Schaden welcome to WoW, am euro and play on Dragonmaw english server, and am a lvl 50 Warlock on the Horde,
PvP is fine and never suffered that badly from ganking plus it adds excitment to it, Imagine in if Aces High you had to flip on a sign saying 'yup ready for a fight now'.
Btw our server rocks, nice people, no language probs, and no waiting to get on.
So if you see me around I'm 'Blank' as i was here as well.
:-)
Btw Hunters shine in the battlegrounds, in the group PvP
and Undead Rogue = wow version of La-7, easy mode
And yes you can have as many characters as you like, if on the same server they can only be the same faction, but you can also make characters on other servers as well.
Alot of people when they get higher lvl have a 'Mule' character a little lvl 1 that you use for all your trading plus its free bank space.