Onrpg: Are there any unique aspects to Shaiya that are not shared by other titles?Īs I already noted, Difficulty Modes and Goddess Blessing are pretty unique features. Different approaches to the same result: expedient death. The Pagan has similar powers, but they are all based in nature and the spirit world. The Mage is your magic-wielding devastation station. The Archer and Hunter are your distance fighters if they are allowed to keep their distance, they can rain death on their opponents quite quickly. The Ranger and Assassin are your masters of stealth and subterfuge they can disguise themselves as animals or as the opponent and set traps for the enemy. The Priest and Oracle are the healers of the game, but with several twists one of those twists is that they are able to transform an opponent into a harmless animal during combat. Defenders and Guardians are the tanks of the game, all hit points and defense. In the Union of Fury, there are the Warrior, Guardian, Oracle, Assassin, Hunter, and Pagan as mirrors to their Light-side counterparts.įighters and Warriors are your standard toe-to-toe hack and slash melee guys. That said, in the Alliance of Light, we have the Fighter, Defender, Priest, Ranger, Archer and Mage. The two sides are pretty well mirrored for the sake of balancing, so you’ll wind up with Light having an equivalent the Darkness’s Pagan, and the Darkness has an equivalent to the Light’s Ranger. Onrpg: What classes are there to play as in Shaiya, and what are their attributes?Įach of the four playable races have 3 different classes available to them. No fighting is allowed, just good old-fashioned bartering. Instead, you run a bootleg to a secret underground facility where players from both sides of the game gather to sell their wares. Well, you could sell in town, but you won’t make much money off of it. Say you find a staff that no one in your realm can use. Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? Bootleggery is your way to make a profit off of items that your faction can’t use. Mainly, I just like the name: Bootleggery.
The last one I’ll talk about is Bootleggery. The Blessing affords your entire realm bonuses like increased experience points per kill or quest, increase in attack power, reduced cool-down time for spell casting and item consumption, and so on. It’s more in depth than that, but once your side has gained enough points, the Goddess Blessing starts to kick in. When you engage in combat with the opposing faction, your kills gain you and your realm points with your Goddess. These different modes offer up tiered skillpoints and statpoints to reward the players as they progress (more points awarded at each tougher mode) and they allow players to access more and more of the armor and weapons in the game. Once you get through Hard, Ultimate is unlocked. Once you cruise through Normal, Hard is unlocked. We have “difficulty modes” in Shaiya, and you only start off with Easy and Normal available. No, if you want the baddest character in the game, you’ll need to cruise through the levels three times. First up is the fact that players won’t make just one character, level it up, and be done. Onrpg: What are some of the core gameplay elements of Shaiya? And, since we are in a fantasy realm, there are some monsters that have some uniquely feminine attributes and since they are monsters, what are the chances that they can pop over to the local tailor and get a nice blouse? We’re dealing with a fantasy realm here and when you kill a monster, it’s going to bleed.
All right, there’s no dancing around it: there’s blood and nudity. Well, there are some elements of the game that might be inappropriate for some game players. Onrpg: I have been told that the game will carry a warning similar to 12-Sky that the game is not suitable for those under the age of 17. But I think the word “massive” really does sum it up. And then, of course, I can go into the beautiful graphics, the gorgeous soundtrack composed by George Oldziey (Wing Commander III, IV, and Prophesy Ultima IX: Ascension Crusader: No Regret), the varied landscapes, the detailed characters, the engaging storyline. The other side has the Vail and Nordein (also known as “Deatheaters”) making up the Union of Fury.
On one side, you have the Elves and the Humans they make up the Alliance of Light. That was ages ago, but the war continues. Shaiya is the classic story of light versus darkness, except that neither side is really “evil.” The ongoing fight goes back to the time when the Gods walked the world of Shaiya and there were only three races on the planet. Strip down an MMORPG to its base elements (one side versus the other, dragons, magic, swords, shiny armor, PvE, PvP) then build it back up from there. Onrpg: How would you describe Shaiya to someone who has never heard of it before? Answered by Eron Garcia, Producer Aeria Games