Nothing mentioned in this thread so far has been nerfed.
We initially planned to integrate Ultimatum into the core game in the obvious way that we have done for prior leagues, and indicated that it was coming soon. Since then, though, we had an even better idea for a way to integrate it and are likely going ahead with that plan instead. The bad news is that this isn't for a while, but will be worth the wait!
Isn't the best way to solve this problem is create a base type that counts as all weapon types and make the only weapon that has this base type Varunastra? I don't see any other solution working cleanly.
1) That would be a much less clean way to implement Varunastra than the current way, because that would require substantial redefinition of what weapon base types are that would affect all weapons.
2) That would not solve this issue, because this issue is not actually about Varunastra, which was the main point of my post.