Makai Wars English Guide, Character Info, & Translations
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Makai Wars (魔界ウォーズ ) released on Android and iOS (in Japan only) in February! As a huge fan of Disgaea I started a guide to both get you started quickly and also detail the more intricate details, all without knowing Japanese. The guide will be expanded over time as new info comes in. As always, you can donate to my Patreon to support my guides!
Makai Wars is a simplified Strategy Roleplaying Game much like Disgaea (and half of NIS’ other games), and it’s Asagi’s very own game! For real this time! No really, stop laughing!
2020-02-13: Happy second anniversary! Also we found lyrics for the Asagi song (Fuwa fuwa fuwa fuwa)
2019-08-16: New units:
4* Zeta Fire/Fist/Male/Walking S2: CT4~2, AOE Big Damage, 15~30% 1-Turn Stun S3: CT6~4, AOE Super Big Damage, Enemy DEF-10~25% for 2 Turns. P1: When attacking, 50% chance of ignoring 50~100% of enemy DEF. P2: Damage Dealt +30~50%. P3: 50~100% chance of lowering S3 CT by 2 when defeating an enemy.
4* Metallia Wood/Sword/Female/Flying S2: CT4~2, AOE Big Damage Damage 15% chance of dealing all kinds of ailments to enemies for 2 Turns. S3: CT6~4, AOE Super Big Damage, 20% chance of dealing all kinds of ailments to enemies for 2 Turns. P1: At the beginning of the wave, Poison all Walking enemies for 2 Turns. All Walking Enemies have SPD-10~30%. P2: Damage received from enemies with ailments reduced by 11~33%. Damage dealt to enemies with ailments increased by 44~66%. P3: When defeated, revive one time at 60~80% HP and reduce Wait by 20~50.
3* Trenia Light/Book/Female/Walking S2: CT4~2, AOE Big Damage + 35~80% chance of 2-Turn Burn. S3: CT6~4, AOE Super Big Damage + 30~45% 2-Turn Confuse. P1: All Allies within 2 Tiles of her have DEF+15~25% and SPD+1~10%. P2: At the end of her turn, generate a shield equal to 20% of her max HP. Also, at the beginning of her turn, if she has a shield, Recover 25% of her HP.
3* Nezaria Water/Staff/Female/Flying S2: CT4~2, AOE Big Damage + 45~60% chance of Blinding Enemies for 2 Turns and Reduces Enemy CriPer by 35~45% for 2 Turns. S3: CT6~4, AOE Super Big Damage + 30~40% chance of Blind for 2 Turns and 30~40% chance of Immobilize for 2 Turns. P1: All Enemies with Blind have ATK-20~40%. P2: At the start of her turn, 10~30% chance of blinding all enemies 2 Tiles around her for 2 Turns.
2019-02-21: NISA added, 4* units added, rate up for the first 4*s. 8* weapons added, new SP dungeon for Reincarnation material added. JP wiki on Reincarnation
NISA Walking Fist Red S2: Cross-shaped AOE, Big Damage. Self SPD+15% for 2 Turns, CT4. CT2 and SPD+30% when maxed S3: 日-shaped AOE, Super Big Damage, CT6. CT4 when maxed P1: Revive with 1% HP when defeated once, WT-49. 95% chance of restoring 49% HP. 5% chance of proccing P2. P2: When HP is below 5%, damage dealt +50%. +200% when maxed
2019-01-31: Valentine’s Day units! Thanks to Yilx in discord for translations
Vday Sapphire Light, Axe, Female, Walking S2: 1×3 Damage, CT4, Self DEF+30% for 2 Turns, DEF+50% and CT2 when maxed S3: Sexy Beam AOE, CT6, Super Big Damage, Generates a shield for herself equal to 10% of max HP for 3 turns. CT4 when maxed P1: SPD+5% at the start of her turn. 20% when maxed. Resets per wave P2: When being attacked, DEF+15% if Speed is lower than enemy. Also, ATK+15% when SPD is higher than the target. DEF+35% and ATK+35% when maxed Vday Rota Green, Sword, Female, Flying S2: Cross-Shaped AOE, CT5, Big Damage, 20% 1-Turn Paralyze. CT3 and 40% Paralyze when maxed S3: 3×3, Super Big Damage, ATK+15% to self for 2 turns, CT6. CT4 with ATK+30% when maxed P1: 50% chance of reducing the CT of all Green Allies S2 by 1 when her turn begins. 70% when maxed P2: When receiving a buff when attacking, Damage+10%. +30% when maxed (Seems to work in tandem with her S3) Red, Axe, Female, Walking S2: Single Target Damage, CT4, 25% 1-Turn Paralyze, CT2 with 30% Paralyze when maxed S3: Chaos Impact AOE, Super Big Damage, Enemy DEF-35% for 2 Turns and 30% chance of burning enemies for 2 Turns, CT6. DEF-50% with CT4 when maxed. P1: At the start of her turn, Wait-10 to the ally with lowest HP and 5% Heal, Wait-30 when maxed P2: DMG-25% from debuffed enemies, 50% when maxed
2019-01-24: New 15 day pass IAP, gives the same as the normal but also 10% more success rate for enhancing (10% of the current rate, not 10 percentage points), 500 rubies on last day, 1 dark ticket (single time).
Buffs:
Alvitr Max HP 7200 -> 9200 (max level) S2 has “SPD+25% for 2 Turns” added (max level) S3 CT from 7/6 to 6/5 P1 “When Alvitr crits, she gets a shield of 10% (max 25%) of her max HP” changed to “Automatically creates a shield equal to 15% of max HP on turn start” P2 “At start of Alvitr’s turn, 15% (max 25%) chance to reduce all allies skill 2 CD by 1 ” buffed to max 33% chance (max level) Thrud Max ATK 986 -> 1086 (max level) S2 Atk Buff CT from 6/4 to 5/3 S3 Nuke has 50% Burn Chance added (Max Level) P1 “Instantly take a turn when defeating an enemy” has new effect added; “In addition, when defeating a Statused Enemy with Skill 3, reduce it’s CT by 2 for every defeated enemy)” Fenrich Max SPD 135 -> 150 (max level) S3 has DEF-25% for 2 Turns Added (max level) P2 “Adjacent Dark Allies get ATK+30%, DEF+30%” changed to “Adjacent Dark Allies get 90% chance to evade attacks from enemies”
2019-01-21: Winter Adell and Winter Valkyrie units, limited gachapon. APK update, Effect of non White/Red magic gems was increased. For example 2 HP gems is now +50% HP instead of 10%, three gems is 100%.
Winter units:
Wither Adell Light, Fist, Walking S2: Single Target Damage, DEF-25% for 2 Turns, CT3, CT2 wit DEF-35% when maxed S3: All Enemies, Super Big Damage, CT7, CT5 when maxed P1: ATK+25% vs Adjacent Enemies, 50% when maxed P2: +45% Damage vs enemies with buffs, 70% when maxed
Winter Valkyrie Water, Sword, Flying S2: ST Damage, Self Speed+15%, CT4, CT2 and Speed + 30% when maxed. S3: X-Shaped AOE, Super Big Damage, CT5, ATK-10% and CriPer-20% Debuff. ATK-20%, CriPer-30%, CT3 when maxed P1: All flying allies get a shield equal to 10% of their max HP when wave starts, 25% when maxed P2: All allies receive 4% damage cut, 10% when maxed
Full list of Gem changes:
2018-12-27: New Year’s Event and character banner. Free 1 daily summon. Thanks to Yilx for the translated moves. Equipment Dungeon AP costs halved…but there’s 2 events on to do. New Years Almaz Green Sword Walking Male S2: Single Target, Self Speed +25% for 2 Turns, CT4. Self Speed+50% with CT2 when maxed. S3: Aoe that looks like this -> 三, Super Big Damage, CT6, CT4 when maxed P1: Heals all allies when critting for 4% of their max HP, 10% when maxed P2: 10% damage cut when HP is above 80%, 30% when maxed New Years Pandora Light Staff Flying Female S2: All Allies DEF+10% and 5% Heal, CT4. DEF+20%, 10% Heal and CT2 when maxed. S3: 3×3 Super Big Damage and DEF-15% for 2 Turns, CT6. DEF-30% with CT4 when maxed P1: Generates a shield equal to 5% of her own max HP when defeating an enemy. 15% when maxed. P2: At the end of her turn, heals allies within 2 spaces for 1% of their health and removes 1 random ailment. 5% heal when maxed New Years Fuuka Fire Axe Walking Female S2: Single Target, 25% 1-Turn Stun, CT4. 50% 1-Turn Stun with CT2 when maxed S3: A bit strange Checkerbox aoe, Super Big Damage with 20% chance of 2-Turn Blind, CT6. 35% Blind when maxed with CT4. P1: Damage+20% when attacking enemies with lower HP, 50% when maxed P2: 50% chance of countering attacks from adjacent enemies with 25% chance of 1-Turn stun. 75% Coutner with 50% stun when maxed
2018-12-21: Buffs for some characters, Thanks to Yilx for the translations! Also noted in Stats that melee units (range 1) deal extra damage with normal attacks. Finally, note that Holiday Laharl and Holiday Etna are two of the best units in the game!
Laharl buff:
Max HP 9200 > 11200 Max ATK 1140 > 1200 Max Def 984 > 1084 Normal attack damage increased Skill 2 CT -1 Skill 3 maxed CT from 5 to 4 Laharl now gets a CriPer+50% when countering 30% chance of ignoring defense on skill 3 buffed to 75%
Etna
Max HP 8400 > 9900 Max ATK 852 > 952 Max DEF 840 > 900 Max SPD 126 > 136 Sexy Beam Max CT from 3 to 2 Chaos Impact Max CT from 5 to 4, now hits 2 spaces from Etna instead of 1 30% atk buff when attacking same gender units buffed to 50%
Surtr max HP 9100 >11500 Max ATK 1140 > 1200 Max DEF 980 > 1150 Normal Attack Damage Up Skill 2 CT from 5/3 to 4/2 Skill 2 now has 100% Burn Chance New Passive added “100% chance of burning all enemies for 2 turns when defeating an enemy” (When Max level)
Dark Asagi Max HP 9000 > 9500 Max ATK 1000 > 1100 Max DEF 860 > 910 Skill 2 CT from 5/3 to 4/2, 30% blind chance added (Max Level) Skill 3 CT from 5 to 4 when maxed, 45% blind chance buffed to 55%
2018-12-14: Happy Holidays! Holiday event with Laharl, Etna, and Asagi as limited units. Asagi is free as usual: Holiday Asagi stones are a rare drop from the final stage! It’s a grind event so repeat the final stage a lot. If Asagi is the boss, she drops stones. Thief drops other rewards.
Special $100 IAP pack with a ticket that can redeem any single non-limited/collaboration character instantly (you can see the choices in the shop menu). Since it’s just one, I’d say it’s not that worth it. There is a much cheaper “Rank Bonus” IAP that’s more worth tho.
