Scryde X5 Classic is a new format in the Scryde family of servers, built for those who miss real old-school gameplay. This isn't classic High Five. It's our vision of what High Five should look like today.

That said, we've kept everything people love about this era: the familiar character progression path, the value of items you've earned, subclasses and Noblesse, crafting and spoil, a living economy, the fight for gear, epic bosses, castles, and the Olympiad. A handful of mechanics got targeted improvements where they make the game more comfortable and more interesting — without touching the foundations.

Launch time

Open Beta Test runs from August 21 to September 2

Core settings

What's not here

The Buffer in Alt+B

The buffer lives in ALT+B → "Buffer." It only works in a peace zone and outside combat — you won't be able to buff up in the middle of PvP.

It's available from level 20 to 85, but the full list doesn't unlock all at once — skills appear at roughly the same levels as they do for the classes that normally cast them. Dance of Fury, for example, only unlocks at level 58 — same as for an actual Bladedancer.

There are no resists, no reflects, and almost none of the third-profession skills in the buffer. The one exception is Chant of Victory.

Regular buffs

Dances and Songs

 Mana Refresh – a buff available from level 20 in the buffer that grants an hour of increased passive mana regeneration of 5 / 10 / 15 / 20.

• Adds a 10% Clarity effect for physical skills.

• On top of the flat regeneration bonus, it now also adds MP regen as a percentage of Max MP, which noticeably improves comfort in the server's later chapters — the percentage bonus kicks in at the buff's highest levels.

• It also cuts incoming and outgoing Mana Recharge by 90%.

Mana Refresh's unusual efficiency creates a distinct experience for solo players, letting them follow classic RPG principles and manage their resources strategically. Players who prefer mana-feeding won't get a double advantage here, since they already skip this buff due to the mana-feed penalty — a balanced setup that keeps things fair across different playstyles.

Vitamin Pets

Vitamin pets are unique companions who accompany you throughout your character's growth, purchasable from ALT+B. Each pet has its own set of unique skills suited to different playstyles, so players can pick whichever pet best fits how they play and farm.

Agathion companions on Scryde X5 Classic

Summoning pets is only available from level 40; summoner-pet buffs unlock at the same level as for Elemental Summoner / Warlock. You can't summon a vitamin pet and a vitamin agathion at the same time, but summoning a vitamin agathion alongside your regular summon is now possible (except for Phoenix Paladin).

Gear Score System

A new system for rating character equipment has been added. It scores all items starting from No Grade — but only regular items, the ones without a time limit.

Gear Score System

How Gear Score Works

Every item has a base GS value, plus extra bonuses for the following:

•  Enchant level: each enchant bumps the final GS by a set percentage. For example, B-Grade weapons add +7% per enchant, while MID S84-grade weapons add +14%.

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   Number of ATT crystals slotted: a fixed bonus to total GS. For armor this ranges from +10 to +60, for weapons from +30 to +150, depending on how many ATT crystals are inserted.

•  PvP insert: +10 for weapons, +5 for armor. (Added as base GS before other bonuses.)

• Rare (RAR) insert: +5 for both weapons and armor. (Added as base GS.)

•  Shoulders: +2 for the first Dino shoulder piece, +4 for the second, +8 for the third. (Added as base GS.)

•  SA on weapon: +10. (Added as base GS.)

•  Life Stone active/passive skills: from +5 to +200 depending on the Life Stone (Duel Might, for instance, gives far more GS than Kiss of Eva), with the biggest boost coming from a double Life Stone setup (e.g., Duel Might + STR+1). In C/B/A-Grade weapons, Life Stones give less GS than in S+ Grade.

  
  

Use the .gs command to show off your Gear Score in general or party chat.

Base GS Values by Item

Player Rankings

Rise above everyone else on Scryde X5 Classic!

Show them you're the best of the best. Join the race for experience and exclusive rewards. The player ranking lets you track your progress, measure your achievements, and fight for a spot in the TOP among the server's 10,000 strongest heroes. Push for the summit and prove you deserve to be #1.

Server player ratings

Rankings by EXP and Gear Score

You can check rankings both server-wide and by class.

Gear Score Ranking

With the new Gear Score system live, every hero can prove their strength. Upgrade your gear, rack up points, and see how you stack up against everyone else. The updated ranking lets you track your progress and spot the strongest players on the server.

Ranking FAQ

1. I placed in the server rankings — do I get anything extra?

Absolutely, every ranked player gets a matching reward.

