A One-Place Change at the Top, Larger Moves Elsewhere
Unholy moves from second to first, Survival gains seven places, and Feral loses nine. This is the historical Dragonflight Season 2 Week 22 snapshot for Mythic Aberrus during the week of October 3, 2023. It describes 10.1.7-era logs, not the current game.
Anshlun published the original October 9 report. Its typed table and original overall chart agree on all 26 positions. The preserved images select one week, Mythic difficulty, all bosses, all item levels and the 10.1.7 partition, using normalized scores.
All Specs: Overall Order, Movement and Boss Position
The first four columns reproduce the source’s overall 95th-percentile data. The final column is independently read from its separate 95th-percentile boss-damage capture. Population is the recorded source sample, not a verified count of unique people. Movement counts weekly overall positions, not a percentage change in DPS.
| Overall position | Specialization | Source population | Weekly overall change | Boss-damage position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unholy Death Knight | 6,631 | +1 | 1 |
| 2 | Augmentation Evoker | 11,474 | −1 | 2 |
| 3 | Demonology Warlock | 3,950 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Frost Mage | 5,141 | +1 | 4 |
| 5 | Frost Death Knight | 1,009 | −1 | 11 |
| 6 | Enhancement Shaman | 5,948 | +3 | 18 |
| 7 | Devastation Evoker | 2,951 | 0 | 8 |
| 8 | Fire Mage | 5,677 | 0 | 6 |
| 9 | Marksmanship Hunter | 2,344 | +1 | 10 |
| 10 | Affliction Warlock | 3,424 | −4 | 5 |
| 11 | Arcane Mage | 2,237 | +2 | 17 |
| 12 | Elemental Shaman | 1,557 | +2 | 13 |
| 13 | Outlaw Rogue | 1,018 | +2 | 19 |
| 14 | Arms Warrior | 5,389 | −3 | 12 |
| 15 | Beast Mastery Hunter | 8,682 | +3 | 20 |
| 16 | Windwalker Monk | 3,418 | 0 | 21 |
| 17 | Assassination Rogue | 2,773 | +3 | 7 |
| 18 | Survival Hunter | 527 | +7 | 24 |
| 19 | Destruction Warlock | 5,723 | −2 | 15 |
| 20 | Shadow Priest | 7,083 | −1 | 14 |
| 21 | Feral Druid | 1,669 | −9 | 9 |
| 22 | Fury Warrior | 5,968 | −1 | 26 |
| 23 | Balance Druid | 6,895 | +3 | 23 |
| 24 | Retribution Paladin | 9,917 | 0 | 16 |
| 25 | Havoc Demon Hunter | 7,942 | −2 | 25 |
| 26 | Subtlety Rogue | 4,181 | −4 | 22 |
The top five change only slightly: Unholy and Frost Mage each gain one place, Augmentation and Frost Death Knight each lose one, and Demonology remains third. Augmentation has the largest source population at 11,474; Unholy’s is 6,631 and Demonology’s is 3,950. Population size and leaderboard position describe different things.
Survival’s +7 is the largest gain. Feral’s −9 is the largest fall. Those are changes in the aggregate order; the table alone cannot identify whether tuning, equipment, assignments or the sampled logs caused them.
Feral Falls Overall but Remains Ninth on Boss Damage
The boss-only order starts with Unholy, Augmentation, Demonology, Frost Mage and Affliction. Feral is ninth here despite being twenty-first overall. Survival is twenty-fourth on bosses despite rising to eighteenth overall. Enhancement is eighteenth on bosses and sixth overall.
This is why a movement headline needs a target definition. Damage to bosses excludes other targets; it is not automatically a pure stationary single-target test. An aggregate across the raid also cannot establish which spec was best for one particular progression encounter.
The Broader Plot Moves Fire and Survival Higher
The all-percentile overall distribution begins with Unholy, Augmentation, Fire, Frost Mage and Demonology. Survival is tenth in the displayed order, compared with eighteenth in the 95th-percentile table. Assassination is seventh in this broader view and seventeenth in the table.
Read that as a change of statistic, not an additional weekly rank gain. The boxes overlap and the horizontal range differs from the boss chart. The broader plot is not a simple prediction of what an average player will deal, and a 95th-percentile result is not a measured spec ceiling.
Keep Attribution and Week-to-Week Claims Separate
Augmentation’s score includes credit for supported buffs. Warcraft Logs’ operator explanation of reattribution describes moving eligible contributed damage back to the Evoker. Calling this second-place result “personal damage only” would misdescribe the statistic. A specific logging defect needs dated evidence; it should not be assumed from the class’s support role.
This late-season date does not prove that gear variation had disappeared, the sample was uniquely stable, or skill differences caused a rank. The Week 21 snapshot and Week 23 follow-up provide adjacent dated comparisons. Compare the same target and percentile, and keep population changes separate from positions.
