Cabal Online Review

Cabal online is a free to play 3d Fantasy MMORPG developed and delivered by ESTsoft. Cabal online takes place in a world known as Nevereth.In cabal you can slip in the different zones, or we can say maps. You need to clear all the quests to enter in the next world and be higher level. Every map is different, and different weather, like desert, or snow, or a inferno. Every map got different monsters that you need to kill and get
experience form then, and they can drop different items and gold. Travelling between the World you need to use the Warp gates, thats the “middle” of Nevereth the Wolrd of Cabal.

GamePlay

Like all MMORPG game, you got a player versus player and player vs mobs system. PvE system you need to do quest and for every completed quest you get some rewards like experience, gold or better to say Alz, weapons or dungeon entry … Its really easy to complete the quests. They are sometimes really boring. For example, kill 100 Garlies. Really boring. The leveling is pretty easy just
complete all quests till lvl 52. When you are lvl 52 you can pick a nation to enter the Nation Wars. You can pick Procyon or Capella and fight for the Nation. After you clear all the quest and complete to lvl 100 its will be really hard to lvl up. You need to enter a special dungeons for lvl up and to farm better items. The best way is to use a party of different characters to clear the dungeon easy and without any problems. You get a lot of extra experience when you are in party. To get better items you can use the premium purchased package but you need to pay it with real money. Yes it gives you a big advantage when you do it. You can buy a lot of strong or funny thinks. Like a pet or a astral board or bike thats really looks cool.

Characters and Specialities

Warrior – As the name says, the Warrior is a mele tank character. He is using a two handed sword or a daikatana as his main weapon. Strong 1v1 character. He is really slow, he dont use magic, he use just the streth for killing the enemies. Really easy to play PvE, you dont
need to use heal potions for it.

Force Shielder – Shielder is a standard tanky character. They got really weak damage but high defense rate, much higher then other characters in Cabal. Really strong PvE character. Got some really strong magic skills based on
absorbing the incoming damage.The skills from for shield are mostly critical so he is the character with many critical skills and strikes. You can play Shielder as a Magic Shielder or Standard face to face Shielder. Based on magic abilities or critical strikes Its up on you what you like more.

Blader – Blades mostly are using double swords, or katanas. Very fast character and really strong PvE. They are very quick, famous for the dodging skills, but got low hit points and got high defense rate. They damage output are the critical strikes. I would say the most played character in Cabal.

Force Blader – Its a combination from face to face and a magic character. Or combination from Wizard and Blader. Force blader are using mele sword and a casting orb as a weapons. They are quick and agile and can do high damage
and be really quick. Maybe the best PvP class because of his debuff skills. Force blader cant use have armor…

Wizard – is standard hight damage spell caster character. Like every wizard in other games high damage, low health and cant wear a heavy armour. One of the strongest PVP class. Really cool animations need to say it. Primary weapons are two orbs and primary attribute is intelligent. They got many buffs and you can use the buffs to buff your ally.

Force Archer – As the name says, its an Archer. But I would say its a “Wizard” with different spells and animations. Really cool animations like wizard. High damage dealer with low health and cant wear heavy armor.
Same like Wizard you can use your buffs to buff your ally.

Pro: The game got a unique dueling system. You can use a special ability “combo” for dueling, what mean faster used skills. The game got really cool music. I am a techno fan and in every world is a different techno music, and like I say in the description the animation of the skills looks really beautiful and cool

Cons: The Story is really bad and some of the quests are really boring. After you get 120-140 lvl the game is getting more and more boring. You need to do whole day/nigh the same dungeons and that gets really boring.

I played this game 2 years. I got a 150lvl Blader, 130lvl Force Blader, lvl 100 Foce Shielder and lvl 80 Warrior. Had a lot of fun at begin, get really bored at the end of the game. So I will rate this game with 7. So I hope you liked my review for the only MMORPG game that I ever played.

Now that that’s out of the way, I am going to break the game down.

Graphics: 8/10
The graphics are surprisingly good on the game. They aren’t top quality or anything but pretty good that’s about all there is to say.

Sound: 7/10
The sound is average its not too great its what you would expect from a free MMO. The music is kind of interesting from the music ive heard in other MMO’s but eventually gets pretty old.

