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Overview:

Difficulty: Community Vote: 8.5/10

My Opinion: 4/10

Time to Platinum: >100 hours. Significantly less if you already have an advanced save file

Offline trophies: 51 (42(B) 5(S) 3(G) 1(P))

Online trophies: 0

Playthroughs needed: 1

Missable trophies: None, but Cinco de Panelo is easier to do in a story mission that you cannot repeat

Bugged trophies: None that I know of

Cheats disable trophies?: As demon-like as it is, there's no cheating

Retroactive trophies?: Trophies aren't retroactive, but you can use old save data to get a head start on the leveling process needed before you can attempt most of the trophies.

 

Road Map

1. Complete the main story:

Your first goal should be to complete the main story. Make a point to get Cinco De Panelo in the Chapter 3 mission "Board Conspiracy" or it will be much harder to get later. You might as well also get ABC's of Hitting before you finish chapter 4. There are a few others you can get during the main story, but there is nothing else pressing.

 

2. Level Level Level:

I've made a mini guide here that will give you some specifics on leveling your characters to 9999. It is most important that Mao gets to this point, as the fastest way to get a strong party is by capturing monsters (also described in that post), and your ability to do so depends on Mao. You'll also need a few of your own characters leveled to this point until you can capture the monsters.

 

3. Collect Illegal Tickets:

After you've leveled, you'll want to begin hunting pirates in the item world. Whenever you defeat a group of Pirates, they will drop an illegal ticket. You can only get 1 per type of pirate. There are also illegal ticket vendors found randomly in the item world who will sell a total of 20 tickets. All in all you'll need at least 34 tickets. Once you have them, complete 35 X-dimension levels to get the Chicken Hat. By now you'll have gotten many, but not all, of the pirate trophies.

 

4. A monster of a party:

Pass all the stronger enemy bills you can and go to the Land of Carnage item world in the strongest item you have. Get to the floors above 90, collecting items in mystery rooms along the way, and start capturing monsters. You'll need at least ten, some of which should be war slugs. Once you have them, pass all the weaken enemy bills. These monsters should be strong enough on their own to kill everything except the Baal Pirates, so you want to run through high level Land of Carnage item worlds looking for good equipment for them and then level this equipment.

 

5. Finish the pirates:

Get a weak legendary item to floor 90 in the Land of Carnage item world, exit, and then save. Run the last 10 floors looking for pirates, quitting and re-loading each time until you have all the pirate trophies. The amount of time this takes is based entirely on luck.

 

6. Buy the Hero Prinny DLC:

Just do it. It's a dollar and it will save you hours of work. Use him to get the 10 Billion Damage Man.

 

6. (Alt) You're a masochist:

Too cheap to buy Hero Prinny? Then complete the epilogue to get Flonne and use her to get 10 Billion Damage Man. This will take a long time.

 

7. Cleanup:

By now there are still plenty of trophies left. Each of them deal with some small specific action that would probably never come up over the course of normal play, yet are not that difficult to stage. Follow the steps in the guide if any of them are giving you trouble.

 

Thanks go out to Attack__Cat who made some good suggestions.

 

Trophies:

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Item Warrior:(B)

Beat floors 1 to 100 in an Item World without exiting

Only legendary items (flashing gold) have 100 floors. You should designate a character as a runner, probably a moth monster or a masked hero (unlocked with a level 45 gunner and thief) as these classes are not blocked by enemies. You should probably level up their movement speed once or twice in the class world and equip them with 3 pairs of shoes (possibly also leveled in their respective item worlds to each have +1 movement, for a total of 2 per shoe). You will also want a martial artist with at least Triple Strike and Final Arts.

 

The strategy is to bypass all enemies on each level and go straight to the gate with the runner. If he can't make it, help him out by throwing him. If there is a gatekeeper, throw your martial artist and use the appropriate skill to move the gatekeeper off of the portal.

 

If you are a low level, you should use a low level item. Since the item world is random, it is possible that on rare occasions you won't be able to move the gatekeeper and if the collective strength of your party can't kill him you're screwed. Also, be wary of mystery gates on higher floors. Some of them can take you into battles with strong enemies. If you win the battle the item will level up, but if you can't, wait two turns and you'll be booted out of the battle.

