reason for changing natural stride on druid?

[trunks.5249]

i would love to know why they changed it. almost everyone else is super fast . even with the 33% speed there are characters that can get places faster. so not sure why they took it away

[Beddo.1907]

Cause statistically speaking, practically nobody used it.
In PvE it didn't matter that much and in PvP/WvW stealth with superspeed is just too good to pass up.

[Mazinger.1084]

The speed was not removed because "it didn't matter that much".  It was a good thing, that's why.

[Gotejjeken.1267]

Was a straight nerf.  I could actually see using Natural Stride with the new offensive Druid traits, but they replaced it with Natural Balance which is just trash.

Celestial Shadow is powerful, but is actually quite a hinderance when you are sidenoding or defending points in general because you can't contest while stealthed.  

They should have at least retained the movement speed component for Natural Balance, because the dmg reduction component would then have replaced the condi duration reduction component Natural Stride had.