Don't join the server unless you have friends/find a guild. The pugging scene is atrocious and overall the average player on this server is bad, you'll have hard time doing any raid even with ppl overgearing it by a couple of phases.

And you'll lose 1-2 hrs everytime before forming the group, reaching the raid, wiping at first boss and then see people leaving blaming the others while doing Scarlet Monastery DPS level ;)
Yep, you are right!
I prefer to wait TBC release and then to join, because right now about PvP (WSG/and several time had AB, mostly WSG are playing and wait a lot to join).
99% of the time you will see AFK in SW/OG and other will spam in global for selling some items or World Buffs, RDF if you are not mix (tank/heal) will take super a lot time to join!