Dynasty Warriors 2 PSP
Weapons/Stable/Unlockable Players Guide
By shinobipride
version 1.00
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Weapons
2.1 Different Levels and Names
2.2 Different Attributes
2.3 Evolutionary Weapons
2.4 Combination weapons
2.5 Stats-up on weapons
2.6 How to Get the best weapons
3. Stable
3.1 Colour frame
3.2 Abilities
3.3 Four kingdom stallions
3.4 How to unlock good horses/elephants
4. How to unlock playable characters
5. Updates
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1. Introduction
Dynasty Warriors 2 is a great game with introduction of a stable consist up
to 8 horses/elephants that you can take out to battlefield at the start of
each battle. Like all the Dynasty Warriors series, a good weapon is the key
to success, and now that the stable is introduced, the horses/elephants
can even make the pace faster (if you hav a good horse/elephant that is).
There are total of 48 playable characters. But some of which you have to
unlock by fufilling certain conditions. The following is a guide to get
the best weapons,horses/elephants, and your favorite characters to make
the game even more enjoyable.
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2. Weapons
2.1 Different Levels and Names
Each of 48 playable characters has three levels of weapons rank from
strength - level 1 weakest, level 2 medium, level 3 strongest. Level 2&3
are the only ones that can have attributes to it (see 2.2 for more info) and
only level 3 has evolutionary attacks (see 2.3 for more info). A level 3
weapon can have BOTH a evolution attack and an attibute.
Level 1 have up to 4 attacks, level 2 up to 5 attacks, and level 3 up to
6 attacks (evolutionary weapons do up to 9 more detail on 2.3). Below
listed all 48 playable characters with all ranked weapon names:
Cao Cao
level 1 - broad sword
level 2 - general's sword
level 3 - sword of heaven
Cao Ren
level 1 - buckler blade
level 2 - strike buckler
level 3 - crane
Cao Pi
level 1 - twin blade
level 2 - dual fang
level 3 - pure havoc
Da Qiao
level 1 - twins fans
level 2 - violet fans
level 3 - true beauty
Dian Wei
level 1 - hand ax
level 2 - strike ax
level 3 - bull
Diao Chan
level 1 - mace
level 2 - great mace
level 3 - enchantress
Dong Zhuo
level 1 - tyrant sword
level 2 - great tyrant
level 3 - fear
Gan Ning
level 1 - pirate sword
level 2 - river sword
level 3 - river master
Guan Ping
level 1 - iron blade
level 2 - giant blade
level 3 - flying dragon
Guan Yu
level 1 - crescent blade
level 2 - moon blade
level 3 - blue dragon
Huang Gai
level 1 - iron rod
level 2 - great rod
level 3 - shadow rod
Huang Zhong
level 1 - war sword
level 2 - veteran's sword
level 3 - sage sword
Jiang Wei
level 1 - trident
level 2 - great trident
level 3 - vapor
Ling Tong
level 1 - wood nunchaku
level 2 - iron nunchaku
level 3 - rising phoenix
Liu Bei
level 1 - long sword
level 2 - imperial sword
level 3 - gold dragon
Lu Bu
level 1 - halberd
level 2 - great halberd
level 3 - sky piercer
Lu Meng
level 1 - glaive
level 2 - great glaive
level 3 - tiger hook
Lu Xun
level 1 - twin sabers
level 2 - wind sabers
level 3 - eagle
Ma Chao
level 1 - iron spear
level 2 - stallion spear
level 3 - silver stallion
Meng Huo
level 1 - nanman gauntlet
level 2 - beast gauntlet
level 3 - beast master
Pang De
level 1 - war pick
level 2 - sturdy halberd
level 3 - pole ax
Pang Tong
level 1 - vision staff
level 2 - mirage staff
level 3 - wind staff
Sima Yi
level 1 - strategist's fan
level 2 - command fan
level 3 - black feather
Sun Ce
level 1 - tonfa
level 2 - studded tonfa
