The WoW Forever Data Blog is written from in-game data. Every post starts with the census behind this site: more than a million characters counted across the WoW Forever realms by class, race, faction, level and guild, and refreshed every day. From those numbers it covers the latest news, trends and updates on the realms: which classes and races players are rolling, how the Alliance and Horde balance is moving, how far the levelling curve has climbed, which guilds are growing, and what changed since the last scan. Every figure links back to the chart it came from, so you can check it yourself.
Blizzard's final racial pass before the November 4 launch, as of October 29: Human Ruthless cut to 1%, Orc Command back, Tauren Plainsrunning up to 60%, and every beta change, race by race.
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The census counts 110,875 Rogues, 9.7% of all characters and 7th among classes. Undead make up 23.9% of them, and the class share fell from 10.6% to 9.7%.
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80,826 of 1,148,135 beta characters, or 7%, reached the level 30 cap. The median level is 17, and 40.2% of characters sit between levels 10 and 19.
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Undead hold 199,806 characters, 33.8% of the Horde and 15 points ahead of Orcs. Paladin, a pairing new in WoW Forever, is 34.6% of all Undead.
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The census counts 131,029 Druids, 11.4% of all characters, fourth overall. Its share rose 1.1 points from 10.3% since September 23.
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Hunters are 15.3% of WoW Forever characters, down 2.9 points from 18.2% on September 24, but still first on both factions with 175,909 characters.
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The census grew by 75,726 characters on October 22, 2026. Horde added 52,315 and Alliance 23,411, so Horde's lead grew from 3,785 to 32,689.
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The biggest guild the census saw, The Forever Open lII, has 439 characters. 41,558 of 138,302 characters seen (30%) are in one of 8,523 guilds.
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Overall the Horde holds 50.2% of 1,072,409 characters. The Horde leads PvE realms with 50.9%, and the Alliance leads PvP realms with 50.5%.
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Undead Paladin is the most played new pair with 63,492 characters, and Dwarf Shaman makes up 52.6% of all Dwarf characters.
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36,974 characters were active in the last day and 138,302 in the last 30 days. On PvP realms Horde had 63% of the day; Alliance had 53% of the month.
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Hunters are 16.8% of Alliance and 14.3% of Horde characters in the WoW Forever beta census of 1,072,409 characters. Shaman nearly ties on Horde, and Mage and Warlock trade places.
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