This is work in progress, I’m going to update this more while I’m playing the game 
Currently I’m logged around 40 hours gameplay. I’m still at chapter 7-1. My average characters (ten characters that I use) is around level 65 (with highest lvl 80, and lowest 54). And I’ve unlocked the Hall of Discipline (equivalent to Cave of Ordeals from Disgaea 1 & Disgaea 2).
Last update: 27 June 2008
[29 February 2008]
Doing post story content now, my average level is around 360, with 76+ hours gameplay.
If you have an input or questions regarding the game, please post in the comment sections ^^.
My current party:
Mao
Almaz
Sapphire
Razberyl
Salvatore
Asagi
R6 Warrior (F)
R6 Mage Knight (F)
R6 Thief
R6 Archer (F)
Characters that I often use just for buffs:
Red Ranger
Dancer
Going to replace Asagi with Akutare (Axell), and also going to put in Etna and Flonne when they join
[07 March 2008]
100+ hours game time
Current Main Team:
Mao (LV400+ still can’t decide him or Flonne!)
Laharl (LV1500)
Axell (LV1266)
Etna (LV1500)
Sapphire (LV1, just transmigrated her, her 3rd transmigration from lvl 700+)
Razberyl (LV740+)
Mashumaro (R6 Mage Knight, LV950+)
Yukarin (R6 Archer, LV750+)
Ueda (R6 Thief, LV700+)
Mister Kamikase (R5 Masked Hero, LVL200+)
Often used just for buffs/mability effects:
Red Ranger
Dancer
Big Star Sama
Masked Hero is one overpowered generic class.., properly geared with 3 shoes, he can solo (or duo..) item world and academy world….
[27 June 2008]
Added DLC info
Links
My Disgaea 3 Pages
Disgaea 3 Play Wiki @ gkwiki2 (Japanese)
Disgaea 3 Play Wiki @ ps3wiki (Japanese)
Disgaea 3 Gamespot Forums
Disgaea 3 Otaku Wiki
Disgaea 3 Elemental Garden
Heroticism Disgaea 3 Play Blog
Disgaea 3 Mabilities Translation
CONTENTS
Differences with older series
Story Characters
Generic Characters
Club / Committee (委員会)
Q & A
Tips
Downloadable Contents
DIFFERENCES WITH OLDER SERIES
- Gun is based on HIT and SPD now instead of HIT only
- Axe penalized SPD now instead of HIT (axe is useful now, no more annoying misses!)
- Story characters modifiers (something like HP 110% ATK 130% etc) increase when you transmigrate them
- No more weapon skill, the skills are purchasable using mana, and you need to transmigrate to unlock higher skills
- Can’t learn skill from pupil, need to use the new Academy World for this
- You can use skill from adjacent club member when you stand next to them (but you can’t learn it using this way).
- Charater upgrades (movement range, counter attack, etc) carry over on transmigrate
- Mability (魔ビリティ) or Demon Ablility replaces character/class trait from older series
- Skills for Tower attack
- Can build tower by walking to top of character / tower, instead of Lifting
- Skill combo
STORY CHARACTERS
Mao 「マオ」
Initial character, the main protagonist for Disgaea 3. He can be physical attacker or magic attacker.
Fixed mability:
「魔王の暴勇」 increases attack power by 3% per enemy unit in the map. (fixed from increasing enemy attack). No wonder his damage is really good on the start of the turn!
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「マジカルブースト」 increases magic power by 15%
「フィジカルブースト」 increases physical power by 15%
My rating for this character: A
Almaz 「アルマース」
Join on the 1st chapter. One thing to describe this guy.. TANK!.
Fixed mability:
「勇者の誓い」 reduces physical damage by 50% if the opponent level is higher than him (TANK!).
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「勇者式防御術」 automatically in defense mode when attacked from front
「勇者式戦闘術」 increases non attribute attack by 20%
thanks to Almaz I managed to clear chapter 1 Discipline Hall (all enemies are level 100) at low level (average level 60)
My rating for this character: S (TANK!)
Sapphire 「サファイア」
Join on early chapter 4. She’s a brutal girl, can do really massive damage with axe ^^.
Fixed mability:
「姫君の煌き」 increases adjacent male ally stats by 20%
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「姫君の期待」 increases adjacent ally critical rate by 20%
「姫君の命令」 increases ally magic skill range by 1
I made her my healer, equipped with an axe.. she’s one brutal healer that can do more damage than almaz and mao O_O” (thanks to her second special skill..), and also her last special skill is a healing skill.
My rating for this character: A+
Razberyl 「ラズベリル」
Join on late chapter 4. Kawaii~ girl (Sapphire said that!), really.. (plus side is that she’s voiced by chiwa saito, exactly like Aria’s Aika voice.., I want beryl to say hazukashii serifu kinshi! ><).
