I have returned maybe

Hello, so yea I'm a returning player haven't actually logged back in yet as I have work tonight, but figured I'd make a post on here asking a few basic question.

Since I've been away for ummmm I guess technically a year was the last time I was on, even then not for very long, and before that was much much longer. I figured I'd just go out and make a brand new character and work my way up from scratch, which brings me to the questions?

1) What's the current best server?
2) How are the classes now? I generally only played melee DD before, so I figured this would be the best question to ask.
3) Umm.... How's things going?
4) What the heck was I thinking making my toon look like that? x.x