Those seven data points frame the Week 22 snapshot precisely: a late-season, fully gear-inflated week at the intersection of Patch 10.1.7 tuning and the final ceiling of Aberrus progression. Reading the numbers correctly requires understanding how Warcraft Logs compiled them.
The DPS rankings published for each week of Mythic Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible drew on Warcraft Logs raid statistics for Mythic difficulty. Understanding the methodology is essential to reading the rankings correctly — the numbers were not a survey of average players, and the 95th-percentile figure in particular required careful interpretation.
The 95th percentile represents the top 5% of all logged parses for a given spec on a given boss. It answered the question: "What is the ceiling for this spec when played well?" High-population specs produced more data, smoothing the 95th-percentile figure toward a stable ceiling. Low-population specs had fewer parses at the 95th percentile, which could produce artificially inflated or depressed numbers — a single exceptional log in a 50-parse sample moved the 95th percentile more than a single parse in a 50,000-parse sample.
The all-percentile view averaged across the full distribution and gave a picture of how an average player performing a spec did — closer to real-world performance for most raid groups. Boss-only rankings stripped out trash and cleave damage to isolate single-target output.
Week 22 (October 3, 2023) was drawn from Patch 10.1.7 data — the patch that shipped September 5, 2023 and bridged Season 2 toward the Season 3 launch.
The following rankings reflect Warcraft Logs Mythic Aberrus statistics for the week of October 3, 2023, at the 95th percentile:
✏️ Context: Population counts mattered significantly for interpreting weekly rankings. Demonology Warlock's 39,500 logs represented the aggregate output of an enormous player pool; Unholy DK's 663 logs at the same difficulty meant a much smaller sample drove its 95th-percentile figure. A spec with 600 players at the 95th percentile needed fewer exceptional logs to top the chart than a spec with 40,000 players.
No reading of Season 2 DPS rankings was complete without a dedicated note on Augmentation Evoker, introduced in Patch 10.1.5 (July 11, 2023) as the first support-oriented DPS specialisation in WoW's history.
Augmentation's kit was built around amplifying nearby allies rather than dealing damage independently. Its core ability, Ebon Might, increased the primary stat of the 4 nearest allies by a percentage of the Evoker's own primary stat for 10 seconds on a 30-second cooldown — effectively multiplying raid output whenever it was active. Breath of Eons accumulated a portion of allied damage dealt through Temporal Wounds, eventually detonating for a burst of damage attributed to the Evoker.
When Warcraft Logs first began tracking Augmentation in July 2023, its personal damage logged as extremely low — the attribution system captured only the Evoker's own output, not the damage amplification delivered to allies. Augmentation appeared at the bottom of every ranking. Following a Warcraft Logs attribution correction that redistributed a portion of buffed-ally damage back to the Evoker who enabled it, Augmentation vaulted from last place to first in a single week — described at the time as "the biggest move we've ever seen" in weekly rankings history.
By Week 22, Augmentation's rank fluctuated between 1st and 2nd at the 95th percentile depending on which spec had the stronger week. The key caveat remained constant: even the corrected attribution underrepresented the spec's actual raid contribution, because not all ally-damage enabled by Ebon Might was captured. Raid groups with one Augmentation Evoker consistently saw their overall DPS improve beyond what the Evoker's own log number suggested.
📌 Common mistake: Treating Augmentation's logged DPS number as comparable to conventional DPS specs. Augmentation's ranked position reflected its personally attributed damage after the log-correction; the spec's actual value to a raid group was higher. Raid leaders who dropped Augmentation because it "ranked lower than a Fury Warrior" in a given week were reading the data incorrectly.
Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible housed 9 bosses across 4 wings, and its encounter design influenced which specs the rankings favoured across the full season. A few standout fight dynamics from a DPS meta perspective:
Assault of the Zaqali — The fourth encounter divided the raid and featured sustained AoE damage against Zaqali forces assaulting a barrier. Cleave-capable specs performed above their single-target ranking here. Demonology Warlock and Unholy Death Knight both had natural advantages on this encounter type.
Rashok, the Elder — A pure DPS race with heavy enrage pressure. Rashok gained energy toward 100, at which point he enraged and wiped the raid. Shadowflame Energy orbs flanked the boss. The fight rewarded the specs with the highest sustained throughput against a single target — Frost Death Knight and Unholy performed well here.