 

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Trophy Shop Trophy:(S)

Get a trophy from a Trophy Shop on the 90th floor

You can find the Trophy Shop in a mystery room on floors 90+ of an Item world. It's a square room with a thief-type character in the center. Talk to her to get the trophy. This room looks very similar to the one that gives you a Mr. Gency Exit, so don't leave without checking.

 

The most efficient way to get the trophy is to make a save after clearing 90 floors of an item and reload if you find nothing on the last 10.

 

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Carnagenist:(G)

Beat floors 1 to 100 in a Land of Carnage Item World without exiting.

The same strategy as Item Warrior will work here, just make sure you're in the Land of Carnage when you enter the item world. To unlock the Land of Carnage, check my post here.

 

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Defeat Wise Innocents(B)

Defeat Wise Innocents in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat UFO?(B)

Defeat UFO? in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Eryngi Pirates(B)

Defeat Eryngi Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Donnax2 Pirates (B)

Defeat Donnax2 Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Lucky Pirates(B)

Defeat Lucky Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Cheerates(B)

Defeat the Cheerates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Cowboy Pirates(B)

Defeat the Cowboy Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Asian Pirates(B)

Defeat the Asian Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Sports Pirates(B)

Defeat the Sports Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Pirate Cleaners(B)

Defeat the Pirate Cleaners in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Ghost Pirates(B)

Defeat the Ghost Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Z Pirates(B)

Defeat Z Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Horizon Pirates(B)

Defeat the Horizon Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat UFO Pirates(?)(B)

Defeat the UFO Pirates(?) in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Pirate Club(B)

Defeat the Pirate Club in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Garden Pirates(B)

Defeat the Garden Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Boney Pirates(B)

Defeat the Boney Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Kit Cat Pirates(B)

Defeat the Kit Cat Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Element Pirates(B)

Defeat the Element Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

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Defeat Shinsengumi(B)

Defeat the Shinsengumi in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Red Pirates(B)

Defeat the Red Pirates in the Item World.

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat Prinny Pirates(S)

Defeat the Prinny Pirates in the Item World

See Defeat 10 Gents Pirates.

 

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Defeat 10 Gents Pirates(S)

Defeat the 10 Gents Pirates in the Item World

In the item world there is a chance that at the end of the enemy phase a new group of enemies (pirates) will appear. They are all high level, so don't even look for them until your characters are maxed out. Usually if they do not appear after the first enemy turn it's not worth waiting; move on to the next floor. Also, you'll want to be looking for them on high floors (60+) as they have a better chance of appearing. In general, you'll fight harder versions of pirates in more powerful items, so you should stay in weak ones. At the end of the day whether or not you find them comes down to luck. You need to be in the Land of Carnage on floors above 90 to find Prinny, 10 Gents, and Baal pirates (though any of the pirates could appear under these conditions).

 

One strategy if you're not worried about illegal tickets is to get a weak legendary item to level 90. Exit the item world and save. Keep running the last 10 floors by reloading your game until you get all the pirate trophies. The pirates will be relatively weak ("relatively" of course meaning stats in the hundred thousands).

 

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Defeat Baal Pirates:(S)

Defeat Baal Pirates in the item world.

I made this separate because the Baal Pirates are extraordinary. They will appear very rarely in Land of Carnage item worlds on floors 90+ and they are MANLY. In a very weak item, the 6 Baal Pirates could take multiple attacks from an A rank skill with 6 million attack. They are far beyond any of the other pirates. A useful strategy I came up with was to send two characters to block the pirates before they can leave the ship. When they use their powerful AoE skill, they will almost certainly hit each other, making the fight a lot easier. Leave a few powerful ranged attackers (at least 3 spaces behind your blockers) with the Naive Glasses you got from completing X-Dimension levels (they give 100% accuracy, see Item duping here for how to get more than 1) to bombard the Baals in the meantime. Dragons (DLC) or War Slugs are good choices, as they can be captured within Land of Carnage item worlds with abnormally high stats (see about capturing monsters here). You should also try to make use of any helpful geo effects on the map (invinciblity, for example).

 

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Treasure Raider:(B)

Get all the treasure boxes in the Treasure Room in the Item World.

In your item world runs you'll probably come across this room. There will be a bunch of columns each with a treasure chest on top. You'll have to jump to reach most of them. Note that Mao's height of jumping is related to his level. There is also a club called the Birdmen Watchers, that, if Mao is a member, allows him to jump much higher. Without Birdmen Watchers, the room can be cleared at level ~1200. For a few of the pillars you won't be able to make it to the top of them; you'll have to mash X while you're in the air and hopefully be able to grab the chest. Naturally, if you have Birdmen Watchers, this can be done earlier. See Obey the Cat God to find out how to unlock this club.

