So what do we do? We either go with another class/alt, or we change our game style, or we deal with our new limitations.
I think that if the devs can be swayed one way then we can sway them in another way. I agree that just leaving confusion as our only reliable condition damage, then give us some other conditions to drop.
Whats the point of our shatter skills if they don’t work or really hurt anything. Other chars have ranged area damage with condition damage. Give our shatter skills something to hurt people with. Our class is not very good at aoe besides shatter which now is useless. So when we run up on a zerg we have to single attack most the time or use our very limited sword skills that have somewhat descent aoe but huge cool downs.
Staff uses aoe with condition damage, but its a long cool down so we are back to single attacks again. This hamstring us into a style of play or creating longer odds at winning.