Combat -

Combat is fun, it's different and it's hard. I rolled a Baraka Priest, so I'm this massive huge dude shooting off spells. The UI is done well with the combat, in that the skill slots are easy to use, you can assign any spell to your mouse button 1 or 2 that you see fit and you also use the tab key for any spell you desire. There is no targeting, it's purely crosshair and hit scanning. If your spell misses the target, it misses. If the target tries to hit you and you dodge, you take no damage.

I'm only level 5 so far, due to server issues making it hard to get on and have a decent play through, but from what I've tried, the AI combat is pretty crappy, but that might be due to low levels and wanting to introduce you to the mechanics of the game.

UI -

The User Interface is something I've never seen before. Everything is customisable and oh boy is it awesome being allowed to move stuff around to how I want it. In the option menu you can actually increase or decrease the UI scale, which is really good for making certain things smaller (health bars and mini map to name). Overall it's smart, it says everything, nothing isn't really "cluttered" like in WoW when I use to raid and it has everything I need.

Character classes -

I've only been able to play Priest so far due to 1 character limit, but when creating a class, you can see each classes abilities and what they are mainly "used" for. Every class can heal or tank or deal damage, but certain classes are just better off. There are two different "tanks", the Warrior and the Lancer. Warrior is the tank that actually tries to dodge and keep focus, where as the Lancer will try and absorb the damage while dealing damage and holding agro.

PVP and Pings -

I haven't been able to fully try out PVP, but I did try a few duels, and oh boy is the Priest terrible at dealing damage to anything but a NPC. This is obviously something that will hopefully get better as you grow more powerful, but I also think I rolled the wrong class for PVPing. Pings are fine, I get around 200ms and the combat hasn't lagged once besides a server crash. Everything is responsive, when I was dueling I didn't feel like I was lagging out, and using my heals was quick to respond.

Overall, I'll be enjoying this MMO quite a lot. The character creation is amazing, the landscapes are beautiful, and everything just seems to work well. Today/Sunday I'll hopefully be able to try out the crafting and see what that is like, but from what I've seen in YouTube videos I won't be disappointed. Also I noticed you can setup stores like in Aion, to sell your wares, which is always great.

There is more to come however, as apparently there will be guild housing, guild pvp, server vs server pvp, politics which I really want to have a look into, and raids are being added. Also of note is that the levels 1-40 experience are being fully revamped in time for open beta, so what I'm experiencing now will be completely different come then.