I was talking specifically about arenas, i agree that pve items in pvp can be fun and all but that's what randombgs/worldpvp are for. In my point of view Balance>Fun for strictly competitive(Rated) PvP.
Since I barely do World PvP/Bgs now I was talking about arenas as well. I do find PvE items really OP, but most of them don't really break the balance, Nokaleds are ok, Kiril is ok, Gurthalak is ok, Rhathrak is also ok, in the other hand there is 3 trinkets that I think it should be nerfed, BLF (for its op damage), Windward (I can crit 90k Healing with that) and Cunning (since its always procing and I want to go restealth :c).
Odd, because i don't remember warsong's roster ever having 2.2k rated people on 3s, unless the people you're talking about are the ones that transfered from arena-tournament to warsong first.
I can't remember very well right now, but I think they removed or decreased the requirements to buy the elite weapons.