Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories/Battle basics: Difference between revisions

The Base Map for all intents and purposes is your "headquarters".  You can buy items here, arrange your troops, nearly anything outside of battle is done in the base map.  The first and most-often seen base map in Disgaea 2 is Holt Village.  Other base maps include Innocent Towns in the Item World, or the Colosseum in Episodes 6 and 7.

You can bring up this menu anytime you're in the base map by pressing {{psx|T}}.

There are three stores on every base map: Rosenqueen Weapon Shop, Rosenqueen Armor Shop, and Rosenqueen General Store, each uses HL as currency.  As expected, the Weapon Shop sells weapons (characters can only hold one weapon).  The Armor shop sells defensive items (characters can hold up to three armors) and other items that boost stats.  Power Belts, Glasses, Shoes, and Weights can be added to the armor shop by passing certain Dark Assembly Bills.  The General Store sells usable items that can restore HP or SP and remove status abnormalities in the midst of battle.  When buying equipable items, you have the option of trying them on and comparing their stats to your characters' current equipment.

The [[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories/Dark Assembly#Dark Assembly|Dark Assembly]] and [[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories/Item World|Item World]] can also be accessed through the Base Map.  The Post Officer can be spoken with to accept [[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories/Dark Court|Subpoenas]] needed to earn Felonies.  Local characters can also be spoken with for advise or just random conversations.  The Dimensional Gatekeeper can be spoken with to enter the main stages, and the Dark World Dimensional Gatekeeper can be talked to to access [[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories/Dark World Walkthrough|Dark World stages]].

* '''Special''' - Perform a selected Special Move on the targeted unit or area.  More about about these moves can be found in the [[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories/Special Moves|Special Moves]] section of this guide.  Like regular attacks, Specials will not be performed until selecting the "Execute" or "End Turn" commands from the main Battle Menu.

Move can only be performed once per turn.  Attack, Special, Defend, Lift / Throw, Ascend, OR Item can only be used once per turn.  Equipment and Status can be used anytime in the same turn, but Equipment cannot be selected after throwing or attacking.

Certain actions can be canceled by pressing {{psx|C}}.  Move, Defend, and Lift can be canceled anytime.  Attack or Special can be canceled if you have not yet selected 'Execute' and performed the attack yet.  Throw, Ascend, and Item cannot be canceled.  Equipment cannot be canceled, but it can essentially be redone by re-equipping the same item.

If the target is changed during 'Execute', the Combo will break.  However, if you are using area-of-effect attacks, the combo will continue as long as one of the targets in the affected area was targeted in the last part of the combo.  "Miss" attacks will not break the combo, but will in fact add onto it like a regular attacks.

Axes boast the highest ATK and most powerful Special Moves of all weapons, but also have the lowest HIT rate of all, as it's standard for Axes to decrease HIT.  Axe attacks have a high critical rate, and have a chance of lowering the target's DEF.  Perhaps the biggest disadvantage of Axes is that ALL of their specials can only have a single target, and all but one require the attacker to be adjacent to their target.  While this would normally be very efficient against incredibly strong foes, an Axe's low HIT would make them likely to miss against those of higher levels.

Whenever a character Creates a New Character via the [[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories/Dark Assembly|Dark Assembly]], the newly created character automatically becomes a pupil of the creator, and the creator becomes a master of the created.  The relationships of Master/Pupils can be seen in chatacters' status screens. Special Classes, and the three generic characters handed to you at the beginning of Episode 1 (Male Fighter, Healer, and Red Skull), are the only units who cannot have masters.

The most obvious advantage to Master-Pupil Relationships is passing on learned spells to the Master (aka "leeching").  To do this, position a pupil who has learned a spell adjacent to their Master on a battlefield.  The Master will then be able to use the Pupil's spells, but the Master will only have their Lv0 incarnations, which cannot be used unless the Master is adjacent to their pupil.  If you have a Master case the spell enough times when they're adjacent to their pupil, the Master will learn the Pupil's spell when it reachs Lv1.  After that, they can basically use it as if it was their own spell.