Rets are OP because they're ridiculously easy to play, a retard playing a ret pally is almost as effective as a pro because of stupid class mechanics. If you know how the high end retadins play you'll not be defending the class. All they do is just turtle the pillar/crate until their HOJ is ready, after that get the someone down to 80% with a hit or two, then /castsequence HOJ, Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, Engi trinket, Judgement, HoWrath. If it fails they jack off out of LoS for 30s to 1min and do it again, rinse and repeat till you get the RNG. Such a simple strat and it works against every comp out there and the pally only has to push 2 buttons. I have a friend who is a crappy player with like 800ms ping hit 2200 in 2v2 just doing that simple strat paired with a shaman. Holy pallies are OP but at least they require more skill to play, a retadin is just retarded and is for the retarded.

what numbers are you looking for? arena representation? ghostcrawler already said they don't balance based on that, which is why feral druids got nerfed even though there aren't that many doing well in arena. i'm pretty sure bliz knows you guys are overpowered just that they don't really have a good solution on how to nerf you guys yet without killing your pve performance.

i don't really have problem with ret burst as long as they make it harder to execute, somewhere along the lines of a mage shatter combo. not some crap where you can 100-0 someone using a castsequence.

exorcism nerfed lolz.

they can still 70-0 me with 800 resil though, down from 100-0. pretty good start there.