WoW Forever: Undead paladins top Europe's class and race data

A count of European WoW Forever characters gives a first look at how players split by ruleset. It covers 650,605 characters on Normal realms and 512,172 on PvP realms, compiled from public character data on a third-party tracking site and published on 10 November.

The factions lean opposite ways. On Normal the Alliance has 52.6% of characters and the Horde 47.4%. On PvP the Horde leads with 56.0% against 44.0% for the Alliance. Human is the most played race on Normal at 19.6%, ahead of Undead at 18.2%, while on PvP Undead leads with 24.0%, Human drops to 16.0% and Orc rises to 13.0%.

Paladin is the most played class on both rulesets, at 14.7% on Normal and 13.0% on PvP. Hunter follows with 13.7% and 11.7%, druid with 12.5% and 11.7%, and warrior with 11.1% and 10.9%. The biggest gap is the rogue: 6.8% on Normal but 11.9% on PvP. The most common combination on both is the Undead paladin, at 6.9% on Normal and 7.3% on PvP, where it is well ahead of Tauren druid at 4.9% and Undead rogue at 4.8%.

This is one report, and Blizzard has not published figures of this kind. It counts only characters that the tracking site has found, so it is a snapshot rather than a census. It fits the picture of an earlier first-day count, and the Horde lead on PvP is the gap behind Blizzard's new limits on character creation.