wow sounds like that really is a sucky game i guess i wont play it thanks for the advice bro

well aeria has done alot of fixing, though i never had the grainyness problems of the publisher, the problems i noted are mostly “fixed”

game sages have been replaced mostly that i’ve noticed

the random terrain traps are still there, but most of the time you can jump out of them now. no more having to rebuy ap items that disappear after first death.

the gaming community and the forum community seem to be 2 different entities, those people that i’ve noticed placing character names in their signatures dont tend to be as obnoxious in game now they seem to be actual decent folk, though they still suck in forums.

newer game sages get paid in ap so they generally give away ap items in some mundane events like hide and seek, was helping on gs come up with ideas for better full community events. by that i mean a real time event available to those in game at the time. that is less lame than hide and seek and trivia.

i just started playing again after a friend of mine became a gs so i’m trying to help him out and just recently noticed these changes in the game.

Shaiya is a supposive “the adult themed game”? Unlikely, just for the record. The real thing adult about it is that some NPC’c are topless, thats it. I just wanted to clear that up with people wanting to know.

Shaiya is a major grind fest that starts around 20+ level. You start at level 1 pick a race of light or dark characters. I think level caps is still 60. All characters are cookie cutter chracters of each Dark and Light race. Character customazation is very limited unless you spend real money at there item mall to change appearence of characters hair color or sex.

All the armor pieces you collect are all the same templates as the next. You get 1 different piece of armor like every other level. I think one of the last pieces of armor is 3 more levels until your character is able to wear it. Once you get all armor pieces that match in color and style, then every player looks like the next, with the exception of different hair styles and or weapons.

Weapons are also leveled approved, meaning, if you see another player with a certain weapon and armor you already know what ballpark level the player is. Again cookie cutter weapons. Meaning at any giveing time ingame every player can almost all look alike.

Shaiya is a good time sink game, not great. Well atleast up to level 20 it is. Any level after that, Shaiya turns into a Migrane headache, with all the level grinding. an example of grinding is: Each questgiver supplies new quests when you reach a certain level with a whole load of XP needed to advance to the next level. Just after dinging…say…20 level you may find 3 more quest givers that supply you with new quests and thats it..Collect “X” amount and turn into the particular questgiver. You know the typical “Free MMO game, no big deal, right?

Wrong, after you complete these three quests, you take a glance at your XP bar, and notice that it barely filled up the huge amount experience points (XP) needed to advance to level 21, and not another “Quest giver” in sight to fill the XP bar up. And ontop of that the creatures that you need to kill for these quest givers to collect the “X” amount of things for them to complete the quest, usually out number you by 3 levels, and kick your ass most of the time. When you eventully kill these creatures for their “X” item to drop for the questgiver, you barely put a dent in your XP at all from killing these outleveled NPC creatures.

Let the grinding commence. Here you sit with a almost emptied XP bar from doing these three quest, and not another quest insight. and you still need to reach 21 level to unlock 3 or 4 more quests and a whole lot more of XP points for level 22. This is the Cyle of a grind fest, and it gets worse and worse each level.