Some questions :)

Sorry if these were already anwsered, I've spent about 2 hours browsing these forums and have recieved a lot of very good information.

First of all, what is the story with the two professions in one? Do you pick which two you want to be in the start, or do you level up and gain two professions skills ( Like in SWG kind of) ?

Next, I saw some people saying you can only bring 8 skills with you, what does this mean? How many skills does one person have?

Thanks in advance!

If you create your character for roleplay, you pick its' Primary character. What you will be seen as. In the first Ascalon you journey through to get your first set of primary skills, after you can talk to certain people and they will guide you to getting your secondary set of skills. Each character can hold the total amount of 8 skills, you can have 7 for primary, and 1 for secondary, of vice-verse, or just plain 4-4 equal. Each primary/secondary has many sets of skills, probably like 40+(don't hate me if I'm wrong)... and only possible to take 8 each time you enter a match.

Awesome, thanks so much..

So it's like, you take what you think you're going to need for any given encounter type of deal?

Yes, you have to carefully choose which 8 skill you want to bring with you.
Each class has about 75 different skills, so that's about 150 per character

You can see a list of all skills here.