Who’s playing what in the WoW Forever beta

Community census counts of beta characters, cross-checked across sources. These count characters spotted in-game, not players, and the beta has been capped at level 30, so treat it as a read on what people want to try.

Rarest classWarlockabout 9%
Rarest raceTroll6.3–6.7%
Rarest comboDwarf Rogue0.2%

Classes

Hunter leads and Warlock trails in both independent censuses. The middle of the pack is tightly bunched, so the order there shifts between sources.

Class ClassicPlus.io
Oct 7		 WoWCensus.io
Oct 7		 Icy Veins
Oct 14
Hunter15.6%
15.0%15.6%
Warrior12.1%
13.4%–
Paladin11.7%
10.7%–
Shaman11.1%
12.6%–
Druid11.0%
11.1%–
Rogue10.1%
9.4%–
Mage9.9%
9.7%–
Priest9.5%
9.7%–
Warlock9.1%
8.4%9%

By faction (ClassicPlus.io): the rarest Alliance class is Warlock at 8.3%, the rarest Horde class is Mage at 8.6%. Icy Veins published only the top and bottom figures in text. ClassicPlus.io counted 644,211 characters, WoWCensus.io 93,937.

Races

Troll is the least played race in every count. Skyborne is split by faction here; combined, it’s the most played race in both sources.

Race ClassicPlus.io
Oct 7		 Icy Veins
Oct 14
Human Alliance17.7%
–
Undead Horde15.2%
–
Skyborne Alliance9.7%
–
Night Elf Alliance9.4%
–
Orc Horde9.0%
9.5%
Dwarf Alliance9.0%
–
Gnome Alliance8.6%
–
Skyborne Horde8.4%
–
Tauren Horde6.8%
–
Troll Horde6.3%
6.7%
Skyborne, both factions18.1%
18.7%

Rarest combinations

Both sources list the same bottom three: Dwarf Rogue (0.2%), Dwarf Priest (0.4%) and Troll Warrior (0.4%). At the top, the new Undead Paladin leads at roughly 5–6%.

Trade skills

Leatherworking is the most common craft by a wide margin, and Alchemy is the rarest. This comes from a single, much smaller census: 2,001 Alliance crafters on one PvP realm, October 5–6. Treat it as a hint, not a verdict; there’s no second source to check it against yet.

Crafting profession Crafters Share of entries
Leatherworking715
30.3%
Blacksmithing401
17.0%
Tailoring399
16.9%
Enchanting376
16.0%
Engineering278
11.8%
Alchemy187
7.9%

Shares are of 2,356 profession entries, since one character can hold two crafts. Gathering and secondary professions weren’t counted.

What professions actually give you. Confirmed in the beta: craftable campsite objects with profession-specific buffs, the account-wide Professions tree in the Legacy system, Tauren Cultivation and Gnome Engineering Specialization, and Enchanting’s self-only ring enchants (Attack Power, Spell Power or Stamina). Not confirmed: the per-profession passives shown at BlizzCon, like Alchemy’s Mixology or Mining’s +5% health. Guides built from beta data couldn’t find them.

Sources

Icy Veins reports ClassicPlus.io’s later, larger scan, so it confirms the trend over time rather than serving as an independent count. WoWCensus.io is the independent check.

  1. ClassicPlus.ioCensus site behind the largest count, built from addon scans of the in-game /who list.
  2. WoW Forever Guides: by the numbersFull tables of ClassicPlus.io’s October 7 snapshot and WoWCensus.io’s class shares, with CSV downloads.
  3. WoWCensus.ioSeparate census, 93,937 characters as of October 7.
  4. Icy Veins: over 1 million characters created during the betaOctober 14 write-up of ClassicPlus.io’s million-character scan.
  5. r/classicwow: 1,000,000+ characters census postThe original community post Icy Veins drew from.
  6. Linked Inn: Forever Crafting CensusProfession counts, October 5–6 snapshot of 2,001 Alliance crafters on a PvP realm.
  7. ForeverWisp: what 2,001 beta crafters can tell usWrite-up of the Linked Inn census with its limits explained.
  8. Warcraft Tavern: Professions guideBeta-based overview of camp objects, the Legacy tree and profession changes.
  9. Icy Veins: Enchanting guideCovers the self-only ring enchants and new caster weapon recipes.