Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
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Version 1.24
Author: The Crimson Phantom
Aka: Jason L'Heureux
Hybrid Guide: I'm calling it this because it covers a hybrid of problems
which are plaguing players of this game.
Due to HIGH volume of forum questions, I have decided to consolidate the
answers into this FAQ.  If I used something from someone else I'll credit
them, but so far everything is from my own personal experience playing the
game and things I have discovered and proven myself.
Version 1.00 Created September 2, 2003.
Version 1.01 Added Transmigration things a few tweaks.
Version 1.02 Added Ranks, more monsters/classes.
Version 1.10 Changed the thing to the 79 character limit, one can only hope
that it will be accepted now.
Version 1.11 Added more monsters and classes, stuff and things.
Version 1.12 Added the last human class, new tricks.
Version 1.13 Added more monster classes, some rules to tricks, Specialists
stuff, removed tabs from the transmigration list (sorry looked like they were
gone when I checked on mine... I forgot I used a few of them ugh).
Version 1.14 Changed some Transmigration stuff, added more other stuff.  Bugs.
Added minimum promotion levels.
Version 1.15 Added more monsters.  Due to more forum questions added stuff on
weapon/magic skill stuff.
Version 1.16 Added almost all the monsters and monster abilities.  Completed
the Class spells and Weapon skills with their levels, hero spells/levels are
done.  Added stuff on Geo affects.  Added max levels for promotion.
Version 1.17 Added a few more monsers, more geo stuff.  Slight typo on Etna's
Prinny raid :( 5 not 6.  Fixed other stuff that I added while drunk sigh
how something can make perfect sense one day and then none the next I will
never know.  Thanks to the Young and Mighty Pang for some of the monster
stuff...
Version 1.18 Forgot to change one of the geo things.  Found out new stuff
with tranmigration.  Other sites asked permission to use it so sure.
Version 1.19 Added another monster.  Added some other stuff.  Official
monster capture formula provided by Disgaea: The Official Strategy
Guide's Official Web Site:   http://www.doublejumpbooks.com/disgaea
care of Djpubba.  Hunted down a single evil space at the end of a sentence
which made it 80 instead of 79.
Version 1.20 Finally asked for help to complete the monster list.  Added a
couple more geo things.  Seeking help for 2 more things... first for the
levels that human classes are unlocked (mine are all done I cannot go and
check this myself), and second for the names and best places to find the
second and most powerful weapons and armors... (expecting best place to find
on the second accounts is item world, for the first its probally stealing
from the item god of a legendary second most powerful one).
Version 1.21 Vampire family sigh :).  Another site to use the faq.  Added
attack +1 geo's (thats the problem with doing those from memory eh).
Version 1.22 Not much more to add some item world/item stuff.  Tested and
found the rough Armsmaster caps (its probally not 100% exact because its
hard to judge the growth of weapons but its pretty close to the correct
numbers).  Was bored so I restarted a game and found out the human prereq
levels, so their added now too.  Weapon names/Armor names for the best is
a work in progress not added yet, but if my intrest (which is waning due to
ungodly overpowered characters with triple robo suits and the best weapons
equipped) manages to hold for another week you may see that yet.
Version 1.23 In keeping with checking staticians I added my two 98xx
gladiators together and found that the cap is above 9999 for each stat
booster.  More sites to use this.
Version 1.24 Other sites got 1.23 it really doesn't have much different.
Added second best and best weapons for all the types (missing belt,
eye-wear, all stat boosting, have the rest of them), added max cap on the
specialists in the stat boosting category, 19998 for one single specialist.
Quite likly the FINAL update, as I'm getting to the point where I'm losing
intrest in this game (horror of horrors), Homeworld2, Counter-Strike, and
work/school are consuming to much time.  Have fun.
E-Mail me at: lifeguard1234@hotmail.com
If you e-mail me and its got something attached its going to be deleted
without hesitation.  Sorry but my virus scan/firewall is set to destroy
e-mail attachments.  If your sending me something to contribute to this in
an e-mail make sure to title your e-mail contributions or something similar,
and just put whatever it is in plain text.
If anyone has some of those amazing ASCII powers and feel like doing a
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness type one drop me a line via e-mail.
