Pez, this appears to be a change in direction from the intent when the new runewords were originally announced during the developer chat you held with MrLlamaSC (particularly referencing the discussion from Rob around 6-8 minutes in). Is there any additional information that can be shared as to the reasoning behind this decision?
The D2R Developer Update Stream hosted by MrLlamaSC - DIABLO 2 RESURRECTED
Pez’s reply:
Yep - I’m aware of this. I did inquire on what the intent was here and they had mentioned they were planning on moving these to NL when new runewords appear in a new season. New runewords didn’t land in S2 so they are keeping them exclusive to Ladder for this season until new ones are introduced and they will then push them into NL play.
The comment above is specific to the Sunder Charms comment.
So the 2.4 ladder runewords could become available to create in non-ladder as soon as 2.6 or theoretically never if they don’t add any more ladder runewords.