Whats Next?

Learn how to master classes and farm Shards/Extracts in Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance. Boost your characters' base stats to new heights with these post-game strategies.

The next step in powering up your characters involves mastering their classes. To start off, put someone in the maxed out Alchemy Squad (or fill it with useless characters) and have the Alchemy Shop create a Carnage version of the Eclair. Once this is done, if you’re using a character that doesn’t have access to Geo Blast, then go through Chara World (Demon difficulty is enough) to create a skill scroll. To begin mastering classes, go into the Carnage Eclair at 20 stars and simply destroy Geo Symbols. You can slightly "cheat" a bit and have your Alchemy Shop spitting out Gency Exits and keep using them to exit the Item World after you master a class.

It should only take a minimum of one Geo Symbol to max a majority of the classes, but some of them will require two. Of course, this is with an Evility that increases Class EXP. Basically, every time you master a class, you leave the Item World via a Gency Exit, switch to another class and keep doing it until you’ve completely mastered all classes. Once you’re finished with this, reincarnate the character, stick them in the maxed out Elite Four Squad and equip them with the Raised Flag you got earlier. If you don’t have one or are leveling up a monster character, purchase all of the 10% stat growth rate Evilities (HP one isn’t needed) and equip them instead.

If done right, then you should have close to 10 million base stats for the character(s) leveled in the Elite Four Squad, or very close to it. It will happen if you have the three DLC classes also mastered, but you might fall short a little bit if not. You can do this for as many characters as you want, but taking the tip listed above and the following step, a maximum of five characters would be beneficial.

It’s a good idea to have a boost to Class Proficiency before you start mass mastering classes.

Farming Shards/Extracts

The second half of your base stats will come from Shards and Extracts, the former of which you’ve probably seen, as you randomly get them whenever you kill an enemy in Revenge Mode. Extracts, on the other hand, are gotten from prisoners. You need to interrogate them until they have no more SP, then choose the Extract option. The better thing about Extracts is that they boost all stats, instead of just a single one with the Shards.

There are three good maps for prisoners, the first of which is the Sandcano Challenge Map. The good thing about this stage is that all of the enemies here only have a single HP. They are level 120 with no stars and level 640 at the maximum of 20 stars. If you have Metallia (DLC), then her Overload is great here. Otherwise, use a Sage equipped with the Megaphone, using either Land Decimator or the Overload skill, Comet Disaster.

Carnage Phantom Copies

The second good map for Shards/Extracts is the Carnage version of The Phantom Copies. This stage will require a little bit of setting up, especially if you have a freshly maxed-classes character. For your Sage, you want to equip the Twin Heads (Twin Dragon) and Greedy Disposition (Nether Noble) Unique Evilities, as well as the Heavy Stance (Dark Knight), Violence (Void Dark), Purgatory (Dark Knight) and any other damage-increasing Evilities (like Desperation, which is a Felynn one). The Sage’s Land Decimator should be as leveled as possible (Skill Shop leveling) without being unable to cast it from the high SP cost.

To start off this map, you want to bring your four support characters out and surround the Base Panel, then bring out your Sage and use Land Decimator. As long as you don’t move her before acting, you should cast Land Decimator twice. Keep doing this until you happen to kill all of the fake Asagis. All you have to do is finish the boss off, as Land Decimator is not likely to do a lot of damage to that enemy unit. With the Megaphone equipped, it’s possible to get a lot of prisoners.

As your Prisoners reach the max capacity in the Interrogation Room, create an Extract from them all.

Carnage Martial Training 4

This is the final map that is great for getting prisoners; well, it’s the leveling version of it, so if you haven’t cleared it once again, do that first. For this, you will want to fully level the Capture Squad and use the 3x3 skill it gives you, that’s the same pattern the bears are in here. As for Evilities, get rid of Twin Heads and replace it with Assault Attack from the Valkyrie class. The rest of the Evilities from The Phantom Copies part can remain the same. All five of your characters will want to have three pairs of Shoes on (Carnage versions have 3 Move each).

You want a lot of movement because you’re going to be going behind the Bears on your first turn, which will give you a nice boost to attack power thanks to Assault Attack. As usual, have your support characters surround your Sage (can only have three, unfortunately) and let loose with the Capture Skill. As you get the max of 128 prisoners, interrogate them all and make an extract. Keep doing this over and over, combining the Extracts with the one bill in the Dark Assembly. When you feel you are ready to use the extract, read the next section.

Powering Up, Part 2

When you feel you’re ready to use an Extract, you will want to do something that will maximize its effectiveness. The Maid has a Common Evility that extends the effective range of an item, called Licensed Caregiver. Normally, you can only use an Extract on one character, but with the above Evility, you will be able to use it on a total of five characters at once! The problem is picking four other characters to use for this.

Killia is one good candidate, as there’s an Evility setup for him that makes him into a counter powerhouse. Without DLC, you c