 

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Obey the Cat God:(B)

Talk to the Cat God at the top of the Treasure Tower.

In the item world, you will find a room with a tower of boxes in the center surrounded by chests and a cat on the very top. After encountering this room once, you can submit the Birdmen Watchers topic in the homeroom. With Birdmen Watchers and Mao at level ~1500 you can just barely talk to the cat god.

 

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Reverse Bandit:(B)

Get all the Reverse Pirating treasure boxes.

See Reverse Viking.

 

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Reverse Robber:(S)

Steal from all the Innocents while Reverse Pirating

See Reverse Viking.

 

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Reverse Viking:(G)

Steal from all the Innocents and treasure boxes while Reverse Pirating.

Once you defeat a group of pirates and every other enemy on the map, you'll capture a pirate ship. You can talk to the item world guide and choose to reverse pirate once you've done this. The ship you use determines how many Innocents/Treasures you can steal and how long you have to do it. You'll want to use the War Galleon, which can be gotten from a number of the pirates.

 

 

 

First, complete the item world of a crap item. You will need:

  • A team of 2 cheerleaders, one who can buff throwing range for a large group and the other to buff movement distance (+6 on each of these skills should be ample). A cheerleader will have access to both of these skills by level 100.
  • A few slimes: level is unimportant, just make sure they have enough Def and HP so that they don't die. You want to use slimes, as they have the maximum bounce distance of all monsters.
  • A full set of equipment that increases movement (your runner's equipment should be fine). There is a trick that lets you switch equipment in and out as long as you don't act. You'll be swapping the boots in and out of each character to maximize their movement.

Now, once you complete the 30 levels of the item's world, choose to reverse pirate on it's 20th floor. If the map looks like a pain, quit and reload. Buff your party and set the slimes up so they can bounce to each other and onto the ship. You may want to supplement your slimes with other monsters if you find the range is too much. Send your party out and throw all of the treasure chests, innocents, and level spheres onto your slimes. With a little bit of luck, you'll be able to get everything on your ship in the three turn limit.

 

Do not kill all of the enemies before your ship is loaded, as this ends the map prematurely.

 

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Who Wants to be a Milliondamagaire:(B)

Do over 1,000,000 damage.

See The Ten Billion Damage Man.

 

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100,000,000 Damage Pyramid:(B)

Do over 100,000,000 damage.

See The Ten Billion Damage Man.

 

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The Ten Billion Damage Man:(G)

Do over 10,000,000,000 damage.

Note that for each of these the damage must be done to one unit in one attack (you can hit multiple units, but you must hit one of them for X damage to qualify for the respective trophy). The damage can be dealt to you by an enemy and the trophies will unlock.

 

The million and hundred million damage can be done relatively easy with high stats. You can boost yourself with various abilities such as Atk+50% geoblocks in Chapter 5:Rotten Grudge, Saphire's innate ability to buff males by standing next to them, cheerleaders, combo multipliers (see Combo No.255), brave heart and so on. Still, you won't reach 10 billion with just this.

 

The best way to do this will be through reverse healing. You'll need to have completed the postgame story missions to the point where you've recruited Flonne. Level her to 9999 and teach her evilty healing paradise to 8 level 1 cheerleaders (400,000 mana each). Make sure you have a high level monster and put it in the same club as Flonne (preferably the Shura Support group, which unlocks after you defeat Baal in the Land of Carnage). Max Flonne's "Power of Love" and equip her and the monster to the max; the goal is going to be to get Flonne's Res with the magichanged monster as high as possible.

 

Head to X-Dimension Chapter 1: Strongest Crossroads. This map has a reverse healing geo effect; bring out all of your cheerleaders to boost Flonne. You can make Flonne even stronger by utilizing a combo boost (you can use this opportunity to get the Combo No. 255 trophy). Once you've got the combo boost high enough, magichange, and use Power of Love on a cheerleader. If your Res is high enough, with all the other boosts you should be able to break 10 billion.

 

If you've picked up the Hero Prinny DLC you can teach him the evilty Hell's Finest, which while increasing his evade makes him take 10x damage. For the 10 billion trophy, pass all of the stronger enemy bills and go fight the Baal in the Land of Carnage. Send one character to cast brave heart on Baal, then send Hero Prinny the next turn. Baal should do over 10 billion IF he uses his ranged attack. You can keep Prinny just outside of his movement range to help ensure that he uses this skill. I highly recommend this strategy if the DLC is available in your area, as it takes minutes while the reverse healing strategy takes hours.

