Lordaeron is a full X1 with Random Dungeon Finder disabled. Time to level to 80 would probably be about a month or two but no looms available. Lordaeron is always active, lots of people online.
That means 6-8 hours played time. Raids in PvE are boosted to do this server more challenging and PvP is not the best, but its fine.
But the best think about Lord. is community (which is very big). You will find many people on your way to lvl 80 and make a lot of 'frieds'. And thats the prime part of all MMORPGs.
The "community" is not much better than any other MMO. In fact, it is even more poisonous. Your only chance to have a good time (as always) is to join a guild. Then the activity of the rest doesn't matter as long as you have 10-15 people to play with. You just stick with the group of people you can get along well with.
But it is really much slower because of the lot of traveling necessary to get into a dungeon with a group. Then you lack the sweet loot from dungeons and that hinders your performance in both PVE and PVP. There are a lot more undergeared players walking around than in other realms.
So pretty much you have to be playing with an organized group of players. If you go solo you'll have a bad time.