Mists of Pandaria Classic population trends
All-time weekly faction population across every Mists of Pandaria Classic realm.
Faction balance
Census week Oct 21 – 27, 202612,890
- Alliance
- 6,193
- Horde
- 6,400
- Unknown
- 297 (2%)
Census facts
Updated weekly- Census week
- Oct 21 – 27, 2026
- Source
- Warcraft Logs raid records, not Auction House prices
- Collected
- Next update
- Nov 4
- Weeks recorded
- 26
Raid population by week
Rated arena is not tracked on this edition, so every count here is a raid count.
5 of 26 weeks had far fewer reporting realms than nearby collected weeks — a movement there can be collection coverage, not the market.
| Week | Alliance | Horde | Unknown | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29 | 8,833 | 12,095 | 1,505 | All series reported |
| May 6 | 7,454 | 11,447 | 791 | All series reported |
| May 13 | 8,222 | 12,904 | 1,075 | All series reported |
| May 20 | 8,716 | 10,448 | 1,077 | All series reported |
| May 27 | 7,524 | 11,724 | 695 | All series reported |
| Jun 3 | 3,649 | 8,356 | 1,446 | All series reported |
| Jun 10 | 3,056 | 7,365 | 53 | All series reported |
| Jun 17Thin week | 2,472 | 3,595 | 883 | All series reported — 3 realms reported, against 4 in a nearby collected week |
| Jun 24Thin week | 980 | 2,379 | No reading: Unknown | |
| Jul 1Thin week | 778 | 1,634 | 1 | All series reported — 2 realms reported, against 3 in a nearby collected week |
| Jul 8Thin week | 564 | 658 | No reading: Unknown — 1 realm reported, against 2 in a nearby collected week | |
| Jul 15Thin week | 162 | 877 | No reading: Unknown | |
| Jul 22Thin week | 612 | 1,204 | No reading: Unknown | |
| Jul 29Thin week | 355 | 324 | No reading: Unknown | |
| Aug 5Thin week | 100 | 82 | No reading: Unknown — 1 realm reported, against 2 in a nearby collected week | |
| Aug 12Thin week | 172 | 410 | No reading: Unknown | |
| Aug 19Thin week | 111 | 503 | No reading: Unknown | |
| Aug 26 | 140 | 218 | 1 | All series reported |
| Sep 2Thin week | 159 | 113 | No reading: Unknown | |
| Sep 9Thin week | 60 | 26 | No reading: Unknown — 1 realm reported, against 2 in a nearby collected week | |
| Sep 16 | 5,380 | 6,791 | 139 | All series reported |
| Sep 23 | 5,412 | 5,990 | 96 | All series reported |
| Sep 30 | 4,609 | 5,840 | 107 | All series reported |
| Oct 7 | 3,950 | 4,861 | 80 | All series reported |
| Oct 14 | 3,995 | 4,046 | 144 | All series reported |
| Oct 21 | 6,193 | 6,400 | 297 | All series reported |
How this is measured, Sources, the Unknown bucket, and what it measures
These figures count character appearances in raid logs uploaded to Warcraft Logs (opens in a new tab) each weekly raid lockout, split by faction and grouped by connected realm. Each character is counted once per week, so a player with several raiding characters appears once for each of them.
Unknown counts characters we saw raiding whose faction the source did not publish — Warcraft Logs reports a faction only for ranked characters, a raid with both factions present leaves the rest unmarked, and an unrecognised faction value is counted here rather than guessed. They are included in the total.
It is a weekly measure of raiding engagement — a useful proxy for how active a realm is, but not a true census of every player. Realms without uploaded logs in a given week show no data for that week.