannot be changed unless it is
destroyed as a result of an expansive geo explosion (similar to invincibility)
Reverse Damage: Healing attacks cause damage, Normal attacks restore life.
Disperse Damage: All objects on Disperse Damage tiles take damage equal to
the amount of damage dealt to the first target on the disperse damage tile
divided by the amount of other units on disperse damage tiles.  Ex.  four
enemies on Disperse damage tiles, you deal 12,000 damage to one, the other three
will take 4,000 damage each.
Enemy boost +50% (or x3): Attack, Defense, Resistance, Int, Speed, and Hit are
all multiplied by the amount stated.
Clone: A copy of one person standing on the clone tiles is created.  It is an
enemy, and cannot be stolen from.
Encroach: The color expands outward from the geo symbol at a rate of one panel
per turn
Enemy Level up 10%: at the beginning of the player's turn, all enemies on these
panels gain levels equal to one tenth their current level (rounded down).
Fusion: Each turn, one random enemy disappears and its levels are added to
another random enemy's level on the fusion panel.  If there is only one enemy on
the fusion panel, this has no effect.
Stage clear: any ally standing on this square at the beginning of the turn
causes you to win the stage.
Game Over: Any enemy standing on this square at the beginning of the turn causes
you to lose the game.
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04.00 - Thief Steal Rate
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How to steal effectively!  (In order of importance)
1) 100 - Level up your thief
2) 50  - Get 25 Thief Lovers on your equipment
3) 20  - Always Always Always steal from behind
4) 6   - Increase the HIT value of the hand you're stealing with
The important thing about 1 through 3 is that they all increase the chance of
success by a percentage, based on the levels of the thief and target.  4,
Although another way to increase your chances of stealing, is only a one-time
deal, and only really effective at lower levels.  At higher levels, you'll have
to level up a thief hand several hundred points to make the difference worth it,
and even then, it's only for that hand.  After you successfully steal with that
hand, it's gone, and you'll have to level up a new hand to make it worth it.
If a thief is stealing stats-
Chance of Success = (thief level *2) + HIT stat of hand being used - Enemy level
If a thief is stealing an item -
% = ThLV*(Dir + 2*Lover/100) + 25 + HIThand - TargLV - Rank*3 - Rarity
ThLV = Level of the Thief
Dir = 1.0 when stealing from the front, 1.1 from the side, and 1.2 from the back
Lover = The amount of Thief Lovers the Thief is currently equipped with.
HIThand = the HIT rate of the hand
TargLV = Level of the target you're trying to steal from
Rank = Rank of the item you're trying to steal
Rarity = 0 for normal items, 10 for rare items, 30 for legendary items, and 100
for items with a rarity value of 0
In the end, you'll generally be stealing legendary items of rank 35 or higher.
Unless you level up your hands, they'll have a hit rate of about 50.  You'll
have to have 25 thief lovers in order to steal successfully.  They add such a
huge bonus to stealing that it's just worth it.  Of course you'll always want
to steal from behind as well.  Such a simple task for an additional 20% bonus
to character level in the stealing equation is amazing.
without thief lovers-
% = 1.2*ThLV + 25 + 50 - EnemyLV - 105 - 30
% = 1.2*Thief level - Enemy level - 60
A level 2000 Thief would have a hard time stealing from anyone above level 2300
consistently.
This means at very high levels, you'll only be stealing from enemies at about
120% of your normal level, which is rather depressing, considering in Disgaea 1,
your level 3700 thief was stealing from Item God 2 (7700+) with 100% accuracy.
With Thief Lovers-
% = (1.2+.5)*ThLV + 25+50- EnemyLV - 105 - 30
% = 1.7*Thief Level - Enemy Level - 60
A level 2000 Thief would have a hard time stealing from enemies over level 3300
consistently.  Quite a jump for just adding a bunch of lovers.
Of course, your alternative is to level up the HIT rate on your stealing hand.
This is not a bad alternative when trying to steal a single item from a single
enemy, as you can level up a hand by hundreds of HIT very quickly, simply by
placing marksmen on the item and passing "more hit" in the item world assembly.
