At max level? And what about differences between factions?
Based on exp on private servers there’s always a ton of wars/rogue. Druid seems to the be the least played, esp on horde. Warlocks are few and far between on alliance and hunter population on horde is sometimes pretty low. Usually more mages on horde as well (undead seems to play a huge role in class selection for both factions in general).
Will these trends carry through onto official classic or do you think they will be different?
Based on the largest sample size we have (private servers) the classes from most to least played will be
warrior
mage
rogue
warlock
hunter
priest
paladin
shaman
druid
warrior will be more populous than priest, paladin, shaman, and druid combined.
Shouldn’t you double shaman/paladin numbers tho? Or account for them being 1 faction only. I thought they were like #4/5
that’s accounted for. The 4 healing classes were still last by a large margin
Yeah, I think so. But I also think that a big percentage of Warriors will not make it to the endgame. This is partly because of how slow an unexperienced Warrior will level up to 60.
So IMO at Lv.60 we’ll see:
1st: Mage/Rogue
2nd: Warrior/Priest/Hunter/Warlock
3rd: Shaman/Paladin/Druid
Personally, I hope I’m wrong and we have plenty of Warriors that stick it out to until the endgame.
At 60:
Now, this is based on a couple of surveys I have seen, with only about 500 people entering data. Also, not a very unbiased sample because of it being a strawpoll on a streamers broadcast. This also reflects pserver populations. And also assuming PvP.
I think PvE servers will be different as well.
All that to say : No one has a clue other than warriors will be #1 and mages #2 and pretty easily, too.
I think that paladin and shaman are higher up the list than most people expect them to be.
Paladins for sure.
Shaman not so much. Which I am glad to, I want to play a Shaman and the less there are, the better it is. On Horde side, I would think Shamans are in the bottom 3 if not 2 class played
I do believe a lot of people that have not played pservers or been on the forums will roll a lot of shaman, envisioning themselves becoming the next Unbreakable.
Now, will they make it to 60, I don’t know.
You would think with all of the people playing warriors that there wouldn’t be so much of a tank shortage…I’m curious out of the high pop of warriors, how many of them will tank vs dps. I do think warrior will be the most populated class along with rogue mage hunter and lock (dps classes). Healers will probably be the generally the lowest population wise (that’s why I think I’m going to level a healer first).
Most want to be a dps machine and not tank.
Being a tank also requires some responsibility, that some people don’t want to bear.
Yeah, I can see that. I’ve always thought tanking was fun. And to me DPS warrior is kind of boring, so I’m either going to most likely level a warrior or healer(probably paladin) first and then probably roll the other as an alt to be the most useful to my guild (whomever I end up playing with). I kinda also want to rebuild this guy since he was my original Vanilla main, but I kind of don’t like having to compete with other dps classes for raid spots since dps is pretty much a dime a dozen.
This is wrong. The OP asked for max level data. Mage is the most populated class at max level. More warriors exist overall but many more warriors never make it to 60 compared to other classes.
Hunter and priest are also more played than warlock.
This is also not considering faction at all. On Alliance side paladin is like the 4th or 5th most populated class at 60.
Lastly, warriors will not be more popular at 60 than even just priests and druids combined. Priest is around ~10% and druids around ~5%. Warriors will be around ~15%.
Stop making up stuff dude.
Source:
vanillaradar.com/elysium-stats/elysium
Make sure you slide the sliders below the charts to 60.
Some quick stats from actual Vanilla, for comparison. Overall population, and might be an indicator of what population looked like at max level compared to those graphs listed above.
Hunters 16%
Warriors/Rogues 15/15%
Mages 12%
Priests/Warlocks 10%/10%
Druids 9%
Paladins (by virtue of being Alliance-only) 7%
Shamans (by virtue of being Horde-only) 6%
https://web.archive.org/web/20060328013422/http://www.warcraftrealms.com/quickstats.php
I can recall trying to fill in slots in my early morning ZG run, and the only DPS available were hunters, so we’d run with 5 hunters trying to do DPS in there.
This thread is just making me more excited to roll Druid when release rolls around. ![:upside_down_face:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/upside_down_face.png?v=6" ":upside_down_face:")
Yup that and also knowledge of the instance mechanics. You couldn’t just run around and pull everything in classic, it was not a speed run like it is now in retail.
Keep in mind this is data for all characters level 10+. This is not level 60 only data. So it could vary greatly.
Yes, did mention that it was overall population, but the ratios might be similar at max level. There is room for error in these predictions.
I gotta figure that respec costs play a part in that. A player running a raid healer is looking at either a respec or doing something slower, like farming mats for consumables or to list on the ah.
I could be wrong but non healing classes can do things outside of raiding without suffering as big a penalty if they don’t want to respec twice a week.