If like me, you're waiting for the Age of Conan launch and you're coming from other games with typical MMORPG combat systems, you may want to watch Gamespy's excellent Combat Tutorial video which demonstrates very clearly the differences in combat from what you're probably used to.

Physical melee combat is quite a bit different, with directional attacks and combos. I would describe it but you're better off watching the video. Casting is mostly the same as you would expect from World of Warcraft, at least until they introduce spellweaving at a later date.

I'd have his babies. Weird Al's new video speaks for itself: