Disgaea RPG: How To Improve Your Characters ( Game News )
Leveling
First and foremost, leveling up your characters is the best way of quickly boosting their stats. Each level-up gives a small boost to all stats except speed, and the final level cap is 9999. That may seem like a huge number that would take years to reach, but you’ll often be leveling up 30-40 levels at a time in the EXP Gate.
The EXP Gate is the most efficient place for quickly leveling up your characters, but it can only be done a certain number of times per day. Be sure to always challenge the highest stage you can comfortably complete, and pass the EXP boost bill in the Dark Assembly for even more EXP.
When you’ve already run your EXP Gate stages and are out of AP, don’t forget about the Item World as a way to gain more EXP. We’ll take a more in-depth look at that later.
Skills and Weapon Mastery
Skills are how a character actually fights, and are split between generic weapon skills and unique character skills. Characters learn new skills at levels 1, 50, and 200, but Nether Enhancing can also unlock unique skills.
Generic weapon skills are dependent on the weapon the character wields. Weapon skills are learned at levels 4, 9, 15, 22, and 30. Unlike unique skills, weapon skills are not exclusive to one character. For example, two characters that use swords will both learn the skill Blade Rush.
Skills are leveled up by using them in battle or by using a Skill Book. Increasing a skill’s level will have it doing more damage and costing less SP.
Weapon Mastery is basically the level of proficiency a character has with a certain weapon. While every character can equip whatever weapon you want, each character has a weapon they do the best with. For example, Killia’s Forte is fists, but he could equip a sword or bow.
A small amount of Weapon Mastery experience is granted after finishing a battle, much like regular EXP, but it can also be gained by using Weapon Statues. These are normally gained from events and will grant a certain amount of Weapon Mastery experience.
Reincarnation
To unlock your character’s level cap, you will have to Reincarnate them. Reincarnation can only be done when the character reaches their current level cap. Additionally, some Reincarnation specific items will be required. These can be found in the Dark Gates, so be sure to do those as well every day.
Reincarnating a character resets their level back to 1, but increases their level cap by 100 each Reincarnation. Additionally, the process boosts the character’s stat and EXP gain per level, meaning they will level up faster, and gain more stats per level up.
Mana
Mana is gained from Reincarnating. Every Reincarnation grants 100 Mana to be spent on either Cheats or Weapon Mastery. Cheats are essentially small boosts to a character’s main stat. These can be increased indefinitely, as long as you have Mana to do so. The Mana cost for upgrading a Cheat stat increases each time you do it.
Mana can also be used for increasing the Weapon Mastery cap. Doing so will let you level that Weapon Mastery higher and unlock new, more powerful skills.
Awakening
Characters in Disgaea RPG all have a star value. Naturally, a 2 Star character is stronger than a 1 Star character, and so on. The highest level you can get from Summoning is 4 Star, but this can be increased through Awakening. Awakening a character increases their base stats by a large amount.
Awakening isn’t exclusive to 4 Star characters, meaning any character in the game can rise to the maximum of 6 Star. You can raise your favorite characters regardless of Star rarity, but it’s important to note that natural 4 Star characters are better overall, with higher base stats and more powerful abilities.
To Awaken a character, you first need five equal Star level characters. For example, to raise Killia, who is a 4 Star, to 5 Star, you will need five other 4 Star characters. This is where Prinnies come in. You can acquire them from story stages, normally at 1 Star. You can combine these 1 Star Prinnies all the way up to 4 Star, allowing you to Awaken your other characters.
Nether Enhance
Nether Enhancing is one of the best ways to increase a character’s power, but also the most costly. To Nether Enhance a character, you will need a duplicate copy of that character or an N.E. Prinny. A character can be Nether Enhanced to N.E. 10, and each level will grant either a big stat boost or an exclusive new ability.
Nether Enhancing is very costly, and N.E. Prinnies should be used carefully, as they are quite hard to come by. Reserve using them for either Limited characters or your absolute favorites.
Equipment
Characters can equip four pieces of gear; one weapon and three armor. As mentioned above, each character has a weapon that is their Forte, but armor is a little more customizable. There are a few different categories outside of armor, including orbs, shoes, glasses, and belts
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