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World of Warcraft: Forever · Horde against Alliance

WoW Forever faction balance

Among the 42,684 US PvP characters the AHledger ladder tracks, 67% are Horde, and Horde characters gained 64% of the ruleset’s honorable kills in the last 7 days. On EU PvP the split is 57% Horde, of 54,410 characters.

Counted hourly from Blizzard character profiles of the characters the PvP leaderboard tracks, last read . How it is counted.

  • 67% HordeUS PvP characters
  • 57% HordeEU PvP characters
  • 59% HordePvP honorable kills, last 7 days
  • 157,597characters counted

US: every ruleset

  • US PvP42,684 characters

    Characters
    Alliance 33%14,078 charactersHorde 67%28,606 characters
    Active this week
    Alliance 34%3,925 charactersHorde 66%7,771 characters
    Honorable kills this week
    Alliance 36%131,647 killsHorde 64%231,122 kills
    With a PvP rank
    Alliance 30%160 charactersHorde 70%374 characters

  • US Roleplay PvP2,540 characters

    Characters
    Alliance 25%640 charactersHorde 75%1,900 characters
    Active this week
    Alliance 5%26 charactersHorde 95%534 characters
    Honorable kills this week
    Alliance 10%2,197 killsHorde 90%19,934 kills
    With a PvP rank
    Alliance 26%10 charactersHorde 74%28 characters

  • US Normal17,859 characters

    Characters
    Alliance 52%9,219 charactersHorde 48%8,640 characters
    Active this week
    Alliance 46%71 charactersHorde 54%83 characters
    Honorable kills this week
    Alliance 57%6,387 killsHorde 43%4,826 kills
    With a PvP rank
    Alliance 37%21 charactersHorde 63%36 characters

  • US Roleplay2,797 characters

    Characters
    Alliance 76%2,129 charactersHorde 24%668 characters
    Active this week
    Alliance 94%33 charactersHorde 6%2 characters
    Honorable kills this week
    Alliance 98%5,462 killsHorde 2%98 kills
    With a PvP ranktoo few to split
    Alliance11 charactersHorde2 characters

EU: every ruleset

  • EU PvP54,410 characters

    Characters
    Alliance 43%23,410 charactersHorde 57%31,000 characters
    Active this week
    Alliance 41%6,363 charactersHorde 59%9,215 characters
    Honorable kills this week
    Alliance 45%228,377 killsHorde 55%281,892 kills
    With a PvP rank
    Alliance 42%224 charactersHorde 58%307 characters

  • EU Roleplay PvP2,469 characters

    Characters
    Alliance 54%1,332 charactersHorde 46%1,137 characters
    Active this week
    Alliance 93%93 charactersHorde 7%7 characters
    Honorable kills this week
    Alliance 91%2,345 killsHorde 9%224 kills
    With a PvP rank
    Alliance 45%22 charactersHorde 55%27 characters

  • EU Normal30,675 characters

    Characters
    Alliance 47%14,328 charactersHorde 53%16,347 characters
    Active this week
    Alliance 41%268 charactersHorde 59%378 characters
    Honorable kills this week
    Alliance 40%13,964 killsHorde 60%20,657 kills
    With a PvP rank
    Alliance 40%35 charactersHorde 60%53 characters

  • EU Roleplay4,163 characters

    Characters
    Alliance 76%3,181 charactersHorde 24%982 characters
    Active this week
    Alliance 87%39 charactersHorde 13%6 characters
    Honorable kills this week
    Alliance 96%5,003 killsHorde 4%226 kills
    With a PvP ranktoo few to split
    Alliance8 charactersHorde3 characters

Day by day

The Horde share over time

The Horde share of tracked characters, one point a day (the day’s last hourly count). The daily record began on Nov 10, 2026.

The chart draws once two days are stored. Until then the table below has the day so far.

Faction split of tracked characters by day, latest first
DayUS PvPEU PvPUS NormalEU Normal
Nov 10, 202667% Horde57% Horde52% Alliance53% Horde

The last 60 days. Download the daily figures (CSV), every ruleset and measure.

