Frostreaver opened the gates at noon today and a few thousand of us piled in. I’ve been pulling population snapshots from the in-game channel counts every five minutes since launch and putting them on a graph. New page lives at https://www.everquestguides.com/frostreaver — go look.
The data so far tells a story. We were at 975 at 12:13 PM. Less than an hour later we’re past 4000 and still climbing. Magician is the runaway favorite — already 599 strong and the only class that’s blown past the 400 cap. Cleric and Enchanter are right behind, both flirting with overflow. At the other end Rogue is sitting at 68. Some things never change.
The page has four views: total population over time, class breakdown, class share, and a snapshot of where things stand right now. It refreshes when I upload new data, which is happening every fifteen or twenty minutes today. If you want to know which classes are crowded before you pick yours — or which ones nobody else is rolling — this is your page.
I’ll keep it running through launch week and however far past that the numbers stay interesting. Bookmark it: https://www.everquestguides.com/frostreaver