The effective healing is high because there's many melee dps in the raid.

And the damage is high because it's Naxx and 90% of the mobs there are undead. I guarantee you will not see the same dps against, say, Archavon.

Plus the stats are artificially exaggerated from thaddius and Gluth fights. Let's take a look vs Patchwerk which is the standard all-out dps fight most people use to see effective raid damage.

Gee he's all the way at number 16. There are NINE dps classes above him, and he's almost tied with the tenth class, the druid.

QED

the answer to how a ret could not be OP: -
how can ret be OP if they cant get close to u in the first place...
currently, all ret have is 10yards to deal damage (though 30 yards with exorcism in 3.1)...
this is among the biggest problem rets are having and if they dun judge, they dun get JoW for mana...
besides a ret could never burst down a decent healer (which is why the CS testing few weeks ago)...
these are the weakness of a ret and simple counter to it...

the problem as all high rated arena palyers as well  as blizzard would know is that the ones OP are holy (hybrid to ret for JoW) which is fixed in 3.1...
post 3.03, ret has been badly hit which is why GC have claimed that ret's damage are just too low...
3.00-3.03 is where ret are imba and all u see are FoTM rets running around...

most ret would be wiling to trade away their bubble for a range closure or more CC...
being balanced around bubble is wut killed ret...
let alone being OP...

as i've claimed before, going into prot tree with a gylph as well as gear would reduce it to 20 sec or 30 sec in 3.1
no1 is denying it but without a gap clossure, it sitll means nothing and u sacrifice some of the important talents in ret...
and the images are dispicitates which all those trolls jumped onto the boat bashing it before running back to edit it...
lovely work done there lol...

a JoB crits for 4.6k with 33% recoil to the ret sound alright with the judgement as the biggest hit a ret would have (besides HoW)
when 3.1 hits, most rets would be back using SoC when the changes to SoB are made so back to roulette seal...

wut's coming in 3.1 is exorcism working on ALL targets with 100% crit on undead...
if ret is so OP why give us such a wonderful tool to play wit?
30 yard high damage holy atk to further add to the burst...

as for the arena discussion, mr quatz has been claiming getting rolled by ret over at arena now with GC's post...
QQ i got 100-0 in a single HoJ, otehr classes have stuns do so why is ret in the equation when u die in stun?
ret are soooooooooooo OP that they are dominating the arena (when in reality its DKs and holydins)...

yes ret is sooooo OP that they decided to make it imba!!!
thanks bliz!

ps2: exorcism is a big mana sink as well but with that damage, its worth it being better than HoW...

*gasp*

like, pally's HL, FoL, cleanse, HoS, HoF, BoP, exorsim, turn evil use bullets instead of mana?? the hand lifting, finger twitching action plus the flash of light/ coiling effect happened on bg members and pots, drinks wasted for mana just 15 minutes ago are all my illusions???

where have all my mana gone, long time passing~~
where have all the mana gone, Long time ago~~~
where have all the mana gone, warlock comes and suck them up~~~
when will they ever learn?
oh, when will they ever learn?

that's it... must be the warlocks...

oh, now the level 80 card is played... should i go QQ and called my mommy + guildies because someone with level 80 toon thinks retribution paladin should get epic gears that pumps intellect and mana regen... i play my lowbie retribution paladin the wrong way... i mean, i only got few blues ones from some lower dungeon/AH and others are green... they are mostly pumping stamina and strength, no wonder my mana doesn't regen fast even with replenishment effect...

then again, in a pvp server/ wintergrasp/ battle ground, hordes and alliances alike are ladies/gentlemen and will gladly do 1v1 with you even there are 12 of them and 5 of you... /OOM?? No problem... they'll just wait for you to kill the mob, cleanse, heal, cast DP/ drink and start a friendly duel... and don't worry, you are the only retribution paladin, others (including my lowbie pally) are coined as lolret because of the stupidity of going hostile to opponent and using mana for cleansing/ buffing/ healing other allies in such situation... THEY JUST WANNA BE FRIENDS EVEN IF YOU ARE FLAGGED FOR PVP!!!

what a *wonderful daydream* it is in this imaginary world of Azeroth... or maybe i should just tone down my sarcasm a bit...

GC mentioned about how arena can be a drag race on which healers go /oom, hence the burst damage is implemented to shorte arena time, and it got slightly out of control for certain class...

somehow, ret has gotten so imba that it has infinite mana...
dun mention about holy going oom as now ret without any mana talent wont go oom!

just when i thought your paladin had reached end game level that can make your voice go louder than mine and requesting lowbie me to get to same level before i made any comments...

a 3rd last runner laughing at the last runner for being last in a marathon race... it really makes you feel great, yeah??