Others may choose to save up all of their points and use them to specialize in air. It should be noted that you can train a bit in each field but there are benefits of focusing on one field. This will open up additional spells and quests at higher levels of specialization. You probably noticed that I mentioned pets in the above paragraph. Yes, pets have been integrated in to the Dark Age of Camelot beta test.
Different classes receive different types of pets.
Cabalists for example receive golems. Golems will stay with a character until they or the character dies at which point they will need to be re-summoned. The pet interface is well done. You can pop a pet control box on to your screen at any time. As with all windows in DAoC you can set the alpha transparency settings so that it does not become a distraction on the screen.