Cabalists

[vestax]

Ive been playing around with a cabby on camlann, full spirit with 3 points in body for the disease.

tbh this is the most powerful 1v1 class ive seen.. purple melee's are no problem

1) Root
2) Disease
3) stick pet and run

The pet does very impressive damage and procs like mofo. The snare in the disease is unbreakable and long in duration so they will never catch you. The key is to stop and heal the pet if the guy starts attacking it... not like he will do much damage when he's out of endurance and your heals recover 40% HP's for little mana.

This made me wonder why Cabbys are never seen in rvr, a group of good players could make it work.. something like this;

2x body/matter cabs - 2 minute AE Disease, Top spec lifedrain (body damage), low level 2300 range nearsight
1x body/mind sorc - AE Root, Top spec nuke (body damage)
1x minstrel - Mach 5, Melee buffer chant, DD's (body damage)
2x cleric - Heals duh
2x spirit/matter cabs - 50% body debuff, Awesome pet, low level 2300 range nearsight

Using disease effectively and /assisting properly this set-up would work, you could kite any class that doesn't have pf.

(edit) all 4 pets on healers/druids to prevent disease cure ofc

 

[Scunner]

same as most casters they are not accepted into random groups even many guild groups i expect wouldnt take them.

shame

 

[liste]

Ziera and i have been playing around with similar combos for the last... well, year

it works, is all i can say

 

[old.mattshanes]

Let me just say one thing.

Disease= BEST spell in the game.

 

[Petronella]

I agree, AE disease on a fg is very devastating but few seems to realise this ..

 

[old.mattshanes]

You also have a pet, debuffs, nearight and roots... i really can't understand why albs underate cabas, we going to try having a guild one soon in group often

 

[vestax]

is disease duration affected by det?

and once its been purged can it be reapplied?

 

[old.mattshanes]

Disease isn't no as far as i know because determination only effects forms of cc and yes it can be.

 

[voltage]

no and yes to your questions

not affected by det

no immunity timer (so spam it) so yes it can be reapplied

also the top level one has 400 radius, falloff makes no difference to duration (afaik?) and so is one of the better ae interrupts available. 3 sec cast time is a little slow, but easily sorted with high dex.

edit - 2nd place again :[

 

[old.Bubble]

Originally posted by vestax
is disease duration affected by det?

and once its been purged can it be reapplied?

Theres no Timer so you can recast

 

[Scunner]

Originally posted by old.mattshanes
You also have a pet, debuffs, nearight and roots... i really can't understand why albs underate cabas, we going to try having a guild one soon in group often

We have had one in guild groups now and then but he isnt active atm

 

[liste]

Ask for Ziera

 

[Maeloch]

Originally posted by vestax
This made me wonder why Cabbys are never seen in rvr, a group of good players could make it work.. something like this;

2x body/matter cabs - 2 minute AE Disease, Top spec lifedrain (body damage), low level 2300 range nearsight
1x body/mind sorc - AE Root, Top spec nuke (body damage)
1x minstrel - Mach 5, Melee buffer chant, DD's (body damage)
2x cleric - Heals duh
2x spirit/matter cabs - 50% body debuff, Awesome pet, low level 2300 range nearsight

Using disease effectively and /assisting properly this set-up would work, you could kite any class that doesn't have pf.

(edit) all 4 pets on healers/druids to prevent disease cure ofc

Aye, give more grps like this!

 

[Xeanor]

sorcs should've gotten aoe disease

:|

 

[Qwegji-]

I always thought a matter/body caba would be really nice in a pbae grp. PBAE + AE Dot and AE disease would be nasty. Caba would also get top nearsight.

or

2 Spirit/body caba
1 body/matter caba
1 mind/body sorc
2 body/mind sorc
1 minstrel
1 cleric

(+ BBs for chars and pets

 

[Jace]

My main is a Spirit/Body Cabalist and is treated like an outcast in pickup groups and guild groups alike. I know how effective I can be with him but if its not pbaoe or fotm tank groups Albion simply doesn't want to know.

I regretably play less and less Albion nowadays soley out of frustration that my main, and favourite, character simply isn't welcome.

Yes it get's me down but what can ya do.

 

[old.Morchaoron]

Originally posted by old.mattshanes
Let me just say one thing.

Disease= BEST spell in the game.

yep it is the best offensive spell no doubt....

 

[kameh]

I have a little matter cabbie in Thidraki, fooking love him and will be leveling him up soon. Very fun class to play although I think it could do with a little love, but theurgists need that first

 

[elder_theurgist]

casters

IMHO the real problem here is that there is no real effective casters group whitout pbaoe. Once the other group get to you, you have bacically lost....

so again IMHO, if you have 2 ice wiz in the group, I like to have a cabalist too.... if we dont have 2 ice wiz.. sorry no...

 

[Jace]

Alb groups with 2 Ice Wizards want only one thing . . . a third.

 

[Capricorn]

could have

1. ice wiz
2. ice wiz
3. ice wiz
4. body caby
5. cleric
6. cleric
7. sorc
8. mincer

then you get everythin....stun pet could be nasty in the pbae as well.

 

[chimaira]

what pet did u use? cba to look em up

 

[liste]

1. ice wiz
2. ice wiz
3. ice wiz
4. body caby
5. cleric
6. cleric
7. sorc
8. mincer

make that a body sorc, and that group _RAWKS_. Have tried it on occations, with slight modifications (such as only one cleric and a tank instead) and it still rocks.

 

[Tafaya Anathas]

Originally posted by kameh
I have a little matter cabbie in Thidraki, fooking love him and will be leveling him up soon. Very fun class to play although I think it could do with a little love, but theurgists need that first

Theurgist will get love in the next patch, the cabalist will get a whack with the nerfbat in the same patch and in ToA

 

[civy]

Sorry to say as I love my cabbie but they are about to get a beaten to a bloody pulp by the nerf bat.

Nearsight - Immunity timer (not sure but I think I read about cure nearsight)
AE Disease - Remove disease group ability
Focus shield - No more high level mobs
Dots - rendered useless by heal nodes
Unlimited power - everyone will have it with power nodes
Debuff Nuking - Nerfed

The future is not bright for cabbies. One of the lowest if not lowest rp earners in the game takes more nerfs in recent and coming patches than just about any class in the game.

If you look through the list you will probably think and be right that these additions will be good for albion. The abilities are much more prevalent in the other realms, but also spread across more classes reducing the impact. For a cabbie it SUX big time.

 

[vestax]

Wild Arcana + Disease

What aspect of the disease crits?

the snare?
the stat debuff?
or the heal reduction?

 

[voltage]

your disease is extra effective!

is the message you get

I'd guess all 3, increased snare, stat debuff and heal reduction... not certain tho.

 

[Coffeus]

wtf is a cabalist ? ^^