Picking Factions

Many people pick a faction because of people they know that play the game. One faction will not be able to interact with another faction so for most the faction they pick to play is the same faction their friend picked to play. If you don't have a friend to play WoW with then don't play WoW. I am serious. Go Get A Friend. (AKA GGAF from now on)


First things first. You are going to have to put in some time and figure out what it is you THINK you want to at level 70. This involves picking a race, a class, 2 professions and talent build(which more or less can be based on what abilities you like to use while playing the class until you hit 15 or so). Most of these things are small changed that don't matter in the long run because skill with the talents you are given will enable you to be effective even if your not "teh bestest". That being said here are some of the best combinations of class/race and a short explaination why.

Orc gives a nice 15% Stun resist, +to spell damage and melle damage but a Horrible 15 seconds (3 min CD), +5% Pet damage for warlock/hunter), and finally +5 skill with axes.
Troll gives 10% HP regen while in combat and out, 10-30% spell and melle haste (depending on current life value), +5% damage vs beast, +1% crit with ranged (bow/thrown).
Undead gives Cannibalize (eat Humanoid/Undead corpse for 35% life), and WotF (Breaks Fear/Charm/Sleep and immune for 5 sec)
Tauren gives Warstomp(0.5 CT for 2 sec stun 5 target max), and +5% max HP(Maybe one second extra life)
Blood Elf gives Mana Tap (-50 mana + Level to enemey) for buff up to 3 times. 30 sec cooldown, Arcane Torrent 8 yards AOE silence (2 sec) you gain 10 energy or (5 + Level) mana for each charge of Mana Tap.

Special Priest Only Racial
http://www.wowwiki.com/Priest_racial_abilities

Warrior
Orc warrior with talents can get 30% resist to stuns. Two handed axe with bloodfury makes a large dent on people.
UD warrior is fear immune and can eat corpses to regen life.

Priest
Trolls gain great PvP racials (UD gives better DoTs).
BEs can gain a great deal of mana in a boss fight during raid.

Warlock
UD warlock. Life tap and eat corpses for grinding, WotF

Paladin
Blood Elf. Yeargh!

Druid
Tauren. Yarrgh!

Mage
BE will add to countering spells and slightly add some mana flexiblity for raids.
UD Wotf.... adds another break for PvP
Troll 10-30% spell haste combined with the new frost talent makes the PeW PeW!

Hunter
Orc +5% pet damage. Nice for BeastMasters!
Tauren warstomp can be some what useful in PvP.
Troll spell haste can be useful for aim shoot and used to be very useful with ment pet (formally a channled spell).
Basically Troll for minor marksman buff Orc for minor Beastmaster buff.

Shaman
Orc useful racials for melle. (Won't get you in raids but PvPs well)
Tauren can warstomp then self heal.
Troll spell hasting then self healing.

Rogue
Orc gives 2 fairly useful racials.
UD gives WotF which is great for breaking fear/charm/sleep in order to get back to stunning.
BE gives a 2 sec silence and 10 energy every 3 min (meh).
Troll haste combined with slice and dice is effective for raid DPS.

Quick Best List
PvPlayer PvEnviorment
Orc Warrior
Troll Priest BE Priest
UD Warlock
BE Paladin
Tauren Druid
Troll/UD Mage BE Mage
Orc Hunter
Orc Shaman Troll Shaman
UD Rogue Troll Rogue

As for alliance. To Be Continued