WoW: Dragonflight By the Numbers

I don’t hide that I’m a bit of a nerd and this goes beyond the fact that I play video games. As a programmer, I’m very data-driven. So much so that I keep spreadsheets on my game progression in World of Warcraft. After playing the game for nearly 20 years, I have built quite a toon army. So how else am I supposed to keep track of all those alts? Now that we have bid adieu to the dragons, let’s take a look at Dragonflight by the numbers.

Alts, Gear, and Gold

I began this expansion with 18 level 60 characters, 3 of which were newly created in Shadowlands. It took me a little over a year to level all of them to 70. Based on Blizzard’s projected timetable for the WorldSoul Saga each expansion will be a year apart. That means I need to speed up the leveling process in The War Within especially since I will start the next expansion with 22 characters. My goal is to have them done in under six months.

The average gear score for a fresh level 70 was 310.64. By the end of the expansion, the gear score of my main character is 509.38 and the average gear score of my alts is 480.79.

I began the expansion with approximately 5.5 million gold across all max-level characters. I am finishing the expansion with approximately 6.8 million gold which is a profit just shy of 1.4 million gold. At the end of Shadowlands, I had a profit of about 1.6 million gold, so I was 200,000 gold shy of meeting last expansions’ profit. Coincidentally 200,000 gold is approximately what I spent on the augment rune and the legendary but, like I said, it was money well spent.

Mounts and Professions

In Dragonflight, I decided I would keep track of how many mounts I acquired throughout an expansion. These numbers are slightly skewed because of the Mists of Pandaria: Remix event in which 30 mounts became available merely by farming a currency. Needless to say, I purchased all 30 mounts.

Be that as it may, I started the expansion with 466 mounts and finished with 620 mounts. (That’s 154 new mounts, for those IU folks in the crowd. j/k). The mount that required the most work to acquire is, without a doubt, Taivan. In fact, Taivan may have been the most work I’ve ever put in for any mount in 20 years. Perhaps even longer than the Winterspring Frostsaber, before Blizzard made it easier to obtain. It will be interesting to see how many mounts I get during the next expansion when, presumably, we won’t see another event like Remix.

I’m done venting about the changes to professions but to illustrate the drastic change of the 11 professions, I only maxed 8. Inscription, jewelcrafting, and leatherworking are the three I did not reach 100 on any character. Also, of the 18 characters with professions I leveled in Dragonflight, only 28% of professions are maxed.

The implementation of the warband banks helped a little bit to max out tailoring and enchanting. I’m hoping, in The War Within, the warband bank will help facilitate reaching max level of the professions. I will also be going in with a little more knowledge of the profession system. Then again, I will only have about a year to do it.

And with that, I think I am officially ready for the next expansion.

For the Alliance!