If this is the speed at which you do balances, then RIP OW

[PowerPlay-1559]

They have already said they plan to have their mid-season balance patch during the 5th week of each season (in the case of Season 1, in the middle of the Halloween event). It didn’t happen this time due to some complications on their end, which could have been a number of factors. The new lead hero designer made this tweet during a Q&A (which was transcribed in this formerly-pinned forum thread (Question #10)):
https://twitter.com/GW_Alec/status/1586072031547621376

Q. I may have missed this earlier in spaces, but why is it going to take until November 15th to implement the changes shown in the blog post? That seems like a long time for value tweaking and maybe an if/then statement or two, while also stating it will be ready in 2 days for OWL.

Alec: For full transparency, we did want this patch to come out earlier for the player base at large, but we had some issues on our side. You can expect future mid-season balance updates to happen about four weeks after a season start.

If I had to guess, the issues on their end were either related to some backend changes they made to help resolve the server issues in the first week of deployment, or they already planned to lump the OWL cosmetics/shop changes in with the balance patch and realized they’d be removing OWL content during the OWL playoffs/Grand Finals, which happened to land on the 5th week of the battle pass season.

Regardless, going forward, the cadence for balance patches should be more regularly released every 1st and 5th week of the season instead of the 7th week.