2018-12-07: APK update, game update. New characters, Lanza event. Thanks to Sad Yilx for data. staff rate up (flonne, pandora, medjed) lanzalotta dungeon up they’ve doubled the amount of HL and mana you can buy for diamonds/rubies too mfw – App Update – New Rank Pack (up to 100) – Staff Rate Up (Flonne, Pandora, Medjed) – Lanzalotta Event Dungeon – Doubled the Mana/HL from spending rubies/diamonds to buy them Ash (Ragnaquest) Dark Sword Walking Male S2: ST Big Damage, 25% 2-turn Blind. 40% when maxed. CT5, CT3 when maxed. S3: 3×3 1 Space in front, Very Big Damage, CT6, CT4 when maxed P1: 30% DMG against Dark Enemies, 5% Damage cut from Dark Enemies. 50%/25% when maxed P2: -15% Criper for all enemies, -33% when maxed Patty Dark Axe Walking Female S2: All allies +10% ATK and SPD, +25%/25% when maxed. CT5, CT3 when maxed S3: 3×3 Very Big Damage, 35% 2-Turn Blind. 50% Blind when maxed. CT6, CT4 when maxed P1: All Gender Unknown allies +40% ATK/+40% DEF/+10% SPD, +60%/+60%/+30% when maxed (WTF) P2: When there are less remaining allies than enemies, all enemies get -15% DEF. -30% when maxed (WTF) For reference, the only Unknown Gender units in the game are the Horned Rabbits, Male Ghosts, Catbots, Prinnies, Zombies, Mothmen and Chimera Chtirsto Wood Staff Walking Male S2: 15% Heal for 2 spaces around Christo, 30% when maxed. CT5, CT3 when maxed S3: Cross-Shaped AOE in front, Very Big Damage. 25% chance of sealing Skill 3 for 2 Turns. 40% when maxed. CT6, CT4 when maxed. P1: Adjacent allies get +60% ATK, +80% when maxed P2: Heals allies 2 spaces around Christo for 5% when he ends his turn, 15% when maxed
2018-11-12: Item World is out (APK update). You don’t have to spend rubies! That’s just to speed up the timer. Details from Sad Yilx:
-you dont actually play item world, you send a party of any number into the IW to get innocents, level a bit and get some goodies -you can still use the units you sent into item world -they will return once every 3 hours with random coloured innocents of a random number, every 10th floor you get goodies as per the normal game -red innocents can power up attack enchants on items, green can power up def, etc -special purple ones can remove enchants from items -you can speed up 1 floor, 10 or 20 floors at a time with rubies
2018-11-09: Game update! Halloween event part 2: ranking event for Asagi Stones. 3 rounds of 1 week long rankings with rewards in each. In addition there’s point rewards; 6k points is enough to summon Halloween Asagi, as long as you get the 10 stones from the earlier event mission, even if you don’t rank. You can also +1 Halloween Asagi with two 1k+ rankings or two 3k and one 1k ranking. 1-100: 100 stones 501-1000:50 1001-3000: 30 3001-5000: 10
Also included in update: -Dragon Banner Rate ups and Gacha-able dragon units -Fist Banner Unut, Killia, zerokangz rate ups -Halloween Event p2 -Extra Rubies for charging diamonds -Potion Dungeons Open -Mana gained up campaign -Voices added for various 2* units -Various buff to Dragon, Wood Golem, Kitsune stats and skills
2018-11-07: New mobile-friendly, searchable characters table! Try it out.
2018-10-26: New banner, Lasfire, Thrud, Usalia. New Disgaea 3 challenge stage with nearly impossible final level (that only gives 10 tickets, no reason to beat it except bragging rights, grind on the other stages instead). Dullahan readjustments, thanks to SadYilx for translating:
Red Dullahan Before: “Damage+50% vs paralyzed enemies” After: “+20% ATK for each alive Ally, +25% speed whenever an ally id defeated”
Green Dullahan Before: “Damage+50% vs paralyzed enemies” After: “+20% ATK for each alive Ally, +25% speed whenever an ally id defeated”
Dark Dullahan Before: “When an enemy dies, gain 10% atk and def, resets per wave” Aftr: “When defeating an enemy, ATK+25%, DEF+40%, resets per wave” Before: “Damage+50% vs paralyzed enemies” After: “-60 WT when defeating an enemy”
2018-10-19: 2 new characters added to gatcha, Fragmented Desco rewards (finally) here
-New Story -New Characters (Athena and Mr Champloo) -Guaranteed 1 3* pull is back (Diamonds only, 10 times per person) – Orb Dungeons Up – Arena Up – Voices for Athena – Items for Desco distributed, 1 Desco concerted to 10 Mana – DEF Rebalancing Notice on the 31st *When an attacking character is higher than a defending character’s defense, the difference will be reduced (?) *No changes for when DEF is higher than attack
Thanks to Sad Yilx for new info/characters translation Athena Light Spear S2: 3×3 Light Damage 15% Chance 2-Turn Blind, CT 5 S3: All Allies DEF 10% Buff, Adjacent Allies receive Barriier P1: +5% DEF for each Ally P2: 15% Heal when getting critted, 25% when maxed
Champloo Fist Fire S2: All Allies ATK+10%, DEF+10%, +25% when maxed, CT5, CT3 when maxed S3: Surrounding Tiles Super Big Damage, 50% 2-Turn Burn P1: 50% DMG Cut from Burnt Enemies P2: +5% Speed to all Fire Allies, 20% when maxed
2018-10-12: Minor to major buffs for Adell, Rozalin, Valkyrie (Ragna Quest), Sapphire, Olrun’s skills, Sapphire has more def.
2018-09-28: New event. New Arena season with Male unit damage buff. 2 new units, Red Magnus and Medjed.
Red Magnus Fire Male Fist S2: Big Damage in a Line 3 Spaces in front, CT 4, CT 2 when maxed S3: Cross-Shaped Very Big Damage, CT 6, CT 4 when maxed P1: +20% Damage vs Adjacent Enemies, 50% when Maxed P2: -20% Damage from Adjacent Enemies, 50% when maxed Medjed Light Female Staff S2: Straight Line in Front, Big Damage 5 Spaces. 25% 2 Turn Confuse, CT 5, CT 3 with 35% ConfuSe WhEn MaXeD S3: 5×3 AOE (!!!), SuPeR BiG DamAGE, 5 SpACce KnoCkBacK, CT 6, CT 4 When MAxED P1: 20 DamagE Cut frOm Enemy SkilL 3s, -50% wheN MaXeD, ResiSts FataL DamAge Once P2: When BeginnNing HeR tuRN with LesS than 5% Hp, SkilL 3 CT -4, 15% WheN MaxED for some reason medjed’s chara page is written like that
New character buffs, thanks to SadYilx in discord: Mist – Freeze Gale (s2) has 1 Square Knockback Added – Absolute Zero (S3)’s Inital CT is 6 and max CT is 4 – Shield-ignoring Passive changed to “50% chance of inflicting blind for 2 Turns”
Pandora – Max HP from 6500 to 7500 – Brilliant Gift has “60% 1 Turn Sleep” Added, inital CT 6 and max CT 4 – Her “Heal Everyone when dead” Passive buffed from 25% Heal and -25 WT to 50% Heal and -50 WT – Her DEF when HP is low Passive changed to “DEF+20% at start of turn, max 5 Stacks, Resets per Wave”
Zeroken – Max ATK from 850 to 950 – S3 Inital CT from 6 to 5, damage buffed – Bonus Damage when SPD is higher buffed from 40% to 50%
Usalia – Max HP from 8300 to 9300 – Adjacent Enemies 25% ATK Cut changed to all enemies within 2 squares and DEF buff increased from 50% to 100% – Immunity to Combo Attacks changed to 66% Damage Cut from Dark Enemies
2018-09-21: Game update. New gacha, Olrun and Adell episode quests added. Balance update, patch notes below thanks to Sad Yilx in the discord! $50 “Monthly Pack” updated to be much more generous (10 orbs each, 1 Awakening Book, 6k rubies), compensation sent to everyone who bought the old ones.
Freya – Max HP from 7700 – 9200 – Skill2 has 25% speed down added to it – Heal’s initial CT from 7 to 6 – Def Up Passive now affects 2 spaces around her
Surtr – Skill 3 Nuke initial CT from 7 to 6 – Passive CD cut chance increased to 40%
Sleipnir – Max HP from 6500 to 7000 – Max SPD from 135 to 150 – Skill 2 Nuke has 35% ATK down debuff added to it – Skill 3 initial CT from 7 to 6
Killia – Skill 3 Initial CT from 6 to 5 and damage increased – Passive 1 Wait reduced from 20 to 30 – Passive 2 has Max WT -50 added.
2018-09-16: Game update: Desco XX event! See Events below. Void Dark and a Ragnaquest girl added to Gacha, and a rate up (the rate up is the banner with the countdown, the other is unboosted). Also, it seems various things in the game have been made more forgiving over the last several updates: Weekly Quests (extra hell/evo/xp/etc) seem more common with multiple per day now, and they cost less AP 7* item drop rate seems higher from SP10 quests Failing equipment enhancement raises the chance for success every failure now New achievements Gaps between Arena seasons seem shorter
2018-09-05: APK update: Friends list features added! You can loan the “starred” character from people you follow, just like Star Ocean Anamnesis. See here for more info.. I made a list so you can add people from our Discord server.
2018-08-20: The latest update updated the Tutorial rerollable gacha to give 10 characters including 1 guaranteed 3*s (it can have up to at least 3-5 it seems). Tap the red button to reroll until you get what you like. Appears to be the full pool less the Dark Ticket/Event characters naturally. See below. Also, new Arena matches added.
2018-08-07: It’s Asagi’s Birthday (anniversary of Makai Wars announcement)! Log in to get 8 Sandwiches, 8 Sardines, 88,888 Hell and Mana, 8 L Evo potions, 8 of each color of XP Potions, 1 Awakening Book. There’s an Asagi/Dark Asagi gacha with the usual 8% rate of 3*s, but higher odds to get Asagi/Dark Asagi.
2018-07-06: Game update, Red/Blue orb SP quest are back, higher achievement tiers added. Water themed gacha rate up.
2018-07-31: Arena is here! Makai Wars App and ingame update. Arena mode added, Arena shop with Badges currency Summer Asagi Event, earn summer asagi, 50 stones from grinding event, 50 stones from Arena Shop Summer Asagi, Summer Randgridr, Summer Valvatorez Disgaea Female Mage generic added to gacha New characters added to our communal spreadsheet so share info if you get them!
2018-07-29: Crucial bit of new info: The 100 rubies/etc reward for getting a unit to 6 stars is one time only, selling and re-leveling a unit gives no reward!
2018-07-26: Arena announced, and a retweet campaign (rewards players the more RTs the tweets get).
2018-07-13: App and Content update: Summer event! Special gacha with swimsuit (and different stats/skills) for Alvitr, Rozalin, Judas.
2018-06-29: Content update: More Voices added (most ragnaquest characters are voiced now) New story chapter with associated rubies/goodies New Vote SP Quest event (first option is Blue Orb, section is Red Orb, you can only vote for one) New Female Laharl/Rota event (unsure of final reward at time of writing) New Female Laharl/Archer event (unlocks after beating Rota event) Gachapon for the Female Laharl OCs and Buff Anubis (they really, REALLY like girlharl huh) Extra diamonds/rubies when buying diamonds (roughly 20% more, not really worth buying if you weren’t already planning to buy)
2018-06-27: App update, 1.5.1. Thanks to Sad Yilx in the discord for translating: Fixed Valvatorez/Majorita freezing bug Fixed the present icon vibrating bug Fixed a bug when refilling AP with diamond/rupees Fixed a bug that gacha girl (marie-san) stops moving if you tap her while gacha At some point, Zombies’ blind effect was nerfed and no longer stacks
2018-06-08: Green banner (I spent 15000 rubies and didn’t get Beryl…), character rebalancing. List of buffs thanks to Sad Yilx in Discord:
Asagi 1. Skill 2 CT reduced by 1 2. Skill 2 Knockback from 1 to 3 3. Skill 3 CT from 6 to 5 4. Chance to survive fatal hit from 25% to 30% when maxed
Unut 1. 3-space knockback added to her Skill 2
Adell 1. Base MV from 2 to 3 2. Passive 1 chance for Wait down max increased from 40% to 50% 3. Max HP from 8100 to 9100 4. CT for both Skills reduced by 1
Usalia 1. CT for Skill 3 reduced by 1 2. DEF Boost max increased from 25% to 50%
2018-05-31: Rota, zeroken and verdanti added to the game (they are NOT rate boosted, the banner with no timer is the normal gacha with even rates for all units)
Zerken/Hilde event (drops some rubies, lots of Hell/Mana), Beauty Contest event (raid event, repeat the stage of the character you want to vote for to get rewards/raise their ranking).
