Same reason the frost gorge train was nerfed, Anet wants you buying gold with your credit card, not earning it in-game.
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Out of the hundreds of suggestions for commander tag improvements they picked the one thing no one asked for.
WvW Features Feature from the patch notes:
World vs. World
The Guard Leech boon has been renamed to Applied Strength.
This new deep game-changing feature certainly merits its own discussion thread
PLEASE
It has now gotten to the point where few players are crafting ascended weapons because they actually want one, we are crafting them because our inventories are plagued with materials for which there is nothing else to do.
It doesn’t even matter if it’s vendoring them for 1 copper each, at least it’ll be better than rightclick->destroy