Equipment is an important part of the Disgaea series, as characters will need weapons to help boost their stats, both offensively and defensively. Equipment comes in three different rarities, which are Common, Rare and Legendary. Previous game had values that dictated which rarity it was, but this was removed in Disgaea D2.
Rare items have a 25% stat boost over Common items, while Legendary ones have a 50% boost over Common ones. Each character can equip a weapon and three pieces of armor/accessories. If these pieces of equipment have matching rarities, then their stats are raised even further.
New to Disgaea D2 is the ability to upgrade a piece of equipment's rarity. This is done by going through all of the floors of an item's Item World. Common will upgrade to Rare and Rare will upgrade to Legendary. This means that any item can be valuable, as you will be able to boost their stats by leveling them up to Legendary.
