I must say that new changes made me really sad. I have been playing engineer since the game was launched and witnessed how it slowly moved from the top PvP class into current situation.
Trait changes stroke a serious blow to engineer’s playability. We were never good at removing conditions and always been lacking stability. Yet we were able to compensate for it with traits.
While conditions got overhauled and I would say buffed, we didn’t got any way how to deal with it.
While other classes got some nice trait buffs we got pretty much nothing. I mean classes being able to stack might on themselves with simple autoattacks, or getting 30% dmg boosts for certain skills. 5% dmg boost for engie looks like a really bad joke next to those and this is just one of many things.
I guess we just have to hope for the miracle that Arena net is gonna stop nerfing engineer and maybe actually gonna buff it someday. Or we will all just end up playing warriors facerolling keyboard for killing opponents with 3 hits.