Yeah, I'm sad to hear about the prestige class scrapping.
From what I gather, it's alot more realistic than flashyglowygoofycartoony WoW. Granted the spells and stuff are really well done and quite flashy, it's not all smooth and colorful, like lightening stuff is actually semi-random and sharp, etc.
Mos def'ly brutal blood decapitation active combat RAWRSPLATTERFACES is looking quite well at the moment 