The auction houses

Listings on each faction’s house

Each ruleset has an Alliance and a Horde auction house. A busier house is a sign of a bigger or more active faction, though it also depends on who scans it with the addon. Auctions listed in each house’s newest day of scans.

  • US PvP
    Alliance 47%126,617 auctionsHorde 53%142,909 auctions
  • US Roleplay PvP
    Alliance 45%26,287 auctionsHorde 55%32,567 auctions
  • US Normal
    Alliance 53%206,041 auctionsHorde 47%184,579 auctions
  • US Roleplay
    Alliance 67%48,019 auctionsHorde 33%23,402 auctions
  • EU PvP
    Alliance 45%242,474 auctionsHorde 55%301,877 auctions
  • EU Roleplay PvP
    Alliance 49%21,297 auctionsHorde 51%21,966 auctions
  • EU Normal
    Alliance 52%271,672 auctionsHorde 48%251,044 auctions
  • EU Roleplay
    Alliance 68%36,860 auctionsHorde 32%17,077 auctions

The economy of every house, day by day.

What Blizzard has said

  • November 10, 2026. In a forum post on PvP faction balance, Blizzard said the most lopsided region was about 55/45, short of what it wants, and that character creation would weigh each region’s balance over time. In the short term it gets harder to create characters on the larger faction: Horde on North American PvP and Alliance on EU Roleplay PvP.
  • Before launch. Blizzard’s ruleset article says players can only create characters for one faction on the PvP ruleset, and that new character creation can be limited for a faction for a time when balance needs it.

Blizzard’s figure and this page’s need not agree: Blizzard counts its own way, and this page counts the characters the ladder tracks, alts included.

How it is counted, and its limits

  • Every figure is a count over the characters the PvP ladder tracks (157,959 checked), read from Blizzard’s profile of each. A character joins the ladder when the AHledger addon sees it in game or someone looks it up, so this is a large sample, not a census.
  • It counts characters, not players: one player’s alts count once each. Characters whose profile names no ruleset are left out.
  • Active this week means honorable kills gained in the 7 days before the character’s last check, counted only while that check is under 10 days old. Kills this week are those characters’ kills. Ranked means a PvP rank of 1 or higher.
  • A share resting on fewer than 30 characters is not shown. Counts refresh hourly; the trend keeps each day’s last count.
  • Battleground results by faction are on the win rates page.

To cite: “WoW Forever faction balance”, AHledger, https://ahledger.com/wow-forever/pvp/faction-balance, figures for Nov 10, 2026.

Common questions

Is the Horde dominating PvP in WoW Forever?
On the US PvP ruleset the characters this site tracks are 67% Horde, and Horde characters gained 64% of the ruleset’s honorable kills in the last 7 days. On EU PvP the split is 57% Horde. Blizzard said on November 10, 2026 that the most lopsided region was about 55/45 and that it was making the larger faction harder to create on: Horde on North American PvP, Alliance on EU Roleplay PvP. Blizzard counts its own way and this site counts the characters it tracks, so the two figures need not match.
Which faction is bigger in WoW Forever?
Across every ruleset and both regions, the 157,597 characters this site tracks are 57% Horde. The split differs by ruleset and region; the cards on this page have each one.
Can I play both factions on the PvP ruleset?
No. Blizzard’s ruleset article says that on the PvP ruleset players can only create characters for one faction: once you make an Alliance character there you cannot make a Horde one, and the other way round. Normal, Roleplay and Hardcore allow both factions.
How is the faction balance measured here?
From Blizzard’s profile of every character the AHledger PvP ladder tracks: 157,959 characters, added when the AHledger addon sees them in game or someone looks them up. It counts characters, alts included, not players, and only those the ladder knows. A share resting on fewer than 30 characters is not shown. The figures refresh hourly and a snapshot is kept each day.
Can I use these numbers?
Yes, with credit to AHledger and a link to this page. The daily figures are in a CSV at https://ahledger.com/wow-forever/pvp/faction-balance/data.csv.