Xiah
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| Xiah English version | |
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| Developer(s) | Taewool Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | OnNet USA Inc. |
| Distributor(s) | GamesCampus |
| Platform(s) | Windows ME/2K/XP |
| Release date | 2006 |
| Genre(s) | MMORPG |
| Mode(s) | MMO |
| Media | Client: 590.95MB |
| System requirements | CPU: Pentium III, Ram: 128MB, Graphic Card: TNT2, ATI Rage |
Xiah is a Korean (this article is about the English version) MMORPG. Xiah offers an MMORPG Asian Martial Arts gameplay and detailed 3D environment with a HCI (Human Computer Interface), which includes as game support level, convenience, and aesthetic configuration.
What makes Xiah innovative is its AI. Xiah's Artificial Intelligence system (AI) is based on the Artificial Emotion (AE) for monsters. The NPCs in Xiah are based on the AI system also. For example, a monster running away can return to attack users when it meets friends to cooperate, and monsters who are attacked but not killed will remember its attacker.
Xiah offers different views by zooming in and out.
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[edit] Gameplay
Xiah offers a varied Martial Arts and skill system, which vastly differs from class to class. Advanced Martial Arts are available to players after they reach level 60, known as the Rebirth. Item crafting and combining is also available which allows players to customize their items in many unique ways, such as increasing or adding items' basic/secondary attributes, decreasing required stats to equip items, attaching Five Elements abilities or creating advanced Rebirth equipment.
[edit] Characters
In Xiah there are 4 classes, one female which is a Mage, and 3 male which are the Ghost Fighter, the Warrior and the Swordman. Each class has 12 unique Hard Forces and 2 Rebirth Hard Forces to use. Five Elements, Soft Forces and common Rebirth Hard/Soft Forces can be used and upgraded by any class. Soft Forces are also known as 'Passive skills', which basically work as a character upgrade, not needing to cast skills to acquire the desired effects.
[edit] Mage
A long range supporter, with high accuracy, which can also tame, train pets and summon sacred animals. Uses a Fan or a Brush as weapon.
Here is the list of the Mage Hard Forces (pre-rebirth)
-Chi Circulation: Circulates chi to replenish life.
-Charm Monster: Lures and tames monsters.
-Attack Song: Missile attack with sound.
-Heal: Heals a selected target in range.
-Mass Heal: Heals party members.
-War Cry: Increases party member's combat abilities.
-Monster Empathy: Increases the experience your tamed monster receives.
-Power Up Pet: Strenghtens your tamed pet monster.
-Life Drain: Leech and absorb life from your enemies.
-Summon Monster: Summons and controls a sacred animal.
-Cloud Walk: Increases moving speed.
-Death Energy: Attack near by enemies by casting a ring of sha-chi.
Rebirth Hard Forces (Mage):
-Extend-Range (increases your ranged skill's distance and boosts your defense).
-Strengthen Monster (increases your tamed pet's fighthing abilities)
[edit] Ghost Fighter
A class with strong attack, but with low defense and life. The Ghost Fighter is mainly a melee character that can blow large amounts of damage, however they need to watch out their low levels of stamina. This class specializes in poison attacks.
The list of the pre-rebirth Ghost Fighter Hard Forces is:
-Recuperation: Regenerates life.
-Poison Hand: Hit your enemy with a strong palm attack.
-Poison Sting: Poison your enemy to weaken it's defense.
-Poison Shot: Missile attack with poisonous energy.
-Fast Movement: Allows you to walk faster.
-Chi Poisoning: Poison your enemy to gradually drain his/her mana.
-Life Poisoning: Poison your enemy to gradually drain his/her life.
-Haze: Poison an area with fog.
-Enrich: Double the chance of finding items.
-Poison Shield: Casts a protective shield over you and others.
-Dead Man: Stop breathing and pretend you're dead.
-Poison Power Up: Maximize strength for a long period with the power of Far East.
Rebirth Ghost Fighter Hard Forces:
-Hide: Temporarily become invisible to enemies to avoid them.
-Strong Defense: Increases your defense for a limited time.