Top 1 by EXP gets gold laurels around their nickname plus a passive skill:

Server Leader: Increases STR+1, INT+1, DEX+1, WIT+1, CON+1, MEN+1. Increases Speed +5, resistance to Hold, Sleep, Fear, and Mental attacks by 20. Reduces PvE damage taken by 10%. Doesn't work in the Olympiad.

Top 1 by GS gets only a passive skill:

GS Server Leader — increases Adena, Drop, and EXP rates by 10%, reduces PvP damage taken by 5%. Increases Max CP by 1000.

Ranks 2–30 by EXP get silver laurels around their nickname plus a passive skill:

Server Rank 2 — increases DEX+1, WIT+1, CON+1, MEN+1. Reduces PvE damage taken by 5%. Doesn't work in the Olympiad.

Ranks 2–30 by GS get a passive skill:

GS Rank 2 — increases Adena, Drop, and EXP rates by 5%, reduces PvP damage taken by 2%.

Ranks 31–100 by EXP get bronze laurels around their nickname plus a passive skill:

Server Rank 3: Увеличивает характеристики: CON+1, MEN+1. Не работает на Олимпиаде.

Ranks 31–100 by GS get a passive skill:

GS Rank 3 — increases Adena, Drop, and EXP rates by 3%, reduces PvP damage taken by 1%.

2. Is there a reward for class rankings too?

Yes. The top player in their class by EXP/GS gets a special passive skill:

Class Leader — increases STR+1, INT+1, CON+1, MEN+1, Speed +3. Reduces PvE damage taken by 5%. Doesn't work in the Olympiad.

By GS:

GS Class Leader — increases Adena, Drop, and EXP rates by 7%. Reduces PvP damage taken by 3%. Increases Max CP by 500.

Second place in class by EXP/GS gets:

Class Rank 2 — grants DEX+1, CON+1, WIT+1, MEN+1. Reduces PvP damage taken by 5%.

GS Сlass Rank 2 — increases Adena, Drop, and EXP rates by 5%. Reduces PvP damage taken by 2%.

Third place in class by EXP/GS gets:

Class Rank 3: grants CON+1, MEN+1.

GS Сlass Rank 3: increases Adena, Drop, and EXP rates by 3%. Reduces PvP damage taken by 1%.

3. How often do rankings update?

EXP rankings update every 6 hours.

GS rankings update at a random interval between 2 and 10 hours.

4. How do I get on the leaderboard?

Just hit level 40, get your second profession, and land in the top 10,000 players.

Class Balance

Bards — Sword Singer / Bladedancer

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   Deadly Smash: A powerful attack on surrounding enemies, dealing an extra 2192 damage. Reduces P. Def. by 17% and M. Def. by 17%. Overhit possible. Duration 9 sec. Works in the Olympiad.

•  Dual Dagger Mastery: Learnable by Spectral Dancer and Sword Muse at level 40.

•  Song of Spirit [from lvl 83]: Increases PvE damage dealt by 10%, Atk. Spd. by 8%, Casting Spd. by 8%, Speed by 8. Decreases PvE damage received by 10%, all skill cooldowns by 5%. Does not work in Olympiad.
  

Every bard now has a set of "paired skills" — a symbiosis of a Dance + a Song. This removes the endless hunt for a missing bard and lets you bring another DD instead, while also adding variety and flexibility in combat:

1.  Critical Simphony [c 40 ур]: a symbiosis of Song of Hunter and Dance of Fire.

2.  Concentration Symphony [2 ур: 43 и 52]: a symbiosis of Song of Warding, Dance of Concentration + Dance of Mystic.

3.  Wind Symphony [c 46 ур.]: a symbiosis of Song of Wind and Dance of Inspiration.

4.  Warrior Symphony [с 55 ур.]: a symbiosis of Song of Earth and Dance of Warrior.

5.  Fury Symphony [есть изменения] [2 ур: 49 и 58.]: a symbiosis of Song of Water and Dance of Fury (now split into 2 levels, where 7% Atk. Spd. is already available from level 49).

6.  Vitality Symphony [c 66 ур.]: a symbiosis of Song of Vitality and Dance of Vampire.

7.  Meditation Symphony [c 77 ур.]: a symbiosis of Song of Meditation and Song of Renewal.

8.  Siren Symphony [c 78 ур.]: a symbiosis of Song of Champion and Dance of Siren.

   
   

• The "double weight" that gave these symphonies an edge when cancelling has been removed.

