Doubt no more edward. I'm in the beta and it's simply superb - better than most MMO's out there. Sure there is a lot of content to come and systems to be implemented but the devs are making progress. It won't be out in Nov though, maybe open beta.
Crafting is coming next week in a new patch. Combat is skills+points based. There's quite a good skills tree system implemented. As a fighter you can also use magic; it's very flexible in that way. I specced fighter but can use healing spells etc - …
I'm in the beta and I can assure you that it look much better in motion than these screenshots - by a long shot. I have a collection of screenshots on my HD that blow any of those out of the water.