level 3 - conqueror
Sun Jian
level 1 - tiger sword
level 2 - tiger claw
level 3 - lone tiger
Sun Quan
level 1 - wolf sword
level 2 - wolf claw
level 3 - king wolf
Sun Shangxiang
level 1 - chakram
level 2 - moon chakram
level 3 - luna chakram
Taishi Ci
level 1 - twin rods
level 2 - spiral rods
level 3 - wolf slayer
Wei Yan
level 1 - double voulge
level 2 - strike voulge
level 3 - double star
Xiahou Dun
level 1 - scimitar
level 2 - great scimitar
level 3 - kirin blade
Xiahou Yuan
level 1 - rod
level 2 - strike rod
level 3 - power rod
Xiao Qiao
level 1 - double fans
level 2 - peach fans
level 3 - true grace
Xing Cai
level 1 - long fork
level 2 - cobra fork
level 3 - sacred light
Xu Huang
level 1 - battle ax
level 2 - great ax
level 3 - destroyer
Xu Zhu
level 1 - club
level 2 - spiked club
level 3 - bone crusher
Yuan Shao
level 1 - noble sword
level 2 - regal sword
level 3 - sword of honour
Yue Ying
level 1 - war spear
level 2 - martial spear
level 3 - horizon
Zhang Fei
level 1 - bronze pike
level 2 - iron pike
level 3 - serpent blade
Zhang He
level 1 - iron claw
level 2 - strike claw
level 3 - peacock talon
Zhang Jiao
level 1 - magic staff
level 2 - mystic staff
level 3 - fire staff
Zhang Liao
level 1 - pole blade
level 2 - great blade
level 3 - blue wyvern
Zhao Yun
level 1 - bronze spear
level 2 - great spear
level 3 - dragon spear
Zhen Ji
level 1 - flute
level 2 - iron flute
level 3 - moon flute
Zhou Tai
level 1 - eastern sword
level 2 - katana
level 3 - dawn
Zhou Yu
level 1 - bronze sword
level 2 - iron sword
level 3 - elder sword
Zhu Rong
level 1 - boomerang
level 2 - spitfire
level 3 - magma wheel
Zhuge Liang
level 1 - war fan
level 2 - warlord fan
level 3 - white feather
Zuo Ci
level 1 - cursed deck
level 2 - mystic deck
level 3 - crane deck
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2.2 Different Attributes
There are 4 different attributes you can have on weapons. However each
weapon would only have one attributes. Only level 2&3 weapons can
have attributes. The four attributes are:
1)fire - with a fire symbol beside the weapon
2)ice - with an ice symbol beside the weapon
3)holy - with a sun symbol beside the weapon
4)dark - with a moon symbol beside the weapon
Fire weapons allow you to burn enemies momentarily so they can't fight
back and is defenceless. Enemies continue to lose small amounts of life
bar while being burned.
Ice weapons allow you to freeze enemies momentarily so they can't fight
back and is defenceless. The enemy's defence is cut in half while being
frozen.
Holy weapons allow you to break the enemy's guard when they try to
block attacks.
Dark weapons kill anyone without a title in one shot but depletes the
musou gauge when you do anything other than normal attacks. For
example, if you do four normal attacks and finish with a combo attack
(press 1/2/3/4 times on [] button and then 1 time on /\ button) your
musou gauge would be drained.
Fire weapon and ice weapon both stop enemy temporarily but in
my opinion ice is much better. The enemies only lose small smount
of life when being burned but while frozen the enemies would take
enormous amount of damage from weapons. Holy weapons are fine
too though they don't always work 100% of the time. But by using
dark weapons in hard mode is really suicidal. As mentioned above,
when you try to pull a combo attack your musou will be drained.
Normal attacks are not good enough in hardmode because any
enemies with titles (patrol captain, offiers, enemies with names) will
block like crazy, but combo attacks are very effective as attacks go.
