Flyff Fly For Fun Overview

Flyff is one of the most popular free to play MMORPGs available. Flyff has a great animated graphic style that’s easy on the eyes but is beginning to show its age. Like many other Asian MMORPGs, players in Flyff start out as a beginner class and must chose a job (class) once they’ve reached a higher level, in this case level 15. The experience rate during the early levels is fast paced but begins to slow down during the late 20s and early 30s. Each class has a different skill set and two different 2nd job choices at level 60. Listed below are the 4 first classes and their 2nd class options:

Acrobat - Acrobats are the ranged specialists of Flyff. The Acrobat can specialize in the use of either yo-yos (Jester) or the bow (Ranger.)

Assist - As the name suggests, Assists support other players with buffs but also have powerful area of effect (AoE) spells. Assists can specialize into Bill Poster, a hybrid class that uses melee knuckle weapons or Ringmasters who are possess the most powerful buffs.

Magician - Magicians are the spell casters of Flyff. They have very low HP but deal heavy damage. Magicians can specialize into Elementalists or Psykeepers.

Mercenary - Mercenaries are the main melee class, the warriors of Flyff. The Mercenary can specialize into a defensive Knight who uses a sword and shield or into an offensive Blade who wields a weapon in each hand.

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Flyff Fly For Fun Review

By Erhan Altay

Fly For Fun (Flyff for short) is one of the first free to play MMORPGs I’ve ever played, years later it continues to be a very popular game that’s still supported with frequent content updates called ‘versions.’ Flyff is now on Version 12 and has 8 active servers, including one PvP oriented server. The game portal ‘gPotato’ publishes Flyff in the North American region along with other MMORPGs such as Rappelz, Corum Online, Tales Runner, Shot Online, and Upshift StrikeRacer.

Starting Out

The visuals in Flyff are animated and have a lighthearted feel. The monsters are not particularly menacing, you’ll be fighting cute mushrooms and other innocent creatures during the early levels and moving on the only slight more sinister creatures as you progress. Flyff allows players to create up to three characters on each of the eight servers which is more than enough considering the limited class choices; 4 first classes and 8 second classes. The character selection and creation screens are similar to the ones found in Ragnarok Online, another popular MMORPG. Customization options are very limited, players can select from a few hair styles and colors along with their gender. Class selection is done later, after reaching level 15. Until then, all players take on the roll of the beginner class called a Vagrant.

Vagrant Story

Flyff doesn’t have an official tutorial, instead instructions appear on the screen which explain the game’s basic controls and keyboard shortcuts. Movement is done through either the keyboard (W,A,S,D) or with the mouse, point and click style. Hitting the space bar causes characters to job exceptionally high which I can only speculate is due to the game world’s lower gravity.  Questing is available in Flyff but takes a backseat to outright grinding. Taking after World of Warcraft’s example, most games today try to make quests a key part of the progression system but Flyff shows its age by having a very simple quest system that was mostly added recently. The only quest really worth mentioning is the first class change quests that all players must complete upon reaching level 15. The quest varies by which of the 4 classes you pick but all of them are an annoyance.

Fight, not Flight

Combat is handled by double clicking on your target to auto attack and assigning spells and other skills to the toolbar. The grind goes pretty fast, at least during the early levels but as mentioned earlier, it’s mostly a grind with few quests involved. One thing worth noting about combat in Flyff is how reliant it is on health and mana restoring items. Their cool downs are only a few seconds long and it becomes necessary to spam them during the mid and high levels. Luckily, they are rather cheap and can be stocked up on. My Magician carries 10 stacks of 100 of both healing items; bread for hp and water for mana. The amount healed per item depends on its quality/level and the player’s CON stat. The higher your con. the more each item will heal you. These healing items can be obtained from defeated monsters but it’s better to purchase them in bulk from NPC vendors. This will undoubtedly be your largest expense but it’s well worth it to keep the game’s pacing bearable. Defeated monsters also have a chance of dropping magic items, rare set pieces (colored green) and special dice that can be used to upgrade equipment. Low level players should simply turn around and sell these rare drops to fund their healing item budgets. This should go without saying but be sure to sell the rare items to other players after learning their worth, do not sell them to NPCs!

Flight and Fight

Its not until level 20 that players will learn where the name ‘Fly for fun’ even comes from. After grinding it out to that level, players will be able to purchase their first flying mount (there are several models available such as brooms, skateboards, etc.) The flying feature is not as exciting as one would imagine and really not very important to the gameplay. The only practical use for flight is getting around the island you’re currently on (there are three available in all.) It is possible to fight monsters in the air but this is very impractical and there really is no reward for doing so. Flying does give players access to special locations that they could otherwise not access such as floating islands but most of these server no function. One thing I did enjoy was flying as high as possible into the sky than dismounting and watching my character plunge back to the ground. Luckily, there is no falling damage in Flyff so no worries there. Besides having a PvP oriented server with open PvP, players can challenge each other to duels or fight it out in a special free for all arena. Guilds can also declare war against each other and have large scale ‘guild duels.’ Those interested in playing Flyff for a long time should start looking for a guild right away since a powerful guild is required to get the most out of the game’s end game content. Guild related features include the standard guild bank but also a special guild donation system where all members can see how many each player has contributed to the guild budget.

Final Verdict: Great

Even after several years, Flyff still stands out as both an easily accessible and enjoyable MMORPG experience. The game’s large community and all the content that has been added over time make up for the game’s old age.

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Flyff Featured Video

Flyff Tutorial Video

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Flyff Character Creation

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Fly For Fun Official Site

Flyff Wiki

Flyff Fly For Fun System Requirements

Minimum Requirements:
OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
CPU: Pentium-III 600MHz
RAM: 256MB
HDD: 2.0 GB
Graphics Card: At least 64 MB
DirectX: 9.0c

Recommended Specification:
OS:  Windows 2000/XP
CPU: Pentium-IV 1.0GHz or better
RAM: 512MB or more
HDD: 3.0 GB or more
Graphics Card: 256 MB or better
DirectX: 9.0c or better