She’s an INT type monster type character.
Fixed mability:
「愛羅武勇ハート」 increases her damage by 20% if the opponent level is higher than her.
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「仏恥義理レンジ」 increases magic range by 2 but increase SP usage by 50% (not good for low level.. SP becomes too expensive)
「夜露死苦スロー」 increases her stats by 10% everytime she get thrown. The addition stacks but only active for 1 turn, so if you throw her 5 times in 1 turn her stats will aprox 61% from base stat (increases 10% per throw from the increased stats)
Thanks to beryl too, I managed to clear Chapter 1 Hall of Discipline with my low level characters ^^, awesome damage!! thrown bonus + 20% more damage on high level characters = 5 dead lvl 100 monsters!
My rating for this character: S (Magic DPS) (well S- actually.., but since she’s very cute, I give her S instead)
Kyoko 「リリアンの狂子」
Join on late chapter 4, together with beryl. She’s a female ninja type character (kunoichi). better than the kunoichi stock class, because she has her unique skill in addition with her unique mabilities ^^.
Fixed mability:
「白百合の舞」 increases her speed by 30% when her HP is full
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「桜花隠れ」 increases evasion by 50% on ranged attack
「散り牡丹」 increases critical rate by 80% (yep, that’s eighty percent!) if the opponent level is higher than her
She has great mabilities, on top of that, most attack on her will be miss (because of her high speed, and her mability)
My rating for this character: A-
Asuka 「折り鶴の明日禍」
Join on late chapter 4, together with beryl. She’s a female samurai type character. Better than the stock class because of her unique special skills and mabilities.
Fixed mability:
「撫子の構え」 increases her ATK by 30% when her HP is full
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「雛菊の誓い」 no damage from ally attack
「乱れ椿」 increases critical rate by 30% when opponent is higher level than her
My rating for this character: A- (She can do more damage than Mao!)
Champloo Sensei 「チャンプル先生」
Join on mid chapter 5.
Fixed mabilitiy:
「獅子の構え」 increases his counter damage by number of damage he receives
Haven’t confirmed his other two special mabilities.
Not much I can say about him, only used him for 1 battle… I’ll update when I play him more ^^;
Mr. Big Star 「ビッグスター様」
Temporarily join on chapter 8. To get him permanently you have to pass this bill 「ビッグスター様に会いたい」 (1000 mana). To unlock the bill: after clearing chapter 8, talk with the Town NPCs, you’ll get notice about new bill.
Fixed mabilitiy:
「貴様の攻撃など効かぬ」 reduces damage received from Human type by 50%.
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「フッ、美しさは罪だな」 increases adjacent female ally stats by 20%
「反撃なぞ無粋」 Unable to counter attack, but reduce the damage received by 20%
He’s the only story character (that I have got) that has S rating special skill.
My Rating: B+
Salvatore the Magnificent 「極上のサルバトーレ」
Temporarily join on chapter 8. To get him permanently you have to pass this bill 「サルバトーレに会いたい」 (2000 mana). To unlock this bill: after Mr. Big Star joined, talk with the Town NPCs, you’ll get notice about new bill.
Fixed mabilitiy:
「D・プロテクション」 reduces damage from special attack by 50%.
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「C・スナイピング」 increases critical rate by 100% when she doesn’t move
「E・キャンセラー」 Damage ignores defensive attribute values (e.g: 25% fire)
My Rating: A
Red Rangers 「ニジレッド」
To get him permanently you have to pass this bill 「怪しげなコスチュームの人に会いたい」 (4000 mana). To unlock this bill: after Salvatore joined, talk with the Town NPCs, you’ll get notice about new bill.
He uses monster weapon.
Fixed mabilitiy:
「バトルオーダー」 increases adjacent allies attack by 20%
My Rating: B (for his mability only, put him next to attacking character and then put him back to base ^_^)
Asagi 「アサギ」
To get her permanently you have to pass this bill 「別ゲームの主人公に会いたい」 (8000 mana). To unlock this bill: after Red Ranger joined, talk with the Town NPCs, you’ll get notice about new bill.
She’s a level 500 character.
She can walk quite far, and her second mability is quite useful in item/academy world. Her unique skills are based on HIT.
So far she has the best idle animation 
She’s also voiced by Chiwa Saito (Razberyl’s)
Fixed mabilitiy:
「ヒロインドリーム」 increases ability by 5% per male ally unit in the map.
Special mability:
「スカイハイ」 changes movement type to Flying
My Rating: B+ (A if you have more boys in your party ^^)
Marone 「マロネ」
To get her permanently you have to pass this bill 「迷子の女の子に会いたい」 (18000 mana). To unlock this bill: after Asagi joined, talk with the Town NPCs, you’ll get notice about new bill.
She’s a level 800 character, I got her when my team average level was around LV400.
Haven’t used her much, she’s a healer type character with several unique INT attack spells.
