Stats - Character Gender Ratios
News has been slow and we've been looking at building random stats to keep you interested! We're still working on the juicy stuff but let's start with character gender ratios!

You might think that Female Dwarves are player's least favorite female model, but you would be mistaken! Female Orcs take the lead by a few percent margin in our poll of Level 85 characters.

Race Male Female
Human 66.48% 33.52%
Orc 89.34% 10.66%
Dwarf 86.72% 13.28%
Night Elf 56.2% 43.8%
Undead 77.4% 22.6%
Tauren 85.82% 14.18%
Gnome 69.43% 30.57%
Troll 74.24% 25.76%
Goblin 72.44% 27.56%
Blood Elf 55.05% 44.95%
Draenei 47.73% 52.27%
Worgen 80% 20%



Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Tier 11 Shoulders and Head for Justice Points
Sometimes raids don't go our way. Sometimes drops don't go our way. I think anyone who has ever farmed for a mount or a particular piece of gear has had a similar experience and, while not getting a drop can be frustrating, one hopes that delayed gratification adds a little savor when you finally do obtain the object of your desire. Good things really do come to those who wait, or at least, exercise persistence and patience.

I should add that, unlike the olden days, you aren't leaving empty handed from any boss encounter, and you can spend the Valor Points you're obtaining to acquire even more powerful gear. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)


We Want Your Comics!
We’ve spent 8 years adding awesome community comics to our Comics section, but we’re far from finished. We’re looking for the best new World of Warcraft comics to become front page news on our site, and we’d love to have your help, whether you’re a seasoned contributor or a first-time cartoonist. If you’d like to have your comic displayed on our website, submit it here. (Blue Tracker / Official Blog)

API - HTML scraping no longer allowed
This is important to anyone who is still scraping the new Armory HTML, as it will break anything that relies on doing so.
Originally Posted by Osundir (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Now that the API is live, we want to make you all aware that HTML datamining (via us.battle.net/wow or any of the other regional wow sites) is not acceptable. Within the next 7 days, we will start to blacklist users that are making excessive requests to our regular community sites.

If you are currently in the process of porting over to the API and have not requested a key yet, please do so. We do not want to interrupt service for community sites that are following that path.

Unless you're making 1000s of requests a day, its unlikely you'll get caught up in this. This is highly unlikely to apply to blue tracker sites (Assuming they are doing it sensibly), or personal guild sites.

New World of Warcraft Fan Wallpaper
The World of Warcraft Fan Wallpapers section has been updated with a new wallpaper titled "Cataclysm" by Shock.




Trading Card Game Art Gallery Update
The Trading Card game art gallery has been updated with ten new pieces.





NVIDIA Drivers
A quick note for those of you that keep your drivers up to date. There are some significant bugs in the 280.26 drivers that were recently released, including a bug that makes cards run warm. Avoid upgrading until a fixed driver is released.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Character Gender Ratios, Blue Posts, Fan Wallpaper, TCG Artworks started by chaud View original post
Comments 173 Comments
  1. Rabel's Avatar
    So, the Nvidia cards thing, is there a source on that? I can't find ANYTHING on it anywhere... I haven't seen the GeForce forums yet though they seem to be fubar at the moment... Where did this info come from? I'm using the 280.16 beta drivers for my laptop 500M series card, so I am wondering if that driver is affected as well.
  1. Kaeleena's Avatar
    Ratios are inaccurate. They're a poll of level 85s only. The polling sample is likely skewed in the male direction even more than the population of the game already is. Every girl player I know plays a Belf, Draenei, or a Night Elf. Also almost every guy player that plays a girl character that I know plays one of those three races. I get the feeling that whatever the sampling size was that it generally was either not a large enough sample or not a wide enough sample to accurately reflect the in-game experience.
  1. McNeil's Avatar
    Lol draenei's are the only race were the females outnumber them, and I have a male draenei myself
  1. Ballom's Avatar
    would be nice to also see percentages of each race. i bet u there are less female dwarves than orcs then.
  1. Mercuria's Avatar
    Hmm

    Sex Ratios, Not Gender Ratios. Little nitpicking ^^

    I guess it's no suprise, the hypermasculine looking males top the list and the hyperfeminine females aswell. It's how most people like it, most of the time
  1. Kharonthe's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jezi Belle View Post
    Considering how much people cry about male blood elves looking girly, I'm REALLY shocked female BEs aren't in the lead.
    Blood elves are the most attractive male model in the game by far. They have some quirky animations, and the stigma of being "girly" but when all other male models have ridiculous bodybuilder bodies, the pretty boys with actual normal human bodies reign supreme.
  1. Khanjin's Avatar
    "You might think that Female Dwarves are player's least favorite female model, but you would be mistaken! Female Orcs take the lead by a few percent margin in our poll of Level 85 characters." Well.. I still think a lot more people play orc than dwarf. So... Dwarf female might still be the least favourite female model. It's only compared to the own race's other gender so... yeah. But I'm probably nitpicking.
  1. mmoca96886596b's Avatar
    Updated to the new drivers and the temp havn't changed. Same as they were before, idle and under pressure.
  1. Heenk's Avatar
    When people say female dwarves are the least played, they are talking about absolutes. When you say female orcs are least played, you are talking about ratios.
  1. Kazuun's Avatar
    I am proud owner of three , lvl 85, Orc females on my account
  1. Odok's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rabel View Post
    So, the Nvidia cards thing, is there a source on that? I can't find ANYTHING on it anywhere... I haven't seen the GeForce forums yet though they seem to be fubar at the moment... Where did this info come from? I'm using the 280.16 beta drivers for my laptop 500M series card, so I am wondering if that driver is affected as well.
    The only info I've found is the one that was linked, aka an OLD BETA version (280.16) had this issue and was reported last week... and fixed for today's release (280.26).
  1. mmoc40fcf82155's Avatar
    My old 8800gts burned 1.5 years ago cuz of this "little flaw".
    I see they keep doing it..
    New cards sales not high enough?...
  1. Strafer's Avatar
    Thought Blood Elves would be 100%.
  1. ZeroWashu's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by McNeil View Post
    Lol draenei's are the only race were the females outnumber them, and I have a male draenei myself
    Have you ever had a female Draenei stand in a small fire, it does not sound like she is all that upset.
  1. stuck4cash's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Khanjin View Post
    "You might think that Female Dwarves are player's least favorite female model, but you would be mistaken! Female Orcs take the lead by a few percent margin in our poll of Level 85 characters." Well.. I still think a lot more people play orc than dwarf. So... Dwarf female might still be the least favourite female model. It's only compared to the own race's other gender so... yeah. But I'm probably nitpicking.
    Warcraft Realms says otherwise: http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.php

    O
    rcs are 6% and Dwarves are 5%. 185k dwarves to 233k orcs which is like 30% more orcs than dwarves.
  1. Thevil's Avatar
    I feel proud to have 2 female dwarves 80+!
  1. chaud's Avatar
    This data is from a sizable level 85 character sample and only compares males to females for each race. The data says nothing about the ratio between the races.
  1. Darkster's Avatar
    well statistically proved that blizz failed at designing draenei male
  1. Harnace's Avatar
    Whats the name of the old driver update - the one before 280.26?

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