So I'm thinking of rolling here, few questions

[Zyon]

First of all, I stopped eq around Omens of War at the very latest. When the first progression servers came out I had a monk in FoH until pretty much the first day of velious when ntov turned into a dragon train / zerg fest. Joined WI and raided until a bit after PoP, some GoD. The second servers (the current ones) came out I once again jumped in and rolled a bard, Zyon, I raided with Twisted Legion for a while, It turned into a poop sock fest with other guilds going so low as to exploit shadowknight DT's. I also boxed a 50 pally who pretty much at a whole lota death touches in sky. I'd say with good backup that i more or less was the main raid puller on the combine on my monk. Now I'd heard of this server while i was in TL, we did the bat phone and all that. So what I'm wondering is this:
1. Please clarify, as I've seen conflicting things on boxing.. NO I have no plans on 6 boxing Mages and a healer or anything crazy like that. But I would like to box a shm / druid. If this is not possible that's fine I just wanted to verify for sure as i don't know the server's population and I'd like to be able to group as well as level without retarded downtime.
2. About spells, exp gain etc.. example: monks back in kunark were boss tanks with their ac and defense (BEFORE THE NERF).. so are monks pre nerf or as they are currently? I'd like to know if swarm kiting is possible, things like this if anyone can sum it up for me ?
3. Whats the server population like? I understand you guys are in kunark, will Velious be opening soon? (easily my favorite expansion in the game).

IF any of this is redundant I'm sorry I just wanted to clarify before coming here.