Optimum 8 Player Configuration

[Occhidiangela]

Just a few general questions, from someone who has not played much since mid beta and never got above level 35.

How much impact do the race abilities really make in the end? I mean, what is the impact of the of 5% spirit or intelligence really?

I see mentioning of spells and/or talants (is it still called that?) that seems race specific, is that so? Or did I missunderstand something?

And with the risk of a "hijack" of the thread, what would change above if one doesn't have the requirement of one of each race/proffesion when selecting?

Also, are people arguing based on PvP only? Seems there is much talk about how skills and such works versus other players, what if one play mostly PvE?

And to be even more specific, assume one would buy the game, play on PvE only, pick one alliance and one horde character, trying to get a varied play experience and consider to play quite a bit solo as well and not that much each week and probably won't run instances and such day long. What would be good/nice/fun two characters to create?

In comment to the last, and partly what I did in beta was to create an Orc warrior and an Night Elf Priest. Two quite different character types I would say. I do like pure fighters, and as an alternative a more non combat oriented char (that can still play and level on its own). From the looks of it, I like the Male NIght Elf for the look of a Priest and I also liked the Female Orc Warrior appearance. Least liked "look" was undead, troll, gnome and human (I like non humans, nothing bad by humans by itself).

I also like the starting area of the NE and don't want to miss out on it, so would like a NE (or can others go there?) Alternatively I prefer the Dwarf starting area. Both seems to be a bit "off the road" and calm and I like that. The Human starting are seems to be in the middle of everything and more hectic. For the Horde, not sure, The Tauren has that same feeling as NE. Undead is pretty nice and fun too and feel a bit on its own. The Orc/Troll is the most booring and although not in the middle of everything, seems like the same as the Barrens were one will spend a lot of time anyway so not as interesting.

What proffesions to consider for those two chars, I suppose they should be in part self managing.

From a quest /story point of view, what is "better" the Horde or the Alliance. That is, which should I start with?

Any other sugestions tips or hints on what two chars to pick for good experience (not exp points, playing experience for me as a person). Should I factor in talants into the picking of characters? What should I focus on, I understand for each class one can go a few different ways.

I realise much of the answers are subjective. And no, I don't plan to get the game at the moment. Beside, I still don't like the split of Europe/USA as far as servers and such goes. I believe most LL are on USA servers, right?
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If I sent you a copy of the US version of the game, would you be able to log into US servers, or is your ISP location going to auto divert you to Europe? It can be arranged. :)

Occhi