Well the reason Orcs are hard is that most people are your enemies. All goods, Empire, Outlander, and Battle will hate you because you'll use magic, so there is very little that is on your side. To make up for this, Orcs have great physical stats with the size of a human, and get a lot of Utility skills that allow them to do all kinds of things to buff themselves up for fighting.

The name berserker is very fitting. Early on in Orc life, fighting in groups of orcs is good for the experience, but their ability to tank starts to take a back seat to their ability to bash. While at the midranks, you can cause a lot of harm with an orc, it's a constant balls to the wall challenge, since a lot of your fights will depend on you being very well prepared. If you didn't start the fight as an orc, you probably won't be able to finish it. It's a very ambushy, charge, berserker class.

I would suggest, if you want a similar experience to try a human necromancer. D-elf necros have the lowest hp of all the classes, but human necros do okay in that respect. Also, the lower level range will allow you to cast sleep on lots of lower level opponents, and you'll have the saves to do lots of that kind of killing.

Necros seem to suffer from the same kind of "everyone hates me" problem you talked about in the original topic, but it does help to have wand knowledge with them.