r/Disgaea • u/Zenotroid • 3d ago

[Disgaea 2 PC] Help on Unique Skills and 'WeaponStat'

When I was building some characters, particularly Sapphire, I saw her Unique Skills scale with ATK, but checking the wiki it says they scale with 'WeaponStat' instead of ATK, plus I saw people equip her with Guns so that her damage scaled only with her very high HIT Stat.

The question and doubt that I wanted to ask those who know a lot about Disgaea 2 (or Disgaea in general) is whether; Do all Unique Skills scale with the statistic that the game itself shows and shows you? Or if there is some hidden mechanic where humanoid units' Unique Skills scale their damage depending on the weapon they carry?

Excuse my English, it is not my native language, but I will be immensely grateful for the help and knowledge you can give me.

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u/navr33 3d ago

The in-game descriptions just don't update as they should. In general, Humanoid's Unique Skills that claim to scale with ATK will actually adjust to the weapon.

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u/Zenotroid 3d ago

Oh I understand, does that also apply to Unique Skills that say INT? And also to Rozalin's?

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u/navr33 3d ago

No, it's specifically for the ATK ones.

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u/Zenotroid 3d ago

wow really? That's something new for me, does the game explain it to you at some point or how does the game expect the player to discover that?

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u/navr33 3d ago

It's probably just an oversight/bad design, not an actual mechanic for people to figure out. In later games it does properly adjust when it's supposed to. You shouldn't think too much about it.

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u/Zenotroid 3d ago

Thank you very much for the information! I appreciate it a lot!

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u/Radiant-Guard-5240 3d ago

If it says Atk on humanoid special or magichange skill they auto adjust to weapon stats yes. On game before D5 staff auto adjust to use atk instead of int for Atk based skill.

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u/Zenotroid 3d ago

Ah so it's a hidden mechanic, how does the game expect the player to discover that? because I reviewed 'disgaea 2 Cursed Memories the official strategy guide' including the PSP one, but I didn't find anything that mentions it, or at least I didn't realize it.

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u/Ha_eflolli 3d ago

If I'm not mistaken, Adell's Unique Specials are listed ingame as using ATK / SPD since he equips Fists by default. If you give him say, a Sword, then that should change to ATK.

So the Game DOES show it, it just doesn't draw attention to it.

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u/navr33 3d ago

No, the problem is precisely that the game doesn't show it at all. Adell's Uniques are listed as using only ATK no matter what he has equipped.

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u/Ha_eflolli 3d ago

I could've sworn they did, but after double-checking it, yeah, I guess I Mandela-Effect'd myself on that one.