And very very bad if you are in a chaos mode, its almost guanrantee
death sentence going in with a dark weapon.So when your are
surrounded by a bunch of officers they can just air-juggle you to
death or gang up on you like there's no tomorrow if you don't have
a musou attack handy. Try dark weapons in hard/chaos mode at
your own risk.
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2.3 Evolutionary weapons
Evolutionary weapons can deal up to 9 hits (only when you use 6
normal attacks on [] button and with a full musou gauge by the
end of 6 normal attacks). You have topress the button is quick
succession for it to work. A combo attack will not trigger an
evolution attack. Only level 3 weapons can have evolutionary
attacks and it's represented by a light blue windlike symbol.
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2.4 Combination weapons
Level 3 weapons can have both an evolution attack and an
attibute. This means you can perform up to 9 attacks and
burn/freeze/break guard/instant kill with just one weapon.
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2.5 Stats-up on weapons
Weapons generally have 1-6 stats-up (but each character's starting
weapon doesn't have any stats-up). Just like the word sounds, it
boosts up your stats one way or the other. Below is a list of all the
possible stats-up and their maximum value on a weapon:
Attack (max 20) - boost attack
Defence (max 20) - boost defence
Horse (max 20) - increase horse/elephant's attack power
(how much damage they do by kicking/stamping)
Fill (max 20) - increase how fast musou gauge auto-refills
Speed (max 20) - increase speed of character when he/she is
on foot
Luck (max 20) - increase chance of getting better
weapons/horses/elephants after a battle
Musou (max 20) - increase length of musou bar
Growth (max 20) - increase growth rate
Charge (max 40) - increase power of charge attacks
Attack speed (max 40) - increase attack speed
Attack range (max 80) - increase weapon's range
Life (max 200) - increase length of life bar
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2.6 How to Get the best weapons
So the big question: how to get all the best weapons? I suggest playing
free mode instead musou mode. For one thing, the OTHERS forces (Lu Bu,
Diao Chan, Meng Huo, etc) can't participate in the musou mode. Plus
there are only 5 stages, (sometimes even 4 stages depend on which
battle you start at and which victory condition you fulfill), and sometimes
by the end of it you don't even get a single level 3 weapons.
The benefit of free mode is you can pick a total of 8 stages from 8 eras.
Even in easy mode you could get level 3 weapon as early as in era 3,
and by playing through all 8 stages you'll be guanranteed to get at
least 4 or 5 level 3 weapons. By now you should be at your command
cap (60000 exp). If not you should be close. So now you can pick the
weapon with highest luck and tear through normal mode with good
officers and good abilities. As early as era 2 you'll be getting level 3
weapons. By the end, you should be getting some +5 stats-up weapon.
If you are lucky you might get a +6. Then if you want, you could try
hard mode, which guanrantee almost all level 3 weapons and some of
them bound to be a +6. As early as era 1 you will be getting level 3
weapons. Definitely a +5 weapon by the end of all 8 stages. You could
also try, said try because not all characters are fit in chaos mode. The
difficulties are insane and going in with a relatively weak playable
characters is no less than a suicide attempt. The advantage is very very
good weapons, that is, if you can survive to take it. I suggest playing
normal/hard mode several times through and you should be getting a
good weapon with no time. Also +6 weapons usually have evolutionary
attacks and/or attribute, which makes the weapon even better. Just
keep in mind: +20 luck (or the highest luck weapon you have in your
arsenal), normal/hard mode several run-throughs and patience is the key.
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3. Stable
Stable can hold up to 8 horses/elephants of your choice. Your horses
starts at level 1 (except the four kingdom stallions which are already
max leveled) and you have to level them up and riding them and
using them to attack enemies. The max level is level 10. Usually
horses are much faster than elephants but has less powers and rear up
at officers and enemies with names. On horses you can attack with
your weapons or just ride it to run enemies over. Elephants are very
slow but they are very powerful and can run over over every enemy
in the game at level 10. But you can't attack with your weapon when
riding on elephants. You can only attack with its nose ([] button) and
stamp (/\ button).
