Yep, that's all correct. I remember General Angerforge dropping it as well. I remember it because that guy had an amazing loot table for any melee dps class or spec in the game.
As we stated before, one of our main goal is to bring back as much as possible, the original challenge according to the timeline. As a result, nerfing the equipments as in retail is mandatory for us, based on all the data we gathered so far.