Guys I don’t want to defend the horde dudes here, but I have to agree with them on several grounds. 1. Racial wont make the deal - the classic servers, sorry to say, have far worse players than any pservers I played, I did stuff I never did before such as killing players 10 levels above me (might have been due to the bugged hit rating actually).
2. As someone pointed out, orc is super super OP, but rogues have other things to worry about as well such as snares or dots. Thank God none can remove magical dots in this version (I mean there is no cloak of shadows), but dorfs can remove physical ones. Also the, by far, best rogue in this game, Perplexity, plays a gnome rogue, he also played dorf in the past. I believe when it comes to melee classes or mages, alliance in fact have it better, even though orc is doubtlessly the most OP race of the game. If you stick to human or nelf though on a pvp server either you have to be confident in your abilites, or just…be weaker. Humans will be way better once arenas come out, if they come out. Furthermore, there is an interesting addon what I found is to be very useful to make perception an actually viable racial - classic spy, it looks at the combat logs in your stead and tells you when people use abilities around you, thus give you info when perception is to be used. I personally do not consider it cheating as perception is extremely situational and pretty bad without it, plus, just like soundalerter in later expansions, it doesn’t do anything other than what players could do - looking at the combat log.
Also if you manage to get into a group of people with a big bearded santaclaus or two, the latter beinbg a paladin, you will have it waaay better than the horde dudes who are stronger alone, but weaker when father Christmas is around. A priest can give you a buff that is better than wotf due to require no global cd on your part and has a shorter cd (you can have an easier job against a priest for example), and the dude with the hammer can make you very good at moving as well as stronger than an orc, despite being a small midget. Plus neither of those guys can be killed, especially in vanilla dwarf priests and palas are far superior to their counterparts on horde.
The only reason I would, indeed, buff alliance racials has nothing to do with their effectiveness. It has to do with this weird and strange classic community/retail community here. Most people don’t really understand vanilla/tbc/wotlk (personally its my first vanilla experience, palyed years on AT and elsewhere though) and roll horde, thus contributing to these atrocious faction imbalances that were absent even on tbc pservers, where horde is actually better (once they get fearward). If blizzard gives something equivalent to humans as emfh and the wotlk version of shadowmeld to elves, I can guarantee balance would be restored. Shame community really forced even back then to make a situation in wotlk where horde is, arguably, useless for pvp.