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3.1 Colour frame
Many players may think reputation have anything to do with how
horses/elephants react with enemies. But its not true. Some horses
with reputation kingdom stallion will rear up at officers but others
won't. It all depends on the colour frame of the horses/elephants.
Heres a list of colour of the horses/elephants frame and how each
frame affect their reaction to enemies
Horses:
Gold - run over all enemies except final boss at the end of battle
The 4 kingdom stallions have this frame at the start are all max
leveled. Other horses start with silver frame and upgrade to
golden frame at higher levels. Only some horses with reputation
Kingdom Stallion and Legendary Stud MAY level up to golden frame.
Silver - run over all enemies below rank of officer (patrol captain,
defence captain, captains of villages, common enemies)
Only Legendary Stud and some Kingdom Stallion have this frame
for start. The other horses will eventually gain this frame as they
are leveled up.
Bronze (brownish colour) - run over only no-name enemies
Most of the horses start at this level. Some of the reputations
include: general's horse, kingdom stallion, famous steed.
Elephants:
Gold - run over all enemies
Only legendary tusker start with this frame. Other elephants
will attained this frame when they are leveled up
Silver - run over all enemies
All elephants start at this level. Some of the elephant's reputations
include: kingdom mammoth, famous giant, war elephants.
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3.2 Abilities
None of these abilities are limited to certain horses; a horse/elephant
could have any of these abilities no matter what reputation/colour
frame it has.
Ranger - no damage crossing mountains
Swimmer - no damage crossing rivers
Champion - raise morale by 1 number at the battle start
Invincible - morale decrease at a slower rate
Tame - rider never falls off the horse but will take damage from hits
Famous - level up faster
Recovery - life recovers after every field battle
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3.3 Four kingdom stallions
The four kingdom stallions are what most people would go for.
Especially red hare which is a legenday horse in the novel, and,
pretty good in the game too. Well, I thought that too until I unlocked
some other insane horses. See 3.4 for more detail and for now I'll just
list the 4 kingdom stallions. It's good to have them, for starters. But
the more you play, the better horses there are out there.
Red Hare
Reputation: Kingdom Stallion
Ability - Champion
Speed - S
Power - D
Hex Mark
Reputation: Kingdom Stallion
Ability - Swimmer
Speed - A
Power - B
Shadow
Reputation: Kingdom Stallion
Ability - Tame
Speed - A
Power - B
Storm
Reputation: Kingdom Stallion
Ability - Famous
Speed - A
Power - B
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3.4 How to unlock good horses/elephants
If you prefer using red hare or the other three kingdoms stallions,
feel free to skip this section. This is just for those players who
could use a change once in a while.
Ok maybe I lied. Just a little. Who am I trying to kid? A good
elephant? Not possible. They have a speed so slow its going to
give you nightmares. So even if their power is SS it will take
them hours, no, years, to get close enough to make a hit. So
elephants can run over everyone in the games, that is, if they
make it there in time. Horses are so much better. No, I'm not
talking the four kingdom stallions. Ok, let me list my stables
and you'll see why I said that.
