Yeah, of course I couldn’t not try to research this after the other post.
- Vanilla
- ( Human Warlock – lost to time, June or July 2005 )
- Orc Rogue – May-June 2005
- Orc Hunter – May 2005
- Undead Mage – July 2006
- Tauren Druid – September 2006 or earlier
- TBC releases – January 2007
- Blood Elf Warlock – January 2007
- Troll Warrior – February 2007
- Blood Elf Priest – March 2007
- Blood Elf Paladin – not sure, but should be close to launch
- Orc Shaman – January 2008
- Human Rogue – February 2008
- WotLK releases – November 2018
- Undead Death Knight – probably not at launch
- Cataclysm releases – December 2010
- Night Elf Warrior – got to 85, maybe created even earlier, current main, 2-3 server transfers
- Mists of Pandaria releases – September 2012
- Horde Pandaren Monk
- Dwarf Shaman – killed Algalon in March ’14
- ( Gnome Rogue )
- ( Night Elf Rogue )
- ( Goblin Warrior )
- ( Troll Hunter )
- Warlords of Draenor releases – November 2014
- Legion releases – August 2016
- Night Elf Demon Hunter – maybe August?
- Battle for Azeroth releases – August 2018
- ( Dwarf Paladin – left behind when transferring )
- Blood Elf Demon Hunter
- Worgen Druid
- Kul Tiran Human Mage
- Draenei Death Knight
- Dark Iron Dwarf Monk
- ( Mechagnome Warlock – left behind when transferring )
- Worgen Priest
- ( Dwarf Hunter – left behind when transferring )
- Shadowlands releases – November 2020
- ( Void Elf Rogue – left behind when transferring )
- Lightforged Draenei Paladin – July 2021
- ( Vulpera Death Knight )
- Dragonflight releases – November 2022
- Void Elf Warlock
- Alliance Pandaren Hunter
- Alliance Dracthyr Evoker – 2023, late
- The War Within releases – August 2024
- ( Troll Druid – MoP Remix )
- Horde Dracthyr Evoker – May 2025
Yes I cheated a little. Since WarcraftRealms.com is down and I only had noted the first appearance for some of my older characters some years ago already, the newer the character, the less exact I can put the date. But I have my list of who was max level in which expansion, that helped a lot, even before looking at individual blog posts, but those only go back to 2009
Also I put all the non-primary characters per class (and faction) in brackets, so there should exactly be 26, but unless I miscounted I forgot exactly one.
So some useless stats:
- Horde characters (main server) created between 2005 and 2018
- Alliance characters (main server) created between ~2008 and 2025
- Most server transfers per char: 3
- Most servers any one character has been: 2 (don’t ask, the NE Warrior went Aggramar -> Tichondrius -> Agg -> Tic)
- Characters with 2 server transfers: 1 (Aggramar -> somewhere -> Aggramar)
- Characters with 1 server transfer: around 8, all Alliance and Hellscream -> Tichondrius
Unfortunately I couldn’t say I’ve played my Horde toons actively for the last couple years, just bringing some (or most) to the level cap each expansion, or I guess I’d have to celebrate the 20th birthday for some of them this month. Kinda shocking.