Guild Wars 2

They nerfed defense and healing, because they wanted to make sure you couldn’t build a tanky ele in PvP (even though just removing cleric would already preclude that).

They nerfed damage because of PvE, where people don’t need to build defensively, eles could have the highest dps.

Despite the fact that ele can’t dps in PvP, this needed to be done. And its not like they are going to skill split…that would require work. Easier to just band-aid it and call it a day.

Or, more likely, the guy developing for ele REALLY has no idea what makes it tick and just follows a dart-board balance approach while praying things work out.

Didn’t you read the dev in charge of our amazing elite spec and the nerf saying that they used a ton of metrics and that it was decided that the CD reduction traits were overperforming game wide?

The reply to your comment op is simple – Aeromancer’s Training and the CD reduction to blinds, gale, etc were making the S/F FA builds OP, so it had to go.

What you feel was an unjustified nerf is backed up by a ton of data – apparently – so either live with it or pack your things and go home or to a different class.

In any event, I say ANET can keep nerfing Tempest Traits and Skills, but pray they make other trait lines and skills better to use so that we can discard Tempest to the trash it deserves and focus on the more interesting stuff.