Any specific reason Pinball couldn't be one of the testers? Imo you shouldn't rebel fans of your mod like this... It is understandable you didn't promise anything nor announced dates etc, but I had confident feeling that patch is going to be out soon after servers getting moved (jan-feb), for example. Again, this is only my wrong understanding of your post obviously, but I see no reason to cock-block people like this, especially since you written many times already, that you do not have that much time anyway.
Pinball wrote:so maybe we can get that version first? I'm really excited about skills changes tbh and balance between classes.
And I guess this is pretty direct reference to that he is ready to help/test some stuff for you, and considering his reputation of a fair/good player, chances that he is going to leak something are extremely low...