Originally Posted by
Akraen
1) That's an assumption
2) They absolutely do suffer from asian ilvl inflation, there are asian parses all throughout the ranks
3) Fair, but I'd also say they include first kills, which rarely require focused min/max DPS. Have you ever been a guild/raid leader who knows he's operating at 80% of his potential because he's herding 24 cats? Yeah that's why I only ever get nice parses when things are on farm, and even then my "average" 11/14h guild has kill times of bad guilds because we play it safe. If you want to see me not playing it safe, look at Heroic Spine from last xpac and you'll see my name. It was totally skill that got me that rank, not threatening gkicks if anyone touched bloods but me.
4) So if they are our 99%, wouldn't it be better for your argument to be play frost since it's easiest? You'd have a much more solid argument saying the problem is that the likes of Kuni and I play frost to begin with, we should be fire, right? Kuni and I aren't idiots, we both know arcane and fire will yield higher numbers, but not high enough numbers to say it should even feel required.
You are 100% correct on the trend that raidbots presents, but the trend is blown a bit out of reasonable proportion due to the skewing that I insist is there from varied kill times, sample sizes, WCL, and one major thing you forgot: the amount of frost mage parses without water elementals associated, which happens any time a guild begins logging after the mage summoned his elemental.
My career is analysis, and it all hinges on knowing significant data from erroneous data. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and tell you that the trend is wrong, or that frost is the best, or that all those problems with raidbots even change the outcome. But what I will tell you with absolute certainty is that unless you normalize fight duration, fix the water elemental bug, and exclude asia-- attempting to cite raidbots in any argument is misleading.
Had you just quoted and corrected that outlandishly wrong person I would never have chimed in.