The free-to-play MMO Cabal 2 has now introduced its six classes in a trailer.
At PAX South in Texas, alongside major announcements for Guild Wars 2, other MMOs were represented, including the Asia import Cabal 2. The free-to-play action MMO will launch with six classes:
- Force Archer, a bowman
- Force Blader, a nimble melee fighter
- Force Shielder, a classic tank
- Wizard, a prototypical wizard
- Priest, a priestess
- Warrior, a powerful two-handed warrior
Allegedly, the six classes should fulfill all important roles to make it attractive to have one of each in the group. For example, the Force Archer can take away an enrage effect from the boss that would otherwise strengthen him further with increasing combat duration. Through this rebalancing of the classes, they want to avoid situations where groups, like in Cabal, stack four DDs of the same class, known as stacking.
Five of the six classes are taken from the predecessor, with only the Priest being new to the game. The Blader had to make way for him.
Cabal II is a free-to-play MMO from Asia that primarily focuses on the combat system, where players can quickly chain abilities to gain damage multipliers or use reactive abilities to benefit from special combat situations (e.g., when the opponent is knocked down).
The game is supposed to be released in Germany in spring 2015. There is currently no date for a announced closed and open beta. In South Korea, the game has been available since December 2012.
The first Cabal was released in 2005 in Korea and had a total of 26 million players in 26 different countries by mid-2014. One of the special features of Cabal is that the game is particularly popular among women, who are said to make up 30% of the Asian player base.
Here is the combat trailer with a brief appearance of the different classes.
And here is a current dev interview from Pax South, in which, for example, the release date is discussed and that Cabal II is already quite far along in development:
