Does anyone here play Shayia?

Mindspank · 11-21-2008, 11:49 AM

Well after a bit of experimenting, the PVP is extremely one sided. Meaning if your a casual gamer, your gonna eat the other guys fist in pvp. Then again I got two strikes going for me. Im an archer and im on a wireless connection in a barracks with lead lined walls. But its been my experience that archers dont fare too well against meatwads (warriors) but they do good against their own kind and squishies (mages).

And there are some hardcore pvpheads in shaiya. Im talking...they are like lvl 40 something off of nothing but pvp, cause the pvp zones have monsters in them and quests too. These guys only leave pvp zones to help guildies.

Some guy snuck up on me and when he one shot me he was all like "OOOO I OWNED YOU HARD YOU F$%IN NOOB!! IN YOUR FACE!! YEAH!!"

The first thing I thought of was farva on the other end, and I couldnt help but laugh.

I also made like 4 more characters. Of note are my Fighter TwoGirls and my priest OneCup. So far NO ONE has got the connection. They just whisper me about how my name doesnt make sense. I am throughly convinced that shaiya is full of naieve preps, so dont play that game if you like to chat about life issues, because some of those people probably think the stork actually brought their siblings.

Dynamics · 11-21-2008, 12:04 PM

Cheers for the game, it's holidays now been looking around for something inspiring to get into while I play fiesta casually.

I'll download it tonight and post back tomorrow.

I think it's pretty good so far. It is similar to WoW in many respects, but who says that's a bad thing.

IGN Dynamics on Teos. Level 5ish at the moment, not sure where I'm headed to at all.

Destrus · 11-21-2008, 08:25 PM

i have a character or two on there, don't know what server and don't have it atm though :x

Mindspank · 11-21-2008, 11:26 PM

Hardcore sucky thing about PVP is that when you pick your mode, easy, normal, hard or ultra, harder difficulties are way more powerful in pvp. I got stomped a few times by this one guy and couldnt explain why it was happening untill I remembered that he was probably hard mode or ultimate. And there is no way to tell who is what mode. Not to mention if you overhear enemies chatting, you cant understand them. Like, you have to buy a skill that lets you be able to read like 30% of enemy text.

In closing: Avoid PVP like the plague. I mean try it out to see what its about, but dont expect to get any kills.

Dynamics · 11-22-2008, 03:17 AM

Ah, that's a shame. What PvE features are there?

Mindspank · 11-22-2008, 03:39 AM

That I can think of, none too different than what fiesta offers. But it is easier to find equipment from drops.

For the sake of an unbiased approach to this game, I have been playing pvp for 7 and a half hours now. I went from no kills to one hundred and eight with my fighter, TwoGirls. The PVP is brutal but you begin to see what to look for, watch player habits. The players who dont throw themselves into the fray or back off when they see a comerade die are more than likely weaker. The fury's assassin, or lights ranger, are insanely overpowered. They are a bit on the squishy side but if someone is experienced as a pvp player with them, you almost wont ever win unless you have a small entourage with you. If you die enough, you start losing items, so that sucks.

The community is also pretty okay. Not as friendly as fiestas, by a long shot, but for some reason this game seems to draw more mature players. I met a 13 year old who had me thinking he was 27, and I was none the wiser untill he told me his age. Overall the community is shrewd to some extent but they are extremely civil.

Watch yourself in the PVP, its addicting.

Dynamics · 11-22-2008, 04:52 AM

Yeah I've got a ranger, and noticed I already have a stun and silence at level 6. The stun's cd is like 5 seconds, so I expect it's pretty broken in PvP.

Looking forward to pvp