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Attack of the Counter 10:(B)

Counter Attack over 10 times.

Choose two characters with base counter (the red crossed swords in the status menu) of 3. Use the class world to increase this value twice for each character (55000 mana each), then equip each of them with a fist-type weapon (which will add 2 to counter). Finally, level a cheerleader to where she learns Counter Attack up and upgrade this skill at the evilties vendor twice. Equip the two fighters such that they won't be able to kill each other easily (high Def, low Atk/Spd) or find a stage with invincibility panels. Use counter attack up on them, which will raise counter to a max of 9. Have them attack each other. It may take awhile for you to get 10 counters, just be patient. Heal the characters as necessary. Consider getting this trophy while getting Combo No. 255.

 

Alternatively, if you want to, you can buy DLC character Zetta, whose base counter is 9, then go into the class world and have him fight his own dropout. Another DLC character, Revya, has an evilty that gives a 100% chance to counter if HP is below 25%. The usefulness of this should be obvious.

 

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Cinco de Panelo:(B)

Clear Geo Panels with 5 color changes in a row.

In Chapter 3, there is a mission called Board Conspiracy (where you fight a bunch of Raspberyls). You start next to a blue geo block. Place this on a red square and destroy it and you should get a chain of exactly five. You will be unable to return to this mission once you beat it unless you start a new cycle.

 

If you're past this mission your best hope is to go into the item world and search for a room where you can clear with 5 color changes. Note that you have to clear ALL geo panels, even if you clear after a 5 color combo, if there are still other colors remaining you won't get the trophy.

 

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10 Block Combo:(B)

Clear Geo Blocks with 10 color changes in a row.

Go to Chapter 2: Childhood Memories. You're goal is going to be to create a line of geo blocks stacked two high in the following pattern:

 

Red Yel Red Yel Red Yel Red Yel Red Yel

Yel Red Yel Red Yel Red Yel Red Yel Red

 

You'll need destroy or move blocks with monks in order to lift blocks of the same color that touch. Finally, start the chain by throwing a red block at the base of the right side.

 

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Consult Your Physician:(B)

Play for over 10 hours without stopping.

You can leave your game on, or play straight through. For it to unlock, you have to save after the time period elapses. You can quit to the title screen but do not exit the game.

 

Some reports indicate that game time is slower than real time, and that the save may or may not be necessary.

 

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ABC's of Hitting:(B)

Get hit by ABC gum.

In Chapters 1-4 and the Epilogue, there will be a Prinny Statue in the Academy. Walk behind it and talk to it nine times.

 

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10 Piece Combo Meal:(B)

Defeat an enemy with 10 combos or more.

You'll want to have five weak Baciels, which will be unlocked by the time you beat the game. They possess the ability to attack twice if they haven't moved in a round. Equip them so they have high def and position them around an enemy. Wait one turn, then have them all attack at once along with a very powerful character to finish the combo. Each Baciel attack after the first will add 2 to the combo so 5 should be enough, but you can bring a few more in case one dies. It is imperative that the Baciel's attack is low enough not to kill the enemy until after the combo meter is at 10.

 

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Jumptastic!:(B)

Jump inside Evil Academy 100 times.

Fairly self-explanatory, just jump like a maniac. It will probably unlock even if you don't want it to.

 

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The Ten Towers:(B)

Defeat an enemy with a 10 story tower.

Once you have 10 characters, get into a battle and line up all of your characters in front of an enemy. Have the second from the end lift the last guy, then have the third from the end lift up the stack of two and so on until you have a stack of 10. Then attack the enemy. Choose enemies that will be weak enough to kill in one such attack.

 

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Axel's Rose:(B)

Find Axel in the Item World.

Axel will randomly appear in a mystery room on floors 61 and above in the item world.

 

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Persuade by Force:(B)

Force the Student Council to approve your Home Room request.

