Sodapoppin sits down with Blizzard's designers to rate nine classes in 75 minutes

Episode 2 of The WoW: Forever Podcast is running about seventeen times ahead of a usual first day on the official channel, and an Enhancement Shaman short is far ahead of usual too.

Channel: World of WarcraftStory of October 2, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 556,062 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (32,289).

Speed Running Classes ft. @sodapoppin | Episode 2 - The WoW: Forever Podcast

"Speed Running Classes ft. @sodapoppin" is the second episode of The WoW: Forever Podcast. Blizzard is using the show to talk players through World of Warcraft: Forever while the new version of the game is in beta.

The host is @countdowntoclassic. Around the table are three of the people building the game: senior game designers Josh "Aggrend" Greenfield and Aidan Moon, and principal designer Kris Zierhut. The guest is Sodapoppin, the streamer whose name has been tied to World of Warcraft for most of his career. The talk runs a little over an hour and a quarter. Its chapters take the classes one at a time: Druid, Warrior, Paladin, Rogue, Shaman, Hunter, Warlock, Mage and Priest. Those are the nine classes the game launched with in 2004. The Druid gets the longest stretch.

Twelve hours after it went up, the episode had passed 385,000 views. That pace points to roughly seventeen times what a new video on the channel usually draws in its first day.

The comments are mostly about two things. The first is the guest: a running joke recalls Sodapoppin saying they would never have him on the show. The second is the format itself. The most-liked comment asks for the podcast to keep going after launch, and many others say they want more episodes. Near the top sits the team's own correction to the description: only one Battleground and one new dungeon are playable this week.

The podcast was not the only video moving. A short about Enhancement Shamans, billed as bringing powerful group buffs and burst damage, ran more than five times past a usual first day. Together, the two have pushed the channel's daily views to more than double their normal level.

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The numbers

One long podcast episode and one short clip together more than doubled the channel's usual daily views.

the video's first day

usual first day here

32,289

this video

556,062

subscribers

1,980,000

total views

905,410,047

views per day

875,566

typical day: 402,691

the video

views

385,187

likes

12,194

comments

2,183

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

CookieRun: Kingdom

2,110,000

Bethesda Softworks

2,100,000

World of Warcraft

1,980,000

Call of Duty League

1,970,000

The Sims

1,930,000

Zenless Zone Zero

1,870,000

As of October 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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