[2021] ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Summoning u/thearcan to give updates on the patch this week ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

Poof! With a puff of smoke I appear (cough cough). Thanks for the summoning circle.

I've just updated the gather thread here.

As mentioned there, testing for the patch is ongoing, so we can't yet say when exactly the patch will be ready for sure, but I'll let you know the moment I have news on that.

That being said, I mentioned the below in the gather thread too:

Note: As testing is an ongoing process over a number of days, we may not provide a public update here tomorrow (Tuesday, 11.05.21) or until the testing cycle completes, but you can rest assured that work is continuing to progress.

So tomorrows status of the patch could in theory be no different than today (and that wouldn't be a bad thing for its release schedule), but there wouldn't really be any "news" to associate with it given the overall test cycle. So it may be better to keep to higher value news updates rather than the "work is ongoing".

The statue set acting in this way is a bug, not a nerf.

We're considering whether there's a way to "help" this issue via the backend, but a true fix would require a patch. Our currently worked on patch is, however, focused on the damage mitigation issue and is slimmed down in order to expedite it. So it won't address this issue yet.

Wat

Thank you! :)