World of Warcraft: characters by faction 2019

The statistic shows the distribution of characters by faction in the online computer game World of Warcraft as of December 2019. Approximately 50.6 percent of all characters in the U.S. realms were members of the Alliance.

In the beginning, when a player generates an avatar for himself they need to choose a race. Depending on their race, they further need to choose a class for their avatar. Factions are automatically assigned based on chosen race. Each race and class contain certain talents which they develop throughout the game; for example, an undead death knight may have increased physical strength and a talent in summoning undead creatures, such as demons. As of December 2019, the most popular races in U.S. realms were humans and blood elves and the most popular classes were hunters and paladins.

Distribution of World of Warcraft characters in U.S. and EU realms as of December 2019, by faction

Characteristic	Alliance	Horde
EU realms	49.9%	50.1%
U.S. realms	50.6%	49.4%

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Release date

December 2019

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Region

Europe, United States

Survey time period

December 9, 2019

Special properties

characters level 0-120

Supplementary notes

For this analysis, 27.94 million characters on US realms and 26.35 million characters on EU realms were recorded. The data were collected by using Blizzard's Battle.net API.

Realm Pop: "To get the list of characters for a realm, first we record all the characters who posted to the auction house. Then we fetch and record their guild rosters. This should cover the majority of characters on a realm".

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