Story: 5/10
The story is OK but there are numerous typos and mistakes in alot of readable things in the game. This might not be a factor if you don’t care for the story, though.

Gameplay: 7/10
The gameplay is pretty solid it kind of plays like guild wars and world of warcraft. There are 6 unique character classes you can pick and many skills you can get on each of them. The combat is good combined with the flashy skills you can get and there are some cool looking monsters in the game. The combo system allows you to pull off pretty cool looking combos with the skills you have to make the combat more exciting.

Unfortunately, you don’t get alot of this until later in the game because you dont get the combo move until level 50(?) and you dont get cool looking skills until around level 60 and everything else good about the game really isn’t available until later in the game. The good part is that it really isn’t hard to level in this game at all because of the quests… until past level 100.

Leveling from 1-100 doesn’t really take that long but past 100 is where the game becomes difficult. It takes so much longer to level up because all quests end at 100 so there goes your good source of exp/money. From there on the game turns into an even more hardcore grinding game because you are constantly grinding to get exp for leveling up and money for pretty much EVERYTHING in the game.

Money is actually more important than leveling up in this game. You still need to level up but your gear almost completely defines how strong your character is, stats from leveling up being only a minor part. Your character will be worthless if you don’t have good gear so you are forced to grind for insane amounts of money.

Overall: 7/10
The game is leaned towards hardcore players who don’t mind grinding for everything in the game. I give it a 7 because of the fact that it doesn’t appeal to all players but the game in total is pretty good. You either like it or you don’t but I encourage you to try it for yourself anyways.

I won’t be giving a proper review here, as I can’t remember too much of it, but Cabal Online had one MAJOR flaw. There’s too much grinding. The game relies almost COMPLETELY on grinding. There’s a few early quests, and then the rest of the quests seemed to just be grind, grind, grind till the next level (not even any variety in quests), and next skills. This proved to be too boring for me in the end, and I quit. For this, Cabal Online is a very un-recommended game in my opinion.

The other flaw, though not as much of a major one, is that the maps are too small. The maps are tiny, and you have to go to the next through these portal-like things. I’m afraid in the age of seamless maps, this just isn’t good enough, and it could feel small very quickly. Even Dekaron/2moons isn’t this bad, at least they have bigger maps linked together!

Good points that award this game 3 points instead of a 0 though, are that the combat is cool, and the graphics are pretty nice. The combat especially, is one of the highlights of the game, and kept me on slightly longer, so that I can unlock the next skill, and it took longer for me to get bored of the attack animation.

All in all though, Cabal Online is a repetitive game that can’t really be recommended over the hundreds of alternatives of MMORPGs out there.

I give this a 3.

Cons,
-Too easy, a game which has a great potential, and they particularly use it, but can be better.
-Oh, BTW, archers are underpowered atm. Try it, you’ll find it out 🙂

So, a 9 is OK, for this game.

The Bad:
Small Map
Repetitive Quests
The Storyline is not well associated
Lame Music

The Ugly:
Skill ranks
Playing with idiots is not fun at all
You become a moron

Graphic:8/10(great for a free mmorpg)
Gameplay 9/10(The combo is great)
Sound:4/10(the music repeat and it get annoying
Community:2/10(people really suck there)
OVERRALL:7/10

In conclution,Cabal has great potential,but it ruined it with it’s brutaly slow leveling and too much grinding.
7/10.

but gets alittle boring when ur over lvl 30(quests requires lots of travelling)

i quit when i reached lvl70
was a blader
waiting for DAL 2 start back up…waited fr half a year alredy

may i ask bout how long does a game take 2 restart?

like CABAL took how long 2 restart since beta?

frm there i can know when DAL starts…its another asiasoft game after all

The good:
It’s very easy to level and there are MANY quests so you’ll never find yourself with nothing to do. However, after level 40, the questing start to feel repetitive because you have to go out and kill X monsters and get X number of items, then go back to the NPC, get exp and money, repeat.

But there are other types of quests as well.

Also, A STORYLINE. It’s a lot of text but you’ll be quickly wanting to know what happens next.

The class system has to be one of the best out there. With 6 different classes to choose from and many different skills to be acquired, you will be able to customize your character any way you choose.

Plus, there are many monsters at different levels to fight so you’ll never find yourself hitting on weak monsters for 0.002% exp nor will you find yourself stuck beating up on monsters beyond your ability.

And though the community has been a bit lackluster since the official release (and the bots), the other players are pretty nice and the forums are a good place to get advice on your character build if you’re hoping to perfect it. In game, there is a Shout chat channel, so if you have any quick questions, you can get answers there.

I’m not too big on PvP but only n Cabal I will occasionally participate. Cabal has an honor system that is affected by PvP. When you get certain amounts of honor, you can buy special items, and do special quests. So if you PK somebody you can lose a lot of honor and do it too much and you’ll go to “jail.” Fortunately, Cabal has a War channel were you can freely attack other players for honor points. It’s a lot of fun and a big rush if you’re looking to play a little “manhunt” in your own mind or you just want to find strong players to beat up (or get beat upon…).

The bad:
The only hangups I have about Cabal is that it’s starting to become overrun with bots. OGPlanet recently deleted hundreds of bot accounts but they’ve returned with a vengeance. You may occasionally run into a KSing bot and don’t count on even being able to have any kind of convo in town.

The bots also cause a lot of lag. And at busy times, you can log on but the heavy lag can make it damn near impossible to do anything at all. And sometimes, the lag causes you to die when you come out of dungeon.

Overall, Cabal is an awesome game. I’ve recommended it to all of my gamer friends and I’d recommend it to all types of MMO’ers out there.

though some of the quests are a bit dull, its a definate game everybody should try 🙂

Cabal also has a big problem with botters and hackers. To add insult to injury, the hack detection software, X-trap, is apparently triggered by things like windows media player and bittorrent. Because of this, legit players have been banned, while botters continue to clog up the servers. How ironic is that?

PS: If you want a good p2p game, play AoC (Age of Conan) when it comes out, don”t play WoW its the most garbage p2p game EVER, superbly slow leveling too. This is an ex-WoW player talking.

Pros:
1.)AWESOME skill effects. In fact i lag when i’m in a big party with every1 using their skills.
2.)Alot of quests so less grinding.
3.)Weapons and armours look cool =P

Cons:
1.)Quests are dull. Kill X of these or Get X of these.
2.)Stupid skill ranks where you actually need to train your skills to get to next rank to get new and better skills. Takes forever to get to grandmaster even with adept gear.

Overall i give this a 8 because its a pretty good game for f2p.

@ lvl 99, the game ends
i am lvl 133 warrior, force archers and wizzys are over powered, you dont get stronger, but the content gets stronger, i have 3.5k hp, but mobs hit for 1k+

the ecom. in this game has went down hill, there is no way to make money but to buy from the CS, or alz sellers, drop rates are super low, 6-8 hours, if your lucky you will get a drop, little content, little sprites, everyone wears the same thing, for 70 lvls basiclly, skills are very limited, there are a total of 2 skills at high lvls to obtain, the pvp system is horrible, you lose honor points for pking, which honor is needed to wear gear, 1 free pk, and -1k for going into pk mode, and -10k for killing someone, after 4-5 kills you go to jail for 3 hrs, i think?

the only thing decent about this game is the flashy skills and the combo system

currently at lvl 133, i am bored to death, it was fun while it lasted, there is nothing to do @ this lvl, us cabal has gone way down hill

you can play it, its a decent game to play till something better comes out

But anyways, moving right along. This game is good for what it is, it’s simple, you can make your character look fairly nice, although it might take a bit to get up there, and the community is really nice.

The graphics may be a bit outdated, but the skill system more than makes up for the out dated graphics, also, the leveling. Most of your leveling comes from quests and the little amount of grinding it may take to finish those quests, so really, the system works out well.

Also, we have to take in the bad-ass factor, when you get higher level, you’re just the baddest stack of awesome to ever walk the pixels of CABAL.

Oh, another thing that caught my attention was the unique classes, I liked how they incorporated the whole apocalyptic/sci-fi/fantasy theme into the classes and really messed around with them, I just thought that was the shit.

so in the end i give it a 6, although this game is reall cool and action packed, it lacks many other things. if u really want a good skill based rpg i suggest guildwars.

Guess what? GamenGame decided to drop Cabal shortly after CB, and American player-base are utterly screwed.