Breakfast Topic: Why aren’t you playing ____?

Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at 1:00 pm

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All of the recent discussion surrounding what people are planning for their Worgen and Goblin characters got me to thinking about the ingame races that just don’t get that kind of love. It’s no secret that certain race/class combinations are underplayed (witness, for example, the ingame hell of finding a Dwarf or Orc rogue for Turkey Lurkey ), but some races are just massively underplayed, period. If Warcraft Realms is at least ballpark accurate, then Humans are roughly 5 times as popular as Gnomes, Dwarves, and Trolls at 80. Draenei are twice as popular at 80 as Gnomes and Dwarves, and Blood Elves have a chokehold on the Hordeside population. Zardoz’s Armory Data Mining (fast becoming one of my favorite WoW sites) did a breakdown on class, race, and gender populations as of November 4th , and the results are pretty illuminating. In case you’re wondering, Dwarves, Orcs, and Tauren are the least likely to be female, and Draenei, Blood Elves, and Night Elves the most likely (although Draenei are the only race in the game to have a female majority). The most played combination in the game is the Blood Elf paladin, and the least-played are the Dwarf rogue (I for one am shocked ) and the Troll warrior. Continue reading Breakfast Topic: Why aren’t you playing ____? Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Breakfast topics Breakfast Topic: Why aren’t you playing ____? originally appeared on WoW.com on Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments