Current Statistics | Race | July 2015

Being a nerd, I have calculated the breakdown of my characters in various demographic ways. Level, primary roll, off-spec, class, profession, etc.  But today, I'll start off with race and side.

Quick note: "% of total" means percentage of all characters on this active account.

Here is where I currently stand with the race statistics of my characters:

Alliance

Race	Human	Night Elf	Dwarf	Gnome	Draenei	Worgen	Pandaren
Number	9	9	2	3	6	2	1
% of total	18%	18%	4%	6%	12%	4%	2%

The Pandaren is under the Alliance races because he chose the Alliance.  The Human and Night Elf were generally unsurprising.  Between the story and classes available, they had a strong advantage. Also, back when racial perks were bigger, I liked their two perks a lot. Draenei being so high was a bit unexpected. I expected Dwarves and Gnomes to do better. Worgen and Pandaren suffer from being late racial additions and having railroad openings. I like them and the story they have, but having to run it many, many times would have been too much.

Horde

Race	Orc	Forsaken	Tauren	Troll	Blood Elf	Goblin
Number	3	3	4	2	4	2
% of total	6%	6%	8%	4%	8%	4%

Again, no real surprises here. I think Blood Elves had one of the more engaging starting areas for Horde, and they had a lot of classes available to them. But lore-wise, I think I actually enjoy the Tauren the most of any Horde. I want to enjoy Trolls more but they just don't gel with me. I'm not sure I really like Goblins, however their personalities are so strong and the two I have are so...let's just say they survived early deletion based a lot on attitude.

So if we look at that by conflict side:

Side	Alliance	Horde
Count	32	18
% of total	64%	36%

I wonder if I just lost Navi & Kamalia :(

Of these characters, 18 are, more or less, solo play. The remaining 32 either have an assigned partner that I play with my spouse and always have, or are a floating character than can team with their semi-solo characters.