Each point you place in HIT in a stealing hand increases the effective level of
the thief by 0.6.  That is to say, your level 2000 thief can't steal from a
level 3700 on his own, but if you increase the hit rate on the hand by a few
hundred, the chances go way up.  Granted, levelling up the thief herself has a
much more lasting effect, but if you're not in the mood to try gaining 150
levels on your thief, this is the way to go.
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05.00 - Fun in item world
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As with Disgaea 1, there's a million ways to power up your characters outside
of trudging through fields of baddies to increase that little number next to
"LV".  All of the powering up tricks work in synergy with one another to allow
level 1000 characters to effectively take down level 4000 characters.
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05.01 - Mystery Rooms
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Aside from rushing straight for the exit gate to the stage, sometimes, a
mystery gate will appear.  In this mystery gate, many things could happen.  A
list of the rooms that can appear and what happens in each room is described
below.
Room of Seven Monsters - Defeat these monsters within two turns to merit a three
level boost to the item you're in.  Otherwise nothing happens.
Treasure Guardian - Choose to fight a stronger enemy in order to nab the
treasure in the box behind him.
Galaxy strip mall - a room that contains the four following shops
Bribery shop - A one-time shop to purchase dark assembly items
Mana shop - a place to buy mana potions which are used in battle to increase
a character's mana count.  These potions can be levelled up in item world to
net more mana
Cellphone shop, dood - A prinny will sell cell phones.
Stuff shop - a shop that sells armor, weapons, and other things.  These items
can be rare or legendary
Scroll shop - Sells weapon scrolls *extremely rare*
Collector - a Resident collector moves into your item *extremely rare*
Harem - A succubus, Nekomata, and Alraune offer to increase the bonus gauge on
the next map by 1 in exchange for either 10,000 HL or half your party's HP.
Fortune Teller - An old man will offer to tell you the fortune of your item.
Great +10 levels, Good +3 levels, Bad -3 levels, or horrible -10 levels
Free Treasure - Just stuff in boxes, unguarded, there for the looting
Hospital - An Alraune (like Bridget from town) will be there to heal you.
Orc Pirates - Like free treasure, except the Orc pirates will tell you stuff.
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05.02 - Residents
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Many items have residents that increase the stats of the item in one way or
another.  Below is a list of which residents can be inside an item and what they
do.
name        effect                    maximum
Dietician    Increases the HP of the item        19,998
Master        Increases the SP of the item        19,998
Physician    Increases the RES of the item        19,998
Gladiator    Increases the ATK of the item        19,998
Sentry        Increases the DEF of the item        19,998
Tutor        Increases the INT of the item        19,998
Coach        Increases the SPD of the item        19,998
Marksman    Increases the HIT of the item        19,998
*Patient    Increases the DEF and RES of the item    19,998
*Sniper        Increases the ATK and HIT of the item    19,998
*Nerd        Increases the SP and INT of the item    19,998
*Hard Worker    Increases the ATK and INT of the item    19,998
*Sprinter    Increases the ATK and SPD of the item    19,998
*Muscleman    Increases the ATK and HP of the item    19,998
Coffee Maker    Increases resistance to sleep        100
Psychologist    Increases resistance to amnesia        100
Social Worker    Increases resistance to deprave        100
Aeronaut    Increases wind res, and wind attack dmg    100
Firefighter    Increases fire res, and fire attack dmg    100
Cryophile    Increases ice res, and ice attack dmg    100
Alchemist    Induces poison when attacking a target    100
Hypnotist    Induces sleep when attacking a target    100
Gangster    Induces deprave when attacking a target    100
Professional    Increases the chance of a critical hit    100
Witch Doctor    Induces paralyze when attacking        100
Amnesiac    Induces forget when attacking a target    100
Mediator    Allows for the creation of * residents    100
Teacher        Increases other specialist's levels    100
Armsmaster    Increases weapon mastery speed        1900
Manager        Increases mana gaining speed        300
Mentor        Increases skill mastery speed        300
Broker        Increases HL obtained            300
Collector    Increases the rarity number        100?
