leveling was easy up until around the mid 20's for me at least.And grind is grind no matter how you look at it.And it's mostly quests like kill this monster,go retrieve that and etc.But its way better than just grinding monsters because you get more experience.And it isn't just an MMO where in the beginning you get like 5 quests which are most likely tutorials and then its just kill monsters,level up,and get all the skills from there on.
And yea sure it does have flashy skills.Thats what I want,I don't want any dull FX in an MMO.Hell everything is flashy in Cabal,reminds me of MU online actually.I have yet to get the hang of the combo system.And I like how each 10 levels until 90 I think,you get battle style thingies like at level 20 you get the battle aura,which is basically a buff.The drop rates are reasonable and they have jackpots where you get a chance to get a mass gold drop by any random monsters which can be up to 10k or more.The armors and equips aren't hella expensive either.In some games that I play they want you to dish out a good 100k for some level 50 armor and etc..But I do however think its a bit easy.
It's a great game IMO,and since I've played that I haven't wanted to play nothing else but Cabal lolz.