2018-05-21: New Dark Asagi Episode Quest, max of 20 Dark Asagi Stones Blue Orb Event: 2 Blue Orbs, 1 Red Orb, ???. Final quest is ridiculously hard (3 100k HP prinnies, then a super powered Etna and Laharl)
2018-05-09: Explained all the status effects, good and bad.
2018-05-02: App version update, fixes some bug with SP quest bosses? and updated terms/policies.
2018-05-01: Beryl event! My phone won’t load Makai Wars ATM so I don’t have many details. She was added to the gacha pool too.
2018-04-23: Flonne and Odin episodes added
2018-04-20: Lots of updates to the character spreadsheet. Added Achievements section to the guide.
2018-04-14: Pram, Petta, and Zetta from Makai Kingdom (Phantom Kingdom in Japan) are coming to Makai Wars with an event/gacha on the 16th.
2018-04-10: Completed the skeleton of the Character Spreadsheet, with names and icons for all characters. The document is open so anyone can add skill translations and strategy notes! Started translating the in app purchase packs for Makai Wars. Found a better japanese wiki that’s more up to date than Gamy.
2018-04-09: Bit of important info I haven’t found a place to work into the guide yet: At Defense >1600 it seems one can start grinding for 6 star gear in SP9-1 quests.
2018-04-02: April fool’s was a success, rewards will be sent on the 6th. Expanded Equipment section, turns out Boots can have +Mov as an Enhancement!
2018-03-31: April Fool’s Day event! Just lasts 24 hours so be sure to play the levels. They’re very easy and all players are rewarded based on total points. Looks like we’ll easily hit the last milestone. Here’s the song.
2018-03-30: New event, see the section below for details! Gives one-time premium items. Also started a spreadsheet for character/etc translation since it’s a bit too much data entry for me to do all by myself. Feel free to add the passives/etc for characters you have to the sheet and I’ll work them into the guide soon!
2018-03-26: Made a Makai Wars channel in my discord server specifically for Makai Wars chatter. Ask for tips or just talk about the game with other players!
2018-03-23: Etna and Freya SP Quest Episodes were added to Makai Wars! More info on Episode Quests added to the SP Quest section.
2018-03-22: Added more clarity on what SP quests can give (they’re the only way to get six star/seven star equipment). Added info on resetting the CloverlabID cloud save’s password.
2018-03-20: Added General Strategy section to Gameplay
2018-03-19: New Prinny event and weekly XP vial SP quests were added to make leveling new characters a bit easier. Updated the Current Timed Events and Characters headings.
2018-03-16: Makai Wars updated and won’t run without the latest Makai Wars APK. The good news is it brings Valvatorez to the normal gachapon and comes with a new story chapter!
2018-03-08: Added more info on upgrading Formations, and a Game Updates section just below this one.
2018-03-07: Added Current Events section.
2018-03-06: Version 01.03.01: Fixes Timezone issue (players of any timezone will regain AP over time as usual, goodbye Japan time!). Added main screen icons for tutorial (bulletin board) and Items. Added “repeat” option along side the Auto Battle and 2x speed options, allowing players to repeat SP quests quickly for farming.
2018-03-06: Geo Symbol info added, and some misc fixes from the last couple days I forgot to mention.
2018-03-02: Restructuring, more Gameplay and Grinding info added. Added info about Gem set bonuses to new Equipment section
2018-03-01: Team Attack info added.
2018-02-28: Added links to new translations of the 4koma comics to the translations section. Game update: Usalia and Surt added to the Gachapon, and an Usalia SP quest was added.
2018-02-26: New Gameplay and Gachapon info added.
2018-02-23: The new update requires your device to be on JST to earn AP/use the gachapon. More info in the FAQ. Makai Wars updated with the episode quests for Laharl and Valkyrie, which will allow players to get Awakening Stones for those two characters. Added info on the different types of missions/SP Quests. Added link to a github project for fan translations.
2018-02-21: Method added for re-rolling the 2 post-tutorial gachapons for the obsessive types.
2018-02-20: Made a First Impressions Video of Makai Wars on Youtube. Added some major differences from Disgaea gameplay-wise. Translated Daily Quests. Character list (3 star only) and some more menu translations.
2018-02-19: Added Elements and other gameplay info
Makai Wars (魔界ウォーズ) is a long-running gag in the Disgaea/NIS community. Originally it was announced as a PSP game for E3 2004 and Asagi was to be the protagonist. It was a no-show. It was later re-announced as a PS3 game, which also never materialized.
Since then Asagi has shown up in a majority of NIS tactical games making cameo appearances, usually searching for her game, Makai Wars. She even got a full “Asagi Mode” side story in Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood (yes that’s a real title).
Finally, in the fateful year of our Overlord 2018, Makai Wars is a real thing and Asagi didn’t lie about it being her game; though it’s basically a Disgaea spinoff title featuring her. It’s a mini-SRPG playing like a simplified version of many of NIS’s other titles, specifically Disgaea.
Game Info
Title: 魔界ウォーズ (Makai Wars) Platform: Android & iOS Language: Japanese Release date: 2018-02-15 (Android) Developer: Nippon Ichi Software and Clover Lab Price: Free with IAP/Gachapon Genre: SRPG Filesize: 520MB (installed and updated) Cloud Save: Yes, must set up CloverlabID Always Online: Yes, persistent internet connection required Gambling element: Yes (standard character Gachapon a la FateGO etc) Battery Drain: High
Big word of warning here; this is not a text-light game. With the use of Google Translate’s image translate feature (Android Version, iOS version), experience with past NIS titles, and a healthy dose of highly scientific trial-and-error, you’ll probably be able to play this game.
It will not be easy at first, but it’s fully playable as long as you’re willing to forgo the story. Even with Google Translate you’re unlikely to be able to enjoy the story without quite a bit of extra effort. If you’re searching for other, native language resources for the game, note the title is “魔界ウォーズ” in native japanese.
Heads up – Yes, this is a free to play mobile game and yes, there is a gachapon. If that’s a problem for you I strongly recommend not bothering especially if you cannot read Japanese. But if you just want to take a quick peek, you can try out Makai Wars for free of course
But for those who want to dive in headfirst like me, here’s how to get started. First you’ll be greeted by some Japanese menus, the intro isn’t too hard to work your way through but here’s an English translation of the first menus just in case:
Once you’ve downloaded and installed Makai Wars it will ask you to agree to the Terms of Service (check the box). Generally, pressing the Red button is Back/Cancel and the Blue button is Accept/Continue. Keep Accepting from the start and name your account (8 characters only).
Eventually you’ll have to download about 40MB of extra data to start the tutorial. Be warned that later you’ll have to download another 400MB of data after the tutorial to actually start playing. I recommend starting Makai Wars on WiFi for that reason.
Tutorial
You’ll get a little story sequence (which you can skip if you don’t know Japanese) and the intro will play. Turn your device on it’s side to see the intro in full 16:9 and turn your volume on if you can/like.
Before we start playing Makai Wars will give you a free Gachapon roll of 4 characters; three 2★ rarity characters and a special 3★. To use Disgaea terms, 2★ characters are “Generics” like Female Warrior and Prinnies, while 3★s are Story Characters like Laharl and Flonne.
The 3★ characters you can get in the tutorial gachapon are listed below. A few characters can only be earned in regular gachapon pulls, not this free one.
Tutorial Gachapon possibilities
You can see a current list of characters here (in japanese). Anyone in that list in Red cannot be gotten in the tutorial gachapon. Additionally Etna is a 20 day login bonus, Asagi is given for free, and Freya is given as a preregistration bonus (to all players); none of those three characters will be in the first Gachapon pull, but you’ll get them all free (eventually, in Etna’s case).
Famous characters that are in the gachapon:
Laharl
Seraphina
Almaz
Rosalina
Killia
Artina
You can reroll the tutorial gachapon as many times as you like by pressing the red button on the left after the draw. Shoot for a 3★ character you like, but remember no amount of spins will get you more than one 3★, and there will be plenty of draws for generic 2★s later.
After you get your starter characters a battle starts. The tutorial is basic SRPG stuff that any Disgaea fan should be most familiar with. Don’t worry about your actions in the battle, it’s very easy, just move forward aggressively and you’ll finish it in a few minutes tops.
After the tutorial you’ll get your first login bonuses; a total of 600 Gems, enough for two extra character Gachapon pulls to start filling out your ranks. From here you’re on your own (for now), just try to experiment and have fun! Some basic menu translations have been posted here to get you started.
Reroll First Gachapons
If you hate yourself enjoy min-maxing Gachapon rolls, a method was discovered to re-roll the first two gachapon rolls with the extra 600 gems you get early in the game without re-downloading the main game.
If you enjoy Shiny Hunting in Pokemon give it a shot for the 3★s of your dreams, personally I wouldn’t bother.
Cloud Save
There’s a cloud save option in the Settings menu you should set up as soon as possible (the two phones and the arrow). Tap the top button to make a new CloverLab account or make one here, then log into it in the game to start using cloud saves. All that’s required is an email and a password no other info.
This will protect your data if your phone is stolen by a Prinny or mistaken for a Sardine by an overlord. If you forgot your CloverLab password (hint; save it in your browser’s password manager!), you can reset your cloverlab ID here.
