Unholy Returns to First, With Half the Table Unchanged
Unholy rises one place, Augmentation drops to second, and Frost Death Knight moves into third. This historical Dragonflight Season 2 Week 24 snapshot covers Mythic Aberrus during the week of October 17, 2023. Anshlun published the original October 23.
Thirteen specializations keep their positions. The uninterrupted sixth-through-sixteenth block is unchanged, as are Frost Mage in fourth and Beast Mastery in twentieth. A stable order is a useful part of this week’s story; it does not mean every spec’s measured damage stayed identical.
The Complete Mythic Overall Table
The actual capture selects the 95th percentile, one week, all bosses, all item levels and the 10.1.7 partition. It uses normalized scores rather than raw DPS. Population is the source’s recorded sample, not unique players; the final column counts positions moved since the preceding report.
| Position | Specialization | Source population | Weekly position change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unholy Death Knight | 6,222 | +1 |
| 2 | Augmentation Evoker | 10,698 | −1 |
| 3 | Frost Death Knight | 1,006 | +2 |
| 4 | Frost Mage | 4,682 | 0 |
| 5 | Demonology Warlock | 3,551 | −2 |
| 6 | Devastation Evoker | 2,880 | 0 |
| 7 | Enhancement Shaman | 5,514 | 0 |
| 8 | Fire Mage | 4,962 | 0 |
| 9 | Affliction Warlock | 3,179 | 0 |
| 10 | Marksmanship Hunter | 1,993 | 0 |
| 11 | Arcane Mage | 2,102 | 0 |
| 12 | Destruction Warlock | 5,081 | 0 |
| 13 | Arms Warrior | 4,706 | 0 |
| 14 | Feral Druid | 1,599 | 0 |
| 15 | Windwalker Monk | 3,097 | 0 |
| 16 | Elemental Shaman | 1,404 | 0 |
| 17 | Assassination Rogue | 2,700 | +1 |
| 18 | Shadow Priest | 6,011 | +3 |
| 19 | Survival Hunter | 631 | −2 |
| 20 | Beast Mastery Hunter | 8,490 | 0 |
| 21 | Outlaw Rogue | 1,295 | −2 |
| 22 | Fury Warrior | 5,251 | +1 |
| 23 | Retribution Paladin | 8,725 | +1 |
| 24 | Havoc Demon Hunter | 7,392 | +1 |
| 25 | Subtlety Rogue | 3,686 | +1 |
| 26 | Balance Druid | 6,316 | −4 |
Where the Movement Is Concentrated
Frost Death Knight gains two positions as Demonology loses two. Further down, Shadow gains three and Balance loses four, the largest rise and fall respectively. Those changes describe the overall ordering; the table alone cannot attribute them to a spell, a tuning adjustment or players switching specs.
Frost Mage, Enhancement, Fire and Arcane all hold their previous positions. Zero in the movement column means exactly that. It should not be interpreted as a small upward change or an estimate of damage gained.
The All-Percentile Plot Is a Different Summary
Unholy and Augmentation also appear first and second in the broader plot. Fire is third there and Frost Mage fourth. Frost Death Knight, third at the 95th percentile, appears eleventh in the all-percentile ordering; Assassination appears eighth rather than seventeenth.
These differences are reasons to inspect the distribution, not to choose one image as universally more accurate. The score ranges and the statistical summaries differ. A single character’s comparison should begin with the same encounter, difficulty and relevant damage target.
A Late Season 2 Reference, With a Clear Boundary
This is the October 2023 version of Aberrus. It should remain distinct from the Awakened Season 4 Aberrus results, which use a later progression system and encounter tuning.
Even within the same tier, compare dated logs and the conditions actually active at the time. The sample ranges from 631 for Survival to 10,698 for Augmentation, and the ranking does not control for gear, assignments or kill timing. Use it to locate a question worth investigating in matching logs, rather than as proof that a particular player should change specialization.