Lover        Different effects for each person    25
Baliff        Presubdued specialists for felonies    64
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05.03 - Speeding Through Item World
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In disgaea 1, a major problem with levelling up quickly was 'stuff gets in the
way'.  Fortunately, that was remedied with the acquisition of a pair of
hyperdrives.  There's no hyperdrive in this game, but lucky for you, you get
flying critters.  Not quite as effective as two hyperdrives, but available much
much earlier in the game.
Tink, a character you get in chapter 2, flies.  That means he can move through
enemies, chests, geo symbols, and what-have you.  This makes him a valuable
asset for going through Item world.  He starts with a base of six movement.
(6)
If you pass the improved movement proposal, he gets an additional +1 movement.
(7)
Grab three accelerators from the "defend the defender of earth" mission, which
have three movement each
(16)
On each of these accelerators, in the item world assembly, pass the "improve
movement" bill on them three times.
(25)
On a weapon, pass the "improve movement" bill three more times
(28)
Equip Tink's items with at least 20 Tink lovers for an additional +2 movement
(30)
If you were using a mothman instead of Tink, decrease his HP to critical by
equipping then unequipping a weight
(31)
31 movement that ignores enemies and geo symbols.  This makes an amazing party
member for speed clearing the item world.  I also recommend equipping a mage
with some decent movement boosters and high INT boosters as well to blast the
crap out of any gatekeepers that try to get in your way.
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05.04 - Ninjas and Pirates
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Thanks to reevesj for Animal pirates
This topic is a bit of a misnomer, as we'll generally keep it to pirates, but
I'll add my own ninjas to make it seem like the header makes sense.. yess...
There are sixteen groups of pirates, all of whom have treasure maps.  Every time
you kill a set of pirates, you get their treasure map.  Once you have all
sixteen treasure maps, the gateway to the Land of Carnage opens up.
Pirates can appear in any item world at the end of the first three turns.  If
they have not appeared by the end of turn three, just complete the stage and
try again next stage.  The types of pirates that can appear and the minimum
floor they can appear on are listed below.  Each group of pirates only has
one treasure map, and beating the ninja pirates twice will not get you two
treasure maps.
Floor    Type
1+    Ambling pirates
1+    Bashful pirates
1+    Prinny pirates
1+    Dancing pirates
1+    Orc pirates
1+    Chicken pirates
21+    Animal Pirates
21+    Gate pirates
21+    Hunter pirates
21+    Wealthy pirates
21+    Wiseman pirates
21+    Jolly pirates
41+    Ninja pirates (ninjas are better than pirates!)
41+    Red pirates
41+    Ranger pirates
61+    Z pirates
Now for the ninja input.  You can beat a whole group of pirates with a single
ninja!  When you make a male ninja, put all his points in speed.  Then, equip
him with a speed weight to reduce his HP to 25%, which will trigger his
"when in danger, evade goes up".  This makes him nearly unhittable, and thus
proving my point that ninjas are greater than pirates.
Then again, anything at a high enough level can take out any NPC in this game.
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05.05 - Levelling up your item
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-Skipping a stage and clearing a stage both offer you the same bonus to the item
-Kill every item general, item king, and item god to get the most out of an item
-You can gency on stage 10/20/30/40/etc. and save to guarantee the presence of
an item world assembly.
-Enter every mystery gate you see in order to maximize your item level
-Maximum item level is 200.
-dual stat specialists do *NOT* increase the stat growths of the item they're in
-single stat specialists increase the stat growths of the item they're in.
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05.06 - Specialist hoarding
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Having a hard time finding that certain specialist?  Below is a list of what
items contain specialists.  There are many many more than the ones listed
below that are guaranteed to contain these specialists.
Alchemist - Bloodlust, Poison Hand, Sesshomaru
Amnesiac - Evil buster, Heavenly bow, Illusion bow
Gangster - Love spankin, Paradise bow, Demon spear
Hypnotist - Death spear, requiem, spray gun
Witch doctor - Raijin Spear, Paralyzer
Professional - Hell strike, 7 year kill, master bow
Coffee Maker - Iron Dress, Spirit Mantle
Psychologist - Wizard mantle, holy dress, spirit dress
Social worker - Hero mantle
Aeronaut - Sylphid, Fur Jacket
Cryophile - ?
