A look at Blizzard's stats, post-Burning Crusade
by Mike Schramm 
Apr 6th 2007 at 1:26PM
Last November, Blizzard finally made public a page full of stats for what's happening to all of us in game-- the most dangerous creatures, most gathered items, most completed quests, and so on. Ever since, I always find it fascinating to stop over there and see what's new, but today I realized that I haven't really seen it since Burning Crusade dropped. So let's take a look at what players are up to since the Dark Portal opened, shall we?Netherweave has jumped right to the top of listings in the Auction House, while Arcade Dust makes a nice showing at 7th. Of the Primal elements, only Earth is on the first page (most likely because it's the most farmed from all those Earth Elementals in Nagrand). It also comes from Mining, so it makes a good showing on the Most Gathered Items as well-- Copper leads that category by double everything else, though, most likely because of all the jewelcrafting going on. In fact, while Soul Shards are still number one, Copper Bars are the second Most Created Items in the realms, too. Interesting that you have to go to page 3 before you see a jewelcrafting item, though-- two sets of battleground tokens (Arathi Basin and WSG) are being made more than any Delicate Copper Wire.
Warlock pets remain on the top of the Most Dangerous NPC list, but King Bangalash and those nasty Defias Pillagers have company-- apparently people are back playing their mains, and raid bosses like Shade of Aran, Gruul, Nightbane, and the Maiden are killing players by the thousands. The Most Complete Quests screen has interesting info, too-- almost all of the quests are newbie Blood Elf quests (there is at least one Draenei newbie quest mixed in, but BEs have the clear majority). You'd think people would be completing quests in Outland to level, but three months after BC release, maybe that's not the case anymore. According to the stats, it seems like the large majority of players has gotten their mains to 70, are raiding Kara and Gruul, and leveling up their Blood Elf mains.
Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Quests, The Burning Crusade, NPCs
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
brian Apr 6th 2007 1:45PM
lol voidwalker has triple the kills of moroes
G Apr 6th 2007 1:50PM
I'd bet the Voidwalkers listed at #1 != warlock pet.
They probably refer to the voids in Hellfire Peninsula.
Mike Schramm Apr 6th 2007 1:55PM
Yeah, we talked about this a while back, but the Voidwalkers and Felguards on the page are probably not just player pets-- they probably belong to NPC warlocks as well. And considering that NPC warlocks are hard to kill for all players (they're casters that come with adds, and they're usually in high density areas, so you're likely to pull more than one at a time), it's not too surprising that they top the list.
But that doesn't mean there aren't tons of players dying from Player-controlled warlock pets.
cuddlebug Apr 6th 2007 1:58PM
I forget, how many Arcade Dusts does it take to craft a Shimmering Sword of the Street Fighter?
Flight Apr 6th 2007 2:55PM
I knew those dang pillagers were OP. They are responsible for sooo many of my first deaths. I mean wtf.. boss,boss,boss,boss,random lv. 14 mage, boss,boss,boss....
Moonbrook == death..
Ariaeko Apr 6th 2007 3:19PM
@4
"Sixty-five million three hundred and forty thousand two hundred and eighty five. Which should take us seven weeks five days thirteen hours and twenty minutes, giving ourselves three hours a night to sleep."
RogueJedi86 Apr 6th 2007 3:28PM
Am I the only person who didn't get destroyed by pillagers non-stop on my first time through Westfall leading up to finally doing VC? Surely Paladins aren't that powerful at that early level.