So after stepping into heroic and mythic after our nerf Tuesday, it's painfully clear that the outlaw nerfs went way too far. I completely understand why they targeted those relic traits because it was leading to total degenerate relic choices like 805s beating 860s, but it went too far. There should've been a slight buff to other traits to make up some of the damage lost.
The vast majority of competitive raiding rogues went all in on Outlaw because it was the best spec the entire time on live and for months at the end of beta. Blizzard basically did exactly what they promised they wouldn't and sent our spec from first to worst. Everyone with Outlaw legendaries and Outlaw artifacts is now going to be re-speccing over to sub, not by choice, but by necessity.
I firmly believe there was nothing wrong with the DPS levels of Outlaw pre-nerf. The targeted nerfs to the relic traits were smart but without any compensatory buffs, our overall DPS took too big of a hit in my opinion. Melee (other than ret, lolololol) are getting wrecked by range on every fight because we took the brunt of the nerfs between DH and outlaw. This targeted nerf made sense, but the overall hit to our DPS without anything other buffs is too much considering the investment the rogue community made in this spec.