One of the few arguments that Engineering isn’t the profession with the least Blizzard-love was, “Yeah, but they gave you guys those awesome arena boots!”

Actually, they first killed our regular rocket boots in arenas, and we were stuck with the consolation prize of Nitro Boosts on our regular boots (which wasn’t so bad, considering the added stats). Then they decided they were too good, and drastically cut the duration of the effect.

Now, they’ve just cut them out completely:

After several attempts to balance the Nitro Boots ability in the arena, we have decided that we currently do not have an acceptable solution. Until we are able to better balance this ability it has been shut down in the arenas. We fully plan to continue working on this item and we intend to adjust it in upcoming patches.
Crygil 

When someone gave Crygil a hard time about this, the response was:

We have plans to make certain that this item is still worth the investment made in it. So don’t vendor it just yet.
Crygil 

While this does hint very slightly (I’m ever the optimist) that they might be looking into engineering more seriously, it is likely that they’ll just never get around to following through on those plans.

At the very least, the more they nerf engineering, the more likely it is that the developers will finally “notice” the state of engineering.

Stay strong, PvPing engineer brothers and sisters… I know I’m sticking with engineering until they nerf it right out of the game.

UPDATE: More info from blue:

That is an option we may explore. We also have several other changes to Nitro Boots in mind. We may include additional stats to making this comparable to other boot enchants. Many ideas are currently on the table and we are narrowing them down to the very best. I hope that not too many of my fellow engineers dropped the profession because of this change. Cool things are on the way. Hang in there.

Source: WoW Forums (2) vis MMO Champion’s Blue Tracker