All enemies within 2 squares have 10% (max 20%) Status resistance down
Almaz
Light, Sword, Male
Running Crosses - Single Target attack, Boosts SPD by 25% (max 50%) for 1 turn, CD 4 (max CD 2)
Summoned Sword Dance - 3x3 Grid infront of Almaz, CD 7 (max CD 5)
Heal all allies 4% (max 10%) when Almaz crits
Deals 25% (max 50%) extra damage to dark enemies
Sapphire
Ice, Axe, Female
1x3 Line
Heals all allies within 2 spaces of Sapphire by 25% (max 35%) removes negative effects, CD 6 (max CD 4)
Increases ATK by 5% when hit up to 10 times, resets per wave
Gives a shield worth 5% of max HP when recieving a critical hit
Salvatore
Fire, Gun, Female, Walking
Damage
Knockback up to 4 Spaces
ATK+5% for all allies within 2 Spaces
All Enemies -10% Speed for first 2 Turns
Super OP for arena due to slowing enemies down. Can replace Sera/make great synergy with her when speed is needed
Champloo
Fire, Fist, Male
Valvatorez
Dark, Fist, Male
Bloody Hole - Around Valvatorez, CD 4 (max CD 2)
Tyrant Flughude - Hits in a cone shape starting as a 1x3 then expanding to a 1x5 column
Revive! Sardine Power! - Revive on death once per wave with 25% HP
Proof of Vampire - Heal for 5% (max 15%) Damage Dealt
pst.....sardines
Fenrich
Fire, Fist, Male
Artina
Light, Staff, Female
Boosts all allies ATK by 50% (max 80%) for 2 turns (max 3 turns)
3x3 AoE infront of Artina that boosts her SPD for 2 turns
Boosts allies SPD by 4% (max 10%)
Increases HL dropped from enemies by 5% (max 15%)
Fuka
Tree, Axe, Female
Bomb-Bat-Stic - Single Target Attack, 25% (max 50%) chance to stun target, CD 5 (max CD 3)
Pringer Kaiser-XX - T Shaped Attack, CD 7 (max CD 5)
At end of turn, clear all debuffs and status ailments on Fuka
Dream Girl - Decrease damage by 25% (max 50%) when recieved Critical damage
Desco
Light, Female
3x3 Grid infront of Desco
3x3 Grid infront of Desco with a chance to seal enemy skill 3 for 1 turn
Every turn Desco gets a 4% crit chance that maxes at 40%, resets every wave
When Desco drops below 30% HP CritDMG increases by 70%
Des X
3x3 AOE CT4 max CT2
True Godly Weapon Z - 3x3 Around her, seal skill 2 with 100% chance CT6 max CT4
Increase attack 10% every turn max 10 time, reset every wave, max 20% every turn
Lethal Weapon Z - When hp is 30% or less increase CritDMG 70%, max When hp is 50% or less increase CritDMG 100%
Dark Ticket Only
Killia
Water, Fist, Male
Exploding Tiger - 1x3 line, 80% (max 100%) chance to blind targets for 2 turns, CD 5 (max CD 3)
Avidya Holy Water - Single Target attack, Decrease enemy defense by 25% for 2 turns and knockback, CD 6 (max CD 5)
Revenge Boost - Decrease wait time by 10 (max 20) when attacked
Destructive Demon - Increase attack by 25% (max 50%) per enemy beaten, resets when wave changes
Seraphina
Light, Gun, Female
Balor Gaze - All Allies 30% (max 50%) Speed Boost for 2 turns, CD 4 (max CD 3)
Battle Orchestra - 1x5 Attack that has a 30% (max 40%) chance to reduce enemy attack by 25% (max 35%) and knocks back 1 space
Queen's Privilege - Has a 10% (max 20%) chance to get another turn after doing any skill
No other passive
Usalia
Light, Axe, Female
Flatty Dance - Single Target Attack with 25% (max 35%) to paralyse Target for 1 turn, CD 4 (max CD 2)
Prinnical Meteor - 3x3 Around Usalia knocks back targets 1 space, 20% (max 35%) to stun targets, CD 5 (max CD 3)
Cute Pose - Decrease enemy ATK by 15% (max 25%), when 2 enemies are adjacent Usalia her DEF increases by 75% (max 100%)
Anti-Bully Aura - 44% (max 66%) chance to nulify enemy team attack damage
Majorita
Dark, Staff, Female
5x1 Line, 35% chance of lowering target ATK by 20% (max 35%) for 2 turns, CD 5 (max CD 3)
Draugr King - 3x3 Grid Infront of Majorita, CD 7 (max CD 5)
Revive once with 25% (max 50%) HP and a 15% (max 25%) DEF boost
When afflicited with a status there's a 45% (max 65%) chance of giving the attacker the same status
Zeroken
Wind, Fist, Male, Walking
Exploding Fist - Single Target Attack, CD 4 (max CD 2)
Hellfire Shot - Single Target Attack, Knocks back target 1 space, CD 5 (max CD 3)
Something about a 30% (max 60%) crit chance boost
I think if his speed is higher then opponents he gets a 35% (max 50%) attack boost
If passive and everything is correct he is basically a glass cannon able to run in and deal massive damage to one target
Red Magnus
Fire, Fist, Male
1x3 Line, CD 4 (max CD 2)
Cross shape, CD 6 (max CD 4)
20% (max 50%) when attack enemies adjacent to Red Magnus
Takes 20% (max 50%) less damage when attacked by a enemy adjacent to Red Magnus
Void Dark
Dark, Spear, Male
Single Target attack, CD 4 (max CD 3)
Damages enemies within 2 spaces of Void Dark, CD 6 (max CD 4)
15% (max 33%) chance to paralyze attacker
When Defeating an enemy Steal any buffs target had
Summer Judas
Ice, Male
Damage
Has a 40% chance to stun for 1 turn
When using skill 1, 10% chance to reduce skill 2 and 3 CD by 2
Gets 3% ATK for each surviving ally, Gets 15% DEF for each fallen Ally
Summer limited unit, not in main gacha
Summer Rosalin
Dark, Female
Reduces Targets SPD by 25% for 2 turns
Heals allies 35% (max 45%) CD 7 (max CD 5)
Takes 10% less damage from light enemies
Heals 4% HP of all Dark allies when she passes her turn
Summer limited unit, not in main gacha
Summer Alvitr
Fire, Female
Damage
Damage
Takes 10% less damage from water enemies
Has 100% crit chance against water enemies
Summer limited unit, not in main gacha
Summer Asagi
Female
Can knock back enemies 3 spaces
Damage
15% chance to confuse when attacking a enemy with a lower SPD stat
Gets a 10% SPD boost for 2 turns at beginning of each wave
Summer limited unit, not in main gacha
Summer Randgridr
Female
Buffs a single ally's SPD by 45% for 2 turns
Has a 25% chance to blind targets for 1 turn
Reduces CD of all skills when Randgridr defeats a enemy
Male allies get a 4% SPD boost
Summer limited unit, not in main gacha
Summer Valvatorez
Male
Damage
Damage
Heals 5% when passing turn
Deals 25% extra damage when target has less then 30% HP
Summer limited unit, not in main gacha
Sacred Tome Zetta
Dark, Tome, Male
ZETTA BEEEAM - 3x1 Line, CD 5 (max CD 3)
Tome of Omnipotence - Single Target attack 45% (max 75%) chance to seal target's skill 3 for 2 turns, CD7 (max CD 5)
Seal of Aggression - When attacking with skill 1 there is a 20% (max 35%) chance to seal targets skill 3 for 1 turn
Overlord's Vision - Reduce damage from adjacent enemy by 15% (max 25%)
Phantom Brave limited unit, not in main gacha
Overlord Zetta
Fire, Fist, Male
ZETTA BEAM!!! - 3x1 Line
True Omega Drive - Single Target attack
30% (max 60%) chance to Ignore half enemy's DEF when using skill 3
When Zetta's HP is higher then targets increase ATK by 20% (max 50%)
Phantom Brave limited unit, not in main gacha
Pram
Ice, Staff, Female
Freeze Prophecy - Cross shape, 30% chance to bind targets for 2 turns
Ice Dragon - 3x3 grid infront of Pram
25% chance at start of each turn to boost all allies ATK by 10% for 2 turns
25% chance to boost all allies SPD by 4% for 1 turn at end of each turn
Phantom Brave limited unit, not in main gacha
Petta
Dark, Tome, Female
Petta Beam - 1x4 Line
The Aisle of the End - Heal ally for 40% HP, CD 7
Time Accelerator - when Casting skill 3 there's an 80%(max 100%) chance to reduce all allies skill 3 CD by 1
A Gift from the Future - Heal 8% (max 15%) hp when passing Petta's turn
Phantom Brave limited unit, not in main gacha
Marona
Wind, Staff, Female
Miracle Time - 3x3 AoE with a 25% (max 40%) chance of sealing skill 3 for 1 turn, CD 6, (max CD 4)
Psycho Burgundy - Cross shape, CD 7 (max CD 5)
Get 5% (max 15%) extra mana at end of stage
Gives all allies a 20% (max 33%) ATK and DEF boost when an ally is defeated
Phantom Brave limited unit, not in main gacha
Ash
Ice, Sword, Male
Big AoE, Damage
Big AoE, Damage
15% chance to survive a killing blow
Gets a 75% ATK boost when below 50% HP
Phantom Brave limited unit, not in main gacha
Alex
Light, Axe, Male
Single target attack, 25% chance to paralyze for 1 turn
Single target attack, knocks back 1 space
20% chance to paralyze when using skill 1
All light allies get 10% ATK
Phantom Brave limited unit, not in main gacha
Salome
Dark
Single Target heal, Heals for 40% HP
20% chance to confuse and blind targets for 2 turns
All enemies within 3 spaces gets a -10% (max -20%) debuff resist
Lowers all enemies crit chance by 20% (max 40%) within 3 spaces
Phantom Brave limited unit, not in main gacha
Freyja
Ice, Bow, Female
Icicle Rain - Cross AoE, CD 5 (max CD 3)
Area Heal - 3x3 Around Freyja healing all allies by 40% (max 50%), CD 7 (max CD 5)
Blessed Tsukkomi - Decreases Surrounding enemies DEF by 10%
Fruit of Blessing - At start of Freyja turn remove 1 status effect from allies within 2 spaces
Pandora
Dark, Staff, Female
Guard Up - Buff all allies DEF by 25% (max 40%) for 2 turns, CD 5 (max CD 3)
Brilliant Gift - 3x3 AoE, CD 7 (max CD 5)
Solid Fortress - Pandora's DEF increases as HP decreases
The Last Gift - When Pandora is KO'd, Heal all allies by 15% and reduce their wait time by 15
Surtr
Fire, Sword, Female
Flame Blast Blade - Cross AoE, CD 5(max CD 3)
Maken Levan of Flame - 3x3 AoE Grid in front of Surtr with a 50% (max 100%?) chance to burn for 3 turns CD 6 (max CD 4)
15% (max 40%) chance to reduce CD of skill 2 and 3 by 2 when using skill 3
No other passive
Unut
Fire, Fist, Female
Yan Burst Prison Boxing - Single target attack, CD 4 (max CD 2)
Asura Senju Palm - 3x3 Grid in front of Unut with a 15% (max 30%) chance to stun, CD 6 (max CD 4)
Allies within 2 spaces get a 5% (max 15%) SPD boost
Acceleration of Anger - Decrease wait time by 10 (max 20) when attacked
Odin
Light, Spear, Male
Ray Lance - Single target attack, CD 4 (max CD 2)
Divine Spear Gungnir - 3x3 grid infront of Odin with a 15% (max 30%) chance to stun for 1 turn, CD 7 (max CD 5)
Protective Clothes - When attacked 30% (max 60%) chance to reduce damage by 20% (max 30%)
God of War's Ambition - when attacking with skill 1, 20% (max 40%) chance to reduce other skills CD by 1
Valkyrie
Light, Sword, Female
Tri-Feather - Single Target Attack
Final Ray - 3x3 Around Valkyrie with a 25% (max 50%) chance to confuse
At start of every turn, Valkyrie heals 5% (max 10%) HP and cancels one debuff
When attacking with skill 1 25% (max 50%) chance to cancel 1 enemy buff
Susanoo
Water, Sword, Male
3x1 Line infront, CD 5 (max CD 3)
Straight Line forward and behind, Reduces Targets Speed by 15% (max 30%)
4% (max 8%) Damage Cut for all allies
3% (max 10%) Def buff for every ally alive, 15% (max 25%) ATK buff for each ally lost
Hildr
Fire, Axe, Female
Explosive Smash - Single target attack, 30% chance to paralyze enemy for 1 turn
3x3 Grid Infront of Hildr
Every enemy Hildr Defeats boosts her ATK by 15% (resets each wave)
Attacking with skill 1 has a 50% chance to stun
Mist
Ice, Staff, Female
Freezing Gale - 1x3 line, 80% chance to bind targets
Absolute Zero - 3x3 grid infront of Mist with a 65% chance to bind targets
Guardian of Fog - Increase allies DEF by 5% when within 2 squares of Mist
Illusion of Fog - Ignores enemy shields
Yggdra
Wind, Spear, Female
Rapid Growth - Increase all Allies ATK by 25% for 2 turns
Solar Beam - 3x3 Grid infront of Yggdra with a 30% chance to inflict burn for 2 turns
When Yggdra waits, she heals 5% HP
At start of Yggdra's turn remove one debuff from all allies
Olrun
Light, Sword, Female
Lightning Blaze - 1x4 Line, 20% chance to stun for 1 turn
White Nova - 3x3 grid infront of Olrun
Every enemy defeated heals Olrun by 10% (She doesnt need to defeat them)
Attacking with Skill 1 has a 15% chance to remove enemy buffs
Sleipnir
Wind, Spear, Male
3x1 Line, CD 5 (max CD 3)
Increase SPD of all allies by 5% (max 15%)
Judas
Dark, Sword, Male
Moonlight Bliss - Single Target attack
Dimension Slash - 3x1 line, 20% (max 50%) chance to stun for 1 turn
Dangerous Aura - ATK increases as HP decreases, and survives a killing blow once per wave
Sinister Implications - Attacking with skill 1 has a 20% chance to extend? all enemy debuffs 1 turn
Alvitr
Wind, Bow, Female
Single Target attack, CD 4 (max CD 3)
10% (max 15%) regen to all allies for 3 turns
When Alvitr crits, she gets a shield of 10% (max 25%) of her max HP
At start of Alvitr's turn, 15% (max 25%) chance to reduce all allies skill 2 CD by 1
Randgridr
Dark, Gun, Female
Cross Shape, Debuffs ATK by ?