Once you suggest a bill in homeroom, there is a good chance the council will decline. If they do and you are still a low level, you will likely be stomped if you try and take on the level 900+ representatives. There is a way to get through in this situation. Bribe at least the highest level representative until you're sure he'll vote yay. After initiating the persuade by force, lift a representative who voted nay (red health bar) and throw him into the higher level who voted yay (yellow health bar), or the other way around, it doesn't matter. The monsters will merge and whichever had the higher level will remain with the combined level. If this was one who voted yay, it will maintain neutrality in the battle. Remove all the nays in this way and you'll win. A word of caution: you can't merge enemies to have a level greater than 9999, you can't merge legendary reps, and if a neutral enemy gets hit by you or an enemy attack it will turn hostile.

 

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Combo No. 255:(B)

Accomplish over 255 combos in battle.

You may notice that if your character doesn't move but continues to attack from the same spot a combo counter builds up above his picture. Your goal is to get this to 255. Counter attacks will add to the combo. Go to X-Dimension Chapter 1: Strongest Crossroads or any map with contiguous invincibility panels. Kill all but 1 enemy, and then have your strongest character lift the last one. This will prevent the battle from ending yet also prevent the enemy from interfering. Send out two characters with high counter attack rates and have them stand next to each other either the reverse healing panels or the invincibility panels (depending on what map you choose to get the trophy). See the Attack of the Counter 10 trophy to maximize your counter attacking ability. Have the two characters hit each other until the combo reaches 255. This will take a while.

 

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Capture Enemy:(B)

Capture an enemy during battle.

If you throw an enemy onto your base panel, a capture sequence initiates. As long the collective strength of everyone inside the panel is significantly greater than the monster's, you should successfully capture it. Note, you can't capture classes you haven't unlocked, tiers of classes you haven't unlocked, or monsters with a higher level than Mao.

 

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Magichangeician:(B)

Magichange 5 times in a battle.

Once you have 5 monsters and 5 human type characters, put the monsters and humans in clubs at a 1-1 ratio. You start with one club which will accommodate 6 members, so you'll have to unlock 1 other. Go into battle and put monsters next to humans of the same club and select magichange.

 

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Receive 4, Move 20:(B)

Receive 4 times and move over 20 panels.

See Receive 9, Move 60

 

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Receive 9, Move 60:(B)

Receive 9 times and move over 60 panels.

These trophies refer to throwing an object to a character a certain distance. Slimes work very well for this, since they have a bounce distance of 7. You can also use the class world and cheerleader's spells to increase the throw distance of your other characters, but that's very time consuming compared to the slime tactic.

 

Make or capture 9 slimes. Go to Chapter 1: Practice Map and follow the video. My slimes move farther than normal slimes because I've loaded them up with boots. This isn't necessary, it will just take a few less turns to get them into position. Use square to make them face the proper direction.

 

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4.0 GPA(P)

Get all other trophies.

Unlocks when all other trophies have unlocked.

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General Tips:

Disgaea 3 is full of little nuances that can be taken advantage of to maximize your party. It would be impossible for me to explore them all completely, but here are the most important.

 

Gameplay:

Turn Off Battle Animations: For the love of God, go into options turn off everything and set game speed to blitz. Doing this will greatly increase your efficiency.

 

Throwing: If there is an enemy or geo panel far away from your starting location that needs to be taken care of immediately, it is very effective to line up 1-3 characters next to your home panel, then select 1 powerful character from the base panel without moving him. Have each character lift another until you have a tower with the unmoved character on top. Then chain together throws. This is necessary in the story assuming you aren't over leveled.

 

Sacrifices: If you're fighting enemies who are strong enough to wreck even your most powerful characters, it becomes necessary to distract them while you whittle away his HP. By sending out low level characters, mobs of enemies are more likely to all attack these characters than your powerhouses.

This technique can be refined even further if facing a single powerful enemy. At the end of your turn, if you send a character to lift the foe, the enemy will do a large amount of damage to the unit holding it, then end its turn.

 

Cheating Movement: I mentioned earlier in the reverse pirating trophies how you can equip and unequip boots to maximize your movement in a turn. You can also move characters that have yet to act in range of a heal or buff spell. After the spell is cast you can press O to have the character move back to his initial position.

 

Leveling:

Your first goal is going to be to get a tier 4 martial artist. Once you have access to Chapter 7: Corpse eaters, put a first tier monk in the Honor student club next to Mao, who should be in the corner res club. Use Mao's Vasa Argun on the enemies in Corpse eaters until you get a message saying you've unlocked the second tier of martial artist. Then replace the first tier monk. Do this until you can make a fourth tier. Using brave heart on Mao and equipping him with a powerful axe should be enough to kill enemies in one hit. Once he can kill them without brave heart, pass a stronger enemy bill. Do not pass bills that make the mushrooms higher than level 99. There is a glitch that gives you significantly more experience from Lv 99 monsters.

