Originally Posted by Hegen

It's very easy to form opinions around facts that are not in fact true. That happens all the time, even here. Now, if you post a new source of statistical information, this is a good thing, thank you.

At the same time, before I use a source of statistical information, I want to make sure I understand how this information is made up and what it really says and what it doesn't say.

In this case, the scoreboard is a very misleading thing, which is what I wanted to point out. As for what classes can do in very long fights, no, you cannot even see this in the scoreboard. Reason: As I said, you will see players from raids where DPS sucks a lot on the top. Under normal circumstance, you won't find the best players for each healing class in the effective healing scoreboard, because they don't usually team with raids where the entire DPS sucks a lot. So, no, you don't really see the relative capabilities of each class.

You can actually take information out of that site, but only if you drill down and if you are very careful. The ranked data sets are pretty strange which is mostly due to the criteria of that scoreboard. Look at the #1 paladin in the HPS scoreboard for Gothik. He's only doing 2% of his HLs as effective healing. Either there's someone playing specifically to top this scoreboard, or he's just lazy beyond imagination. The reason doesn't really matter - it's very dangerous information to build opinions on.

Also note that some computed numbers on that site are false. In addition to what I pointed out earlier, effective healing percentage seems to be broken. For the mentioned paladin, the site lists 9,70% effective healing total, while 5,91% is correct. The overheal percentage of "94,00%" is at least roughly correct, though one wonders why they list two decimal places if in fact they round to a full percent. Another reason to watch your step when using that site.