Reincarnation (Term)
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Reincarnation, also known as Transmigration, is a recurring gameplay feature in the Disgaea series. It involves taking a character and "reincarnating" them to another class, or the same one. This allows them to start again at level 1, but with increased stats, weapon mastery and some abilities from their old class. In this way, the character can reach level 9999 (the cap) over and over again, becoming progressively stronger. They will also be able to diversify, learning multiple skills from different classes.
[edit] Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
In Disgaea: Hour of Darkness and the PSP port, Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness, reincarnation is referred to as Transmigration. In the DS port, Disgaea DS, "Transmigration" has been retconned to "Reincarnation" to match up with Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories and Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice.
A character can transmigrate by applying to the Dark Assembly. Only characters that are Rank 3 can transmigrate. When a character transmigrates, they can change their class, but they are reduced to Level 1. They may keep all their skills, depending on what you quality you transmigrate as. The lower the quality, the lower amount of skills and weapon mastery levels you keep.
There are some limitations to transmigration. Storyline characters such as Laharl or Etna cannot transmigrate into another class, they can only transmigrate into themselves. Also, monsters cannot directly transmigrate into humanoids, and humanoids cannot directly transmigrate into monsters. However, monsters and humanoids can transmigrate into Prinnies, and Prinnies can transmigrate into monsters or humanoids. Thursday cannot transmigrate as it is a machine.
When someone transmigrates, they can transmigrate into one of 6 qualities:
- Good-for-nothing - -5 bonus points
- Incompetent - 1 bonus point
- Average - 3 bonus points
- Skilled - 6 bonus points
- Distinguished - 8 bonus points
- Genius - 10 bonus points
Whenever someone trasmigrates, their level is added to a hidden counter that keeps track of many total levels you've gained before you transmigrate. For example, if you transmigrate twice at Level 9999, then the counter will have 19998 levels. (9 999 x 2 = 19 998). The maximum amount of levels the counter can hold is 186 000. This value is converted into a number of bonus points which you can add to your base stats. The maximum amount of bonus points you can have is 200. So transmigrating 19 times, with all times being at LV9999 as a Genius will get you 210 bonus points to add to your base stats.
[edit] Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
In Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories, Transmigration has been renamed "Reincarnation". Reincarnation is largely the same as it was in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. However, humanoids can now reincarnate into monsters, and monsters can reincarnate into humanoids without having to reincarnate into Prinnies first. To remove stamped felonies, non-story characters must use the Reincarnate into a Prinny option. For story characters it is called Reincarnate to Atone for Sins, as changing class is not possible.
[edit] Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
In Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, whenever a storyline character such as Mao or Laharl reincarnates, they gain 5% in all their aptitudes. However, this will only happen the first five times they reincarnate. Other than this, reincarnation is the same as it was in Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories.