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Table of contents
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1.0 The Dark Assembly
1.1 Basic rules
1.2 Rank and influence
1.3 How the votes work
1.4 The bribes
1.5 Effects of bribes
1.6 Persuade by force
1.7 The proposal screen
2.0 Items, item world, and specialists
2.1 For specialists
2.2 Status effects from specialists
2.3 How to combine specialists
2.4 Weapon/magic ranks: how to get the best bang for your time
2.5 The best and second best stuff
3.0 Transmigration (reincarnation)
3.1 Transmigration options
3.2 Since were on the topic of stats, pupils
4.0 Geo Stuff
4.1 Geo Panels
4.2 Geo Symbols
4.3 Types of Geo Symbols
5.0 Enemy capture vs creation
5.1 Official capture formula
6.0 Human/Monster classes
7.0 Skills, spells, hero and monster moves
7.1 Weapon special skills
7.2 Normal class specific character spells
7.3 Hero spells
7.4 Monster skills and spells
8.0 Generalized tips and tricks
8.1 Bugs
9.0 People who have credits and thanks for helping out
10.0 Legal stuff and copyright
11.0 Game info and thanks
For using Ctrl-F (find) these could be helpful or just use the headings
*** = Chapter's
### = Charts
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1.0 The Dark Assembly
This is a place where you can increase all sorts of things such as the items
you can buy, the power of your enemy's, even things like counterattacking
and movement, create new characters, reincarnate old characters into new and
vastly more powerful ones (transmigrate), unlock new stages to venture into,
get triple exp for a kill, delete characters, and the like.
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1.1 Basic rules
Their are three basic rules of the Dark Assembly is he who has the power
makes the rules.  That said it is then important to realize that a senators
voting power is DIRECTLY related to what level they are (as in a level 1
senator gets 1 vote a level 1000 senator gets 1000 votes).
Now considering that it is just as easy to bribe a level 1 senator as it
is to bribe a level 1000 one, you can probably easily see that the level
1 ones are pretty much useless to you.  Losing a vote will NOT result in any
lost popularity with them.
That said you can bribe the senators with pretty much anything, but be
careful that you don't try for something that they don't like (more below).
The second basic rule is that you need mana to summon the assembly... No
this is not the SP that you expend to use your special attacks, instead mana
is a count of how many enemy's your character has dispatched, and ONLY the
character who lands the killing blow on an enemy will actually get awarded
with the mana from that kill.  The mana received for killing an enemy is
again directly related to what level that enemy is... a level one enemy
will give you a single point of mana; whereas, killing a level 1000 enemy
will give you a thousand points of mana.
The third basic rule of the Dark Assembly is that you need the proper
influence to even have the ability to hold a vote on something.
Inside the Dark Assembly you can do a few things
If you press Triangle you will pop up a menu to
Begin the vote
or
Return to the castle
This is pretty straight forwards beginning the vote cannot be stopped until
its done, returning to the castle is so you can bribe the senators and not
lose any opinion of you (more later).
Also you can highlight a senator and see how much of a vote they get (their
level), and from there bribe them by pressing X (more later).
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1.2 Rank and influence
When you start the game you will be rank 0 with neigh on no influence.
Your rank is an indication of your power, it can be raised to a maximum of
11 by selecting promotion exam.  After selecting this you have to fight
whatever monsters are listed in the exam, lose and you die, win and you
are promoted and you are fully healed.  The higher your rank is the more
influence you will have.
Also related to your rank is what options you can have them vote for, someone
with a low rank has a LOT less options to vote for than someone who has a
rather high rank (more later).
Influence is what you need to attract powerful senators to show up to your
votes (it also affects how many senators will actually show up).  This is
a two edged sword, on the one hand having powerful senators is good because
you can bribe them to the love (more later) rank and have a solid chance of
them voting for you... also more senators means their are more votes which
gives a better chance of overcoming the initial votes against you.  However,
the down side to more senators is until you have bribed them a LOT, chances
are they all loath you and will vote against you.
Influence is also the combined ammount of levels of the senators who show up
to vote.
Influence is randomly determined between set values which relate to your rank
(basically the minimum is rank x 100),
so rank 0 = 0 rank 1 = 100 rank 10 = 1000 etc), the maximum vary's per rank
at rank 11 the highest I had was almost 6000 influence, if you don't like
your influence simply "re-roll it" by exiting and starting the summon
assembly again until its more to your liking.
To take the Promotion Exam nothing is required except for the ability to win
the fight.  Their levels DO get raised/lowered with the Stronger/Weaker Enemy
Bill.  Minimum means that this level is as low as they can be, if you have not
yet passed any of the stronger enemy bills.  Maximum means that this is as
high as they can be, if you have passed the stronger enemy bills 20 times.
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Promotion Exams                  Minimum                 Maximum
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Rank 0 ----- Automatic you start with this.
Rank 1 ----- 1x Ghoul ---------- level 4  level 60
3x Zombie --------- level 2  level 90
Rank 2 ----- 1x Corpse --------- level 8  level 80
2x Ghoul ---------- level 5  level 65
Rank 3 ----- 1x Gremlin -------- level 12  level 100
3x Hobbit --------- level 9  level 85
Rank 4 ----- 2x Guardian ------- level 20  level 140
Rank 5 ----- 1x Dark Knight ---- level 30  level 190
2x Nightmare ------ level 25  level 165
Rank 6 ----- 1x Ekim ----------- level 40  level 240
2x Wraith --------- level 34  level 210
Rank 7 ----- 1x Majin ---------- level 50  level 290
1x Centurion ------ level 45  level 265
2x Red Skull ------ level 42  level 250
Rank 8 ----- 1x Serpent -------- level 70  level 390
3x Decoy ---------- level 60  level 340
Rank 9 ----- 1x Ahzi Dahaka ---- level 100  level 540
2x Dragon --------- level 80  level 440
Rank 10 ---- 1x Neuntoter ------ level 150  level 790
3x Lilim ---------- level 120  level 640
Rank 11 ---- 1x Shaitan -------- level 250  level 1290
3x Wight ---------- level 200  level 1040
Rank 12 ---- Grayed out, Cannot promote any higher.
