Even if you find the classic RPG style of Shaiya appealing, if you aren’t ready to grind and grind and then grind some more, you’re going to want to avoid this one. Grinding and RPGs go hand in hand, but in Shaiya, especially on ultimate difficulty, the grinding can get a tad bit excessive. So while deciding between basic and ultimate difficulty is something to keep in mind when playing Shaiya, there’s also another thing: How tolerable are you about grinding? Because this game is a serious grindfest. This adds quite a bit of risk to playing in Ultimate Mode, and some players intentionally refrain from using a resurrection rune in order to always keep this risk attached. If you do not have this item or fail to use it within three minutes of your character’s demise, then your character is gone forever. If you have an item known as a resurrection rune (Which can be purchased in the Item Mall on the Shaiya website for AP) then you can bring your character back to life. The biggest drawing point of Ultimate Mode, however, is the prospect of “permanent death”. EXP gains on Ultimate Mode are also significantly slower. Characters playing on Ultimate difficulty, need significantly more experience per level up compared to characters playing on Basic difficulty. Not everything is gravy in Ultimate Mode though. In Ultimate Mode, you gain access to the use of Ultimate Mode items, gain more stat and skill points per level up, and can use exclusive Ultimate mode skills. One of the unique aspects of Shaiya upon release was its’ inclusion of an ‘Ultimate Mode’ in addition to the standard ‘Basic Mode’. Gameplay: Basic grindfest or Ultimate Grindfest They could really use a facelift, pun not intended. The armor and weapons still look pretty decent, but the character models are notably low res and contrast badly with the more detailed equipment. Even back when Shaiya was first released in 2007, the graphics looked dated and they certainly have not aged well. Unfortunately, as endearing as the character creation is, the presentation leaves a lot to be desired. The armor and weapons hold up pretty well, but the character models are very low res. Shaiya is as traditional as it gets, so old-school RPG fans will feel right at home with the character creation. Players of the Alliance of Light can choose to be Rangers, Archers, Fighters, Defenders, Mages or Priests and Union of Fury players are able to be Assassins, Hunters, Warriors, Guardians, Oracles or Pagans. Players who choose the Alliance can be either human or elven, and Union players can be the Vail, which look like Dark Elves from the Elder Scrolls and the Nordein who look like Orcs(Also known as the Deatheaters).Įach faction has six playable classes, with three classes per race, all of which are archetypal RPG stuff. Each faction has two playable races to choose from. Upon beginning the character creation process, players choose between either the Alliance of Light or the Union of Fury. It’s a traditional fantasy RPG with humans and elves and a classic good versus evil story. Fairly active community on private serversįull review Premise and Presentation: Classic and Datedĭeveloped and published by Aeria Games, Shaiya was first released back in 2007.
Very low player base on official servers, dead community.Good versus Evil, Faction-based PVP battles.Shaiya still has its’ high points, but the official game is long past its’ prime. The uniqueness of Ultimate Mode, is little more than a novelty feature now, and the P2W aspects of the PVP just kill the game, despite its’ potential. There’s nothing on offer here that the new generation of gamers won’t find somewhere else. Few veterans of the game are left, and the changes that the developers have made to the game over the years have only pushed old-school players away even more. The way it works with old-school MMOs is they either need to have a large enough player base to keep them going, or they need to modernize with the times to draw in newer players. Over 11 years since its’ release, does Shaiya hold up? In a way (Private servers), yes, but for the most part, Shaiya is as dead as an MMO can get. And as such, people looking back on it today might be viewing it through those dark-tinted nostalgia glasses which may obscure their objectivity when talking about it. Shaiya holds a place in many people’s hearts as the first MMO they’ve ever played.
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