Marksmanship Leads Overall, with an Important Comparison Limit
Marksmanship, Devastation and Unholy lead the overall-damage table for the week of May 14, 2024. This is an archived Mythic Awakened Vault of the Incarnates result from Dragonflight Season 4, published in Anshlun’s May 21 report.
The movement column compares Vault with the preceding Amirdrassil report. It does not measure consecutive weeks in Vault. A different raid changes encounter composition alongside the recorded population and gearing context.
All 26 Published Overall-Damage Results
The source capture uses the 95th percentile, all bosses, all item levels, a one-week range and the Awakened partition. The overall order matches its typed table. Population is the reported sample, not a count of unique players.
| Position | Specialization | Source population | Positions vs Amirdrassil |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marksmanship Hunter | 2,926 | +10 |
| 2 | Devastation Evoker | 10,369 | +7 |
| 3 | Unholy Death Knight | 7,158 | −2 |
| 4 | Arms Warrior | 13,951 | −2 |
| 5 | Frost Death Knight | 1,570 | +1 |
| 6 | Windwalker Monk | 6,844 | +2 |
| 7 | Havoc Demon Hunter | 16,049 | +7 |
| 8 | Assassination Rogue | 3,422 | −3 |
| 9 | Retribution Paladin | 27,676 | −5 |
| 10 | Shadow Priest | 15,690 | −3 |
| 11 | Arcane Mage | 2,446 | −8 |
| 12 | Frost Mage | 10,947 | −2 |
| 13 | Outlaw Rogue | 5,981 | +6 |
| 14 | Demonology Warlock | 11,106 | +6 |
| 15 | Beast Mastery Hunter | 22,056 | 0 |
| 16 | Fury Warrior | 4,617 | +2 |
| 17 | Balance Druid | 9,908 | −1 |
| 18 | Elemental Shaman | 3,561 | −6 |
| 19 | Enhancement Shaman | 7,620 | +2 |
| 20 | Destruction Warlock | 10,342 | +2 |
| 21 | Fire Mage | 7,354 | −4 |
| 22 | Feral Druid | 3,461 | +1 |
| 23 | Affliction Warlock | 1,180 | −10 |
| 24 | Survival Hunter | 822 | 0 |
| 25 | Augmentation Evoker | 7,750 | +1 |
| 26 | Subtlety Rogue | 3,643 | −1 |
Marksmanship’s ten-place gain is a cross-raid position change, not a ten-percent damage increase. The table alone cannot establish whether set acquisition, strategy, tuning or the mix of encounters produced it.
Marksmanship Is Eighteenth in the Boss-Only View
The corresponding boss-damage capture puts Unholy first, Assassination second and Devastation third. Marksmanship is eighteenth, while Windwalker is twenty-first despite being sixth overall.
Boss-only damage still combines every selected boss. It is not automatically a single-target benchmark: an encounter may have several boss targets. When reviewing one fight, inspect its relevant targets and timings before using the raid-wide result to choose a composition.
Low Placement Does Not Establish a Utility Trade-Off
Subtlety’s last overall position does not show that players deliberately gave up damage to provide utility. Likewise, the chart does not identify the recipients of every Augmentation buff or prove that a particular higher-ranked parse was inflated.
Warcraft Logs’ own explanation describes reattributing supported Augmentation buff damage through combat-log hooks. That is different from treating this table as a direct-damage-only meter. Determining a specific logging defect requires evidence about the affected ability and date, not a low rank alone.
For another example of the changing raid comparison, the following Aberrus report separately identifies its Subtlety logging warning and table-versus-chart differences. Preserve those source limits when following Season 4’s historical sequence.
