The rise and fall of class popularity

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5-13-2009 @ 11:20AM

sgt101 said...

The striking figures are 13% for pallies and 7% each for 'locks and roogiiies.

I suppose the thing is that you have healin pallies, tanking pallies and killing pallies (bandaid, tincan and butter knife specs) and so there are really three classes in there, but I wonder if it was so smart of Blizz to make a class (or two classes with Druids) that can do everything that the game needs doing.

Take the player not the class? Hmm....

5-13-2009 @ 1:14PM

kabshiel said...

I think the rogue number is the most troubling. Why did a class that used to be incredibly popular become one of the least played? My guess is that the introduction of the DK and improvements to warrior DPS caused a lot of rogues to wonder why they should play a squishy melee class if they do the same damage as a plate-wearing one.

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