Welcome to AION

Aion- I wasn't to sure of this game at first, since I am a WoW player. It looked like a Japanese bubble gum pop (if that's even a legit saying), but you get my point.
I was able to participate in the beta and I must say I was pleasantly surprised. The graphics are great, the character customization is one of the best in an MMO - very close to AoC, and the game play is very similar to most MMO's. Will it topple the champion of MMO's WoW? No, it will not, however it will steal some player base from WoW, such as myself!.

During my beta I started with a Mage, I love ranged DPS, and I loved it. When I cast my first spell and my mage opened a spell book and chanted a word (out load) and a fireball erupted from his hands, all I could think was wow this is amazing! I did notice some stuff that annoyed me (I am very picky and no MMO will ever be perfect), you can't swim : ( . Instead you walk across the bottom of the lake/ocean floor, there is no breathing meter, but instead you just start loosing life. Another issue that annoyed me, especially as a mage, you burn mana fast but there is no real way of gaining mana back unless you use the /rest command and even then it's not fast at all. At level 10 to restore my mana from 0 to full using the /rest command = 2 minutes. So currently those are the 2 main annoyances. 
Anyways back to my post about the game's good features.
I reached level 9 and was excited to find out that level 10 is given to you by 1 quest line (1 very long, run here, run there, talk to this person and that one, run back, do the moon walk, make me a sandwhich without crust on the bread quest line... I think I missed my kids birthdays twice during this quest line.... okay it's not that long, just a little tedious... Holy longest bracket saying ever!). <----Moron, that is my subconscious and he just complains about everything and always thinks he's right.
So I finally did my level 9 quest line and ascended into level 10 and the ability to pick which sub class to choose, I went with Spirit Master, and I finally earned my Glorious Wings and let me just sum them up with one word "Awesome"! Flyhing is very fun, but in the begining it is very short, as you progress in leveling it will become longer flight times.
One great feature that I noticed right off the bat was that there is a personal quest line that contains cut scenes. Very cool - gotta love cut scenes.  So that is it for now. I will have to wait until Sunday night to start to play the early access AION. Yes I have my 2 toons locked in and waiting to rip some mobs to pieces!
Until next post....... yeah that's it..no saying afterwards just until next post!.. okay stop reading! there is nothing left to read! ...................... STOP!