After making a tier 4 monk, place him in the robber's club and put him next to Mao. Keep playing Corpse Eaters until the monk can learn all of the fist skills, most importantly big bang. Then reincarnate him as a tier 5 or 6 thief (unlocked the same way as the monk) Afterwords, put her back in the honors student club. Once she's capable of killing the mushroom's with one hit, but her in the corner res club and have her solo the mushrooms until Mao and the thief about level 750. Now, go to the homeroom and pass the bill for the house of ordeals, as well as all of the weaker monster bills. After you beat the 4 missions in the House of Ordeals, grind the fourth level until your thief can solo it. Upgrade Big Bang as needed, but not too high (3-5 upgrades). Now, reincarnate Mao as a genius.

By beating the house of ordeals, you can pass the bill for the true robber shop. Put Mao in this club as well as a masked hero or moth (this will end up being your item world runner. See the item warrior trophy for details on his build) and place them next to your thief. Keep playing House of Ordeals 4 until Mao can learn big bang, and any other skills you see fit for him to learn. Omega heal and 1 movement upgrade are good choices. You can reincarnate Mao up to 5 times to have his aptitudes increase 5% each time (this is true for all story characters).

Once you're ready to level Mao, put him in the honor student club. By now, you should be able to afford two gravity knuckles. Buy these and level them to 100 in the item world if you need an attack boost. Between Mao and the thief you should level them in House of Ordeals 4 until they are level 2500-4500, passing stronger enemy bills as needed.

Now you are ready to start looking for pirates (see the pirate trophies). Once you have 25 illegal tickets, complete 25 X-Dimension levels to unlock the land of carnage. Then you're free to level straight to 9999 Land of Carnage Corpse Eaters and House of Ordeals 4.

 

Item World:

The item world is where the bulk of your time will be spent. It is a completely random dungeon that exists in every item in the game. The strength of the monsters in the item are directly related to the strength of the item. Regular items have 30 floors, rare items have 60 floors, and Legendary items have 100 floors. See the Item Warrior trophy for an effective way to get through these dungeons.

There will be three things you'll be doing in the item world.

 

Strengthening Items: Every time you complete a floor, defeat an item general/king/god, subdue an innocent, or complete a floor while holding a level sphere the item will gain strength. Level spheres and innocents appear randomly, while generals/kings/gods appear on floors ending in 0. There is also a chance that after floors ending in 0 you'll encounter an innocent town. Here there is a mushroom you can talk to to pass bills to power up the item. This can be done once per innocent town, and once per normal item, twice per rare item, and three times per legendary item.

 

Searching for Mystery rooms: Mystery rooms range from free items to certain death. They appear randomly in item worlds. Some are related to floors; usually floors above and below 61 have unique mystery rooms, though some are common to both. These rooms are tied to many trophies.

Pirating: See the defeat ____ and reverse pirating trophies for detailed explanations of what to do.

 

Class World:

The class world is important for transferring skills/evilites, increasing aptitudes, and raising certain stats. It can be accessed by talking to Prinn the Vagabond after you've put some characters in the student council club. Depending on if the character is good-for-nothing, genius, or anywhere in between determines how many times you can enter the class world on any given reincarnation. Geniuses can go 3 times, so its important that you reincarnate at this level whenever possible. You must use mana to utilize the upgrades, usually at a very steep cost.

 

Increasing aptitudes: By defeating dropouts and the boss character on the 10 floor you can increase your characters' aptitudes, giving them greater stat growth as they level.

 

Raising stats: You can increase stats such movement, counter attacks, and crit rate in the class world. Some of these are more worth it than others, but the cost rapidly increases as you level any given type. I found movement to be the most useful upgrade here.

 

Transferring skills/evilites: When leveling, the most useful skill by far is Big Bang. You'll want to transfer this skill to any character you plan on building. It costs 48000 mana to transfer. The character you're transferring it to must be in the same club as the character with the skill.

There are other skills and even some evilties (mostly found on DLC characters unfortunately) that are also good to transfer, such as omega heal. The same club rules apply. Unique skills, such as Almaz's spinning sworddance, cannot be transfered.