• These skills can't be used in the Olympiad.

• They replace standard Dances and Songs and take top priority.

• Once they run out, the buffer's regular dances and songs return.

• Duration: 5 minutes.

• They're cancelled following the standard Dance/Song rules, via Symbol of Noise.

Healers — Bishop / Eva's Elder / Shillien Elder

•   Might of Heaven(All): Brings down divine wrath on enemies, dealing holy damage. Doesn't work on players.

• Prophecy of Water (EE): Calls on the Great Spirit to grant the party Max HP +20%, magic critical chance +2, MP recovery +20%, P. Atk. +10%, P. Def. +20%, Atk. Spd. +20%, M. Atk. +20%, M. Def. +20%, Casting Spd. +20%, and resistance to negative effects +10%. Also reduces Speed by 20% and MP consumption by 5%. Consumes 10 Spirit Ore. Duration: 5 min. Doesn't work in the Olympiad.

•  Mass Buff: Skill added. Now you can apply point buffs to the whole group, similarly with Prophet

  
  

Prophet

•   Vampiric Rage: now available to the Prophet class.

•   Might of Heaven: Brings down divine wrath on enemies, dealing holy damage. Doesn't work on players.

•  Mass Buff: Skill added. Now you can apply point buffs to the whole group, similarly with Prophet

Judicator

• Appetite Destruction: Available from level 52. Awakens the party's instincts of destruction, granting P. Atk. +25%, Critical Rate +25%, and Critical Power +25%. Duration: 15 sec. Has one enchant branch, Power.

Damage Cap and Maximum Critical Multiplier

• Scryde X5 Classic has a maximum damage cap of 50,000 per hit.

• The maximum critical multiplier is capped at x30.

• Vampirism effectiveness has been reduced when using a spear.

Skill sharpening: new bonuses

Update on sharpening skills: dozens of skills received reworked bonuses for the level of sharpening - somewhere they increased the growth, somewhere they completely changed the mechanics of the effect.

A full list of changes with numbers for each skill - at the link: Click

Weapons, SA, RAR sets: a big update of equipment

reworked rare weapons of almost all types - from swords and bows to caskets and dual knives. Replaced outdated SA with more relevant ones, strengthened the RAR parts of Vesper and Moirai. Added new low-grade dual knives available from level 40 for several classes. Plus - changes in the requirements for the assembly of some sets and reduced consumption of nipples for a number of weapons.

Details with all items and numbers - follow the link: Click

World Trade

World Trade is a functional system that opens up new ways to trade items and currency within a single server. Unlike traditional in-game item exchange, World Trade lets players freely buy and sell goods from anywhere in the world.

How does World Trade work?

To open the World Trade window, use the dedicated icon above your character's function panel.

Making a purchase

Making a sale

My Listings (settlements)

When is trading unavailable?

Updated Subclass System

There are no more restrictions on subclasses. Any character can take any subclass, including Warsmith and Overlord (Dark Elves can take Light-race subclasses and vice versa!). Tanks can take other tank subclasses. The only exception is the Kamael race — they can only take subclasses of their own race.

The process of obtaining subclass skills has been greatly simplified: every player reaching the 3rd profession now automatically receives all the books needed to certify the class. Every book is clickable and opens the skill-learning window straight away — no need to fly to the Ivory Tower.

A dwarf running a necromancer subclass — now that's a vibe!​

Champions

Among regular monsters you'll run into champions — buffed versions in three tiers: Blue (tier 1), Red (tier 2), and Gold (tier 3). Each tier is noticeably more dangerous — and noticeably more profitable.

Blue and Red champions spawn up to level 86; Gold — up to level 75.

All champions now carry a full set of debuff resistances, so farming them takes real attention to debuff mechanics regardless of which tier spawns.

The Emperor is a unique top-rank monster, essentially a mini raid boss. Very strong, but very profitable, easy to spot by its golden beam. Lifespan — 5 minutes, always aggressive, and attacks everyone nearby.

Gold Champion

Skills:

• Reborn — infects all nearby monsters; infected monsters spawn 3 copies of themselves on death.

• Power Curse — infects all nearby monsters, significantly boosting their stats and Drop/Exp/Spoil rates.

• Reproduction — spawns 1 to 4 copies of every creature nearby; the copies aren't champions.

• Sacrifice — forces every monster within a 2000-range radius to attack a chosen character.

• Champions Fall — turns every monster nearby into a Blue Champion for 5 minutes.

