Warhammer class popularity
Over at blogwarhammer it shows the number of posts per class on the official forum, hinting at the popularity of classes. These figures pretty much mirror an earlier post I did showing the interests of classes on the Warhammer Info fansite.
1. Chosen - 7,894
2. Sorcerer - 4,904
3. Marauder - 4,763
4. Warrior Priest - 4,684
5. Disciple - 4,377
6. Magus- 4,127
7. Witchhunter - 3,992
8. Witch Elf - 3,892
9. Squig Herder - 3,700
10. Zealot - 3,542
11. Shadow Warrior - 3,356
12. White Lion - 3,027
13. Black Orc - 2,910
14. Shaman - 2,691
15. Bright Wizard - 2,236
16. Swordmaster - 2,013
17. Archmage - 1,848
18. Ironbreaker - 1,797
19. Engineer - 1,750
20. Runepriest - 1,654
These are of course all assumptions and should be taken with a grain of salt. But it would seem that the Chosen is a clear favourite, and it’s easy to understand why. It looks really cool. Like, really cool. If you don’t know what it looks like, the character on the left of my header is the Chosen. Of course, I don’t expect he’ll look like that at level one, but WTH, he looks cool.
Another point of interest and something I’ve discussed before is the apparent popularity of the healer classes, with the Warrior Priest, the Order’s healer, coming in a close 4th and the Disciple of Khaine, one of Destruction’s healers, in at 5th. The dwarves still get no lovin’ and the loss of the Knight of the Blazing Sun, one of Order’s tank classes, seems to have left a void. I can hear the cries now (well, read them). Destruction: “Looking for DPS, have tank and healers (plural)”. While on the side of good we’ll see a group of five standing around spamming for a tank, a beast so rare people will question whether they exist at all.
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Comments
Comment from 
caliga
Time: August 16, 2008, 2:02 pm
It sounds good SwS, I wish you could say more but *shrugs* NDA’s. Now that I’ve made up my mind to play it I can’t wait, and have been spending a lot of time researching classes, reading up on lore, and learning about all the features. And dammit, I was going to get into the feature list.
All this time and you still don’t know what class to play? Oh well, I’ll assume that’s because they’re all good then shall I?
Comment from SwS
Time: August 16, 2008, 5:08 pm
They are all pretty unique and most of them are pretty fun to me, so I would indeed say it’s a great sign they are all pretty good. I’m trying to decide by two factors, what looks best to me and plays the most fun.
Unfortunately for me, even order classes appeal to me. Swordmaster, Ironbreaker and WP are all pretty high on my list along with DoK, Magus and a Greenskin class. But as I was saying, unfortunately Order appeals to me too, but my friends are set on Destruction. It’s a great thing, but at the same time.. a horrible thing for people like me, who can’t make up their mind, haha.
Comment from SwS
Time: August 16, 2008, 1:10 pm
Sadly I can’t really comment much due to NDA, but I can say you will be pleasantly surprised with healing classes, specifically DoK and WP. I don’t suspect finding DPS or tanks (for either side) will be an issue at all for either side, both types seem to be immensely popular as well from what I have seen. Every class is fun in their own way, and I’m positive there will be a good balance of classes once it’s live.
I still have no idea what I’m going to play yet, and I have had the opportunity to play everything, heh.