WoW Population Demographics
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Okoloth always fascinated me with his dedication of pulling interesting info from the WoW Armory.
This time, he analyzed 4.5 million characters, which is half of WoW’s population a lot. You can check his site for more detailed statistics, but I was really surprised to see the class breakdown.
It seems the myth about druids being the least played class is finally over - only 7% of players choose shaman as their preferred class. If I had to guess, I’d say hunters are the most played class, but I would be wrong - warriors lead by 14% of total player base. Nerf mortal strike! Nah, just kidding. There’s a lot of mages also, 2% more than there are rogues, warlocks and priests. Surprisingly, there aren’t many paladins either.
Of course, this data does in no way tell us if a particular class is well balanced or not - the overpowerness (wut?) changes from patch to patch - I rather check www.geekboys.org/arena to see who dominates the endgame, which I plan to write about soon also.
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“he analyzed 4.5 million characters, which is about half of WoW’s population.”
- semi-incorrect here… He analyzed 4.5 million chars, but that’s not the same to say 4.5 million ACCOUNTS!
Very few accounts will have less than 5 or 6 different chars, even considering that only level 10+ are on Armory, many bank chars are level 10 or better as well so as to do process some mats like smelting or making bolts of cloth.
- Warriors come as number 1 for 70ies? How come one can never find a tank?
- No surprises for Palies and Shammies as up until recently only one faction could have them…
Fixed the characters/accounts issue. It’s nice to have you around
I have to say I really enjoy doing instances on my druid - tanking can be boring, but sitting in Shattrath waiting for a tank is even worse.
As for paladins and shamans, I really didn’t expect these kind of numbers. Shamans are rare gems, but seems that everywhere I turn there’s some belf paladin