  
  

Instances

• Abyss Labyrinth — entry used to be tied to specific days of the week; now, similar to Kamaloka's Hall of the Abyss, it's available once a day. Guaranteed boss drops have been removed.

• Freya and Blessed Freya — share a common cooldown: entering one puts both on cooldown. M. Def. raised to 320, all skill radii increased to 3000, skills hit characters on both the 1st and 2nd floor of the instance, and a player who's been dead for 15 seconds is automatically teleported outside.

• Hall of Illusions — clearing it no longer consumes Dimension Fragments.

Chests

The old, familiar chests that opened with a Maestro's Key have been replaced with upgraded Treasure Chests. They no longer need a key, are clearly split by Grade, and come with a completely refreshed reward pool.

X5 turns on chest respawns for every grade at once — from regular C-Grade all the way up to top-tier S84. Chests are placed at classic farming locations and respawn randomly, one per spot.

Grades and locations

Clan Content

Divisions

Short version: divisions are how you get epic jewelry on Scryde. Clans are sorted into divisions by strength — top clans fight top clans, mid-tier clans fight mid-tier clans, and even a small clan gets its own content instead of just watching from the sidelines at a boss's lair.

The main difference from the classic epic-boss hunt: the reward doesn't only go to whoever lands the final blow. Clans earn essences for participating — a currency you spend in the Division shop. The system tracks each clan's contribution to the fight (PvP and damage to the boss), and inside a clan the essences are distributed among players automatically, based on class, Gear Score, damage dealt, and PvP participation.

How it works on X5. At launch, only Big War is open — a division where every clan starts in the same pool. Mid War and Low War will join later, once the server's first sides have formed and the real balance of power becomes clear.

Divisions are isolated zones — you can't enter beyond the limit.

Rewards. In Big War, clans earn essences plus the boss's main drop for taking part in the kill. If a clan claims the drop, the matching share of essences is deducted from the shared pool — the winner doesn't get both the full drop and the maximum shop reward at once. You'll have to choose.

One type of essence goes toward epic jewelry, the other toward gear and consumables.

Sieges, Castles, and Territory Wars

A siege is the server's main clan event: once a week, clans storm the castles, and the winner gets not just stat bonuses but also territorial taxes and a share of the global treasury — more on that below.

Every siege participant automatically receives Mercenary quests:

Registering for a siege signs your clan up for every castle at once — you can switch targets mid-siege, starting at one gate and finishing at another.

A castle's flag grants stat bonuses and is locked to its own castle — you can't steal and carry off someone else's flag:

Sieges come with their own set of reworked skills: two upgrade tiers for Build Headquarters, and the Summon Swoon Cannon siege weapon, tuned to the server's stats.

Olympiad

A world record for arenas on Scryde.

Ranked Olympiad runs two days a week — Friday and Saturday. Classic matches have a pool of 70 fights per period.

At the start, characters are split into three brackets by point total:

This way, characters with very different point totals face off against each other less often, and the competition within each bracket gets tighter.

Olympiad winners get Hero status. The hero weapon is an equivalent of Vesper +8.

Places 1 through 10 come with extra rewards in the form of runes. Olympiad cloaks are still around too, just without extra stat bonuses.

• Class-based matches are disabled.

• The /olympiadstat command (or its short form, /o) no longer needs a target and only shows your own character's stats. After a match ends, the opponent's point total is no longer shown.

• HWID verification runs at registration. If a character from the same device is already registered or already on the arena, a second one from that device can't register.

• Kamael can use any hero weapon, not just the ancient ones.

• Enchant cap in the Olympiad: +6/+6/+6.

Arena odds:

Grand Olympiad Event

The Grand Olympiad Event is an incredibly simple but genuinely fun event where you can earn Gold Coins.

Schedule — Saturdays, 19:00–19:45 (GMT+3).

How to earn Gold Coins?

Once the event starts, winning at the Grand Olympiad Stadiums earns you an Olympiad Winner's Gift. Opening it gives you a 30% chance at a Hero's Certificate, which you can then trade in for Gold Coins.

The event runs for 45 minutes. Players who break the project's rules, or who have broken them seriously before, may be removed from the event.

9 vs 9 Tournament [Scryde X5 Classic]

The last Scryde X season drew the largest number of teams and participants in the history of the Scryde project!

Riding that momentum, X5 will have its own tournament too — 9 vs 9, with a $10,000 prize pool. Full details will follow later in the Scryde Knowledge Base and on our social media.

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