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First, druids "haelz me ZOMG YUO NOOB" comments should be left at the door. This is a pure theorycraft discussion about how/why druid FAP is not scaling properly in a direct comparison with actual DPS on weapons, not some bullshit about what druids can do, should do, or may do in the future. If you want that, the blizzard forums are available I'm sure (or you could even try a new thread on this forum, if you really want).
OK, now to the point. The direct scaling difference means somewhere in the legendary area of weaponry (arguably the direct end of TBC, moving into the next expansion) we lose out ~15% on other melee classes direct scaling. That's a pretty significant difference in and of itself. If you assume that we scale better on everything else (which we do, strength being 2.4x and agility being 1x for AP calculations) then it pretty easily makes up for it imo. That direct contribution adds more than anything else really, especially when you add in that because we stack stats (or much prefer to) then BoK is of more benefit to us than any other class (arguably, but pretty much true).
When you consider that the stats on Terestians adds 38 str and 37 agility, it's a direct conversion to 128.2 AP and nearly 1.5% crit, ignoring BoK. When you consider the stats of, say, Emerald Ripper + Malchazeen (50AP+15hit, 19agi+36AP, similar stam) then the direct equivalent in stats is maybe 10-15% difference. According to your karazhan equivalent up there, Terestians is 10%ish less powerful than Despair in direct dps->FAP equivalent.
I'm not saying this is the entire reason for the difference, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's being taken in to account at least slightly.
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