List of Disgaea 1 Weapons

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Weapon Skills are unlocked through increasing Weapon Mastery level.

Fist
Weapon damage is based on ATK, but it also increases HIT. Skills are short-ranged, but usually change the target's position.

Sword
Weapon damage is based on ATK. A standard weapon, with no special characteristics. Skills cover various ranges and areas of effect.

Spear
Weapon damage is based on ATK. Gives less stats than other weapons, but has a normal attack range of 2. Skills tend to move the user and/or hit multiple enemies around you.

Bow
Weapon damage is based on the average of ATK and HIT. Notable for their good normal attack range(usually 3). Skills cover various areas of effect and can inflict each of the 5 status ailments.

Gun
Weapon damage is based only on HIT. They have the best normal attack range of all weapons(usually 4), and their skills also have good range. To compensate for this, damage dealt while you have a gun equipped is reduced by 25%.

Axe
Weapon damage is based on ATK. Gives the most ATK of all weapons, but lowers HIT to compensate. Skills only target a single adjacent unit, but they lower the target's DEF.

Staff
A weapon specialized in increasing INT, although weapon damage is still based on ATK. Staff Mastery does not grant weapon skills, instead improving the power of magical skills and the range and AoE of spells.

Monster
These weapons can only be equipped by monster units. They increase ATK and have no skills associated to them.

There's two unique monster weapons that are listed as ranks 41 and 42, going beyond the usual 40 rank barrier. The two items can only be stolen from Baal or Rozalin and Prinny Baal, respectively.