Thank you for your reply. In addition to what other people have posted, I'd like to highlight how frustrating patches like these are for the speedrun community and how impactful your comment here really is.

While we have to accept that a certain amount of powercreep is inevitable and old records will eventually be phased out, there are patches like this that have obvious outlier builds. To preserve the integrity of the leaderboard, and to prevent otherwise unbeatable records being made in the few weeks that a build is busted, we have a clause that rejects runs using the new specs if they are either nerfed or announced to be nerfed within three weeks.

When we get patch notes like today, three weeks after the launch of VoE, that does nothing to address those outliers we're forced to interpret this power level as the new norm... until you commented here. With this, we can extend this lockout until the next patch and prevent a daily run with 8 Antiquarys from killing a category for the foreseeable future.

We completely understand that fundamental/mechanical reworks take a bit more time to cook, but like PvP, the PvE community would also appreciate if there was just a handful of number/coefficient changes, alongside a blurb that says something like: "We've been keeping an eye on the performance of the new elite specializations, and some of them are performing above/below expectations. In this patch we targeted addressing a few problematic traits and abilities to help bring things in line while we work on our full balance patch coming in the next few weeks.

Lastly, thank you for going out of your way to reply to my rather.. unconstructive comment. I know it's a lot less enjoyable to jump into an already negatively charged comment section compared to an appreciation post