3x3 Grid infront of Randgridr
Instant Reload - 10% chance to attack after using skill 1 up to 3 times
Dark Ticket only
Verdandi
Fire, Tome, Female
Grants a 30% DEF buff for 2 turns
Heals allies for 25% HP
Randomly grant a shield worth 5% of the ally's max HP at start of turn
25% chance of lowering a random ally's skill 2 CD by 1 when passing turn
Heigrot
Ice, Gun, Male
has a 80% chance to bind for 2 turns
40% chance to reduces target's attack by 15%
Enemy's crit percent drops to 0 when Heigrot is hit by a critical
30% DEF for defeated allies
Thrud
Light, Axe, Female
3x3 around Thrud, 15% ATK boost to allies for 2 turns, CD 6 (max CD 4)
3x3 grid infront of Thrud, has a 15% chance to paralyze for 1 turn and burn for 2 turns, CD 6 (max CD 4)
ATK increases by 50% (max 75%) when HP drops below 30% (max 50%)
Act again if enemy killed had a status effect
Percival
40% chance to bind for 2 turns, knocks back 3 spaces
AoE damage
When Percival crits they get -10 wait time
Percival's crit chance increases when their health lowers
Lasfire
Fire
Boosts ATK by 50% for 3 turns
AoE damage
When Afflicted with a status effect gets a 50% ATK boost
When skill 1 crits burns for 2 turns
Tsukuyomi
Water
Applies a -10% (max 20%) ATK debuff to all targets, CD 5 (max CD 3)
Heals all allies for 25% (max 40%) and applies a 10% (max 20%) DEF boost, CD 7
Reduces all enemies ATK by 10% (max 25%) for 2 turns
Takes 10% (max 20%) less damage from dark enemies
Medjed
Light, Staff, Female
1x5 Line with a 25% (max 35%) chance to confuse for 2 turns, CD 5 (max CD 3)
5x3, knocks back 5 spaces, CD 6 (max CD 4)
Takes 20% (max 50%) less damage from enemies skill 3, Survives a killing blow once
When Below 5% (max 15%) HP reduce skill 3 cooldown by 4
Athena
Light, Spear, Female
3x3 Grid infront of Athena with a 15% chance to blind for 2 turns, CD 5
All Allies recieve a 10% DEF Buff, adjacent allies recieve Barrier
Gets 5% DEF for each alive ally
When hit by a critical heal 15% (max 25%) HP
Rota
Light, Sword, Female
X-Shaped attack that has a 20% chance to paralyze for 1 turn. CD 5 (max CD 3)
X-Shape attack, CD 7 (max CD 5)
15% (max 25%) chance to dispel enemy buffs when attacking
Heals all allies for 4% (max 10%) when defeating an enemy
Halloween Asagi
Wind, Gun, Female
1x3 Line, knocks back 3 spaces, CD 4 (max CD 2)
Oddly spread AoE, Debuffs targets ATK by 20% (max 40%) and SPD 30% (max 50%), CD 6
Skill 3 CD -2 when attacked
When using skill 3 make a shield equal to 10% of max HP
Halloween exclusive unit, not in main gacha
Halloween Seraphina
Dark, Gun, Female
Cross shape, 50% (max 70%) chance to daze targets, CD 4 (max CD 2)
3x3 Grid, CD 6 (max CD 4)
(unsure) Gives surrounding units 50% (max 100%) attack boost for one turn
Halloween exclusive unit, not in main gacha
Halloween Mist
Fire, Staff, Female
80% (max 100%) chance to burn in a 1x3 line in front, CD 5 (max CD 3)
3x3 Grid, CD 6 (max CD 4)
Heals for 10% (max 20%) damage dealt
Deals 44% (max 66%) extra damage to enemies at full health
Halloween exclusive unit, not in main gacha
Dark Asagi
Dark, Gun, Female
Dark Bazooka - 1x3 Line Attack, knocks back 1 space
Killing Darkness - 3x3 surrounding Asagi, 25% (max 45%) chance to blind targets, CD 6 (max CD 5)
Acts as all elements; all damage taken is not effective, all damage dealt is super effective
30% (max 50%) increased damage against enemies with a status
Shards Obtained in Asagi Episodes in SP Quests
Characters Outside Typical Gachapon
Certain “boss” characters and other characters are not included in the “main” gachapon. They include:
Dragon
Requires Dragon Ticket
250 Tokens in the Token store
Kitsune
Requires Kitsune Ticket
250 Tokens in the Token store
Dark Type generics
Requires Dark Tickets
Only one is in the main game, in Chapter 4.
Two more can be bought as part of the Dark Package the game currently sells.
This means it’s nearly impossible to get dark units.
Gameplay
Before you do anything in the game, set up your cloud save as per above! Alright? Good.
General Strategy
AI Manipulation
The AI works in certain generally predictable ways.
Weakest Target Priority
If all else fails, you can physically block a unit from pathing to your weakest character; units can’t walk through tiles where an enemy is, so you can form a wall preventing the quickest (or only) path from your enemy to the unit they want to target and they’ll instead focus on who’s in range.
Team Attacks
Much like Disgaea, Makai Wars has Team Attacks. Team Attacks are indicated by red exclaimation icons, and if your formation is right and the red mark is seen, a team attack will always execute.
Team attacks add ~10% of the damage from each additional party member. Elemental weakness/resistance is accounted for separately for each team mate. Amusingly, allies affected by Sleep will still join in Team Attacks.
Melee Team Attacks
Ranged units will join in Melee team attacks. Ranged units at melee range will not use this formation. Oddly, while Sword and Spear units both use the Melee team attack formation, Sword units will not join a Spear team attack and vice versa, but ranged units will join both.
A unit on the single tile on the opposite side of the enemy from the team attack initiator will join in to (so in this case, on top of the imp).
Ranged Team Attacks
Non-ranged units will not join in on Ranged team attacks.
Back Attacks
Hitting an enemy from behind will do 50% extra damage. Both regular attacks and skills can be boosted by this, unlike Team Attacks which are regular attacks only. Back Attacks are always preferable to Team Attacks if a choice must be made.
Back Attacks with ranged weapons can hit from any tile behind the sprite, even if it’s diagonal. Since characters can only face right or left, it’s easier than you might think to pin a character in a state where you can move behind them and get a back attack.
A melee unit directly above/below a unit has a pretty good change of getting a back attack next turn unless the unit moves two tiles away; the AI usually doesn’t bother to do this.
Stats
HP: Obviously, HP is how much damage you can take before a KO.
Attack: Damage dealt is determined by Attack only in Makai Wars, rather than different weapons using different stats in Disgaea.
Defense: Reduces damage you take. Each Defense point is worth several HP points in terms of survivability.
Speed: In addition to deciding turn order, units with enough speed (usually due to speed boosting skills or equipment) can “lap” slow enough enemies, acting more than once per enemy turn. Speed’s effect is hard to measure, and it does not appear possible to get more than two actions per enemy turn and it’s incredibly difficult to do so consistently. Speed is a very important stat that is unfortunately almost impossible to gauge the value of meaningfully.
Range: Range of normal attacks. Usually 1 for Melee units and 2 for ranged attackers. Some units increase in Range upon +2 Awakening levels (gachapon duplicates), usually ranged weapon units like bows/staves. Note range 1 normal skills deal more base damage than ranged units (about 20%).
Move: How far the character can move per turn. Always starts at 2, but some units increase Move upon +2 Awakening levels, usually for melee range units. Feather accessories and Boots with specific Enchantments can have +1 Move as well.
Sex: Annoyingly, a character’s sex is a stat which occasionally impacts a few characters’ passive skills. Characters are either male, female, or very rarely neuter (neutral looking enemies are still usually) male. A unit’s sex is fixed and has no affect outside of specific skills such as Etna’s attack boost against female units, and you have no control over the sex of your enemies so it largely exists to randomly reduce the effectiveness of said skills. But said skills are rare and it shouldn’t often make a meaningful difference.
Elements
There’s elemental effects and five elements: Fire, Water, Tree, Holy, and Darkness. Every character is associated with an element, and all damage that unit deals is of that element.
Tree beats Water beats Fire beats Tree, making a rock paper scissors effect, while Holy and Darkness are mutually weak to each other. There is no same-type resistance; Fire attacks deal weak damage to Water but normal damage to both Fire and Tree. For some reason, Dark Generic characters are excluded from the standard Gachapons.
Rewards/Achievements
Login Bonus
There’s a login bonus as usual, with the first week getting two sets of rewards. The daily rewards are still pretty good even after the first week. You’ll also unlock Etna by claiming the login bonus for 20 days.
Daily Missions
There are 6 daily rewards you can claim by completing Daily Missions. They’re not a huge deal but you might as well claim the free stuff if you can, and most you’ll do simply by playing the game anyway. Daily Missions roll over on the same timer as the Daily Login Bonus, midnight Japan time.
If you’ve played Disgaea (or any SRPG) you’ll have a good basis for understanding how to play. Here’s some key differences that Veterans will notice:
The battlefield is much simplified and characters always have a normal attack and two skills
Skills recharge over X turns, rather than having an SP cost
Characters have inherent skills based on who they are, no learning/transfering skills
Stats are more straightforward; Attack appears to always affect damage, rather than Fists using 50% Strength 50% speed etc.
Facing will affect damage but not accuracy, and you cannot directly edit facing). Direct rear attacks only, not side attacks, deal extra.
There is no “defend”, only “skip turn”
Asagi actually has a game
Elements are now an inherent property of a unit, so a Fire unit is always weak to ice and all units have elements
There are still different equipment types, though weapon type appears to matter less than it normally would
There is no throwing or height differences etc.
Leveling & Evolution (Level Cap)
Levels can be earned from Green Experience earned every stage, or purchased with Hell at a rate of 1 Experience per 1 Hell. Leveling with Hell is best saved for when there’s a wide gap between a new character you like and your regular team, so you can skip grinding.
Evolution means upgrading the Level Cap. Evolution is a process that will raise the ★ ranking of your character and their base stats as well. Once a unit’s Orange Experience meter is full and they’ve reached their current max level (60/60 for example), they can be upgraded to the next ★ by using Hell.
Evolution is basically always worth it, as only characters you actually use will ever hit it, it’s pretty cheap, and not evolving means your character is basically “stuck” stat-wise.