[edit] Warrior
Warriors have the most defense, and often serve as a tank. They also have special abilities to confuse enemies, which makes the warrior a solid character for PvP. Uses Axe or Claw as weapon.
Warrior Martial Arts: (pre-rebirth)
-Life Circulating: replenishes life
-Multiple Attack: Attack in rapid succession
-Howl: Frighten nearby monsters with Chi.
-Fist Wind: Focus chi into your fist to attack a distant enemy.
-Fast Step: Enables you to use fast move for a limited time.
-Decrease Accuracy: Reduces your enemy's vision for a limited time.
-Darkness: Blind your enemy for a limited time.
-Crushing Hand: Enlarge your hand to attack multiple enemies.
-Stun: Disarms your enemy for a limited time.
-Frenzy: Increase your damage at the cost of defense for a limited time.
-Entangle: Freeze your enemy for a limited time.~
-Reflection: Reflect your enemy's attack for a limited time.
Rebirth Hard Forces (Warrior):
-Focused Force Attack: Place a strong hit with focused force.
-Absorb Force: Block a certain amount of force from your enemy for a limited time.
[edit] Sword Man
The Swordman is a melee character, has average attack and defense, but extraordinary life. Uses Sword or Blade as weapon. The Sword has remarking endurance and some solid attacks, and can summon shadows of himself to attack a large enemy together.
Sword Man Martial Arts (pre-rebirth):
-Energy Circulation: Rapidly circulate chi to recover lost life.
-Chi Focusing Attack: Focus chi into your weapon for a strong blow of energy.
-Critical Hit: Increases your critical hit rate.
-Energy Explosion: Chi explosion to attack nearby enemies.
-Wind Walk: Enables you to use Fast Move for a limited time.
-Sword Missile: Missile attack with sword chi.
-Rage: Increase damage for a limited time.
-Reckless Attack: Deadly strike at the cost of some of your own life.
-Multi Shot: Missile attack on multiple enemies.
-Ironbody: Increase defense for a limited time.
-Sunder: Attempts to destroy the opponent's weapon.
-Shadow Strike: Summon and control a shadow of yourself.
Rebirth Hard Forces (Sword Man):
-Critical Attack: Blow one very fast and strong attack.
-Duplicate Attack: Create and control duplicates of yourself.
[edit] Martial Arts
[edit] Soft Force
Soft force is used to enhance your stats. They can be used by any character class and have varied effects in your stats. The list of available Soft Forces are listed below:
-Attack Focus: increases damage.
-Defense Focus: increases defense.
-Accuracy Focus: increases attack rating.
-Life Increase: Increases life
-Mana Increase: Increases mana.
-Fast Healing: Increases your life regeneration and reduces the waiting period to regenerate.
-Fast mana Refil: Increases your mana regeneration and reduces the waiting period to regenerate.
-Mastery (2 different masteries for each class): Increases your equipped weapon's damage, defense and attack rating.
Rebirth Soft Forces:
-Weapon Mastery: Increases stats of worn Rebirth weapons.
-Clothes mastery: Increases stats of worn Rebirth clothes.
-Efficiency Force: Increases efficiency of known Soft Forces.
[edit] Rebirth
Rebirth is a stage of the game that starts at level 60 and is fulfilled at level 90. Through Rebirth, players can learn new martial arts, improve their stats and extend their Five Element limit.
There are 6 stages of Rebirth, each of them can be achieved by reaching the required level and taking the corresponding Rebirth Pill.
By acquiring Rebirth, a character will:
[edit] Five Elements
(often called ele,5e,fe and fema) The elements play an important role in Xiah. The elements are:
Water- Beats Fire and Steel Fire- Beats Wood and Steel Wood- Beats Soil and Water Steel- Beats Wood and Soil Soil- Beats Fire and Water
By using an element that beats the element you are fighting against, you increase your damage and defense against that enemy. Every monster above level 30 gives a certain number of elements. There are two special maps that give more element than other maps. The elements at 1 point have 2 balls around you going in circular motions (picture to be put), 200 points get you the level one element ring (picture to be put), at 500 you get second ring (picture to be put), and at 1000 points, it's still two rings but with a transparent ring in between, and some additional balls (picture to be put). After getting max level rebirth you can get element up to 1500 but without changes in looks. Elements can also be gained by mining.