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1.3 How the votes work
When you have a vote, you win if and only if the votes in your favor exceed
the votes against you + the initial cost of the vote,
for a win you need this,
Votes Yes - (Votes No + initial cost) = greater than or equal to 1.
the Initial cost of a vote is determined by what amount of influence you
require to hold the vote... lets use Triple Exp as an example,
it requires both 100 influence and 100 mana, so you need to have have at
least 101 votes for yes above the votes for no to win.
if you had 500 votes yes and 400 votes no you'd have a total of 500 votes
yes and 500 for no which would mean you'd lose (total is 0).
if you had 700 votes yes and 400 votes no then this would be a different
story you'd have a total of 700 votes yes and 500 votes no so you would win
that vote (total is 200).
Now this having been said when you go to vote on things with a 5000 influence
which also cost 5000 mana (the influence required and the mana cost are
always the same), you can see how having more senators show up to vote can
REALLY be beneficial (its actually possible to have everyone vote yes and
still lose ones that high if you don't get enough high senators to show).
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1.4 The bribes
Basically any and every item will work as a bribe, their isn't really any
benefit to bribing with a legendary weapon or some supreme item as it has
the same effect as using a simple candy or amulet.
My advice is to stock up on the worst items you can quickly get your hands
on then go to the Dark Assembly and hold a vote for whatever, it does NOT
matter if you win or lose that has NO bearing on their opinion of you (of
course winning is always nice), to start with pick something cheap influence
and mana wise, then just bribe the highest senator into liking you
(More later), and work your way on down.
Bribes made to a senator affect their opinion of EVERYONE in your party not
just the guy who did the bribe (so all of your characters benefit from nice
senator dictator relationships).
Their are different quality bribes these range from (and are random as to
what senator thinks what item is what)... Simply move over a senator with
the controller when your in the assembly and press X for a list to come up,
scroll down this to see how much they like any particular item.  They may
like one piece of candy but REALLY hate another one, that another senator
may like.  You can ONLY hold 16 items at a time when you go into the assembly
you might as well use them all
As you can probably guess a Must have! item for a senator is preferable to
an item their just Interested in.
From my experiences playing this game the items have values according to
what the senator wants for them, unfortunatly since their is not any value
other than the level the senator gets to all I can do is try to guess the
actual boosts that an intrest level in an item will give.
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Must Have!----------------------is +3 (maybe +4 or 5)
Interested ---------------------is +2 (maybe +3)
Slightly Interested ------------is +1
Not very Interested ------------is -1
Does not want! -----------------is -3 (maybe -4 or 5)
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A positive thing will raise their opinion of your and your bill, and a
negative one will lower it.
Pretty much AVOID using negative ones unless your actively trying to get
the senators to hate you.
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1.5 Effects of bribes
These are how the particular senator feels about you and your bill, (they
have different opinions on some bills, generally speaking they like lower
influence and mana bills MUCH more than higher ones... if you bribe them
into loving you with high bills then they'll still love the lower ones,
the ONLY real exception is that they all REALLY dislike the extort funds on
(raise military funds) as it takes money from their pocket and drops every
senator who attended 3-5 points if you win that bill)
Bribing a Senator at one meeting will still have its effect later, after
doing a bill in your favor their opinion seems to drop by 1 point, if you
lose it doesn't change (or just back out of the bill).
Now I shall list what ranks they have what percentage chance that they will
vote for you (approximate) and how many points it will generally take to
raise it to the next level)
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Love *heart* -------------------------------------95%-99% (max)
Total support ------------------------------------85%-95% (2-5 points)
Strongly for -------------------------------------75%-85% (2-5 points)
In favor of --------------------------------------65%-75% (2-4 points)
Leaning yes --------------------------------------55%-65% (1-4 points)
Either way ---------------------------------------45%-55% (1-4 points)
Leaning no ---------------------------------------35%-45% (1-4 points)
Against ------------------------------------------25%-35% (1-4 points)
Strongly against ---------------------------------15%-25% (2-4 points)
Total opposition ---------------------------------5%-15%  (2-5 points)
Loathe -------------------------------------------1%-5%   (2-5 points)
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Now bear in mind that these point values are not necessarily fixed as some
senators are just jerks (one guy of mines is at loath despite the fact that
I've dumped 6 must haves onto him so sometimes they just don't budge...
possibly theirs a slight chance of just not accepting the bribe).