After reaching 6★ you’ll no longer need to earn Evolution Points. Additionally you’ll be given 5 Sandwiches, 1 Red Orb, 100 Rubies, and 1 Evolution Experience Booster for each character that reaches 6★.
Awakening
Awakening is achieved either by getting a duplicate character in Gachapon (immediately raising that character’s Awakening level), or by spending Awakening Stones (the rainbow gems for Generics, or special per-character stones for Story Characters).
Awakening gives a small percentage boost every +1 awakening level, and either +1 Move or Range every +2 Awakening Levels.
Thief+2 gains +1 range
Female warrior +2 gains +1 move
Status Effects
Various characters can inflict status effects with passive (usually counters) or active skills. When used right many status effects can be devastating and deny their targets entire turns worth of action.
Sleep: Unable to act for duration of effect. Attacking a sleeping character will wake them up. Amusingly, sleeping characters will join Team Attacks.
Stun: Unable to act duration of effect. Attacking a stunned character will not bring them out of it.
Paralyze: Same effect as Stun.
Confuse: Will attack a random target with regular attacks only for duration of effect. They can target allies, but may will still target the enemy team if they’re in range. Attacking a confused character will bring them out of it. Confusion is best used when an enemy is in their attack range but not an ally; if only one target (or only enemies) are in their range, they’ll attack what’s in range rather than moving toward your characters. Confused targets may also simply not act if nothing is in their immediate range.
Blind:Adds a50%(?) miss chance on all attacks for duration of effect. Blind no longer stacks.
Bind: Able to attack but not move. Most effective on short-range characters as it can make them completely waste turns if they cannot hit anything.
Burn: Character takes damage worth 5% of their total HP each turn while under the effect. Stacks with Burn/Poison, and if multiple stacks are present damage will be dealt multiple times per turn. Fire element characters can still be burned.
Poison: Same effect as Burn.
Regen: Same effect as Burn, but heals instead of hurts.
Skill Seal: Locks use of a character’s Skill 3 (their strongest skill) for the duration of the effect. Does not affect Cool Time count.
Shield: Shield adds an invisible health bar worth a certain percent of the unit’s total HP (dependant on skill), usually imparted by a passive skill. This invisible health bar will be depleted before your main health bar, showing 0 damage (and not removing the buff icon) if an attack is sustained that does not deal enough damage to “knock out” the shield.
The shield’s HP is not restored unless another effect that would impart Shield occurs; heals still go to your real HP. Unlike other de/buffs, Shield lasts until the invisible HP bar is depleted, amount of turns has no bearing on it’s effect.
Buff/Debuff: Many effects will raise/lower defense/attack/speed/critical percentage for a turn or two. All buffs/debuffs stack their effect (not duration) if multiple of the same type are inflicted on the same target. This can make a single unit extra powerful/extra worthless if properly stacked between their turns. A target with Speed debuffs stacked may miss several turns.
Gachapon
Gachapon pulls will only give 2 tiers: 2 star and 3 star. Only 3 star pulls will be “Story” characters (Laharl, Flonne etc.). The likelihood of 3 star pulls in general is 8%, though the exact percent per-character can be viewed (in Japanese) inside Makai War’s gachapon menu. Stats are subject to change at any time and thus won’t be listed here.
There is no benefit to rolling 10characters instead of 1 at a time, other than spending less time.
Duplicates exist – Duplicates are “fused” with the one you already have for +1 Awakening level, giving a stat bonus.
Generics can be of different elements so you could get, for example, a Fire Female Warrior and an Tree Female Warrior. For some reason, Dark type generics are not currently in the regular gachapon pool.
The gachapon has a “mercy rule” where if you don’t get a 3★ character in 50 rolls (a very unlikely, but possible, event), your 51st roll is a guaranteed 3★ and you’ll get 100 Summon Stones to awaken that character as well. This counter is not shared between “banners”, so you’re unlikely to ever hit the limit on any gachapon other than the regular one (and only if very unlucky).
Friends List
With a recent app version update (not just the ingame update), a new Friends List was added to the game.
The Friends tab is on the main menu, the person icon under the gift box. Tap it to see three taps, people you’re following (blue), your followers (red), and your own info.
Loans
Characters can be loaned from the Team/Formation select screen before going into battle (the little “friend” icon right of the formation icon). You can only loan one character per battle.
After fighting a battle with a “random” loan, you’ll be asked if you want to follow the player (the blue button is “yes”).
When loaning, double check the equipment of your loaned unit; players loan their starred or “favorite” unit, but they may not necessarily be geared for battle (especially since the feature just launched).
To lend your units, simply set your favorite unit to who you want people to be able to loan. Loan your strongest unit or a popular/limited character so people will have more reason to loan it out to get more follows/likes (unclear if these have real rewards yet).
Loans can help “carry” you through more challenging stages, but there are limits to what a single character can do for you.
Items/Currencies
I’ll get icons for these in a bit. This list isn’t exhaustive of uses, so if I’m missing something please let me know!
Hell
Used to buy levels for units in place of Experience and upgrade Formations.
Mana
Mana is used to upgrade weapons.
Rubies
The standard lesser-premium Currency, rubies are mostly used for the standard Gachapon at a rate of 300 per single-character pull.
Sandwich
+50 AP, will exceed the AP cap temporarily so AP is never “wasted” from these. Eat by using the “items” (sandwich/clock) icon on the main screen.
Skill Orbs
These level up a unit’s skill by one level. Red is for Active skills, blue is for Passive skills. They’re pretty rare, so use them sparingly and/or for people who you’re absolutely sure you’ll keep on your team; either grinding-focused characters or your favorites.
Rainbow Potion
Rainbow Potions add Orange Experience which allows a character at level cap to exceed it’s level cap and add a star to it’s rarity.
Experience Boosters
The Alarm Clock items boost Experience (green) or Evolution Points (orange) by 50% for a limited time. Best used with the weekly SP Quests that give huge amounts of EXP.
Diamonds (White Gems)
These are the premium currency, and are mostly used for a special 3★ Guaranteed gachapon (press the arrow key at the gachapon to see the diamond-only option). They can be used in place of Rubies wherever they are used.
Formations
Formations are unlocked through Story progress, and come with both a formation (duh) of your units, and respective stat buffs for each character in each formation slot. Formations can be upgraded with Hell (coins) to increase the stat buff.
Change formations at the “team select” screen before starting a mission, and upgrade them from the same screen with the blue button at the far right.
Equipment
Weapons
There are eight weapon types: Sword, Axe, Fist, Spear, Staff, Bow, Gun, Book.
They are all largely identical except each type of character can only equip one type of weapon; there is no changing weapon types like Disgaea. Also unlike disgaea, weapons do not use different attack stats or imbue different ranges; range is set by the character not weapon, and Attack is the only stat used to calculate damage.
Rather than having alternative types of weapons like other gear slots have, each individual weapon boosts a random stat: Attack, Defense, Critical Percent, Critical Damage, or Speed. This bonus stat increases with enhancements along with Attack. A weapon with no visible bonus has Attack as it’s bonus and will have higher Attack than other weapons with different bonuses.
Since you can only take 5 people with you in battle, you’ll need at the very most 5 of each weapon unless you have a lot of users of X weapon and like to hold different weapon “focuses” (crit chance, attack, defense etc).
Armor
There are four types of armor, all of which raise Defense plus bonus stats:
Breastplates: Boosts Defense by more than usual Helmets: Boosts Def and HP Gauntlets: Boosts Def and Attack Boots: Boost Def and Speed
Boots are rarer, and are notable for having a (rarer still) chance of having +1 Move as an Enchantment effect. This Enchantment hasn’t been observed on other gear, and is very rare even on boots. To try and find it, farm many boots from the Armor SP quests, then upgrade the equipment to +6 to see if +1 Move is on them. If you’re feeling bold (or it’s already a good set of enhancements you want to keep) you can go to +9, but at/beyond that point the mana cost gets very high. It does not appear possible to get more than +1 Move on a single boot.
Accessories
There are six types of accessories:
Muscle: Boosts HP Bracelet: Boosts Attack Necklace: Boosts Defense Earring: Boosts HP slightly and Speed Feather: HP, +1 Move Glasses: Attack and Critical Percent
Accessories provide a much smaller boost than Armor or Weapons. They’re often more useful for their enchantment pool than their base effects.
Earrings can only be found at the SP quests that cost 7 AP or more (4 Stars and up). The feather and glasses items are found at SP quests that cost 9AP or more (6 stars and up)
Magic Stones
Magic Stones (sometimes called Gems) act as an “accessory” slot and you can equip up to 3. Magic Stones can affect almost any stat and have three separate qualities.
Color: Color determines Set Bonus. Effect: Exact stat that they buff, this determines per-level upgrades Enchantments: Like other gear, every 3 levels on a Magic Stone will add a random bonus to almost any stat. Rare/Legendary magic stones have better enhancements.
Magic Stone Set Bonus
Set bonuses give 10% extra stats for 2 of the same color and 20% for 3 of the same color, with the exception of Status Resistance (unknown) and Criitcal Damage (20% and 40%). Here are the colors and what stats their set bonus affects:
Pink: HP Orange: Attack Green: Defense Blue: Speed Purple: Status Resistance Red: Critical Rate White: Critical Damage
Note that a magic stones’ Effect is unrelated to its Color, so a magic stone with a color that buffs HP might give Attack as it’s Effect. Likewise, a Color set’s percentage bonus will still effect a unit even if all those stones don’t actually include that stat; the unit’s stat total will be buffed, not the stone’s.
Geo Symbols
Geo Symbols are hidden away in the “prinny camp” icon along with the In App Purchases, but Geo Symbols are bought with Mana. Geo Symbols act as a full-team permanent (but slight) buff rather than their usual Disgaea function.
Each upgrade level adds +1% of a stat (+1 point in case of speed) to certain effects. Note their color matches the Gem color for each stat as well, so they’re easy to remember. In the order presented in the menu, they are:
Pink: HP Orange: Attack Light green: Defense Light blue: Speed White: Critical Damage Red: Fire Attack Dark Blue: Water Attack Dark Green: Tree attack Yellow: Holy Attack Purple: Dark Attack
Geo Symbols costs rise as they’re upgraded, making the earliest levels the best and safest investments. I personally upgrade them fairly evenly and prefer upgrading gear to +9 before upgrading geo symbols, but the effects are worth it long-term. Geo Symbol costs increase as such:
These are the main levels of the game and unlock various items as you progress. Go through as much of the story as you can first before messing with too much else. Story Levels cost AP to replay, but are free the first playthrough.
Once a story Chapter is complete, you can play a harder “purple” difficulty by pressing the lower right blue button at Stage Select. There will be a second set of missions with new completion rewards and Stars to earn.
SP Quests
SP Quests are special missions you can do a few times per day in exchange for AP and have specific rewards to help you focus your progress.
SP Quests have three types: Equipment Quests, Timed Events, and Character Episodes
Equipment Quests
These are the standard SP Quests that give a specific type of reward.
The first Equipment Quest is unlocked by reaching a point in the Story Missions (the end of the first chapter I think?). Each following quest is unlocked by beating other SP quests and unlocking more levels of each.
