Is AR a cabal mud?

[GodOfWar]

The people that I truly remember as being elite are those killers that pwned without ever needing the extra skills of a cabal. Caballed killers so to speak.

[Flying Hampster of Doom]

To be honest cabal skills are a bit blown out of prorportions, as I have had most cabal skills in knights up through guardian I can see only two skills that are of extreme use, beyond that not much is visible. I have heard of some of the skills in Legion and I know they have one or two as well. Yet these are skills that can be taken away or otherwise ignored if you play your cards right. I think a cabal gives you a group to fall back on and a way to learn everything you need to learn about the pk scene. It almost seems a better idea to make every newbie join a cabal then those who quit are loaners and go around trashing on someone. Yet that would give rise to the idea of clans.. and we dont need to touch that.