Firefighter - Dragon mail, dragon buster, salamander
Armsmaster - Kagero, 100 fists, Bruenack, Noble rose, twilight
Broker - Gank, Infernal Spear, Hell fork
Manager - Sunrise sword, Gaea spear
Mentor - Cross counter, Elder spear, The Awakening
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06.00 - Lovers and their effects
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If you go 35 battles without changing the equipment of a character, they have
a chance of producing a **** Lover in any of their items.  After the 35th
battle, each battle the character is on the screen at the end of combat gives
them a small chance to gain a lover in any of their items.  This chance is
low, but I do not have an exact figure.
After 100 battles with the same ten people in combat, I had anywhere between
zero and three items with lovers in them.  Rozalin had three, Thief had two,
Hanako had one, Adell had one, and Tink got zero.  When spawning lovers, you'll
have to have patience, as it's a very daunting task.
Things to know about lovers
-If there is no room for residents in your item, there is a zero percent chance
that a lover will spawn there.
-The amount of lovers that spawn in an item are stagnant.  Normal items get one,
rare items get two, legendary items get three.
-The maximum effective amount of lovers for any person is 25.
-Removing an item from a character *resets the battle count for that
character*, which means you'll have to pass the 35 battle buffer again in order
to have a chance to spawn lovers.
-Lovers are restricted to class or character.  Girl Mage Lover will only work
on female mages.  Rozalin lover will only work on Rozalin.
In many cases, lovers just add 1% stat bonus to the character they're equipped
to per lover (to a maximum of 25), but others have different effects, as
described below.  If a character or a class is not mentioned, the only effect
they receive from lovers is the 1% stat bonus per level, to a maximum of 25.
Unique characters
Adell - +1% damage to higher levelled enemies (base +25%)
Etna - +1% stat boost to adjacent prinnies (base 50%)
Hanako - -1% damage from monsters per lover (base 50%)
Rozalin - +1% stat bonus to surrounding *human* male allies (base 20%) poor Tink
Taro - DEF/RES +1% per lover when critical (base 20%)
Tink - +1% stat bonus from each adjacent human female ally (base 20%)
Tink - +1 movement per ten lovers
Yukimaru - +1% chance per lover to inflict amnesia status when attacking.
(base 20%)
Humanoid classes
Archer - +1 bow range per ten levels (including their class bonus of +1, and the
bow's base range of 4, you've got the range of a magic user without that pesky
worrying about elemental resistances, or the random doubled res enemy)
Armor Knight - +1% DEF per level when critical (base +50%)
Beastmaster - +1% bonus to adjacent monsters per lover (base +20%)
Druid - Geo Warp range +1 per five lovers.  (base range of 5, plus 5 from lovers
gives this guy a monstrous warp range of 10, before even moving!)
Gunners - +1% bonus to combo damage per two lovers (base +20%)
Healers - +1% resistance to elemental attacks (base 50%)
Male Mage - +1 skill mastery EXP when using spells per ten lovers (base +5)
Female Mage - -1% SP cost to use magic per lover (base -25%)
Ninja - +1% chance to evade incoming attacks when critical
Kunoichi - +1% chance to double strike when critical (base 50%)
Rune Knight - +1% bonus damage when using elemental attacks. (base 25%)
Samurai - +1% chance to instant kill when critical (base 20%)
Sinner - +1% increased counterattack damage per lover
Thief - See section 04.00 - Thief Steal Rate
Male Warrior - +2% critical damage bonus (at low HP) per lover (base +50%)
Female Warrior - +1% chance of critical damage (at low hp) per lover (base +50%)
Monster classes
Alraune - 1% resistance to magic damage (base 50%)
Baciel - 1.25% stat bonus per lover (as opposed to 1.0%)
Cockatrice - -1% to adjacent enemy stats per lover (base 20%)  A nifty trick is
to surround a powerful boss by a few of these and watch one of your units at
one quarter its level take it down.