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Item Duplication:

Once you've pimped out one item with innocents and levels, you might think to yourself, "Man, I wish I had more of these." Well, you're in luck! First, you'll need a puppy paw stick. You get one from completing the Diez Gentlemen side missions in the epilogue, and there are some available to steal in the sixth epilogue mission (the one with Axel). Now, equip the item you want duplicated on a level 1 character and equip the puppy paw stick on another character. Go into the level 1's class world and look for dropouts. You'll notice these are exact copies of the character, right down to his equipment. Attack with the puppy paw stick for a chance to steal the item. If you're successful, congrats! You just duped an item. If not, keep going through the class world until you find another dropout. If you aren't successful, quit and reload. Since there is a limit to the number of times you can enter the class world, you'll have to make a number of Lv. 1 characters to fully equip an entire party.

 

Other Useful Information:

Clubs: After fulfilling certain requirements, you will be able to suggest certain clubs in homeroom. For clubs without a fixed percentage associated with them, the more people in a club the more effective the club will be, i.e. you'll find more pirates with a full PPP club than with just one person in it. The following is a list of the most useful clubs and how you unlock them:

Honor Students: Create a character who is skilled.

Steals EXP from adjacent students. Good for bringing up low leveled characters.

 

Corner Res.: Available as a topic from the beginning.

Members sitting in a corner get 25% more EXP. Makes leveling that much faster.

 

Robber Shop: Available as a topic from the beginning.

Steals mana of nearby students. Useful for giving mana to low level characters.

 

True Robber Shop: Clear the House of Ordeals

Just like Robber shop, but it steals all of nearby students' mana.

 

Student Council: Beat Chapter 3.

Lets you access the class world whenever Prinn The Vagabond is in the academy.

 

School Board: Beat Chapter 3.

Lets you select your homeroom teacher. Each teacher is associated with different stat growths, so pick the one that's right for you.

 

Birdmen Watchers: Enter the Cat God room for the first time (see Obey the Cat God trophy)

Lets you jump higher. Useful for a few trophies.

 

Tora no Ana: Defeat a group of pirates.

Lets you enter the X-Dimension levels and allows you to find ticket vendors in the item world. Necessary for accessing the Land or Carnage.

 

PPP: Defeat a group of pirates.

Lets you reverse pirate. Also raises the rate at which you encounter pirates.

 

Election Committee: Have a proposal denied 3 times.

Lets you put your own characters on the homeroom council. Useful for passing low level bills like stronger/weaker enemy quickly and providing scattered sacrifices for large bills you have to force.

 

Land of Carnage: To unlock the Land of Carnage, you must clear 25 X-Dimension levels. You can access these by collecting Illegal Tickets from pirates and/or ticket vendors after you have the Tora no Ana club. There are two ticket vendors, one on floors 1-60 of the item world, the other on floors 61-100. Each sells 10 tickets, so finding them is the fastest way to the Land of Carnage, but since you need to kill all of the pirates for trophies, don't go crazy looking for vendors.

 

Capturing Enemies: Once you reach the Land of Carnage you'll encounter incredibly powerful enemies. For the sake of getting trophies, you may be better off making a party full of these guys rather than taking the time to level you're own characters. Ideally, you'll capture enemies from the most powerful items on floors 90+ after all of the stronger enemy bills have been passed. Remember, you can only capture enemies with a level less than or equal to Mao and you can only capture classes and tiers you have access to already.

An effective method for capturing high level opponents is to get a Chicken Hat from completing 80% of the X-Dimension levels. This gives a character immunity from physical or magical attacks based on if the turn is odd or even. Equip it on a character in the base panel and attempt to capture an enemy based on what turn it is. If the enemy has higher Int than Atk it will use magic, so keep this in mind when you decide what turn to capture on.

 

 

 

 

That's all I can think of. Feel free to suggest things you think I'm missing or let me know if something is unclear in its wording.

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well im in EU and my games imported so i cant get DLC without importing PSN cards. i did everything without dlc, its just for those people who want to either save time and have the cash or who would get the dlc anyway regardless of it helping with the trophies.

 

no harm in mentioning stuff, although this is the sort of game where a full guide could be 10 packed posts long:).

 

id assume you are done with it, but i will give it a day or two before i edit my post so its not huge and spacehogging on your lovely guide lol. i just kept adding and adding and realised it was a touch long.

