GMforPowergamers
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this data is faulty because it leans heavily on accounts that signed in made a character then walked away never to log in again, and people who make theory build. There is also an issue with fighters being the ONLY non magic warrior (maybe you can include barbarian for some subclasses) but wizard, warlock, and sorcerer are all eating from the same group of players wanting casters (maybe include bard here like barbarian above)Most recent data I can find (Dec 2020) has 8% playing wizards, same as barbarians and clerics and tied for 4-6th place behind fighters (13%), rogues (11%), and warlocks (9%). Still higher than bard, sorcerors, rangers, paladins (all at 7%), and druids (the least popular class at 6%).
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So warlocks are more popular, but it's not quite accurate to say nobody wants to play a wizard, and in fact it's one of the more popular full casters.
so lets do arcane casters vs martial weapon users
arcane full casters (Sorcerer, Warlock and Wizard) ~24%
martial weapon users (Barbarian and Fighter) ~21%
if you throw bard in to the arcane you get ~31%
so no arcane casters are NOT less represented then martial characters...
lets throw rogue into the fighter/barbarian camp, and monk too that is now ~39% lets round that up to 40%
so 60% of characters are casters... (and again I don't think this is still perfect)