I am downloading the game now and my wife is setting everything up on the chinese side of things.. So I just have a few questioms gameplay wise.

I mostly play wow for pvp. I just ame from lvling a toon in cata but the lag from china was killing me.

In the mainland version do you still gain exp while playing pvp?

Which classes are strong from 10 to 60? Still hunter/rogue? (for pvp)

are gather professions enough to get some gold rolling and semi twinking out toons?

How fast is lvling in the curremt version? Cata made 1 to 70 a blink of the eye.

Thanks for any help.

Also im in wuhan. Should I look for a local server or is the lag to sh/bj worth the xpart community?

Well depends what server you are on in china, I am on currently on a sector 3 server on horde side and it is packed. Ton of twinkies running around and Alot 80s. I lag in orc city like I do on dalran. So level bgs is good at 10 to 20 as dps paladin and hunter. Now if your healer it does very good. Druid healer, priest and shaman level fast if your healer. Warrior can do good 17+but below not really. when you hit 20+ hunter stillthe best. Now as for gathering profession it depends on the server. On my server i am skinner and that stuff sell fast. Mining good at higher levels. but on my server it just 3 foriegner. At moment most foriegner in wow are on vacation in there mind thnkx

1) Yes.

2)Heirlooms. PVP gets "Balanced" at level 80 anyways.

3)Yes. Mining and Herbalism are great.

4)Fast, not as fast as cata. You got the LFD tool.

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About leveling:
the amount of XP needed to ding at some levels has been drastically changed, it's far more faster to lvl in MoP than in Cata.
(Take into consideration the Old XP Requirement & the Newest XP Requirement)
I'm lvling my Warlock at the moment and it's going very quickly and smoothly.
In Cata lvling 84-85 took me around 6 hours, in patch 5.0.4 2h 40mins.