Cu Sith - gain 1% life from wind damage per lover (base 0%)
Dragon - gain 1% life from fire damage per lover (base 0%)
Ghost - 1% SP recovered per turn (base 20%)
Marionette - +1.25% stat bonus per lover (as opposed to 1.0%)
Mothman - +1 Move per ten lovers
Nekomata - +1% damage when counterattacking (base 50%)
Orc - +1% physical damage when critical (base 25%)
Prinny - deals +1% of their current HP when thrown (base 50%)
War Slug - gain 1% life from ice damage per lover (base 0%)
White Dragon - gain 1% life from nonelemental special attack sources per lover
(base 0%)
Wood Golem - Increases the HP regeneration per turn by 1% (base 20%)
Succubus - +1% additional damage to males (base 25%)
Zombie Dragon - +1% resistance to physical attackers per lover (base 50%)
Zombie - +1.25% stat bonus per level (as opposed to 1.0%)
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07.00 - Level 9999 monster
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It's a silly trick, and I never use it myself.  But the fact is, it's in the
game, and it's easily abusable.
Stage 4-3 has an "enemy level up 10% panel.  The idea is simple.  Put the
nekomata to sleep, and sit on your butt until she hits the desired level.  Throw
her into your base panel, get out and heal, and come back.  Put the nekomata to
sleep, wait for it to level up again, and throw it in your base panel.
Note: Monsters in your base panel can take out monsters roughly twice as strong
as they are with this method, as long as they are assisted by the characters
you used to capture the first nekomata.  If the first Nekomata you capture is
level 40, then the next one you can capture is level 80, then 160, 320, 640,
1280, 2560, 5120, then 9999.  Congratulations, you have a monster
powerful enough to take out the final boss on her own with no equipment on.
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08.00 - Unlocking the Dark World
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There are five invisible switches in the town of Holt.  If you press all of
them, you'll be allowed to fight a blackened version of the gatekeeper, by the
name of Friday MkII.  She's level 100, and a few poison attacks will see her
dead, regardless of the level of your characters.  Yes, even level 1.
The five buttons are found in the following places:
- Behind the dark secretary
- On the bottom corner of the map (using the default camera position) in a small
open square of grass
-In back of Adell's house
-In back of Zommie III's house
-On the side wall divot near Mario boy and the Petit Orc
After talking to her, she'll give you a quick tutorial on the Dark World, and
you'll be allowed to travel there as often as you like, however, only one stage
will be unlocked.  In order to unlock other stages, you must fulfill certain
requirements.
1-1; Default.  opens when you defeat Friday MkII
1-2; Clear the stage taking no damage
1-3; Take damage from an enemy
1-4; Defeat a Green Skull (appears on your second visit forward)
2-1; Clear the stage within two turns
2-2; Clear the stage on the first turn
2-3; Clear the stage by moving less than nine panels
2-4; Make a tower of at least two characters in height
3-1; Allow the purple to envelop the whole map (11 turns)
3-2; Destroy one of the geo symbols
3-3; Make a tower of at least five characters in height
3-4; Clear the stage without throwing
4-1; Destroy all the geo panels
4-2; Combine at least five enemies (use lift and throw)
4-3; combine all the enemies
4-4; spend at least 30 turns on the stage
5-1; Let one ally be killed
5-2; Clear the stage with less than five party members
5-3: Make a tower of eight characters in height
5-4; kill all the enemies using tower attacks
6-1; make a tower of ten characters in height
6-2; complete the stage using less than seven allies
6-3; Fuse all enemies together
6-4; clear the stage by attacking only once (that is, one use of the attack or
special command)
7-1; Destroy all geo panels
7-2; clear the stage without taking damage
7-3; Have one character hold an enemy, then have another character throw another
enemy on top of the one that's being held
8-1; Change the colors of six geo panels
8-2; Destroy a geo symbol