[edit] Imbue System
A key part of Xiah is the imbue system which allows for strengthening a characters items.
[edit] Imbue Items
There are 3 different groups of imbue items which are used: White, Black and Red.
Each colour has different rocks which are: Stones, Crystals, Jewels and Best Jewels, Example: Red Stone, Black Crystal. Stones bein lowest success rate and amount that it will strengthen and best jewel being the highest.
Blacks: Increase's the + on the item which is the main stat. For Example: A weapon imbued with a black that is successful will gain damage.
Whites: Increase the ( ) on the item which can be any other stat than the main. For Example: A Weapon when imbued with white can gain Attack Rating.
Reds: Decreases requirement of the item. For Example: A level 40 item imbued successfully with a red may drop the level to 39.
[edit] Combine
It takes 10 powders a same color to create a stone, it has a certain percentage of success to it as well. You can also combine other things, such as blade maps and weapons (lowers gear requierment by 20%) or other items of that type.
Mining Even though Mining is the main source of imbuement materials (rocks, maps and such), in xiah it's fairly simple, all you need to start is a hammer. Hammers can be bought in General Shop in Prairie. The Quarry is also in Prairie. You can buy hammers in game with ingame money (jeons) but they are not as good as some of the hammers you can buy from the item mall.
[edit] Maps
There are 9 maps currently and they are as follows:
Prairie area- The basic area where you start your Xiah career, the entire player market is based there. Also you can mine there. There are 3 Npcs that are only in that map. And also there in some regular Npcs you can buy items that cannot be bought in other maps. There are just 4 level 1 monsters there.
Bizarre rock- There you start your monster killing and leveling. It has monsters from lvls 1-8 and then from 65-69. It is a grassy map, often called bizz.
Volcano area- Has monsters from level 9-12 and from 28-34. A map filled with lava and with 4 portals, it can be considered the center of Xiah world. It is there to prepare you for desert and for glacier later on.
Desert area- Monsters from level 12-28, it has a desert flooring, and is known for the most parties, later on other maps parties get lost, but here they are the most numerous. It trains you to the borderline of starting to obtain Five Elements.
Glacier area- A snow and frost map with Levels 35-45 When getting to Glacier characters have some elementsand are ready to face bigger and stronger mobs. They prepare to step into the element map Poison Magic Cave and use the Elements wisely.
Poison Magic Cave (pmc)- has levels 41- (unknown, please edit) and gives a lot of Elements, but monsters also use them there so you have to use certain combinations when fighting different monsters. Also has a room called Hell Room with high monster mobs and special Bosses.
Alpine- A grassy map with high level monsters that do not use Elements. The monsters here are from level 53 - 70. In this map you can PK without questions or agreements on any server.
Blood Devil Castle (bdc)- Has the strongest monsters and great fema rates. The elements you use have the most effect there. It costs 200 000 jeon to teleport to there, and when you die you go back to prairie which explains the difficulty. The item drops there are high leveled and rare. This map can only be entered when you reach level 60. Here you can PK the same way as in alpine.
(the list of maps are in order of monster lvl contained)
[edit] Quests and Bosses
In Xiah you get a number of quests each level, some give more experience some less. Quests can be bought in game and in Itemmall. All quests have their own unique objectives, rewards are often fame, which determines the color of your name, experience and gear. Their requirement may often need the killing of a Boss monster, most mobs have bosses, those monsters are a couple times stronger than regular mobs, in pmc there are also G bosses which are a lot stronger than regular bosses of same level. Game masters have gotten greedy and reduced all quests 90%.
[edit] Guilds
The guilds in Xiah can make alliances and war, a guild has a Boss, SubBosses, Elders, Hobups, Dangjus and Members (listed in order of responsibility). The number of people a guild can have is determined by its "fame" level. Fame can be bought up to a lvl of 500. After that fame can only be increased by warring other guild up to a maximum lvl of 1000.
[edit] Item Mall
The Item Mall offers various items which ease and improve playing at an expodential rate.
