Which was the last version of the CBM made with the "no nerf" philosophy?

[llamabeast]

I don't think there has been a significant shift in philosophy as you describe. I can see that the effective removal of gem gens, SDRs and hammers probably seems pretty shocking if you've been away for a while. There are lots of long discussions here on those topics - you could read them if you're interested, and hopefully you'll find the arguments for their removal convincing. Certainly they were not removed lightly.

However if you really want those things back I'd suggest you should take CBM1.92 and just undo the changes to to those items (probably ten minutes' work in Notepad even if you haven't modded before). I think you will like a lot of the other changes and new content.

Also, welcome back Reverend! Great to see you again! Terrifyingly I've been here pretty much every day the whole time...