Also how do you learn new skills? Do they just pop up on your skillbar like on EQII or do you have to go learn them?

Finally, the quests. How open ended are they? Do they litteraly tell you the exact spot to go, like on Guild Wars? Or do they give a useless description like on Runescape? Or do they give you the general area, like on WoW?

Shilenne: Skillbar, from what I've seen there are 4, and yes, you can bind them to whatever you want, there's an options in interface to change bindings for everything. Iris didn't bind as much as I did on assasin so you might be able to see from that better.

Skills are purchased as books (or sometimes drops off mobs) then you pretty much right click to use it and it's learned. Most low level skills will be purchased though. It's kind of similar with the system in L2? From what I remember at least.

Quests. If it's a delivery quest to a certain NPC, you CAN click on tooltip which sometimes will have a map and a red dot on the map of where he's at. If it's a hunting quest, it'll put a dot at the general area of where you can find the mobs. Sometimes, if it's something that you have to find, it won't show you anything on the map. But from the quest log it'll give a rough idea of where you should be heading and what you should be looking for. I have to admit the maps help.

I have a question: is vendor gear any good? Or do you usually use the gear from q and drops from mobs?

Irisviel: vendor gears are pretty decent and useable unlike WoW. i do buy vendor gears sometimes, though i usually look for green gears from auction house instead. quest rewards are pretty decent too.

Does the auction house allow bidding like in WoW or can you only sell your things for a fixed price like in Tabula Rasa or Vanguard for example?

Shilenne: Right now it's just fixed price, no bids yet, never know though when the official version release

Do you have any info on the Templar class? I know they are a "defense oriented" class, but i wanted to know about their damage capabilities as well.

- They suck at dealing damage?
- How are their defense buffs? Do they work fine and "really tank" whatever comes to harm the party?

Irisviel: templars kill slow compare to other classes generally, excluding cleric maybe. i heard their dps is better later on with new skills and weapons though. just to remember that templar is the "main tank" of Aion Gold, means if NCsoft some how screwed up their tanking abilities and skills then it's pretty much GG to party play sorry i can't tell you much about their skills at this point since i've never seen a templar with level +20 at least, but whenever groups are looking for a tank they look for a templar.