Anet's thinking is that elite specialisations has to be more powerful than the previous ones, or people won't take interest in it, because it's "elite". That's the source of your power creep.
Go play the Tequatl meta, make sure you don't do enough damage to make it fly, and he'll give you a tsunami that will wipe out all the players. It's hard to achieve because we rarely fail the meta event.