If after lots of bribing their votes you still get "REJECTED" you can always
just give up
or...
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1.6 Persuade by force
Basically I HIGHLY recommend AVOIDING this, simply because it will make any
senator you killed drop to LOATHE automatically; however, if you REALLY want
something passed and your powerful enough to handle some of the level 500 and
up senators then by all means.  Basically its a slugfest your side against
them...
A word of warning do NOT accidentally hit the senators who voted yes (they'll
be yellow bars and won't move or fight), if you hit them they reverse their
decision and join the fight against you.
Tips and Tricks to winning this are, Simply pick up and throw all your good
senators together and then throw enemy ones into him for a super senator on
your side... Or toss close level enemy ones into the one on your side and
hope they become that one guy).  Its cheap but effective... I'm NOT sure if
they still start to hate you, I'd assume as much because they still fight
you.
Any senators killed will remain dead (unable to vote) until you reload the
game (if you kill ones in the castle they have tomestones and cannot be
used)...
Oddly enough, it seems if the senator loves you and you kill them their
opinion of you does not always go down.
Once you obtain the Tyrant rank (Laharl for defeating Baal) they will not
dare to go against whatever you want.
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1.7 The proposal screen
You talk to the person in front of the upper lower cage and get the options
Summon assembly (takes you to the proposal screen)
Tutorial (basically useless)
Exit (same as pressing circle)
Select the 1st option and it will take you into the proposal screen,
You can now select from a list of you LIVING characters (dead ones are red,
go revive them if you want to use them), it will list your rank and mana to
the right and show a portrait of your character in the bottom right)
After picking a character you get the following options and to the right it
shows the Rank you have, the mana, how many participants will show for any
bill and the influence you hold.
The options you can select are and the influence needed/mana required are,
and the rank at which these options are opened to you.  For the ones that
can be passed multiple times the mana and Influence required is listed below
them.
Proposal                          Mana and Influence           Rank required
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Senator List ------------------------ 0 --------------------------- 0
Create New Character ---------------- 0 --------------------------- 0
Delete a Character ------------------ 0 --------------------------- 0
Change Name ------------------------- 0 --------------------------- 0
Promotion Exam ---------------------- 0 --------------------------- 0
Transmigrate ------------------------ 100 ------------------------- 3
Triple Exp -------------------------- 100 ------------------------- 4
Bonus Gauge Boost ------------------- 100 ------------------------- 4
Prinny Day -------------------------- 100 ------------------------- 4
Raise Military Funds ---------------- 10 -------------------------- 0
More Expensive Stuff ---------------- vary's on times passed ------ 1
10-30-50-70-90-110-130-150-170-190-210-230-250
Cheaper Stuff ----------------------- 10 -------------------------- 1
Stronger Enemies -------------------- vary's on times passed ------ 5
100-150-200-250-300-350-400-450-500-550-600-650-700-750-800-850-900-
950-1000-1050-1100
Weaker Enemies ---------------------- 10 -------------------------- 5
Eyewear Inventory ------------------- 30 -------------------------- 2
Belt Inventory ---------------------- 30 -------------------------- 2
Shoe Inventory ---------------------- 30 -------------------------- 2
Improve Counterattack --------------- 300 ------------------------- 3
Improve Movement -------------------- 500 ------------------------- 4
Prinny Land ------------------------- 400 ------------------------- 5
Cave of Ordeal ---------------------- 700 ------------------------- 6
Human World ------------------------- 1200 ------------------------ 7
Alternate Netherworld --------------- 3000 ------------------------ 8
The Mysterious Seal ----------------- 5000 ------------------------ 9
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The senator list displays the senators that you have seen, the times they
have attended your bills, and their opinion of you, the amount of times you
have killed them, as well as a way to sort them by level, attendance or times
killed.  Rank Required is 0.
Creating and Deleting are obvious ones, they create or delete characters.
Rank Required is 0.
Change name ONLY works for non pre-generated story characters.  Rank
Required is 0.
Promotion Exam pits you against enemy monsters of increasing levels where you
have to fight them solo, (see rank and influence).  Rank Required is 0.
Transmigrate allows you to reincarnate your character into a new class with
extra stats (more later), story characters can only transmigrate into their
own class.  Rank Required is 3.
Triple exp gives a 300% exp bonus to the next enemy killed.  And only works
once per vote.  Rank Required is 4.
Prinny day makes it so the bonus gauge has REALLY good items but you can
only use prinny's on the next map (enemy units remain unchanged).  Rank
Required is 4.
Raise Military funds gives you a SMALL amount of money not worth the loathing
of the senate though.  Rank Required is 0.
