[Korinth]

I would agree that most of the time, selection of a class is more important as it dictates your general play style and race follows behind, thus most people already know roughly what kind of play style they want despite not really knowing the whole detail of the class.

As for race selection, my idea of the orc race is that they are very proud of their physical prowess so I will be playing the orc race and monk class. About orcs being monks, just think of them as bruisers from EQ2.

As for events leading to my choice of race, well I have always wanted to play an orc, but I could not in EQ1 or EQ2. Never picked up WoW.