[edit] Monsters
The monster list is at the bottom of the page, their levels and element they use. The word in Element section states the element that monster uses. Each monster gives a certain amount of fema. it takes 20 fema to gain 1% of a real element point (those are the ones that are needed 200 for first ring). The amount of fema also decreases as you level up (e.g a level 70 gets 1 fema from a level 60 monster)
| Name | Level | Element |
| Mad Dog | 1 | none |
| Wild Boar | 2 | none |
| Fighting Bull | 3 | none |
| Bone Archer | 4 | none |
| Monster Man | 5 | none |
| Soul Blade | 6 | none |
| Gorilla | 7 | none |
| Tiger | 8 | none |
| Undead Man | 9 | none |
| Gorilla Soldier | 10 | none |
| Centipede | 11 | none |
| Fire Demon | 12 | none |
| Horn Dog | 13 | none |
| Scorpion | 14 | none |
| Dr. Pepper | 15 | none |
| Skeleton Soldier | 16 | none |
| Evilla | 17 | none |
| Fire Woman | 18 | none |
| Skelcher | 19 | none |
| Strong Dog | 20 | none |
| Spear Man | 21 | none |
| Wild Dog | 22 | none |
| Skeleton Spear Man | 23 | none |
| Corpse Digger | 24 | none |
| Skeleton Mage | 25 | none |
| 26 | none | |
| Super Dog | 27 | none |
| Blue Werewolf | 28 | none |
| Fire Dragon | 29 | none |
| Wawa | 30 | none |
| Undead Digger | 31 | none |
| 32 | none | |
| Mammoth | 33 | none |
| Red Werewolf | 34 | none |
| Undead Woman | 35 | none |
| Ice Wawa | 36 | none |
| Ice Dragon | 37 | none |
| Big Mammoth | 38 | none |
| White Tiger | 39 | none |
| Ice Bird | 40 | none |
| Ice Woman | 41 | Water |
| Gold Wawa | 42 | none |
| Bush Dragon | 43 | Wood |
| Black Bee | 44 | none |
| Ice Demon | 45 | Water |
| Red Tiger | 46 | Fire |
| Thorny | 47 | Wood |
| Gigantic Mammoth | 48 | none |
| 49 | ||
| Fusion Dragon | 50 | none |
| 51 | none | |
| Minotaur | 52 | none |
| God Bird | 53 | none |
| 54 | none | |
| 55 | none | |
| 56 | none | |
| Steel Giants | 57 | Steel |
| 58 | none | |
| Stone Ghosts | 59 | Soil |
| 60 | none |
More to be added
[edit] Leveling
Leveling can be achieved by training (killing monsters) or questing, at later levels questing is inavoidable. The current maximum level is 110, and some players reached it. There are a lot of monsters to choose from to train. You can choose to train on any of the 3 servers, but on the third server you could get PK without any questions, also that can happen in Alpine any server, or bdc any server but server 1.
[edit] NPCs
There are many NPCs in this game:
| Name | Location | Use |
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| Tamrang | Prairie | Creation of elite weapons |
| Alchemist | Prairie | Combining of some items |
| General shop | All maps but bdc and pmc | The one in prairie sells force and hammers,
others sell general things, and they can imbue and repair everything |
| Quest Manager | Prairie | Sells quests |
| Warehouse Keeper | All maps but bdc and pmc | Serves as storage, for a price |
| Jewelry Shop | All maps but bdc and pmc | Sells, imbues and repairs rings and necklaces |
| Sundry Shop | All maps but pmc and bdc | Sells, imbues and repairs headgear and footgear. |
| Weapon Shop | All maps but bdc and pmc | Sells, imbues and repairs weapons |
| Clothes Shop | All maps but bdc and pmc | Sells, imbues and repairs armors |
| Chemist's shop | All maps but bdc and pmc | Sell potions which heal life and replenish mana. |
[edit] Conclusion
Xiah has good ratings on the internet although not a large number of players. It clearly offers a lot of possibilities and is not just another MMO. It has the ItemMall with a lot of great things for character improvement but the game still needs fixing and updating although that is done every week, and players even participate in the decisions to be made. Game Masters have now reduced Experience 90% on quests given and bought which is killing the game. No one wants to spend a month for 1 level.
