I though its the shammy that hard-to-find and gets easy raid spots
RL pick them for their bloodlust buff. most short pug raid(voa, onyx, eoe os) pick only 1 shammy.

anyway back to topic,

Male blood elf does looks ghay, but if you can look pass that, arcane torrent is a really nice silence racial. While female BF got a really small hand held weapon(doesn’t matter if you're a mage anyway)

paladin is really nice, overall, plate armor, tankable, healer, dps, pvp.
Most pvp Paladins(of all levels) give me a images of a brain dead pvp paladin,
I mean in bg, the pally start with range stun(idk whats the spell name) from behind you, divined storm behind you, then do the move back and forth(the rape move like the rogues likes to do) and keep do the movement and cast some spell till your dead, and repeat the next victim.

if you got a lag connection, stay away from melee class.

mages at early level are a pain to level if you main got a combat pet (hunter/lock)
you keep forgetting you ARE VERY SQUISHY. (i know, main is a lock, keep forget i got no demon armor and no combat pet to tank some elite)
people keep ask for free food and water.
but like all class, things improve as you get higher level, more spell, and you get use to it.
mages are interesting pvp machine, lots of cool tricks: invisible, mirror image, ice block, blink, frost nova, etc
and they can port the major city anytime anywhere,
sell port is a plus

that my opinion, i'll go mage if i were you, but i'm not you.
only you can pick what you really like, maybe you go back to you hunter when you feel leveling is a dry experiance.

peace

This post has been edited by Imbecile: Nov 11 2009, 11:52 AM

In AB lm, /stealth, sneak, sneak, sneak, /target someone close to the cliff,
/typhoon!

i think arcane mage is a good choice,its not easy as everyone said.
you need deep understanding of the mage's spell, properbly keybind, macro/addon and some stuff.
i found youtube there a arcane mage 4.0 guide, its has detail guide on what to do, what rotation for 4.0
check it out.
i might re-roll arcane mage as well