Fixed mabilitiy:
「ヒロインドリーム」 increases ability by 5% per male ally unit in the map.
No Rating yet
Akutare 「アクターレ」
To get her permanently you have to pass this bill 「芸人に会いたい」 (32000 mana). To unlock this bill: after Marone joined, talk with the Town NPCs, you’ll get notice about new bill.
He’s a level 1200 character, I got him when my team average level was around LV450. (Use sleep magic to make things easier :))
Haven’t used her much, she’s a healer type character with several unique INT attack spells.
His second unique skills has the best animation
Fixed mabilitiy:
「わかりやすい体質」 increases ability by 5% per female ally unit in the map.
My Rating: S (He got style!, A rating if you use more boys)
Laharl 「ラハール」
To get her permanently you have to pass this bill 「別魔界の魔王に会いたい」 (64000 mana). To unlock this bill: after Axell joined, talk with the Town NPCs, you’ll get notice about new bill.
He’s a level 1500 character, I got him when my team average level was around LV650. (took me like 5 tries…)
He will join together with Etna and Flonne.
He can learn all the normal sword skills from the trainer (up to the 4800 mana sword skill).
Fixed mabilitiy:
「超魔王魂 」 increases special attack damage by 20%.
My Rating: A+
Etna 「エトナ」
To get her permanently you have to pass this bill 「別魔界の魔王に会いたい」 (64000 mana). To unlock this bill: after Axell joined, talk with the Town NPCs, you’ll get notice about new bill.
She’s a level 1500 character, I got her when my team average level was around LV650. (took me like 5 tries…)
She will join together with Laharl and Flonne.
She can learn all the normal spear skills from the trainer (up to the 4800 mana spear skill).
Fixed mabilitiy:
「ドミナントスマイル」 increases prinny ability on map by 20%.
My Rating: S (because she’s Etna-sama, nuff said :p, but honestly she should be A rating, need better mability =\)
Flonne 「フロン」
To get her permanently you have to pass this bill 「別魔界の魔王に会いたい」 (64000 mana). To unlock this bill: after Axell joined, talk with the Town NPCs, you’ll get notice about new bill.
She’s a level 1500 character, I got her when my team average level was around LV650. (took me like 5 tries…)
She will join together with Laharl and Etna.
Her unique skills are all INT type (why 
I want to make her archer, well at least bow skills good enough already)
Fixed mabilitiy:
「愛フィールド」 Ally units immune to one hit die effect (critical).
My Rating: A (Should be B, but she’s Flonne! one whole point for cuteness)
Adell 「アデル」
Available as Downloadable Content from Japan PSN, 200 yen.
Fixed mabilitiy:
My Rating:
Rozalin 「ロザリンド」
Available as Downloadable Content from Japan PSN, 200 yen.
Fixed mabilitiy:
My Rating:
GENERIC CHARACTERS
Warrior (F) 「戦士・女」
Decent class, but I didn’t use her anymore since Asuka joined. I’m using her now, good class :p
The only class that can learn Ultimate Spear skill from trainer (other classes need to use academy world, and learn from this character).
Fixed mability:
「アサルトアタック」 increases her damage by n x 10% where n is her move range before she attacks. Good mability.
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「シールドマスタリ」 (1000 mana) (R2) reduces normal attack received by 50%
「パワーショット」 (5000 mana) (R4) adds 30% ATK to HIT when bow is equipped
「スピアスティング」 (30000 mana) (R6) adds 30% HIT to ATK when spear is equipped
My rating: B+
Archer (F) 「アーチャー・女」
To unlock:
Level 15 Warrior (F) 「戦士・女」 and Level 15 Healer (F) 「僧侶･女」
She’s a beast.. massive damage with long range!
This class can learn Ultimate Bow skill from trainer (other classes need to use academy world, and learn from this character).
Fixed mability:
「加速射撃」 increases her damage by n x 5% where n is her range from the enemy. Very superior mability, most of the time I get +30% damage.
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「落鳳破」 (1000 mana) (R2) increases damage by 50% on flying target
「ボーイハント」 (5000 mana) (R4) increases damage by 50% on male target
My rating: S
Thief 「盗賊」
Decent class, damage is decent. Main purpose of leveling her is for stealing, oh and also She can create boxes now.
Fixed mability:
「盗人の技」 doubles steal success rate.
My Rating: B- (I give her C if not because of those boxes!)
Wizard (F) 「魔法使い・女）」
Good class, very mana efficient, but she’s very weak, and short movement range
Fixed mability:
「魔力節制」 reduces SP usage by 50%. very good mability, I miss this mability when I transmigrate her to Magic Knight..
My Rating: B (short movement..)
Magic Knight 「魔法剣士」
To unlock:
Level 25 Warrior (F) 「戦士・女」 and Level 25 Wizard (F) 「魔法使い・女」
Good DPS class, better damage than wizards.
