A menu showing a Winged Warrior's master and ten students in Disgae 2
Extra Gain is a system that lets certain characters gain power from others. It was introduced in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, and reappeared only in Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories and Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness.
Description[]
In Disgaea 1 and 2, when a character creates another one through the Dark Assembly they become the Master of the created character (the Student). In Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness, Master/Student relationships can be manually assigned.
This system allows for the Master to obtain power from their Students (contrary to what the name might suggest), gaining increased stats and learning Spells from them.
Note that the terms used for the characters are different depending on the game:
- In Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, the creator is named the "Mentor" and the created character the "Pupil."
- In Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories, the creator is named the "Master" and the created character the "Student".
- In Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness, creators are still "Master" and the created character the "Apprentice."
While Extra Gain is not explicitly present in Disgaea 3 and Disgaea 4, its bonuses can still be accessed through Clubs and Evil Symbols, with Leaders taking the place of Masters and other members taking the place of their Students.
Benefits[]
Statistics Boost[]
When a Master has Students, the Master receives a bonus to each of their stats equal to 10% of the highest of each base stat(equipment and stats boosts are ignored) amongst all their students.
For example, if the Master has these three students:
| Student | ATK | INT | HIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 | 75 | 100 |
| 2 | 50 | 50 | 75 |
| 3 | 75 | 100 | 50 |
In this scenario, the Master would receive a bonus of 10 ATK and 10 HIT from student 1, nothing from student 2, and 10 INT from student 3.
Learning Spells[]
While a Master stands adjacent to one of their Students, the Master can use any of the Spells the Student knows. Shared spells will start at Skill Level 0, but if one is cast enough times to reach level 1 it'll be completely learned, letting the Master use it without the help of the Student.
In Disgaea D2, the Student is able to learn Spells from the Master as well. In Disgaea 3 and 4, shared Spells do not gain Skill EXP and cannot be permanently learned.