Rank 7: 8 AP, Water type, 3654 XP, 25 Evo, 909 Rank points, 1300 Hell, 1900 Mana, one 4*-5* gem
Gems 2
Dullahan Boss
Dullahans have the highest XP per AP spent in the SP quests
Equipment SP quests drop bonuses based on the following stage order:
5AP-7AP – ? 8AP 1: 3★ to 5★ (rarely) 8AP 2 4★ to 5★ (more common) 9AP 1: 4★ to 6★ (rarely) 9AP 2: 5★ to 6★ 10AP: 5* to 7* equipment
10 AP SP quests appear to be the only method to get 6 star/7 star equipment.
SP Quests can also drop random “premium” items at a low chance, including:
20-30 Rubies
Large extra amount of Hell/Mana (10,000, 20,000, 75,000)
Evo Potions (any size)
XP vial (any size, element of the boss, 1-3 at a time)
Tokens (the kind trading in characters give), 1 at a time
Rainbow stones (very small numbers, very rare)
Weekly Timed Events
These events occur on specific weekdays only, and you may only complete Weeklies 3 per week. This means unlocking the highest level of each quest will take a couple weeks, so unlock while you can. Failing an event will waste your AP but does not reduce the amount of times you can complete that event for the day.
Times are all in Japanese Standard Time, not your local time. To see what time/day it is in Japan, use this clock.
Friday: Extra Hell
Rank 5: 50,000 Hell
Saturday: Extra Mana
Rank 1: 5,000 Mana
Rank 2: 10,000 Mana
Rank 3:
Rank 4:
Rank 5: 50,000 Mana
Sunday: Evolution (Orange Experience)
Rank 1:
Rank 2:
Rank 3: 100 Evolution Points
Rank 4: 175 EP
Rank5: Recommended level: 100+
Monday: Green Experience (Powerleveling)
Rank 1
Rank 2: 2,500 EXP
Rank 3: 5,000 EXP
Rank 4: 12,500 EXP
Rank 5: 20,000 EXP
Weekly XP Vial Quests
There’s also a set of Experience Vial dailies now. They only have 3 ranks and are extremely easy. The ranks drop, in order; one to three 5k experience vial, 1-2 5K or 10k experience vials, and one to three 10k experience vials.
Tuesday: Fire
Wednesday: Water
Thursday: Tree
Friday: Holy
Saturday: Dark
Character Episodes
Makai Wars includes per-character “Episodes” in the SP quest section. They’re not time limited in most cases (time limited events always show a purple timer).
Completing a character episode gives 10 Awakening Stones for that character (1/10th of the way towards a single awakening), as well as 2 XP vials (M) for their type, 2 small Evo vials, 50 rubies, and 10 Large Rainbow Stones.
Regular Episode Quests cannot be repeated to repeat rewards, only specific time-limited events may have grindable rewards.
Note that as long as you have even one summon stone for a specific unit, you can summon them with enough Large Rainbow Stones. So even though 10 stones isn’t enough to summon a unit, it can help you call a single character you really want. This is a good reason to save Rainbow Stones to summon instead of Awakening units.
The game currently has episodes for the following characters:
Laharl
Etna
Valkyrie
Freya
Flonne
Odin
Translations
Menu English Translations
Additionally, some basic menu translations for Makai Wars have been posted here! I’m in the process of making some graphics for the main menus myself.
4Koma Comics & Other Translations
/u/noroinohanako has also translated the Makai Wars 4Koma Comics, and has a Github project for corrections/translations of the rest where you can view or help with the translations!
If anyone has the skills and or time and wants to translate some parts of Makai Wars, here’s some raw image dumps:
The Japanese originals of the 4koma comics (Official site)
IAP Translations
Starter Package
Lunch Box
Price: Items: 2 Sandwich (50 AP), 100 Gems, once a day for 15 days. Total 30 Sandwich and 1,500 gems.
Dark Set
Price: Items: 2 Dark Ticket, some diamonds
Rank Rewards
Probably the most “worth it” item so far by a lot.
Price: ? Items: This one adds “achievement” rewards every 10 ranks. If you’re already rank 50 you’ll just get all rewards instantly.
Rank 10
Ruby x 1,400
Sandwich x 5
Rank 20
Ruby x 300
Hell x 50,000
Rank 30
Blue Skill Orb x 2
Red Skill Orb x 2
Rank 40
Ruby x 300
Mana x 500 (thousand?)
Rank 50
Ruby x 300
Awakening Book
Normal IAP
Note that normal IAP for gems, while straightforward, will basically always be the worst way to spend your money; look for limited time/special offers, these are always more effective ways to spend your money (compare gems given in the straightforward IAP tiers to the rewards in almost any IAP pack).
English Skills for Characters
Someone made a nice little site that makes finding skill info easy in english.
Grinding
The Dark Thief generic has a passive that raises Mana earned.
Artina has a passive that raises Hell earned.
Axel has a passive that increases the odds of getting Rare/Legendary equipment drops (we think).
Stage 4-5-3 (hard mode) is recommended for early (60-80s) level grinding due to it’s extreme shortness, ease, and guaranteed 4* gem drops.
Equipment
The easiest place to get equipment (up to 4 star) is actually Story Mode. Starting in 4-4-1, hard mode story levels will start to drop 4 star items and they’re beatable at a much lower level than the equivalent SP Quests would be.
Stage 4-5-3 (hard mode) is particularly good for 4 star Gems. The layout is a single Fire Dragon boss, very easily dispatched by any team who can make it to that level. It seems to drop a gem every time and a decent amount of experience (3,000).
Once you need 5* or above weapons, SP Quests start being required. Only SP quests will ever drop 6 or 7 star equipment.
Achievements
Here’s the rewards you can get per achievement.
Enhance a Gear Item to +15
Reward: 100 Rubies each Max level: 10
Any type of gear (weapon, gem, etc) works, it’s best to use 1 star items because they’re the cheapest and you can sell them after getting them. Takes around 20,000 mana each item.
Level a character to 120
Reward: Gacha ticket (cycles between all 5 elements) Max level: 20, then more than 1 character is required to get further tickets
Worth it especially for the Dark Tickets, which are otherwise impossibly rare.
Reach Player Rank X
Reward: 100 Rubies Max level: 20?
Just a minor bonus for playing a lot.
Clear Daily Mission X Times
Reward: 50 Rubies Max level: ?
Pretty meh.
Acquire X different kinds of characters
Reward: Hell Max level: 20, at 100 characters
Traded away gacha dupes still count. A meager bonus so don’t worry much about it.
Beat each level of SP quests
Each set of SP quest has 10 of these, the last two rewards are the most meaningful: at level 9 you get 10 2 star character Rainbow Stones, and at level 10 you get a Gacha Ticket (never a Dark one though).
Evolve characters X Times
Reward: Red Skill Orb Max level: 20, 100 evolutions
Use Skill Orbs X Times
Reward: Hell Max level: ?
Pull Gacha X Times
Reward: Blue Skill Orb
Makai Wars FAQ
Q: I’m not earning AP over time!/ The Gachapon loads forever!
A: Update the game, this was a bug in an old version.
Q: I can’t start a mission even though I have enough AP!
This is usually because you have too many equipped items, sell some in the Equipment menu, starting with your worst, least important items.
Q: I keep rerolling the tutorial Gachapon and I can’t get (X)!
A: The tutorial Gachapon in Makai Wars is special and will only return one 3★ character, and it cannot be certain characters like Etna, Asagi, etc.
Q: I get a strange error message that says 504 and a bunch of Japanese
A: 504 is a Gateway Timeout error; basically your device couldn’t connect to Makai Wars’ servers, and the game is Always Online so it can’t continue. This may happen due to server issues at the game’s side, or internet issues at your side. There’s not much to do but keep trying, and try again later if it doesn’t clear up in a few seconds.
Q: How do I get Makai Wars if I’m not from Japan?
A: Japanese VPNs, APKs, stuff like that. There’s a lot of guides out there for similar games. I can’t personally help you there due to grey areas, but Google will probably get you started.
Q: Where is (Character)?
A: If they’re not in Makai Wars but they’re in the title screen graphic, they’re sure to be added soonish. Otherwise, characters will likely be added to the game based on popularity. I’ve only listed characters currently in Makai Wars.
Q: When is Makai Wars coming out in English?
A: Between many months from now to never. There’s no official announcement of when or even if it’s coming at the moment. I asked NISA PR and (of course) it’s not officially planned, but these things are never known until they’re announced.
Arena (PVP)
New in the game is Arena mode, the PVP mode of the game. This game mode earns you special currency (badges/medals) that can be used in a new shop for awards, including a Flonne gacha ticket.
Arena Mode has it’s own Stamina (BP instead of AP) so make sure to spend it and don’t let it go to waste. You get 10 BP total, and they refresh one per hour.
To start in the Arena you’re given a set of 10 extremely low rank opponents (topping out around level 50). To advance in the arena you have to beat them all, which should be easy if you’ve been through the whole story mode.
Arena Exclusive Characters
The Arena shop (with the Geo panels/etc shops in the Prinny Tent) contains summon tickets for 4 exclusive characters. The ticket will summon a random element, including Dark, of the character (for 2* characters).
Prinny Ticket
2* unit, same as the ones you fight in story levels
1,000 Medals
Disgaea Female Mage
2* unit, basically a better Skull
3,000 Medals
Disgaea Ronin
2* unit
3,000 Medals
Fallen Angel Flonne
3* unit, stronger/more offense focused version of Flonne
10,000 Medals
Rankings
How well you rank determines your reward. Due to rankings being based on number of stars earned, it’s possible (and certain) for multiple people to share the top 1 slot. You’re given Arena Medals for your place, distributed a few days after the season ends.
You can see your place before the season ends in the Arena menu.
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Discovered this game a couple weeks ago and have been enjoying it, but have had an issue for the past several days where the game gets stuck on the ‘Setup game data’ step and refuses to load any further. I hadn’t set up cloud save yet, and I don’t want to lose what I’ve pulled so far. Tried reinstalling the apk but no luck. Any suggestions?
Thanks. So I understand that I must do it on my game now. But then to put the game on my other device I must do the same thing again? Like.. Device 1: click the 2 phones and arrow icon, enter your email and Pw of the cloud thing Then Device 2: download the game, it’s now new game, click on that icon again, enter your email and PW again and tadaaa you have your data? Or doesn’t it work like that?
Not quite you don’t open the game normally but open the login menu on the new device
Just before clicking “touch start? That option thing at right bottom?
Just poke stuff until you see a login form
It worked fine. Thanks I was able to transfer it ^^
glad it worked! Same process if you ever need to swap again, no need to do initial setup again. I swap a lot bc emulators on my pc
So during my tutorial draws, I was able to get (at most) 5 three star units. (I declined it though like the idiot I am.) I’ve also had many moments of 2 or 3 three star units showing up.
None of this helps me add units to my current team. Because I cannot for the life of my figure out how. It’s not in the Units tab or on the story quest page.
Has anybody else encountered a game breaking bug where battles will freeze up at the start of an attack animation? I made it through several weeks without ever encountering this problem, but now it happens so often that I’m having trouble even finishing a battle. The game doesn’t completely freeze up, as I can still open the menu and “Give Up”, or go into the options. If I quit the game and come back to resume the battle, it still freezes. What’s most annoying is I lose AP every time I have to “Give Up” on a mission that’s frozen.
It happens most of the time when enemy archers attack me, but I’ve actually had it happen twice now when Killia does a basic attack.
edit: I’ve tried 2x speed, and turning off battle animations, and neither one fixes the issue. I have a Galaxy S7.
Yeah usually the bow that causes that. Make sure your cloud save is working (load it on another device if you can), delete and redownload, works for most people it seems
Looks like some Makai Kingdom characters were just added to the game, with Zetta, Pram and Petta being the focal characters. I wish I had 3000 rubies saved up to buy a set of 10 gachas, but I used my last batch on the Disgaea 2 character set (and got Artina).