Fixed mability:
「精霊の祝福」 increases attribute based damage by 20%
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「エレメントフォース」 (1000 mana) (R2) not that sure about this mabilities, the description says: reflect attribute values to each attribute attack power (plus attributes only)
「エコー」 (5000 mana) (R4) 25% chance to do double cast
My Rating: S+ (no class can beat her in elemental damage!)
Druid 「賢者」
To unlock:
Level 20 Healer (F) 「僧侶･女」 and Level 20 Martial Artist (F) 「格闘家・女」
Fixed mability:
「ジオエナジー」 increases ability by 10% per geo block color
Haven’t test him whether he’s immune from geo block destruction damage (like in D2) or not.
No Rating yet.
Healer (F) 「僧侶･女」
Bad damage, short movement range, but plenty of supports.
Fixed mability:
「光の加護」 reduces magical damage on her adjacent allies by 50%.
Her mability is actually quite good.. but too bad she normally dies first =_=
My Rating: C
Cheerleader 「応援師」
To unlock:
Level 25 Druid 「賢者」, Level 30 Wizard (F) 「魔法使い・女」 and Level 30 Healer (F) 「僧侶･女」
New class in Disgaea 3. She’s a buffer class, I transmigrate my healer to cheerleader and make her my healer/buffer. she also has better damage (with gun) compared to female healer.
Fixed mability:
「ラブリーソング」 increases the stats of all allied unit on map by 5%.
She can do really nice buffs, like + movement range, + critical, + counter etc. really2 useful.
My Rating: B+
Witch Doctor 「呪術師」
To unlock:
Level 25 Druid 「賢者」 and Level 30 Wizard (M) 「魔法使い・男」
New class in Disgaea 3. No comment on this class yet, haven’t played her.
Fixed mability:
「カーズドダンス」 decreases the stats of all enemy unit on map by 5%.
No Rating yet
Berserker 「狂戦士」
To unlock:
Level 40 Heavy Knight 「重騎士」 and Level 40 Beast Tamer 「魔物使」
New class in Disgaea 3. No comment on this class yet, haven’t played him.
Fixed mability:
「マッドネス」 increases his ATK by 50% when his HP is 25% or lower.
No Rating yet
Masked Hero 「覆面ヒーロー」
To unlock:
Level 45 Thief 「盗賊」 and Level 45 Gunner (F) 「ガンナー・女」
New class in Disgaea 3. Best character class for Item World and Academy World! Long movement range, flying (can walk through enemies), and have fist weapon proficiency! (knock back skills). Their rank 6 mability gives them +3 more movement range while lowering their stats by 30%.
Fixed mability:
「トリックムーブ」 increases his evasion by 10% per move tile (eg: when he moves 6 tiles, he’ll get 60% evasion increase) (on that turn only, including the enemy turn).
Special mabilities (can only equip one at a time):
「弱肉強食」 (1000 mana) (R2) increases ability by 50% when attacking lower level target
「優越感」 (5000 mana) (R4) reduces damage by 50% from lower level attacker
「チキンハート」 (30000 mana) (R6) increases movement by 3 while lowering stats by 30%
My Rating: S (for Item World and Academy World)
Nekomata 「ネコマタ」
To unlock: Purchase Nekomata DLC from Japan PSN, 100 yen
Fixed mability:
No Rating yet
CLUB / COMMITTEE
Extortion Club 「強奪商店」
Receives 50% Mana when Adjacent Class Mates receive mana
Pass the bill in the homeroom: 「強奪商店」を結成したい this bill costs 20 mana
Characters that join this club will receive (yes receive, not steal) 50% mana from his/her adjacent class mate. The adjacent class mates can be in any club. The character will still receive mana while staying inside the base panel
One of the best club
Lifting Club 「持ち上げ研究会」
Able to perform 2 level throw
Pass this bill in the homeroom: 「持ち上げ研究会」を結成したい this bill costs 30 mana
The character that join this club is able to throw any character on the tower
Decent club, but a bit useless for me
Corners Club 「隅っこ同好会」
Gain 25% more EXP while sitting on Corners
Pass this bill in the homeroom: 「隅っこ同好会」を結成したい this bill costs 50 mana
Decent club
Honor Students Club 「優等生グループ」
Receives 10% Exp when Adjacent Class Mates receive EXP
Pass this bill in the homeroom: 「優等生グループ」を結成したい this bill costs 100 mana
Characters that join this club will receive (yes receive, not steal) 10% exp from his/her adjacent class mate. The adjacent class mates can be in any club. The character will still receive EXP while staying inside the base panel
Very good club, but can only fit 4 characters in this club…
Comrades Club 「戦友よ！委員会」
Receives 10% of stats from deceased Adjacent Class Mates
Pass this bill in the homeroom: 「戦友よ！委員会」を結成したい this bill costs 8000 mana
Only 1 character can join this club. The character will gain 10% of dead (yep has to be dead) adjacent class mate stats. stats received is the base stats (weapon/equipment stats are not included in the 10% calculation).
decent club, will be alot better if plain 10% stats from adjacent classmates…
Glasses Adoration Club 「メガネっ娘愛好会」
Allows you to buy glasses from item shop
Pass this bill in the homeroom: 「メガネっ娘愛好会」を結成したい this bill costs 500 mana
You need to put 1 character in this club to be able to buy glasses. You don’t need to put your main ten character, any character will do.