Echo of Neltharion — The three-phase boss that served as the primary progression wall for most Mythic guilds (finishing after the Scalecommander Sarkareth World First race). The encounter's wall-and-portal mechanics rewarded specs that could maintain output during complex movement phases. Ranged specs with good mobility had a structural advantage across all three phases.
Scalecommander Sarkareth — The final boss, defeated in World First by Team Liquid on May 16, 2023 (114 pulls). Sarkareth's void-infused mechanics and portal survival requirements in the final phase stressed both burst and sustained single-target damage. The fight rewarded specs that could continue dealing full output during mechanic-heavy windows rather than pausing.
Week 22 represented a stable late-season snapshot. Understanding how the meta arrived at that point illustrated how much the Season 2 rankings shifted across 22 weeks.
Opening weeks (May 2023): Arcane Mage, Subtlety Rogue, and Destruction Warlock led at launch. Fire Mage and Havoc Demon Hunter sat near the bottom of early rankings — a position both would dramatically vacate over the following months.
Week 6 (June 2023): Devastation Evoker had reached the top of the 95th-percentile chart; Arcane Mage followed closely. The opening meta had already shifted significantly from launch.
Week 8 (July 2023): Frost Death Knight surged from 10th to 1st at the 95th percentile; Fire Mage made one of the season's largest jumps, from 16th to 6th. Havoc Demon Hunter began its climb out of the bottom tier.
July 11, 2023 (Patch 10.1.5): Augmentation Evoker was introduced. Within weeks, its Warcraft Logs attribution correction produced the largest single-week ranking movement in the site's then-history.
Week 22 (October 2023): The meta was fully settled. Gear inflation had reached its ceiling, tuning passes were largely complete, and the ranking snapshot reflected a genuinely stable picture of each spec's performance at elite Mythic level under the conditions of late-season play. Unholy DK's surge to first in this week was the final major movement before Season 3 launched.
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⚠️ Warning: Week 22 rankings reflected fully gear-inflated, late-season performance with Patch 10.1.7 tuning active. They were not representative of how specs performed at Season 2's opening, which saw significantly different standings. Using Week 22 data to make decisions about early-expansion spec selection in any context would mean applying late-season gear and tuning realities to a fundamentally different starting environment.
Week 22 of Mythic Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible corresponded to the week of October 3, 2023, during Patch 10.1.7 "Fury Incarnate." Dragonflight Season 2 ran from May 9, 2023 to November 2023, when Season 3 launched with Patch 10.2.
Unholy Death Knight ranked first at the 95th percentile in Week 22, with 663 logged Mythic players — up 12 positions from the previous week. Augmentation Evoker followed in second, and Demonology Warlock held third.
Augmentation Evoker was a support DPS spec whose primary contribution was amplifying allied damage via Ebon Might rather than dealing direct damage. Warcraft Logs attributed a portion of allied damage back to the Evoker after a correction in July 2023, but this still underrepresented the spec's full raid contribution. A raid group with one Augmentation Evoker consistently outperformed its personal logged DPS number.
Aberrus had 9 bosses across 4 wings: Kazzara the Hellforged, The Amalgamation Chamber, The Forgotten Experiments (Wing 1); Assault of the Zaqali, Rashok the Elder, The Vigilant Steward Zskarn (Wing 2); Magmorax, Echo of Neltharion (Wing 3); and Scalecommander Sarkareth as the final boss.
Team Liquid claimed the World First Mythic Scalecommander Sarkareth kill on May 16, 2023, after 114 pulls. Echo Guild followed shortly after, with Echo of Neltharion having served as the primary progression wall for most competing guilds.
Frost Mage's surge in Week 22 reflected late-season gear convergence — specifically, more players reaching critical-strike breakpoints that triggered significant output increases. As gear from Aberrus and the Crafted Spark system accumulated over 22 weeks, Frost Mage's scaling naturally inflected upward, producing one of the season's largest late-week jumps.
Yes. Dragonflight Season 4 (launched April 23, 2024) included Aberrus as one of three "Awakened" raids rotating on a weekly schedule alongside Vault of the Incarnates and Amirdrassil. Awakened Aberrus offered Heroic and Mythic difficulty at Season 4 item levels, with Antique Bronze Bullion currency available from the Awakened weekly boss.
Last reviewed 2026-06-13 against Patch 10.1.7 Dragonflight Season 2 (Week 22 data, October 2023) — Maintained by WowCarry's WoW team.
