Most and Least Popular ClassesFollow

Gnomes will be uncommon.

Priests on the Alliance side will be minimal, witch my experience in the betas I was probably one of 25 priests I saw in the whole time.

Shadow priests are much more common however.

Shaman are very common as well as paladins, and I'm sure the Druid/Warrior classes will climb since the last patch.

Some of the more experience players in the betas were leaning away from making a Shaman mainly because what with all the peopel trolling and whining about how great the class is, we might end up with a nerf or two to us.

The honest truth about shaman is that they have a bit of skill in every area, sure they are good at everything, but they aren't great at ANYTHING. Each class has a unqie thing they are masters of, Priest heal, Warrior fight, and Shaman just do everything moderately well. This is not a crime, nor should we be the victim of some newbie crying about trying to take on a Shaman in the wrong way his class was built for and dying (E.g. melee as a mage, pssssh, you're wearing cloth and have tons of distance abilities, take advantage of it.).

Thus I say the shaman class will be overly full, but some peopel will be anxious to go put their soul into a character that will be crap par next patch.

My 2 pesos.

Kahrain

i think most popular would be hunter, followed quickly by warlock.
pet classes allways have alot of following if they are acutaly decent, and the WoW pet classes are rather powerfull.

i saw ALOT of warlocks, they wernt hard to miss with sucubi, imps and purple people eaters following them around.
i saw more of the purple gas thingys than i saw priests.
id meet a paladin all the time.
hunter i may of noticed more of due to the fact i was often in the wilds hunting for mineing veins, thus my direct competition was the hunters.

but id say either druid or priest are the least used.. the priest is avalible for allmost everyone. but the druid is Night elf and Tauren only, so there would genrally be alot less of that class than others, as some people may like the concept of druid but not want to be a purple elf or a 400lb native american indian cow-man.

allaince is low on warlocks even tho the stats for a gnome warlock starting is the best there is. I think it is easy to pick out a warlock or a hunter because of the pets and thus it made it seem like there was more than there really was just cause they were so easy to spot.

Maybe early on there will be a lot of warlocks from people who think it's cool to tame demons or think that the "necro" will be the "soloing class" of the game. As time goes on though, you will see their numbers dwindle.

There's no telling what the priest population will do, but I doubt it will be incredibly high either.

The other classes should be fairly ubiquitous.

There may be a lot of Hunters just after release but given a month or two and you won't see near as many, mainly for one reason.

Hunter fulfils no real use in a group, it is an un-needed class, most especially for instances.

Oooook buddy. Riiiiight. You keep thinking that. *rolls eyes*

Edited, Mon Nov 22 21:33:40 2004 by ForgetfulCutthroat

And let's not mention that with trap combo's Hunters make the best pullers in the game. Let's TOTALLY forget about that one...

i think that the most played will probly be shawmen and i dont think there are going to be a ton of paliy's walkin around... least played though druid/priest/nome/troll...