How was the rogue damage too high measured?

So i kept hearing people saying rogue damage was too high, and indeed we all admit in the saurfang and 2 new plague wing boss fight it is on top of others.

however those fights are really melee SINGLE target friendly (which rogue is only good at) and rogue's the only pure melee dps thus it's on top by a margin is justified imo. and there are many other fights that favors other classes by the same margin too.

Just that when range dps is favored, there are hunter/mage/warlock doing similar dps and bliz thinks it differently than just 1 class being op.

however bliz failed to see that rogue is the only 1 pure melee class . when there's a fight favor melee, rogue has to be on top alone(and actually rogue's not even achieving this, since it sucks at cleaving, so it's just really single target melee fight), there's no other melee pure dps class can be up there with rogue together as the mage/hunter/warlock did to make their fight advantage seems less class OP related.

Which i thought GS was aware of, since he commented that if they make all fight stationary there would be no fun.

However right after that, this rogue nerf comes out, which totally confused me. so did bliz dev just got overpowered by the community complains and decide to nerf the rogues even though they know that the fight was the problem instead of rogue?

what do the dev team expect the rogue to perform on the fight that's not saurfang rotface festergut?

Even before the nerf, the arcane mage still bypass everyone else including rogue on stationary target when both melee and range do not require to move. and not to mention on the heroic anub, shadow priest, dk still tops off charts as hybrid.


So is there a more detailed explanation on how the dev team came to the conclusion that rogue dps was too high?

So please if the fight favor the rogue too much, change the fight. make the melee run out /unable to do dps just as the ranges to balance it. or do not make fight liek sarfang rot face festergut at all. i do not want to top dps meter in by 1k dps on 3 bosses and totally fails at other fights 90% of the time. especially when those 3 are not even the final/hardest encounter.

P.S. we were doing anub heroic last night (ya we are still working to down him the first time) before the nerf and our rogues were constantly at the 8 - 12 place on dps meter, after the nerf i think i really should give up my spot for a dk or shadow priest to help the guild down it.