How old are my WoW characters, anyway?

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.