Justice Squadron 「正義戦隊」
Allows you to buy belts from item shop
Pass this bill in the homeroom: 「正義戦隊」を結成したい this bill costs 500 mana
You need to put 1 character in this club to be able to buy belts. You don’t need to put your main ten character, any character will do.
Shoes Union 「靴職人」
Allows you to buy shoes from item shop
Pass this bill in the homeroom: 「靴職人」を結成したい this bill costs 700 mana
You need to put 1 character in this club to be able to buy shoes. You don’t need to put your main ten character, any character will do.
Real Extortion Club「真・強奪商店」
Steal mana from adjacent class mate.
Pass this bill in the homeroom: 「真・強奪商店」を結成したい this bill costs 10000 mana. You need to clear Hall of Discipline chapter 4 to unlock the bill.
Characters that join this club will steal mana gained by his/her adjacent class mate (adjacent class mate won’t receive mana). The adjacent class mates can be in any club. The character will still receive mana while staying inside the base panel.
Q & A
How to unlock Hall of Discipline (D1 & D2 Cave of Ordeal Equivalent)?
In order to see the bill in the homeroom you need to have at leat 7000 mana on 1 character.
The bill name is 「錬武の館へのゲートを開きます」. It costs 7000 mana.
I unlocked Hall of Discipline when I’m at chapter 7-1, under 40 hours of gameplay.
How to beat Hall of Discipline (D1 & D2 Cave of Ordeal Equivalent) Chapter 1? All the enemies are standing on “Enemy Invicibility” 「敵無敵 」 geo panels!
The three Enemy Invicibility 「敵無敵」 geo blocks will be destroyed (one geo block destroyed per turn, they are on timer, you can see the number on the geo block) after three turns. After that the geo panels will give you +50% mana and +50% experience.
How to remove the orcs out from homeroom?
Place female character in front of the orc at the corner.
Place male character in front of the orc at the other side (not the middle one).
Surround the the middle orc with characters.
How to remove the Rangers out from homeroom (after expansion)?
Red, Purple and Yellow rangers: Put Prinny next to them
Blue ranger: Surround him with male characters
Green ranger: Surround him with female characters
I passed this bill in homeroom 「酷語の授業を受けたい」 (500 mana cost), but nothing happened. No new character class, nothing.
That bill enables you to use Kanji (Japan’s Chinese character) for character names.
How to buy shoes, glasses and belts?
see the Committee/Club section on Glasses Adoration Club, Shoes Union, and Justice Squadron.
How to learn new weapon skills for story characters (Mao, Almaz, etc)?
Two ways, weapon trainer and academy world (learning from other character in the same club). Story characters won’t get new weapon skills after transmigrate, Mao sword skills are only limited to 3 sword skills from the trainer. Warriors get 5 sword skills (need Rank 2 (R2) warriors for 4th sword skill and R3 warriors for 5th sword skill), and samurai get all 6 sword skills (need R4 samurai to get all skills). to get those skills, story character needs to go to academy world and pay 10x the standard mana price of learning that skill (eg: warriors pay 1200 mana to learn dark wing slash, Mao needs 12000 mana to learn it from him). Legendary skills acquired from clearing geoblocks stage 10 is also learnable this way.
Any release date for English version?
Yes, this August 2008.
Can you learn other character special / fixed mabilities?
You can’t learn their fixed mability, but you can learn their special mabilities via Academy world. Mao special mabilities are nice (+15% physical/magical), they only cost 800 mana, so only 8000 mana when you learn it from academy world.
How to get Legendary skills (D2 skills)?
Legendary skills can be learned from prinny NPC in the stage 10 of academy world, the gate will appear when you clear all the geo blocks on stage 10. There are 2 possible NPC, the prinny NPC (to learn legendary skill, around 20% chance) and masked hero NPC to increase the club size that the academy world character in. You can select any legendary skills (2 per weapon type) to be learned by the academy world character. to make other character learn the skill, you can use normal learn skill from the afro prinny (10x mana cost).
How to get some of the endings
Hero Mao ending: kill the hand at the end of the chapter 1 twice.
Rasberyl ending: Get a game over in the Chapter 2 boss fight.