8-3; Clear the stage without using the Special command
8-4; Clear the stage without taking damage
8-5; Build the bonus gauge up to 4
8-6; Same as 7-3
9-1; Move a character to a height of 64DM
9-2; Clear the stage moving 11 panels or less
9-3; Build the bonus gauge up to 2
9-4; Move a character to a height of 82DM
10-1; Fuse all enemies together
10-2; Destroy all geo panels
10-3; Deal more than 500 damage to an enemy
10-4; Build the bonus gauge to at least 3
11-1; Clear the stage without taking any damage
11-2; Do not destroy any geo panels
11-3; Deal more than 1,000 damage to an enemy
11-4; Clear the stage with less than four allies
11-5; Clear the stage without using special
11-6; Clear the stage without taking damage
11-7; Clear the stage using only tower attacks
12-1; Fuse all enemies together
12-2; Don't destroy any geo panels
12-3; Make a tower of 9 characters
12-4; Make a tower of 3 characters
12-5; Clear the stage using only one character
12-6; Do more than 2,000 damage to an enemy
13-1; Clear the stage without taking any damage
13-2; deal more than 2,500 damage to an enemy
13-3; Destroy all Geo Panels
13-4; Deal more than 3,000 damage to an enemy
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08.01 - The Dark Sun
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In addition to enemies being harder, there's the inclusion of a new aspect of
the game.  This charming little nightmare is known as the Dark Sun.  At the end
of every turn, the dark sun will do something which, for the most part, is to
the detriment of the player.  Such effects may include transforming one of your
characters into a monster, bombing your characters for half of their HP value,
just dealing large amounts of damage which may kill some of your characters,
or just reviving the monsters on a regular basis.
There are two options for dealing with the dark sun when you go into the dark
world.  The first is much simpler, and if you've got a strong enough party,
(read: party, not single character), you can get away with it.  That is to
just clear the stage in as few turns as possible before the effects of the dark
sun can take place.
Your other option is to attempt to destroy the dark sun.  The one command on
your list that was always a grayed out "????" will become known here.  It is
called 'ascend', and what happens is you sacrifice a character into the dark sun
in order to attempt to destroy it.  Whether or not it's successful doesn't
matter, because the character you ascend will be killed regardless.  If the
dark sun is destroyed, you can simply continue the stage as you did before,
without the dark sun.  However, this is where you finally see a drawback of
felonies (other than the aesthetic drawback, that is.)  The only characters that
can damage the dark sun are ones that have no felonies.  If you send a character
with any number of felonies into the dark sun, they will be removed from
the game for the rest of the battle, and the dark sun will raise the level of
all the monsters on the stage by a number equal to the number of felonies the
sacrificed character had.  Note that the character will not have its HP/SP
reduced to 0 as a non-felonized character would.
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09.00 - Hospital Rewards
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When you restore HP, SP, or revive the dead at the hospital, the hospital keeps
track.  When your HP restored, SP restored, or Revived characters exceeds a
certain number, you get a prize.
A trick here is to take a muscle, equip it to a character, heal that character,
unequip the muscle, and heal at the hospital.  This will quickly inflate the HP
restored amount at the hospital and allow you access to super powerful items
early in the game.  Also, these muscles can be sold for quite a healthy chunk
of change.  When unequipping the muscle, equip a weight, then re-equip the
muscles to drastically increase the amount of HP healed at the hospital.
This can also be used to inflate the SP number.  Afterwards, just take a bunch
of prinnies to an early stage, explode them all and get that revival count way
up there, and voila.  Instant testament.
