Beeing a class NOT intend for pvp, but people can still force you into pvp for example dosent work in bdo.
Beeing a support class in a game that lacks grp content on all stages, dosent work either.
Beeing a "life skill class" but, horrible at gathering because of the lack of mobility and the literally worst at hunting because of missing combat passives, dosent work as well.
Beeing a class that focuses on creating Music, and then implementing a patch where every class can create music, isnt right.
What ever they intended for Shai didnt work out.
You say, just reroll, i say: I CANT EVEN TAG MY AWAKENING WEAPON! EVEN IF I BUY WEAPON CHANGE COUPON, I AM THE ONLY CLASS THAT CANT USE THEM!
I wouldnt mind if they bring out grp content with every content patch, but they dont. i wouldnt mind if they imporve shais life skill abilitys, but they dont. i wouldnt mind if shai would have a option to avoid pvp, but you dont have that, and they will never get it. So dont talk about this class as "its working as advertised".
If they dont want to further develop that class, they need to put a disclaimer at the character creation, so people know... If not, every person who creates a shai gets something that he did not want and that is completly different from the experience that was promissed.
Its not normal to have a class that dosent get further development in an mmo, there is no other game that has that. Even the amount of limitations that shai has are very abnormal for mmo standards.
it's not like this game dosent has class's with good support features, that you can also use for every other content in this game. And that receive further development.
Same for the awakening weapon, when they introduced Archer they did also say, the awakening weapon is a special situation on this class, still works fine with tagging or coupons.
Corsair has really good life skills for Batering and Sailing, which makes it the BIS class in that field and its still a good combat class that gets combat updates. It also can experience every other type of content, they have now and will do in the future.
People defending that its oke, for a contineus developing game, to have just one class that dosent fit at all into it, and gets no further development, and has also no disclaimer that it is that way, is just insanety to me... just because they did say on a dev log, "its a special class" dosent justify that people put in hundrets or even thousends of hours just to notice then that the game developers do not intend to include you class in further updates.
Like there is a whole region comming, with boss battles, is there even one grp oriented boss?