As you know, Phase 2 of WoW: Burning Crusade Classic launched about a week and a half ago, and among other things, it came with new raid challenges for level 70 players. We now want to find out whether the premiere of Cave of the Serpent Shrine and Fortress of Storms has had an effect on the endgame stats: Are there noticeably more characters showing up in the raid logs now than in early September?

For our check, we visited Ironforge.pro again. There, all characters are recorded that have appeared in a log for a TBC endgame content in a certain period of time. So we see how many characters participate in the PvE endgame on the different servers (we don’t include the characters that were additionally recorded in the arena for reasons of comparability). The most recent numbers are from the first September ID from September 15, 2021 to September 22, 2021.

• The US server Benediction can still call itself the largest (TBC) Classic server. 18,763 characters were counted there (before phase 2: 18,098 characters).
• Gehennas continues to dominate the EU region with 16,087 characters (14,816).
• The largest German TBC Classic server continues to be Venoxis, with 8,597 characters (8,963 – 61.3 percent Horde).
• The former largest DE server Everlook has recently made another jump and comes to 7,740 characters (6,907 – with a faction distribution of 71.2 percent Alliance).
• The formerly very busy server Lucifron currently comes to 2,993 (instead of 3,015) counted characters (at 95.7 percent Horde)
• On Razorfen, 5,452 (instead of 5,113) active characters (at 50.5 percent Horde (for the first time, the Horde makes up a larger share here than the Alliance!)) were counted.
• Dragon’s Call comes to 3,305 (instead of 2,895) active characters (at 68.6 percent Horde)
• Lakeshire comes to 3,625 (instead of 3,486) active characters (at 67.1 percent Alliance)
• Patchwerk comes to 3,976 (instead of 3,681) active characters (at 71.8 percent Horde)
• Transcendence comes to 3,930 (instead of 3,617) active characters (62.81 percent Horde)
• Heartstriker comes to 2,316 (instead of 2,069) active characters (at 100 percent Alliance)
• For Celebras there is again a small increase: 437 (instead of 412) characters were counted there on Warcraftlogs, 115 of them on Horde side.
• In total, 378,477 raid-active characters were counted across the US, EU and Russia regions (before phase 2: 374,667).