Quote (Weakened @ Aug 8 2023 02:00pm)
wtf ? how could they modify all items stats during nerf but not during a patch... theres no prepatch items in d4
The items are stored with their affixes, and an offset in the range. The nerf was done by adjusting ranges, therefore the items were changed. The same happens with the aspects that they've buffed, you get the new range on existing aspects and your value is whatever portion into the range it was before.
When they change an affix that a unique drops with, it's just changing the new items because the affix itself is stored for that item.
Also, there are going to be people that were using the item and prefer the original affix.