There’s no bonus for doing 10 at a time, just do them one by one. It’s actually better to do banners that way so you can stop if you get the thing you wanted. Free 1 pulls daily for this event too, info’s all in the Updates section
Yeah, nothing like that here; had plenty of 10 pulls with no rares (this is, just barely, average in fact; you’d expect about one 3* every 11-12 pulls). Still one of the more generous gachapon games though really, with only 2 tiers and 8% for the highest.
What does the orange experience meter do exactly? I used some potions to boost that meter on Flonne, but I’m not really sure what it does. I maxed it out to 100%. Her main level isn’t maxed out though, so I can’t do the Evolution you mention above.
Orange experience is only for Evolution (they’re evolution points). If you hit level cap you can’t Evolve without filling that meter either.
It’s not really a big deal in the game though unless you buy lots of levels with Hell (don’t do this, you’ll just run out of Hell to Evolve with), since you get so many rainbow (Evolve points) potions and early on you’ll hit max Evolve points before level cap anyway.
Last week I noticed a screen in the gacha menu that essentially gave me 10 free characters. Did anybody else see or do this? I was wondering if maybe I somehow did pay for it, but I think it was completely free. They were all 2 star characters, and I got 2 awakenings out of it.
A couple days later I got Flonne in a 300 ruby gacha, I was pretty excited to unlock her. My main party is currently Asagi, Killia, Yggdra, Flonne, and Seraphina. I have a 5 star fist weapon on Killia, so he’s my main damage dealer.
Yeah it’s a free 10 pull gachapon to celebrate 20k downloads. It’s mentioned in the updates section. I should probably add some sort of “current events” heading too. That’s pretty lucky, Flonne and Yggdra are considered very powerful characters. Seraphina’s passive is super fun too.
I think the second screen of login bonuses is a release commemoration. I have the first 3 of those now. The first day was 300 rubies, second day was 3 experience potions, and the third day was a gacha ticket. I just got the gacha ticket this morning, and it instantly uses it as soon as you get it. I managed to get the character ピチドラ (Pitira?) from that pull. Apparently she’s a super rare SS jackpot, which is pretty exciting. I’m not sure what her name is supposed to be in romanji though. One site said her name is Yggdra, but I’m not sure how that romanji lines up. http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Makai_Wars_characters
Yeah that’s Yggdra. I’m not sure how the JP name happened exactly but she’s based off Yggdrasil and that’s her name in the localized version of her game (Ragna Quest).
And yeah there seems to be a first 7 days login bonus and then a single set of continuing ones, I ran out of the first 7
Oh, huh, never noticed that. I did 890 to one target from the back but 690 to another, but don’t know their stat differences. Same elemental weakness though. Thanks for pointing that out, I’ll try and mess with it more!
Guessing Arena is when the end of the story happens. You unlock more SP quests by beating at least 3 rounds of the prior ones.
Yeah, if you manage to get behind someone it says back attack (バックアタック).
The blue & red balls are skill level up. Solid color vials are exp for that element color character. Rainbow vials are the orange bar exp for gaining a star (must be max level). Oval gems and the book add a diamond (same as identical gacha). Selling extra characters gets you medals for buying the above stuff in medal shop.
Ah, thanks! Hadn’t been brave enough to sell anyone yet. The books are crazy expensive but I guess in a way it’s nice to have a feature like that. I’ll get screenshots of the other items in soon
Howdy, great starting guide! I’ve been playing for a couple of days, and I’m confused by a couple of things. 1.) Does anybody know what to do with the geo symbols? I bought a couple, but I’m not sure if they automatically grant the bonuses or if I need to equip them somewhere. 2.) What are those 3 equipment spots at the end of the equipment list? I figured out the first 3 are weapon, armor, and accessory, but I’m not sure what goes in the last 3 spots.
The banner is a favorite selection, it can be toggled by tapping it at character select. I assume it’s your avatar for the arena. Seems to do nothing gameplaywise
I’m confused on the awakening. I was able to awaken one character but no other. It seems to me they all use the same color stone. Do you know any more info about awakening them?
Haven’t been brave enough to mess with it yet. I also thought “fusion” (gachapon duplicates) was like a free awakening but it apparently isn’t. I have my theif at max orange bar but I cant’ seem to do anything but spend those rainbow gems which I don’t want to for a 2*
Discovered this game a couple weeks ago and have been enjoying it, but have had an issue for the past several days where the game gets stuck on the ‘Setup game data’ step and refuses to load any further. I hadn’t set up cloud save yet, and I don’t want to lose what I’ve pulled so far. Tried reinstalling the apk but no luck. Any suggestions?
thanks! That guide is pretty well detailled ^^
Glad it helped!
If I want to play on another device but with my account how can I do? Do I just need to log with my QooApp acc or is there a transfer data thing?
It’s under the “cloud save” heading
Thanks. So I understand that I must do it on my game now. But then to put the game on my other device I must do the same thing again?
Like..
Device 1: click the 2 phones and arrow icon, enter your email and Pw of the cloud thing
Then
Device 2: download the game, it’s now new game, click on that icon again, enter your email and PW again and tadaaa you have your data?
Or doesn’t it work like that?
Not quite you don’t open the game normally but open the login menu on the new device
Just before clicking “touch start? That option thing at right bottom?
Just poke stuff until you see a login form
It worked fine. Thanks I was able to transfer it ^^
glad it worked! Same process if you ever need to swap again, no need to do initial setup again. I swap a lot bc emulators on my pc
So during my tutorial draws, I was able to get (at most) 5 three star units. (I declined it though like the idiot I am.) I’ve also had many moments of 2 or 3 three star units showing up.
None of this helps me add units to my current team. Because I cannot for the life of my figure out how. It’s not in the Units tab or on the story quest page.
Has anybody else encountered a game breaking bug where battles will freeze up at the start of an attack animation? I made it through several weeks without ever encountering this problem, but now it happens so often that I’m having trouble even finishing a battle. The game doesn’t completely freeze up, as I can still open the menu and “Give Up”, or go into the options. If I quit the game and come back to resume the battle, it still freezes. What’s most annoying is I lose AP every time I have to “Give Up” on a mission that’s frozen.
It happens most of the time when enemy archers attack me, but I’ve actually had it happen twice now when Killia does a basic attack.
edit: I’ve tried 2x speed, and turning off battle animations, and neither one fixes the issue. I have a Galaxy S7.
Yeah usually the bow that causes that. Make sure your cloud save is working (load it on another device if you can), delete and redownload, works for most people it seems
Looks like some Makai Kingdom characters were just added to the game, with Zetta, Pram and Petta being the focal characters. I wish I had 3000 rubies saved up to buy a set of 10 gachas, but I used my last batch on the Disgaea 2 character set (and got Artina).
There’s no bonus for doing 10 at a time, just do them one by one. It’s actually better to do banners that way so you can stop if you get the thing you wanted. Free 1 pulls daily for this event too, info’s all in the Updates section
My bad, I guess I was confusing this with other Gacha games which usually give a guaranteed rare character if you do the 10 pull.
I just spent my 1500 or so rubies and got nothing. 🙁
Yeah, nothing like that here; had plenty of 10 pulls with no rares (this is, just barely, average in fact; you’d expect about one 3* every 11-12 pulls). Still one of the more generous gachapon games though really, with only 2 tiers and 8% for the highest.
What does the orange experience meter do exactly? I used some potions to boost that meter on Flonne, but I’m not really sure what it does. I maxed it out to 100%. Her main level isn’t maxed out though, so I can’t do the Evolution you mention above.
Orange experience is only for Evolution (they’re evolution points). If you hit level cap you can’t Evolve without filling that meter either.
It’s not really a big deal in the game though unless you buy lots of levels with Hell (don’t do this, you’ll just run out of Hell to Evolve with), since you get so many rainbow (Evolve points) potions and early on you’ll hit max Evolve points before level cap anyway.
Last week I noticed a screen in the gacha menu that essentially gave me 10 free characters. Did anybody else see or do this? I was wondering if maybe I somehow did pay for it, but I think it was completely free. They were all 2 star characters, and I got 2 awakenings out of it.
A couple days later I got Flonne in a 300 ruby gacha, I was pretty excited to unlock her. My main party is currently Asagi, Killia, Yggdra, Flonne, and Seraphina. I have a 5 star fist weapon on Killia, so he’s my main damage dealer.
Yeah it’s a free 10 pull gachapon to celebrate 20k downloads. It’s mentioned in the updates section. I should probably add some sort of “current events” heading too.
That’s pretty lucky, Flonne and Yggdra are considered very powerful characters. Seraphina’s passive is super fun too.
I think the second screen of login bonuses is a release commemoration. I have the first 3 of those now. The first day was 300 rubies, second day was 3 experience potions, and the third day was a gacha ticket. I just got the gacha ticket this morning, and it instantly uses it as soon as you get it. I managed to get the character ピチドラ (Pitira?) from that pull. Apparently she’s a super rare SS jackpot, which is pretty exciting. I’m not sure what her name is supposed to be in romanji though. One site said her name is Yggdra, but I’m not sure how that romanji lines up.
http://disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Makai_Wars_characters
Yeah that’s Yggdra. I’m not sure how the JP name happened exactly but she’s based off Yggdrasil and that’s her name in the localized version of her game (Ragna Quest).
And yeah there seems to be a first 7 days login bonus and then a single set of continuing ones, I ran out of the first 7
There is a popup message indicating when you attack from behind, so facing does seem to matter a bit. Haven’t measured damage diff.
Does anyone know when/how arena unlocks?
Oh, huh, never noticed that. I did 890 to one target from the back but 690 to another, but don’t know their stat differences. Same elemental weakness though. Thanks for pointing that out, I’ll try and mess with it more!
Guessing Arena is when the end of the story happens. You unlock more SP quests by beating at least 3 rounds of the prior ones.
Yeah, if you manage to get behind someone it says back attack (バックアタック).
The blue & red balls are skill level up. Solid color vials are exp for that element color character. Rainbow vials are the orange bar exp for gaining a star (must be max level). Oval gems and the book add a diamond (same as identical gacha). Selling extra characters gets you medals for buying the above stuff in medal shop.
Ah, thanks! Hadn’t been brave enough to sell anyone yet. The books are crazy expensive but I guess in a way it’s nice to have a feature like that. I’ll get screenshots of the other items in soon
Howdy, great starting guide! I’ve been playing for a couple of days, and I’m confused by a couple of things.
1.) Does anybody know what to do with the geo symbols? I bought a couple, but I’m not sure if they automatically grant the bonuses or if I need to equip them somewhere.
2.) What are those 3 equipment spots at the end of the equipment list? I figured out the first 3 are weapon, armor, and accessory, but I’m not sure what goes in the last 3 spots.
Geo symbols are all party stats up.
Bottom three equip slots are for the demon stones (魔石). They give stat bonuses, though the color scheme seems kinda random.
Favorite/avatar char most likely.
The banner is a favorite selection, it can be toggled by tapping it at character select. I assume it’s your avatar for the arena. Seems to do nothing gameplaywise
I’m confused on the awakening. I was able to awaken one character but no other. It seems to me they all use the same color stone. Do you know any more info about awakening them?
Haven’t been brave enough to mess with it yet. I also thought “fusion” (gachapon duplicates) was like a free awakening but it apparently isn’t. I have my theif at max orange bar but I cant’ seem to do anything but spend those rainbow gems which I don’t want to for a 2*
Info on awakening added. Awakening is basically unattainable for most characters except if you luck out and get a gacha duplicate.
Feel free to ask questions in the comments by the way!
Hey, awesome guide! I’m trying to revive the sub r/MakaiWars with u/Evolutioneer. Mind if i post a link to this over there?
Please feel free, and ping me if new info is found if you like!