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What Is A Good Beginner Class For World Of Warcraft?
World of Warcraft has had two decades of history to welcome recent players. Unfortunately, many players uncover the modern game a bit difficult to get into. Oftentimes this is due to the large number of classes and specs available, which often grant a bit of choice paralysis to newer players who aren't sure what to go with.
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What are the best classes for beginners in World of Warcraft? If you're picking the right class, you'll find the game much easier to approach. Here are our choices for the best classes for beginners to pick in Retail World of Warcraft.
Class balance and play is frequently changing due to patches in WoW. Because of that, the best beginner class may change over time. We're also focusing on the modern Retail WoW and not any of the versions of World of Warcraft Classic.
8 Warrior
Warrior is one of the most basic and stripped-down classes in World of Warcraft, any Warrior main will tell you that. Arms Warrior features an exceptionally low APM as well as abilities that chain togeth
Looking At Class Popularity Crushed My Soul
Luxuria-sentinels1
1 - Why are Paladins and Druids so popular? Do people really think church and hippies are cool these days?
2 - Why are Warlocks and Rogues so unpopular? When did bad boys go out of fashion?
3 - How in the Fel are Demon Hunters more popular than Warlocks? I can’t say curse words in the forums so I’m gonna say a bunch of Warlock curses instead:
WowheadCurse of Exhaustion
Reduces the target's movement speed by 50% for 12 sec.Curses: A warlock can only have one Curse active per target. In the Uncategorized Spells category.
WowheadCurse of Tongues
Forces the target to speak in Demonic, increasing the casting time of all spells by 30% for 1 min.Curses: A warlock can only have one Curse active per target.
WowheadCurse of Weakness
Increases the time between an enemy's attacks by 20% for 2 min.Curses: A warlock can only have one Curse active per target. In the Warlock Abilities category.
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Atrophy-proudmoore2
- Bc they can be tank heals or dps and 2 flavors for druid
- Warlocks and rogues were so good the first 3 expansions they been paying for it since…
- Dh is pretty darn fun… and see 2.
Most played classes
Imsupperdupp-shattered-halls1
As classic realm info went down and has been down for a good few days now I’d like to ask you people
What are the most played classes currently and the most you see?
Personally mages and warriors obviously with huntards as a 3rd which I find weird… I see awfully few rogues
Juukiechan-sylvanas2
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Riotblade-gehennas3
Usually
Warriors and Mages are top. Followed by Rogues. Shaman and druid at bottom iirc.
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Elen-gandling4
Personally mages and warriors obviously with huntards as a 3rd which I find weird… I see awfully few rogues
You don’t see them because they’re in stealth, duh.
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Trajan-balnazzar (Trajan) 5
There are statistics on this from Classic already. The answer is that Mage and Warrior are clearly the most popular with Warrior slightly ahead. The rest of the classes are really close except for Hunter being more popular on Alliance and Druid in general being easily the least played.
Trium-shazzrah6
Warrior slightly ahead
Hard to believe tbh, I mean im honestly getting sick of seeing blue xD
Thokri-gehennas7
Mage, warrior, rogue/hu
With the release of The War Within Season 2, players have had time to settle into their favorite class, and now we know which ones are standing out. Based on live data from Data for Azeroth, here are the current most-played classes at maximum level:
Top-Max Level Classes
- Paladin – 12.3%
- Druid – 10.7%
- Hunter – 9.7%
- Shaman – 8.5%
- Warrior – 8.4%
- Priest – 7.6%
- Mage – 7.6%
- Death Knight – 7.3%
- Demon Hunter – 7.2%
- Warlock – 6.6%
- Monk – 6.0%
- Rogue – 4.5%
- Evoker – 3.5%
Quick Breakdown by Class
Paladins are leading the way this season, making up 12.3% of all max-level characters in The War Within Season 2. Druids follow in second place at 10.7%, with Hunters close behind at 9.7%. Shamans hold fourth place with 8.5%, just ahead of Warriors at 8.4%. Priests and Mages are tied for sixth and seventh place, each sitting at 7.6%. Death Knights follow at 7.3%, with Demon Hunters right behind at 7.2%. Warlocks stand at 6.6%, and Monks currently make up 6.0% of the population. Rogues account for just 4.5%, while Evokers are the least played class this season, sitting at only 3.5%.
Discover the most popular classes right now in World of Warcraft!
Today, we’re looking at the most popular classes based on the data from Data for Azeroth. However, instead of focusing on max-level 80 characters or mains, we’re focusing on all classes across all levels, including alts.
Class Popularity Rankings by Player Data
- Hunter: 10.3%
- Druid: 10.3%
- Paladin: 10.1%
- Warrior: 9.0%
- Mage: 8.2%
- Priest: 7.4%
- Shaman: 7.3%
- Demon Hunter: 7.2%
- Warlock: 7.1%
- Death Knight: 7.0%
- Rogue: 6.3%
- Monk: 6.2%
- Evoker: 3.7%
Here’s a snapshot taken on January 2, 2025, from Data for Azeroth.
Analysis
Tied for first place with 10.3% each, we’ve got Hunter and Druid! Close behind at 10.1% is Paladin, just 0.2% shy of the top spot. At 9.0%, Warrior comes in fourth, trailing Paladin by 1.1%.
Mage secures fifth place with 8.2%, 0.8% lower than Warrior. Following Mage is Priest, holding 7.4%, just 0.8% behind. Shaman is narrowly behind Priest at 7.3%, with only a 0.1% difference.
Demon Hunter stands at 7.2%, falling short of Shaman by 0.1%. Next, Warlock lands at 7.1%, just 0.1% behind Demon Hunter. Death Knight is similarly close, with 7.0%.
Dropping further,