Cabal Online is a free massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), created by ESTsoft. It was released from open Beta Testing in Europe on December 21, 2006. In North America, OGPlanet has picked up the license for the game and open beta testing began February 1, 2008. It had also been stated by IGN that the full release would most likely be by the end of February. On March 3, 2008, the game officially launched in North America. The open beta also began on March 3, 2008 in South-East Asia.

Overview

The primary aspect of leveling in the game is quests. Typical quests involve moving from one place to another, interaction between NPCs, killing enemies, and dungeon quests.

The game takes place in a mythical world known as Nevareth, which has been decimated by an evil entity known as CABAL. Survivors of the devastation were scattered across the now-barren landscape. In this world, seven “masters” rose up, each wielding the ancient abilities of the “Force Power”. These masters taught the people, and the world was rebuilt. One year later, the CABAL is plotting a return to power by breeding a child to be the new king of the people. The players of the game take up the role of heroes who battle the CABAL uprising and conspiracy.

The skill system allows players to deduct or remove skills completely by paying in-game currency. At every decadic level there is a promotion quest to earn one of either of these special skills: an astral weapon, aura mode, battle mode, combo start or an upgrade in either of these 5 skills. The PVP system has a limit of 3 minutes in which you must kill the player in order to receive 1 honour point (that can be used for buying higher stacks of items/potions in 1 inventory slot) and the player is automatically sent to the nearest town with no death penalties.

Character classes

There are six character classes in Cabal Online known as the Authentic Six.

Warrior

Warriors practice physical strength by using force rather than manipulating it, and prioritize physical power over technique and speed. Experienced warriors are able to gain the ability to use force to become berserkers and summon Astral Weapons. Warriors have high attack and high defense. Most of their skills are slower to cast than other classes, but their damage is greater. Their Summoned Astral Weapon is a scythe.

Blader

Bladers maximize physical abilities by using force, and they prioritize technique and speed over power. They use dual blades or katanas as their primary weapons, and wear light armor for speed. Bladers have very limited understanding of force, and so mainly practice physical strength and agility. Experienced bladers are able to create multiple doppelgangers by maximizing their agility and summon Astral Weapons. Bladers have high attack and defense rate, but lack of defense ruins a Blader’s chance in PvP. This lead to the creation of the Heavy Blader, a Blader wearing Warrior armors. Their skills are rather fast and some do AOE.Their Battle Mode 2 style ‘Crushing Blow’ is famous for dealing a 1hit ko on both monsters and other players.A fearful opponent in PvP. Their Summoned Astral Weapon are claws.

Wizard

Wizards are magic users who manipulate Force to compensate their physical weakness. They use a Force controller called an “Orb”. The Orb is one-handed, which means that Wizards can be equipped with an orb in both hands to double their power. It also leads them to be able to cast multiple magic spells at the same time. They do not possess much physical strength or agility and prefer to wear light armor. Experienced wizards are able to simultaneously use multiple magic spells and inflict greater amounts of damage. Most of the Wizard’s skills have AOE. A Wizard’s defense is very low, but their AOE skills have stun and knockdown effects, which nearly makes them unhittable in PvE. PvP-wise, Wizards are still very powerful. Their stun-knockdown attacks combine with their Fade Step-Dash-Blink skills makes them hard to kill. Their Summoned Astral Weapon is an Orb.

Force Archer

Force Archer skills were greatly intrigued by distance and speed rather than space and power. They established the intensive long-range force attack skills for Force Archers, and created “Crystals”, an advanced version of a Wizard’s “Orb”, which specializes in controlling Force more than intensifying it. This great invention which has resulted in creating another invention, “Astral Bow” which minimizes the risk of power decrease when using long-range force and improves force control and attack speed at the same time. Later, it served as a momentum for “Astral Weapons”, the embodiment of Force. Controlling Crystals requires a minimum of physical strength and agility. Force Archers do not move around much compared to other classes due to their unique battle style, and they wear armor such as “Battle Suit Set” from the Pastur continent, which possesses better defense than light clothing armor. Force Archers have the longest range in of all the classes, as well as the fastest casting time. Their defense and defense rate are average. They have a wide array of support skills and healing powers. Their Summoned Astral Weapon are a pair of dual guns.

Force Blader

Force Bladers use physical combat and magic at the same time, wielding a sword in one hand and a Force controller in the other hand. They prioritize agility for precise attacks, and cannot wear heavy armor. Experienced Force Bladers are able to combine every possible magic spell with their sword skills, and inflict more damage by combining magic and sword skills. Force Bladers are the hardest to level in the game because they must constantly skill train both Magic and Sword skills to be effective. They are really powerful in the end. Because they can use both range and melee attacks, melee classes like the warrior and the blader does not fair well with them in PvP. They also have extremely overpowerered debuff skills. Force Bladers have powerful hard hitting skills. Like the Heavy Blader, there are also Heavy Force Bladers. Their Summoned Astral Weapon is an Arm Cannon.

Force Shielder

Force Shielders use a combination of magical sword and shield skills. They wield a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. Experienced force shielders can summon massive astral shields to deal major damage to groups of enemies. A Hybrid class, they have high defense and can do high damage. They have very powerful AOE skills. Magic Force Shielders are said to be better in PvP due to their high defence.Mainly used for tanking. Their Summoned Astral Weapon is a bigger shield that can be thrown like a boomerang.