More expensive stuff and cheaper stuff changes the items available at the
shop, you need to have a customer rank equal to what you want to raise the
rank up to. You CANNOT run that last one for 250 mana and influence its just
grayed out.  It can be passed 12 times, 20 mana/influence raise per time
passed.  Rank Required is 1.  The customer rank itself is just how high you
can raise this one, to raise your customer rank simply spend more money at
the store.
Stronger and Weaker enemies changes the levels of ALL enemies (up or down
respectively) in the game, story, after story, item world, etc the ONLY ones
unchanged are the senate. You cannot do the 1100 one that's just grayed out.
It can be passed 20 times, 50 mana/influence raise per time passed.  Rank
Required is 5.
Eyewear, belt and shoe inventory add extra ones of those items to the armor
shop.  Rank Required is 2.
Improve Counterattack and movement add extra counters or movement range to
the character who passes the bill (reset after transmigrating them).  Rank
Required is 3 and 4 respectivly.
Prinny land, Cave of Ordeal, Human world, Alternate Neitherworld, The
mysterious seal, all open extra maps to be explored, the Cave of Ordeal
holds the BEST non item world map for leveling up.  Rank Required is 5, 6, 7,
8 and 9 respectivly.  If you break the seals in the Alternate Neitherworld and
for the Mysterious seal you also unlock another secret area.
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2.0 Items, item world, and specialists
When you talk to the item world person you are welcomed to the item world
and a menu pops up with,
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Go to the Item World
Move Residents
Combine Residents
Explanation (useless)
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Selecting Go to the Item world, will bring you to a list of all of your
items select one and your taken to the world inside that item (you cannot
select an item that is in use and when selected that item cannot be used
inside of itself)
Move Residents takes Specialists that you have subdued from one item and
moves them into another item, quick easy and nothing is lost, selected the
donor item first, then select who is to be moved, then finally the item to
receive him.
Combine Residents takes any residents of the same type in one item and
combines their levels so the new one is the sum of the previous two ones
levels, this only works with specialists of the same type, and is typically
speaking a good idea as it saves on population space
As you probably know each item in this game is onto itself a dungeon, abit
a randomly generated dungeon.
Their are 3 classes of items Normal, Rare, and Legendary.
Even if their stats may seem similar, any item after being fully powered up
will be much better, Rare items are in a class of their own, that having
been said if their in their own class the Legendary items would be the
teachers.
Normal items have 30 floors to explore, typically you'll just run thru
them to kill the specialists, and to get the "Mr. Gency's Exit" from the 10th
floor of the dungeon then just exit that item.
Without an Exit item (Mr. Gency's) you are trapped inside the item until you
complete 10 floors.
If you are seeking to power up a weapon a lot, make sure that you clear
every tenth floor and that you kill the item generals, kings, and god.
Their is NO difference between clearing floors and skipping floors.
Their is NO difference between going down 100 floors in one shot, and going
down 10 at a time.
In both of the above cases the item will become just as powerful as the
other would, I tested this out on 4 Super Robo Suits, the first I ran
straight through completing all 100 floors in one shot, the second I ran
through exiting every 10 floors, the third I killed every monster for all
100 floors without exiting once, and the fourth time I killed every monster
but I exited every tenth floor.  (Hyperdrive's on my 4 main characters when
I was fighting, or Robo Suits/ Legendary Accelerators when I was skipping
the floors, I'd hyperdrive to clear the exit then run to it).
In all four of my level 100 Super Robo Suits they have speed stats of
(minus the specialists),
at level 0 they are
HP, SP, ATK, INT, SPD, HIT, and RES at 1500 and DEF is at 3000.
at level 100 they all are
HP, SP, ATK, INT, SPD, HIT, and RES at 18100 and DEF is at 36500.
There is a slight variance on the DEF values, also the Rarity and Population
are determined before their increased and as such are different (the DEF
values were within 100 of each other).  The reason for this is because the
Super Robo Suits are armor and as such have slightly different values for
their base defense.
Normal items have 30 floors, rare items get more floors, legendary items
get 100 floors with the ITEM GOD boss at the bottom... (level 255 monster on
a legendary floor 1 will be a more powerful ITEM GOD 2 at the bottom with an
item that allows you to warp to your hearts content across a map... also he
will carry the next version up of whatever item you went into the item world
using).
The two green unique items are the same as legendarys having 100 floors.
These are the Super Robo Suit, and the Hyperdrive.  You can only get one
of each UNLESS you complete the 100 floor dungeon inside those items and
steal another one from the Item God 2 at the bottom.
Other than those two green unique items their is one more green unique item
for every ultimate weapon, these can ONLY be obtained by going into a
legendary item of the second best weapon of that type and stealing the
ultimate weapon of that type right from the boss.  (This will be the
black wireframe Divine Majin Item God).
The Item God is the boss of a legendary item, and carrys a legendary item of
the next rank up of the one you went into the item world with (the next one
in terms of power).  (Unconfirmed really, its easier to go find a legendary
cosmic blade than to venture into ones of lesser power in the hopes of
getting it this way).