Name: Little Lady
Frame: gold
Type: Power-oriented
Reputation: kingdom stallion
Ability: champion
Speed: A
Power: SS
Name: Famous Jem
Frame: gold
Type: Balanced
Reputation: legendary stud
Ability: Recovery
Speed: A
Power: B
Name: Magic Lady
Frame: gold
Type: Power-oriented
Reputation: kingdom stallion
Ability: Champion
Speed: B
Power: S
Name: Silver Cloud
Frame: silver
Type: Balanced
Reputation: legendary stud
Ability: Champion
Speed: S
Power: A
Name: Flying Hawk
Frame: silver
Type: Power-oriented
Reputation: legendary stud
Ability: Famous
Speed: A
Power: SS
Name: Silver Dragon
Frame: silver
Type: Speed-oriented
Reputation: legendary stud
Ability: Invincible
Speed: SS
Power: C
Name: Silver Falcon
Frame: silver
Type: Speed-oriented
Reputation: legendary stud
Ability: Champion
Speed: SS
Power: C
Name: Silent Star
Frame: silver
Type: Balanced
Reputation: legendary stud
Ability: Champion
Speed: S
Power: A
My personal one and only choice would be red hare until I got theses
horses. Now I don't even have a space left for red hare anymore. However
the choice is always up to you. I personally prefer the ones with speed SS
or speed S, but I sometimes use the one with recovery ability as well in
chaos level. The way I got this horses is by playing free mode - normal/
hard/chaos mode from era 1-8 over and over again with luck +20 weapons.
Of course most of the time I use a strong player to get through the game
quicker but you could pick anyone you like. But make sure you play with
a really high luck weapon if you want to get a good horse. Good luck and
good hunting!
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4. How to unlock playable characters
There are 48 playable characters but some of them have to be unlocked.
Play in any level (easy/normal/hard/chaos) in MUSOU and FREE mode
as stated. The rows refer to stage trees which can be viewed at
Menu -> Camp -> Stage Trees.
WEI (MOSOU MODE)
Cao Cao - Beat Fourth row with any Wei character
Zhang He - Beat Fourth row with any Wei character
Xiahou Yuan - Beat second or first rows with any Wei character
Xu Huang - Beat second or first rows with any Wei character
Cao Ren - Beat second or first rows with any Wei character
Pang De - Beat fourth row with Cao Cao
Sima Yi - Beat fourth row with Cao Cao
SHU (MUSOU MODE)
Wei Yan - Beat first or second rows with any Shu Character
Guan Ping - Beat first or second rows with any Shu Character
Zhuge Liang - Beat first or second rows with any Shu Character
Pang Tong - beat third row with any Shu Character
Liu Bei - beat third row with any Shu Character
Jiang Wei - beat fourth row with Zhuge Liang
Yue Ying - beat fourth rows with Zhuge Liang
WU (MUSOU MODE)
Gan Ning-beat first or second rows with any Wu Character
Huang Gai-beat first or second rows with any Wu Character
Sun Ce-beat first or second rows with any Wu Character
Xiao Qiao-beat with Zhou Yu in musou mode
Da Qiao-beat with Sun Ce in musou mode
Zhou Tai-beat fourth row with any Wu character
Lu Meng-beat fourth row with any Wu character
Sun Jian-beat fourth row with any Wu character
OTHER (FREE OR MUSOU MODE)
Zhang Jiao - Beat Yellow Turban 100%
Dong Zhuo - Beat Hu Lao Gate 100%
Diao Chan - Beat Si Shui Gate 100% (Dong Zhuo Forces)
Lu Bu - Beat 100% Battle of Xia Pi (Dong Zhuo Forces)
Yuan Shao - Beat Battle of Guan Du 100% (Cao Cao Forces)
Meng Huo - Beat Battle of Nanzhong 100% (Shu Side)
Zuo Ci - Beat all other side stages 100%
Zhu Rong - Beat Meng Huo Stages or Jiao Zhi Rescue (NanMan Forces)
OFFICER
Lu Bu (Officer) - Beat all other stages with 100%
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5. Updates
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Sorry to all you hard-core gamers out there, I have to announce that I have
resold the game to EB and probably can't answer to your questions anymore. I
apologize for the inconvience.
However, should you have any questions, I suggest you contact obeliskofdeath,
as he is a pro gamer just like me and would be able to answer you questions
better than I do.
Other than that, accept my sincere apologies and happy playing!!!
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Many thanks goes to obeliskofdeath, for valuable support,
insight and contribution to make this guide possible.
Copyright 2007 shinobipride. (
[email protected])
This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except
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Dynasty Warriors 2006 KOEI Co., Ltd.
