Overview: Extras

Discover Lucky Boards, Bottlemails, and Mr. Egg in disgaea 5 alliance of vengeance Item World. Learn about Item Bosses like Item Generals, Kings, and Gods.

You’ll be encountering plenty of other things in the Item World than just enemies. Sometimes, you’ll see little rabbit creatures holding signs. These are called Lucky Boards and depending on the sign they are holding, they will grant various bonuses related to that board (ex. a coin means that you’ll gain extra HL from killing the Lucky Board). It should be noted that Lucky Boards have an Evility that basically cancels all damage that isn’t greater than their max HP.

Another NPC (non-player character — anyone the game controls, not you) you’ll come across as you venture through items is a bottle, which is called a Bottlemail. These things are usually a higher level than the enemies you are currently fighting, as well as having a lot of defense. Unlike Lucky Boards, you can whittle their HP down little by little until they are defeated, as you don’t have to worry about one-shotting them to do damage. Your reward from Bottlemails usually include a scroll of some kind, either in the form of a skill or an Evility.

The above two NPCs don’t usually appear on their own, as there is a special NPC that has a chance to spawn them at the beginning of each floor (except for the multiples of 10). This NPC is called Mr. Egg and will randomly show up from time to time, dropping either a Bottlemail or Lucky Board. However, there is one more thing Mr. Egg can drop, which is a very powerful enemy named Proto Darkdeath. This enemy will be a much higher level than you and with much higher stats, so you’ll need to be careful. Note that killing him will boost your item’s stats by a bit.

Item Stats and Bosses

On every floor that is a multiple of 10, you will encounter an Item Boss. On floors ending in 10, 20, 40, 50, 70 and 80, it will be an Item General. For floors ending in 30, 60 and 90, it will be an Item King, while floors 100 will have an Item God. The first benefit that killing these Item Bosses will have is an increase in stats. Unlike previous games, using a Gency to exit the item after killing one and killing the boss again has no benefit, so there’s no reason to do this.

One stat that is present on every single item is something called Rarity, which can range from 0 to 100 (store bought items are always 0). Any Disgaea veteran will know about Common (0-24), Rare (25-49) and Legendary (50-99) items, which is nothing more than the Rarity being in a specific range. There is a new Rarity introduced in Disgaea 5, though, called Epic (100), which is only achievable by diving into the Item World.

Rarity will increase the stats of an item according to the number itself, so a Rarity of 50 will increase the stats by 50%. Matching Rarity is still in the game, meaning that if you have equipment that has the same kind of Rarity (Rare and higher), then you will get a stat bonus on them. Two matching items will grant a 10% increase and four items will grant a 30% increase. The numbers don’t matter, as only the general Rarity does.

How does one raise Rarity? Raising the Rarity number is tied to something called the Training Bonus, which can be raised in a few ways. The simplest method involves simply killing the Item Bosses, with Generals providing a bonus of 1, Kings a bonus of 2 and Gods a bonus of 3 (Proto Darkdeath functions the same as an Item God in this case). You can also raise the Training Bonus by defeating all of the Invaders that can appear on any given floor. Also, you’ll sometimes get into fights in a Mystery Room and if you win the fight, the Training Bonus will increase.