Three Different Leaders Across the Damage Views
Fury Warrior led overall damage at the 95th percentile, Fire Mage led 95th-percentile damage to bosses, and Feral Druid led both all-percentile chart orders. These are the Week 18 Icecrown Citadel results for the week of February 6, 2024.
The source is Anshlun’s February 13, 2024 Wowhead report, using Warcraft Logs screenshots. The charts describe recorded damage during that historical capture, rather than one universal ranking for every ICC encounter or character.
Selected conditions: Heroic, 25-player Icecrown Citadel, all bosses, DPS, all item levels, a one-week range and normalized-score aggregation. The screenshots use the partition label Phase 4 (Buff). That label is part of the comparison and should stay attached to these February results.
The Complete Four-View Ranking
Rows follow the 95th-percentile overall-damage chart. Each other column preserves its own chart’s displayed order. Blood (DPS) Death Knight and Gladiator Warrior are the original Warcraft Logs category labels.
| DPS category | 95th: overall | 95th: bosses | All percentiles: overall | All percentiles: bosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fury Warrior | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Fire Mage | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Feral Druid | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Retribution Paladin | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Marksmanship Hunter | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
| Affliction Warlock | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| Survival Hunter | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| Shadow Priest | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| Arcane Mage | 9 | 8 | 15 | 15 |
| Unholy Death Knight | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
| Blood (DPS) Death Knight | 11 | 11 | 13 | 14 |
| Combat Rogue | 12 | 12 | 10 | 10 |
| Frost Death Knight | 13 | 14 | 14 | 13 |
| Assassination Rogue | 14 | 13 | 11 | 11 |
| Arms Warrior | 15 | 18 | 18 | 19 |
| Enhancement Shaman | 16 | 15 | 12 | 12 |
| Demonology Warlock | 17 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| Elemental Shaman | 18 | 20 | 19 | 18 |
| Destruction Warlock | 19 | 19 | 17 | 17 |
| Beast Mastery Hunter | 20 | 21 | 21 | 22 |
| Balance Druid | 21 | 22 | 20 | 20 |
| Subtlety Rogue | 22 | 17 | 22 | 21 |
| Frost Mage | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| Gladiator Warrior | 24 | 24 | 24 | 24 |
Why Fury, Fire and Feral Each Had a Leading Result
Fury, Fire and Feral were first, second and third for 95th-percentile overall damage. Switching to damage to bosses changed their order to Fire, Feral and Fury. The same three categories remained at the top, while the leading position depended on the metric.
The all-percentile charts supplied another distinction: Feral was first in both, Fury was second overall and Fire second for boss damage. Those broader views describe a different selection of recorded results from the 95th-percentile charts.
Overall damage can include damage to additional targets within an encounter; damage to bosses narrows the target selection. A change between the columns is therefore a change in what is being compared. It does not, by itself, prove that one category was better at a particular raid assignment.
Arcane and Assassination Illustrate the Percentile Difference
Arcane Mage was ninth for 95th-percentile overall damage and eighth for boss damage, but fifteenth in both all-percentile orders. Assassination Rogue was fourteenth overall and thirteenth for bosses at the 95th percentile, with eleventh place in both broader charts.
Reading all four columns avoids presenting one selected result as the entire picture. Explaining the cause of a percentile difference would require the underlying reports and participation context; chart position alone does not establish an item interaction, talent advantage or tuning change.
Read the Score Axis Before Comparing Numbers
The original captures use normalized scores. They do not publish a shared raw-damage total for every category, and a score near 100 is not a DPS figure. Position differences also do not express a percentage damage gap.
For a character-level question, choose the relevant boss and damage metric, then compare reports with suitable conditions. Kill length, survival and the work assigned to a player matter when interpreting an individual result; a raid-wide position cannot diagnose those details.
For the source distributions, see the all-percentile overall chart and all-percentile boss chart. The 95th-percentile overall capture preserves Fury’s leading result alongside the boss-damage capture reproduced here.
