World of Warcraft: Forever Beta Census Records 1,148,135 Characters
Horde accounts for 51.4% of the latest sample, while manual scans found 94 female Dwarf Rogues.
World of Warcraft: Forever beta census recorded 1,148,135 character samples in its latest scan, not a confirmed count of individual players. Volunteers stopped scanning after Wednesday, before an event, so the figure is a snapshot rather than a live total.
1,148,135 characters made in the Forever beta
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Horde accounts for 590,412 characters, or 51.4% of the sample. Alliance has 557,723, or 48.6%. The latest total is 145,010 above the previous 1,003,125-character snapshot, when Alliance had 505,425 entries at 50.4% and Horde had 497,700 at 49.6%. An earlier scan had put Horde ahead at 51.6%.
Over 1,000,000+ characters made during the Forever beta (census)
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The level cap expanded the scan
Blizzard raised the beta level cap from 20 to 30 on October 2, opening a new range for the census to track. By October 1, the scan had recorded 375,806 characters at levels 1 through 20, and its organizer said level-30 data was still incomplete.
375,806 characters made in the Forever beta (still scanning)
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In the later 1,003,125-character snapshot, 68,280 characters were level 30 and 246,536 were between levels 21 and 29. The latest notes put Warlock and Mage nearly even as the least-played classes at level 30. Fewer than 3% of scans contained new data, suggesting most active characters had already been counted.
Race and class counts
The census covers 10 races, 9 classes, and 56 race-and-class combinations, including 16 marked as new in Forever. The latest count lists 2,212 Dwarf Rogues. Manual scans found 94 female Dwarf Rogues, equal to 0.008% of the sample, a figure not shown on the census site.
In the previous snapshot, Troll Warrior was the least-played Horde combination and Dwarf Rogue was the least common overall, with 1,935 characters. Undead Paladins had risen from 5.4% of the earlier tally to 5.8% in that snapshot. The newest breakdown identifies Orc Mage as the least-played new combination.
Mode-specific figures put Gnome as the least-picked race in PvE and Troll as the least-picked race in PvP. Combining Skyborne characters from both factions puts the race just ahead of Undead. Dwarves would account for less than 7% of the population without Shaman. The census notes also point to a slight faction-balance change on PvP realms around a PvP event.
Name counts and scan limits
More than 24,000 names were flagged as offensive, up from 16,507 in the earlier count. That earlier snapshot included 877 characters with “Chud” in their names, after a previous update had put the number of names scanned by the filter at about 10,000.
The census is gathered in-game by its organizer and volunteers. When a character is scanned again, its recorded level is updated, so level counts can change as characters progress. An earlier note from the organizer cautioned that Hunter figures might be affected by bots, based on where characters were found and how often they appeared. The full breakdown is available at classicplus.io.
Does the latest Horde lead match what you saw during the beta? With Forever’s full launch scheduled for November 4, follow the game’s progress on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, Steam, and Telegram.