The Item God 2 is a black outline of a Divine Majin, he will ALWAYS have a
legendary item of the same type of the item that you went into, OR he will
have the next rank up of that item (only way to obtain the best weapons is
to steal them from him).  After you defeat the Item God 2 and return to the
castle the Hyperdrive (a device that grants 99 move and 99 jump; as well as,
instant movement to anyplace on the map) will be automatically placed into
your inventory.
Normal items typically get 3-6 population spots, rare's get 3-12 population
spots, and the legendary items get 3-16 population spots...
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2.1 For specialists
Specialists are "friendly" monster living inside of your weapons, armor,
items etc,  They display with a CHECK! when you enter a level with one, if
you successfully kill them their level will double, if you encounter them in a
level and their killed by you, they will become blue you can then move them
freely into other items.
If their is a White Dot next to the stat then it is from group 1 the stats,
if the dot is next to the add then it is something from group 2 (status
effects) or 3 (resistance), if it is next to the bonus then it is from group
4 (other bonuses).
If the dot is white, then the specialists cannot be moved complete the items
item world and the dot will become orange and they can be moved to any item
with enough population)
Each specialists consumes one population point on your item, if you combine
two of the same ones then they take up one instead of two.
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This 1st group has NO level cap add them non stop, 1 bonus point per level
19998 is the MAX for this specialist,
multiple ones also have extra effect the same as if they were combined into
one single entity,
Specialists Group 1
Coach ------------------- Adds Speed          (SPD) bonus.
Dietician --------------- Adds Health         (HP) bonus.
Gladiator --------------- Adds Attack         (ATK) bonus.
Marksman ---------------- Adds Hit Percentage (Hit) bonus.
Master ------------------ Adds Special Power  (SP) bonus.
Physician --------------- Adds Resistance     (RES) bonus.
Sentry ------------------ Adds Defense        (DEF) bonus.
Teacher ----------------- Adds Intelligence   (INT) bonus.
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This level group has a 100 cap (its percentage wise 1%/level) level 100 of
any is ideal, you won't get any extra benefit from exceeding level 100 here.
Specialists Group 2
Alchemist --------- Adds a chance of poison effect to attack.
Amnesiac ---------- Adds a chance of forget effect to attack.
Gangster ---------- Adds a chance of deprave effect to attack.
Hypnotist --------- Adds a chance of sleep effect to attack.
Professional ------ Adds a chance of critical damage effect to attack.
Witch Doctor ------ Adds a chance of paralyze effect to attack.
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Again this group has a 100 (maybe 200-300 for healing from getting hit with
magic haven't gotten any of these that high yet, if you have drop me a line)
cap (its percentage wise 1%/level) level 100 of any is ideal,
Specialists group 3
Aeronaut ---------- Increases your resistance to wind.
Coffee Maker ------ Increases your resistance to sleep.
Cryophile --------- Increases your resistance to ice.
Firefighter ------- Increases your resistance to fire.
Medicine Man ------ Increases your resistance to paralyze.
Pharmacist -------- Increases your resistance to poison.
Psychologist------- Increases your resistance to forget.
Social Worker------ Increases your resistance to deprave.
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This group has a 300 cap (its percentage wise 1%/level) so 300 is ideal,
The armsmaster is an exception, see below.
Specialists group 4
Armsmaster -------- Gain weapon levels faster.
Broker ------------ Adds extra Hell (money) for killing enemies.
Manager ----------- Increases the amount of mana gained per kill.
Statistician ------ Increases the Experience (EXP) gained per enemy kill.
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Armsmasters effectivness cap varys depending on weapon competency, follow
the list below to reach the max effect for your character.  Because the
weapon levels are hard to gauge the exact growth of these numbers are the
result of trial and error, they are probally not exact numbers, but they
are very close to to the actual game numbers.  Djpubba claims the cap is
2400 for everything, but it doesn't seem to level up the E ranks as fast when
you get to the higher levels.
I'd personally go with 2400 myself as anything else wasn't really much of
a difference.
Weapon Rank              Level of Armsmaster for max effect
S ----------------------------------> 2400
A ----------------------------------> 2400-2600
B ----------------------------------> 2400-2800
C ----------------------------------> 2400-3000
D ----------------------------------> 2400-3200
E ----------------------------------> 2400-3400
You CAN go above the caps on those other ones but it will have NO additional
effect,
eg. a level 150 Statistician gives 150% exp, a level 300 gives 300% exp, a
level 600 gives 300% exp.
(by the way, resistance will nullify a bonus, so if you have 100% chance to
deal poison and they had 50% resistance your chance would be 50%, if they
had 100% your chance would be 0%)
You CANNOT get the effect of things like the Statistician to stack by using
it on different pieces of equipment at 300% the cap per character is 300% so
you cannot exceed it.