Evil Mao ending: kill 100 people ( might be story charaters in there I haven’t done this one yet).
Jiiya ending: kill the last boss with only Mao.
Almaz ending: kill the last boss with only Almaz (hint I like to call him stupid)
Normal ending: don’t do anything above.
TIPS
Easy money (HL) on Chapter 6-1
You can get at least 450k per run on this chapter, fast and easy, great EXP, great Mana and great money. There are 3 groups of enemies on top of 20% level up geo block. Everytime you destroy the geo blocks, the enemies will drop and will have around 400-800 HP left (depends on the level). 1st group will get aggresive once they are higher than level 74, 2nd group will get aggresive when they get to level higher than 124 and last group on level 177. Aggressive means when you are in their movement + attack range, they will jump out of the geo block and attack you. so be carefull, the level 177 will probably one shot your character. best strategy is to have 1 geoblock thrower, 1 character thrower (or 2), and 1 (or 2) person to kill them with area damage skil. The enemies are weak to fire (-50% fire attribute), which make things easier as well .
Downloadable Contents
27 June 2008
2 characters from Disgaea 2 and 1 generic character from Disgaea world:
- Adell (200 yen)
- Rozalin (200 yen)
- Nekomata (100 yen)
Credits
- Nippon Ichi for creating this game!
- laharl for his inputs.
- kendji for his chearleader requirement fix.
- And you for reading this
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February 12, 2008 at 3:06 pm
SF!
Posting to support your endeavour.
I hope I get to play this soon!
P.S. I see you’re using only female generic characters
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February 13, 2008 at 5:01 am
This is maybe the only game I want to play on PS3… but since for now there is no english language version, I have to pass…
Though I’d love to play it T_T
I also used to have only female generic characters in previous episodes hehe. Girlies rock!
Kyoko and Sapphire look awesome! Cheerleaders too hehe. I would sure make them my strongest unit if I could play Disgaea 3 ^^
February 13, 2008 at 10:21 am
I use 2 males tho, Mao and Almaz ^_^, in Disgaea 2 I also use Adell and Laharl
I’ll put incremental update for this post, I got several level 80s characters now, and progressed to 7-3
February 13, 2008 at 11:41 am
Thank you for linking Heroticism. Your English guide of the MAbilities is really helpful, it’s actually really hard for me to read some of the kanji because they’re a little blurry on my television. (Ah, I feel I really will be blind by the age of thirty…)
（And yes, for me- Mao and Almaz are my strongests. I made Mao a pure int-caster and Almaz my tank for him. They both can kill virtually anything on a map, s’long as it isn’t twice their level or anything.)
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February 14, 2008 at 2:12 am
wow great undertaking, considering you say you are not so good with Japanese. (in the Agarest no Senki post)
I’ve tried to play japanese games before, and start out trying to figure my way out with dictionaries and translation tools, but I end up just giving up because looking things up take too long, and I just want to get through and find out what happens next in the game! lol
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February 14, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I so want to play this!!! Waiting for the english version. I must get this game!!!
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February 20, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Nice guide mate…
I need to get back to try it for myself -_-
Where’s the limited stuff pictures!
February 21, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I’ll make a review when I reach 100 hours gameplay (60+ hours right now)
February 22, 2008 at 12:05 am
Expecting the review in 2 days mate!
February 26, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Awesome guide,I have a question,I cant figure out how to get belts,eye glasses and shoes into the shop inventory :/ I dont see the bill for it,do you know how?
February 26, 2008 at 1:31 pm
@maoh: updated the guide to answer your question
February 26, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Great guide you have here, but can you tell me exactly how to get new weapon skills from the skills guy because I transmigrated Mao but no new higher skills popped up. What else should I do?
February 26, 2008 at 5:12 pm
@Dave: updated “Q&A” section again to answer your question
February 26, 2008 at 8:36 pm
@ron~ Thank you!!! ^_^
February 26, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I’m also wondering one more thing,how do I get the pirate ship/do pirate raids?
February 26, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I haven’t started collecting maps yet, but once I get to that part I’ll post about it
February 27, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Thank YOU!!! Have you seen Dimension Slash on youtube in this game. I need it so bad
February 27, 2008 at 10:11 pm
awesome,I look forward to it!Thank you Ron~
February 28, 2008 at 5:01 pm
haven’t watched the special skills on youtube, don’t want to spoil it
Legendary skills (such as Dimension Slash) are only obtainable by clearing the geo blocks on stage 10 academy world, but I haven’t confirmed this myself
March 7, 2008 at 11:43 am
Updated.
Added Marone, Akutare, Laharl, Etna, Flonne and rating adjustments
March 7, 2008 at 11:47 am
Hey, do you know if there is a majin class or even the legendary Yoshitsuna sword that you know of yet? Also, does your Laharl have Dimension Slash?
