Talk:Cabalist/@comment-32695970-20170727064028

The only way to spec a cabalist now is Matter. Aoe Dot, Focus Pulling, Dot stacking, Nearsight, and now PBAOE. It is the only viable spec. Body is ok as a 2ndry spec, but the single target drain life spells and a disease are not worth main specializing. The spirit line took such a heavy nerf with the removal of pet buffs that it is almost a useless line to go into. Only the debuffs remain as useful spells and its hard to justify that as a specialization.

The changes to the pets made the Jade the best instead of the worst. The class as a pet class was nerfed to heck when they removed the pet custimization. Bone Dancers still have taunting pets, Cabalists do not. Your pets will have difficulty taking aggro unless they initialize combat with a focus shield on them. The pets also lost their movement speed buff from the spirit line, This is a huge drawback in PVE and PVP. Having your Jade Simulacrum randomly run through walls in Avalon City is an amusing and deadly thing. Having a green conned mob beat you death because your pet can't taunt or take aggro when it's supposed to be a tank pet is also not fun. The dps pets take aggro better but are nerfed in defense to be glass cannons so they will take aggro, and die in a very small number of hits after the fact.

To recap, if you want a class that has one viable specialization, that takes some work to get used to all the kinks of having a buggy pet, but can solo almost anything in the game. They are great in PVP with Nearsight, they do fine damage. They can be masters of PVE. Not as fun to play as it was years ago, but still my favorite DAOC Albion class.