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2.2 Status effects from Specialists
Minor section a few questions on what they are
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Critical - chance to deal more damage from NORMAL attacks (combos etc,
NOT special attacks; also known as, bullseye)
Deprave - no exp gain, pretty much useless player vs monster
Forget - chance to prevent enemy from being able to use their specials
Paralyze --- enemy cannot move, they can; however, still attack
Poison --- poison 10% health per round OUCH
Sleep --- puts enemy to sleep, only status item faerie dust or time fix this
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2.3 How to combine specialists.
If you take the specialists and move them onto the same item you can then
choose to combine them; however, this is not exactly black and white.  You can
ONLY combine specialist of the same type...
Eg Gladiator with Gladiator, Manager with Manager, etc.
Their are two types of specialist...
The first type is the standard gray specialist, these are specialists that
you have NOT subdued in the item world and they cannot be moved, they can
still be combined.
The second type is the subdued blue specialist...  These specialists have a
few advantages over the standard gray ones.  When you subdue a gray specialist
by simply killing him in the item world, he gains the ability to move to other
items, he becomes a blue specialist and his item level is doubled.
Unlike how combining monsters always yeilds a fusion that is the sum of both
of the previous monsters levels, combining specialists is a little bit more
tricky.
For instance if you were to combine gray specialists together you would get
the sum of their levels.  For instance a gray level 56 specialist combining
with another gray level 34 specialist would become a single gray level 90
specialist.  (Formula is Gray + Gray = New Gray).
The same is true of the blue specialists, For instance combining a blue level
40 specialist with another blue level 76 specialist would yeild a single blue
level 116 specialist.  (Formula is Blue + Blue = New Blue).
Now this is where it gets tricky... If you took a blue level 484 specialist and
combined it with a gray level 37 specialist you would expect a gray level 521
specialist; however, instead of this you'd only have a gray level 279
specialist.  The reason is since the blue specialist has a doubled level, and
the gray one has not had his level doubled the new gray specialist also does
not have a doubled level...  (Formula is Blue/2 + Gray = New Gray).
This isn't necessarly a bad thing, you cannot subdue blue specialist's again.
Their is no disadvantage to adding blue and gray specialists together, that is
after you resubdue them.  The disadvantage is in losing the abilities of the
blue one.
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2.4 Weapon/magic ranks: how to get the best bang for your time
A weapon rank is how powerful that weapon will be for a particular character,
for ever level you have in a weapon you will receive a general 3% bonus to all
stats on that weapon... if you had rank 3 it would be 9%, rank 9 would be 27%,
etc.
Weapons get experience points added to their rank for each and every time you
use them, when it reaches certain points the weapon rank will level up giving
you new abilities and power with that type of weapon.
Magic ranks work in much the same way; however, you can use them anytime
you want provided you have access to that magic spell, they also gain a 3%
boost to their damage for each level they have.  Magic spells are learned
by simply gaining levels on your character OR by using a pupil who has that
spell, placing the pupil next to their mentor and then using the spell on the
mentor until the mentor reaches level 1 with that spell (after that it is
always on the mentor as a spell).
Weapon special ranks are the special abilities unlocked from reaching certain
weapon levels, these work exactly the same as magic ranks but give the added
bonus of also raising the weapon rank when they are used (every level again
adds 3% to the weapon special damage).  These are special attacks that you
can only use when you are equipped with a weapon of that type.  You learn
these by leveling up the Weapon rank OR by using a pupil who has that weapon
special ability, placing the pupil next to their mentor and then using the
special ability on the mentor until the mentor reaches level 1 with that
special  ability (after that it is always on the mentor as a spell).
Different character types have different affinities for each kind of weapon,
for instance the ultimate human class Majin get a S rank in each weapon type,
this means that they will gain more experience per attack with that weapon
compared to classes that do not have a S rank in that type.
The ranks go in ascending order (worst to best) from,
E -> D -> C -> B -> A -> S.
E being the worst, S being the best.
These include are Axes, Bows, Fists, Guns, Spears, Staves (Staff) and Swords.
Magic on the other hand does NOT have affinities for any character, everyone
will gain magic levels from using the magical spell at equal rates.  The
same is true of the weapon special skills.
To quickly gain weapon levels make sure that you are using a character with
a high affinity for the weapon, and then add armsmasters to taste, their does
seem to be a cap on the armsmasters, thanks to djpubba for making me have to
recheck my figures by telling me his.  I'd be tempted to go with 2400 as
the max myself.
S = 2400
A = 2400-2600
B = 2400-2800
C = 2400-3000
D = 2400-3200
E = 2400-3400
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2.5 The best and second best stuff
Due to a EXTREMLY high volume of questions on what the best and second
best equipment in this game is, I've gone and done what is crazy to obtain
these things.
The rank given to an item is where that item fits in its list, generally
speaking each type of item gets 40 different ranks of power, I say
generally speaking because this game enjoys being unpredictable, and likes
taking the road less traveled.  Also the item at rank 40 will be green
in color and will be considered Unique (same as legendary its just to
signify the ultimate item of that type).  I'm pretty sure that no items
exceed Rank 40.
