My hunter started right before TBC and Vanilla at its peak. I'm Horde then and now.

In the old days
- I've joined us army based guild and have to follow their raiding times
- if you're looking fir PUGs dungeon group, you have to use the channels
- crossroad is full of people, fro level 20 up to 60.
- a hunter can ninja everythinbg..from shield to to caster weapon


For first timer
- there are 2 factions , alliance an horde. I f you from warcraft 3, choose which faction suits you. be a human pally or orc shammy. The lore is pretty strong with horde right now.

Before TBC, The Horde is full with war mongering race ( orc,troll,undead,tauren ) ..and alliance with their looking good counterparts. So, most of PVPer roll horde, or mature/elder people coose Horde since there are too many 14 years old rolling alliance.

But since Blizzard introduced faction change service, Horde nowdays is new alliance in past. Full of quitters and whiners, but horde still horde. Choose your time wisely for random BG,and avoid Alterac Valley.

About which race to choose ?
Orc is the master race and the others follow their command..and with chance to ignore stun + berserk make then a fine warrior and rouge. Troll blessed with haste racial, tauren with 5% hp and warstomp, undead for being cool, goblin as our engineer.....I never accept the idea of BE being Horde..still they are pretty horde

About which class to choose ?
DPS, healing , tanking or doing all those things ?

Warrior- with plate armour and super cool xmog ( http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/960222...fication/page70 )
is now king of pve melee dps, and can be most reliable tank after pally

..well there are too many class to choose, but for being a true horde

Orc - warrior, shaman,dk
tauren - warrior, druid
troll - hunter, mage, druid
goblin - hunter
undead - priest, rogue
be - female paladin

I have 2 90s,
A Troll Hunter
An Orc Warrior

Both in Gundrak