[Blitz]

That's usually the case when a knee-jerk reaction occurs as a result of a public outcry of whining. This is why I feel that whenever somebody calls for a nerfing of anything, that somebody should generally be ignored. Now the VQ is a more or less completely unusable chassis by any nation that doesn't have a huge number of points to burn...and isn't available to the most noteworthy, and perhaps appropriate, of them: Ermor. Meanwhile, other options are no more attractive than they were before. Instead of more and better options, we have less. To top that off, the new patch didn't really give us anything new, contentwise. Bleh.

She's still very good for races who have some "free" heat/cold picks. For example, with Jotunheim I like her because she can summon ice devils without needing Water 4 or construction 6.

You can have Order 2, Sloth 1, Cold 2, Misfortune 1 with AA WWW EEE DDD BBB and dominion 5 on a Vampire Queen. For that I get an immortal, flying, erthreal, regenerating, poison and cold resistant pretender who can realisticly summon her first ice devil on turn 15-20. So she's not the hands down champ anymore? So what. There's at least 20-25 pretenders that are worse. Now she's more of a niche choice rather than a default selection. Good on the developers.