To obtain MOST rank 40 items you need to obtain a legendary rank 39 one
go down to the 100th floor and steal the rank 40 ultimate from the Item God 2
at the bottom.
The best way to obtain a legendary rank 39 item is to steal it from the enemy
(so keep those eyes peeled and a high level Space Pirate in the wings).  Or
another method I've tried is to abuse the Prinny Day/Bonus Gague Boost from
the Dark Assembly in order to get high level legendary items from the Bonus
menu after clearing a battle map.  (It's pretty effective provided you build
a few level 400+ Prinny's to do the dirty work, Prinny Day increases the
power of items obtained after battle; however, you can ONLY bring Prinny's
into that battle).  Just hope to see whatever item your after, Rank 39 items
seem to spawn best on levels that give a bonus of 50 or higher.  Or high
level Item World maps would work wonders too.
For the monster weapons Nemesis, and Nemesis Mark-II they must be stolen
from Baal, and Uber Prinny Baal, level 4000 and 6000 respectivly.
These Weapons are at level 100 to begin with and as such CANNOT be powered
up in the item world.
The same is true of Uber Prinny Baal's Prinny Suit.  It also is automatically
level 100.
You can get the Super Robo Suit from two ways, (it is the BEST peice of
equipment at level 100 it boosts 18100 to all stats, more to defense.
It also grants +3 movement and +30 jump) these methods are either steal it
from Baal's first form, or go into a legendary Nirvana suit of armor and
steal it from the Item God 2 at the bottom.
You can get the Hyperdrive from one of two methods, either go into any
legendary rank 39 or greater item and kill the Item God 2 at the bottom, or
go into a legendary Accelerator and steal it from the Item God 2 at the
bottom.  This is the BEST movement item granting 99 move and 99 jump; as
well as, instantenous movement anywhere, including over impossible 20 space
gaps.
Obtaining a rank 40 item is worth it, they have by far the best stats
and for weapons its more than just damage for example, the Yoshitesuna has
other bonuses aside from adding 18100 to all stats (more to attack), it also
has other bonuses, it adds 2 to movement and 20 to jump; as well as, a nice
range attack (5 spaces).
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Item Type                 Rank                         Item Name
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Armor ------------------- 39 ------------------------- Nirvana
------------------- 40 ------------------------- Super Robo Suit
Prinny Baal's ----------- 39 ------------------------- Prinny Suit
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Axe --------------------- 39 ------------------------- Durandal
--------------------- 40 ------------------------- Apocalypse
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Bow --------------------- 39 ------------------------- Artemis
--------------------- 40 ------------------------- Galaxy
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Fist -------------------- 39 ------------------------- God's Hand
-------------------- 40 ------------------------- Ultimus
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Gun --------------------- 39 ------------------------- Infernal Gun
--------------------- 40 ------------------------- Etoile
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Monster ----------------- 39 ------------------------- Lucifer Force
----------------- 40 ------------------------- Nyanko Soul
Baal's  ----------------- 39 ------------------------- Nemesis
Prinny Baal's ----------- 39 ------------------------- Nemesis Mk-II
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Sword ------------------- 39 ------------------------- Cosmic Blade
------------------- 40 ------------------------- Yoshitesuna
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Spear ------------------- 39 ------------------------- Longinus
------------------- 40 ------------------------- Glorious
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Staff ------------------- 39 ------------------------- Galactic Staff
------------------- 40 ------------------------- Omniscient Staff
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Other (Shoes?) ---------- 39 ------------------------- Accelerator
------------------- 40 ------------------------- Hyperdrive
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3.0 Transmigration
Transmigration is simply put killing your character and using their soul,
reincarnating it into a new body with new abilities.
The first time you use Transmigration you will not get any bonus above the
points that you would get anyway.  However, if you transmigrate your
character a second time you will get a stat bonus according to how many
levels/stats you had lost to the transmigration before...  In my case my
second trasnmigration added 30 points to allocate, as opposed to my first
one having only 10.
When you transmigrate; however, you will get automatic bonus points
displayed in blue on top of the base (yellow) points that cannot be
re-allocated, these are a bonus determined from how high your stats were
PRIOR to the transmigration.  You can add the bonus points on top of them.
I am sure that the yellow ones are base points because the bonus points are
added onto the blue ones.
Also the higher a character's initial stats the higher their stats will
grow... It seems that the base stats are increased by the Aptitude section
of the Status screen,
Aptitude ranges from 50% to 150%, and is simply how much of a stat that that
particular character will gain each and every time they level.  Very few
characters have 100% or higher to everything.
(for instance Laharl gets 100% to everything, so his base stats will be
added to each level increase, if he had 10 to start at the next level he'd
have 20 then 30 etc), whereas, others get 50% or 150% so if they had 10