Mythic Aberrus DPS Rankings: Patch 10.2 Launch Week

Key Takeaways

Patch 10.2 "Guardians of the Dream" went live on November 7, 2023, but Mythic raiders spent that week still logging the Season 2 raid, Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible.
Beast Mastery Hunter led the 95th-percentile Mythic Aberrus damage rankings that week, adding 192 logged parses on top of its Patch 10.1 population.
Arms Warrior, Demonology Warlock, Devastation Evoker, and Assassination Rogue rounded out the top five once the 10.2 class tuning landed.
Enhancement Shaman fell the hardest, shedding 311 parses and sliding to 10th as players chased the stronger specs.
Survival Hunter (42 logs) and Marksmanship Hunter (69 logs) sat at the bottom on tiny populations, a representation gap as much as a power gap.
The new Season 3 raid, Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope, did not open until November 14, which is why this snapshot is Aberrus and not Amirdrassil.

When Patch 10.2 Guardians of the Dream went live on November 7, 2023, it carried a round of class tuning but no fresh raid to test it on yet. Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope did not open its first wing until the following reset on November 14, so for one week the best logs in the game still came from the Season 2 raid, Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. This snapshot read the 95th-percentile Mythic damage rankings from Warcraft Logs for that launch week, showing how the new tuning reshuffled a roster players already knew cold.

How the Data Was Pulled

Warcraft Logs ranks every recorded kill by damage per second, and the figures here came from the 95th-percentile Mythic bracket. Reading the 95th percentile rather than the parse-perfect 100th cut out the one-in-a-thousand pull and tracked what a strong, well-geared player actually produced on a normal night. The "Change from Patch 10.1" column counted how each spec's logged population moved once the 10.2 tuning hit, not a raw damage delta.

Two biases are worth naming before reading the order. First, players gravitate to whatever spec is strongest, which widens the gap between the top and the bottom and makes a weak spec look weaker than its ceiling really is. Second, alternate strategies and parse funneling, where a group feeds cooldowns and targets into one player, push a handful of specs up the 95th-percentile chart in ways a normal raid never sees. A low rank meant a spec was less represented or less funneled, not that it could not clear the content.

Mythic Aberrus DPS Rankings, Week of November 7, 2023

Position	Spec and Class	Population Size	Change from Patch 10.1
1	Beast Mastery Hunter	1973	↑192
2	Arms Warrior	995	↑113
3	Demonology Warlock	1435	↑24
4	Devastation Evoker	608	↑25
5	Assassination Rogue	723	↑126
6	Unholy Death Knight	913	↓57
7	Outlaw Rogue	813	↑148
8	Frost Death Knight	278	↓59
9	Fire Mage	868	↓110
10	Enhancement Shaman	1266	↓311
11	Subtlety Rogue	284	↑141
12	Feral Druid	253	↑213
13	Balance Druid	1515	↑131
14	Frost Mage	883	↓10
15	Havoc Demon Hunter	1716	↑9
16	Augmentation Evoker	2026	↓14
17	Arcane Mage	499	↓6
18	Elemental Shaman	310	↓2
19	Destruction Warlock	533	↓7
20	Windwalker Monk	396	↓5
21	Shadow Priest	982	↓3
22	Fury Warrior	781	↓10
23	Retribution Paladin	1185	↑2
24	Affliction Warlock	218	↓15
25	Survival Hunter	42	↓6
26	Marksmanship Hunter	69	↓16

One detail stands out from the population column: Augmentation Evoker sat 16th by damage yet carried the largest logged population in the raid, a reminder that the support spec was being brought for its raid-wide buffs, not its personal meter.

What the Numbers Showed

Beast Mastery Hunter topping the chart fit the patch story. The spec went into 10.2 as a strong, mobile ranged option, and its 192-parse jump showed players leaning into it on a raid that rewarded steady cleave. Arms Warrior and Assassination Rogue posted the next biggest gains, both climbing back after earlier-season tuning had left them mid-pack.

The drops told the other half. Enhancement Shaman lost 311 logged parses, the steepest fall in the field, while Fire Mage and Unholy Death Knight also gave ground as their relative ceilings slipped. None of those specs became unplayable; they simply lost the players who follow the strongest meta from week to week.

At the floor, Survival Hunter and Marksmanship Hunter looked alarming on paper at 42 and 69 logs, but those tiny populations were the real story. So few people pushed Mythic Aberrus on either spec that the sample said more about representation than raw output. A spec near the bottom of a 95th-percentile chart was usually under-played and under-funneled, not incapable of clearing the boss.

📌 The common mistake reading a chart like this is treating low population as low power. Survival Hunter's 42 logs meant the spec was rare in Mythic Aberrus, not that it could not pull competitive numbers in the right hands.

FAQ

Why does a Patch 10.2 DPS post show the Season 2 raid Aberrus?

Patch 10.2 launched on November 7, 2023, but the new Season 3 raid, Amirdrassil, the Dream's Hope, did not open until the next weekly reset on November 14. For that one launch week, Mythic raiders were still clearing Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible under the fresh 10.2 class tuning, so the top logs came from the older raid.

Which spec topped Mythic Aberrus that week?

Beast Mastery Hunter led the 95th-percentile Mythic damage rankings, with a logged population of 1,973 and a gain of 192 parses over the prior patch. Arms Warrior, Demonology Warlock, Devastation Evoker, and Assassination Rogue completed the top five.

What is the 95th percentile and why use it?

The 95th percentile on Warcraft Logs is the damage figure that beats 95 percent of logged players on a fight. It is a better read of realistic strong play than the 100th percentile, which is skewed by a single perfect pull, and steadier than the median, which includes undergeared or learning groups.

Why did Augmentation Evoker rank low but have a huge population?

Augmentation Evoker, the support spec added in Patch 10.1.5, ranked 16th by personal damage yet had the largest logged population at 2,026. Groups brought it for its raid-wide damage buffs, so it boosted everyone else's parse while its own meter stayed modest by design.

Were Survival and Marksmanship Hunter really the worst specs?

Not in a vacuum. Both sat at the bottom mainly because almost no one logged them in Mythic Aberrus that week, 42 and 69 parses respectively. Such small samples reflect how rarely the specs were played at that level, not a hard cap on what a skilled player could do.

Does this ranking still apply to the current game?

No. This is a historical snapshot from the November 2023 launch of Patch 10.2 during Dragonflight Season 2. Class balance has changed many times since, so use it as a record of that week, not as a guide to the live meta.

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Last reviewed 2026-06-29 against Patch 10.2 Guardians of the Dream. Maintained by WowCarry's WoW team.