The March 12, 2024 Week 18 Table
Subtlety, Frost Death Knight and Unholy lead the typed table in Anshlun’s March 19, 2024 report. The original Week 18 article identifies Mythic Amirdrassil, the week of March 12 and the 95th-percentile overall-damage view in Dragonflight Season 3.
All 26 entries below belong to that same published table. The lower positions do not switch to an all-percentiles metric halfway down the list. Weekly change means positions, not a percentage increase in damage.
| Position | Specialization | Source population | Weekly position change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subtlety Rogue | 14,760 | 0 |
| 2 | Frost Death Knight | 2,501 | +1 |
| 3 | Unholy Death Knight | 8,347 | +2 |
| 4 | Fury Warrior | 21,262 | −2 |
| 5 | Retribution Paladin | 47,555 | −1 |
| 6 | Arcane Mage | 6,066 | 0 |
| 7 | Arms Warrior | 7,035 | 0 |
| 8 | Shadow Priest | 12,934 | 0 |
| 9 | Enhancement Shaman | 14,374 | +3 |
| 10 | Elemental Shaman | 3,946 | +7 |
| 11 | Havoc Demon Hunter | 27,729 | 0 |
| 12 | Frost Mage | 9,870 | +10 |
| 13 | Demonology Warlock | 22,742 | −3 |
| 14 | Fire Mage | 13,460 | −1 |
| 15 | Outlaw Rogue | 7,543 | −6 |
| 16 | Marksmanship Hunter | 1,287 | −2 |
| 17 | Assassination Rogue | 2,818 | −2 |
| 18 | Survival Hunter | 1,628 | +6 |
| 19 | Devastation Evoker | 4,931 | −3 |
| 20 | Windwalker Monk | 8,478 | −2 |
| 21 | Destruction Warlock | 7,912 | −2 |
| 22 | Balance Druid | 15,992 | −2 |
| 23 | Affliction Warlock | 1,320 | −2 |
| 24 | Feral Druid | 5,830 | +1 |
| 25 | Beast Mastery Hunter | 35,835 | −2 |
| 26 | Augmentation Evoker | 16,687 | 0 |
These are transcribed historical figures. They are not a new query of Warcraft Logs and should not be used as current class recommendations.
What the Population Column Actually Shows
Subtlety’s source population is 14,760, while Havoc’s is 27,729. Retribution has 47,555—the largest value in this table—and Marksmanship has 1,287. Keeping the digits intact matters before making any claim about representation.
Population is not a census of unique players and is not a measure of a specialization’s execution difficulty. The table cannot tell us why someone chose a spec, whether many records came from the same player or how much experience those players had.
Likewise, a rank and a sample count answer different questions. A specialization can have a large recorded population without leading the ordering, or a smaller one without being a poor choice for a particular encounter.
A Provenance Note for the Source Images
The cause and exact capture timing of that discrepancy are not established by the source. Its position changes and population counts should therefore be cited as the published table’s values, rather than as independently reproduced measurements.
Reading the Movers Without Inventing a Build Explanation
Frost Mage moves up ten places, Elemental seven and Survival six in the table. Arms remains unchanged. These observations do not identify a particular talent, tuning note or encounter mechanic as the cause.
A log review needs the actual target damage, cooldown timing, deaths and gear from the encounter being examined. For how a high-end point differs from the broader recorded distribution, the Week 8 percentile comparison preserves both kinds of chart. For Augmentation’s attribution context, see the Week 13 reference.