 

also if you want any images of anything being done ingame, im happy to steal my dads camera as ive lost mine and take photos of any of it. im not really sure how useful they would be, but i notice alot of guides on this website end up being prettied up with pictures and videos to show how you do things.

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excellent guide, easily the most in depth one i have seen. a couple things i would add is that if you run into one of those mystery gates in the high levels of the item world where you have to fight a group of really strong monsters, you can just sacrifice one of your unimportant characters for 2 straight turns and it kicks you back to the item world. if you happen to defeat them before the two tunrs are up, it increases the items level limit. just an FYI for those trying to get the 1-100 item world trophy, or if you're over your head at the top levels of a high level item where the monsters will have hundreds of thousands of hit points.

 

also i have got all 13 treasures in the treasure room mystery gate with Mau at level ~200 or so. basically as long as he can jump on top of the 2 boxes stacked on top of each other, you can get them all.

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25486214 ATTACK DMG LOL. Im buying this when it gets cheaper.

 

thats his attack stat. its like strength. the damage he does will be alot more (depending on your defence). :) ive hit 40 billion damage with a healer..... and i know people who can do 178 billion with one hit on a single target with the right setup.

 

id assume your not in america if its still expensive there, id advise imprting the american version. europes one doesnt have trophies and there is no sign it will as of yet. we also didnt get dlc.

 

also i guess more feedback would be reading your guide on unlocking the land of carage, and how you said it might be easier to capture a bunch of LoC characters rather than leveling your own..... why not mention the chicken hat capture trick. you get the chicken hat when you do 80% of the x-dimension missions, which is a few less than it takes to unlock LoC if i recall. it makes you invulnerable to physical damage on odd turns and magic on even turns. you can capture any enemy no matter how strong as long as whatever character you have the hat on is in the base panel and is capable of damaging the enemy by at least 1% of their max life per attack. when you throw a monster into the base panel to capture it, the turn technically doesnt change. this means the chicken hat will make you immune to a set type of damage for the whole 'simulated battle' that occurs. if the enemies ATK stat is higher than INT then the simulated battle only uses physical, so if you capture them on an odd turn they cannot win the simulated battle other than by default (if 100 simulated turns happen, or if you havent unlocked that tier/mao is lower level than monster). the reverse is true of INT, enemies only using magic damage if INT is higher than attack, making you able to easily capture them on even turns. in LoC you run in, grab a physical attacker with a thrower, then you take 1 person out of the base and do no action, throw the LoC character into the base. your chicken hat person will kill them. then you gency out with the person you made take no action. heal up and you can then equip the chicken hat on the LoC character and use it to capture multiple enemies a turn on your next run.

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Very big thanks for the guide!

Somehow I never got into the rather complex game mechanics of the previous Disgaea titles, but with all this I think I'll finally give it a try. The poor game has been lying around here for months, and I didn't even take it out of the box yet...

 

Just one question: Is it possible to run through the game once and take care of the trophies later, or would I have to start from scratch in order to get them?

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Very big thanks for the guide!

Somehow I never got into the rather complex game mechanics of the previous Disgaea titles, but with all this I think I'll finally give it a try. The poor game has been lying around here for months, and I didn't even take it out of the box yet...

 

Just one question: Is it possible to run through the game once and take care of the trophies later, or would I have to start from scratch in order to get them?

 

 

Actualy, it would be ALOT easier to get most of the trphies if you already went through the game and have some higher level characters. It would take a whole lot longer to get the trophies without leveled up characters already, so.......You are in good shape loading up your current characters.

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Alright, I'll take it easy and just finish the main story first then - thanks for the answer.

 

I just thought there might be some missables or a point of no return later in the game or something, but from what I understand that's not the case here.

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Receive 4, Move 20: (Bronze)

Receive 4 times and move over 20 panels.

Receive 9, Move 60: (Bronze)

Receive 9 times and move over 60 panels.

These trophies refer to throwing an object to a character a certain distance. Slimes work very well for this, since they have a bounce distance of 7. You can also use the class world and cheerleader's spells to increase the throw distance of your other characters, but that's very time consuming compared to the slime tactic.

Make or capture 9 slimes. Go to Chapter 1: Practice Map and follow the video. My slimes move farther than normal slimes because I've loaded them up with boots. This isn't necessary, it will just take a few less turns to get them into position. Use square to make them face the proper direction.

 

How do you make the box bounce? They just stand there and catch it, I dont have any slimes tho, cant find a good place to catch them. I cant access tutorial part anymore

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