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Guild Wars 2 Gender, Profession, Race, And Craft Statistics Released

Posted on Saturday, September 15 @ 11:00:45 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

What you see above are official bar graphs and a pie chart released by ArenaNet detailing the popularity of every major option in Guild Wars 2's character development.

From top left to bottom right you have the following:
  • Gender: Female, Male
  • Profession: Engineer, Thief, Elementalist, Warrior, Mesmer, Ranger, Guardian, Necro
  • Race: Norn, Charr, Asura, Sylvari, Human
  • Crafting: Weaponsmithing, Hunstman, Armor crafting, Cooking, Leatherworking, Artificer, Jeweler, Tailor
The profession results aren't too surprising, but seeing how popular Humans are opposed to the other races is shocking. Actually, the two most human-like races are much more saturated than the others as opposed to the high Sylvari count I was expecting. A lot of pre-release polls placed Asura and Elementalist at the top of the bunch, and this goes to show exactly why unofficial polls aren't to be taken very seriously.

I play a Human Engineer so I sit at both the top and bottom of the spectrum. I tend to stray away from the popular classes in MMOs, so it's probably a good thing I turned my head away from the Warrior on launch day.

How do you fare?
Related Games:   Guild Wars 2
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  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 15th, 2012 at 11:36 am
    You heard it first from me on the round table.

    HUMAN POWER!
    0 2
  • Noritama
    Noritama
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Sep 15th, 2012 at 4:04 pm
    Asura all the way
    0 1
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Sep 15th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
    Fuck you and your golems, but also Fuck Logan, that *****
    0 2
  • Bras
    Bras
    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Sep 15th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
    Male Human Warrior Weaponsmith (or Blacksmith/Ironsmith/whatever you call it)
    I am not surprised.
    0 1
  • elmoreoocyte
    elmoreoocyte
    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Sep 15th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
    Female Norn Necro Tailor/Jewler....I'm all kinds of bottom of the barrel.
    0 0
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Sep 15th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
    Hmm interesting. When looking through the classes/crafting I thought of going outside of my usual element and rolling a mesmer/artificer (I thought they seemed well paired). I haven't read much beyond basic descriptions and I have yet to actually buy the game.
    0 0
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome
    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Sep 15th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
    I would like to see those graphs adjusted for or factoring character level. I've made 4 characters so far, but I'm really only playing 1 (the rest are under lvl 10). I know all my friends have done the same.
    0 0
  • MikeyVengeance
    MikeyVengeance
    Joined: Nov 2007
    Posted: Sep 16th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
    Same here, my main character is a Human Elementalist. But loads of secondary characters
    0 0

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