Community pulse
What players say on the official WoW Forever forums, US and EU, from every public post since 2026-09-12: 140,354 posts in 9,608 threads by 12,767 people. This week (2026-09-20 to 2026-09-26): 68,410 posts, mood +23 (share of positive minus negative posts). Forum posters are a small, vocal part of the players, and the mood is read from the words used, so treat it as a pulse, not a poll.
The classes, as the forums see them
How positively posters talk about each class on each point, compared with the other classes (3/5 is the average class).
- Warrior (Tank, DPS): Class fantasy 2/5; Identity / uniqueness 1/5; Gameplay fun 1.5/5; World experience 2/5; Leveling 1.5/5; Social value 1/5; Lifestyle & convenience 1/5; Independence 1.5/5. Talked about: rage normalization, heroic strike, world buffs, fury prot, arms, sunder, crits, unbridled wrath
- Paladin (Tank, Healer, DPS): Class fantasy 3.5/5; Identity / uniqueness 4/5; Gameplay fun 3.5/5; World experience 3.5/5; Leveling 4/5; Social value 3/5; Lifestyle & convenience 3.5/5; Independence 2/5. Talked about: undead, ret, holy strike, seal twisting, forsaken, light, judgement, divine storm
- Hunter (DPS): Class fantasy 2.5/5; Identity / uniqueness 3.5/5; Gameplay fun 4/5; World experience 1/5; Leveling 3.5/5; Social value 3/5; Lifestyle & convenience 2.5/5; Independence 3/5. Talked about: dead zone, pet, lone wolf, auto shot, stable slots, hunter's, survival, ammo
- Rogue (DPS): Class fantasy 5/5; Identity / uniqueness 1/5; Gameplay fun 2.5/5; World experience 2.5/5; Leveling 3/5; Social value 2/5; Lifestyle & convenience 1.5/5; Independence 1.5/5. Talked about: assassination, combo points, slice dice, stealth, backstab, poisons, restless blades, rupture
- Priest (Healer, DPS): Class fantasy 2/5; Identity / uniqueness 3/5; Gameplay fun 3.5/5; World experience 3/5; Leveling 3.5/5; Social value 3.5/5; Lifestyle & convenience 3/5; Independence 4.5/5. Talked about: shadow, disc, wand, word pain, smite, devouring plague, starshards, mind blast
- Shaman (Healer, DPS): Class fantasy 3.5/5; Identity / uniqueness 3.5/5; Gameplay fun 4.5/5; World experience 4/5; Leveling 3/5; Social value 4/5; Lifestyle & convenience 3.5/5; Independence 2/5. Talked about: enhancement, lightning bolt, fire nova, lava burst, totems, enhance, elemental, ele
- Mage (DPS): Class fantasy 3/5; Identity / uniqueness 4.5/5; Gameplay fun 3/5; World experience 3.5/5; Leveling 3.5/5; Social value 3.5/5; Lifestyle & convenience 3.5/5; Independence 4.5/5. Talked about: frost nova, questie data, aoe farming, arcane blast, ice lance, boosting, lvl days, frostbolt
- Warlock (DPS): Class fantasy 3/5; Identity / uniqueness 3.5/5; Gameplay fun 5/5; World experience 4/5; Leveling 3.5/5; Social value 3.5/5; Lifestyle & convenience 3.5/5; Independence 3.5/5. Talked about: summoning stones, soul link, demonology, affliction, molten skin, drain life, demonic, shadow bolt
- Druid (Tank, Healer, DPS): Class fantasy 3/5; Identity / uniqueness 4/5; Gameplay fun 3/5; World experience 4.5/5; Leveling 3/5; Social value 3.5/5; Lifestyle & convenience 3/5; Independence 5/5. Talked about: classic feral, cat form, power shifting, bear, boomkin, models, moonfire, resto
Classes
- Warrior: 2,961 posts this week (mood -7)
- Druid: 2,465 posts this week (mood +27)
- Paladin: 2,137 posts this week (mood +28)
- Hunter: 1,844 posts this week (mood +25)
- Shaman: 1,823 posts this week (mood +30)
- Mage: 1,527 posts this week (mood +30)
- Priest: 1,379 posts this week (mood +32)
- Rogue: 1,141 posts this week (mood +16)
- Warlock: 1,011 posts this week (mood +31)
Races and factions
- Skyborne: 1,502 posts this week (mood +44)
- Human: 1,020 posts this week (mood +24)
- Undead: 974 posts this week (mood +28)
- Tauren: 807 posts this week (mood +35)
- Troll: 767 posts this week (mood +34)
- Dwarf: 740 posts this week (mood +35)
- Night Elf: 683 posts this week (mood +41)
- Orc: 611 posts this week (mood +35)
- Gnome: 524 posts this week (mood +34)
- Horde: 1,946 posts this week (mood +39)
- Alliance: 1,639 posts this week (mood +36)
What people talk about
- Changes from Classic: 12,010 posts this week (mood +37)
- Classes, talents and balance: 9,678 posts this week (mood +28)
- Dungeons and raids: 6,886 posts this week (mood +39)
- Leveling and the level cap: 4,929 posts this week (mood +46)
- PvP: 4,481 posts this week (mood +35)
- Professions, gold and the Auction House: 2,842 posts this week (mood +36)
- Bans and names: 2,279 posts this week (mood -30)
- Bugs, lag and stability: 2,144 posts this week (mood -10)
- Streamers and guilds: 2,070 posts this week (mood +40)
- Bots and cheating: 827 posts this week (mood +1)
- Beta access: 782 posts this week (mood +34)
- Hardcore: 512 posts this week (mood +51)
- The Legacy system: 284 posts this week (mood +60)
Busiest threads this week
- RP-PVP is a must! (US, 1,009 posts this week)
- We need to talk about Dungeon XP in Forever (US, 784 posts this week)
- I'd like to see the list, Tom (US, 740 posts this week)
- WoW Forever needs lvl 20 Mount (US, 589 posts this week)
- Warrior rage generation is a massive issue (US, 532 posts this week)
- Beta Revokes and Refunds (US, 531 posts this week)
- WoW Forever Won’t Stay Forever If Gear Keeps Scaling (US, 496 posts this week)
- Add Arena to WoW Forever (US, 472 posts this week)
- Dear Classic players; (EU, 437 posts this week)
- Suggestion: Bring Rated Battlegrounds & Arena to WoW Forever (US, 415 posts this week)