March 7, 2008 at 11:56 am
Yep, Majin class exists, to unlock him you need to finish the second playthrough battle tutorials.
And Yoshi also exists, it is rank 39 sword now, not rank 40.
Dimension slash is ancient skills only attainable from Academy World, so no, laharl doesn’t have it
March 7, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Thanks for responding so quickly, but to unlock the Majin class you mean I have to beat the game twice? Please explain this to me.
March 7, 2008 at 6:48 pm
You need to beat the game once, and after that talk to the masked hero npc to start new cycle (in D3 you don’t start new cycle directly), then go through the tutorials (chapter 1?, can’t remember), after that you will get notification about bills for unlocking majin is available at the homeroom.
March 10, 2008 at 2:43 am
the chapter 6-1 time is really useful for power leveling thanks for the tip
March 14, 2008 at 11:36 am
Hey, I just got this game. I live in Tokyo and I write reviews for rpg games. I absolutely loved the first two games and so far this one has been great. I haven’t gotten the chance to speak to many other people who have the game. What are your impressions? Is it really that much more massive than the other games? The graphics are surprisingly simple for a PS3 game, which doesn’t bother me since I like the series, but I may have to deduct a point in my review anyway since so far, it seems like there haven’t been many significant changes from previous games and the old-school graphics may turn off people who aren’t fans.
Like I said, I’m just starting. Your blog has been very useful and I’d be interested to hear your take.
March 14, 2008 at 11:58 am
So far I like this one more than the first two (gameplay wise). Story wise, it’s better than Disgaea 2.
Mana is a lot more useful post game (and HL too for buying insanely priced BG musics.., yes you can change item world BG music or set it to random)
For the sprites, I agree that they should make it sharper. But the menus, CGs and everything are perfect (at least for me). the sprites seems to have more frames as well.
Voice acting in Disgaea 3 is better compared to the first two. generic classes have more voices as well (several voice for lifting, attacking etc).
Actually there are quite significant changes in the gameplay mechanics (academy world, mabilities, geoblocks, ma-change, tower skills, homeroom clubs). It’s more complex and bigger than the previous Disgaeas (and of course more time consuming….)
feel free to ask me more
March 18, 2008 at 5:43 am
You left out the teachers( you can pick any teacher you want when you pass a bill). Also the Berserker class suck at first, but they will kick ass if you focus on there attack. Can’t learn skill from pupil, need to use the new Academy World for this (but if the charater is next to you can use it for a while). Hall of Discipline’s ( I rather call it school of ordeal)second part helps on leveling.
March 18, 2008 at 9:31 am
@laharl: thanks for the input
I wrote about the need of academy world to learn skills but I forgot to write about using the ability to use club member skills next to you 
March 18, 2008 at 3:36 pm
No problem. Do you need help with your guide. I am only on the first play but my charaters are very powerful. also I am trying to find out how to get the dark world stages. I only have 2 of them. Sorry if I ever misspell. Funny thing is my friends say My spelling in Japanese is bitter than my english writing.
March 19, 2008 at 9:35 am
@laharl: sure if you want to help
you can either post it here or send it to ron at otadesho dot com. I will give you credit just tell me what name do you want to use 
March 20, 2008 at 2:20 am
Thanks for the response. It was very helpful. I’m still not finished with the game so I wanted to ask you how does this game compare with the other two in terms of length. It seems like it has more post game content than both of the earlier games. About what level were you when you beat it?
Sorry to be a pest but you and one other Japanese chick are the only people I know playing the game so I could use a few points of reference since I tend play RPGs very slowly, so my experience isn’t really representative.
March 20, 2008 at 9:43 am
the story length is about the same. but the chapter number is lower, disgaea 3 only has 8 chapters, but each chapter has more levels (there’s also commercial break every mid chapter ^^)
I finished the game at lvl 300+ in around 80 hours play time. I spent quite some time in the Hall of Discipline (a.k.a Cave of Ordeals / Hall of Ordeals / School of Ordeals), and I’ve unlocked asagi before finishing the story.
But I think you can finish the story with level 80 characters (enemies were level 90s) in around 60 hours play time.
April 1, 2008 at 2:57 am
I have a question.. (I’m asking this because I’m not very fluent in Japanese, and I can’t read much (if any) Kanji at all..)
How can you change characters you have in your party?..
And where can you create a character?
April 1, 2008 at 3:12 am
Oh and, nice guide (and site) you have there
April 1, 2008 at 10:18 am
hmm very hard if you can’t read at least katakana words…
you don’t pick character in party, you choose which character to come out from the base panel..
to create a character you need to talk to pleinair, and then you will get into class room, pick the second menu (ホームルーム) , then you’ll choose which character is going to be used to create new character, and then you choose this: 新しいキャラクターを作る
I hope you can see all the japanese character that I write here.
