Nippon Ichi (Disgaea, Makai Kingdom, etc.)

The Chara World is a place you want to go to permanently apply a buff to that character. The 5000 mana is how much many you need in order get the upgrade that you are applying for. You will notice however that you don't need have the 5000 mana upfront to end the character world. That's because the character you are in will get mana from the destroyed Geoblocks and enemies killed. And destroying all the Geoblocks on a floor will reduce the mana cost of the upgrade by 1/10 I think. Not to mention destroying Geoblocks has a chance of making a Duplicate of your character to show up. Killing him with the puppy paw stick and you may get lucky and steal an item from it. And there are 2 more added benefits of completing the character world. 1 is permanent affinity increase by 1% for each cleared floor (like how mages have an Int affinity of 130% they could end up with 132% affinity). The increases are small but after multiple go rounds you could end up with a character with a max (I think) affinity of 255% which means they double the stats of anything they equip. 2, the buff is also forever so even if you reincarnate, they will keep movement buffs etc. Hope that helps.

I am not sure if it's the same way as in D3, but in D3 I am pretty sure the duplicate appears randomly. I found it on runs where I cleared every geo block and runs where I just rushed to the end. (I was experimenting with it at the time and didn't know about the geo clear bonus)

Also, depending on the character, you may not want to steal from the dup, as s/he has the exact same equipment as the character at the time. So if you got a strong item, but only one of it, you might try stealing. But if you are training up a unit who shares most of it's equipment with other units (because you have so many of them), stealing might be unnecessary.

edited 27th May '12 10:33:50 AM by Otherarrow

Nuts, so I probably will clear everything then. Man...that's timekilling.

Luckily though, I discovered thiefs can make bombs. prepair that to be spammed. If I can't pass that skill on (symbol or inherit) and if monsters can bounce bombs...I'm gonna be needing a lot of thieves.

How do you unlock the seemingly random aplututde and evility blocks?

Anyway, I don't know anything about the pps, so bah.

Also, it seemed like val had gained 5000 mana when I was done. He had less then 1k when I started. It seemed like he gained 5k at the end of the run

And when's the best time to do an char world run. Before reincarnation, fresh reincarnated (meaning everything's level one and easy) or middle of the road. With those reincarnation costs, I'm fearing and having second thoughts about reincarnating without a plan.

edited 27th May '12 2:07:47 PM by Nicktendonick

Do character world runs at when the character in question is level 100 with both character world bills passed if possible (I don't remember the both of them off the top of my head). With both bills past, enemies will be in the level 500-800 area meaning you get 1000-1500 mana a kill (guessing here since I'm not sure if they changed the mana formulas). Unless of course all your characters are level 9999 by which then do it at 1000 to increase the mana per kill. Also make sure you do not use the character you are worlding in. You don't need them leveling up and in turn leveling all the enemies up in the world. Thieves are a bad idea. Since bombs tend to be weird and I don't know the damage calculation, your better of spaming 3x3 magic, big bang, Dimension Slash, etc, to the clear the floors fast.

So, now I have Flonne and Laharl. Next up is Zetta.
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How in the flying hell am I going to even approach him on this cockamamie map?

Abuse his ability and the heart cannon and the fight will be much easier.

What the fuck is a heart cannon!?
-is playing Disgaea 2-

Yeah, D2 doesn't have anything equivelent to the Heart Cannon.

The Heart Cannon is a Evil Symbol in Disgaea 4. When someone attacks an enemy, and the member of the Evil Symbol can attack the enemy with a physical attack, they will attack the enemy after the allied unit attack. Even if they have already attacked that turn. I want to say there is a limit to how many times a unit can attack through the Heart Cannon, but I think I've had a Heart Cannon enemy attack enemies next to them multiple times in a turn because other units were also attacking them.

I don't recall if the first attacking unit also has to be part of Heart Cannon, but I don't think so.

Heart Cannon is great for going through the story stages and beating bosses and such, but kinda bleck for grinding (as it is very possible for the Heart Cannon member to steal EXP from other units by killing enemies if you put them in the wrong place) However, Heart Cannon attacks can be countered (and this means a unit can get into a counter off against the same enemy twice in one turn)

edited 27th May '12 5:24:38 PM by Otherarrow

Funny thing with the Heart Cannon - I have Flonne and Rozalin do their Heart Cannon attacks from a distance, and I don't know what caused it, but their amount of Heart Cannon attacks just kept stacking until they hit the cap on amount of attacks allowed on the queue.

edited 27th May '12 5:42:40 PM by burnpsy

Yeah, the Heart Cannon doesn't require the member to be adjacent. If they can attack them with a normal attack, they will, even if they are on the other side of the map. I've had Valvatorez kill people I didn't want him to many many times because he was equipped with a spear (still is actually. Long story there) and ended up diagonal or two spaces away (and thus within the spear's range) from the enemy I wanted another unit to kill.

edited 27th May '12 5:45:30 PM by Otherarrow

For the longest time I forgot that my archer was in the Heart Cannon and thought she was just killcrazy.

So yeah, Zetta keeps raping my shit. I dropped the level back to normal, but the guy can still kill Adell and Laharl in two and one hits respectively.

I thought you were talking about Disgaea 4. I forgot Zetta was in Disgaea 2. Sorry (>.<)

Zetta is in all of the Disgaeas...

Originally, he was just 2 and 4. When the remakes happened, he showed up in all the others. Since I don't have the PSP versions but the PS 2 and PS 3 versions (with no DLC) then I immediately thought of post story no dlc.

Double posting for Neptunia V information. Izawa is at it again and more screen shots. Also stay tuned. The guys in the Nippon Ichi forums believe a trailer will be out soon. I'll keep my eyes open.

I'm looking forward to seeing Nepnep V in motion. I wonder if they fixed Mk2's terribad framerate.

I think it's getting more and more confirmed that our Real Life Uncles want to butt in on the all-girl action as either summons or cameos

Neptunia V site updated with story added and two screen shots. One of Purple Heart◊. One of Iris Heart◊.

Game, stop making me want you. My list of things I want but probably won't get is getting big again.

...And Neptunia is a bit of a guilty pleasure from appearance alone.

edited 6th Jun '12 8:08:16 PM by Otherarrow

Nothing new there. :/

Until someone translates the story and sees if there's any new info there, that is.

So I've been playing around with Disgaea 4's Pirate Tournament.

Some delightful player has created a Desco with five digits in ATK (but low stats otherwise), and somehow set it loose among the low level pirates. Evility shenanigans, perhaps? But "how" isn't as important as "why." Who does that?

Disgaea 1: So I am this close to the magical Cave Of Ordeals 3 grinding spot. I have one single question: Can the Prinny God ever spawn with a legendary testament and what are the odds?

Also I forget: Do spells ever become useless in this game? Because I spent several hours getting Tera spells on my (Currently Galaxy) mage.

edited 6th Jun '12 8:21:16 PM by stevebat

As long as your spellcaster has the INT to use them, spells will always be of service.

...I don't know much about D1's postgame. D1 was one of the games where I ended it after I beat it.

I thought you could read Japanese burn.