Another trick is to open and close the prize window until you get the desired
rarity of the item you want.  simply hit "claim prize" and if it's not flashing
yellow, simply cancel and hit claim prize again. (thanks to toddseeker)
HP Restored    Prize
100        Brawny Muscle
800        Kung-fu Muscle
3,000        Spirit Muscle
10,000        Fight Muscle
30,000        Ace Muscle
80,000        Victory Muscle
200,000        Dream Muscle
500,000        World Muscle
980,000        Star Muscle
SP Restored    Prize
50        Common Orb
400        Psycho Orb
1,500        Dark Orb
5,000        Blood Orb
15,000        Astral Orb
40,000        Lunar Orb
100,000        Royal Orb
250,000        Holy Orb
490,000        Chaos Orb
Revivals
5        Caterpillar Egg
10        Charred Newt
25        Chicken Blood
50        Snake Kidney
80        Bat Soup
120        Frog Sweat
170        Immortal Pill
HP restored    SP restored    Revivals    Prize
800        400        5        Imperial Seal
3,000        1,500        15        Dark Rosary
10,000        5,000        40        Devil Ring
30,000        15,000        70        Feather Token
80,000        40,000        110        Sophia's Mirror
200,000        100,000        160        Pravda Necklace
500,000        250,000        220        Royal Ring
980,000        490,000        300        Testament
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10.00 - Character levelling
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Although levelling up your characters is one of the less important factors in
determining your character's overall power later in the game, early on, when you
have no powerful equipment, no felonies, no residents, no matching rarities, no
31 movement characters to get through item world, etc. etc., character levels
are all you have to rely on.
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10.01 - Cave of Ordeals 1
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After passing the 700 Mana bill "Cave of Ordeals" You'll be able to enter the
cave of ordeals from the gate.  (it'll be the bottom choice to enter after
passing the bill)  You'll see eight level 60 archers on panels which increase
their stats to points of abject silliness.  The trick here is to have one
character pop off any of the four geo symbols (Rozalin with a gun worked fine
for me), and that will cause a chain reaction which reduces the HP of these
archers to anywhere between 50 and 300 HP.  They are now well within killing
range of even level one characters, should they be well equipped.  Also, there
are a pair of null symbols which give 50% bonus EXP each.  They are not on
panels when the map starts, but you can move someone onto the panel and lift the
geo symbol from there (100% guaranteed to work) or you can diagonal throw the
null symbols on there (NOT guaranteed to work, unless you're amazing with
diagonal throw).  In order to use the former method, you require characters with
movement ranges of 10 and 8 to reach the top and bottom panels, respectively.
Even if this takes more than one turn, it doesn't matter, because they won't
move off these squares under their own power.
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10.02 - Cave of Ordeals 4
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Cave of Ordeals 4 (COO4) is akin to the COO3 in Disgaea 1.  It is the first
really powerful and potent level-up spot.  All the monsters are level 250
(before any monster power up bills) and they're all on mana +100%/exp +100%
panels.  Unlike Cave of Ordeals 1, you cannot complete this with newly
transmigrated characters (short of uber godlike equipment) and you'll have to
crank their levels up a bit at Cave 1.
There's no real trick to this stage, aside from power your guys up, power theirs
down, and unload on them.
To get through with magic casters:
-Use rune knights to ice/fire/wind charge your attacker and anti-ice/fire/wind
the targets.
-Use magic boost on your caster
-Cast from your base panel then run far away
Tower attacking tricks:
-Grab your single most powerful character and put him within three spaces of one
of the enemies.
-Grab the character you want to level up which may be too weak for this stage.
-Lift the powerful ally, tower attack the target.
-Lift the two allies with another person, attack another target.
-Lather rinse repeat ad nauseum.
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90.00 - Frequently asked questions
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This section is devoted to questions I see all too often either on the message
board for gameFAQs or that I've received in an email from more than two people.
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90.01 - What is an ally murder?
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If you have a certain number of ally murders and Adell has a certain number of
felonies, you can change the ending of the game.
Bad ending - 50 ally murders, 10 felonies
Worst ending - 100 ally murders, 99 felonies
"Does throwing a prinny at an ally count as an ally murder?" - No.  Neither the
thrown prinny, nor any ally caught in its blast radius will add to your ally
murder count.
"Does throwing an enemy, human or monster, into the base panel count towards
ally murders?" - No.
"Does using the skill 'Goodbye Tink' which results in Tink's death, count as an
ally murder?" - Tink's death will not count as an ally murder.  If tink used
'Goodbye Tink' targetting an ally, however, it will count as an ally murder.
The -ONLY THINGS- that add to your ally murder count is choosing an attack or
special command, selecting an ally, then pressing execute or end turn.  If that
attack results in the death of the ally, it adds to your ally murder count.
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98.00 - Sites approved for publishing of this guide
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