April 1, 2008 at 10:35 am
Hey how do I get weapons higher than Rank 34 which I currently have? Like where is Yoshitsuna or the Baal Sword?
April 1, 2008 at 10:57 am
@Dave: Land of Carnage Item World…. Have fun collecting maps! :p
April 1, 2008 at 11:11 am
Lucky I have already started. Your talking about the tickets you get after defeating the pirates right? Do you know how many there are. Thank for responding once again. Have you started collecting maps?
April 1, 2008 at 11:30 am
ya I mean tickets
there are 25 tickets, haven’t starting collecting them, I’m still on my second playthru 
April 3, 2008 at 5:32 am
I am on my 3 playthru. I have been asking around on how to get the endings. 1 of the endings you do in chapeter 1. I did that 1 but you have to be able to kill level 1200 monsters. BTW Ron where should I put my info for helping? ooo an just call me laharl. ma ha ha lol.
April 3, 2008 at 10:52 am
@laharl: you can email it to me: ron at otadesho dot com, or post it here in the comment section, thanks
April 3, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Hello! I figure since I’ve been happy using your guide, I should let you know about the way to unlock cheerleader. I did level a druid and wizard (f) to the levels you specify but it didn’t work. Then I decided to make a Healer (f) to make a ninja healer and after I got that past level 30, I got the cheerleader. So, I’m not sure if you need all three or it has to be a healer (f) instead of a wizard (f) but it wasn’t just the wizard and druid. I hope this helps and hopefully someone can confirm this.
April 4, 2008 at 9:32 am
@kendji: thanks for the input, added to the post
April 5, 2008 at 5:10 pm
how to get some of the endings hero mao ending= kill the hand at the end of the chapter 1 twice.raspberyl ending= Get a game over in the Chapter 2 boss fightEvil mao ending= kill 100 people ( might be story charaters in there I haven’t done this one yet)
jiiya ending = kill the last boss with only mao
almaz ending= kill the last boss with only almaz( hint I like to call him stupid)
normal ending= don’t do anything above.
I have only got 3 of them but they all seem like that is how you get them. wa ha ha ha lol.
April 7, 2008 at 3:08 pm
@laharl: added
thank you very much
April 7, 2008 at 6:36 pm
I am getting the offical japanese guide for the game. Next I will try to tell you how to get all the dark world stages. I have 2 of them you have to have a good team for them though.
April 12, 2008 at 4:20 am
Just like how disgaea 2 was with adell when you wanted to jump to high places. Disgaea 3 is the same with Mao. To get mao to jump at his max you need him at level 4000. Also another ending is for rasberly is in chapter 1 when you fight her, you must lose the fight. Also in the offical japanese guide the rasberly ending for chapter 2 it says that you have to loss the fight aginst rasberly, so I guess that the one that I found before must be wrong. Hope this helps ron. I need to read more in the book.
April 19, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Totally not related to Disgaea 3 however ron are you planning to try out MGO?
You can download free from PSN (Australia)
Thought I could grab your attention here lol
April 20, 2008 at 5:38 am
downloaded MGO beta just now, and I can’t download the patch. both peer to peer and http gave me error.
Did you get any problem downloading the update?
April 20, 2008 at 4:45 pm
I didn’t have any problems on the update but I had some one getting the konami Id. Also I have been trying to get the maps in disgaea. They are really called tickets in the game and they unlock the dark world stages. There are 2 ways to get them by buying them in the item world and by the pirates in the item world. How are you ron?
April 21, 2008 at 4:06 pm
took me 24 hours to update MGO to 1.01 ron.
Finished yesterday…
Tried logging today but won’t work since morning, I wonder when can we start testing the beta
Will try later in the evening lol
April 21, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Beta has been pushed back….
They will announce the new date tomorrow
April 25, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Ok, I have been fighting Baal with my 4028 razuberly. I also have other people to raise int. and all. So I decide to steal baal best armor and weapon. One would think that would be enough but no. He still kill me In one hit.
May 8, 2008 at 10:52 am
Hehe, I haven’t met the lvl 4000 Baal, busy playing hot shots golf and senjou no valkyrie :p
laharl, have you successfully beat Baal? I heard that final Baal in LoC also very strong, and can one shot lvl 9999 characters. They say need to transmigrate lvl 9999 several times to beat him.
June 1, 2008 at 4:52 pm
er…guys…i just started this game…which is part 3 on ps3…but is at jap version…can understand how it play most…but there is problem where i try to use Mability (魔ビリティ) or Demon Ablility replaces character/class trait from older series…can someone teach me how do i use that?…thank…can email me at pianogoh at hotmail dot com…thank…
June 2, 2008 at 10:00 am
what problem you encounter with mability? you need to put them in the same club in order to activate the mability, and the person need to have weapon profiency as well (razberyl is sword if I’m not mistaken, been a while since I play disgaea 3 :p)