The Leading Result Comes With a Pet-Logging Warning
Beast Mastery leads this historical table, but its result was affected by incorrect attribution of Augmentation-buffed pet damage. This is Mythic Aberrus during the week of November 7, 2023, when Patch 10.2 launched. It is not an Amirdrassil ranking or a current class recommendation.
Anshlun’s original November 14 report warns that some pet-damage increases were left with Beast Mastery instead of being credited back to Augmentation. That inflated BM’s result and depressed Augmentation’s. The report does not supply a corrected table or a percentage that can safely be subtracted from every Hunter.
Blizzard’s Guardians of the Dream notes separate the November 7 update from Season 3 and Amirdrassil’s November 14 opening. These logs therefore capture the new patch in the older raid, before an Amirdrassil progression sample existed.
Full Overall Table: Rank Movement, Not Population Growth
The preserved overall capture selects one week, Mythic, all bosses, all item levels, the 95th percentile and the 10.2 partition. Its axis is an aggregate normalized score, not raw DPS. The population is the source’s recorded sample, not a verified count of unique players. Movement is relative to the report’s Patch 10.1.7 comparison.
| Position | Specialization | Source population | Positions gained / lost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beast Mastery Hunter | 1,973 | +19 |
| 2 | Arms Warrior | 995 | +11 |
| 3 | Demonology Warlock | 1,435 | +2 |
| 4 | Devastation Evoker | 608 | +2 |
| 5 | Assassination Rogue | 723 | +12 |
| 6 | Unholy Death Knight | 913 | −5 |
| 7 | Outlaw Rogue | 813 | +14 |
| 8 | Frost Death Knight | 278 | −5 |
| 9 | Fire Mage | 868 | −1 |
| 10 | Enhancement Shaman | 1,266 | −3 |
| 11 | Subtlety Rogue | 284 | +14 |
| 12 | Feral Druid | 253 | +2 |
| 13 | Balance Druid | 1,515 | +13 |
| 14 | Frost Mage | 883 | −10 |
| 15 | Havoc Demon Hunter | 1,716 | +9 |
| 16 | Augmentation Evoker | 2,026 | −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 | 0 |
| 23 | Retribution Paladin | 1,185 | 0 |
| 24 | Affliction Warlock | 218 | −15 |
| 25 | Survival Hunter | 42 | −6 |
| 26 | Marksmanship Hunter | 69 | −16 |
BM’s +19 means a move from twentieth to first. Enhancement falls from seventh to tenth. Fury and Retribution remain twenty-second and twenty-third. Outlaw and Subtlety each gain fourteen positions, while Balance gains thirteen; none of these movements measure a change in population.
The chart’s separation shows why ranks and damage gaps are different questions. Two adjacent positions can have very similar aggregate scores. A nineteen-place move is not a nineteen-percent increase, and the logging warning prevents using BM’s lead as a clean estimate of its advantage.
Boss Damage and the Broader Distribution Tell Different Stories
The separate 95th-percentile boss-only capture begins with Beast Mastery, Assassination, Unholy, Arms and Demonology. Subtlety is sixth and Devastation seventh there. Target selection changes the order, but it does not remove the pet-attribution problem.
The all-percentile overall plot instead begins with Beast Mastery, Demonology, Arms, Assassination and Unholy. Frost Death Knight appears fourteenth in its displayed order, compared with eighth in the 95th-percentile overall table. Those are different summaries of the sampled logs, not competing lists of the same statistic.
The distribution uses its own horizontal range. Its overlapping boxes and outliers give context that a position alone cannot convey. Neither a high-percentile aggregate nor the broader plot is a measured skill ceiling for a spec or a prediction of an individual raider’s performance.
What This Week Can Establish
It records a sharp change in the order at the transition to 10.2. It cannot isolate how much came from tuning, changed raid participation, encounter assignments or logging. Survival’s population of 42 and Marksmanship’s 69 warrant caution, but small samples alone do not prove why either spec ranked low.
Augmentation’s recorded value is also not simply its personal in-game meter. Warcraft Logs’ operator explanation describes reattributing damage from supported buffs to the Evoker. This week’s specific pet-credit defect is a limit of that implementation, not evidence that all support damage is always excluded.
For the following raid’s opening, see the Week 2 Heroic Amirdrassil report. Its raid, difficulty, equipment context and date differ, so its order should not be treated as a controlled before-and-after tuning test.
